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Thomas Near
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Parent, husband, ichthyologist, professor @Yale_EEB, Head Saybrook College, FirstGen, Chicagoan, New Havenite. nearlab.org
Yale University, New Haven, CT
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    Thomas Near
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    Jan 3, 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... @yale_eeb @yalepeabody Open access at Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…
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    Thomas Near
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    Jul 4, 2018
    New in Nature @nature. A complete species sampled phylogeny of ray-finned fishes show speciation rates are faster near the poles and slowest in the tropics! goo.gl/X62ieS @yale_eeb #fishphylogeny #NearLab
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    Thomas Near
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    Apr 19, 2024
    The classification of ray-finned fishes monograph just dropped! bioone.org/journals/bulle…
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    Thomas Near
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    Oct 13, 2020
    It's official! Yale EEB @yale_eeb @yalepeabody is hiring an assistant professor in any area of ecology/evolutionary biology! apply.interfolio.com/79739 Feel free to reach out to me or search committee, David Vasseur, Martha Muñoz, & Alvaro Sanchez. Come join our crew!
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    Thomas Near
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    Aug 27, 2021
    Coming soon to a review paper near you... @AnnualReviews
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    Thomas Near
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    Sep 16, 2023
    1/4 A preprint of Near, T. J. and C. E. Thacker. in press. Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 65 is available here zenodo.org/record/8352027 @thackfish
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    Thomas Near
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    Sep 23, 2020
    I am the Yale EEB chair and I am retweeting this message!
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    Mike Blazanin (@mikeblazanin.bsky.social)
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    Sep 23, 2020
    No official posting yet, but the inside word is that @yale_eeb will be hiring this fall for a broad junior-level search across ecology, evolution, and behavior, with a special eye to continue our ongoing efforts to diversify the dept faculty. Please RT & get the word out!
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    Thomas Near
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    Mar 14, 2020
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    Thomas Near
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    Feb 23, 2024
    Prof. Fiasco @LupeFiasco dropping the knowledge at Saybrook College...that's at Yale y'all! #deepblue
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    Thomas Near
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    Sep 14, 2023
    Coming soon from Near and Thacker @thackfish, "Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)"...a slight teaser of 4 of 21 tree figures. #NearLab
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    Thomas Near
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    Feb 14, 2021
    I was asked for a short bio for a Yale student first gen low income group. Here it is in multiple parts. When I was born my parents were teenagers and neither had yet finished high school.
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    Thomas Near
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    Feb 28, 2023
    Twitter mind hive...what do you all think are the largest surprises resulting from molecular phylogenetics? How has molecular data upended the architecture of the Tree of Life. I'll offer Woese et al. (1990) demonstration that prokaryotes are paraphyletic. Let's make a list!
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    Thomas Near
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    Jul 14, 2022
    1/10 New from the #NearLab @yalepeabody @yale_eeb, co-first authors @AvaGhezel & @FishHarrington Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous. nature.com/articles/s4155… A phylogenomic analysis of more than 1,000 species of Acanthomorpha!
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    Thomas Near
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    Mar 14, 2021
    Paper highlighting a new time-calibrated phylogeny of Centrarchidae (sunfishes, crappies, and black basses) accepted at MPE. Paper not up yet, but you can get the data and the phylogenies at Dryad, datadryad.org/stash/dataset/…