Grey heron! 🎨 #birds #digitalart #heron #artist #BirdOfTheDay #Grey

New paper out today led by @gallinaciega.bsky.social We show that seed-eating songbirds have enlarged a somatosensory nucleus, especially the part associated with the tongue, suggesting that seed-cracking is dependent on a fine sense of touch. #ornithology #neuroethology doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

For those keen, create an original illustration or a short video inspired by scientific breakthroughs—ranging from cancer to brain research—to help bring cutting-edge #zebrafish disease models to a wider audience! #scicomm #sciart 🧪

Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS)@zdmsociety.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨 There's ~3 weeks left to submit your creative works for our first fishy #SciArt competition! 🐟🎨📽️ You choose the medium (e.g. illustration or short video) & ZDMS supply the cash (as judged by our expert panel) 🤩 👉 For more guidelines & submission details, visit: www.zdmsociety.org/sci-art-comp...

Interested in a postdoc position? Olfaction in poison frog tadpoles! Based in Germany with some field work in Costa Rica (bilateral funding, 3 years). Please share with your froggie and neuro/behavior contacts 🐸 www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

It's #sundayfishsketch so I offer a Diamond Watchman Goby as tribute

For #SundayFishSketch this week, I was inspired by a Mary Oliver poem and painted a spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias). These friends have some of the longest gestation periods of any animals, which last 18-24 months.

For this #sundayfishsketch I have a darter species that I can’t stop talking about- the Caney Fork Darter (Nothonotus starnesi). The male fish develop bright red spots and emerald green color in the spawning season, AND have parental care! What a fish. #SciComm #illustration #fish #SciArt

Early #SundayFishSketch because I’m in my feelings about the Cabo Verde game last night. Go Blue Sharks! 🦈

I’m excited to share a new paper from my lab, by former PhD student Ben Schultz! It’s a genome paper for the northern redbelly dace, a small freshwater fish with fascinating biology - stay tuned for more cool work enabled by this resource. doi.org/10.1139/gen-...

The first chromosome-level annotated reference genome for Chrosomus eos, the Northern Redbelly Dace

Hybridization amongst teleost fish species is an ongoing phenomenon with unclear implications Chrosomus eos, the Northern Redbelly Dace, is a species with an especially complex and fascinating history...

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A fish that can drop a beat?!? The freshwater drum(Aplodinotus grunniens) and its saltwater relatives make drumming sounds by rapidly contracting muscles against a specialized swim bladder. Rock on 🥁 #SciComm #illustration #fish #SciArt #ichthyology

A ratfish for #SundayFishSketch - Hydrolagus collei. Working my way through a PNW field guide while at FHL

The Northern redbelly dace (Chrosomus eos) is an adorable freshwater fish that I have come across many times in the field. Seeing this fish in spawning coloration -bright red and nearly neon yellow- is always an amazing experience. #SciArt #SundayFishSketch #fish #ichthyology #SciComm #illustration

all! my name is charlie, and im an aspiring scientific illustrator. i am new to posting my work online, and im trying to find my community :-) hit me up if youd like to be art friends! #art #SciArt #birdart #bugart #insectart #frogart #artist #supportartists #artistsupport

I just finished the first assignment in my entomological illustration class with RISD. Western hercules beetle, Micron pen on paper #beetles #entomology #Herculebeetle #pointillism #scientificillustration #bugsky #sciart 🪲 🐡 #inkdrawing

At the beginning of the year, I started to work on a northern bald ibis (in german Waldrapp) illustration, which I finished in April. I'm just stunned by the color palate of these birds.

Cyprinella lutrensis- the red shiner! During the spawning season, males develop keratinous bumps called nuptial tubercles on the head and body, along with bright red and metallic blue coloration. These fish are very adaptable and can be invasive when introduced. #fish #SciArt #fishart #illustration

The Brock Lab is hiring a postdoc to help us study sensory ecology and sexual selection in urban reptiles! 🐍🦎🌆 Comes with a $5K travel stipend. App closes July 1! careers-sdsurf.icims.com/jobs/20539/p...

Over 1/5 of all fish species have paternal care, and the weedy sea dragon(Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) is one great caregiver! The males in this species have a brood patch under the tail where they carry the female’s eggs until hatching! #fishart #scienceillustration #fish #sundayfishsketch

Just a reminder that I'm recruiting PhD students to my new lab! Come find me at #Evol2026 to chat! #TeamFish

For this lovely #sundayfishsketch a banded pygmy sunfish (Elassoma zonatum)! #sciArt #illustration #scicomm

Have you ever met the slough darter? Etheostoma gracile- this cute little critter is one of my newest illustrations. #sciart #scienceillustration #fishart

She also did all of the illustrations herself!

Top-fin study with beautiful illustrations (and data!) by @taylorblack.bsky.social 👏

Rachel Moran@rachelmoran.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper led by @taylorblack.bsky.social shows AVT modulates aggression in darter lineages with nest site territoriality and paternal care but elicits no behavioral response in a species that secondarily lost territoriality and care www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...