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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 9d

…Let me say that again: Expert coders using "generative AI" demonstrated a nearly 20% *increase* in their time, vs when writing code on their own; oh, and those increases are *worse* on the tasks with which they have more familiarity.

But that's not even the crucial part; this is the crucial part:…

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 28d

By request, I've added an old t-shirt design from grad school to my etsy shop. Evolution friends might appreciate it!

www.etsy.com/listing/4367...
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology!

Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions.

(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)

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Postdoctoral Researcher

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · May 13

Trying out some blankets on my Etsy gyotaku shop, check out my "monster fish" design!
www.etsy.com/listing/4304...

#teamfish #monsterfish #gyotaku #fishkeeping

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Mar 4

I am thrilled to announce that I have joined the MOBI (molecular biosciences) faculty at MTSU and am now able to supervise PhD students. Possible projects in southeastern fish ecomorphology, darter cranial anatomy (muscles, brains, skulls), and fish biology/macroevolution in general. #teamfish #MTSU

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Byte Size Treasure 🦈 @bytesizetreasure.bsky.social · Feb 22

We're all collectively crying over the Anglerfish and Howie right now, right? 😭 RIGHT?

They weren’t JUST any fish and any crab—they were resilience, light, and a reminder that even the smallest lives can touch millions.

[ #art #design #anglerfish #crab ]

A couple of designs. The left design is a blue background with purple text that reads "0 Days Since I Cried About an Anglerfish". The border of the design is a pale white nautical rope and features a purple anglerfish smiling brightly. The right design is similar, with a green background and purple text that reads "0 Days Since I Cried About a Crab". To the side of the border on this one, is a small purple crab with big bright eyes.

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Jan 30

but likely has some modern elements (plastic foliage? may not be original). Anyone have any good contacts or resources for old taxidermy conservation/provenance? It would be cool to have an idea of where this is from and how old, but it has been donated multiple times and documentation is limited.

Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Jan 30

Museum folks! We have gotten a donation of some amazing old taxidermy pieces and I am just fascinated by one item. It's a large cabinet in what looks like a Victorian style and has some old features (oil painting background, solid carved wood frame)...

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Jan 27

I hadn't posted about this paper before, but over the summer I added unbending features (sensu TPSutil) for fish landmark data to my package LOST. Just sent an update to CRAN to make unbend.tps.poly work for 2D and 3D data, planning to update unbend.spine too

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Jan 15

Please send unofficial transcripts and a bit about yourself to me, email on faculty page here biology.mtsu.edu/faculty/ (PIs please share with interested undergrads in your lab)

Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Jan 15

I am taking up to 2 applicants for the masters program in biology at MTSU this coming fall. Projects working on cichlid ecomorphology, cichlid fossils and missing data. Experience with fish, geomorph or R a plus. Funding for stipend and travel support.

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Jan 2

New paper out by my first Masters student Delaney Gilley, looking at the evolution of rostral orientation in bats and its links to echolocation and form-function trade-offs! academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Macroevolutionary and biomechanical implications of rostral flexion in bat skulls: a major early driver of cranial evolution in bats

Abstract. The evolution of unique morphological features can significantly constrain the subsequent phenotypic diversification of a clade. Bats show divers

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Dec 23

All designs available as black or white style shirt prints on etsy!

Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Dec 23

The Silver Arowana and Clown Knifefish were super fun to print. And the "pride" gar is available now in a canvas print 🌈

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Dec 23

Lots of new gyotaku designs available in my etsy shop! Also added new canvas prints from printful - cheaper than my prior art paper prints and no need to frame!

#teamfish #gyotaku #monsterfish #art
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Alice Leavey @leaveylab.bsky.social · Dec 18

The last paper coming from my #PhD thesis has just been published in the Journal of Morphology! 🐸 We use #diceCT and @fountainscholar.bsky.social 's GoodFibes package to examine how muscle fibre architecture varies across #frogs specialising in jumping, walking and swimming:

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Frog Fibres: What Muscle Architecture Can Tell Us About Anuran Locomotor Function

Our study utilises a new, automated approach to digitally extracting muscle fibres from μCT data, allowing us to present the first digital analysis of muscle fibre architecture in frogs, including so...

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Dec 13

Also if you sign up for printful (for free) you can order 3 products a month at 20% off base price to check quality/have samples

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Dec 13

I have been having success with finerworks and printful, I just host both through an etsy shop. Printful in particular has a good contrast of quality vs. price and integrates sooooo smoothly with etsy.

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Art paper prints are from finerworks, everything else from printful.

ArbourFishArt - Etsy

Shop items by ArbourFishArt located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Nov 18

See
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... or message me for pdf

Adaptation and innovation in darter fish cranial musculature (Etheostomatinae: Percidae): insights from diceCT

Abstract. Fish skulls are often highly kinetic, with multiple linkage and lever systems powered by a diverse suite of muscles. Comparative analysis of the

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Nov 18

Very pleased that my new paper on darter cranial musculature is out now in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Some anatomical surprises (weird, extra divisions of the AM) compared to Perca!

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Nov 14

I am in love with this note at the top of the wiki page for oarfish. #teamfish

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · Nov 13

Plans for #GarWeek 2024 are in the works!

It will look a little different this time around, spread across multiple platforms…and for the first time on BlueSky!

A stout Alligator Gar (fish) is backlit in an aquarium. Smaller gars and other fish species can be seen around it.

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Lincoln Savi @lincolnsavi.bsky.social · Nov 12

3 hours goes by quickly when you're painting a round goby. #sciart #teamfish #invasivespecies

A hand-painted, 3D-printed, model of a round goby that was printed in clear resin on an Anycubic photon 3D printer. The model is nearing completion but it still needs to have its pectoral fins glued in place.

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Nov 12

Shameless plug of my etsy shop featuring gyotaku prints and clothes now that I've made my way over here 🦋

www.etsy.com/shop/arbourf...

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · Nov 12

Friends on the new platform, you can find my collection of 3D fish and anatomy models on sketchfab here: sketchfab.com/MTSUichthyol.... May be migrating to "fab" eventually. If you use these for teaching or 3D printing please shoot me an email so I can make note of that for grants/service/etc.

3D models by MTSUichthyology

View 3D models by MTSUichthyology

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