Learned this cool method to preserve ticks while in school. I bet it works with most bugs although I've never tried. It's just hand sanitizer! The viscosity keeps em floating and the alcohol preserves em. Ft: Lonestar tick & Deer tick #InverteFest

Thanks mailman! Just a little late, but I'll take it!

I've got a herpetologist in training!

Went electro-fishing on Lake Champlain recently and found myself feverishly looking and hoping to find some Gar. All thanks to you Dr. Solomon David .Well done good sir.

This lab washer might be the greatest invention since sliced bread.

Found this wigley guy while snooping around the intestinal tract of an Atlantic Salmon in New England. Aaannyy guuesseess?

Started tapping some maple trees yesterday! First attempt at making maple syrup initiated. 🤞

Investment strategy: Maple Syrup

I'd like to give a shout-out to the Veterans Affairs, which does basically nothing efficiently, for getting me in for a vaccination on the SAME DAY I called to schedule something. If you're a Veteran you can now get a vaccine at your local VA. Get after it! Semper Fi.

Long day of fish parasites ahead of me. Lleettsss gggoooo!!

First culprit of the day. What looks to me to be Placobdella pediculata. From tissue under the opurculum of a Freshwater Drum out of Lake Champlain. #Parasite #Leech

Vermont Fish and Wildlife is hiring a Fish Culture Specialist at the Ed Weed Fish Culture Station right on the beautiful Lake Champlain. careers.vermont.gov/job/Grand-Isle… Having worked there I can say, alot of great experience to be gained there. #aquaculture #fisheries

Our new PCR totem. Proven to increase successful PCR runs.

There should be a spot on your CV for tweets that have survived twitter peer review without being decimated.

This university lounge area has all the boxes checked. Nice chairs ✅ Quality scientific reading ✅ Cactus ✅ Bayblade Arena ✅

Writing a paper about parasites and I find this walking across my computer screen! The parasite gods have favored me! Side note: cat is due for monthly preventative.

Getting the hang of excising encysted metacercaria outa fish tissue (Brown Bullhead muscle tissue)!

No fish health christmas party is complete without Flavobacterium psychrophilum cookies. AFS Fish Health Section IDK who didn't label the plates though...

Had a doc tell me I am hypertensive. He said my BP would go down if I drank less coffee. So anyway, guess I am permanently hypertensive.

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