Nice find on our dog walk this evening! North American luna moth.

Scissor-tailed flycatcher in South Carolina! They are a breeding pair but their nestlings were predated last week. However, we found what looks to be a new nest in a less exposed position so 🤞

Had great fun making these cakes for our two newly minted Doctors in the Lab. The
decorations match their thesis topics - fish teeth and a whale fluke.

For this world ocean day I was super fortunate to sit and eat breakfast here watching two endangered Hawaiian monk seals foraging. The oceans are the lifeblood of the planet - donate and advocate where you can.

Lucky shot! Was taking photos of the noddies (seabirds) and they were photobombed by the tuna! Could not have taken this photo if I tried to do so but a very happy accident!

We just completed the first of four weeks measuring and photographing 🐠 at the Bishop museum. To my surprise I have found a new appreciation for gobies - so morphologically diverse! Tiny fishes are hard to measure and photograph so the team is looking forward to pseudochromids and labrids soon!

Just snapped this photo of my dog Rosie and an anole sun basking before the frigid temps hit us in SC.

Does my dog need more toys? No! Unless it is a cute clownfish with its anemone and then yes! Happy fishmas to all who celebrate!

My phone is a little confused unless it is using the monophyly argument to define fish!

When I started the US citizenship process in April I didn’t expect to be able to vote in this presidential election but this newly minted American just voted!

A wonderful chance encounter this evening in the neighbourhood - this is the first barred owl I’ve seen or heard here!

My favourite superb owl of the past year - a sooty owl in the Tablelands close to Cairns during ICVM.

Proceeding B is moving to double anonymous peer review starting next year!

While at the fantastic evolutionary morphology workshop at OIST I also managed to sneak away and do some snorkelling, the reef was fantastic and I saw so many new fishes, including Titan triggerfish and a moray swimming - I think grayfaced.

Hello! Still figuring out this place in the sky. Tomorrow will be giving a talk in the evolutionary morphology workshop at OIST but today ran away to Churaumi aquarium with two amazing and inspiring women in science - wow what a day!