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IT'S GAR WEEK!!!
🐟Conservation, research, and #SciComm
🐟Principal Investigator @solomonrdavid.bsky.social
🐟Co-authored by the #GarLab Team
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nerdrvt.bsky.social
Literally everyone else at the zoo today when I mentioned it was #garweek:
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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joshbarbershop.bsky.social
Write a lil Gar Rap for the haters 😆🐟
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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thekristeno.bsky.social
Here's my #GARtwork for #GarWeek 2025. I call this markers on paper composition “Under the Surface.” It’s inspired by the alligator gar’s magical smile + the power of #scicomm.

Thank you to @garlab.bsky.social,
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social, OKWildlifeDept, + all involved in #GarWeek2025

#sciart
An abstract, colorful marker interpretation of a fish with a very long nose with many sharp teeth. The illustration is heavily yellow with a rainbow effect around most to the roughly painted lines. It's bright and the essence of an alligator gar (long nosed fish) is distilled in frenetic warm color choices. Jagged lines mimic the gar's sharp teeth and a repeated eyeball pattern draws attention to the fish's face.
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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drfishsg.bsky.social
Find a person who looks at you the way @solomonrdavid.bsky.social looks at gar!

#GarWeek

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw84...
Why Gars Deserve a Week of Their Own | Great Lakes Now
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November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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friedmanlab.bsky.social
#FossilFriday 🤝 #GarWeek
Fossil gars displayed at the AMNH. Atractosteus from the Green River Fm. (top) and Obaichthys from the Santana Fm. (bottom).
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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hopstar.bsky.social
Mississippi mentioned in #GarWeek 🤌🏻
garlab.bsky.social GarLab @garlab.bsky.social · 3d
We hope to continue our efforts and collaborations in Mississippi, and promote floodplain conservation. 

#GarWeek #Conservation #Fisheries #Research #Garology #FishSciComm #SciComm
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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drfishsg.bsky.social
Combining the life cycle theme for #sundayfishsketch h with #GarWeek for a quick ink sketch of the Alligator Gar life cycle. Eggs -> larval -> juvenile -> adult -> back to eggs!

Don't eat those eggs!
Ink sketch of alligator gar life cycle from egg to adult and back again.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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dynamoterror.bsky.social
A quick doodle for the final day of #GarWeek, a large melanistic Alligator Gar cruises underneath an oblivious Ocelot somewhere in the bayous of Louisiana. A scene that may have happened several times in the past, and may continue to occur if both species are valued and protected. #wildlife #sciart
Black-and-white pencil sketch of a melanistic Alligator Gar swimming underneath a much smaller Ocelot that’s paddling on the surface above it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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caseydavid.bsky.social
Annual #garweek post! As @solomonrdavid.bsky.social ‘s favorite week comes to a close, we say cheers to these fantastic fishes! I loved having a reason to wear all my gar jewelry 🫶
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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greatlakesnow.bsky.social
It's #GarWeek! Celebrate these living fossils by learning all about what makes this freshwater species known as "trash fish" so special in our latest conversation with @solomonrdavid.bsky.social.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw84...
Why Gars Deserve a Week of Their Own | Great Lakes Now
YouTube video by Great Lakes Now
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November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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dtartar.bsky.social
Convinced Shannon to do a paint night with me for #garweek! Her gar bus brings me so much joy🌞
#GARtwork
Two paintings, top painting of Miyazaki's cat bus reimagined as a gar, bottom painting an alligator gar swimming
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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drfishsg.bsky.social
For #GarWeek, here is a juvenile gar from southern Green Bay that we encountered this summer. Look that those pectoral fins go! After length measurement, this fish was released on site. #GreatLakes
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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ella0nearth.bsky.social
“Are you the gar girl from downstairs?”

YES! Happy #GarWeek and Aquarium Friday! The ancestral fishes exhibit at NEAQ has all sorts of freshwater friends, including gar, lungfish, sturgeon, and more ❤️🐟🦑

Big thanks to @garlab.bsky.social as always for a great week!
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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reallyoldfish.bsky.social
I dream of being a long snouted predator in the backwaters of Laurentian rivers, but for now I crush shells with my round teeth and am sad #garweek #scheenstiaposting #totalgroupginglymodi
A picture of the stem gar, Scheenstia.
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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jonmclelland.bsky.social
#GarWeek
Got to love an alligator gar.
November 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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lostsquishy.bsky.social
Woo! 🥳 #GarWeek #Gar #Conservation
Return of the Giants: The reintroduction of alligator gar to the Cache River
<p>One day soon, as you addle among the largest and oldest cypress trees in Illinois, a giant may surface beside your canoe. That giant is an alligator gar and one of 81 fish released in June 2025, by...
outdoor.wildlifeillinois.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
Thank you Maya Higa and the Alveus Sanctuary Team for supporting #GarWeek and freshwater conservation!
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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dr-crocogator.bsky.social
Happy #FossilFriday! It’s #GarWeek so check out these 50 million year old #gar fish from #Utah at the Science Museum of Minnesota! This genus, Lepisosteus, goes back to the Cretaceous and is still swimming today! Thanks to @bellmuseum.bsky.social & @garlab.bsky.social for hyping these cool #fish!
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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mosasaurologist.bsky.social
It's a #GarWeek #FossilFriday! Here's some of the ganoid scales off of gar that we routinely find when scouting in the Hell Creek. So far only 1 complete gar skeleton has been found in the HCF, and I found it a full 10 years before I found my first Tyrannosaurus.
shiny black scales from 66 million year old gar in a curatorial palm.
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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mariesposeets.bsky.social
I'm still in time for #garweek? I've always thought long toothy snoots are cute. Pen and watercolor gar.
A gar with a scar around eye (garface) and old timey gangster hat with a cigar (somehow underwater) saying GARRRRRR (pen and watercolor)
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
garlab.bsky.social
The time has come….our hybrid gar has a name!

Drumroll please 🥁🥁🥁
November 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
garlab.bsky.social
Beyond Minnesota, #GarLab contributes to research much further down the Mississippi River! In partnership with The Nature Conservancy in Mississippi, we study gar ecology and life history in floodplain habitats. #GarWeek
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
garlab.bsky.social
Happy day 5 of #GarWeek, conservation and research day! Here in Minnesota, the #GarLab is proud to contribute to valuable conservation efforts to protect native non-game fishes.
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
garlab.bsky.social
Which ancient fish are you? #GarWeek

#Conservation #Garology #FishSciComm #SciComm #GarLab
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
garlab.bsky.social
Take a minute and enjoy some ASM-GAR. #GarWeek

We use dissections to collect information on life history and ecology and infer the specimens' sex, age, diet, and more!

#Conservation #Garology #ASMR #FishSciComm #SciComm #GarLab
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM