Saw a poster at work for a movie screening. As a Canadian Elder Millennial, my reaction when I saw the movie listed was "Crash". Iykyk

Heyyy I managed to get Why Sharks Matter on our zoo volunteer book club list this year! We'll be reading it in July! cc: @whysharksmatter.bsky.social

Working on interpretive planning for the last portion of my docent training today- biofacts! One of my assigned biofacts is a pigeon skeleton mount. I have the perfect reference! @rosemarymosco.com's A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching!

exCUSE ME

Been watching videos from a creator who shares a lot of their life as a kid in the 80s and 90s, as an only child with parents who were also into gaming. Lots of home movies etc. As someone who had an extremely troubled/toxic childhood, it's actually kind of hard to watch at times.

Today we lost our geriatric lady cat, Amelia. It is never an easy choice to make, but weeks of near round the clock support is hard, and it was time. She's the last of our "original" trio of cats, and the cat I adopted while I was in vet tech college. Going to miss this old greying lady a lot.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

Can confirm. Had popcorn and a bowl of shredded wheat for brunch or whatever.

Did you get any fishy gifts this holiday? We want to see! Here's a photo from co-host @nerdrvt.bsky.social of a gift she got from her team at work! Epaulette sharks are some of her faves.

TIL Sloths are still exported from the wild for pets and for zoos. Even for some AZA zoos. They've been listed as CITES II now so that may limit exports a bit. Don't support sloth encounters or traveling shows if you don't want to see more imported. www.slothconservation.org/blog/legal-s...

Here's another great aquarium podcast for you to check out during our holiday break! We love "Aquarium of the Podcific" from @aquariumpacific.bsky.social! Amber and Christine were recently able to visit this incredible facility. Definitely check out their very brilliant podcast!

Omg I love Michelle Tsai's sweater on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social today! Pigeon Sweater!

We are off until January but wanted to share some amazing podcasts with you! First off, @tnaquarium.bsky.social has a podcast! Learn from their incredible staff and aquarium partners. We hope to get to visit this wonderful facility some day! You can find "The Podcast Aquatic" on all platforms.

How I feel in the race to the holiday, trying to prep the fish facility for holiday staffing levels. Fish photo from the NY Aquarium socials.

Boy do I love passive aggressive emails from the animal care dept on my day off. Going to spend the weekend drafting the most professional yet bitchy reply that I can.

I'm giving out this star, so get it while you can folks

Our year in review episode is now live! Join us as we reflect on the year, and think about the year ahead! You can find us on your podcast platform of choice. This is our last 2025 episode, see you in January! We're hard at work on our next season!

I would like to see the Warframe #TheGameAwards

Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends. scz.org/blog/the-rea...

Both were the husband

from Computer Games Strategy Plus, issue 35, October 1993

Have you "made it" as a shark (or fish?) person if coworkers and friends send you shark ID requests while they're on vacation?

One thing I've noticed since moving to the US and from content from folks like @milesintransit.com is that folks here thank the driver when they get off the bus! I lived in several Canadian cities and that was never a thing there. I wonder why?

On the topic of our most recent (remastered) episode, be sure to #FollowFriday this account to get the answer to whether games have the fishing minigames they should all have!

Sharing this incredible image that @amberchiodini.bsky.social made to demonstrate the "eras" we defined in fishing video games for our #PAXEast panel last year. We just remastered and released this episode on our feed, but sure to check it out!

Homeowner in @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com before becoming one IRL. Things are just great.

A lil' Stranger Things 5 fact check: bearded dragons didn't appear in the US pet trade until the 1990s. The first handful that ended up in the pet trade were smuggled to Germany from Australia in the 1980s.

I did a line drawing of the coelacanth at the American Museum of Natural history @amnh.org a few days ago. This morning I colored in that drawing with charcoal colored pencils. #SundayFishSketch #AMNH

Nerrrrrrrrrrrds! To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really! Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC... Terms and conditions in thread below:

we have to go back. to warn them.

I think I've had enough of spending time around Boomers for 2025, thanks

I noticed as per usual, all the animal facility management people taking the week off, leaving their underlings to do all the labor. Not me! Peak Millennial manager, I let my staff take time off first.

Thankful for all of my fellow animal care and animal health professionals who are working the holiday. You rock! 🐟

thinking of her today

Happy Thanksgiving. My thoughts are with my fellow folks who grew up in food safety households, who have to eat at houses which were absolutely not food safety households. I grew up in a catering family. I was too busy to do all the cooking myself this year, and I'm kind of dreading it.

It's Monday. So I thought I'd checka my email. flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210... tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si

This week we drop episode 67! We're getting in on the remaster trend by re-recording and releasing our "lost" episode that we did live at PAX East in 2024! The original audio was lost (thanks, Bernard the tech guy...), which was a tragedy!

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

In honor of reaching 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I want to celebrate! I’ll offer you, the people, a chance to win a signed copy of my book why sharks matter, and will offer guest spots on upcoming shark research expeditions! Stay tuned!

It's a travesty that there's no decently cheaply priced option for pierogies in this country (at least, here in CO). Back home, those No Name giant bags of pierogies sustained me through university and vet tech college. 🇨🇦

Got judged by giraffes and unintentionally startled a lion grandma this morning.

NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵

SeaWorld, you can't hurt an elder millennial like this. Naming a ride after SeaQuest is just MEAN.

I'm not sure I'll ever wrap my head around the folks who go after the scientists tagging sharks. I worked at the govt level back home in animal welfare for a while. I've heard a lot of wacky things. But that really kind of takes the cake. Like they hate external fin tags etc. 🤷

Hey btw, if anyone wants baby GT leachianus geckos ($500) or baby Kenyan sand boas ($50 to $75), I can ship. Just DM me.

Always when I'm starting a podcast recording, too.

Did an evening bike ride over to our local McD's tonight and got some ice creams. Definitely saw folks loading up tonight on their free redemptions. If nothing else, if some free ice cream, apple pies, etc bring some joy to folks these days, good.

The free food we got from the McD's Monopoly (you could get 10 free entries a day) seems to be sustaining a lot of folks where I live this month. I hadn't set foot in one in years but I can't pass up free food as a poor person. Trying to buy a bit too because redeeming 5+ things/day feels weird.

Hey, do ya like Sturgeon? We sure do! Want to learn about how repopulating their native habitats can actually help humans, too? I bet you do! Check out episode 66, with our friend and incredible guest, Dr. Jeff Wyatt! You can find the episode on your podcatcher of choice, right now!

A great episode with a guest the three of us are so thrilled to get. Dr. Wyatt has been a mentor to many of us lab animal folks for a long time. :)