Ray C. Schmidt, PhD
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Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds🐟🧪
Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 9, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds🐟🧪
Open access note on the recent taxonomic changes in the mountain catfishes of Africa. mapress.com/zt/article/v...
A note on the recognition of genera Amphilius and Anoplopterus within mountain catfishes (Amphiliidae: Amphiliinae) of Africa
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mapress.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Open access note on the recent taxonomic changes in the mountain catfishes of Africa. mapress.com/zt/article/v...
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To add: @andrewjohnston.bsky.social wrote a great blog post about his photo stacking system, which you can read here: www.insectid.org/post/focus-s.... It's more expensive, but you get better results! I'll be adding this link to my post, since I forgot earlier.
January 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM
To add: @andrewjohnston.bsky.social wrote a great blog post about his photo stacking system, which you can read here: www.insectid.org/post/focus-s.... It's more expensive, but you get better results! I'll be adding this link to my post, since I forgot earlier.
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Great news article about the Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute's Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection and our recent accessions of specimens from the DEEPEND Consortium and the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
There are 8 million fish in a World War II bunker outside New Orleans. More arrive soon.
Hidden in a World War II bunker near New Orleans, Tulane stores more than 8 million preserved fish — and the collection is still growing.
www.nola.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Great news article about the Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute's Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection and our recent accessions of specimens from the DEEPEND Consortium and the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
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The past few years I've given my students assignments to create Wikipedia pages on various topics. This semester's Fisheries Management students were assigned to write about an ichthyologist/fisheries manager that didn't have a page, with emphasis on women or POC encouraged. I'm sharing them here:
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The past few years I've given my students assignments to create Wikipedia pages on various topics. This semester's Fisheries Management students were assigned to write about an ichthyologist/fisheries manager that didn't have a page, with emphasis on women or POC encouraged. I'm sharing them here:
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🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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NEWS from Ohio State Fish Division: You can now search our 6,000-tissue collection on our website! 🐟
mbd.osu.edu/collections/...
mbd.osu.edu/collections/...
Fish Division | Museum of Biological Diversity
mbd.osu.edu
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
NEWS from Ohio State Fish Division: You can now search our 6,000-tissue collection on our website! 🐟
mbd.osu.edu/collections/...
mbd.osu.edu/collections/...
mapress.com/zt/article/v...
Excited to see this out. Started with RMC students in 2019 and mostly finished in the spring of 2020..... Worked & added over the years, but other projects pulled me away. Submitted it this summer! RMC funds allow for open access so take a look! Photo by M.C.W. Keijman.
Excited to see this out. Started with RMC students in 2019 and mostly finished in the spring of 2020..... Worked & added over the years, but other projects pulled me away. Submitted it this summer! RMC funds allow for open access so take a look! Photo by M.C.W. Keijman.
Hidden diversity of the widespread Opsaridium ubangiense (Cypriniformes: Danionidae) in Central Africa
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mapress.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
mapress.com/zt/article/v...
Excited to see this out. Started with RMC students in 2019 and mostly finished in the spring of 2020..... Worked & added over the years, but other projects pulled me away. Submitted it this summer! RMC funds allow for open access so take a look! Photo by M.C.W. Keijman.
Excited to see this out. Started with RMC students in 2019 and mostly finished in the spring of 2020..... Worked & added over the years, but other projects pulled me away. Submitted it this summer! RMC funds allow for open access so take a look! Photo by M.C.W. Keijman.
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I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2026.
Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes?
Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research.
#hybridization #minnows #mudskippers
Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes?
Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research.
#hybridization #minnows #mudskippers
Corush Lab
jcorush.github.io
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2026.
Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes?
Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research.
#hybridization #minnows #mudskippers
Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes?
Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research.
#hybridization #minnows #mudskippers
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2 Fast, 2 Furiosus: The Carolina madtom’s species name “furiosus” is a reference to the sharp sting they can deliver to would-be predators + clumsy fish biologists. These bee-like stings come from the large spines on their pectoral fins that deliver a mild (but painful) venom #25DaysofFishmas
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
2 Fast, 2 Furiosus: The Carolina madtom’s species name “furiosus” is a reference to the sharp sting they can deliver to would-be predators + clumsy fish biologists. These bee-like stings come from the large spines on their pectoral fins that deliver a mild (but painful) venom #25DaysofFishmas
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Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today.
Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities.
Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.
Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities.
Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.
fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. "
ALT: fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. "
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today.
Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities.
Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.
Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities.
Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.
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Fellow fish nerds, I'm sharing a link to a free PDF of "The Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia". This new book provides a summary of the taxonomy, distribution, and biology of all freshwater fishes between the Bosphorus, Azerbaijan, Yemen, and Iran. 🐟
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Fellow fish nerds, I'm sharing a link to a free PDF of "The Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia". This new book provides a summary of the taxonomy, distribution, and biology of all freshwater fishes between the Bosphorus, Azerbaijan, Yemen, and Iran. 🐟
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Halloween News: Meet a new vampire fly (Hippoboscidae) 🧛♂🪰 1 of 10 species found on citizen-reported bird carcasses in Singapore: Even dead birds can have productive afterlives! See host records, annotated images, pictorial keys & DNA diagnostics here: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Halloween News: Meet a new vampire fly (Hippoboscidae) 🧛♂🪰 1 of 10 species found on citizen-reported bird carcasses in Singapore: Even dead birds can have productive afterlives! See host records, annotated images, pictorial keys & DNA diagnostics here: doi.org/10.1155/jzs/...
Counting principal caudal-fin rays on some African mountain catfishes (Amphilius). 6 + 7
You guys aren't ready for this yet. But your kids are gonna love it
You guys aren't ready for this yet. But your kids are gonna love it
October 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Counting principal caudal-fin rays on some African mountain catfishes (Amphilius). 6 + 7
You guys aren't ready for this yet. But your kids are gonna love it
You guys aren't ready for this yet. But your kids are gonna love it
Adding some relevant instructional images to my lab.
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Adding some relevant instructional images to my lab.
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Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds🐟🧪
October 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds🐟🧪
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🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
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Two new species of African suckermouth catfishes just dropped! Say hello to #Chiloglanis kinsuka from the lower #Congo River at the Kinsuka rapids below Pool Malebo, and #Chiloglanis wagenia, from the Wagenia Falls at Kisangani, more than 1600 km upstream.🐟🧪
digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/3ad0dd...
digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/3ad0dd...
September 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Two new species of African suckermouth catfishes just dropped! Say hello to #Chiloglanis kinsuka from the lower #Congo River at the Kinsuka rapids below Pool Malebo, and #Chiloglanis wagenia, from the Wagenia Falls at Kisangani, more than 1600 km upstream.🐟🧪
digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/3ad0dd...
digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/3ad0dd...
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Wow, more 'myrids described in "Review of the southern African slender stonebashers, genus Heteromormyrus Steindachner 1866 (Teleostei: Mormyridae), with description of six new species" by Mutizwa, Kadye, Bragança & Chakona, open access in J Fish Biol. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
September 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Wow, more 'myrids described in "Review of the southern African slender stonebashers, genus Heteromormyrus Steindachner 1866 (Teleostei: Mormyridae), with description of six new species" by Mutizwa, Kadye, Bragança & Chakona, open access in J Fish Biol. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
Pollinators enjoying the goldenrod
September 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Pollinators enjoying the goldenrod
A hidden friend!
August 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A hidden friend!
Shedding the mitochondrial blinkers: A long-overdue challenge for species delimitation in herpetology vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/articles.php...
Shedding the mitochondrial blinkers: A long-overdue challenge for species delimitation in herpetology
The advent of molecular methods has revolutionised the field of species delimitation and description, one of the key tasks of systematic biology. In animal taxonomy, one marker, the mitochondrial DNA ...
vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Shedding the mitochondrial blinkers: A long-overdue challenge for species delimitation in herpetology vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/articles.php...
My buttonbush is putting in the work this afternoon
August 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
My buttonbush is putting in the work this afternoon
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Job Listing - Assistant Professor of Marine Science TT (Marine Vertebrate Ecologist) in St. Petersburg, Florida
Assistant Professor of Marine Science TT (Marine Vertebrate Ecologist) | St. Petersburg, FL
Aug 15 - Eckerd College hiring Assistant Professor of Marine Science TT (Marine Vertebrate Ecologist) in St. Petersburg, Florida on Conservation Job Board. Discover the latest conservation jobs and…
www.conservationjobboard.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Job Listing - Assistant Professor of Marine Science TT (Marine Vertebrate Ecologist) in St. Petersburg, Florida
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Working with @marylanddnr.bsky.social, my lab is working on removing invasive blue catfish from the Chesapeake Bay to protect native species like blue crabs and striped bass. Here's a little preview into a new project an MS student in my lab, Liam Hanley, is working on.
August 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Working with @marylanddnr.bsky.social, my lab is working on removing invasive blue catfish from the Chesapeake Bay to protect native species like blue crabs and striped bass. Here's a little preview into a new project an MS student in my lab, Liam Hanley, is working on.