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Chris Martin
@fishspeciation.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Curator of Ichthyology at UC Berkeley. #teamfish Lover of all fishes, especially those named after puppies 🥰❤️🐶🐟💀 #pupfish #craniofacial #genomics he/him
https://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/martin/
Header art by @astrafauna.bsky.social
#NoKings Berkeley 🥳
October 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Also check out this amazing video filmed by my star undergrad who found this ongoing in the fish room this morning. #Anableps

Note the males trying to mate with the female *while* she is giving birth 😱 😅 smdh
July 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Highlight of the trip was this Pacific red octopus - found by one of the undergrads in my lab on her very first time tidepooling! 🥳
November 19, 2024 at 5:11 AM
And what preys on these abundant lanternfishes? Everything 🤣! But these long Chauliodus dragonfish were relatively abundant down there as well - with species-specific bioluminescent chin barbels! 😱🥰

After one trawl this was the catch tank for closer inspection
#MarineLife #fish #evo #evosky
October 29, 2024 at 3:59 AM
Just returned from an incredible deep sea cruise with Dahiana Arcila and Ben Frable at Scripps - and we found a deep sea #anglerfish!!!!!!! 😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯
Dream come true since I was 6 years old 🥲. Stay tuned for more highlights of the catch (from a single midwater trawl at 600 m!).

🧪 #evo #evosky 🐟🐠
October 23, 2024 at 4:00 AM