Dr. Mariah Millington
@letminnow.bsky.social
Aquatic biosecurity 🕵️ | Invasive freshwater fish 🚫🐟 | Wildlife trade 👩💻 | Embracing the slow life ☕🧵📚
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Pet fish in an aquarium? We want this 🤩 We love this 💙 We need this 👏
Pet fish in our rivers? Yeah, we don't need this 🙅♀️🚫
Follow the link to listen to my chat with @AustRiverRestor about keeping pet fish where they belong!
arrc.au/why-your-pet-f…#AquaticInvasiveSpecieses
Pet fish in our rivers? Yeah, we don't need this 🙅♀️🚫
Follow the link to listen to my chat with @AustRiverRestor about keeping pet fish where they belong!
arrc.au/why-your-pet-f…#AquaticInvasiveSpecieses
Check out this stick insect hiding in our garden! Safely relocated away from the pruning 🌿
May 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Check out this stick insect hiding in our garden! Safely relocated away from the pruning 🌿
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For some species of cichlids, home is where the mom is - literally! Female mouth-brooding cichlids incubate their eggs in their mouths. Some species continue to provide protection for juveniles after they hatch, sending out cues when danger is around for them to return to her mouth #SundayFishSketch
May 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
For some species of cichlids, home is where the mom is - literally! Female mouth-brooding cichlids incubate their eggs in their mouths. Some species continue to provide protection for juveniles after they hatch, sending out cues when danger is around for them to return to her mouth #SundayFishSketch
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WEEK 2 of the #SundayFishSketch team-up with #25DaysofFishmas (@drkatfish.bsky.social) for a difficult #Fishytheme. Sketch the #GreatLakes fish described by the clues below - if you know the answer, don't spoil it, draw and post on Sunday! #sciart 🐡🦑
December 6, 2024 at 3:26 PM
WEEK 2 of the #SundayFishSketch team-up with #25DaysofFishmas (@drkatfish.bsky.social) for a difficult #Fishytheme. Sketch the #GreatLakes fish described by the clues below - if you know the answer, don't spoil it, draw and post on Sunday! #sciart 🐡🦑
Check out these great #freshwater #PhD opportunities based at the University of Melbourne down here in Australia on #Platypus, #AquaticPlants, & #Carbon 🌿🏞️🦆🧪
December 5, 2024 at 4:22 AM
Check out these great #freshwater #PhD opportunities based at the University of Melbourne down here in Australia on #Platypus, #AquaticPlants, & #Carbon 🌿🏞️🦆🧪
Day 2 of the 2024 Australian Freshwater Sciences Society conference is looking to be another great lineup of talks and discussions on all things freshwater 🌊🐟🌿🐸🦆🦠
December 3, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Day 2 of the 2024 Australian Freshwater Sciences Society conference is looking to be another great lineup of talks and discussions on all things freshwater 🌊🐟🌿🐸🦆🦠
Looking forward to a great day of freshwater talks in Albury-Wodonga at the 2024 Australian Freshwater Sciences Society conference 🌊🐟🌿
December 2, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Looking forward to a great day of freshwater talks in Albury-Wodonga at the 2024 Australian Freshwater Sciences Society conference 🌊🐟🌿
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Grab the bull(head) by the horns on Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas because it's time for the black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) to shine!
The second day of #Fishmas brings a cool cat - one of several species of catfishes on the prowl throughout the #GreatLakes 🐈🐟
The second day of #Fishmas brings a cool cat - one of several species of catfishes on the prowl throughout the #GreatLakes 🐈🐟
December 2, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Grab the bull(head) by the horns on Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas because it's time for the black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) to shine!
The second day of #Fishmas brings a cool cat - one of several species of catfishes on the prowl throughout the #GreatLakes 🐈🐟
The second day of #Fishmas brings a cool cat - one of several species of catfishes on the prowl throughout the #GreatLakes 🐈🐟
A quick sketch of a species that's new to me - the pirate perch - for #25daysOfFishmas #SundayFishSketch 🐟
December 2, 2024 at 11:02 AM
A quick sketch of a species that's new to me - the pirate perch - for #25daysOfFishmas #SundayFishSketch 🐟
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First comprehensive assessment of Australia's #freshwater fish species paints alarming picture: 37% are at risk of #extinction, including 35 species not even listed as threatened. Dozens of species could become extinct over the next two decades. 🐠 🇦🇺 ❌
phys.org/news/2024-11...
phys.org/news/2024-11...
Troubled waters: How to stop Australia's freshwater fish species from going extinct
Three-quarters of Australia's freshwater fish species are found nowhere else on the planet. This makes us the sole custodians of remarkable creatures such as the ornate rainbowfish, the ancient Austra...
phys.org
December 2, 2024 at 10:08 AM
First comprehensive assessment of Australia's #freshwater fish species paints alarming picture: 37% are at risk of #extinction, including 35 species not even listed as threatened. Dozens of species could become extinct over the next two decades. 🐠 🇦🇺 ❌
phys.org/news/2024-11...
phys.org/news/2024-11...
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Hi everyone. I felt really dejected for a long time about the state of science communication on Twitter, and was reluctant to give things a try on yet another new platform. I’m so touched by the support everyone has shown so let’s give this one last go, as KaiTheFishGuy on Blue Sky!
November 29, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Hi everyone. I felt really dejected for a long time about the state of science communication on Twitter, and was reluctant to give things a try on yet another new platform. I’m so touched by the support everyone has shown so let’s give this one last go, as KaiTheFishGuy on Blue Sky!
Nicole does beautiful #SciArt including fishes!! 🐠🐟🐡🦈
❄️ HOLIDAY SALE! ❄️
Take 20% off all orders $35+, applied automatically at checkout! I have plenty of stickers, prints, keychains, enamel pins, patches, apparel, and more available! 🔗 in bio or below 🌿✨
Take 20% off all orders $35+, applied automatically at checkout! I have plenty of stickers, prints, keychains, enamel pins, patches, apparel, and more available! 🔗 in bio or below 🌿✨
November 28, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Nicole does beautiful #SciArt including fishes!! 🐠🐟🐡🦈
With so many new followers (thank you!) I think it's time I introduce myself 👋 🐟
November 28, 2024 at 9:18 PM
With so many new followers (thank you!) I think it's time I introduce myself 👋 🐟
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Funded Masters in Biology (Fish, Ecology, Fisheries, Invasive Species) Opportunity! Please Share! Come join my lab at Salisbury U to study impacts of invasive Blue Catfish on native freshwater mussels & anadromous fishes (threatened river herring, striped bass, etc) in the Chesapeake Bay🐟🐙🧪🐠#SciComm
November 26, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Funded Masters in Biology (Fish, Ecology, Fisheries, Invasive Species) Opportunity! Please Share! Come join my lab at Salisbury U to study impacts of invasive Blue Catfish on native freshwater mussels & anadromous fishes (threatened river herring, striped bass, etc) in the Chesapeake Bay🐟🐙🧪🐠#SciComm
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I'm new in @bsky.app so I can use this opportunity to advertise the amazing work of over 200 authors in the @ipbes.bsky.social Invasive Alien Species assessment.
Please check here all the outputs, including factsheets and the cool IAS learning tool:
www.ipbes.net/ias
Please check here all the outputs, including factsheets and the cool IAS learning tool:
www.ipbes.net/ias
Thematic Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and their Control | IPBES secretariat
Access the full #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report in English, watch the Summary Video and the
www.ipbes.net
November 24, 2024 at 10:58 AM
I'm new in @bsky.app so I can use this opportunity to advertise the amazing work of over 200 authors in the @ipbes.bsky.social Invasive Alien Species assessment.
Please check here all the outputs, including factsheets and the cool IAS learning tool:
www.ipbes.net/ias
Please check here all the outputs, including factsheets and the cool IAS learning tool:
www.ipbes.net/ias
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Really happy to be giving the "International Plenary Lecture" next week at the Australian Freshwater Sciences Society meeting. Look forward to meeting a few new folks there. Come say hi if you're there!
www.auswatersoc.org/afss-confere...
www.auswatersoc.org/afss-confere...
November 26, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Really happy to be giving the "International Plenary Lecture" next week at the Australian Freshwater Sciences Society meeting. Look forward to meeting a few new folks there. Come say hi if you're there!
www.auswatersoc.org/afss-confere...
www.auswatersoc.org/afss-confere...
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📰IN THE NEWS: Reintroduction of drought-threatened #fish in #NSW
2019: Over 70 Southern Purple Spotted Gudgeon (Mogurnda adspersa) rescued and rehomed at Taronga Western Plains Zoo.
2024: Rehabilitation begins at Buckinbah Creek.
Read more: www.nsw.gov.au/media-releas...
#Australia #conservation
2019: Over 70 Southern Purple Spotted Gudgeon (Mogurnda adspersa) rescued and rehomed at Taronga Western Plains Zoo.
2024: Rehabilitation begins at Buckinbah Creek.
Read more: www.nsw.gov.au/media-releas...
#Australia #conservation
November 26, 2024 at 2:00 AM
📰IN THE NEWS: Reintroduction of drought-threatened #fish in #NSW
2019: Over 70 Southern Purple Spotted Gudgeon (Mogurnda adspersa) rescued and rehomed at Taronga Western Plains Zoo.
