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 ?

"Like building a stellar physical record collection, the surest way to craft a life that matters is to fill your mind with ideas that refuse to die." open.substack.com/pub/tnature/...

My next blog post on Tangled Nature is posted! It’s all about feeding your brain what matters: why some ideas endure, why others fade, and what "mental fitness" means in the age of ultraprocessed content. Read it here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/tnature/... #Ideas #Science #Memology #AI #Reading

My next blog post on Tangled Nature is posted! It’s all about feeding your brain what matters: why some ideas endure, why others fade, and what "mental fitness" means in the age of ultraprocessed content. Read it here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/tnature/... #Ideas #Science #Memology #AI #Reading

This whiptail gulper eel (Saccopharynx lavenbergi) was spotted 880 meters deep in Monterey Canyon back in 1993—one of only 18 sightings in nearly 40 years! 📹️😍 With its massive mouth and glowing tail, this deep-sea icon even inspired MBARI’s logo. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwD...

Check out this northern pike...

California: A Salmon Society? By Carson Jeffres Consider for a moment the identity of the Pacific Northwest as a Salmon Society. When you fly into an airport in the Pacific Northwest, salmon are on the floors and walls as art. This art is an expression of societal values in which salmon are…

Jack Scheinman, who took that photo, reported the sighting through our Otter Spotter web portal back in 2022. Here are a couple of other photos he submitted along with his sighting report.

"What makes us so strongly desire to lay claim over nature? Economics is part of the answer. Ecosystems are valuable, and we use them to make money - lots of it" open.substack.com/pub/tnature/...

In her last interview before she died, Jane Goodall issued an urgent call to safeguard the Earth, warning that "humans are not exempt from extinction.”

Peer review does have a problem. Predatory journals metastisized, open access turned out to be a way to charge authors beaucoup 💰, no one has time, credibility is 📉. Interesting concept in the new journal below. Essentially reviewers blindly collaborate on a shared document before decision.

Research by my former PhD student, Daniel Gschwentner, on how grassland wildfires impact lakes is now live in Ecosystems: doi.org/10.1007/s100... Wildfires are contributing to P loading in lakes, but lakes are N-limited so that P is likely not being processed by algae. DM if you need access.

That otter has a leopard shark in its mouth!

Beautiful old souls

'Our Lake' Why are we so intent on claiming nature only to turn around and wall out everyone else? Check out my latest Tangled Nature post: “Walling off nature” 🧱🌲🐟 #nature #wildlife #lakes #fish 🔗 tnature.substack.com/p/walling-of...

The great British ecologist Charles Elton wrote in a gov't report in 1937: "The earth is a unique natural park of life, whirling through an otherwise lifeless space. In this natural park are over a million forms of life, evolved into an unstable and highly complex network of communities." [1/2🧵]

Check out this beautiful Rough Green Snake we came across in our yard this morning. These #snakes eat insects and are impacted by pesticide applications that are probably killing off their food. Super camo in the grass and trees. Cool. 💚🐍

The Texas Flood Tragedy was Predictable, but was it Preventable? By Kathleen Schaefer Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images In the wake of recent tragic events, such as the devastating floods in Texas, it's become clear that our current approach to flood management and disaster preparedness is…

“It's always a bad idea to bet against openness.” ~Joe MacMillan

'Our Lake' Why are we so intent on claiming nature only to turn around and wall out everyone else? Check out my latest Tangled Nature post: “Walling off nature” 🧱🌲🐟 #nature #wildlife #lakes #fish 🔗 tnature.substack.com/p/walling-of...

The #NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program #GRFP solicitation is coming soon! The due date for Life Sciences proposals is 27 October 2025. For more info: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

I've got a nice one coming out on the Tangled Nature Blog this Saturday. Preview thumbnail below. Catch up on the last blog and subscribe at this link: tnature.substack.com

Great article on the angling and food value of Freshwater Drum, an often overlooked de facto game fish! magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/blogs/in-the...

The bookmark tool is finally available!

What drives catch and release decisions. Our new paper studies this based on 20.000 angling trips. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Couldn't be more pleased for this one to see the light of day. A US-Australia view of how fish assemblage composition has changed over ~40 years relative to climatic and hydrologic shifts in arid rivers. Spoiler alert: arid fishes may be in trouble onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🐟💧🌎

The Silly Coelacanth Plush is up on Makeship! If you didn’t get one during the petition phase, now is your chance! I am so so so happy with this plush and working with Makeship was absolutely wonderful. Please check it out! 💙🩵💙

As usual, insects matter - alot!

The more personal blogs always come out a bit different for me. But I'm still proud of this one: californiawaterblog.com/2025/08/31/b...

A profound and inspiring post.

Being the Lorax By Andrew L. Rypel “Way back in the days when the grass was still green and the pond was still wet and the clouds were still clean, and the song of the Swomee-Swans rang out in space...one morning, I came to this glorious place. And I first saw the trees! The Truffula Trees! The…

Look at how pretty Sougahatchee Creek is. This is our local watershed in Auburn.