Parent, husband, ichthyologist, professor @Yale_EEB, Head Saybrook College, FirstGen, Chicagoan, New Havenite. nearlab.org
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3 Jan 2025
1/5 New from the #NearLab, genomics and morphology demonstrate the famous Snail Darter, Percina tanasi, the little fish that swam to the United States Supreme Court is not a distinct species...
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Open access at Current Biology
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New preprint from the #NearLab w/@ChaseBrownstein The costs of paraphyletic classification in the world's most endangered fishes
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YaleNews story about the new amblyopsid species Typhlichthys styx!
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New species alert! 🐟 Meet Typhlichthys styx the Phantom Cavefish, a new amblyopsid cavefish from TN, AL & GA! Ancient aquifer geology drove allopatric speciation ~8 Ma ago!
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May 19
One pattern that flummoxed previous investigators...and frankly us...was a pattern of sympatry between genetically and phylogenetically divergent lineages of Typhlichthys. The explanation is simple...the are different species and they are not sister species!
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🚨🚨1/12 New paper in press @iobopen! We untangle a classic species complex, name a new species of eyeless fish from North America, and propose that underground aquifers act like drainage basins on the surface, mediating speciation underground!
Meet Typhlichthys styx!
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May 18
Julia Wood and I made it to the wonderful Fish of the Week podcast! Hear us talk about our new species descriptions from the Gilt Darter (Percina evides) complex.
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Apr 25
New from the Near Lab, Chase Brownstein takes the lead documenting the geographic distribution of the imperiled Birmingham Darter (Etheostoma birminghamense), described in April 2025 in an effort led by Chase.
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I went to bed too early...
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New from the #NearLab. Grad student Julia Wood takes the lead on the description of four beautiful new species of darters!
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Finally making it to teleosts in my rebooted ichthyology course!
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Chase Brownstein's shark paper covered by Nature News!
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Mar 12
New slide for upcoming lecture in my ichthyology course...filer feeding in sharks and rays is amazing and has at least four origins.
Looking for something to add to the big white space in the upper right quadrant of the slide. Suggestions?
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Feb 28
Closing out our road swing in the Big Apple!
🆚 | Columbia
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📍 | Levien Gymnasium - New York, N.Y.
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Feb 15
Honored that #NearLab work on fish phylogenetics is recognized with this award, in particular our work on Black Basses (Micropterus) that includes the famous Largemouth Bass
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New from #NearLab, Phylogenomics and the origins of sharks led by @ChaseBrownstein
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22 Dec 2025
Phylogenetic Biogeography Inference Using Dynamic Paleogeography Models and Explicit Geographic Ranges academic.oup.com/sysbio/arti… @systbiol
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