It's as if she already sold her soul.

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Can confirm! Buy this book!

Not to mention the psychological lift you get when someone orders something and you can say "Wow! Maybe I'm not delusional! And if I am, at least I know I'm not alone." (Which gradually fades until the next order comes in and recharges the optimism.)

Shopping small is meaningful!

Hey, WOODWORKERS: "Pay Attention!" is on sale. Handmade woodcut print. Since 1st posting I've heard many stories of accidents & close calls. Add yours. Want one (or 1 for everyone you know or the whole jobsite)? Msg for paypal link or go to chinookdesign.etsy.com. #woodwork #carpentry #printmaking

GAR! Cicadas! Price reduced for another week or so. Support non-game fish artists! Msg me for paypal link or go to chinookdesign.etsy.com to order. #fishart #gartwork #nativefish #roughfish #fishing #fish #cicada #shortnosegar #flyfishing #ichthyology #conservation #nativespecies

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑 Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for. We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

New woodcut print! Attn: woodworkers. Inspired by an old matchbox and farmers, carpenters, mechanics, etc. I’ve met with missing digits. (Czech = “use safety equipment to prevent injuries.”) Edition of 40. 20” x 20”. $100 unframed. Etsy or message me. #printmaking #woodworking #sawstop #powertools

Psssst. Get a library card. Pass it on.

Are you feeling particularly artistic this week? Enter our GARtwork contest for a chance to win a crochet gar 🧶! To enter, DM your submission to @OKWildlifeDept on Twitter or Instagram. The winner will be announced on Friday 🎨🖌️ #GarWeek

It’s #garweek ‼️

This week, remember:

Just for #garweek I got a few more of these from the printer, so grab one while you can. Cost of paper came down a little, so now $75. #fishart #gartwork Msg me for paypal link or go to chinookdesign.etsy.com to order.

ATTENTION! #Gar spotting at 2:01! cc @friel.bsky.social @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @moxostoma.bsky.social #Teamfish

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!

Welp due to overwhelming demand (=one[1] nudge from the inimitable @jopabinia.bsky.social) I'm making an informational comic about dicyemids #invertefest 🦑🌊 I do not know how long it will take to finish, so please enjoy the heck out of this title page for now

Dear god let this man cook.

Join NANFA (North American Native Fishes Assoc.) NOW nanfa.org/join.shtml & get next American Currents. $30/year=4 x AC, help fund grants, annual convention, regional meetups, tons of native fish expertise, etc. Cover illustration: Sicklefin Redhorse Moxostoma ugidatli by Joshua Knuth #fish #fishart

David Johansen, the last Doll standing, is gone. We devote a show to him this week, because how could we not? Let me count the ways: bit.ly/3DStmxf

Watching barnacles sweep the ocean for food is so mesmerizing. They look like eyelashes opening and closing. I could watch this for hours. #barnacles #intertidal #marinelife 🦑

Redhorse ID can be confusing, even for professionals, so I made these cheatsheets (in 2011!). They have since been used by state agencies, labs, and many anglers. PDF downloads aren't working on my site, so here they are as images. Share wherever it might be useful. #redhorse #nativefish #fishing

UPDATE: @garlab.bsky.social is making good progress👍

The Sicklefin Redhorse description came out today as Moxostoma ugidatli. I might have led it to completion, but it is really Bob Jenkins’ legacy and done in honor of the Cherokee who really discovered it. Https://doi.org/10.1643/i2024049.

What a great story! The introduction alone is well worth reading.

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology. www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

A few gar/cicada prints (4 or 5) left. If you're in IL/WI/MN/IA, in person delivery may be possible. $10 off for that, so $70. Here are a couple shots I've received from people who already got theirs framed. If you want one, message me. Don't use etsy if you want the discount. #gar #fishart #cicada

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

For those wondering, I received the ring from this little guy…seemed harmless enough…

BABY Alligator Gar! At less than one inch long and two weeks old, these future river monsters already breathe air. Watch as one takes a little gulp (and tiny bubble burp)! Yes, these are the same fish that can grow over 8 feet long and over 300 pounds!

There are some disability things that make winter tough for me but I also love being able to nightlight earlier in the evenings and I love the deeper critters the winter storms pull into the Salish Sea! We get feather boa cydippids and gossamer worms and sea angels and baby octopus… 🐙🦑🌿

From neglect toward enlightenment: the conservation of native fishes in the twenty-first century. Environ Biol Fish 107, 1305–1326 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s106...

“WHAT IS A ___?” My hope is that after #GarWeek, y’all can do better than these Jeopardy folks 😅

My kinderGARtner (6-year-old daughter) tells us about gars! While watching our fish tank (aka The Gar-den), I asked her to talk about gars for a bit. Proud parent 🥹 #SciComm #GarWeek

A partially on-theme sketch for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

Of the 3 gar species found in the #GreatLakes, it's pretty easy to distinguish the longnose gar by its long, narrow snout that’s >2x as long as the rest of the head. While they do have some spots (more than the shortnose but fewer than the spotted), the schnoz really gives them away #25DaysofFishmas

Very festive🎄 During spawning season, the fins and underside of male bowfin often change in color to a bright green - so it’s not surprising that one of the new proposed common names for Amia ocellicauda is “Emerald Bowfin” #25DaysofFishmas

There's a reason photographers are always telling their subjects to "smile like a Bowfin!" and love poets can't stop writing "She had a smile like a bowfin." The happiest fish on earth for millions of years. #25daysoffishmas #bowfin #amia

The common name “bowfin” refers to the long curved fin on their back. This distinctive dorsal fin propels them both forward + backward using wave-like undulations - a type of movement known as (the seasonally-appropriate) "ribbon-fin locomotion" 🎁 #25DaysofFishmas

Get in on some year-end lifelong learning right here with today's #GarWeek wrap-up! #FridayVibes #Fishmas

S'up with Oregon's Chum Salmon? youtu.be/lxQ6G78BYgg

Still need to finish up your #Fishmas cards? Grab your quill and ink - Day 20’s fish is something to write about! ✍️ Meet the Quillback Carpsucker (Carpiodes cyprinus) - often just called Quillback - an underappreciated member of the sucker family we're just beginning to understand #25DaysofFishmas

It's raining gars? Now that's my kind of biblical plague! (This 1894 drawing is actually those other "garfish" I wish weren't called that as it skews search results: family Belonidae, aka needlefish.) But that's not the only gar rain I've read about. Let me see if I can find the others... #garweek

For any #25DaysofFishmas lake #sturgeon fans out there, I posted 4 underwater videos of them that apparently aren’t showing up consistently. I *think* you can see them if you go to my profile or whatever it’s called. They’re pretty cool, I think.

This documentary needs more views: Nick Klundt along with local legends like Lars Aadland tell the incredible story of Lake Sturgeon extirpation & recovery in Minnesota ❤️ youtu.be/X80Y8NMkozM?...