New obsession: Metazooa, a taxonomy guessing game. Each guess reveals the closest common taxonomic rank as you narrow in on the animal of the day. Nerdy, educational, and mildly addicting.

I'm reviewing abstracts for an upcoming scientific conference, helping the planning team to select which attendees get a chance to present their work. Some are amazingly good. Some suggest that the applicant has not ever been taught how to write an abstract. Here are some basic tips: 🧪

Fish Habitat program manager Melissa Dakers and Executive Director Robert Pye were invited onto the 'Doc Talks Fishing' podcast! This show, hosted by Bass Pro Shops & Cabela's Ambassasor Gord Pyzer and Liam Whetter, explores fisheries projects with environmental professionals from around the world.

Another #GarWeek spotlight species is the Bowfin. Check out this young of the year bowfin from a Green Bay coastal wetland. #GreatLakes

This week Executive Director @jeffkopaska.bsky.social joined Community Kevin Brannon on The Reel Anglers' Podcast to discuss conservation, fishing regulations, partnerships, and more: youtu.be/FbTIZ16cPpQ?...

Reel Angler Podcast: Community Kevin talks with Jeff Kopaska of the American Fisheries Society.

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Meet #GarLab member Charlie Vaughn! Charlie is a second year MS student based in UMN-Duluth, researching longnose gar and emerald bowfin life history variations in MN. He’s been thrilled to work with the team, and looks forward to further exploring the ecology of these species.

The ***online application form*** for Fisheries Professional Certification is here! Join us for a quick run through webinar and Q&A, on Nov 5th 2025 at 12pm Central time. Click to register: fisheries.org/membership/c...

Minnesota AFS@mnafs.bsky.social · last yr.

MN AFS members Solomon David of @garlab.bsky.social and Alec Lackmann, leader of the Otolith Lab at UMN Duluth both received an Award of Merit from the @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social Fisheries Management Section, recognizing significant contributions to management of nongame fishes. Congratulations!!

Spent the last three days tagging, scanning, measuring, and stocking nearly 2,700 muskellunge to supplement natural reproduction and improve angling opportunities in Minnesota! #52FishyFridays 🐟🐠🎣

This apple didn’t fall far from the tree, my daughter was fascinated with the native Minnesota predators at the Great Lakes Aquarium a few weeks ago! #52FishyFridays 🐟🐠

I’m in Bozeman, Montana, to talk native fish conservation with the MeatEater folks! Looking forward to sharing and learning about diverse perspectives regarding stewardship of our natural resources!

And happy 18th birthday to ggplot2! 😳🎉

Posit@posit.co · last yr.

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉 This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system. Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats

A harsh reality that I struggle to accept. “Fishes” still sounds weird to me, even if I know it’s right.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · last yr.

“Fish” can refer to a single individual, or multiple individuals from the same species. “Fishes” refers to multiple species. 🐠 Fish 🐠🐠🐠 Fish 🐠🐟🐡 Fishes

Super quick and easy process (<5 minutes) to submit a comment!

Ben Goldfarb@bengoldfarb.bsky.social · last yr.

TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #roadecology

Weekend #FishPuke. This largemouth bass puked up a few soft plastic baits after I caught it. I pick up a few dozen of these baits off of lake bottoms each year, and apparently bass do too!

#TeamFish for the win! #BirdsVsFish 🐟🐠

Greg Seitz@gregseitz.com · last yr.

Friend caught a smallmouth bass and it coughed up a baby green heron. #fishpuke @kgladefishsci.bsky.social

🔬 #LakeSuperior Speaks: Researcher Feature! UMD’s Dr. Mark Clark & Dr. Alec Lackmann will dive into lesser-known native fish of #Minnesota—and how tiny ear bones called #otoliths reveal their age, growth & life history. 🐟👀 📅 Register by July 10: z.umn.edu/mnsg_lakesup... #EduSky 🧪🍎

Who does this??? Enough people doubt science as it is 😅

Venturelli lab@venturellilab.bsky.social · last yr.

You can't make this up: a researcher friend just had a paper rejected because the result was statistically non-significant. The editor said to try out different stats to get the p-value <0.05. That's NOT how science works. Non-significance is a legit result that is worth being communicated.

So many anglers in the Great Lakes region are shocked to hear that not all lampreys are invasive.

Kamden Glade@kgladefishsci.bsky.social · last yr.

2-for-1 special! A few weeks ago, we caught a lake sturgeon with a bonus silver lamprey attached to it. Unlike their invasive cousins (sea lamprey) in the Great Lakes, this native species evolved to live in balance with various host species. #52FishyFridays 🐟🐠🌎

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Best of Dying Twitter@bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · last yr.

“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”

#FishPuke from this weekend during a trip to Voyageurs National Park. This smallmouth bass puked up a trout perch *with force* while I was unhooking it.

Hi all - Callout for help with class! I'm teaching an online course in fisheries conservation for UIUC this summer, and I'm looking to find a few more fisheries professionals/fish enthusiast academics to pop in over Zoom for a guest talk of the speaker's choice to the class! Anyone interested?

Fun and wide-ranging conversation about Wisconsin fisheries on WPRs Larry Meiller show today. Hat tip to the more well-spoken colleagues who joined me @maxofthenorth.bsky.social www.wpr.org/shows/larry-...

Fish research and regulations; an app for finding fish safe to eat; and worry for land trusts groups in Wisconsin

A panel of DNR fish biologists join us to answer the question, “How’s the fishing?” Then, we talk to an associate professor of epidemiology about an app tribal members use to find fish safe to eat. Th...

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Join AFS for our next webinar on Wednesday, June 11 at 2:00 pm EDT: Risk of the live baitfish trade as a pathway of invasive species introductions, with Hannah Mulligan from South Dakota State University. Register now: secure.fisheries.org/MemberRespon...

A new v0.10.0 of #fish #rstats package #FSA is at CRAN. Growth modeling (i.e., find starting values and displaying eqns) and handling size structure length categories and standard weight eqns have been substantially modified. New demo and explainer articles are at fishr-core-team.github.io/FSA/

Simple Fisheries Stock Assessment Methods

A variety of simple fish stock assessment methods.

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One week after my wife helped out with musky netting for work, she landed a musky of her own on the same lake on WI fishing opener while targeting pike and bass.

I really hope that content such as this reaches and resonates with hunters and anglers across the US. The downstream effects of the cuts to science and the people who do it will *definitely* impact mgmt of fish and game in all states. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Ep. 371: A Former USFWS Director Speaks Out

Podcast Episode · Cal of the Wild · 04/28/2025 · 54m

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I wish I had this resource going into my master’s project!

Kamden Glade@kgladefishsci.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper with some great coauthors, including a couple fantastic undergrads! We show evidence for relationships between fish length and bony structures that are resistant to digestion, and provide reference photos to identify fishes based on otolith shape. #fishpuke 🐟🐠🌎🧪 doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

When the bycatch is even cooler than the target. A couple more days and we’ll be switching from targeting walleyes to targeting muskies.

Saturday morning out it the field. That's just what we do at outreach and extension, get the job done and help improve habitat. We're a bargain and a great investment. Not billing hours, just serving the public.

Check out our new WI Fishing Finder. Public access, boat ramps, regulations, habitat, stocking histories, consumption advisories and more, all in one map. We can’t find the fish for you, but we can help you decide where to give it a shot dnrmaps.wi.gov/H5/?viewer=WFF