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Big changes for tiny fishes! Our new study of coral reef dwarfgobies shows that Eviota is not a single evolutionary lineage. We resurrect Eviotops and synonymise Sueviota with Eviota. Read more: doi.org/10.1643/i202... #Ichthyology #Fishes @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Kicked off this year’s 31 for 31 last night with a film that’s so offensive you can’t help but be touched by it

1.5m followers on an AI deep sea slop page I'm gonna-

Umbrella crab! Cryptolithodes sitchensis.

I think it’s kind of hack at this point to harp on about Harry Potter’s weak worldbuilding and pervasive lack of introspection but someone could make a good video essay comparing how house elves are treated by the story compared to The Ood.

Formation above nyc during pride fest.

Perfection

This is absolutely some @valdevia.art business that's escaped containment

Maurolicus muelleri my beloved

Picturing two greys with a quadrat and a pooter

A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’

This was a good use of my holiday

Fish magic!!

Since May I presented in two conferences (with @thefsbi.bsky.social last week), sailed on two research cruises, and (somewhere among all this) passed my PhD confirmation. Looking forwards to some holiday this week, but I'm very excited and intellectually stimulated by how well the project is going!

Two things: first, a reminder that people have been capable of impressive realist art for centuries and we should recognise stylisation for what it is Second, do you think it’s easier to draw/sculpt accurate fish because they stay the same shape when dead more than mammals and birds do?

Ah yeah cool man best way to endear me to your new service is to have a popup that I cannot close occupy the lower 25% of the screen

Love these freaks

Out on the RV Tom Crean and had a bit of a landmark day. Technically not my first angler, but this extraordinary, beautiful animal made me genuinely emotional. It’s an absolute privilege to get to meet these animals that I’ve adored for so long! (She’s a triplewart seadevil, Cryptopsaras couesii)

Chud fish that’s a bad loser to boot

Not to be all “guy reading V.” about this but Picasso the dog-stealing English tutor methhead is a Pynchon character

Something cool I realised about this video is that the belly is so distended you can see bits of the fish’s internal anatomy. Those finger like bits are the pyloric caeca, part of the gut used to absorb peptides, and I think the triangular bit might be liver?

My favourite Cher song

Who could possibly say why I’m posting this ugly, busted, cringe fish… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Ohhh look at that. Horrible, I love it!

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Sladenia @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 941 #deepwonders #MarineLife

um, so everyone cheering on egypt in the world cup realizes how the pyramids were built right? but i guess that's a conversation you're not ready to have

Godspeed You! Black Emperor voice:

Oh wow, new one on me

Crazy how all crosscountry trains smell like that

Parma ham

Ooh, love this one. Positively Gigeresque!

MBARI researchers share expertise in midwater research and technology at the inaugural conference for the Midwater Science and Engineering Community, a new initiative to advance collaboration, data sharing, and policy impact for Earth's largest habitat. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

🌊 M.E. Blochii ... Systema ichthyologiae iconibus CX illustratum v.2 Berolini: Sumtibus auctoris impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano commissum, 1801. [Source]

Close enough welcome back Bathysphaera intacta

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