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Educator, scientist, runner. Supporter of labor and human rights. Assistant professor of biology/environmental studies at the University of the Ozarks in the southern US. https://ozarks.edu/about/personnel-directory/darrin-hunt/
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Trying to find new ways to communicate science is important, right? This was an attempt to use claymation to communicate about phragmites management to a pre-k crowd. It’s okay to laugh on #worldwetlandsday. youtu.be/XlEfymnulSY?...

If you’re a sucker for #suckers (and other #catostomids, #gars, #bowfin, etc.), check out our special issue on Underappreciated #NativeFishes: link.springer.com/journal/1064..., my final issue of EBFI as Editor-in-Chief with Guest Editors Alec Lackmann, Doug Watkinson & @solomonrdavid.bsky.social

Let the great 🦎 experiment begin ! Undergrad-Professor research teams from 10 SoCal campuses are collaborating to understand effects of urbanization on lizard hydration and hydrophysiology ! #RESCUENet #CSU #CalState 🧪 @snakeymama.bsky.social

Underrepresented undergraduate & graduate students in STEM majors! Apply soon for the US DOE Mickey Leland Energy 10-week summer research internship on minimizing env impacts of fossil fuels & industry while working to achieve net-zero emissions. Geology students needed! orise.orau.gov/mlef/ ⚒️ 🧪

Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🌿 Director and Principal Research Scientist – Lead Illinois Natural History Survey! Shape the future of natural resource science, drive innovation, and oversee conservation research in this dual leadership and research role. Based in Champaign, IL. 🔗 Apply here: blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/71...

Happy new year! Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world. 11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month. Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

Citizen science testing of river water is here to stay as a way to hold private companies to high standards: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Let me know if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/RnHK313

microPublication Biology is here! This is a good time to remind everyone that we now have a micropub section for EEB submissions! #Evolution 🌏 🧪 More info here: bsky.app/profile/smwa... Let me know if you have questions!

If anyone would like to be added to the aquatic bug starter pack, just say so! go.bsky.app/F3WGCuV

Assorted macroinvertebrates for #invertfest. The isopod pic was taken by a student and is one of my faves. Pretty, pretty coloration. Can we love an isopod? Are they charismatic? Rizz havin’?

This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

Enter your location & track it thru geologic time. It's sooooo awesome ⚒️ www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

Is it possible that this is the cutest Fred on BlueSky? I think so. #moodeng #pitbull

Okay! Here’s a gar pun. I didn’t do it, but I like it. #25daysoffishmas

Reflecting on ‘24, we had some fun down here at the University of the Ozarks. Here are a couple of pics from my stream ecology course in Spring. #gamefish #notgamefish #dragonfly #river

Anyone know what this aphid-like little critter is? It was found in November in an urban creek in Arkansas.

We put “a bow” in our lab work for the holidays this afternoon. It was nice to bug out one last time in 2024. Here are some odonates! #dragonfly #damselfly

Our little aquatic bug pack is growing! Let’s keep on with it! Like, repost and let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/F3WGCuV

Lets put this back in the feed and see if there is anyone else who who'd like to be added. We are getting your future grad students ready, and plan on writing a book one day…maybe. go.bsky.app/RnHK313

Hi Bluesky, I am happy and optimistic to be here! Anyone know a freshwater fisheries biologist into teaching who might want to come join me in the beautiful Ozark streams of SW Missouri? Please share/repost.

“The ripple of the riffle...” Heres a short, NPR-esque video that the communication department at the University of the Ozarks threw together to comm some sci about macroinvert diversity and stream quality. youtu.be/WDy1NqKR5os

Here’s a question: to what degree does *gentrification* impact urban shifts in voting behavior, both among the gentrifiers (more conservative?) and gentrified (choosing the couch? Relative deprivation?) Anyone have the methodological chops for this?

Officially making our @bsky.app arrival!

Lets put this back in the feed and see if there is anyone else who who'd like to be added. We are getting your future grad students ready, and plan on writing a book one day…maybe. go.bsky.app/RnHK313

Reskeet and recommend THREE brilliant black women to follow. @phdamaka.bsky.social @ldwarren.bsky.social @jordiedavies.bsky.social (Keeping it at three was tough.)

BkueSky is the #wowclassic of Twitter.

Re-posting for the morning crowd! #Chemsky 🧪

Just to give everyone a reminder: you should never have to get a loan for a graduate program in ecology, evolution, & organismal biology. #🧪

What is a species "shadow distribution"? This infographic helps communicate "shadow distributions" with stakeholders and environmental managers. We used species distribution models to quantify this conservation concept for Swiss fishes. 🌐🌎 #macroecology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you in the #Buffalo #WNY #Rochester area? Our Education Dept is looking for an adjunct instructor for elementary teaching methods course in STEM. The course is in-person at Daemen University (Amherst, NY) on Monday evenings for the Spring 2025 semester. daemen.applicantpro.com/jobs/3571784

We have an open postdoc position in the Quantitative Ecosystem Dynamics lab at UC Berkeley: forms.gle/Nx1EHYiCv3yR... in the areas of ecohydrology, land-atmosphere interactions, and global change ecology. Please spread the word!