Friends, please join me in welcoming the Manta Trust to Bluesky! They’ve left Twitter and are setting up shop here.

🧪🌎🦑🦈 #SciComm

New episode of the Teach Me About the Great Lakes podcast is out! I joined a couple other invasive species folks to talk about the new-ish aquatic invasive species in the #GreatLakes region we think people should know about www.teachmeaboutthegreatlakes.com/113

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

🚨 Position Alert! 🚨
I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

I spent a couple hours last night in a white sucker consume talking to families about how they're not a "trash fish." Here's a quick sketch of a chonk for #SundayFishSketch

Application deadline approaching.

This is INCREDIBLE. The Bearded Vulture has multigenerational nests that last for hundreds of years, built in very secluded places — and they’re FULL OF ANTHROPOGENIC ARTIFACTS.

Hey! QUICK! Scientists/Science communicators of all kinds.

Have you taken anything you've learned from my incessant yapping about my Philly science engagement work & made your own version? Made your own zine, made your own posters, stickers, events, anything?

I would love to hear about it if so!

Just in time for spooky season, I got to learn all about bioluminescent fungi, including some fungi that interlace with the wood of trees to create glow-in-the-dark trees! Read all about it here:

www.biographic.com/glowing-from...

Voted for my boy #32Chunk for the win ❤️ #FatBearWeek

I AM GOING TO SCREAM

This is why journalism is dying.

Cause it’s impossible to be a reporter in this business while simultaneously paying for food.

Also, for #FatBearWeek celebrations, my book Grizzly Lullaby will be free on Kindle for download from Tues, Sept 23 to Sat, Sept 27. It features a first-time mother grizzly teaching her cubs about being a bear, in order to teach preschool-K children about grizzlies. a.co/d/3f5nzwO

If someone wants some brightness this week, #FatBearWeek starts tomorrow ❤️

And it just mushrooms from there...

To be considered for mentorship in my lab, please email me a CV and a letter outlining your interests and fit with our work.
Lab website: www.valentinadisanto.com/join-the-team

Apply for the Scripps Postdoctoral Fellowship! I'm looking to support a strong candidate in fish physiology and/or biomechanics. Deadline: Oct 9, 2025. Eligibility: PhD by Nov 30, 2026 with ≤3 years postdoc experience. 2 years, $74K salary, $6K research allowance 👉 apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04348 🧪 🐟

Thanks!!

Behold the Gloriously Weird Spotted Ratfish. It Has Teeth on Its Forehead for Sex

*Sigh* More unrealistic beauty standards in the media

Fish live in water, they said.

Warming seas due to climate change help #Florida stone crabs reach the Chesapeake. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/06/w... via @billkearney.bsky.social

Finally got to do my birthday present with the koala encounter at ZooTampa! Learned about koalas having two thumbs and that they have a retrovirus similar to AIDS which is causing the majority of the issues with chlamydia.

That looks fabulous on you and I'm jealous I'm not there to see if they have my size

#invert people?