For those curious about our shutdown kitten, who we found in the street days before getting furloughed — he’s back in Boston and doing great! Someday he’ll learn that I’m not normally home 24/7, but not yet. He might actually be furlough’s biggest fan.

“Are you the gar girl from downstairs?” YES! Happy #GarWeek and Aquarium Friday! The ancestral fishes exhibit at NEAQ has all sorts of freshwater friends, including gar, lungfish, sturgeon, and more ❤️🐟🦑 Big thanks to @garlab.bsky.social as always for a great week!

December birthday here. I can’t wait to tell them. They’re gonna be thrilled! #GarWeek

Happy day 5 of #GarWeek, conservation and research day! Here in Minnesota, the #GarLab is proud to contribute to valuable conservation efforts to protect native non-game fishes.

It’s day 4 of #GarWeek, and you’ll never believe what I found… 🎁 (Beautifully created by OrangeYewCurios on Etsy!)

Enjoying #GarWeek? Join us for a webinar on Weds, Nov 12, at 2 pm EST, highlighting positive social and conservation developments for important native fishes, including gars. Featuring @solomonrdavid.bsky.social, Alec Lackmann, & @dirtydog.bsky.social. Register now: fisheries.org/2025/10/webi....

In addition to #GarWeek, it’s also my first week writing to my penpal for this school year through Letters to a Pre-Scientist! Gar lovers, if you also happen to be a scientist (which I bet many of you are), check out the program at prescientist.org! 🧪

It's #GarWeek! @solomonrdavid.bsky.social sat down with Great Lakes Now to discuss this misunderstood & ancient freshwater fish. Learn all about my new favorite fish & why researchers are exploring how gar genetics could help us understand human disease evolution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw84...

It’s #GarWeek! To kick things off, here are a couple recent photos of me with Yorick, the skull that started it all. One of my favorite facts to share on the floor is that every alligator gar has a different number of teeth! “How many does that skull have?” I don’t know — start counting 😉

GAR WEEK 2025 is HERE!!! Join @garlab.bsky.social as we celebrate these awesome living fossil fishes and freshwater biodiversity for #GarWeek! We look forward to hearing from YOU with any gar pics, puns, stories, GARtwork and questions this week!

We are so excited (and festive)!

Y’all saw it here on Bluesky FIRST. Trailer for #GarWeek 2025. JOIN US November 3-7!!!

Hurricane #Melissa hit Jamaica's southwest coast yesterday with 185 mph winds. The Category 5 storm is the most powerful to hit #Jamaica since record-keeping began, undergoing rapid intensification fueled by warmer waters before landfall. Watch it make landfall in the GOES-19 animation below. ⚒️⛈️🌎🛰️🧪

Thanks to some vigilant friends out there, I have a nearly-complete 87-hour radar loop of #Melissa 's approach to #Jamaica. The loop abruptly ends when the radar is lost (either loss of communication with it or loss of the actual structure). bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/radar/

It’s that time of year again! Sunken Pumpkin has begun at the aquarium, and the residents are loving it. 🎃🐠🦑

Furloughed so hard we got cat distribution systemed…

I'm on my third emergency response deployment, this time at the Smitty's Supply fire in Roseland, Louisiana. Trying to help, as always. Things are looking better!

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating. Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape. Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

My internship at Goddard Space Flight Center was focused on assessing the effects of extreme urban heat on vulnerable populations. NASA research does so much for us here on Earth — but not without funding. 🧪

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

Beautiful piece in my briefing today about our less charismatic landscapes, their history, and their advocates. What does it mean to love a swamp? ⚒️🌿🌊 longreads.com/2025/10/02/t...

