We are getting some beautiful autumn weather here in NE. This season always evokes a sense of things coming to pass and a year coming to an end. Thus, the #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme for this weekend is "lifecycles." Sketch a fish lifecycle, can be as simple or complex as you want! #sciart 🦑

Spooky season is upon us which means spooky Halloween #SundayFishSketch #FishyTheme! Show us those fishes with spooky names, spooky looking, spooky behaviors! #sciart 🦑

With opahs as the theme for this week's #Sundayfishsketch, maybe we'll see some cool art of fossil relatives. Here's the type specimen of the lampriform Turkmene from the earliest Eocene of Turkmenistan, ~56 Ma. Specimen at the Paleontological Institute, Moscow.

1/2) Is that time of year again #Sundayfishsketch friends! This weekend marks the end of our 9th year of sketches! As we move into year 10, our annual #Fishytheme is to draw on Opah (the first fish sketch), to appreciate improvements made while practicing throughout the year. #sciart 🦑

This weekend’s #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme will follow #inktober with the prompt of “Arctic.” Lots of really cool fishes to choose from that live in the Arctic! #sciart 🦑

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At not even 5 days old, #sundayfishsketch ‘s newest member, Ava, would like her first #fishytheme to be “fishes with nurse/nursing in their name.” Take a look, there’s a couple! #sciart 🦑

Our final #SundayFishSketch #SciArtSeptember theme for Sunday is 'harvest.' Hundreds of fish species are harvested every year, there are many to choose from. BONUS CONTENT: my baby girl is "due" this Sunday, if she decides to show... everyone send along their spawning vibes please! #sciart 🦑

Rolling into the weekend it is time for the #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme. Continuing our @lizlagomorph.bsky.social #SciartSeptember themes, 'Reef' is the prompt for this Sunday! There are thousands of reef fishes to choose from, and I can't wait to see all the colorful illustrations! #Sciart 🦑

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1/2) I am excited to share my just published book review in Nature Ecology and Evolution with the #SundayFishSketch community! 'Ocean Art' by @helenscales.bsky.social is a delightful read and will be enjoyed by ocean lovers and artists alike! #Sciart 🦑 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Continuing to follow our #SciartSeptember #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme this month with @lizlagomorph.bsky.social, this weekend's theme is 'Mimic.' There are so many fantastic fish that mimic other things, including inanimate objects, other animals, even other fish! #sciart 🦑

For the week of September, #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme s will be following along with @lizlagomorph.bsky.social #sciartseptember! That means, this Sunday's theme is "boreal!" There are so many fantastic northern/boreal fishes. I can't wait to see some sketches! #sciart 🦑

Are you looking for a #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme to fill up your weekend? I've got one for you! We have an excessive heat warning in Nebraska, and extreme weather always makes me think of 'extremophile fishes.' Sketch those hot or cold loving, salinity or acidity loving, etc. fishes! #sciart 🦑

What better way to spend the 6 months mark with growing baby girl than researching at the AMNH and catching up with old friends and colleagues. Also, check out our new paper published this week on the amazing variation in biofluorescence of fishes! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

And a beautiful #SundayFishSketch!

Tempted to have every #fishytheme this month just be all sorts of colorful, wonderful, #PrideMonth related #SundayFishSketch themes. Thoughts?! 🌈🐠🦑 #sciart

Apologies for missing the last few weeks for themes! In light of our new article www.nature.com/articles/s41..., the #Sundayfishsketch #Fishytheme is biofluorescent fishes! #sciart 🦑

We’re coming up one Cinco de Mayo and as such should have a fitting #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme! Let’s see some fantastic fishes of Mexico!! #sciart 🦑

For our #FishyTheme, we look to the warm waters of Brazil. Bursting with thousands of species, it may be difficult to choose a Brazilian fish for your #SundayFishSketch! #sciart 🦑

Have been working on an illustration of Chiasmodon niger and decided to modify it a bit to fit today's #SundayFishSketch theme.

This weekend, people across the country are celebrating a particular holiday that often includes bunnies, eggs, chicks, and plenty of chocolate. For the #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme I wanna see your rabbitfishes, roosterfish, crazy egg laying fish (chocolate fish?). Have fun with it! #sciart 🦑

This weekend’s #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme is for all of us that are very much looking forward to spring and summer angling. Sitting in the boat or on the dock, enjoying nice weather and nature sounds. Let’s see some sketches of fishes you’d like to catch this year (wherever you are)! #sciart 🦑

1/2) An apology to my #SundayFishSketch community for dropping the ball on #Fishytheme posts and participation. My time has been focused on my first semester teaching as a professor. We also purchased and moved into a new home. To top it off, I have a little fry incoming at the end of September.

A #sundayfishsketch #fishytheme I’ve wanted to do for a while is to sketch a fish using a single line, like this work by TFOUST. Let’s see those line drawings! #sciart

Hopping back into the #Fishytheme for our 2025 #SundayFishSketch year, we will be sketching fishes that are supposed bring good luck (there are lots of choices)! We want to start this year off right. #sciart

I want to thank BioNexus KC for yet again having me on their #Science2Art video. I’ve enjoyed their passion for promoting the combination of #sciart and donating money to STEAM education. #SundayFishSketch people may want to take a gander to see SEM art of a lanternfish nose! vimeo.com/1014500649

One of my favorite traditions is the annual #25DaysofFishmas crossover with #SundayFishSketch, and this year was no exception - I'm always blown away by everyone's sketches! Thanks to @lampichthys.bsky.social for leading one of the coolest showcases for #sciart on social media

"All I want for #25daysoffishmas (@drkatfish.bsky.social) this year" is the last set of clues for the #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme. What a gargantuan effort from our artists this year! It's been great seeing #fishmas illustrations. Draw your mystery fish guess and post it this Sunday! #sciart 🦑🐡

I’ve been in a depressive rut so I finished my first fish in a while! A mediterranean banded killifish (Aphanius fasciatus) for an off theme #SundayFishSketch

Not on theme for this #SundayFishSketch, but finished up this blue marlin instead! #sciart 🦑🐡

Continuing our most festive of crossovers, the #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme clues for Sunday are below! Take (and then draw) a guess at what is #25DaysofFishmas (@drkatfish.bsky.social) Great Lakes fish is and post your drawings this Sunday! #sciart 🦑🐡

Finished up ponyfish illustration for an upcoming manuscript for my #SundayFishSketch today. #sciart 🦑🐡

WEEK 2 of the #SundayFishSketch team-up with #25DaysofFishmas (@drkatfish.bsky.social) for a difficult #Fishytheme. Sketch the #GreatLakes fish described by the clues below - if you know the answer, don't spoil it, draw and post on Sunday! #sciart 🐡🦑

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Not on theme for this weekend’s #SundayFishSketch. Doing some figure illustration! #sciart 🐡🦑

The pirate perch’s scientific name “Aphredoderus” comes from the Greek “aphod” meaning “excrement” and “dere” meaning “throat” - so basically, “poop neck.” Unlike most fish, their urogenital opening (a hole for excretion + reproduction) is located on the throat #25DaysofFishmas

Every year since time immeasurable… #SundayFishSketch teams up with #25DaysofFishmas (@drkatfish.bsky.social) for a beloved crossover! The #Fishytheme for Dec. 1 is to sketch a #GreatLakes fish described by the clues below - if you know the answer, don't spoil it, draw and post on Sunday! #sciart 🐡

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Working on a small blue marlin for this weekend’s #sundayfishsketch! 🦑🐡 #sciart

This weekend’s #Sundayfishsketch #Fishytheme is “Blue!” Let’s see those blue fishies! 🦑🐡

Sturgeons, like this pallid sturgeon, often undertake migrations during spawning seasons from lakes or large rivers to rocky reefs or smaller streams to lay their eggs! #SundayFishSketch

A juvenile alewife for this week's "fish that migrate" #SundayFishSketch. The adults live in the northwest Atlantic ocean and migrate to freshwater during spring to spawn. In the fall juveniles migrate out to the ocean. #sciart #MarineLife

The #SundayFishSketch community is celebrating "the great Twitter migration" this week, welcoming friends new and familiar to the platform. Though instead of picking a migrating fish species, I doodled a saddleback butterflyfish in blue tones! Goodbye Twitter, hello Bluesky. 🦑🐡🧪

For the "fish that migrate" #SundayFishSketch theme, an old sketch of a sockeye salmon swimming upstream to spawn. Luckily, my migration to Bluesky has involved significantly fewer bears.

Hi all new #SundayFishSketch community members! We welcome all fish on Sunday but have #Fishytheme posts for people that aren’t sure what to sketch! See Nilo’s post about migrating fishes below! #sciart 🦑

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Are you interested in #deep-sea #fishes, #bioluminescence, #histology, and museum specimens? Then take a look at my newest publication! Out today in PLOS ONE, analysis of the variation in primary photophore structure across lanternfishes. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Just updated the PoC in #SciComm starter pack with recent requests! If I've missed you, yell at me (nicely) 😊 Reminder this is OPT IN so let me know if you would like to be added ❤️ Tag anyone who should be on it below! go.bsky.app/MaDPSzx