Jason Toy, Ph.D.

📢New paper out in @molecology !📢 We provide evidence of cryptic/incipient speciation in the Black Surfperch occurring on coastal islands. Popgen and phylogenomic methods show 5 distinct groups and evidence of reproductive barriers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Are you interested in genomic connectivity, hybridization, and range expansions in marine organisms? I am recruiting a PhD student and Lab Technician for Fall 2024 in the Gatins Lab @Northeastern !! For more information please visit our website: remygatins.com

My lab group is searching for a new 🚨POSTDOC to work on life history trade-offs or fitness consequences of environmental change using an incredible long-term mark-recapture dataset on elephant seals at @ucsc. Review date 8/24. recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01586

@pinskylab @zoejean88 Congrats @zoejean88 ! 🎉

Congratulations to @zoejean88 for a master class in scientific communication, defending her PhD research on community composition change and biotic homogenization around the world’s ocean! 🌊

@giacomo_fish @Friedman_Lab Definitely both!

Drop a cool photo that someone took of you doing your job.

Our framework paper on connectivity is now available online! This paper was the product of an @NSF @evolvingseas RCN working group led by @AlliNCramer and @jahoey13 .

@BarshisLab @reefgenomics @NSF @PGAFamilyFdn @BIOLOGYatODU aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lo…

Do you love data science and want to cry? Do you want to see the UGLIEST #rstats plot to ever exist? Look no further because my students crushed their good plot/bad plot assignment and really took making the worst plots possible to heart. #ggplot🧵⬇️

@giacomo_fish Which species this time?

Big one out today @CurrentBiology! We've been working on this for so long! After many expeditions and almost 1000 transects up to 143m depth, we show that the well-known longitudinal marine diversity gradient attenuates with greater depths! 1/n authors.elsevier.com/c/1gkk7_LsQSPr…

@giacomo_fish species?

Happy to announce that the second chapter of my dissertation has been published! Sequencing and assembly of the kelp perch (Brachyistius frenatus) reference genome! 🐟 #surfperches #Embiotocidae #genome @giacomo_fish academic.oup.com/jhered/advance…

A high-quality reference genome of the kelp surfperch (Brachyistius frenatus) now available! 🐟 Because they lack a dispersive larval stage, surfperches are excellent for studying speciation, gene flow, and local adaptation in the ocean. @giacomo_fish academic.oup.com/jhered/advance…

@giacomo_fish Did you get good pore usage?

First day on @ODU campus as a postdoc in @BarshisLab 🦁 🪸 🧬

And, for my favorite paper I’ve published so far 🥁🥁🥁 we measured predation of #sunflowerseastars on sea urchins and found that they eat them fast enough that they are strong top predators that likely prevent urchin barrens! And they chow down on starved urchins from barrens!

@giacomo_fish You got one! 😂

@pinskylab @rachael_winfree @hleslie_umaine @CoralReefFish @DrewHarvell @fieldgenomics Congrats Malin! Well deserved!

Humbled to be in a cohort with colleagues @rachael_winfree @hleslie_umaine @CoralReefFish @DrewHarvell @fieldgenomics and Roz Naylor!

@giacomo_fish Weirdest looking fish I’ve ever seen…

@pinskylab @KristyKroeker @giacomo_fish It was a fun and productive two weeks, and it was awesome to see what everyone in the lab is working on! Thanks for being such great hosts!

Just finished hosting @the_evologist for a data analysis sprint on surfperch population genomics 🧬. So much fun and exciting results in the works! From the labs of @KristyKroeker @giacomo_fish