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Andrew T Taylor, PhD
@taylorfishlab.bsky.social
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Fisheries Scientist | Asst Prof @ U of North Georgia | Conservation | Riverscapes | PopGen | Black Bass Diversity | views=mine | www.andrewtaylor.fish
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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Nov 22
Hi, I’m Andrew and I am a fisheries scientist and Assistant Professor of Biology at the U of North Georgia. I am interested in freshwater fish conservation, riverscapes, popgen, and I am a leading expert in black bass conservation. Follow along for #FishSci and #BlackBassDiversity content!
Dr. Andrew Taylor holding a Shoal Bass, Micropterus cataractae, that he angled while floating a river in the mountains of north Georgia. Shoal Bass are a species of continued research interest.
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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Mar 23
Forgive me for any really old posts that may show up in feeds...porting over my twitter content (finally).
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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Mar 16
On the board for 2025 (finally!) with an Alabama Bass from the river
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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Mar 5
Please just bring me some warmer days for spring break. PLEASE. I need some time on a stream for my sanity.

Remember to take time away from social media and take care of yourselves!
Redeye “Coosa” Bass held in water displaying vibrant dark blotches and white margins on fins, a character that helps distinguish members of the Redeye bass species complex from other black bass.
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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Mar 3
Assistant Professor (TT) in Computational Biology at U of North Georgia. Broadly defined, biostatistics and bioinformatics included. Come work with me in a wonderful department!

Rolling reviews start March 21st until filled.

Please share widely!

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · Feb 21
Absolutely terrible.
@lizrenner.bsky.social is an amazing scientist, colleague, and friend. SMFH.

The attacks on our science, public lands, and PEOPLE of this country are real. We will ALL be affected. www.keloland.com/keloland-com...
'Discarded, betrayed:' Yankton federal employee laid off
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – President Donald Trump’s federal employee layoffs have hit South Dakota.  Under the new administration’s attempt to streamline government efficiency, hundreds of thousand…
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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Feb 20
I could use some new music recs…bonus if suggestions channel 60’s/70’s protest era vibes. No reason 🫠
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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Feb 14
Public access to rivers is very unclear in Georgia…we need a much more unified push to make this right.

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The untold saga of the Ichawaynochaway Creek - SaportaReport
Read The untold saga of the Ichawaynochaway Creek by Joe Cook for SaportaReport here.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · Feb 7
More than 50% decline in the number of posts about scientific papers on Twitter from 2022 to 2025
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Feb 6
Here's Twitter's descent since 2022
2022-2025 X Twitter mention data
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · Feb 6
I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?
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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Feb 3
Fish of the Week podcast on the Smallmouth Bass Species Complex - Neosho, Little River, Ouachita, and Smallmouth basses! Let me know what you think, and I’m happy to answer any follow up questions.

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Smallmouth Bass, Big Complexity!
Podcast Episode · Fish of the Week! · 02/03/2025 · 45m
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The Fisheries Podcast @fisheriespod.bsky.social · Feb 2
This week, Preston sits down with retired USGS Mississippi Cooperative Research Unit leader Dr. Hal Schramm to discuss his path to get to Mississippi State University, and a handful of the many research projects he worked on. Listen here: fisheriespodcast.podbean.com/e/295-messag...
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American Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · Jan 16
Upcoming AFS webinar:

Seeking Input for Development of rFAMS Stock Simulation Tool
Tuesday, January 28
1 pm ET

Register now: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0ae061a8-7b03-481a-b516-c55f332a4182@ea04981a-ce57-48f5-96aa-0b09f880fa48
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Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social · Jan 13
Bowfi(n) beats to study fish to
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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Jan 7
I heard the locals say the origin is:
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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · Jan 3
1/4New from the #NearLab, genomics and morphology demonstrate the famous Snail Darter, Percina tanasi, the little fish that swam to the United States Supreme Court is not a distinct species...

Open access at Current Biology
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American Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · Jan 3
Didn't get what you wanted this holiday season? Get it for yourself at the AFS winter bookstore sale! With 100+ hardcopy titles on sale, you're sure to find exactly what you're looking for to perfect your science library. Only thru Jan 17 and only at https://fisheries.org/bookstore/
Yellow background. Text reads "$1 from each book purchased will be donated to the Publications Endowment Fund. December 9–January 17" Under the text is an dollar bill origami folded into a fish, which is swimming through white paper water. Yellow background with pictures of the covers of two books and a sticker reading "$20–30". Black text reads "End-of-year book sale. New titles added this year." The books are "Lessons in Leadership: Integrating Courage, Vision, and Innovation for the Future of Sustainable Fisheries" and "Selected Writings of Sidney J. Holt: Documenting a Lifelong Pursuit of Sustainable and Profitable Fishing"
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · Dec 26
Love is in the water on Christmas Day in Coral City 🎄🐡💞🐡🌇 #porcupinepuffer #pufferfishofcoralcity #pufferfish #courtship #loveisinthewater #christmasday #christmas #tagyourit #fishflirting #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Dec 25
Merry Fishmas to all!
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Valentina Di Santo @vdisanto.bsky.social · Dec 15
The tuna keel is a mechanosensory structure www.cell.com/iscience/ful... cool study by Júlia Chaumel, Dylan Wainwright, Jackie Webb, Connor White, and George Lauder @georgelauder.bsky.social @harvard.edu 🧪
The tuna keel is a mechanosensory structure
Tunas are high-performance pelagic fishes of considerable economic importance and with a suite of biological adaptations for high-speed locomotion. In contrast to our understanding of tuna body and muscle function, sensory systems of tuna are poorly understood. Here we present the discovery of a remarkable sensory lateral line canal within the bilateral tuna keels with tubules that extend to the upper and lower keel surfaces. Neuromast mechanoreceptor organs are found periodically along the canal lumen, enclosed within tubular ossifications that we interpret as modified lateral line scales.
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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · Dec 11
A somber announcement - today the US Fish and Wildlife Services is proposing to list the monarch butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. It may become the 100th insect to be listed. Populations of millions of monarchs have declined 80-95% recently. #虫

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Andrew T Taylor, PhD @taylorfishlab.bsky.social · Dec 11
At the southern terminus of the Appalachian Mountains flows streams rich in aquatic biodiversity. The Shoal Bass, Micropterus cataractae, is one such treasure.

The Bass of the Waterfalls
#BlackBassDiversity
The author holds an angled Shoal Bass just above the surface of the clear and fast moving river water it calls home. This specimen displays the characteristic dark vertical “tiger stripes”
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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · Dec 9
If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂:

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All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too!

#ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏
Title slide: Will your code run again? Tips for making code reproducible in R
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Dec 6
The hadal zone (6,000–11,000 m) is the deepest part of the ocean. Some creatures like the deep-sea snailfish live here, surviving crushing pressures.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Dec 8
I was taught in grad school that scientists should have 3 versions of talks about their work ready: a 30 second “elevator pitch,” a 12 minute conference length talk, and a 40 minute seminar length talk.

I think we should also have a short version aimed at non-scientists.
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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · Dec 7
While the smallmouth and largemouth bass are probably the most well-known of the black basses, there are several other cool species like the Suwannee and Guadalupe bass. And we're learning new things about black bass diversity all the time (see: news.yale.edu/2022/06/06/r...) #25DaysofFishmas
A collage of photos showing some of the diversity of black bass species
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