Chris Martin
@fishspeciation.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Curator of Ichthyology at UC Berkeley. #teamfish Lover of all fishes, especially those named after puppies 🥰❤️🐶🐟💀 #pupfish #craniofacial #genomics he/him
https://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/martin/
Header art by @astrafauna.bsky.social
https://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/martin/
Header art by @astrafauna.bsky.social
Also check out this amazing video filmed by my star undergrad who found this ongoing in the fish room this morning. #Anableps
Note the males trying to mate with the female *while* she is giving birth 😱 😅 smdh
Note the males trying to mate with the female *while* she is giving birth 😱 😅 smdh
July 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Also check out this amazing video filmed by my star undergrad who found this ongoing in the fish room this morning. #Anableps
Note the males trying to mate with the female *while* she is giving birth 😱 😅 smdh
Note the males trying to mate with the female *while* she is giving birth 😱 😅 smdh
Join me tomorrow! We are ready to fight fascism!
Research powers progress!
@freedom2learn.bsky.social @berkeleyside.bsky.social
@mvzucb.bsky.social
Research powers progress!
@freedom2learn.bsky.social @berkeleyside.bsky.social
@mvzucb.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Join me tomorrow! We are ready to fight fascism!
Research powers progress!
@freedom2learn.bsky.social @berkeleyside.bsky.social
@mvzucb.bsky.social
Research powers progress!
@freedom2learn.bsky.social @berkeleyside.bsky.social
@mvzucb.bsky.social
#StandUpForScience2025 Still going strong in Berkeley! 🧪🔬🧬
March 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
#StandUpForScience2025 Still going strong in Berkeley! 🧪🔬🧬
Large crowd at #StandUpForScience2025 #Berkeley !!! 🧪🧬🔬
Nobel-prize winner CRISPR discoverer Jennifer Doudna just spoke!
Nobel-prize winner CRISPR discoverer Jennifer Doudna just spoke!
March 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Large crowd at #StandUpForScience2025 #Berkeley !!! 🧪🧬🔬
Nobel-prize winner CRISPR discoverer Jennifer Doudna just spoke!
Nobel-prize winner CRISPR discoverer Jennifer Doudna just spoke!
I'll be there -- this Friday! 🧪
Don't stop protesting the dehumanization of our people and the dismantling of our institutions just to enrich a few billionaires. Protest is still the most effective tool we have.
#StandUpForScience2025 #SanctionMusk #BoycottNatureSpringer
Don't stop protesting the dehumanization of our people and the dismantling of our institutions just to enrich a few billionaires. Protest is still the most effective tool we have.
#StandUpForScience2025 #SanctionMusk #BoycottNatureSpringer
March 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I'll be there -- this Friday! 🧪
Don't stop protesting the dehumanization of our people and the dismantling of our institutions just to enrich a few billionaires. Protest is still the most effective tool we have.
#StandUpForScience2025 #SanctionMusk #BoycottNatureSpringer
Don't stop protesting the dehumanization of our people and the dismantling of our institutions just to enrich a few billionaires. Protest is still the most effective tool we have.
#StandUpForScience2025 #SanctionMusk #BoycottNatureSpringer
Returning from a fun workshop/conference in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology for Darwin’s birthday.
All senior scientists here are alarmed and bewildered about what’s happening in the US. 😥
All senior scientists here are alarmed and bewildered about what’s happening in the US. 😥
February 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Returning from a fun workshop/conference in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology for Darwin’s birthday.
All senior scientists here are alarmed and bewildered about what’s happening in the US. 😥
All senior scientists here are alarmed and bewildered about what’s happening in the US. 😥
I just need to share these photos of our four-eyed fish #Anableps anableps I took yesterday in our fish room.
15/10 one of the best fishes 😍
🧪🐟 #MarineLife
We are studying vision in these fish as a component of my Ichthyology undergraduate research ( #CURE ) course IB177LF.
15/10 one of the best fishes 😍
🧪🐟 #MarineLife
We are studying vision in these fish as a component of my Ichthyology undergraduate research ( #CURE ) course IB177LF.
January 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I just need to share these photos of our four-eyed fish #Anableps anableps I took yesterday in our fish room.
15/10 one of the best fishes 😍
🧪🐟 #MarineLife
We are studying vision in these fish as a component of my Ichthyology undergraduate research ( #CURE ) course IB177LF.
