Proud of my creation from last nights craft night with Out in the Field ! I did my duty of spreading the fishy word with friends. #TWS2024

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Very excited for my first The Wildlife Society conference presentation! Come check out my project about native freshwater fish behavior at tonights poster session. I'm poster (90)! #TWS2024

Very pleased that my new paper on darter cranial musculature is out now in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Some surprises compared to Perca, and more anatomical diversity than I was expecting! #teamfish #diceCT

📢New student paper!📢 University of Bristol Biological Sciences year 4 undergraduate Lucy Brown's project published in Ecology and Evolution Predator Personality Variation, Not the Multiple Stressors of Temperature and Light, Determines Feeding Motivation in an Ambush Piscivore #fishsci dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7…

Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️ With @sjmgarnier Andrew King 🙏 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

New collaborative work led by Marie Levet finally out in Functional Ecology! It examines the combined impact of parasite infection and temperature on fish metabolism. Great team including Sandra Binning 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @SophieBreton16 Vincent Mélançon Shaun Killen CLOE: UCL Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

The Ozark Cavefish (Troglichthys rosae – formerly Amblyopsis rosae) is a federally listed threatened species. It is an obligate groundwater species, a member of the family Amblyopsidae, and is endemic to the Ozarks.

Your pet store goldfish after two years in the wild: ‘Call me Megalodon.’ This goldfish isn’t supposed to be here. But someone released it, thinking they were being kind. Instead, they created an invasive problem that can last decades.

I spent the day with undergraduates sampling creeks in central Maryland, discovering several Greenside Darters (Etheostoma blennioides), an introduced species in the Potomac River Watershed. This underscores the need to avoid transporting wildlife across state borders #NISAW

Since it is St. Patrick's Day, here is a species of fish that “gets green” in the springtime during spawning, the Banded Darter (Etheostoma zonale). This individual was observed in the Strawberry River watershed of Arkansas. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Meet the Rainbow Darter! 👋🐟 Whether you're microfishing, snorkeling, or combining the two, this is a great first fish to start your lifelist (life list fishing = a great way to celebrate the amazing biodiversity of fish)! Male & female + habitat 📷 Cody Cromer #AllTheFish

Since it is July 4th, here is a species of fish that gets as colorful as the night sky will be tonight with fireworks, the Rainbow Darter. This individual was observed in the Strawberry River of Arkansas. Happy Independence Day!

🇺🇸Happy Independence Day🇺🇸

It was a productive week in San Antonio, for the 155th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.

🐺Happy to share our recent article, “The dire wolf resurrection that wasn’t” anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar… Thanks to my awesome co-authors Annie Burrows, Adam Hartstone-Rose, and Mike Jensen-Seaman.

Since today is the first day of Autumn, here is the Autumn Darter (Etheostoma autumnale). This species of fish is endemic to the upper White River drainage in Arkansas and Missouri, where it can be found in small headwater creeks in a variety of habitats. 📸: Uland Thomas.

New study - Saving the Mahachai Betta: Genetic Erosion and Conservation Priorities Under Urbanization Pressure. 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑚𝑎ℎ𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 is a rare fighting fish that inhabits only brackish canals & ponds around Bangkok and nearby provinces. 🔓 mdpi.com/2076-2615/15/1…

If you stomp lanternflies, you should try fishing for blue catfish. Blue catfish are also an invasive species in Maryland, and they are eating up and outcompeting native fish. Find out how to catch them or where to buy them to eat: mddnr.info/40ahRtd

Please share: I am recruiting a master’s student to research two undescribed darter species that are syntopic with one another in the Arkansas River valley. Will be open until filled. Position starts in January (2026).