FYI: the Deportation Data Project collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets. #gischat #geosky #datasky The most recent release of data covers ICE enforcement actions through late July 2025. They are actively seeking updates. deportationdata.org/data/

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Aquarium Friday! Hi, Adi! 🦑

I can't remember who I've seen post this before... But I found a plainbow! ✈️🌈🛰️ #gischat

We honor the life and legacy of Dr. Jane Goodall, the pioneering conservationist, champion for wildlife, and unwavering voice for the planet. This photo from our 2021 Annual Meeting honored her extraordinary impact. Her legacy will continue to inspire.

Once more with feeling, as well as conviction and hard data: "The Scientific Case for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

It sure is! Just takes a few more layers of clothes to get me on the boat 😉🎣🍂

Happy #WorldRiversDay from Tó Nizhóní Ání and the Diné Native Plant Program! Learn more about the Tó Tsoh (Big Water) Wash Volunteer Day organized by the Navajo Nation's Diné Native Plant Program. #RezWatershed #NavajoNation www.tonizhoniani.org/world-rivers-day-2025

On Friday, my coworkers and I got to practice our hydric soil identification! We also identified a very cute newt. ⚒️🧪🦎

HUGE news: The High Seas Treaty has been ratified and will go into effect next year. This is a historic win for our ocean and planet! 🎉 So, what does this mean? 🤔 ⤵️

Only a few weeks of field season left in New England. At least the leaves are starting to change! 🍁👩🏻‍🔬🧪

Aquarium Friday! Questions of the week: How many species of shark are there? How well can turtles see? If that fish could talk, what would it say? 🦑

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins is trying to rescind protections for nearly 59 million acres of roadless national forests, opening them to logging, mining, and road construction. That’s 30% of our entire National Forest System. Friday is the last day to submit a comment: www.roadless.org/m/ 🧪

It's a beautiful day to stand with federal employees and concerned citizens fighting to fund NASA! 🌟🌏🔭 Our space program shouldn't face cuts that compromise expert knowledge, scientific advancement, and human safety. Sign the letter of support for our colleagues at NASA 🔗 linked in bio!

Since I’m famous now (i.e. got 17 likes on my post of Thomas the green moray eel), I wanted to remind everyone about my favorite of Thomas’ neighbors — Garnet the spotted gar! She lives at the Aquarium with Gardenia, Garbanzo, Garlic, and Geoff ❤️🐟

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Aquarium Friday! Today I was asked how long epaulette sharks can hold their breath, whether stingrays have eyelids, and “Are they okay?” (The last one wasn’t for any reason, and yes, they are.) 🦑🧪🌊

we fired all the GIS specialists and replaced them with AI and it’s FINE

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

Aquarium Friday! Got to hang with the elasmobranchs, electric “eel,” and a sand tiger shark jaw. Super nice to have the school year underway and decrease our foot traffic a bit 🌊🦑🧪

Gorgeous day for field work here in New England! 🌊⚒️🧪

No Aquarium Friday this week, but instead I visited the @denvermuseumns.bsky.social and their Jurassic Oceans exhibit! Even got to touch some fossilized gar scales. Those diamond shapes look pretty familiar… 🐟❤️

Hey Folks...You may start seeing social media sites and a website for Climate.us If you see it, follow and share. It is legit and has some amazing, credible people behind it trying to plug leaks in the climate science world. Trust me on this one. More is coming....

From my @1440daily.bsky.social briefing this morning — how rivers work! “A geoscientist explains how rivers ebb, flow, and change shape—impacting their surrounding banks and the communities that rely on them.” 🌊⚒️🧪 youtu.be/elZgu-lhOMs?...

Fieldwork in New Hampshire today! Welcoming the clouds after some scorchers recently. ⚒️🌊🧪

If you happen to be visiting Cape Cod next week, stop by, have a drink, and join Sue Natali and I for a discussion about maps 😎 bit.ly/4fKIBXJ

Today is Day 2 of the public hearing on the EPA’s reconsideration of the 2009 endangerment finding, the key ruling underpinning U.S. greenhouse gas regulations. 🧪 Testimonies start at the top of the hour, and we’re following along: 👇🧵

Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.