I accidentally imposter syndromed myself into a new discovery 😂 while revising a manuscript in peer review, I felt like I was dumb & needed to redo all of my video & stat analyses to make it right… but by doing it all at once, I was able to see patterns that I wouldn’t have noticed otherwise!

I can’t believe it happened again I am the luckiest girl in Philadelphia

Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida! www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...

One final push for the survey before we close it! Are you (or were you) a neurodivergent faculty member? If so, please see below and consider helping with our study on neurodivergence in academia!

Yes, I work with fish. What gave it away?

Apparently, a snake snuck through the floorboards of our screened in porch and our gentlest cat picked the lil guy up and brought it inside! If our other cats found him, he probably wouldn’t have been as lucky… the snake is now safely outside in the bushes

New paper is officially out! Ratfish have a second jaw on their foreheads - CT + histology show they’re real teeth, built from the same tissues and signals as oral teeth. www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...

If I had a nickel for every time a random person in public stops me to talk about invasive blue catfish… 😂

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Less good in House: -23% cut for NSF in House version (and basically flat in Senate version). That's in a separate subcommittee. Next goes to full approps committee, so call to R House members in this committee matters: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...

❗ATTENTION SCIENTISTS, ARTISTS, WRITERS❗ Cohosted by me, Data Bloom LLC, & the UNL NoCoast SciComm Symposium — it’s the Science Remix Game Jam! 🧪🎮 No game dev experience needed! We’ll match scientists + devs into teams to make science games. More info below Signup here: 🔗 itch.io/jam/science-...

First bluefish on the fly, and a chopper at that! About 8 lbs and 26”! 🎣

Look at these wonderful scientists introducing themselves in the thread advertising @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @drjuliawester.bsky.social paper on the science community moving to bsky academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... Here's the top 150 in a starter pack! (use link not pic) -> go.bsky.app/At5DDri

Our naive plant garden also has exploded this year with so much life, including butterflies & moths that I haven’t seen in years. I take photos of the plants that pop-up in my garden to help ID them, pull anything that’s invasive, leave the natives to see what happens. So much more biodiversity now!

If you’re looking for a science packed conference with research on all the things, #SICB2026 in Portland, OR is the place for you! Planty people, come join the fun! 🪻🤠🪻

I'm Markus and I shoot lasers at trees! We use laser scanners to describe forests in three dimensions and find ways to create the structures that people or other species need. treesinspace.com/my-research/

Final call: Applications close September 2! KI is recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

I just updated my online shop with my newest prints, check it out! Not into traditional wall art? My art is also available on stickers, notebooks, towels, phone cases, external battery packs, duvet covers, shower curtains, tote bags, ornaments, yoga mats, & more! fineartamerica.com/profiles/noa... 🐡

Analysing the calcium isotope ratios in the teeth of three herbivorous dinosaurs found together has revealed how dinosaurs, all after plants to eat, could exist side-by-side through niche separation. wp.me/pdRZhH-mmI #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

Hiring: www.instagram.com/p/DNWCLT4guw...

Working with @marylanddnr.bsky.social, my lab is working on removing invasive blue catfish from the Chesapeake Bay to protect native species like blue crabs and striped bass. Here's a little preview into a new project an MS student in my lab, Liam Hanley, is working on.

Here’s a peak into what a day of my lab electrofishing with the @marylanddnr.bsky.social to remove invasive blue catfish looks like! 🐟 🧪 🦑 #SciComm m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid...

Amphibious fish in the news! Waterfall-climbing bumblebee catfish, along with a couple other species mixed in! www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

LOVE this quote of the day in @floragraham.bsky.social's newsletter: "If you tell me I can’t do something because of a terrible and irrational reason that’s based in hate, racism and sexism, I'm going to say: 'Okay, watch me.'" -- @sofishtication.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🌊 🦑

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I am opening scientific illustration commissions! Below are some examples of my work. Please contact me via [email protected] if you are interested!

I’m currently at a golf resort & asked the restaurant “if we caught some fish & brought it to dinner, would the kitchen cook it for us?” They said “sure, can do”. Apparently, they didn’t think I was serious & I called their bluff, but they said the kitchen couldn’t prepare it cus health reg. (1/3)

Please share! We are still seeking neurodivergent faculty (past and present, adjunct, tenure-track, postdoc, and/or research, including self disgnoses) to participate in our study/survey on their experiences, wellbeing, and strategies for success! For more info and/or to participate, click the link!