15/10 one of the best fishes 😍
🧪🐟 #MarineLife
We are studying vision in these fish as a component of my Ichthyology undergraduate research ( #CURE ) course IB177LF.
November 19, 2024 at 5:14 AM
Highlight of the trip was this Pacific red octopus - found by one of the undergrads in my lab on her very first time tidepooling! 🥳
November 19, 2024 at 5:11 AM
Highlight of the trip was this Pacific red octopus - found by one of the undergrads in my lab on her very first time tidepooling! 🥳
Fantastic day of #nudibranchs at Maverick’s beach during the King tide - Spotted, Monterey, and Cockerell’s Dorids.
#MarineLife
#MarineLife
November 17, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Fantastic day of #nudibranchs at Maverick’s beach during the King tide - Spotted, Monterey, and Cockerell’s Dorids.
#MarineLife
#MarineLife
The horrific parasite hanging off this #lanternfish belongs to the copepod lineage. The prey long ago evolved to parasitize their predator!
Happy Halloween 🎃 😱!!!
🧪 #MarineLife #evo
Happy Halloween 🎃 😱!!!
🧪 #MarineLife #evo
November 1, 2024 at 4:10 AM
The horrific parasite hanging off this #lanternfish belongs to the copepod lineage. The prey long ago evolved to parasitize their predator!
Happy Halloween 🎃 😱!!!
🧪 #MarineLife #evo
Happy Halloween 🎃 😱!!!
🧪 #MarineLife #evo
I had no idea these were so abundant and was shocked to find one - the literal inspiration for Ridley Scott’s #Aliens queen! 😱
This is a Phronima amphipod, which hollows out the insides of salps to make itself a pelagic jelly home.
#evo #MarineLife 🧪🐟🐠
arthropoda.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/d...
This is a Phronima amphipod, which hollows out the insides of salps to make itself a pelagic jelly home.
#evo #MarineLife 🧪🐟🐠
arthropoda.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/d...
October 30, 2024 at 3:47 AM
I had no idea these were so abundant and was shocked to find one - the literal inspiration for Ridley Scott’s #Aliens queen! 😱
This is a Phronima amphipod, which hollows out the insides of salps to make itself a pelagic jelly home.
#evo #MarineLife 🧪🐟🐠
arthropoda.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/d...
This is a Phronima amphipod, which hollows out the insides of salps to make itself a pelagic jelly home.
#evo #MarineLife 🧪🐟🐠
arthropoda.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/d...
And what preys on these abundant lanternfishes? Everything 🤣! But these long Chauliodus dragonfish were relatively abundant down there as well - with species-specific bioluminescent chin barbels! 😱🥰
After one trawl this was the catch tank for closer inspection
#MarineLife #fish #evo #evosky
After one trawl this was the catch tank for closer inspection
#MarineLife #fish #evo #evosky
October 29, 2024 at 3:59 AM
And what preys on these abundant lanternfishes? Everything 🤣! But these long Chauliodus dragonfish were relatively abundant down there as well - with species-specific bioluminescent chin barbels! 😱🥰
After one trawl this was the catch tank for closer inspection
#MarineLife #fish #evo #evosky
After one trawl this was the catch tank for closer inspection
#MarineLife #fish #evo #evosky
What is the most abundant vertebrate in the world? Even biologists rarely know the answer- lanternfishes🏮🐟
Myctophids are so abundant the Navy thought the ocean was only 500 m deep when it first invented sonar, then noticed the bottom was migrating to the surface at night! 😱
🧪 #evosky #MarineLife
Myctophids are so abundant the Navy thought the ocean was only 500 m deep when it first invented sonar, then noticed the bottom was migrating to the surface at night! 😱
🧪 #evosky #MarineLife
October 26, 2024 at 3:26 AM
What is the most abundant vertebrate in the world? Even biologists rarely know the answer- lanternfishes🏮🐟
Myctophids are so abundant the Navy thought the ocean was only 500 m deep when it first invented sonar, then noticed the bottom was migrating to the surface at night! 😱
🧪 #evosky #MarineLife
Myctophids are so abundant the Navy thought the ocean was only 500 m deep when it first invented sonar, then noticed the bottom was migrating to the surface at night! 😱
🧪 #evosky #MarineLife
And this was one of the largest fishes at 600 m depth - a snipe eel!
