All the weird ~cartilaginous~ fish facts PhD. •skeletons •swimming •ecology •morphology •microscopy •mechanics •sciart •scicomm •SEM
Portland, OR
Joined July 2017
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Today has already been so much fun🤩 mostly because I got to talk to the #FHLfish22 class about #chondrichthyans all morning👻🦈🦈!
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Marine Biologist Dream Achieved: Spent 3 days diving the Great Barrier Reef.
Excited to get home and go through my underwater photos but these will have to do for now #DiversDen – at Cairns, Queensland
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Sorry I can’t come to the phone right, I’m too busy looking at fish in the Great Barrier Reef 😎
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Motion for this spectacled flying fox to become the unofficial mascot of #ICVM2023 🙋🏽♀️
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🤩 Still blown away by this encounter with a critically endangered female Flapper Skate (Dipturus intermedius) - the worlds largest skate! During a shore dive at Macduff yesterday with @DiverChrisR 🤯 So so special!!!
#flapperskate #elasmobranch #scubadiving
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Immerse yourself in the rarely-seen spectacle of the Bottlenose Wedgefish, elegantly captured by @brookepykephotography. This remarkable creature, with its uniquely shaped rostrum, showcases nature's boundless variety.
A surprise, not even I, saw coming… so excited for #ICVM2023
*forgive my phone quality, just come to my talk I suppose🦈
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A New Era of Morphological Investigations: Reviewing Methods for Comparative #Anatomical Studies-
"Modern #morphological analyses are based primarily on the use of several key techniques..."
by
K L Ford (@kassthefish ) et al
doi.org/10.1093/iob/obad008
#sciencetwitter #3D
ALT Fig. 3. Graphical representations of the skull of Placidochromis subocularis (Cichlidae) illustrating various utilities of micro-CT scanning, ranging from 3D visualization (a), 3D geometric morphometrics (b, circles represent landmarks) and iodine-contrast enhanced staining (c, sagittal view) to highlight and isolate soft tissues like the brain (d, in pink).
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Last night I captured an 85 megapixel photo of our moon by using two telescopes and two cameras. Check out the details up close! The color is real, but much more subtle to your eyes. Increasing saturation reveals the rich geological history of our moon!
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You can take the benthos out of an orectolobiform but you can’t take an orectolobiform out of the benthos
Impressive footage!
First evidence of whale #sharks feeding upon benthic prey 🦈
Whitehead & @JoelGayford 2023 J Fish Biol First record of bottom-feeding behaviour in the whale shark (Rhincodon typus)
doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15457
I love this job & our team🥺🥰❣️
I now have a lil watermelon ray and Nemo painting for my desk because im O-fish-ally a doctor🥳
They all call me Dr. Fish now lol Im so proud🥲
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Kayla Hall is about to defend her dissertation! Zooms starts at 2pm Pacific time.
washington.zoom.us/s/9107887…
Beep boop🥺🥺❣️💃🏼
Had the honor of watching @KseaHall defend her dissertation today. So lovely to see a fellow cartilaginous fish fan lay out all her hard work and tell such a fun story. So thankful to call you colleague, friend, and now DOCTOR!!!! 💕💕💕💕 beep bop boop, buddy
