Andrew T Taylor, PhD

Hi, I’m Andrew and I am a fisheries scientist and Assistant Professor of Biology at the U of North Georgia. I am interested in freshwater fish conservation, riverscapes, popgen, and I am a leading expert in black bass conservation. Follow along for #FishSci and #BlackBassDiversity content!

Forgive me for any really old posts that may show up in feeds...porting over my twitter content (finally).

On the board for 2025 (finally!) with an Alabama Bass from the river

Please just bring me some warmer days for spring break. PLEASE. I need some time on a stream for my sanity. Remember to take time away from social media and take care of yourselves!

Assistant Professor (TT) in Computational Biology at U of North Georgia. Broadly defined, biostatistics and bioinformatics included. Come work with me in a wonderful department! Rolling reviews start March 21st until filled. Please share widely! careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

Absolutely terrible. @lizrenner.bsky.social is an amazing scientist, colleague, and friend. SMFH. The attacks on our science, public lands, and PEOPLE of this country are real. We will ALL be affected. www.keloland.com/keloland-com...

I could use some new music recs…bonus if suggestions channel 60’s/70’s protest era vibes. No reason 🫠

Public access to rivers is very unclear in Georgia…we need a much more unified push to make this right. saportareport.com/the-untold-s...

More than 50% decline in the number of posts about scientific papers on Twitter from 2022 to 2025

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

Fish of the Week podcast on the Smallmouth Bass Species Complex - Neosho, Little River, Ouachita, and Smallmouth basses! Let me know what you think, and I’m happy to answer any follow up questions. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

This week, Preston sits down with retired USGS Mississippi Cooperative Research Unit leader Dr. Hal Schramm to discuss his path to get to Mississippi State University, and a handful of the many research projects he worked on. Listen here: fisheriespodcast.podbean.com/e/295-messag...

Upcoming AFS webinar: Seeking Input for Development of rFAMS Stock Simulation Tool Tuesday, January 28 1 pm ET Register now: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0ae061a8-7b03-481a-b516-c55f332a4182@ea04981a-ce57-48f5-96aa-0b09f880fa48

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1/4New from the #NearLab, genomics and morphology demonstrate the famous Snail Darter, Percina tanasi, the little fish that swam to the United States Supreme Court is not a distinct species... Open access at Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Didn't get what you wanted this holiday season? Get it for yourself at the AFS winter bookstore sale! With 100+ hardcopy titles on sale, you're sure to find exactly what you're looking for to perfect your science library. Only thru Jan 17 and only at https://fisheries.org/bookstore/

Love is in the water on Christmas Day in Coral City 🎄🐡💞🐡🌇 #porcupinepuffer #pufferfishofcoralcity #pufferfish #courtship #loveisinthewater #christmasday #christmas #tagyourit #fishflirting #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Merry Fishmas to all!

The tuna keel is a mechanosensory structure www.cell.com/iscience/ful... cool study by Júlia Chaumel, Dylan Wainwright, Jackie Webb, Connor White, and George Lauder @georgelauder.bsky.social @harvard.edu 🧪

At the southern terminus of the Appalachian Mountains flows streams rich in aquatic biodiversity. The Shoal Bass, Micropterus cataractae, is one such treasure. The Bass of the Waterfalls #BlackBassDiversity

If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂: daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co... All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too! #ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏

The hadal zone (6,000–11,000 m) is the deepest part of the ocean. Some creatures like the deep-sea snailfish live here, surviving crushing pressures.

I was taught in grad school that scientists should have 3 versions of talks about their work ready: a 30 second “elevator pitch,” a 12 minute conference length talk, and a 40 minute seminar length talk. I think we should also have a short version aimed at non-scientists.

While the smallmouth and largemouth bass are probably the most well-known of the black basses, there are several other cool species like the Suwannee and Guadalupe bass. And we're learning new things about black bass diversity all the time (see: news.yale.edu/2022/06/06/r...) #25DaysofFishmas

I'm honored to have contributed to the @iucnshark.bsky.social report on the global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras Kudos to everyone involved! Check out the full report here: portals.iucn.org/library/node...

Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass…and 17 other species of black bass?! 🤯 Yup! And almost all of them are of conservation concern within their native streams of the southeastern USA. #BlackBassDiversity #Fishsci doi.org/10.1002/fsh....

Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07346 #Software #Code #Rstats

Spin around the braincase and jaws of a spiny dogfish shark 🦈 in 3D with our FIRST (and FREE) digital anatomy model: 3danatomystudios.com/models/dogfi... #dogfish #sharks #jaws #anatomy #blender3d (1/2)

Some limitations - always wave THOSE around, marketing tells me: Sharing research via shortlinks (like bitly) is NOT tracked on Bluesky atm. For this to happen the service has to make a change first (we're chatting with them so don't all @ them about it.) Use the DOI or direct link and you're good.

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

🎶Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Fish nipping at your nose 🎶 Day 3’s #Fishmas feature is a species that wouldn’t be out of place at the North Pole! The Northern Pike (Esox lucius), also known in Canada as jackfish, is a popular catch across the #GreatLakes and beyond #25DaysofFishmas

And zebrafish are more closely related to zebras than to sharks! #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

In my academic career, there are a few things that I will never grow tired of. One is seeing an email from a journal editor with the notice “final decision: accepted.” The culmination of years of field work, data analyses, and revisions! Will be sharing more on this one soon!!!

I'm heading to the Caribbean tomorrow for a trip in collaboration with a team from the Smithsonian, so get ready for a lot of Caribbean reef fish pictures coming your way! Will share more details when I get there! #fishmas

🦈 ‼️New paper‼️ 🦈 We used ERGMs to analyze movement networks in bull sharks in Reunion Island. Intra- & interspecific factors often had stronger effects on movements than environmental variables. #OpenAccess Paper: 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #MARBEC @umontpellier.bsky.social

Have a holly, jolly (roger) #Fishmas! ☠️🐟 Ahoy from the Pirate Perch (Aphredoderus sayanus), kicking off the first day of #GreatLakes #25DaysofFishmas! This fish is secretive, nocturnal, and has a very… unique anatomy - and it's the answer to this week's #SundayFishSketch mystery theme!

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution. If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐 go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS

A narrow list of #PUI researchers. BlueSky provides an opportunity for us to connect, grow and potentially do something cool. Let’s think of big questions from small spaces! Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/RnHK313

Maybe we should also say “I love you” more too, though. Thankful for my many colleagues and students that keep me rejuvenated and looking forward to my work.

I don’t quite yet have the same reach on here as I did on Twitter, so I’m going to start a new fish game called #EtymologyEpithet, where I explain the etymology (the meaning behind a name) for all of the fishes I’ve described, starting with Cirrhilabrus isosceles, the Pintail Fairywrasse.

petition to bring back slightly deranged fish balloons to the Macy's Day Parade (From the 1928 parade: "The goldfish balloon was led from Harlem to Herald Square by King Neptune and a group of twenty pirates")

You can usually find me painting fish .. lots of fish .. for figures such as this one by Burress and Munoz: #evolution #cichlids #fish #sciart

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Worried about the climate convo with your uncle at Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow? Jimmy and I have you covered.

Our big collaboration on anglerfish diversity is out today in @natureecoevo.bsky.social. THREAD PART 1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reposting because this pack now includes 150 wildlife artists and illustrators making all kinds of amazing things! #birds #sciart go.bsky.app/ASnS846

If you would like to read about how the sling-jaw mechanism works, you can read my 1991 JEB @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper. Now working on a new computational model! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation. I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.

This week I’m giving thanks for the Sling-Jaw Wrasse, and it’s amazing jaw #biomechanics! 🐟🦑🧪🌿

Introgressed ancestry from popular #sportfish species the Smallmouth Bass has conferred phenotypic homogenization and potential constraints on body condition in native Neosho Bass in the Ozark Highlands. Gunn et al.: ow.ly/J74r50UgGyV