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Emily Troyer

@fishfetisher.bsky.social

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Postdoc at University of Michigan My research focuses on the morphological evolution of living and fossil fishes. I mainly post about fish and weird things I enjoy https://emilymtroyer.weebly.com/

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · Sep 2

Press for our recent paper! I had fun talking with UM News about weird fish jaws.

news.umich.edu/bite-by-bite...

Bite by bite: How jaws drove fish evolution

If you're reading this sentence, you might have a fish to thank. Fish were the first animals to evolve jaws. They use their jaws primarily to eat, but also for defense, as tools—such as to burrow or t...

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 13h

Apparently yesterday was National Noodle Day! I am a day late and more than a dollar short, but anyways here's one of my chunky noodle gals.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 15h

My little panda garra has been adopted by the cory squad.

A large corydoras catfish next to a smaller striped panda garra fish

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 16h

I wouldn't want to encounter either of those guys in a dark alley!

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 18h

The audacity of Microsoft Word!! ☠️

a word document where "fishes" is underlined by a blue squiggle. There is a grammar note asking if I meant fossil "fuels" instead.

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 1d

Feel like a fish out of water? Meet the giant mudskipper! This fish needs to breathe air & spends a decent amount of time on land! Found on the muddy shores of mangroves in parts of Southeast Asia, it uses its pectoral fins to “walk” across mudflats.

Photo: mysorekid, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

A photo of a mudskipper hauled out of water and onto a branch. The fish is brownish in color and has unusual facial features.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 2d

Showing off the @ummnh.bsky.social Fish Collection for ID Day! #TeamFish

Emily standing at a table filled with fish specimens

Fish specimens on a tray. From left to right: pike, seahorse, monkfish, bamboo shark

Preserved fish on a table. Top is a large swordfish skull. Bottom are left to right: porcupine pufferfish, burrfish, batfish

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 3d

Somehow this one is worse 😂

Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 3d

It continues 😅

A moth, perhaps Mothman?, with bony wings

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

A fake snail with a skull for a shell and bony body

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 13d

"Fishman", proposal for a journal cover.
Commissioned by MY Dennis' lab @mydennis.bsky.social for a study focused on identifying human-specific gene duplications and their role in brain evolution using genomics and zebrafish as model. @dcsoto.bsky.social
#art #digitalart #sciart #fish

Illustration of a fishman creature with human limbs and fish head and tail, interacting with a DNA string

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 4d

Surprise, more Kem Kem theropods! Here's a small indeterminate noasaurid, between 2-3m long, known from fragmentary remains. With smaller animals, I am drawn to vivid colours and flashier displays - like the speculative skin flap on the tail. Size comparison below ⬇️

Small noasaurid - it has dark green fuzz on the front half of its body adorned with teal, white, yellow, and orange stripes. On the tail, these colours are mirrored.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 4d

Fun will be had

Sign saying Free Fish Facts* Fish facts are non-refundable, but you are guaranteed to learn something. Side effects may include an uncontrollable urge to visit aquariums.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 4d

Actinopterygii is acceptable

Ray finned fish page of Wikipedia showing a diverse array of actinopterygian fishes

Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 4d

Just checked the wiki page for Fish and I think we can do better than a Bala shark... (even tho it does represent the most speciose fish group).

Image of a Bala shark on the Wikipedia page for Fish.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 4d

Aside from all the other obvious points it strikes me as particularly cringeworthy to feel you need to put your own face on BOTH sides of the coin

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 6d

Webpage on the hidden curriculum of applying to ecology and evolution grad programs in the US (a lot of the info applies to other fields too, but perhaps less well): applyingtoeeb.info

#AcademicSky 🧪

Applying to US Graduate School in Ecology, Evolution, and Related Fields

applyingtoeeb.info

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 5d

New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 5d

Glad to finally see this posted!😁

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 5d

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 5d

This Sunday is ID Day at @ummnh.bsky.social ! Come bring in your collected objects and specimens to be identified by an expert! I will be at the fish table to ID any fishes brought to me 😉

Flyer for University of Michigan Museum of Natural History ID Day event on Sunday October 5, 2025 from 11am to 4pm.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 5d

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James Lamsdell, PhD @fossildetective.bsky.social · 7d

Actual highlight of yesterday was having a woman in the botanical gardens overhear us talking about work and say "Oh, I didn't think paleontologists existed anymore".

Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 6d

Said hello to Annie the Ammonite today.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 6d

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯

I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨

youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

Smiling Mychal with hands raised wears an outer space shirt in a library. It is a still from an episode of Reading Rainbow.

LeVar Burton smiles with hands behind his head as he lies down on a colorful pile of books. ENEMY PIE book rests on his chest.

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alex 🐀 @tinysnekcomics.bsky.social · 6d

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 6d

Ladies and gentlemen, reintroducing the Scrawled Filefish! #scrawledfilefish #filefish #elegantoddball #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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