In @fishguy.bsky.social’s lab we have done many studies on the suction cups of dead clingfish. In this new paper, @fishyologist.bsky.social et al and I found that clingfish can control their suction and stick harder than dead ones! @sicbjournals.bsky.social 🐟 🧪 DM for PDF doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

ICB AE Liz Addis addislab.weebly.com/photos.html co authored Conducting Impactful Research at Primarily #Undergraduate Institutions Free to read Addis et al doi.org/10.1093/icb/... "Primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) are significant #academic employers of #Ph.D. recipients..." #science

So you've got a fishpond, & you love eels. Should you put eels in your fishpond? The Fleta, a 13th C. book on English common law, says NO. They'll eat the other fish, then eat each other. Then the remaining ones will just leave overland for a better home. Don't do it, friends. 🗃️🧪

My paper "Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should" is formally published in an issue. It's a how-to guide to using Bluesky, the first ever published in the scientific literature! 🧪🦑🌎🐟 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ar...

Manuscript submitted! Feels good to get one that I have been working on since 2021 off the plate, with student and high school student co-authors no less! It's also the first non-review/original research article I've submitted in several years as first author, so that's fun to mix it up.

Y’all!!! Our comparative anatomy textbook is out!!! Free, open access, and just in time for the fall semester!

Read our flagship journal ICB's latest issue with @noahwithfish.bsky.social Cynthia Harley Jeroen Schreel Michael Robert Minicozzi & more academic.oup.com/icb/issue & be sure to read the blog #InkedinScience featuring @whitenacklab.bsky.social & IOB(our O.A. journal's) @hippieherper.bsky.social

Great reporting on our annual invasive fishing derby encouraging people to catch, remove, and eat invasive blue catfish from our waterways to protect the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and culture as we know it. And we were able to get helpful data from this event to learn more about blue catfish!

Issue 1 is out! with a cover of co author @noahwithfish.bsky.social 's great ink that goes with the invited: #Terrestrial Friction-Reducing Properties of Mucus and Scale #Anisotropy in the #Amphibious Northern #Snakehead (Channa argus) Lopez-Chilel , Bressman doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

JOIN US!!! @garlab.bsky.social is looking for a PhD and MS student to join our team studying ecology & conservation of gars, bowfin, and other non-game native fishes beginning Spring 2026! Posting & more info coming soon. Please DM or email [email protected] with CV if interested!

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

Well, clearly these snakehead have something else taking their attention away from biting my lure (spawning)

I did this survey and it took me FOREVER, not because it's a long survey, but because . . . I'm a neurodivergent academic 😂

Thanks to everyone who came out to my lab’s 4th Annual Nanticoke River Invasive Fishing Derby! While poor weather may have scared some away, we still had over 30 teams weigh-and remove about 140 invasive fish, totaling 225 lbs! Valuable data was also collected about fish & ecosystem health

"Save The NSF" - a little blogpost I wrote to amplify the #SaveTheNSF mission. The National Science Foundation is one of the world’s premier funders of basic science research; proposed federal cuts would derail how we do science in the U.S. aguidetoacademia.blogspot.com/2025/07/save...

Striped Anchovy (or Broad-striped Anchovy, Anchoa hepsetus) are small baitfish that are abundant in the western Atlantic Ocean, though they get about twice as large (6 in/15 cm) as the other common anchovy species around the Chesapeake Bay, the Bay Anchovy. (1/2) 🐙🐟🐡🧪

Please share! For Disability Pride Month, we are seeking neurodivergent academic faculty, instructors, & researchers at all levels to participate in a brief anonymous survey about their work experiences, coping strategies, & well-being. For info, go to: salisbury.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

After taking @noahwithfish.bsky.social quiz recently, when I colleague asked me if the loud fan in the hallway was bothering me, I took the opportunity to explain to him that white noise actually really helps me concentrate and how it was either the fan or the Wicked soundtrack to listen to.

Please share! Are you neurodivergent in academia (past or present)? Then please complete our survey to better understand the experiences of neurodivergent faculty (including postdocs) and better identify supports and strategies for success! salisbury.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪

Despite their name, Silver Perch (Bairdiella chrysoura) are a small drum species found in inshore marine & estuarine waters along the east coast of NA, where they often steal the bait of anglers targeting bigger fish. Unlike true "perch" from the family Percidae (contains Yellow Perch), (1/5) 🐡🐙🧪🐟

Just another day out electrofishing and removing invasive blue catfish from the Chesapeake Bay to protect the crabs, striped bass, and other things they eat! My lab is working on a few projects with @marylanddnr.bsky.social to reduce their population and learn more about how to reduce their impacts