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Evolutionary Biologist, Polar Wanderer, Astronomer Wannabe. Telling people they are fish, rocks and stars since 2008.

UChicago

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Neil Shubin

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I'm thrilled to reveal the cover of my new book, coming Feb. 2025! ENDS OF THE EARTH: Journeys to Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future. Preorder here: 1/4

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Ends of the Earth by Neil Shubin: 9780593186527 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet’s...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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An incredible Jurassic salamander--- you can see the gill filaments, eye, stomach contents, notochord, even the folds of its tail.

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Your reminder that muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear, talk, and chew with correspond to gill structures in fish. An idea derived from fossils, comparative anatomy, embryology and DNA. Art by @eyeforscience #yourinnerfish

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Fish thought of the day: many of the bones you use to talk, chew and hear with are modified gill bones of sharks and fish. This is a fact of development, genetics, and the fossil record. art by @eyeforscience

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In celebration of @SharkWeek . The muscles, nerves and bones we use to talk and hear correspond to gill structures in sharks. Art via @eyeforscience

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RIP Richard Lewontin. One of evolutionary biology greats. Inspired and mentored so many.

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What kind of omen is it when a juvenile perigrine falcon lands on the windowsill behind you and stares at you for 10 mins. No zoom on this photo.

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Thinking of our mom this Mothers’ Day. A segmented worm with a notochord, gill slits and dorsal nerve cord. She’s Cambrian, of course.

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Nov 9. Carl Sagan's Birthday. Let's fight for a world that respects evidence and optimism over superstition and fear.

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Gorgeous Fall day at my lab building @uchicago

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Want to see the real fossil type specimen of Tiktaalik? It’s on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia on loan from the Canadian Museum of Nature until Summer 2024. Photo by @tomstewartscience #tiktaalik #paleontology #evolution

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Everybody wants to blame the fish. Why not Pikaia, an early chordate; or Lucy, an early biped? Or LUCA for that matter. But no. It’s always the fish.

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All of this is his fault

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From a six-year old in Sweden. #mademyday

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Gar Feeeding: a beautiful choreography of jaw opening, hyoid depression and shoulder retraction. Yup. Shoulder. Justin Lemberg’s analysis now up.

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Tiktaalik cancelled?

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Great news! 3D files of Tiktaalik skulls and skeleton will be online soon for printing casts.... stay tuned.

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I'm in love with a tree at @Uchicago

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Announcing 2 3-year postdocs in the Shubin Lab! Interested in evolutionary and functional morphology, paleo CT analysis and polar expeditions? Or developmental biology, gene function, regulation and evolution? Or both? . Email me at nshubin @uchicago .edu

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How, but how, am I supposed to stop touching my face when a facepalm is the natural reaction to current events??

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One of the greatest honors an author can receive:

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Wow! A wild Tiktaalik finally caught. Right at the base of the GW bridge (New Jersey side) of all places.

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Remembering our dad this Fathers Day. #Cambrian

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I’m excited to announce my new book!! SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: Decoding 4 Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils and DNA. A deep dive into the great transitions of life’s history and the science we use to understand them. Available for preorder:

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David Wake, who passed away today, was a scientific icon but also a warm and kind human. He was my postdoc mentor at Berkeley and my life is vastly richer for having known him. My thoughts are with Marvalee and Tom.

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Happy Darwin’s Birthday. This from Ray Troll #Istudyevolution

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Let us thank our dear old Mom this Mother’s Day.

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@ananavarro Ok, then, name 9.

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I'm descended from humans. Why are there still humans?

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If we evolved from apes why are there still apes.

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We’ve come a long way. (via )

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Finally some reason and rational thinking on the internet.

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the matter baby ❤️‍🔥

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Stop blaming tiktaalik for issues that humans created, he did nothing wrong :(

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15 years ago I woke up to this...

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Love my mailbox when it has things like this....from an 8 year old.

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My new book on evolution went into production this week!! A 3 year project. More soon...

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Teachers! Are you using one of my books in classes this spring? I’d be happy to visit your class digitally. DM to arrange. @NSTA @NABT_News

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Raise a glass to our dear old dad this Fathers Day.

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He’s doing better than 96% of the people I saw at an Ohio Walmart today.

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Rare action shot of a PI actually doing science. I’m told nobody was hurt and property was undamaged. @MBLScience

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Halloween in the lab today.

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Finally....A Minecraft Tiktalik.

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@NormOrnstein @GOPChairwoman Any other president would address the nation and denounce white supremacy. #crickets

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For those of you @wsjournal @DanCrenshawTX @govabbot who blame wind generation in the cold for Texas energy failures, I offer you wind turbines from Crater Hill, Antarctica.

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This political cartoon appeared the week Tiktaalik was announced in 2006. A wall would have been as useful in the Devonian as it would be today....

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Ocean sunrise to celebrate 61 years around the Sun today.

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Achievement unlocked. Inner Fish is #2 in Christian Theology at Amazon’s Kindle Store.

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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” Bertrand Russell.

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Inner Fish Thought of the Day: Structures we use to talk and hear with are gill structures in fish and sharks.

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Entrance to a 6th grade classroom here in Chicago.

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I ran into my own 6-year old footprints on Ellesmere Island in 2008. I walked this spot in 2002 cold, wet, and questioning my judgement about looking for a fishapod in this place. What a fragile and special part of our world!

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A medieval Tiktaalk! The Flower of Nature (ca. 1350).

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Reminder. All episodes of Your Inner Fish available for free streaming here:

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Antarctica, Devonian, 2017. Doing what I love to do-- eyes on the rocks, finding evidence of past life.

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Saturday fish thought: Our arms are just modified fish fins. You can trace the bones to those of fossil fish. Credit: @eyeforscience Kapi Monoyios.

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That time Tiktaalik and I were legos. Thanks ⁦ @ViewChicago ⁩

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Back from 2 months in Antarctica. No internet. Anything happen? Here’s my walk to coffee in the kitchen tent at 5am last week.

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Bill Nye with Tiktaalik. Nye is on the right.

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Amazon 1 Star reviews of Inner Fish…some of them are pure gold.

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Let's all thank mom on this Mother's Day.

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I always get a Wow! looking at Chunerpeton, a Jurassic salamander from China. Gills and all. #fossilfriday

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New, more complete, reconstruction of Tiktaalik by @TomDoesScience ! We now include the pelvic fins, vertebral column and many other parts that were only recently revealed by scanning. Stay tuned.

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If you're participating in SICB+, check out my talk on the axial skeleton of Tiktaalik. Would love to hear what you think! #SICB2022

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Crazy colors in my lab building this Fall @UChicago

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Everybody out of the water. Mudskippers just. arrived in the lab. Fun times watching.....fish....climb

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Say Hi to Tiktaalik. Great new exhibit in Phila....

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Who are the REAL patriots here?

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Introducing Tiktaalik’s new cousin Qikiqtania wakei, a fishpod from the Devonian of the Canadian Arctic! See @TomDoesScience The specimen was found 5 days before Tiktaalik in July, 2004.1/7

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Clever Tiktaalik tattoo... For #fossilfriday . Via @plantamerfolk

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Thank you!! It’s my 60th today. After 2020, I don’t feel a day over 97!

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Happy birthday @NeilShubin !

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Lungfish have landed in the lab!

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Being inducted here today. In an entering class that includes Sean (the biologist) Carroll and Barack Obama. Oldest learned society in the USA, celebrating its 275th anniversary.

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The paperback of SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED arrived!

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What's being zoomed today. I wish I knew whom to credit for the background.

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Reminder....TEACHERS. Do you use my books, show or discuss Tiktaalik in your instruction? I'd be happy to visit your class digitally. DM to schedule!

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Do you want your own Tiktaalik? Get 3D files for printing skills, jaws and other bones here:

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“What are people, if not fish persevering?”

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“What are genes, if not DNA persevering?”

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The kind of message that leaves me speechless.

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Fish climb trees

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Beginning a new book project!! I'll provide more details once all the contracts are signed. But...word 1 of ~80,000. I'll do the edits of that word later; but, the ice is broken...

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This in the mail today.

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A school of plushy tiktaaliks. Or is it a herd of plushy tiktaaliks?? #watertolandterminologyproblems

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11 years ago today, I woke to this. Wasn’t fully prepared. Spilled my coffee.

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Why hello! A visitor.

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Announcing tenure-track Asst Professorships at UChicago for people whose science lies at the interface between UChicago and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA! @mblscience @UChicago Details here: 1/2

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There will come a point fairly soon when we will never have to say his name again.

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Every now and then there’s a tree that needs to be photographed.

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10 years (!) worth of scanning/analyzing Tiktaalik skulls by @Justin_Lemberg reveals it had a kinetic skull. Scans and printable files of the skull are now availablehere: OA paper here: 1/2

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The feeding system of Tiktaalik roseae: an intermediate between suction feeding and biting | PNAS

Changes to feeding structures are a fundamental component of the vertebrate transition from water to land. Classically, this event has been charact...

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With crushing sadness: my colleague and dear friend. Far too soon. RIP José Luis Gómez Skarmeta.

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I'm thrilled to reveal the cover of my new book, coming Feb. 2025! ENDS OF THE EARTH: Journeys to Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future. Preorder here:

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Reminder: Your Inner Fish, the entire series, is available for free streaming here:

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Resting in Resolute Bay after pulled from the field on Ellesmere Island. Major Arctic storm leveled camp. Plane found patch of tundra to land and take us after a week of eating bars in sleeping bags during bad weather. But truly amazing Devonian fossils! More to come…

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Good times hosting Don Johanson today. I read about the Lucy discovery as a high schooler. It’s one of the reasons I studied paleontology.

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Wait for it.

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I love this so much 🦥❤️

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Remembering that time I spoke about YOUR INNER FISH in a church.

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Your Inner Anemone. Versions of the same genes are involved in building human and sea anemone bodies. But they’re better than us. They can regenerate lost body parts. We can’t. Art by @eyeforscience

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Always blame the 375 million year old fish for 2020. Why not the 540 million year old worm-like creature? #meetmyinbox

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#fossilfriday . With apologies to the ones from the rocks.

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What did members of my lab do during lockdown? They discovered a cousin of Tiktaalik, a whole new kind of fishapod!! Blocks scanned in 2019, revealed a new fin and other parts as files were analyzed during WFH. Visit @Justin_Lemberg @TomDoesScience talks at virtual #svp2020

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Today starts #FossilFishWeek Here's one of my favorites!

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My translation guide from Republican to English: “Constitution” = “My opinion” “Fraud” = “Result that runs counter to my opinion” “Deep State” = “non partisan competent person who acts counter to my opinion” “Fact” = “My opinion” “Patriot” = “Person sharing my opinion”

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Strange seeing yourself in graphic art form.

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A Tiktaalik tarot

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Your Inner Fly: Genes that act during the development of our vertebral column can be traced to flies.

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