With some of the strangest jaws of all vertebrates for feeding on shrimp. But how??? Still unclear since feeding has never been observed! 😱
🧪🐟🐠 #evolution #evolsky #fish #mesopelagic
With some of the strangest jaws of all vertebrates for feeding on shrimp. But how??? Still unclear since feeding has never been observed! 😱
🧪🐟🐠 #evolution #evolsky #fish #mesopelagic
October 24, 2024 at 4:17 AM
And this was one of the largest fishes at 600 m depth - a snipe eel!
With some of the strangest jaws of all vertebrates for feeding on shrimp. But how??? Still unclear since feeding has never been observed! 😱
🧪🐟🐠 #evolution #evolsky #fish #mesopelagic
With some of the strangest jaws of all vertebrates for feeding on shrimp. But how??? Still unclear since feeding has never been observed! 😱
🧪🐟🐠 #evolution #evolsky #fish #mesopelagic
Just returned from an incredible deep sea cruise with Dahiana Arcila and Ben Frable at Scripps - and we found a deep sea #anglerfish!!!!!!! 😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯
Dream come true since I was 6 years old 🥲. Stay tuned for more highlights of the catch (from a single midwater trawl at 600 m!).
🧪 #evo #evosky 🐟🐠
Dream come true since I was 6 years old 🥲. Stay tuned for more highlights of the catch (from a single midwater trawl at 600 m!).
🧪 #evo #evosky 🐟🐠
October 23, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Just returned from an incredible deep sea cruise with Dahiana Arcila and Ben Frable at Scripps - and we found a deep sea #anglerfish!!!!!!! 😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯
Dream come true since I was 6 years old 🥲. Stay tuned for more highlights of the catch (from a single midwater trawl at 600 m!).
🧪 #evo #evosky 🐟🐠
Dream come true since I was 6 years old 🥲. Stay tuned for more highlights of the catch (from a single midwater trawl at 600 m!).
🧪 #evo #evosky 🐟🐠
My oldest daughter’s chosen theme for her 9th birthday party was “blobfish” and I am just such a proud ichthyologist dad 🥲🙏 trying to hide my utter enthusiasm so she sticks with it for the 10th 🤞🧪🥹
October 9, 2024 at 3:51 AM
My oldest daughter’s chosen theme for her 9th birthday party was “blobfish” and I am just such a proud ichthyologist dad 🥲🙏 trying to hide my utter enthusiasm so she sticks with it for the 10th 🤞🧪🥹
Here’s ‘Curtis’ our West African #lungfish after six months in aestivation yesterday and … today looking swell 😎🥳! Check out that papery cocoon! 🧪🐟
Our preprint on this undergrad-driven #CURE research: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our preprint on this undergrad-driven #CURE research: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 19, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Here’s ‘Curtis’ our West African #lungfish after six months in aestivation yesterday and … today looking swell 😎🥳! Check out that papery cocoon! 🧪🐟
Our preprint on this undergrad-driven #CURE research: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our preprint on this undergrad-driven #CURE research: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Great talk by my grad student David Tian #Evol2024
DEADBOX ☠️ gene may be killing one of the most endangered fish species on earth, the Devil’s Hole #pupfish 😈🐟😱
+whole genome assemblies and sequencing 100+ genomes of both adult and embryonic lethal Devil’s Hole pupfish among many other discoveries!
DEADBOX ☠️ gene may be killing one of the most endangered fish species on earth, the Devil’s Hole #pupfish 😈🐟😱
+whole genome assemblies and sequencing 100+ genomes of both adult and embryonic lethal Devil’s Hole pupfish among many other discoveries!
July 30, 2024 at 7:12 PM
My postdoc Feña Palominos' first paper from the lab is out today in PRSB!
We discovered a new role for galr2 in vertebrate craniofacial development using a pupfish adaptive radiation endemic to San Salvador Island, Bahamas. #evolution #fish #lepidophage
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
We discovered a new role for galr2 in vertebrate craniofacial development using a pupfish adaptive radiation endemic to San Salvador Island, Bahamas. #evolution #fish #lepidophage
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
October 26, 2023 at 12:04 AM
My postdoc Feña Palominos' first paper from the lab is out today in PRSB!
We discovered a new role for galr2 in vertebrate craniofacial development using a pupfish adaptive radiation endemic to San Salvador Island, Bahamas. #evolution #fish #lepidophage
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
We discovered a new role for galr2 in vertebrate craniofacial development using a pupfish adaptive radiation endemic to San Salvador Island, Bahamas. #evolution #fish #lepidophage
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...