A travesty really

Is it me, or did the new LinkedIn thumbnail kind of rip off the Secchi Disc?!

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That's a wrap on 2025's #25DaysofFishmas - the 10th year of #Fishmas silliness! Thanks to everyone who has followed along as we explored some of the amazing fish that call the US home. From Atlantic to Pacific, there's a lot worth protecting - wishing everyone peace and renewal of hope for 2026.

I realize RT'ing my own blog on x-mas day, which touches on issues around consumerism, is probably a faux pas, but...

What do long-held things teach us about depth? A short Edge Effects meditation that grew out of having to let go of my old truck. 🛻 tnature.substack.com/p/edge-effec...

40 years ago, there would have likely been no birds here because there was no water flooded on these fields in the winter. Farmers help conservation much more than people realize. AND...they often can and want to do more! #ThisIsTheWay 👏

What do long-held things teach us about depth? A short Edge Effects meditation that grew out of having to let go of my old truck. 🛻 tnature.substack.com/p/edge-effec...

“What were once bedrock aspects of daily life & spirituality increasingly appear as infrastructure, background scenery, or vague environmental concern. Our lived relationship w/ rivers has, in a quiet but profound way, been deleted.” — @andrewrypel.bsky.social tnature.substack.com/p/no-one-tal...

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"What were once bedrock aspects of daily life and spirituality increasingly appear as infrastructure, background scenery, or perhaps a vague environmental concern."

Great piece by @andrewrypel.bsky.social on rivers tnature.substack.com/p/no-one-tal... Inspires a tribute to the St Lawrence: Gateway to the world's largest freshwater ecosystem; 1200km length; holds archipelagos, wetlands, fluvial lakes, an enormous estuary & 70 native species of freshwater fishes.

This one surprising me a little with read stats and how much it is traveling. I think it's possible people genuinely *miss* being close to the rivers! I know I do. tnature.substack.com/p/no-one-tal...

Ouch. Can't train deep thinkers if we don't have them read hard things.

Dream job alert for someone!

Couldn't help but just this cool as sin gar art in latest blog on how humans & rivers are more connected than we think @solomonrdavid.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/tnature/...

Rivers have tugged at me for as long as I can remember. I hope you might check out my recent Substack post on how we’ve slowly detached ourselves from rivers, and what's been lost through modernization. 🌊🌱 tnature.substack.com/p/no-one-tal...

Rivers have tugged at me for as long as I can remember. I hope you might check out my recent Substack post on how we’ve slowly detached ourselves from rivers, and what's been lost through modernization. 🌊🌱 tnature.substack.com/p/no-one-tal...

3 year old Chinook salmon are NOT the historical norm in California! www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

Below the high water mark on a navigable waterway.

To a true OG 🥂

No problem. Until you get a bunch of juvenile hybrids! #25DaysOfFishmas

🚨Auburn Fisheries is hiring TWO tenure-track faculty🚨 🌊 Aquatic Chemist 🧬 Aquatic Genomics Join an amazing community with top fisheries & aquaculture researchers! I can help answer questions 🫵👇 Chemistry: www.auemployment.com/postings/56444 Genomics: www.auemployment.com/postings/56837

"Administrators understandably want to “future proof” their graduates at a time when the workforce is rapidly transforming. But such policies represent a dangerously hasty and uninformed response to the technology." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

These space suits from Star Trek ToS effin rule!

Auburn Fisheries is looking for a PhD scientist with genomics expertise to help with the Southeastern Cooperative Fish Genetics Project auemployment.com/postings/57168 The scientist will collaborate with agencies to genotype fish & manage natural resources better. Come help grow this thing!☝️🐟🎣

Cool #FishArt spotted at the museum in Moundville @solomonrdavid.bsky.social

I Killed a Monarch and It Won’t Leave Me Alone! Here’s my new short-format (Edge Effects) piece on Tangled Nature Do y'all ever feel this same way?! 🦋 👇 tnature.substack.com/p/edge-effec...

I Killed a Monarch and It Won’t Leave Me Alone! Here’s my new short-format (Edge Effects) piece on Tangled Nature Do y'all ever feel this same way?! 🦋 👇 tnature.substack.com/p/edge-effec...

May his memory be a blessing. Snider’s song-stories are utterly unique and true accounts of life growing up in America. youtu.be/MBMp085x5-Q?...

1/2 #NearLab @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social described Birmingham Darter Etheostoma birminghamesnse in April 2025 It is under threat from a mega data center. A petition was filed yesterday by the @biologicaldiversity.org to review the species for protection under the ESA www.wbrc.com/2025/11/14/n...

Here's one of my old poems on migratory waterfowl and situationships from the vault. If it resonates with you, sound off in comments! "CENTRAL FLYWAY" (2023). 🧵1/4

releasing these huuuuge sturgeon and watching them swim away is the best part of my job 🫶🏼 another week in the field complete, and one step closer to finding out what is harming these ancient fish 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐🦑 #sturgeonsaturday

I’ve spent my life studying fishes, but also, writing songs from time to time. Turns out, those two pursuits aren’t as different as I once thought. My recent post on Tangled Nature is finally ready! I hope y'all enjoy this one👇 tnature.substack.com/p/more-than-...

"If you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly you are bad. Morality has aesthetic standards." ~Nietzsche

I didn't realize generative ai was being used for species pages. Not good.

It’s Elementary My Dear Walleye By George Whitman, who is dressed as Dr. John Watson this Halloween While this Sherlockian mystery is fictional, it is inspired by a real event in which a Walleye was illegally introduced into Lake Cascade, Idaho. The events described below parallel the actual…

Another recent pub highlighting the value of long-term research: Declining adult body size and contracted life history in an unexploited boreal Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) population during a period of warming cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/... Kudos to Matt Guzzo for leading this one

Shrimping boat heading into the Gulf at dusk

I have many fav blogs from my time editing the California Waterblog, but this gem from @jrlund.bsky.social will always be among the elite. Simple, wry and hilarious: californiawaterblog.com/2022/08/14/t...

Looking for some interesting science or reads on the science/art interface. Anyone have any good recommendations?

Looking for some interesting science or reads on the science/art interface. Anyone have any good recommendations?

The magnitude, advanced methods and extent of Native American agriculture continues to be vastly underestimated IMHO: scitechdaily.com/archaeologis...

I've never once, ever, regretted taking the time out to watch one.

Peter Moyle and Tom Taylor shining a light on one of the most righteous California native fish - the Sacramento Sucker. Enjoy! 👇👏🐟

I'm looking for someone to help the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences at Auburn University part time with our communications work. Come join us! War Eagle! #SciCom #FishSci #Fisheries #Jobs www.auemployment.com/postings/56445

Touché, neighbor.

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” ~Margaret Mead

Cornell bird personality quiz: my result

High-quality food for thought -- what should we feed our brains ?