The #25DaysofFishmas calendar with Colorado Pikeminnow on December 8
If you can think of a better fish for Day 8 of #25DaysofFishmas, let minnow!
Westward ho, we go on our #Fishmas road trip to the canyon rivers of the Intermountain West, home of the Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius), a minnow who's no small fry - meet the largest minnow in North America!
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
Lungfish xkcd.com/3064
RNA xkcd.com/3056
This was exactly what I needed this morning.
A screenshot of the online zoology classification game “Metazooa.” Four guesses (of a possible 20) narrowing down the mystery creature in the animal kingdom lead to the winning guess, giant centipede, at the bottom of the screen.
I’ve only been playing Metazooa for a short while, but so far I am undefeated (Metazooa.com)
I think I’ll get the hardcover edition.
AI is like that one U2 album Apple put on everybody's devices. Nobody wants it, but there it is, anyway.
We documented the first occurrence of Poeciliopsis monacha-occidentalis in the US. We didn’t have reference samples but were instead able to use the unique properties of this hemiclonal, exclusively female, species to make the confirmation. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
“We don’t value software, data, and methods in the same way we value papers, even though those resources empower millions of scientists” 💯
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Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues
Here’s some of our recent work in Molecular Ecology showing that cold water dam releases could delay development of a warm water fish species (Razorback Sucker).
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
Map showing various warnings in effect for Oregon and southwestern Washington.
Portland NWS may have just won Weather Bingo today. #orwx
A massive bloody explosion on a beach.
Happy Exploding Whale Day to those who celebrate.
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High-quality reference #genome assembled for the Colorado pikeminnow—an endangered species in the Colorado River Basin—using Proximo HiC and @pacbio.bsky.social. Recent study by Steve Mussmann will aid in the conservation & understanding of desert fishes' evolution. academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
