@realfishdoc
Collections Manager of Ichthyology and CT Scanner Technical Lead for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County by day, Twitch streamer by night. https://www.twitch.tv/realfishdoc https://www.toddclardy.com/
10 days remaining to submit your Mini-ARTS award! These awards are for revisionary taxonomy and systematics. Up to $4,000 is available per award. For guidelines and to submit your application, see our website
www.systbio.org/mini-arts-aw...
Are you a student who wants to visit the NHMLA for your research? Do you advise or know a student who would benefit from visiting our collections? Well, there are three weeks left to apply for the NHMLA Student Collections Award. Help spread the word!
A larval Macrourid sighting at 917 m! ROV pilots filmed future-fish during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition, supported @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. Scientists are studying midwater organisms and how they sequester carbon.
You gotta defend your territory bro.
Applications now open for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Proposals due May 18.
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
Close-up of a fish eye, displaying iridescent colors with green, blue, and silver hues against a speckled skin background. The eye's circular pupil is surrounded by a vibrant, reflective iris, and delicate fish scales are visible on the periphery.
A translucent fish with a large eye and fan-like fins swims against a dark background. Its body is iridescent with hints of purple and silver.
Oh my! What big eyes you have!
Juvenile bluefin driftfish can be found near the surface, where large eyes help them navigate and spot small prey. As adults, bluefin driftfish venture to deeper waters to find food and avoid predation, where their large eyes improve their ability to detect prey.
April 1 deadline for @nhm.org Student Collections Study Award. Get $$ to spend time collecting data in our collections, including @tarpits.org
Open to:
- current undergraduate and grad students
- *not* local to Los Angeles (international applicants welcome)
More: nhm.org/student-coll...
The deadline for abstract submission for the Southern California Academy of Science meeting at Chapman University on April 18 has been EXTENDED! You now have until March 7 to submit an abstract.
An illustration of a horse in vibrant Lunar New Year colors and design.
Przewalski’s horse, or Equus ferus przewalskii, is the only true wild horse species remaining in the world, once extinct in the wild but successfully reintroduced. Courtesy of Jacqui Estrada.
Brindles and whips like this one were tools, used for controlling horses used in ranching and transportation, often made from horsehair. Courtesy of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County.
The Florida Horse Conch, Triplofusus papillosus, is the largest marine snail in North America and is the official state shell of Florida. Courtesy of Marissa Balfour, iNaturalist.
🐴 Although formal #LunarNewYear festivities have come to an end, the Year of the Horse has just begun! We invite you to gallop into a horse-inspired virtual tour through nature and from our Collections, including specimens, ranching tools, and even the Horse Conch: go.nhm.org/lunar-new-ye...
Little choice but to postpone Bahrain and Jeddah. Neither are safe and the teams won’t be able to get there.
Here is the link to the abstract submission page. I expect to see all of you (yes, all of you) next month!
scas.nhm.org/annual-meeting
The deadline for abstract submission for the Southern California Academy of Science meeting at Chapman University on April 18 has been EXTENDED! You now have until March 7 to submit an abstract.
That’s a good sticker.
Fantastic news! BHL is an unbelievable resource.
Best news today! BHL is an incredible free open treasure trove of nature papers and books from the 1500s to 1900s, and completely invaluable to my research.
Sunday, March 22, our seasonal #ButterflyPavilion officially takes flight!
Featuring nearly 30 species, walk among hundreds of beautiful butterflies and colorful native plants flourishing in natural light: nhm.org/butterflies
🦋 Members, enjoy special preview days on March 20 and 21!
JMIH 2026 logo with a shark, redfish, anole, salamander, alligator, and snake
The 2026 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists #JMIH26 website and abstract submission is online! This year it will be in New Orleans! Join us July 8-12! jmih.net
#JMIH26 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 2026
Annual meeting of: Amer. Soc. of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 🐟, Amer. Elasmobranch Soc. 🦈, Herpetologists' League 🐍 & Soc. for Study of Amphibians & Reptiles 🐸
The abstract submission and meeting website is now open jmih.net
That’s a lota lota! (thanks, I’ll show myself out)
Oh no!
I'll be hosting a session on Science Communication at the meeting. Got some cool talks lined up for ya!
Attn: Southern California Scientists! The deadline for abstract submission for the Southern California Academy of Sciences annual meeting is this Saturday, February 28! The meeting will be at Chapman University on April 18. Get those abstracts in now and lock in early bird registration pricing!
I gotta take lunch outside of the office/lab. I don't like work looming over my shoulder while I eat.
Assume any of my typos are there as proof that I'm not an AI.
Rapid and repeated evolution of pigmentation patterns in reef fishes
#ichthyology
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Whenever people tell me that identifying larval fishes is hard, I think about the folks who are experts in copepod taxonomy. I'm glad I had some good copepod taxonomists working with me back when I ran a zooplankton ecology lab.
Oh no! The premise sounds so cool. I also really want to like it.
She’s very fractal.
I saw this post too late 😔
A juvenile Mola mola could also serve as a hockey puck.
