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PhD student at Southampton, studying mesopelagic fish ecology. Occasional writer and amateur baker. Tweets about fish in superlatives. Opinions my own.
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You ever had to untangle Christmas tree lights?

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

My equivalent of the uncanny valley is seeing meso fish from other oceans that belong to genera we have in the North-East Atlantic. You're not *quite* M. punctatum are you? What *are* you?

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

I just think they're neat

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone noticed the little baby seagull at the conclave yet??? 🥹

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Desperately punting this out to any fish people that follow me - does anyone know what structure the photophores develop from in stomiiforms/dragonfishes? Like presumably they're derived from some dermal tissue, right?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Chat should I get the Medieval UFO battle cushion?

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Can't get over how beautiful this hatchetfish specimen found in Tenerife is. Mwah! whalewatchtenerife.org/atlantic-sil...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Absolute treat to get to watch this in a cinema. Picked up so many details I’ve missed on previous occasions, and I got absolute full body chills when the Wicker Man is revealed (but then I always do).

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Went swimming in the sea today :^] it was the coldest thing ever :^]

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Is Argentina the only genus of fish to be a country? Is Argentina the only country to be a genus of fish? Regardless of which is true, it’s got to be the prettiest of whichever.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

a little walkin' around monkey

submitted 170 days ago • 9 comments

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

submitted 11 days ago • 111 comments

You've been good, have a Diaphus effulgens as a treat

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments