Got up super early on Saturday to virtually attend a #CIAC2025 workshop in Okinawa as an invited speaker on 3D species distribution modeling. Looking forward to seeing these tools used to help recognize cryptic cephalopod biodiversity!! #voluModel

Of course, this didn't get really serious until I was a PhD student. Every notebook has to be bound (no spirals, where a page could get ripped out without anyone noticing), and always in pen (preferable archival ink). I still have notes on Sanger sequencing protocols. This will be book 7.

New notebook day! I've been keeping hard-copy research notes since I was an undergrad research assistant. My PI at the time told me, "You need to take good enough notes that if you are hit by a bus, someone can take over for you."

#FishADay Pagrus major Red Seabream. Western Pacific, mostly near reef bottoms. Highly-valued in several East Asian culinary traditions. In Japan, it's associated w/ luck & abundance; inspired street snack, taiyaki--basically a stuffed, fish-shaped waffle. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

New version of the #voluModel #RStats package now out--version 0.2.3. Emmy Sheahan is now an author, I fixed some impending compatibility issues with an incoming major ggplot2 update, and edited and updated the vignettes. Next update will make 3D modeling with Maxent much easier--watch this space!

I mean, she does have the murderous heart of a white shark…

When using computer vision to identify organisms in a image, it helps to know what the model was trained on. To a shark ID AI, everything is a shark.

Huge thanks to all of our presenters in the #ASIHin3D symposium at #JMIH2025! Especially my xo-organizer @fishyhayes.bsky.social and strict but fair moderator Cori Black!!

Vindication! Emmy Sheahan shows how her 3D coelacanth niche model predicts the new location of Indonesia Coelacanth! #ASIHin3D

If you're at #JMIH2025 on Saturday, make sure to stop by the ASIH-sponsored symposium I'm hosting with @fishyhayes.bsky.social -- #ASIHin3D! We have morphological and ecological talks from a 3D perspective on fish and herps from microscopic to global scales!!!

Jet lag isn’t so bad in Florida when you get to watch the sun rise while the Barred Owl calls.

Big milestone--my first article in Danish! I was invited to write a bit on coelacanths for Kaskelot, a magazine for Danish science teachers published by Biologiforbundet. Marie Rubæk Holm helped gear article appropriately the audience, translated it, and illustrated it!

I recently had the priviledge of seeing my first Ocean Sunfish (Mola spp.--with recent taxonomic work I would not presume to ID it to species) live in the wild in the Indian Ocean. What a magnificent, if awkward, beast. Photo by Pete Hosner.

Out of office.

Advertise your account with one Simpsons image. #TeamFish

Bonus video of school of wee juvenile chromis provided by the University of Queensland! Video credit: Victor Huertas.

Tried something a little different for our internal section seminar today--a reflection on how to keep biological realities in focus when you're deep into big data analysis and modeling.