Zach
@reallyoldfish.bsky.social
2nd year PhD student in the Friedman Lab at the University of Michigan. Volunteer @ Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Pitt alum
Fan of fishes, particularly extinct ones
Fan of fishes, particularly extinct ones
Pinned
Zach
@reallyoldfish.bsky.social
· Dec 5
Lunch & Learn: Western Pennsylvania’s Paleontological Resources - Allegheny Land Trust
Join Zach Lyons-Weiler, PhD student in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan; University of Pittsburgh alumnus for...(Read More)
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Folks!!
I’ll be doing a lunch and learn on my research facilitated by the Allegheny Land Trust— sign up to hear about what I’ve been doing so far!
alleghenylandtrust.org/event/lunch-...
I’ll be doing a lunch and learn on my research facilitated by the Allegheny Land Trust— sign up to hear about what I’ve been doing so far!
alleghenylandtrust.org/event/lunch-...
Listen having a cat is awesome because what do you mean I have a small warm ball of fur that cuddles with me and makes my life infinitely better and you can just find them on the street and then all you have to do is get them vaccinated and checked out and taken care of and they’ll love you
January 9, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Listen having a cat is awesome because what do you mean I have a small warm ball of fur that cuddles with me and makes my life infinitely better and you can just find them on the street and then all you have to do is get them vaccinated and checked out and taken care of and they’ll love you
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“No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"
Article I, Section 9.
Article I, Section 9.
January 7, 2026 at 12:33 AM
“No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"
Article I, Section 9.
Article I, Section 9.
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"I didn’t know how I was going to make it through my studies. But amid my struggles, a caring colleague said something that would forever shape my approach to science and mentoring." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4aG4JSw
January 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
"I didn’t know how I was going to make it through my studies. But amid my struggles, a caring colleague said something that would forever shape my approach to science and mentoring." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4aG4JSw
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Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.
Brb beginning to Understand the palaeoniscoid
January 5, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Brb beginning to Understand the palaeoniscoid
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
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January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
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Miyazato et al have revealed, via μ-CT scans of Belonostomus longirostris skulls from Alberta, fused cranial bones, hidden sensory canals, and features that challenge its placement in Teleostei—reshaping views on aspidorhynchid evolution. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
January 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Miyazato et al have revealed, via μ-CT scans of Belonostomus longirostris skulls from Alberta, fused cranial bones, hidden sensory canals, and features that challenge its placement in Teleostei—reshaping views on aspidorhynchid evolution. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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In this administration, the people take a backseat to corporations.
Nakedly and unabashedly oligarchic. Congress is a coequal branch of government and it’s time it acts like it.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Nakedly and unabashedly oligarchic. Congress is a coequal branch of government and it’s time it acts like it.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump says he spoke to oil companies before Venezuela action
"They want to go in so badly," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday.
www.newsweek.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
In this administration, the people take a backseat to corporations.
Nakedly and unabashedly oligarchic. Congress is a coequal branch of government and it’s time it acts like it.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Nakedly and unabashedly oligarchic. Congress is a coequal branch of government and it’s time it acts like it.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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Tomorrow at 11am is my #SICB2026 talk on early ray-finned fishes! Come by and see all the cool fossils we've CT scanned. Track me down during the rest of the conference to see some 3D printed jaws.....
January 3, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Tomorrow at 11am is my #SICB2026 talk on early ray-finned fishes! Come by and see all the cool fossils we've CT scanned. Track me down during the rest of the conference to see some 3D printed jaws.....
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My 2025 Fish Tank Wrapped:
1 new light for the mini reef
2 new corals
1 new nerite snail
1 new melon sword plant
143 water changes (!)
Countless hours of enjoyment 🥰
1 new light for the mini reef
2 new corals
1 new nerite snail
1 new melon sword plant
143 water changes (!)
Countless hours of enjoyment 🥰
January 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
My 2025 Fish Tank Wrapped:
1 new light for the mini reef
2 new corals
1 new nerite snail
1 new melon sword plant
143 water changes (!)
Countless hours of enjoyment 🥰
1 new light for the mini reef
2 new corals
1 new nerite snail
1 new melon sword plant
143 water changes (!)
Countless hours of enjoyment 🥰
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Holy shit I'm so relieved I could cry. A very happy new year to PRI!!! www.priweb.org/blog-post/pr...
PRI's Wonderful Life — Paleontological Research Institution
By Dr. Warren Allmon , Director of the Paleontological Research Institution December 30, 2025 The holidays are a time for “Christmas movies” in my house, and one that is always on our list is&nbs...
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January 1, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Holy shit I'm so relieved I could cry. A very happy new year to PRI!!! www.priweb.org/blog-post/pr...
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Well folks, some news. Ownership is folding @pghcitypaper.com. I wish I could say this was more surprising. I'll be on the lookout for new roles while I continue to teach and hopefully find places to publish some stories I haven't finished. In the meantime, I'm all ears for opportunities.
December 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Well folks, some news. Ownership is folding @pghcitypaper.com. I wish I could say this was more surprising. I'll be on the lookout for new roles while I continue to teach and hopefully find places to publish some stories I haven't finished. In the meantime, I'm all ears for opportunities.
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NASA’s largest research library will be closed & “some material (will) be stored in a government warehouse while the rest (will) be tossed away.”
Happy new year! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
Happy new year! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
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December 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
NASA’s largest research library will be closed & “some material (will) be stored in a government warehouse while the rest (will) be tossed away.”
Happy new year! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
Happy new year! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
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What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps, a Science study finds. https://scim.ag/3MXQ4bt
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs
Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps, a Science study finds. https://scim.ag/3MXQ4bt
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I'll be presenting in this Sunday's 'Shape and Climate' session at 11am. Come see all about Carboniferous ray-finned fishes!
The countdown begins… ⏰
Sunday at #SICB2026 is already STACKED!
🗂️ Whether you’ve built your itinerary or you’re still deciding, we’ve got you covered with these at-a-glance schedules.
👉 DCB & DVM folks: tag us so we can hype your talks and posters!
More at-a-glance posts coming soon 👀
Sunday at #SICB2026 is already STACKED!
🗂️ Whether you’ve built your itinerary or you’re still deciding, we’ve got you covered with these at-a-glance schedules.
👉 DCB & DVM folks: tag us so we can hype your talks and posters!
More at-a-glance posts coming soon 👀
December 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'll be presenting in this Sunday's 'Shape and Climate' session at 11am. Come see all about Carboniferous ray-finned fishes!
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New Job opportunity at the University of Georgia Department of Entomology! Come work a dream job in beautiful Athens!
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...
Assistant Professor: Insect Ecologist
The Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track position (9-months) in insect ecology, to be based on the Athens campus at the Assistant Professor ran...
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December 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
New Job opportunity at the University of Georgia Department of Entomology! Come work a dream job in beautiful Athens!
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/463...
Great surprise today at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History today. Unbeknownst to me, a Diplichnites trackway I collected from my backyard when I was 12 and donated when I was 19 is now on display in the new Stories Week Keep gallery. What an honor.
December 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Great surprise today at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History today. Unbeknownst to me, a Diplichnites trackway I collected from my backyard when I was 12 and donated when I was 19 is now on display in the new Stories Week Keep gallery. What an honor.
Yea I saw this and was like “I am never using this site again”
Science Daily aggregator site using AI slop images to "augment" press releases by universities for their researchers.
I guess that's a digital fever dream of a "mosasaur" chasing an orca, neither of which were in the oceans 130 million years ago when this study was focusing on.
I guess that's a digital fever dream of a "mosasaur" chasing an orca, neither of which were in the oceans 130 million years ago when this study was focusing on.
Ancient oceans were ruled by super predators unlike anything today
December 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Yea I saw this and was like “I am never using this site again”
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JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
CT Data and Micro CT Specialist :South Kensington
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December 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Recently unearthed in a desk drawer: guides for now-extinct paleo galleries at the Field and Carnegie.
December 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Recently unearthed in a desk drawer: guides for now-extinct paleo galleries at the Field and Carnegie.
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Beautiful paper on Ordovician cyclocystoids out now in JP. This rests on the expertise & hard work of avocational paleontologists, w/ Friends of the UMMP as authors (Joe Koniecki) & honored w/ a new species (Brechincycloides stanhynei, for the late Stan Hyne). OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Beautiful paper on Ordovician cyclocystoids out now in JP. This rests on the expertise & hard work of avocational paleontologists, w/ Friends of the UMMP as authors (Joe Koniecki) & honored w/ a new species (Brechincycloides stanhynei, for the late Stan Hyne). OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This is the kind of car I want to drive someday
December 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is the kind of car I want to drive someday
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📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
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December 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
This beetle is me
The thing about entomology is, there are always weirder bugs than anything you could imagine on your own.
Here's Cysteodemus wislizeni, a blister beetle from west Texas.
Here's Cysteodemus wislizeni, a blister beetle from west Texas.
December 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
This beetle is me