Kory Evans Ph.D
@sternarchella.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | Rice University | FLS |skull shape evolution in fishes |#BlackandSTEM | #teamfish |Romans 12:12| he/him koryevans.weebly.com
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I love it when art and science connect! The newest art exhibit at Rice’s Moody Center features stunning representations of fish anatomy by @sternarchella.bsky.social and some of his students!
October 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I love it when art and science connect! The newest art exhibit at Rice’s Moody Center features stunning representations of fish anatomy by @sternarchella.bsky.social and some of his students!
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ICB
From the Evan's lab!
Developmental and Functional Interactions Structure Patterns of Variational #Modularity in the Lunar #Wrasse Skull
by
Hugi,& @sternarchella.bsky.social et al
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Evans lab
koryevans.weebly.com/people.html
From the Evan's lab!
Developmental and Functional Interactions Structure Patterns of Variational #Modularity in the Lunar #Wrasse Skull
by
Hugi,& @sternarchella.bsky.social et al
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Evans lab
koryevans.weebly.com/people.html
October 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
ICB
From the Evan's lab!
Developmental and Functional Interactions Structure Patterns of Variational #Modularity in the Lunar #Wrasse Skull
by
Hugi,& @sternarchella.bsky.social et al
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Evans lab
koryevans.weebly.com/people.html
From the Evan's lab!
Developmental and Functional Interactions Structure Patterns of Variational #Modularity in the Lunar #Wrasse Skull
by
Hugi,& @sternarchella.bsky.social et al
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Evans lab
koryevans.weebly.com/people.html
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91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
Checkout the write up for our latest study! news.rice.edu/news/2025/an...
news.rice.edu
September 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Checkout the write up for our latest study! news.rice.edu/news/2025/an...
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Thrilled to see our PNAS paper out! Such an amazing journey and couldn’t have asked for a better experience working with the Evans Lab 💙🐟
New paper alert!!!🚨 in our new study we find that Antarctic icefishes added a new module in their skulls during their adaptive radiation special shout out to @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social who led this project!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Thrilled to see our PNAS paper out! Such an amazing journey and couldn’t have asked for a better experience working with the Evans Lab 💙🐟
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We have a new paper on the icefish adaptive radiation led by @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social, a new PI at UFPR 🧊🐟
New paper alert!!!🚨 in our new study we find that Antarctic icefishes added a new module in their skulls during their adaptive radiation special shout out to @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social who led this project!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We have a new paper on the icefish adaptive radiation led by @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social, a new PI at UFPR 🧊🐟
New paper alert!!!🚨 in our new study we find that Antarctic icefishes added a new module in their skulls during their adaptive radiation special shout out to @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social who led this project!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
September 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
New paper alert!!!🚨 in our new study we find that Antarctic icefishes added a new module in their skulls during their adaptive radiation special shout out to @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social who led this project!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Episode 62 launches this Friday! Join us as we chat with @sternarchella.bsky.social, Ichthyologist and professor of biosciences at Rice University. Dr. Evans chats with us about fish evolution, particularly through the lens of fish skulls. A fascinating discussion, fresh in your podcatcher Friday!
September 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Episode 62 launches this Friday! Join us as we chat with @sternarchella.bsky.social, Ichthyologist and professor of biosciences at Rice University. Dr. Evans chats with us about fish evolution, particularly through the lens of fish skulls. A fascinating discussion, fresh in your podcatcher Friday!
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September 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Wing pelage is suggested to have a functional role in bats — and it’s not just to make them cuter. Check out the publication below to learn more!
#academia #academicSky #PhDSky #bats #science
#academia #academicSky #PhDSky #bats #science
Super proud to share the first first-author paper from @ashockney24.bsky.social and our first official Rummel lab publication! Check it out here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
NYAS Publications
Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight, and while they retain the furry coat of other small mammals, their wings, the primary flight surface, are generally thought to be hairless. We ass....
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Wing pelage is suggested to have a functional role in bats — and it’s not just to make them cuter. Check out the publication below to learn more!
#academia #academicSky #PhDSky #bats #science
#academia #academicSky #PhDSky #bats #science
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Super proud to share the first first-author paper from @ashockney24.bsky.social and our first official Rummel lab publication! Check it out here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
NYAS Publications
Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight, and while they retain the furry coat of other small mammals, their wings, the primary flight surface, are generally thought to be hairless. We ass....
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Super proud to share the first first-author paper from @ashockney24.bsky.social and our first official Rummel lab publication! Check it out here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Loved this write-up of our fieldwork in Tanzania this summer, led by grad student Annie Finneran and undergrad Caroline Pollan. I felt very lucky to join them to catch some bats there!
news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
July 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Loved this write-up of our fieldwork in Tanzania this summer, led by grad student Annie Finneran and undergrad Caroline Pollan. I felt very lucky to join them to catch some bats there!
news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
news.rice.edu/news/2025/ba...
