Tom Near
@tjnear.bsky.social
Parent, husband, ichthyologist, professor, Head Saybrook College,
@Yale_EEB chair, FirstGen, Chicagoan, New Havenite. www.nearlab.org/
@Yale_EEB chair, FirstGen, Chicagoan, New Havenite. www.nearlab.org/
A phylogeny showing the resolution of this lonely family...
December 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A phylogeny showing the resolution of this lonely family...
New from #NearLab The role of ecology in allopatric speciation of darters in the Central Highlands, USA
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shorturl.at/YEmxH
December 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
New from #NearLab The role of ecology in allopatric speciation of darters in the Central Highlands, USA
shorturl.at/YEmxH
shorturl.at/YEmxH
A wonderful Saybrook College Tea with Yale World Fellow and Saybrook Fellow, Trinh Nguyen
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yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11...
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A wonderful Saybrook College Tea with Yale World Fellow and Saybrook Fellow, Trinh Nguyen
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11...
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11...
Bridle Shiner, Notropis bifrenatus. Plymouth Co., Massachusetts
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Bridle Shiner, Notropis bifrenatus. Plymouth Co., Massachusetts
2/2 Delimiting and describing species is the first step towards their protection and conservation.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
2/2 Delimiting and describing species is the first step towards their protection and conservation.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
3/4 We made this discovery on October 11, 2025. We went from field work to a paper submitted to a scientific peer-reviewed journal in less than four weeks.
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
3/4 We made this discovery on October 11, 2025. We went from field work to a paper submitted to a scientific peer-reviewed journal in less than four weeks.
1/4 I typically do not use preprint services, but our findings are important to the residents of Bessemer, Alabama impacted by the Marvel Project...a mega datacenter that will have a huge environmental impact.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
1/4 I typically do not use preprint services, but our findings are important to the residents of Bessemer, Alabama impacted by the Marvel Project...a mega datacenter that will have a huge environmental impact.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible and moving exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art on the art and poetry of William Blake. Runs through November 30, 2025
britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-...
britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-...
November 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Incredible and moving exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art on the art and poetry of William Blake. Runs through November 30, 2025
britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-...
britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-...
4/5 Timing of speciation and historical biogeography indicate Pleistocene glaciation as drivers of allopatric diversification in the clade. We show that geographically disjunct populations in the upper Mississippi are likely glacial relicts and not the result of post glacial dispersal
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
4/5 Timing of speciation and historical biogeography indicate Pleistocene glaciation as drivers of allopatric diversification in the clade. We show that geographically disjunct populations in the upper Mississippi are likely glacial relicts and not the result of post glacial dispersal
3/5 Julia did a masterful job deploying genomic data and traditional merstic and coloration traits to clearly delimit five species, four of which are new and will soon be named
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
3/5 Julia did a masterful job deploying genomic data and traditional merstic and coloration traits to clearly delimit five species, four of which are new and will soon be named
2/5 The Percina evides complex is long thought to contain more than a single taxon, which was the topic of an unpublished Ph.D. dissertation from the year I was born. How long ago was that? Look at all the white hair on my head!
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
2/5 The Percina evides complex is long thought to contain more than a single taxon, which was the topic of an unpublished Ph.D. dissertation from the year I was born. How long ago was that? Look at all the white hair on my head!
New from the Near Lab "Phylogenetic Taxonomy of Wrasses and Parrotfishes (Labridae)" open access
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bioone.org/journals/bul...
October 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
New from the Near Lab "Phylogenetic Taxonomy of Wrasses and Parrotfishes (Labridae)" open access
bioone.org/journals/bul...
bioone.org/journals/bul...
Stop on by if you are in Knoxville!
October 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Stop on by if you are in Knoxville!
I almost starting whooping and hollering during weekly departmental seminar...great talk but I was following the game on my phone!
September 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I almost starting whooping and hollering during weekly departmental seminar...great talk but I was following the game on my phone!
Would it look like this? From Wiens & Colella 2025
August 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Would it look like this? From Wiens & Colella 2025
It's good they did not do this!
August 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It's good they did not do this!
Arrived today...excited to read this before the story is made into a film or Netflix series!
August 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Arrived today...excited to read this before the story is made into a film or Netflix series!
The quickest turnaround from publication to the work being profiled in a textbook...a law school textbook, but a textbook nonetheless! Snail Darter, RIP
July 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The quickest turnaround from publication to the work being profiled in a textbook...a law school textbook, but a textbook nonetheless! Snail Darter, RIP
In 2007 Larry Page and I described Percina williamsi that is now protected as Threatened by the ESA. Having been cited only 13 times this paper will never likely contribute to my h-index, but it remains one of my favorites. Photo by Caleb Moses.
July 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In 2007 Larry Page and I described Percina williamsi that is now protected as Threatened by the ESA. Having been cited only 13 times this paper will never likely contribute to my h-index, but it remains one of my favorites. Photo by Caleb Moses.
Field work in Cape Cod!
July 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Field work in Cape Cod!
2/3 Pleased that our discovery of a new population in the upper Collins River, documentation of the extripation of the species from Hickory Creek using museum specimens, and demonstrating the threat caused by the expansion of the closely related Fringed Darter is heavily cited by the USFWS
July 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
2/3 Pleased that our discovery of a new population in the upper Collins River, documentation of the extripation of the species from Hickory Creek using museum specimens, and demonstrating the threat caused by the expansion of the closely related Fringed Darter is heavily cited by the USFWS
1/3 Today in the Federal Register the USFWS is recommending the Barrens Darter, Etheostoma forbesi be listed as Endangered under the Endangered Species Act
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
July 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
1/3 Today in the Federal Register the USFWS is recommending the Barrens Darter, Etheostoma forbesi be listed as Endangered under the Endangered Species Act
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Secunda at the cornhole pads with the Saybrook students, April 2016
June 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Secunda at the cornhole pads with the Saybrook students, April 2016
#NearLab had a great time at #Evol2025, Julia Wood and @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social gave outstanding talks and Chase was awarded the SSE Presidents' Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper published in the journal Evolution!
June 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
#NearLab had a great time at #Evol2025, Julia Wood and @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social gave outstanding talks and Chase was awarded the SSE Presidents' Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper published in the journal Evolution!