Reading about mollusk metabolism: Schwarz, 1934, fed macaroni to snails to monitor their carbo loading potential, now to find a way to cite this timeless research

📣 Calling all ASLO Members! There’s still time to select the next Student Board Member, and the other open positions, for the 2021 election cycle. Make your voice heard and vote by May 24. Read the candidates’ statements and vote here: bit.ly/VoteASLO21

“I’ve experienced a lot of failures during my PhD but I think they've made me a better scientist. I might be studying the resilience of oysters to stress, but it’s this project that has made me more resilient as a scientist." - Dr. Joanna Griffiths Joanna Griffiths (LSU PhD '20)

**PAID INTERNSHIP** 📢Come and work in our University of Portsmouth Blue Marine Foundation Solent Oyster Restoration Hatchery: June - September. Details 👇 bluemarinefoundation.com/vacancy/solent… Please retweet 🙏

Why more people don't get angry about the pollution of their drinking water I will never understand. If you care about WI waters, do yourself a favor and subscribe/follow @stcroix360

"For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun" -A.Leopold I wonder what he would think about the celebration of the extinction of another species at our hands

“Iowa has 24 million hogs pooping the equivalent of 83 million people. The land is saturated. The slurry has no place to go but into the air and water. Yet more hoghouses are being built...” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Couldn't help but jump in when canoeing Madison lake chain, of course that means looking for mussels. A little delay after covering both lakes, zebra mussels are really setting up shop in the yahara river too.

A 30% reduction in Wisconsin's wolf population. Hunters fought the DNR and sued to force an immediate hunt. They then shot ~250% their limit in just days, surprisingly absolutely no one. phys.org/news/2021-07-r…

First giant (20ish in wide) Spiny softshell turtle ive seen in my local creek

New paper alert! Vince Butitta & I collaborated w/ colleagues from around the globe to calculate biometric conversion equations for 6 non-native bivalves species. Study details relationships b/w body size & biomass from geographically disparate populations besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

I am so thrilled to share our ‘rough fish’ perspective paper, which is o-fish-ally live at Fisheries Magazine. There's a good amount to unpack in here, so it's 🧵time. afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Republican state Sen. Steve Nass plans to block Universities of Wisconsin (Old) from instituting COVID-19 testing, masking and vaccination protocols on campuses, a move that comes as health officials sound warnings about the rapidly spreading, highly contagious delta variant apnews.com/article/health…

Fantastic summer storm

My cats doing their best to break up a twitter timeline of depressing news about climate change and epidemics

Saving this tweet for the intro slide next time I get to teach anyone about conservation bio