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El Lower @helloellower.bsky.social · 19h

✨New publication alert✨: “Recommendations from the Sea Grant-Led Invasive Species Language Workshop” — a report on the workshop I organized in DC last year!

#BiologicalInvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪

www.reabic.net/journals/mbi...

Message frames and metaphors are commonly used within science communication to discuss complex topics, including invasive species. While these communication tools are undoubtedly helpful, the ecological process of invasion juxtaposed with the use of militaristic and nativist language can have unintended consequences that are counterproductive to management efforts. Species naming conventions are likewise complex, with some species bearing names that may reinforce xenophobic concepts or contain racial slurs. Despite the known need, there have been limited national efforts to develop better and more inclusive guidelines for invasive species communication...

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Sunday! For this week’s #SundayFishSketch theme of harvest I decided to go with a fish that reminds me of the harvest season, the Pumpkinseed! 🎃 🐟

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 12d

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Celebrating @lizlagomorph.bsky.social 's #SciArtSeptember & @lampichthys.bsky.social 's
#SundayFishSketch
spotlight on
@nicholeangell.bsky.social who shares her #art & her thoughts on the intersection of #science and art.
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/a...

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Gadfly Stratton, Ph.D. @inclusivescience.ca · 13d

Another new paper out! 😱🧑‍🔬

"Recommendations from the Sea Grant-Led Invasive Species Language Workshop" out now, open access, in Management of Biological Invasions! @invasivesnet.bsky.social

www.reabic.net/journals/mbi...

#BiologicalInvasions 🧪

www.reabic.net

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · 15d

Busy weekend = day late #SundayFishSketch

Nevertheless here is an Atlantic Spadefish. See the rest of the thread for a video I took of this species during a shipwreck dive this past summer 🤿

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · 23d

Here is a Farlowella catfish for this week’s #SundayFishSketch mimicry theme! Inspired by one I saw at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington DC this past winter.

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here is a Lake Whitefish for my boreal species themed #SundayFishSketch.

For more Lake Whitefish art, check out this project we are working on at the @glcommission.bsky.social with lots of great partners:

youtu.be/kpBMDAJU-s8 (Video art done by the amazing @taaja.bsky.social)

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yum! Did you harvest it?

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Aug 22

Cool old trees 🌳 = cool recurring mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 You’ll likely see them year after year :)

Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Aug 21

Looks like chicken of the woods to me. A wonderful choice edible! This specific species (Laetiporus cincinnatus) grows from the roots of hardwood and are most often found at the base of oaks, so that checks out. Great find!

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Anna Bagels @anna-bagels.bsky.social · Aug 4

We need more $$$$ for Great Lakes research! I want my tax dollars funding the largest freshwater system on the planet.

Great Lakes mussel research starved of funds as whitefish vanish - Bridge Michigan

Quagga mussels deplete food and nutrients from waters, threatening to drive whitefish extinct. But scientists looking for a solution are working on a shoestring budgets, as much more money is devoted ...

bridgemi.com

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Jul 12

It was wonderful to get together with UMN Water Resources Science grad students and alumni this past Thursday in St. Paul, MN. Such good people passionate about various dimensions of water and the environment. 💧The WRS branded fleeces were icing on the cake!

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Jul 9

Oh how I missed the Mighty Mississippi. Gona soak up every bit of it while working remotely from St. Paul this week 💙

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Jun 23

Ugh SO sorry. I had poison ivy BAD this spring. I tried to wait it out and let it heal up on its own but ended up having to get steroids which helped within the next day or so. Definitely suggest just going to the doc, don’t wait it out and spend days in itchiness!

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Jun 18

Happy National Go Fishing Day to all the fish lovers out there! 🎣

Here is a carefully crafted fishing themed playlist you can have on repeat today 😉 : open.spotify.com/playlist/7Hn...

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Jun 15

Wanted to paint a catfish for this weeks #SundayFishSketch. It definitely did not come out anatomically correct and I’m not sure what species I was aiming for, but I still like it :)

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Jun 10

Had to show off my Play Clean Go temp tattoos at run group this morning 😆 Happy Play Clean Go Awareness week! playcleango.org/take-action/...

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Jack Stack @jackstack.bsky.social · Jun 9

🧪 PSA regarding fish and fishes.

open.substack.com/pub/fishhist...

Illustrated use of Fish (singular animal), Fish (multiple individuals of the same type of fish) and fishes (multiple kinds or species of fish).

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Jun 9

Did some microfishing this weekend and caught some fired up Pinewoods Shiner. A model organism for the colorful #pridemonth theme! #SundayFishSketch

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Justin Waraniak @marathon-rana.bsky.social · Jun 8

Happy Pride! The diversity of life, in all its forms, is pretty rad!

(Side note: there's not a whole lot of purple fish, so the pink/silver goldeye is the best I got)

#SundayFishSketch #Pride

Six fish arrayed diagonally over the top of a rainbow pride flag. At the top left on the red stripe is a northern redbelly dace (Chrosomus eos), on orange is a male rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum), a shorthead redhorse (Moxostoma macrolepidotum) on the yellow stripe, a northern pike (Esox lucius) for the green stripe, an orangespotted sunfish (Lepomis humilus) on the blue strip and a goldeye (Hiodon alosoides) on the purple stripe.

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Jun 2

I didn’t use a pattern, just followed my heart! Maybe I should try and make a pattern… 🤔

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · Jun 1

Didn’t have time for a #SundayFishSketch this week because I was at the 2025 NANFA convention. But I did crochet this American Eel for the convention auction.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · May 21

Out of curiosity, I bought a cup of fishing bait worms. Dendrobaena veneta is a common bait/compost species, sold in the US as “European nightcrawlers.” After washing them off, here’s what I found:

I’m holding a cup labeled 30 BIG RED WORMS by DMF bait company, the M being a cartoon worm

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Nichole Angell @nicholeangell.bsky.social · May 21

Thank you! It took lots of layers in procreate but was super fun to mess around with :)

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