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A reminder, from the 2023 IPBES assessment of invasive alien species. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Whitefish are Disappearing. What Can We Do? #GreatLakes www.greatlakesnow.org/the-fight-to...

#Museums had a rough 2025: New AAM Report shows lower attendance, lost grants, and less money. 🙁

From Yale University Press: "PONDS: An Illustrated Guide." #Freshwater food web spread. 🧪🌿🌎🐡🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #FoodWebs

Press release from UMich news about our recent paper in Global Change Biology: news.umich.edu/fishes-young... 🐟 🌎🌐🧪🌱🌡️📉

“Behold The GARLIATH!”: Enormous “Living Fossil” Hauled From Mississippi Floodplains Stuns Scientists www.iflscience.com/behold-the-g... By @rachaelhfunnell.bsky.social @iflscience.com on that big Alligator Gar tagged & released @garlab.bsky.social #GarWeek

Reseeding the Chesapeake Bay’s underwater grasses takes combined state, volunteer effort | News From The States 🦑🧪🌎

1/ New research from our group @umich.edu in collaboration with MI DNR investigated if climate change is altering fish body size. Our team analyzed data from 13 species and 1,497 lakes from 1945-2020. 🐟 🧪 🌎🌐🌱 #climatescience #umichresearch #blueskyscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

GAR WEEK 2025 begins TOMORROW (Monday November 3)!!! Trailer below, OfFISHal Schedule next post! #GarWeek

1/ Carlton & Cohen (1993) described the global transport of species as "ecological roulette" (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), whereas Paine & Zaret (1973) equated the introduction of non-native species to ecological gambling (jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...). #bioinvasions #invasivespecies

🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...

This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together But it's a story with an under-recognised hero 🧵 1/

Hot off the press is the final chapter of my dissertation now published in @pnas.org Here, I explore the genetic drivers of extreme body size reduction using goby fishes as a model. I'll write up a short summary thread later tonight... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hang out with these baby Alligator Gars for a bit; they’re eating sea monkeys (aka brine shrimp larvae)! #GarWeek is coming November 3-7, 2025!

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Oh did we ever. I still remember phones numbers of friends and family that haven't changed, and old numbers for some that have. The only new number I've memorized in the smart phone era is my spouse's because it's on our dog's collar and that's what I see when she's licks my face every morning.

What IOB authors have been up to? check out 2024's Brandon Guell brandonguell.com/media Insta www.instagram.com/brandon_guell/ YouTube @brandon_guell IOB read- Egg-Clutch #Biomechanics Affect Escape-Hatching #Behavior & Performance B A Güell et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #science #biology

Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Climate change is reshaping the fish communities of rivers across the US - my commentary in @nature.com to accompany the new study led by @rumschsl.bsky.social rdcu.be/eHY6B 🌍🧪

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know. A great soul if ever there was one www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.

"We’ve looked at the Ganges and the Caspian Sea, but this could have been about Lake Victoria, or about drying rivers in Europe, or the disappearance of Bolivia’s second largest lake. It’s not just water that disappears: it’s entire ecosystems and ways of life." theconversation.com/vanishing-wa...

Very proud of this paper in BioScience : « Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature » 🧸 are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife ! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧪🦤

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Stunning rare images of polar bear scavenging on a sperm whale captured in the Arctic | National Geographic

Wilson, a 6-foot-4 center for the Las Vegas Aces, has dominated this year. In her eighth season, she finished in the top five in points, rebounds, blocks and steals.

*An extra plug for #WorldMantaDay #Mobula, #bioinspiration, filter feeding, form and function - free J B Teeple et al doi.org/10.1093/icb/... Mobulas (manta and devil rays) are large-scale ram filter feeders that separate planktonic food particles from large volumes of water with minimal clogging.

It's Monday, & you're wondering: "Why should I care about eels?" Well...in addition to being great fodder for memes, eels are super-important to stream ecologies! Historically, eels have made up as much as 50% of the total fish biomass in lower reaches of US & European rivers. 🗃️🧪

What a cool graduate opportunity!! Dietary benefits of sexual cannibalism in spiders at Oklahoma State University. 🧪👩‍🔬🌍 sevenseasmedia.org/job/ms-or-ph...

Putting this out there again as many people are still looking for positions and/or looking to recruit early career scientists! Please share widely and I would be happy to add you to any of these, just tell me which one.

Peaking out into a Monday morning like... (Meet our pet turtle, Bowser) 🐢 #Turtle #Mondays

Like many in my generation, I was heavily influenced by Steve Irwin. I attribute much of my love for wildlife and wild places to Steve. When my daughter is older, you can bet we'll be binging Crocodile Diaries together. "If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves". RIP 🐊 🧪 🌎 🌐

Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Happy to have this new preprint up: Disturbance provides limited respite for native fish against invaders We assess the potential for coexistence between threatened native galaxiid fishes & invasive trout, & find native fish prevail only at high disturbance regimes. Even then, it's dicy.

It's crazy to me that we don't really know how many sculpin species exist. They are basically dragons and should be dieties in somebody's religion. Incredible fish. 🐟

I've really been looking forward to Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. I really enjoyed The Poppy War, Yellowface, and Babel. As someone in academia, the dark academia elements in Babel were really cathartic to read. Looking forward to more of that here. #BookSky 📚 📖

Are scientists still supposed to be just neutral and value free providers of data when the principles and institutions of science itself are under attack?

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

"In the past, I was content to leave the broader political debate and activism to others... The luxury of disengagement is no longer an option." -- Terrence Tao newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

These are incredible! Totally thought that was an actual pigeon at first.

Grad students: Don't let ANYONE tell you that it's not funny for you to post a "First Day of School" photo holding up one of those kiddie chalkboards that say it's your first day of 23rd grade or something That shit is funny Keep doing it

I’m Noah, I’m a professor in MD trying to save the Chesapeake Bay from invasive blue catfish. I also research amphibious fishes, biomechanics, behavior, and fisheries. When I’m not sciencing, you can find me SciComm-ing about fish, fishing, or making fish art (using science)

Scientists of Bluesky, introduce yourselves by replying to this post and I’ll share it and help you get some followers! I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.” 🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈

Mom friends group text checking in with a DC crime-ridden hellhole update