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Steve Mussmann
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Fisheries geneticist. Desert fish researcher. Posts are my own and do not reflect the opinions of my employer.
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Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
August 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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New species of sucker just dropped👍
mapress.com/zt/article/v...
Catostomus murivallis , a new species of sucker (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae) from Wall Canyon Creek, Surprise Valley, in Northwestern Nevada, U.S.A. | Zootaxa
mapress.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Lungfish xkcd.com/3064
March 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I’ve only been playing Metazooa for a short while, but so far I am undefeated (Metazooa.com)
January 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I think I’ll get the hardcover edition.
December 20, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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AI is like that one U2 album Apple put on everybody's devices. Nobody wants it, but there it is, anyway.
December 18, 2024 at 6:23 PM
We documented the first occurrence of Poeciliopsis monacha-occidentalis in the US. We didn’t have reference samples but were instead able to use the unique properties of this hemiclonal, exclusively female, species to make the confirmation. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 5, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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“We don’t value software, data, and methods in the same way we value papers, even though those resources empower millions of scientists” 💯

www.statnews.com/sponsor/2024...
New report highlights the scientific impact of open source software
Two of the scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for cracking the code of proteins’ intricate structures relied, in part, on a series of computing
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues
Mom: Let's pick out a Christmas movie to watch on Thanksgiving. Which one do you guys want to watch?

Family (in unison): DUNE!
November 29, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Here’s some of our recent work in Molecular Ecology showing that cold water dam releases could delay development of a warm water fish species (Razorback Sucker).

doi.org/10.1111/mec....
Why Is It Too Cold? Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Cold‐Water Pollution Effects on Recruitment of an Imperiled Warmwater Fish
Environmental temperature shapes the ontogeny of ectotherms by influencing rates of growth and development which can be key determinants of survival. Whereas the escalating impacts of water managemen...
doi.org
November 24, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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Portland NWS may have just won Weather Bingo today. #orwx
November 19, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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Happy Exploding Whale Day to those who celebrate.
www.oregonlive.com/travel/2024/...
November 9, 2024 at 4:01 AM
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High-quality reference #genome assembled for the Colorado pikeminnow—an endangered species in the Colorado River Basin—using Proximo HiC and @pacbio.bsky.social. Recent study by Steve Mussmann will aid in the conservation & understanding of desert fishes' evolution. academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
October 3, 2024 at 5:06 PM