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Awesome new methods to study behaviour under risk - and in the wild! From Ashley Ward's group with Maud Kent,
Risk balancing through selective use of social and physical information
https://t.co/tZrEMbfYbj
Check out the 3D model!

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2019-04-10

Hopefully not too late for I randomly picked the Paraliparis darwini, a deep water fish first discovered and described by Stein et al. off Galapagos archipelago.

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2019-02-12

Happy Here is a cleared and stained blackspotted topminnow (Fundulus olivaceus) that I reimaged late last year. I collected this in Kentucky, but the range of this fish extend from Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Texas to Florida.

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2019-01-18

Happy Here is the armored "#skeleton" of Pterygoplichthys pardalis, the Amazon sailfin catfish. One of the two species referred to as a "common pleco" in the aquarium trade who have a knack for eating algae! https://t.co/X106ej82Nt

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2018-12-01

Big day: my Live session is this afternoon at 1 PM Eastern! While I'll be mostly talking freshwater + I'm also happy to talk about doing a science policy fellowship in D.C.! Still time to submit ?s here: https://t.co/bI0VOcGHKX

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2018-10-19

Burt has a new blog post! Check out his views on some research related to the system, & social status. Also, introducing Tyrone, his subordinate rival!

https://t.co/DYoDeOx7Xu

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2018-09-19

Happy A small fish native to waters in the Mississippi river system, bigeye shiner (𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙥𝙨) populations rely heavily on their sight to feed, making clear, clean water crucial to their survival!

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2018-09-08

Last Friday, I shared my image of the oral jaws and dentition of a 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔. Here is the rest of it! Total length is ~ 3cm.

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2018-08-31

Rhinomuraena quaesita, a ribbon moray, for this week's I had quite a bit of fun with this one!

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2018-08-27

OOOooh that smell!, can't you smell that smell?!
New blog post by Burt the explaining how they pee to communicate & how they smell those smells!
https://t.co/DYoDeOx7Xu

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2018-07-25

For this week's it would seem that and I both had catostomids on the brain. Moxostoma carinatum, a river redhorse.

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2018-07-16

The brook silverside (Labidesthes sicculus), is a unique fish native to North American waters that, in recent years, has been on the decline due to water mitigation, pollution and invasion.

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2018-07-09

Burt has a new blog post describing his escapades to visit colleagues in snowy Minnesota! Because he's super cool and colorful, the scientists were testing his and Toni's vision!
https://t.co/DYoDeOx7Xu

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2018-04-27

Thank you to everyone who joined us for "Fall in Love with Sawfish" Valentine's Day evening in the planetarium at

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2018-02-15

One of my favourite parts of imaging these stained fish is seeing the scales outlined in red 😍

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2018-02-07

Check out Toni’s guest post on Burt’s blog about extreme maternal care and how the is studying it!

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2018-01-23

Can you hear me now? Check out Burt's new blog post about fish acoustic communication: https://t.co/PYftxBLh5x 🐟🐠

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2017-05-22