The BIGGEST Alligator Gar I’ve ever encountered!!! Truly GARgantuan, tagged and released!

“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.” Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node. thenode.biologists.com/developmenta... #Disability

Come join our department at MTSU! We are looking for an assistant or associate professor in physiology. careers.mtsu.edu/en-us/job/49...

…Let me say that again: Expert coders using "generative AI" demonstrated a nearly 20% *increase* in their time, vs when writing code on their own; oh, and those increases are *worse* on the tasks with which they have more familiarity. But that's not even the crucial part; this is the crucial part:…

By request, I've added an old t-shirt design from grad school to my etsy shop. Evolution friends might appreciate it! www.etsy.com/listing/4367... www.etsy.com/listing/4367...

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology! Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions. (Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.) lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

Trying out some blankets on my Etsy gyotaku shop, check out my "monster fish" design! www.etsy.com/listing/4304... #teamfish #monsterfish #gyotaku #fishkeeping

I am thrilled to announce that I have joined the MOBI (molecular biosciences) faculty at MTSU and am now able to supervise PhD students. Possible projects in southeastern fish ecomorphology, darter cranial anatomy (muscles, brains, skulls), and fish biology/macroevolution in general. #teamfish #MTSU

We're all collectively crying over the Anglerfish and Howie right now, right? 😭 RIGHT? They weren’t JUST any fish and any crab—they were resilience, light, and a reminder that even the smallest lives can touch millions. [ #art #design #anglerfish #crab ]

Museum folks! We have gotten a donation of some amazing old taxidermy pieces and I am just fascinated by one item. It's a large cabinet in what looks like a Victorian style and has some old features (oil painting background, solid carved wood frame)...

I hadn't posted about this paper before, but over the summer I added unbending features (sensu TPSutil) for fish landmark data to my package LOST. Just sent an update to CRAN to make unbend.tps.poly work for 2D and 3D data, planning to update unbend.spine too onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am taking up to 2 applicants for the masters program in biology at MTSU this coming fall. Projects working on cichlid ecomorphology, cichlid fossils and missing data. Experience with fish, geomorph or R a plus. Funding for stipend and travel support.

New paper out by my first Masters student Delaney Gilley, looking at the evolution of rostral orientation in bats and its links to echolocation and form-function trade-offs! academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Lots of new gyotaku designs available in my etsy shop! Also added new canvas prints from printful - cheaper than my prior art paper prints and no need to frame! #teamfish #gyotaku #monsterfish #art arbourfishart.etsy.com

The last paper coming from my #PhD thesis has just been published in the Journal of Morphology! 🐸 We use #diceCT and @fountainscholar.bsky.social 's GoodFibes package to examine how muscle fibre architecture varies across #frogs specialising in jumping, walking and swimming: doi.org/10.1002/jmor...

Very pleased that my new paper on darter cranial musculature is out now in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Some anatomical surprises (weird, extra divisions of the AM) compared to Perca!

I am in love with this note at the top of the wiki page for oarfish. #teamfish

Plans for #GarWeek 2024 are in the works! It will look a little different this time around, spread across multiple platforms…and for the first time on BlueSky!

3 hours goes by quickly when you're painting a round goby. #sciart #teamfish #invasivespecies

Shameless plug of my etsy shop featuring gyotaku prints and clothes now that I've made my way over here 🦋 www.etsy.com/shop/arbourf...

Friends on the new platform, you can find my collection of 3D fish and anatomy models on sketchfab here: sketchfab.com/MTSUichthyol.... May be migrating to "fab" eventually. If you use these for teaching or 3D printing please shoot me an email so I can make note of that for grants/service/etc.