Holiday travel snafu’s mean I am late with my #SundayFishSketch. Here is a merry and bright Dolly Varden for the last #25DaysOfFishmas riddle this year!

My work from home door decorations! 🎣 🎅🏼 Who needs a red nose reindeer when you can have a redhorse instead!

Google had to help me with the answer to this week’s #SundayFishSketch & #25DaysOfFishmas riddle, but nevertheless here is a holly jolly Rio Grande Cichlid!

My festive Least Killifish for this week’s #SundayFishSketch and #25DaysOfFishmas collab!

Another Thanksgiving, another completed puzzle for the books!

It’s the moooost wonderful timeeee of the yeeeaaarrrr! 🐟 🎄🐟🎅🏼🐟⛄️🐟

Got to spend some time in the office this week and I must say the office place humor is on point

I’m Detroit, Michigan for the 3rd Binational Great Lakes Aquatic Invasive Species Forum and needed to share pictures of this amazing carousel I spotted along the Detroit Riverwalk! 🐟

Michigan lawmakers want to greatly increase funding for invasive mussel control research in the #GreatLakes to $500 million over the next 10 years - as Great Lakes Fishery Commission's Greg McClinchey says in this article: "Mussels are this generation’s sea lamprey" bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

The anadromous life cycle of the American Shad for this week’s #SundayFishSketch theme!

Last night I joined the Great Lakes Young Professionals Network for a virtual screening of The Fish Thief (youtu.be/_3zJyKfi4hU?...). The film is very well done and highlights the history behind the Great Lakes sea lamprey invasion and how the Great Lakes Fishery Commission came to be!

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Excited to share our paper on a new application built into the AIS Explorer dashboard! The app simulates the spread of aquatic invasive species under user-defined prevention scenarios. Also extremely grateful for the amazing team behind this work! 🙏🏻 bit.ly/47Hjm62

Spooky season curse 👻 If you mention hagfish in October, you become hagfish! The curse already has found me 🤧 #SundayFishSketch 🐡 #kleineKunstklasse 🎃

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

For today’s arctic themed #SundayFishSketch and #inktober crossover I choose one of my favorites! The longnose sucker :)

New episode of the Teach Me About the Great Lakes podcast is out! I joined a couple other invasive species folks to talk about the new-ish aquatic invasive species in the #GreatLakes region we think people should know about www.teachmeaboutthegreatlakes.com/113

✨New publication alert✨: “Recommendations from the Sea Grant-Led Invasive Species Language Workshop” — a report on the workshop I organized in DC last year! #BiologicalInvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪 www.reabic.net/journals/mbi...

Happy Sunday! For this week’s #SundayFishSketch theme of harvest I decided to go with a fish that reminds me of the harvest season, the Pumpkinseed! 🎃 🐟

ICB Celebrating @lizlagomorph.bsky.social 's #SciArtSeptember & @lampichthys.bsky.social 's #SundayFishSketch spotlight on @nicholeangell.bsky.social who shares her #art & her thoughts on the intersection of #science and art. integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/a...

Another new paper out! 😱🧑‍🔬 "Recommendations from the Sea Grant-Led Invasive Species Language Workshop" out now, open access, in Management of Biological Invasions! @invasivesnet.bsky.social www.reabic.net/journals/mbi... #BiologicalInvasions 🧪

Busy weekend = day late #SundayFishSketch Nevertheless here is an Atlantic Spadefish. See the rest of the thread for a video I took of this species during a shipwreck dive this past summer 🤿

Here is a Farlowella catfish for this week’s #SundayFishSketch mimicry theme! Inspired by one I saw at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington DC this past winter.

Here is a Lake Whitefish for my boreal species themed #SundayFishSketch. For more Lake Whitefish art, check out this project we are working on at the @glcommission.bsky.social with lots of great partners: youtu.be/kpBMDAJU-s8 (Video art done by the amazing @taaja.bsky.social)

We need more $$$$ for Great Lakes research! I want my tax dollars funding the largest freshwater system on the planet.

It was wonderful to get together with UMN Water Resources Science grad students and alumni this past Thursday in St. Paul, MN. Such good people passionate about various dimensions of water and the environment. 💧The WRS branded fleeces were icing on the cake!

Oh how I missed the Mighty Mississippi. Gona soak up every bit of it while working remotely from St. Paul this week 💙

Happy National Go Fishing Day to all the fish lovers out there! 🎣 Here is a carefully crafted fishing themed playlist you can have on repeat today 😉 : open.spotify.com/playlist/7Hn...

Wanted to paint a catfish for this weeks #SundayFishSketch. It definitely did not come out anatomically correct and I’m not sure what species I was aiming for, but I still like it :)

Had to show off my Play Clean Go temp tattoos at run group this morning 😆 Happy Play Clean Go Awareness week! playcleango.org/take-action/...

🧪 PSA regarding fish and fishes. open.substack.com/pub/fishhist...

Did some microfishing this weekend and caught some fired up Pinewoods Shiner. A model organism for the colorful #pridemonth theme! #SundayFishSketch

Happy Pride! The diversity of life, in all its forms, is pretty rad! (Side note: there's not a whole lot of purple fish, so the pink/silver goldeye is the best I got) #SundayFishSketch #Pride

Didn’t have time for a #SundayFishSketch this week because I was at the 2025 NANFA convention. But I did crochet this American Eel for the convention auction.

Out of curiosity, I bought a cup of fishing bait worms. Dendrobaena veneta is a common bait/compost species, sold in the US as “European nightcrawlers.” After washing them off, here’s what I found:

This made me happy so I figured I’d share this newly discovered frog species for anyone that needs a little Wednesday pick me up 🐸 : www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new...

A day late but here is my #SundayFishSketch. I visited the Ripley’s Aquarium in Myrtle Beach this weekend and got some inspo from this pajama cardinalfish :)

It’s always fun visiting family and hearing their perspectives on my career. My family calls me “a marine biologist”… I work on invasive species in the Great Lakes 🙃 Do other people’s relatives do this?

For this weeks #SundayFishSketch of fishes from Brazil I chose one of my favorites: the Flagtail Prochilodus (I just really enjoy thier sucka lips - youtu.be/IHADKLNtmOA)

Happy Easter from me and my festive flathead! #SundayFishSketch

I’m wayyy late on my #SundayFishSketch, but I couldn’t pass up the theme of “fish I want to catch” with this very quick sketch of a northern snakehead.

Just a video of some Redlip Shiners spawning on a Bluehead Chub mound to start your Monday off right :)

Had a blast at the 2025 Wisconsin Lakes and Rivers Convention last week! Aside from the talks and other fun activities I was also delighted to have access to a compost bin and be in a large conference space where zero waste principles were emphasized. Way to lead by example Wisconsin!

Join me at the 2025 Wisconsin Lakes and Rivers Convention! I’ll be presenting on invasive #phragmites and #europeanfrogbit. wisconsinwaterweek.org/home/lakes-a... #WisconsinWaterWeek @glcommission.bsky.social

Join our Invasive Mussel Collaborative for their next webinar on research being done on the zebra mussel invasion front! Register here: invasivemusselcollaborative.net/event/webina... #GreatLakes #invasivespecies

It's #GreatLakesDay in DC! In honor of #GreatLakes Day, what's your favorite fact about the lakes? One of ours is that the lakes provide the backbone for a $6 TRILLION economy that would be one of the largest in the world if it stood alone as a country!

There's a lot competing for everyone's attention these days, but I just want to highlight some of the great work that @ilinseagrant.bsky.social does. If you've ever interacted with IISG, please consider signing on to a Letter to Congress in Support of Sea Grant here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In honor of the new Sicklefin Redhorse description dropping this past week here is my #SundayFishSketch

RFP open! The GLC is requesting proposals to support in-person outreach to recreational boaters as part of the annual regional #GreatLakes Aquatic Invasive Species Landing Blitz. www.glc.org/news/blitz-r... #GLAISBlitz

🚨New episode alert🚨 Calling all invasive species nerds 🤓 If you haven’t listened to the Introduced podcast you are missing out! S3E3 dropped yesterday, go give it a listen: www.seagrant.wisc.edu/audio/introd...

MAISRC graduate fellow Molly Tilsen is featured in this article about her award-winning "Land of 10,000 Links" project! 💧 cfans.umn.edu/news/umisc-2... #SciArt