Went fishing for gar in Buffalo Bayou, didn’t catch anything but we saw this incredible alligator snapping turtle!
July 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Went fishing for gar in Buffalo Bayou, didn’t catch anything but we saw this incredible alligator snapping turtle!
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Another active night at Buffalo Bayou watching the bat emergence. The bats come out before sunset, and so do the predators, with hawks catching them mid-air and herons plucking them from their roosts
July 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Another active night at Buffalo Bayou watching the bat emergence. The bats come out before sunset, and so do the predators, with hawks catching them mid-air and herons plucking them from their roosts
Every fish that we catch has a story, some are crazier than others. We caught this unicornfish during a night dive in Okinawa last year. The trip was memorable because we had to end the dive early when North Korea fired a missile in our general direction and we had to take cover
July 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Every fish that we catch has a story, some are crazier than others. We caught this unicornfish during a night dive in Okinawa last year. The trip was memorable because we had to end the dive early when North Korea fired a missile in our general direction and we had to take cover
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Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social taking on Modularity promotes the evolution of complex biomechanical systems #JMIH25 #ASIHin3D
July 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social taking on Modularity promotes the evolution of complex biomechanical systems #JMIH25 #ASIHin3D
Our new REU student Darla found something interesting in one of her CT scans! Looks like this fish was halfway through eating a big snail and some coral rubble when @mwestneat.bsky.social caught it last summer in Okinawa!
July 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Our new REU student Darla found something interesting in one of her CT scans! Looks like this fish was halfway through eating a big snail and some coral rubble when @mwestneat.bsky.social caught it last summer in Okinawa!
Almost home from Tanzania and reflecting on a great trip. I got to SCUBA dive in the Indian Ocean for the first time and I saw so many new species for the first time. My favorite was definitely this gold bar wrasse that I saw in Zanzibar.
June 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Almost home from Tanzania and reflecting on a great trip. I got to SCUBA dive in the Indian Ocean for the first time and I saw so many new species for the first time. My favorite was definitely this gold bar wrasse that I saw in Zanzibar.
Safari is done. One of my favorite sightings was this Serval cat. Small cats are often reclusive and tough to spot but this one walked right up to us
June 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Safari is done. One of my favorite sightings was this Serval cat. Small cats are often reclusive and tough to spot but this one walked right up to us
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Get your 3D glasses out for #3DThursday! And click the link below to see syGlass on the really big screen at the @mit.edu MIT Museum last week. (guys it's my first syGlass blog ...)
📝: www.syglass.io/blog/a-night...
🥼: Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social , Rice University
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass
📝: www.syglass.io/blog/a-night...
🥼: Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social , Rice University
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass
June 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Get your 3D glasses out for #3DThursday! And click the link below to see syGlass on the really big screen at the @mit.edu MIT Museum last week. (guys it's my first syGlass blog ...)
📝: www.syglass.io/blog/a-night...
🥼: Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social , Rice University
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass
📝: www.syglass.io/blog/a-night...
🥼: Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social , Rice University
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass
Doing some safari stuff and we saw this amazing exchange between a cheetah and a hyena that was trying to steal a kill that it thought they had. There were 3 cheetahs here and the Hyena easily ran them all off
June 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Doing some safari stuff and we saw this amazing exchange between a cheetah and a hyena that was trying to steal a kill that it thought they had. There were 3 cheetahs here and the Hyena easily ran them all off
Found this little guy in our mist nets in the Udzungwa National forest a few night ago. I thought it was a delicate spiny reed frog but I could be wrong
June 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Found this little guy in our mist nets in the Udzungwa National forest a few night ago. I thought it was a delicate spiny reed frog but I could be wrong
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Really nice write-up of our collaboration with San Jacinto College! We are working together to listen to 🦇🦇🦇around Houston. Shout out to @ashockney24.bsky.social for getting this project off the ground!
Project Gotham is making news! I was first introduced to the excitement (and challenges!) of independent research in community college and now I’m a part of a program with @arummel.bsky.social and Tyler Olivier that provides that same opportunity to other students. A fulfilling, full-circle moment.
June 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Really nice write-up of our collaboration with San Jacinto College! We are working together to listen to 🦇🦇🦇around Houston. Shout out to @ashockney24.bsky.social for getting this project off the ground!
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Our parrotfish have OnlyFins accounts down here in Coral City😉🚦🦜🐟 #stoplightparrotfish #onlyfins #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #strikeapose #lookbackatit #parrotfish #protogynoushermaphrodite #intermediatephase #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
June 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Our parrotfish have OnlyFins accounts down here in Coral City😉🚦🦜🐟 #stoplightparrotfish #onlyfins #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #strikeapose #lookbackatit #parrotfish #protogynoushermaphrodite #intermediatephase #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity