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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hi, I’m Andrew and I am a fisheries scientist and Assistant Professor of Biology at the U of North Georgia. I am interested in freshwater fish conservation, riverscapes, popgen, and I am a leading expert in black bass conservation. Follow along for #FishSci and #BlackBassDiversity content!

Dr. Andrew Taylor holding a Shoal Bass, Micropterus cataractae, that he angled while floating a river in the mountains of north Georgia. Shoal Bass are a species of continued research interest.

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Kai The Fish Guy @kaithefishguy.bsky.social · Nov 29

I don’t quite yet have the same reach on here as I did on Twitter, so I’m going to start a new fish game called #EtymologyEpithet, where I explain the etymology (the meaning behind a name) for all of the fishes I’ve described, starting with Cirrhilabrus isosceles, the Pintail Fairywrasse.

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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Mar 23

Forgive me for any really old posts that may show up in feeds...porting over my twitter content (finally).

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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Mar 16

On the board for 2025 (finally!) with an Alabama Bass from the river

Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Mar 5

Please just bring me some warmer days for spring break. PLEASE. I need some time on a stream for my sanity.

Remember to take time away from social media and take care of yourselves!

Redeye “Coosa” Bass held in water displaying vibrant dark blotches and white margins on fins, a character that helps distinguish members of the Redeye bass species complex from other black bass.

Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Mar 3

Assistant Professor (TT) in Computational Biology at U of North Georgia. Broadly defined, biostatistics and bioinformatics included. Come work with me in a wonderful department!

Rolling reviews start March 21st until filled.

Please share widely!

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · Feb 21

Absolutely terrible.
@lizrenner.bsky.social is an amazing scientist, colleague, and friend. SMFH.

The attacks on our science, public lands, and PEOPLE of this country are real. We will ALL be affected. www.keloland.com/keloland-com...

'Discarded, betrayed:' Yankton federal employee laid off

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – President Donald Trump’s federal employee layoffs have hit South Dakota. Under the new administration’s attempt to streamline government efficiency, hundreds of thousand…

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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Feb 20

I could use some new music recs…bonus if suggestions channel 60’s/70’s protest era vibes. No reason 🫠

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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Feb 14

Public access to rivers is very unclear in Georgia…we need a much more unified push to make this right.

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The untold saga of the Ichawaynochaway Creek - SaportaReport

Read The untold saga of the Ichawaynochaway Creek by Joe Cook for SaportaReport here.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Feb 6

Here's Twitter's descent since 2022

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · Feb 6

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

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Jenni Prokkola @jmprok.bsky.social · Nov 2

I was always hoping there was a way to find the salmonid scientists on here easily. Now there is! Please comment to be added, it is (very) incomplete 🙏
#salmon #FishSci

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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Feb 3

Fish of the Week podcast on the Smallmouth Bass Species Complex - Neosho, Little River, Ouachita, and Smallmouth basses! Let me know what you think, and I’m happy to answer any follow up questions.

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Smallmouth Bass, Big Complexity!

Podcast Episode · Fish of the Week! · 02/03/2025 · 45m

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The Fisheries Podcast @fisheriespod.bsky.social · Feb 2

This week, Preston sits down with retired USGS Mississippi Cooperative Research Unit leader Dr. Hal Schramm to discuss his path to get to Mississippi State University, and a handful of the many research projects he worked on. Listen here: fisheriespodcast.podbean.com/e/295-messag...

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American Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · Jan 16

Upcoming AFS webinar:

Seeking Input for Development of rFAMS Stock Simulation Tool
Tuesday, January 28
1 pm ET

Register now: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0ae061a8-7b03-481a-b516-c55f332a4182@ea04981a-ce57-48f5-96aa-0b09f880fa48

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Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social · Jan 13

Bowfi(n) beats to study fish to

Lofi beats girl with a bowfin head edited on

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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Jan 7

I heard the locals say the origin is:

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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · Jan 3

1/4New from the #NearLab, genomics and morphology demonstrate the famous Snail Darter, Percina tanasi, the little fish that swam to the United States Supreme Court is not a distinct species...

Open access at Current Biology
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American Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · Jan 3

Didn't get what you wanted this holiday season? Get it for yourself at the AFS winter bookstore sale! With 100+ hardcopy titles on sale, you're sure to find exactly what you're looking for to perfect your science library. Only thru Jan 17 and only at https://fisheries.org/bookstore/

Yellow background. Text reads "$1 from each book purchased will be donated to the Publications Endowment Fund. December 9–January 17" Under the text is an dollar bill origami folded into a fish, which is swimming through white paper water.

Yellow background with pictures of the covers of two books and a sticker reading "$20–30". Black text reads "End-of-year book sale. New titles added this year." The books are "Lessons in Leadership: Integrating Courage, Vision, and Innovation for the Future of Sustainable Fisheries" and "Selected Writings of Sidney J. Holt: Documenting a Lifelong Pursuit of Sustainable and Profitable Fishing"

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · Dec 26

Love is in the water on Christmas Day in Coral City 🎄🐡💞🐡🌇 #porcupinepuffer #pufferfishofcoralcity #pufferfish #courtship #loveisinthewater #christmasday #christmas #tagyourit #fishflirting #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Dec 25

Merry Fishmas to all!

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Valentina Di Santo @vdisanto.bsky.social · Dec 15

The tuna keel is a mechanosensory structure www.cell.com/iscience/ful... cool study by Júlia Chaumel, Dylan Wainwright, Jackie Webb, Connor White, and George Lauder @georgelauder.bsky.social @harvard.edu 🧪

The tuna keel is a mechanosensory structure

Tunas are high-performance pelagic fishes of considerable economic importance and with a suite of biological adaptations for high-speed locomotion. In contrast to our understanding of tuna body and muscle function, sensory systems of tuna are poorly understood. Here we present the discovery of a remarkable sensory lateral line canal within the bilateral tuna keels with tubules that extend to the upper and lower keel surfaces. Neuromast mechanoreceptor organs are found periodically along the canal lumen, enclosed within tubular ossifications that we interpret as modified lateral line scales.

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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Dec 11

At the southern terminus of the Appalachian Mountains flows streams rich in aquatic biodiversity. The Shoal Bass, Micropterus cataractae, is one such treasure.

The Bass of the Waterfalls
#BlackBassDiversity

The author holds an angled Shoal Bass just above the surface of the clear and fast moving river water it calls home. This specimen displays the characteristic dark vertical “tiger stripes”

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · Dec 11

A somber announcement - today the US Fish and Wildlife Services is proposing to list the monarch butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. It may become the 100th insect to be listed. Populations of millions of monarchs have declined 80-95% recently. #虫

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The wings of a dead butterfly are partially hidden beneath some grass above a rock.

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · Dec 9

If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂:

daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co...

All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too!

#ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏

Title slide: Will your code run again? Tips for making code reproducible in R

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Dec 8

I was taught in grad school that scientists should have 3 versions of talks about their work ready: a 30 second “elevator pitch,” a 12 minute conference length talk, and a 40 minute seminar length talk.

I think we should also have a short version aimed at non-scientists.

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · Dec 7

While the smallmouth and largemouth bass are probably the most well-known of the black basses, there are several other cool species like the Suwannee and Guadalupe bass. And we're learning new things about black bass diversity all the time (see: news.yale.edu/2022/06/06/r...) #25DaysofFishmas

A collage of photos showing some of the diversity of black bass species

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Dec 6

The hadal zone (6,000–11,000 m) is the deepest part of the ocean. Some creatures like the deep-sea snailfish live here, surviving crushing pressures.

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A deep-sea fish with small, black, round eyes and long, slender fins, swimming in a dark underwater environment. The fish has pale purplish appearance.

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Omar Mahadalle @omahadalle.bsky.social · Dec 6

I'm honored to have contributed to the @iucnshark.bsky.social report on the global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras Kudos to everyone involved! Check out the full report here: portals.iucn.org/library/node...

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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Dec 5

Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass…and 17 other species of black bass?! 🤯

Yup! And almost all of them are of conservation concern within their native streams of the southeastern USA. #BlackBassDiversity #Fishsci

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A subset of illustrated black bass forms by Joe Tomelleri - THIS IS NOT A COMPREHENSIVE SET! There are others that have not yet been illustrated. 19 total forms are currently recognized!

Approximate native ranges for recognized forms of Micropterus. Notice the high amount of endemism across drainages of the southeastern US. Maps adapted from data compiled by Stephanie Shaw.

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · Dec 4

Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07346 #Software #Code #Rstats

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