Dr. Solomon David
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social
“The Gar Guy” Fish Scientist & Prof | 🌎Freshwater Conservation | SciComm • GarLab | Views mine | he/him | #GarWeek
📍Saint Paul, Minnesota
Wherever you go, there you gar
https://linktr.ee/solomonrdavid • @garlab.bsky.social
📍Saint Paul, Minnesota
Wherever you go, there you gar
https://linktr.ee/solomonrdavid • @garlab.bsky.social
For the record @drfishsg.bsky.social and I are BOTH big fans of Bowfin!
Photo from fieldwork collab 11 years (!!!) ago on restored wetlands in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Photo from fieldwork collab 11 years (!!!) ago on restored wetlands in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
February 16, 2026 at 7:51 PM
For the record @drfishsg.bsky.social and I are BOTH big fans of Bowfin!
Photo from fieldwork collab 11 years (!!!) ago on restored wetlands in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Photo from fieldwork collab 11 years (!!!) ago on restored wetlands in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
In PRINT! In a local Newspaper!
We chat about the science of native rough fish conservation and management: www.mankatofreepress.com/sports/outdo...
We chat about the science of native rough fish conservation and management: www.mankatofreepress.com/sports/outdo...
February 16, 2026 at 6:38 PM
In PRINT! In a local Newspaper!
We chat about the science of native rough fish conservation and management: www.mankatofreepress.com/sports/outdo...
We chat about the science of native rough fish conservation and management: www.mankatofreepress.com/sports/outdo...
Indeed gars are fashion trendsetters!
Here’s an Alligator Gar wearing a snail as a hat! 🐟🐌🎩
Also, how slow (or slowly evolving?) do you have to be for a snail to climb on to your head? 😅
Here’s an Alligator Gar wearing a snail as a hat! 🐟🐌🎩
Also, how slow (or slowly evolving?) do you have to be for a snail to climb on to your head? 😅
February 16, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Indeed gars are fashion trendsetters!
Here’s an Alligator Gar wearing a snail as a hat! 🐟🐌🎩
Also, how slow (or slowly evolving?) do you have to be for a snail to climb on to your head? 😅
Here’s an Alligator Gar wearing a snail as a hat! 🐟🐌🎩
Also, how slow (or slowly evolving?) do you have to be for a snail to climb on to your head? 😅
Sounds great @lollardfish.bsky.social! Here’s something to get you started from our garish syllabus: drive.google.com/file/d/1D5gR...
Welcome to the Garcademy👍
Welcome to the Garcademy👍
February 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Sounds great @lollardfish.bsky.social! Here’s something to get you started from our garish syllabus: drive.google.com/file/d/1D5gR...
Welcome to the Garcademy👍
Welcome to the Garcademy👍
Found my Cuban Pesos, featuring the Cuban Gar, colloquially called “Manjuari.”
I also call them…GARBUCKS 🥁
I also call them…GARBUCKS 🥁
February 14, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Found my Cuban Pesos, featuring the Cuban Gar, colloquially called “Manjuari.”
I also call them…GARBUCKS 🥁
I also call them…GARBUCKS 🥁
Artists, quote with something silly!
Gar illustration using non-dominant hand and MS Paint!
From the old #MSpaintYourScience trend: eos.org/geofizz/expl...
Gar illustration using non-dominant hand and MS Paint!
From the old #MSpaintYourScience trend: eos.org/geofizz/expl...
February 12, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Artists, quote with something silly!
Gar illustration using non-dominant hand and MS Paint!
From the old #MSpaintYourScience trend: eos.org/geofizz/expl...
Gar illustration using non-dominant hand and MS Paint!
From the old #MSpaintYourScience trend: eos.org/geofizz/expl...
Yes, but see also:
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Yes, but see also:
Longnose Gars and other native fish friends at the Mall of America Sealife Aquarium in Minnesota 🐠
February 6, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Longnose Gars and other native fish friends at the Mall of America Sealife Aquarium in Minnesota 🐠
RIP social media algorithms trying to find patterns in my posts about gars, muppets, and the federal occupation of our city.
February 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM
RIP social media algorithms trying to find patterns in my posts about gars, muppets, and the federal occupation of our city.
Here’s the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social GAR question based on our team’s living fossil study (led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social @dmacguig.bsky.social)!
February 2, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Here’s the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social GAR question based on our team’s living fossil study (led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social @dmacguig.bsky.social)!
I just learned the history, and current significance, of red knitted hats to resistance movements: www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...
Makes these gar stickers I received (years ago) from @drandrewthaler.bsky.social even more relevant today, especially here in Minnesota!
Makes these gar stickers I received (years ago) from @drandrewthaler.bsky.social even more relevant today, especially here in Minnesota!
February 1, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I just learned the history, and current significance, of red knitted hats to resistance movements: www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...
Makes these gar stickers I received (years ago) from @drandrewthaler.bsky.social even more relevant today, especially here in Minnesota!
Makes these gar stickers I received (years ago) from @drandrewthaler.bsky.social even more relevant today, especially here in Minnesota!
Empathetic Bowfin asks “How are you doing?”
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Empathetic Bowfin asks “How are you doing?”
We take brighter notes where we can find them here in the Twin Cities.
Found this note in my kindergartner’s backpack today. I’m tracking down his drawing, and glad they’re learning about diverse scientists!
We say thanks to the volunteer lookouts on the corner every morning walking in to school.
Found this note in my kindergartner’s backpack today. I’m tracking down his drawing, and glad they’re learning about diverse scientists!
We say thanks to the volunteer lookouts on the corner every morning walking in to school.
January 29, 2026 at 4:11 PM
We take brighter notes where we can find them here in the Twin Cities.
Found this note in my kindergartner’s backpack today. I’m tracking down his drawing, and glad they’re learning about diverse scientists!
We say thanks to the volunteer lookouts on the corner every morning walking in to school.
Found this note in my kindergartner’s backpack today. I’m tracking down his drawing, and glad they’re learning about diverse scientists!
We say thanks to the volunteer lookouts on the corner every morning walking in to school.
Here in St. Paul, Minnesota:
From a massive gathering of so many yesterday, to disparate* vigils tonight.
💔
*but NOT alone.
From a massive gathering of so many yesterday, to disparate* vigils tonight.
💔
*but NOT alone.
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Here in St. Paul, Minnesota:
From a massive gathering of so many yesterday, to disparate* vigils tonight.
💔
*but NOT alone.
From a massive gathering of so many yesterday, to disparate* vigils tonight.
💔
*but NOT alone.
GARgantuan pride in our state today❤️
January 24, 2026 at 3:44 AM
GARgantuan pride in our state today❤️
Sorry not sorry.
Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍
*sound, on NSFW
🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski
Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍
*sound, on NSFW
🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski
January 22, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Sorry not sorry.
Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍
*sound, on NSFW
🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski
Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍
*sound, on NSFW
🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski
Takes me back (grad research circa 2008) 😎
January 20, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Takes me back (grad research circa 2008) 😎
OK here’s a Longnose Gar I visited at the aquarium (Mall of America) earlier this week.
Trying. To. Calm. Down 😣
Trying. To. Calm. Down 😣
January 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM
OK here’s a Longnose Gar I visited at the aquarium (Mall of America) earlier this week.
Trying. To. Calm. Down 😣
Trying. To. Calm. Down 😣
Our kids’ elementary school principal sends a weekly newsletter to parents and I am FURIOUS that this even needs to be included.
NOT at him, not at our schools, but at the people responsible for this MADNESS in our cities and state.
*also, very very sad. But this is where we’re at in Minnesota.
NOT at him, not at our schools, but at the people responsible for this MADNESS in our cities and state.
*also, very very sad. But this is where we’re at in Minnesota.
January 16, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Our kids’ elementary school principal sends a weekly newsletter to parents and I am FURIOUS that this even needs to be included.
NOT at him, not at our schools, but at the people responsible for this MADNESS in our cities and state.
*also, very very sad. But this is where we’re at in Minnesota.
NOT at him, not at our schools, but at the people responsible for this MADNESS in our cities and state.
*also, very very sad. But this is where we’re at in Minnesota.
Indeed this young Alligator Gar @garlab.bsky.social appears concerned with the state of things here in Minnesota…
January 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Indeed this young Alligator Gar @garlab.bsky.social appears concerned with the state of things here in Minnesota…
It’s A LOT right now.
I needed to take a breath, maybe you do too?
Perhaps with some of my favorite fishes, right here in Minnesota:
I needed to take a breath, maybe you do too?
Perhaps with some of my favorite fishes, right here in Minnesota:
January 15, 2026 at 4:40 PM
It’s A LOT right now.
I needed to take a breath, maybe you do too?
Perhaps with some of my favorite fishes, right here in Minnesota:
I needed to take a breath, maybe you do too?
Perhaps with some of my favorite fishes, right here in Minnesota:
5/5 Again, GARgantuan thank you to the people out there supporting vulnerable communities and helping protect our kids ❤️
January 14, 2026 at 9:29 PM
5/5 Again, GARgantuan thank you to the people out there supporting vulnerable communities and helping protect our kids ❤️
This is where we gar in Minnesota.
I always have a little gar figurine in the vest pocket of my fleece, but was recently given a whistle (ICE alert) that now goes alongside the gar. 1/3
I always have a little gar figurine in the vest pocket of my fleece, but was recently given a whistle (ICE alert) that now goes alongside the gar. 1/3
January 14, 2026 at 9:21 PM
This is where we gar in Minnesota.
I always have a little gar figurine in the vest pocket of my fleece, but was recently given a whistle (ICE alert) that now goes alongside the gar. 1/3
I always have a little gar figurine in the vest pocket of my fleece, but was recently given a whistle (ICE alert) that now goes alongside the gar. 1/3
Took a little time for myself to visit some friends.
*taking a mental break at an aquarium housed in Mall of America (where ICE often stages) is a curious juxtaposition, but these are unprecedented times.
*taking a mental break at an aquarium housed in Mall of America (where ICE often stages) is a curious juxtaposition, but these are unprecedented times.
January 13, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Took a little time for myself to visit some friends.
*taking a mental break at an aquarium housed in Mall of America (where ICE often stages) is a curious juxtaposition, but these are unprecedented times.
*taking a mental break at an aquarium housed in Mall of America (where ICE often stages) is a curious juxtaposition, but these are unprecedented times.
Please enjoy a break with like, 100 gar; if you need one👍
Although they are predatory fish, they’re also quite social, one might even say...greGARious 🥁
Although they are predatory fish, they’re also quite social, one might even say...greGARious 🥁
January 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Please enjoy a break with like, 100 gar; if you need one👍
Although they are predatory fish, they’re also quite social, one might even say...greGARious 🥁
Although they are predatory fish, they’re also quite social, one might even say...greGARious 🥁