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Emily Troyer
@fishfetisher.bsky.social
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Postdoc at University of Michigan
My research focuses on the morphological evolution of living and fossil fishes.
I mainly post about fish and weird things I enjoy
https://emilymtroyer.weebly.com/
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Playing around with plotting transitions from an ancestral state estimation....Pretty neat.
Network plot with 10 nodes representing unique character states. There is a color bar showing the number of transitions to and from each state.
December 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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He had a late night party. Please keep it down...
A bristlenose catfish sleeping upside down in a cave A bristlenose catfish sleeping upside down
December 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Making way for Fishmas
A green and white sea urchin carrying a 3d printed Santa Claus hat.
December 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Please enjoy my goober
A lawnmower blenny fish looks out
December 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Hard at work
A small black nerite snail eating algae off a rock. The same nerite snail, just a bit later. More of the rock is cleaned.
December 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Preview of my #SICB2026 talk on early fish jaws. Paleozoic ray-finned fish systematics is a mess. Someone should really work on that😅
Slide with a very bad phylogeny of Paleozoic fishes. Its basically a rake.
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Cute! Reminds me of this book.
December 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Just two ladies dressed in black
Me in a fancy black dress standing next to a black and white horse.
December 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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All ready for Manta Claus...
A small tan and white fish resting inside an aquarium. Taped to the glass is a small red and green stocking
December 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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this is adorable
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Oh lawd he comin' 😅
A black skirt tetra with a bit of a beer belly Quite a fat fish
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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What a guy
Happy blenny fish A happy looking lawnmower blenny fish
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Lovely bristled creature
The front face of an albino bristlenose catfish. He is yellow with red eyes. An albino bristlenose catfish in an aquarium
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Yay stickers
Two stickers in my hand. One is a pigeon with a winged helmet saying "i'm trained in combat. I can do anxiety attacks." The 2nd sticker is a sparkly snail with a cowboy hat on his pink starry shell saying "I'm built different like incorrectly I think "
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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She is an honorary paleoniscoid
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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It's rare to see Topaz, my Nassarius snail, out and about during the day. Guess she popped out of the sand to say hello.
A white and brown banded snail
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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One of my favorites is from "On Being the Right Size"
Gravity, a mere nuisance to Christian, was a terror to Pope, Pagan, and Despair. To the mouse and any smaller animal it presents practically no dangers. You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Good night
Betta fish hiding her face in a leaf
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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yup
They're the same picture meme. One photo is of a cluster of Starburst candies, the other is the colorful spider
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Thankful for them
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Soliciting name suggestions for this boy
A pale fish with a dark eye bar and 2 black spots on its body
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I may not have all my ducks in a row, but at least my corys are.
A line of 6 bronze corydoras catfish lined up in a fish tank
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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We have another anniversary today: Marmalade's 6th gotcha day is here🎉. What a glorious moustache!!
The face of a yellow catfish. He has many long bristles on his nose An albino bristlenose catfish. He is yellow with red eyes.
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Happy 4th adoption anniversary to Hippolyta (Hippo)! I'm not sure how much longer this lovely lady will be here, but for now I am happy she is still with us. 💙❤️
A blue and red betta fish sitting amongst aquarium plants
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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No
A neon orange cyber truck
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM