Canadian Born Chinese. Creates tweets for fun ๐ท Quantitative biological effects mapping & monitoring of the ocean ๐
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If you are curious about what marine life Canadians are collectively observing on #iNaturalist, I've created an umbrella project that covers all three of Canada's Oceans. 1/4
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A $60 'science-grade' cleaning brush versus a 10pc assortment of cleaning brushes from TEMU for $1.69.
With respect to my inner turmoil, the Frugal Asian in me lost out to my Westernized Scientist on this one.
Revisiting one of my oldies but goodies for a deep-sea #Halloween. Dudley the hydrothermal vents marker.
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Well, that's a new bird species spotted at my bird feeder. +1 for the potential predator-prey interaction. #iNaturalist
One of These Things Is Not Like the Others. At the moment, fall fishing consists of mostly yellow perch (๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ข ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด) with the odd fallfish (๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ถ๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด) sticking out like a donkey among a zeal of zebras. #iNaturalist
Can any fishy people out there ID this 2.5cm long micro found in a brackish coastal pond, New Brunswick Canada? I'm guessing Mummichog (๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ด). #iNaturalist #tanago #microfishing
The new fishing rod didn't come with English instructions, but I'm guessing I'm supposed to chant ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ด๐ข to catch the fish? #Tanago
The new fishing rod didn't come with English instructions, but I'm guessing I'm supposed to chant ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ด๐ข to catch the fish? #Tanago
So- I looked at my fishhooks under the microscope and decided...SMALLER. OWNER 0.3 pre-snelled #tanago hooks next to the previous hook and a smaller sushi-grade rice kernel for scale.
Atlantic rock pooling isn't as diverse as the Pacific but you can still stumble upon some fun things like this mostly decayed Atlantic sturgeon (๐๐ค๐ช๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐น๐บ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฉ๐ถ๐ด). Totally thought it was a dinosaur fossil at first. #iNaturalist
So, I used A.I. to transform some of my papers into a podcast of '2 ๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ๐ช๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ด ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ด' The results are scary realistic. A.I. wins at being the best at #SciComm. bit.ly/4eDv16t
Took a look at my growing tackle box and thought, SMALLER. So I got myself some Tanago hooks. Next to a grain of rice for scale (and as potential bait).
DYK 'illustration' counts as evidence for a species observation on #iNaturalist? Here's my Gyotaku fish print for this Atlantic Mackerel (๐๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด). Now to go for the trifecta: photo + illustration + sound...The hunt is on for vocalizing fish spp.
Atlantic Mackerel (๐๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด).
Surprisingly, the $2 temu sabiki rig worked better than pricier alternatives. Released all the <26.8 cm ones, legal-sized ones ended up in my belly. Mmm...tasty.
#iNaturalist.
What is most likely Japanese wireweed (๐๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ฎ) has arrived in Atlantic Canada. It's scary but fun to get these #AIS early warning signals in #iNaturalist.
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Atlantic Mackerel (๐๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด).
Surprisingly, the $2 temu sabiki rig worked better than pricier alternatives. Released all the <26.8 cm ones, legal-sized ones ended up in my belly. Mmm...tasty.
#iNaturalist.
Been wanting to encounter a Common Snapping Turtle (๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ข ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ข) all summer. Didn't think my first would be a bebeeeeeeeee. He was wee bit feisty. #iNaturalist.
Read some peer-reviewed research on habitat and behaviour. Went back armed with hard bait. Caught and released my first chain pickerel (๐๐ด๐ฐ๐น ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ). The 'fish-grip' was to avoid its razor-sharp teeth. #iNaturalist
This is what happens when an experimental biologist picks up a new hobby. Must...test...every...permutation...: species * season * habitat * colour * bait action * ... Plus, some of us just plain like to collect things.
A couple new species caught and released: largemouth bass (๐๐ช๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ด) & eastern elliptio (๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ข). No pictures of the 3 chain pickerel that snapped my line.๐ญ๐ฃ#iNaturalist