2024: Rehabilitation begins at Buckinbah Creek.
Read more: www.nsw.gov.au/media-releas...
#Australia #conservation
2019: Over 70 Southern Purple Spotted Gudgeon (Mogurnda adspersa) rescued and rehomed at Taronga Western Plains Zoo.
2024: Rehabilitation begins at Buckinbah Creek.
Read more: www.nsw.gov.au/media-releas...
#Australia #conservation
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doe, a deer, a female deer
ray, a flattened cartilaginous fish in the superorder batoidea, closely related to the sharks, notable for their enlarged pectoral fins which they flap to—
ray, a flattened cartilaginous fish in the superorder batoidea, closely related to the sharks, notable for their enlarged pectoral fins which they flap to—
October 28, 2024 at 4:14 PM
doe, a deer, a female deer
ray, a flattened cartilaginous fish in the superorder batoidea, closely related to the sharks, notable for their enlarged pectoral fins which they flap to—
ray, a flattened cartilaginous fish in the superorder batoidea, closely related to the sharks, notable for their enlarged pectoral fins which they flap to—
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Just making sure all my new Bluesky friends are aware of #SundayFishSketch ! There’s a theme every week and people draw fish and share them.
@davis.social @flyingtrilobite.com 🐡
@davis.social @flyingtrilobite.com 🐡
Yo, listen up here's a story
About a little guy
That lives in a blue world
And all day and all night
And everything he sees is just blue
Like him inside and outside
A bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) for #SundayFishSketch
About a little guy
That lives in a blue world
And all day and all night
And everything he sees is just blue
Like him inside and outside
A bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) for #SundayFishSketch
November 25, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Just making sure all my new Bluesky friends are aware of #SundayFishSketch ! There’s a theme every week and people draw fish and share them.
@davis.social @flyingtrilobite.com 🐡
@davis.social @flyingtrilobite.com 🐡
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This weekend’s #Sundayfishsketch #Fishytheme is “Blue!” Let’s see those blue fishies! 🦑🐡
November 22, 2024 at 5:45 PM
This weekend’s #Sundayfishsketch #Fishytheme is “Blue!” Let’s see those blue fishies! 🦑🐡
Check out this great albino bristlenose pleco! Did you know they can live for 12 years or more?
As plecos are popular ornamental fish in Australia, this anniversary post is an important reminder of how long-lived some of our ornamental fish are, meaning a long term commitment, too!
As plecos are popular ornamental fish in Australia, this anniversary post is an important reminder of how long-lived some of our ornamental fish are, meaning a long term commitment, too!
Today it's Marmalade's 5 year anniversary with us! I got him when he was just going thru puberty, but over the years he's blossomed into a big bushy bearded fellow. 💛🧡
November 24, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Check out this great albino bristlenose pleco! Did you know they can live for 12 years or more?
As plecos are popular ornamental fish in Australia, this anniversary post is an important reminder of how long-lived some of our ornamental fish are, meaning a long term commitment, too!
As plecos are popular ornamental fish in Australia, this anniversary post is an important reminder of how long-lived some of our ornamental fish are, meaning a long term commitment, too!
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I can take you and a group of up to 15 people (that you organize) on a shark research expedition in Florida!
You’ll help us catch, measure, and sample sharks, while raising money for the lab’s outreach efforts.
If you (and a group, not you as an individual) are interested, please PM me!
You’ll help us catch, measure, and sample sharks, while raising money for the lab’s outreach efforts.
If you (and a group, not you as an individual) are interested, please PM me!
November 23, 2024 at 7:19 PM
I can take you and a group of up to 15 people (that you organize) on a shark research expedition in Florida!
You’ll help us catch, measure, and sample sharks, while raising money for the lab’s outreach efforts.
If you (and a group, not you as an individual) are interested, please PM me!
You’ll help us catch, measure, and sample sharks, while raising money for the lab’s outreach efforts.
If you (and a group, not you as an individual) are interested, please PM me!
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Adding to the discussion about impacts: do the "benefits" of an invasive species outweigh its costs? No way!
See why in our discussion here: #biologicalinvasions
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
See why in our discussion here: #biologicalinvasions
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Benefits do not balance costs of biological invasions
Abstract. Biological invasions have profound impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and services, resulting in substantial economic and health c
academic.oup.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Adding to the discussion about impacts: do the "benefits" of an invasive species outweigh its costs? No way!
See why in our discussion here: #biologicalinvasions
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
See why in our discussion here: #biologicalinvasions
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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🎨 In case anyone need…
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
November 23, 2024 at 3:50 PM
🎨 In case anyone need…
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov