Katherine Corn 🌽
@kacorn.bsky.social
she/her | evolutionary biologist | kacorn.github.io
Asst Prof in Biology at @wsupullman.bsky.social & Director, Conner Museum of Vertebrates
macroevolution, functional morphology, fish | diversity in fish, diversity in STEM 🏳️🌈
#BLM #ProtectTransKids
Asst Prof in Biology at @wsupullman.bsky.social & Director, Conner Museum of Vertebrates
macroevolution, functional morphology, fish | diversity in fish, diversity in STEM 🏳️🌈
#BLM #ProtectTransKids
On a personal note...in summer 2015 I was @fishguy.bsky.social 's NSF REU undergrad at Friday Harbor Labs. I presented that work at SICB & applied to PhDs...
In summer 2025 I'm an REU mentor w/ my own lab at @wsupullman.bsky.social.
What a trip this last 10 years has been. An NSF REU success story 🥳
In summer 2025 I'm an REU mentor w/ my own lab at @wsupullman.bsky.social.
What a trip this last 10 years has been. An NSF REU success story 🥳
January 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
On a personal note...in summer 2015 I was @fishguy.bsky.social 's NSF REU undergrad at Friday Harbor Labs. I presented that work at SICB & applied to PhDs...
In summer 2025 I'm an REU mentor w/ my own lab at @wsupullman.bsky.social.
What a trip this last 10 years has been. An NSF REU success story 🥳
In summer 2025 I'm an REU mentor w/ my own lab at @wsupullman.bsky.social.
What a trip this last 10 years has been. An NSF REU success story 🥳
Folks: pls share! Apps are open for WSU's 2025 NSF REU in Resilience & Robustness of Aquatic Biosystems!
DUE: Feb. 17
WHEN: May 25- Aug. 3
WHERE: Pullman, WA (gorgeous in summer)
WHO: 10 UGs
$: 7k each
Come hang w/ a great group in our beautiful new aquatics facility!
sbs.wsu.edu/aquaticslab/... #🧪
DUE: Feb. 17
WHEN: May 25- Aug. 3
WHERE: Pullman, WA (gorgeous in summer)
WHO: 10 UGs
$: 7k each
Come hang w/ a great group in our beautiful new aquatics facility!
sbs.wsu.edu/aquaticslab/... #🧪
January 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Folks: pls share! Apps are open for WSU's 2025 NSF REU in Resilience & Robustness of Aquatic Biosystems!
DUE: Feb. 17
WHEN: May 25- Aug. 3
WHERE: Pullman, WA (gorgeous in summer)
WHO: 10 UGs
$: 7k each
Come hang w/ a great group in our beautiful new aquatics facility!
sbs.wsu.edu/aquaticslab/... #🧪
DUE: Feb. 17
WHEN: May 25- Aug. 3
WHERE: Pullman, WA (gorgeous in summer)
WHO: 10 UGs
$: 7k each
Come hang w/ a great group in our beautiful new aquatics facility!
sbs.wsu.edu/aquaticslab/... #🧪
The Natural History Museum collections in London are so, so amazing 😍 🧪🔬🐠🐟 Here’s Luciocephalus pulcher:
December 12, 2024 at 9:22 PM
The Natural History Museum collections in London are so, so amazing 😍 🧪🔬🐠🐟 Here’s Luciocephalus pulcher:
Incredibly proud (& a bit late) that our paper, led by Mike Burns, is OUT NOW & OA!
We find a trade-off structures the primary axis of div. in reef fish feeding anatomy, & weak integration in the complex system allows div. away from that axis
w/ @diverdarien.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
We find a trade-off structures the primary axis of div. in reef fish feeding anatomy, & weak integration in the complex system allows div. away from that axis
w/ @diverdarien.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
November 20, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Incredibly proud (& a bit late) that our paper, led by Mike Burns, is OUT NOW & OA!
We find a trade-off structures the primary axis of div. in reef fish feeding anatomy, & weak integration in the complex system allows div. away from that axis
w/ @diverdarien.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
We find a trade-off structures the primary axis of div. in reef fish feeding anatomy, & weak integration in the complex system allows div. away from that axis
w/ @diverdarien.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Love, love, love Dynamic Ecology's long search for patterns in the opaque faculty job market
This time: Biden vote share is the dominant geo. pred. of # apps to EEB jobs
How does this cycle (blue politics ->$ for schools ->educated workers) shape us?
dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/t...
#🧪
This time: Biden vote share is the dominant geo. pred. of # apps to EEB jobs
How does this cycle (blue politics ->$ for schools ->educated workers) shape us?
dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/t...
#🧪
November 19, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Love, love, love Dynamic Ecology's long search for patterns in the opaque faculty job market
This time: Biden vote share is the dominant geo. pred. of # apps to EEB jobs
How does this cycle (blue politics ->$ for schools ->educated workers) shape us?
dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/t...
#🧪
This time: Biden vote share is the dominant geo. pred. of # apps to EEB jobs
How does this cycle (blue politics ->$ for schools ->educated workers) shape us?
dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/t...
#🧪
Alexus is now a postdoc at University of Bern continuing her on the role of innovations on producing diversity & working to increase equity in STEM!
For more about her, find her LinkedIn here: www.linkedin.com/in/alexus-RH/
Check out her interview this year with ASIH: doi.org/10.1643/t202...
For more about her, find her LinkedIn here: www.linkedin.com/in/alexus-RH/
Check out her interview this year with ASIH: doi.org/10.1643/t202...
October 17, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Alexus is now a postdoc at University of Bern continuing her on the role of innovations on producing diversity & working to increase equity in STEM!
For more about her, find her LinkedIn here: www.linkedin.com/in/alexus-RH/
Check out her interview this year with ASIH: doi.org/10.1643/t202...
For more about her, find her LinkedIn here: www.linkedin.com/in/alexus-RH/
Check out her interview this year with ASIH: doi.org/10.1643/t202...
Building on Alexus' past work, this result suggests that this functional novelty strengthens evolutionary integration of the prey capture apparatus.
This increase in integration allows repeated evolution into novel but constrained regions of shape & functional space, rather than spurring diversity
This increase in integration allows repeated evolution into novel but constrained regions of shape & functional space, rather than spurring diversity
October 17, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Building on Alexus' past work, this result suggests that this functional novelty strengthens evolutionary integration of the prey capture apparatus.
This increase in integration allows repeated evolution into novel but constrained regions of shape & functional space, rather than spurring diversity
This increase in integration allows repeated evolution into novel but constrained regions of shape & functional space, rather than spurring diversity
The innovation, "pharyngognathy", is a modification to the prey processing apparatus that enhances crushing but limits gape.
While the innov. permits ecological expansion into durophagy & herbivory, it has a negative assoc. with piscivory--an often gape-limited state--which may slow diversification
While the innov. permits ecological expansion into durophagy & herbivory, it has a negative assoc. with piscivory--an often gape-limited state--which may slow diversification
October 17, 2024 at 9:35 PM
The innovation, "pharyngognathy", is a modification to the prey processing apparatus that enhances crushing but limits gape.
While the innov. permits ecological expansion into durophagy & herbivory, it has a negative assoc. with piscivory--an often gape-limited state--which may slow diversification
While the innov. permits ecological expansion into durophagy & herbivory, it has a negative assoc. with piscivory--an often gape-limited state--which may slow diversification
I am SO PROUD to say that the indomitable Alexus Roberts Hugghis (not yet on bsky)'s 3rd ch. is OUT NOW at Evolution Letters!
With me, @cmartinez.bsky.social , & Peter Wainwright, we find that a famous key innovation in feeding apparatus LIMITS functional diversification!
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
With me, @cmartinez.bsky.social , & Peter Wainwright, we find that a famous key innovation in feeding apparatus LIMITS functional diversification!
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
October 17, 2024 at 9:27 PM
I am SO PROUD to say that the indomitable Alexus Roberts Hugghis (not yet on bsky)'s 3rd ch. is OUT NOW at Evolution Letters!
With me, @cmartinez.bsky.social , & Peter Wainwright, we find that a famous key innovation in feeding apparatus LIMITS functional diversification!
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
With me, @cmartinez.bsky.social , & Peter Wainwright, we find that a famous key innovation in feeding apparatus LIMITS functional diversification!
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Bluesky has VIDEO now?!
Here's one of my favorite fish, Pomacanthus xanthometopon, eating a worm in the lab 😍
Here's one of my favorite fish, Pomacanthus xanthometopon, eating a worm in the lab 😍
September 13, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Bluesky has VIDEO now?!
Here's one of my favorite fish, Pomacanthus xanthometopon, eating a worm in the lab 😍
Here's one of my favorite fish, Pomacanthus xanthometopon, eating a worm in the lab 😍
I am OVER THE MOON that our paper is out at Am Nat today!
We find phylogeny & biogeographic contingency shape functional diversity in cichlid radiations.
It's my first as co-first author, & Chris Martinez was an A+ co-lead. We had an amazing team-I am so proud of this work!
doi.org/10.1086/731477
We find phylogeny & biogeographic contingency shape functional diversity in cichlid radiations.
It's my first as co-first author, & Chris Martinez was an A+ co-lead. We had an amazing team-I am so proud of this work!
doi.org/10.1086/731477
July 18, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I am OVER THE MOON that our paper is out at Am Nat today!
We find phylogeny & biogeographic contingency shape functional diversity in cichlid radiations.
It's my first as co-first author, & Chris Martinez was an A+ co-lead. We had an amazing team-I am so proud of this work!
doi.org/10.1086/731477
We find phylogeny & biogeographic contingency shape functional diversity in cichlid radiations.
It's my first as co-first author, & Chris Martinez was an A+ co-lead. We had an amazing team-I am so proud of this work!
doi.org/10.1086/731477
Hi Andrew! I'm a fish biologist wondering if you can add me to the zoology feed. I study macroevolution and biomechanics, and I'm a postdoc at Virginia Tech. Here's me on my last proper fieldwork, checking to make sure my cameras are on 😅🐟🐠
February 6, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Hi Andrew! I'm a fish biologist wondering if you can add me to the zoology feed. I study macroevolution and biomechanics, and I'm a postdoc at Virginia Tech. Here's me on my last proper fieldwork, checking to make sure my cameras are on 😅🐟🐠
If you're at AGU today, check out the fabulous @dangrigarath.bsky.social 's presentation on soil biodiversity in California 🧪
He's presenting a report prepared by the California Department of Food & Agriculture Belowground Biodiversity Advisory Committee!
eLightning Theater 3, Hall D, South, 5pm!
He's presenting a report prepared by the California Department of Food & Agriculture Belowground Biodiversity Advisory Committee!
eLightning Theater 3, Hall D, South, 5pm!
December 11, 2023 at 4:22 PM
If you're at AGU today, check out the fabulous @dangrigarath.bsky.social 's presentation on soil biodiversity in California 🧪
He's presenting a report prepared by the California Department of Food & Agriculture Belowground Biodiversity Advisory Committee!
eLightning Theater 3, Hall D, South, 5pm!
He's presenting a report prepared by the California Department of Food & Agriculture Belowground Biodiversity Advisory Committee!
eLightning Theater 3, Hall D, South, 5pm!
Did you know California state scientists are on the FIRST EVER STRIKE BY STATE EMPLOYEES this week?
They‘ve worked for 3 YEARS w/o a contract! If you’re in CA, call your reps! If you’re not, do your state scientists have a fair contract?
Learn about it: amp.sacbee.com/news/politic... #equalpayCA
They‘ve worked for 3 YEARS w/o a contract! If you’re in CA, call your reps! If you’re not, do your state scientists have a fair contract?
Learn about it: amp.sacbee.com/news/politic... #equalpayCA
November 17, 2023 at 1:28 AM
Did you know California state scientists are on the FIRST EVER STRIKE BY STATE EMPLOYEES this week?
They‘ve worked for 3 YEARS w/o a contract! If you’re in CA, call your reps! If you’re not, do your state scientists have a fair contract?
Learn about it: amp.sacbee.com/news/politic... #equalpayCA
They‘ve worked for 3 YEARS w/o a contract! If you’re in CA, call your reps! If you’re not, do your state scientists have a fair contract?
Learn about it: amp.sacbee.com/news/politic... #equalpayCA
Our final regional SICB talk of the day: Kelly Diamond on starting a research program at a PUI!!
Amazing advice—there are many kinds of jobs and universities where you can be happy. Find the one that is right for you.
Amazing advice—there are many kinds of jobs and universities where you can be happy. Find the one that is right for you.
November 4, 2023 at 8:05 PM
Our final regional SICB talk of the day: Kelly Diamond on starting a research program at a PUI!!
Amazing advice—there are many kinds of jobs and universities where you can be happy. Find the one that is right for you.
Amazing advice—there are many kinds of jobs and universities where you can be happy. Find the one that is right for you.
A gorgeous plenary talk at Southeast Regional SICB by new VT engineering professor Justin Jaworski on mechanics of acoustically stealthy flight in owls! 🦉 A poroelastic edge helps reduce trailing edge noise, but owls are doing still more to limit sound—a continuing source of bioinspiration #evosky
November 4, 2023 at 4:09 PM
A gorgeous plenary talk at Southeast Regional SICB by new VT engineering professor Justin Jaworski on mechanics of acoustically stealthy flight in owls! 🦉 A poroelastic edge helps reduce trailing edge noise, but owls are doing still more to limit sound—a continuing source of bioinspiration #evosky
If you couldn’t make it to SE rSICB today, make sure you catch @jackstack.bsky.social ‘s talk at SICB in Seattle! Extraordinary maxillary rotation in an early fish—with huge implications for the ecological and evolutionary history of fishes.
November 4, 2023 at 2:30 PM
If you couldn’t make it to SE rSICB today, make sure you catch @jackstack.bsky.social ‘s talk at SICB in Seattle! Extraordinary maxillary rotation in an early fish—with huge implications for the ecological and evolutionary history of fishes.
It’s just 9:45 but Southeast Regional SICB is already off to such a fun start! @jmhuie.bsky.social gave an incredibly exciting talk— leveraging DeepLabCut to explore climbing in salamanders! #evosky
November 4, 2023 at 1:48 PM
It’s just 9:45 but Southeast Regional SICB is already off to such a fun start! @jmhuie.bsky.social gave an incredibly exciting talk— leveraging DeepLabCut to explore climbing in salamanders! #evosky
A few special things that have brightened this tough week--
Dr. Alexus Roberts Hugghis gave an incredible exit seminar on Tuesday celebrating her graduation from UC Davis 🥳;
and we had an unexpected visitor at the house yesterday 🐻
Hope you're all taking time right now to be with your loved ones
Dr. Alexus Roberts Hugghis gave an incredible exit seminar on Tuesday celebrating her graduation from UC Davis 🥳;
and we had an unexpected visitor at the house yesterday 🐻
Hope you're all taking time right now to be with your loved ones
October 12, 2023 at 7:21 PM
A few special things that have brightened this tough week--
Dr. Alexus Roberts Hugghis gave an incredible exit seminar on Tuesday celebrating her graduation from UC Davis 🥳;
and we had an unexpected visitor at the house yesterday 🐻
Hope you're all taking time right now to be with your loved ones
Dr. Alexus Roberts Hugghis gave an incredible exit seminar on Tuesday celebrating her graduation from UC Davis 🥳;
and we had an unexpected visitor at the house yesterday 🐻
Hope you're all taking time right now to be with your loved ones
Absolutely incredible talk by @aaberhe.bsky.social today at Virginia Tech on building pathways in the DoE for equitable, inclusive research—incorporating the communities affected most by climate change into the research on solutions. So glad she came out to VT’s Global Change Center!
October 3, 2023 at 9:56 PM
Absolutely incredible talk by @aaberhe.bsky.social today at Virginia Tech on building pathways in the DoE for equitable, inclusive research—incorporating the communities affected most by climate change into the research on solutions. So glad she came out to VT’s Global Change Center!
It’s for everyone! 😁 Here’s yours (pardon the vertical aspect ratio):
You can modify colors and shapes at this shiny app: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...
You can modify colors and shapes at this shiny app: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...
September 29, 2023 at 3:24 AM
It’s for everyone! 😁 Here’s yours (pardon the vertical aspect ratio):
You can modify colors and shapes at this shiny app: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...
You can modify colors and shapes at this shiny app: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...
Glad to see I’m not the only morphologist whose word cloud is dominated by body shape studies 😂🐟🐠
September 28, 2023 at 5:52 PM
Glad to see I’m not the only morphologist whose word cloud is dominated by body shape studies 😂🐟🐠
One more week to apply to the Integrative Biology faculty job search at Washington State University! This is a broad search looking for someone addressing organism-environment interactions (due 9/20). Apply & share!
#evosky #AcademicSky
wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
#evosky #AcademicSky
wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
September 13, 2023 at 5:34 PM
One more week to apply to the Integrative Biology faculty job search at Washington State University! This is a broad search looking for someone addressing organism-environment interactions (due 9/20). Apply & share!
#evosky #AcademicSky
wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
#evosky #AcademicSky
wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...