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Aquatic biosecurity 🕵️ | Invasive freshwater fish 🚫🐟 | Wildlife trade 👩‍💻 | Embracing the slow life ☕🧵📚
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WEEK 2 of the #SundayFishSketch team-up with #25DaysofFishmas (@drkatfish.bsky.social) for a difficult #Fishytheme. Sketch the #GreatLakes fish described by the clues below - if you know the answer, don't spoil it, draw and post on Sunday! #sciart 🐡🦑

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Check out these great #freshwater #PhD opportunities based at the University of Melbourne down here in Australia on #Platypus, #AquaticPlants, & #Carbon 🌿🏞️🦆🧪

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Day 2 of the 2024 Australian Freshwater Sciences Society conference is looking to be another great lineup of talks and discussions on all things freshwater 🌊🐟🌿🐸🦆🦠

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to a great day of freshwater talks in Albury-Wodonga at the 2024 Australian Freshwater Sciences Society conference 🌊🐟🌿

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Liebe #kleinekunstklasse 🎄 @schwarze-pixel.bsky.social, meine Kollegin Alexandra Hesse (Tierpräparation) und ich sind am 7. & 8. auf dem Oberschöner Weihnachtsmarkt Berlin. Es gibt wunderschöne Linoldrucke, Sticker, "bone jars", weihnachtliche Tischdecko und Kiefernknochen 😆. Kommt gerne vorbei 😊🎄

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

Grab the bull(head) by the horns on Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas because it's time for the black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) to shine! The second day of #Fishmas brings a cool cat - one of several species of catfishes on the prowl throughout the #GreatLakes 🐈🐟

submitted 85 days ago • 4 comments

A quick sketch of a species that's new to me - the pirate perch - for #25daysOfFishmas #SundayFishSketch 🐟

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

First comprehensive assessment of Australia's #freshwater fish species paints alarming picture: 37% are at risk of #extinction, including 35 species not even listed as threatened. Dozens of species could become extinct over the next two decades. 🐠 🇦🇺 ❌ phys.org/news/2024-11...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Hi everyone. I felt really dejected for a long time about the state of science communication on Twitter, and was reluctant to give things a try on yet another new platform. I’m so touched by the support everyone has shown so let’s give this one last go, as KaiTheFishGuy on Blue Sky!

submitted 89 days ago • 90 comments

Nicole does beautiful #SciArt including fishes!! 🐠🐟🐡🦈

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

With so many new followers (thank you!) I think it's time I introduce myself 👋 🐟

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Funded Masters in Biology (Fish, Ecology, Fisheries, Invasive Species) Opportunity! Please Share! Come join my lab at Salisbury U to study impacts of invasive Blue Catfish on native freshwater mussels & anadromous fishes (threatened river herring, striped bass, etc) in the Chesapeake Bay🐟🐙🧪🐠#SciComm

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

I'm new in @bsky.app so I can use this opportunity to advertise the amazing work of over 200 authors in the @ipbes.bsky.social Invasive Alien Species assessment. Please check here all the outputs, including factsheets and the cool IAS learning tool: www.ipbes.net/ias

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Really happy to be giving the "International Plenary Lecture" next week at the Australian Freshwater Sciences Society meeting. Look forward to meeting a few new folks there. Come say hi if you're there! www.auswatersoc.org/afss-confere...

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

📰IN THE NEWS: Reintroduction of drought-threatened #fish in #NSW 2019: Over 70 Southern Purple Spotted Gudgeon (Mogurnda adspersa) rescued and rehomed at Taronga Western Plains Zoo. 2024: Rehabilitation begins at Buckinbah Creek. Read more: www.nsw.gov.au/media-releas... #Australia #conservation

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

doe, a deer, a female deer ray, a flattened cartilaginous fish in the superorder batoidea, closely related to the sharks, notable for their enlarged pectoral fins which they flap to—

submitted 120 days ago • 25 comments