Hunter #SciComm Chair & Prof, Director & Curator of Fishes Museum of NatSci @LSU, TED Fellow, F@AAAS, Fulbrighter, #Evolution #TeamFish, ASIH Past President, he/him #BLM ✊🏿 #ProtectTransKids #SaveTheNSF
Prosanta Chakrabarty
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I was a Program Director at the National Science Foundation. I was so impressed by the transparency and rigor around grant reviews. These funds change careers and institutions, but also the lives of those involved (from the primary investigators to students and the public). #SavetheNSF
Triacanthid fishes also have these cute little grooves to holster their tripods. Very streamlined.
This is a helpful guide! If you haven’t made a comment yet, please do! Even—especially—if you’re not a scientist!
Nice when the fish you are measuring can stand on their own. #ichthyology #LSUfish
My friend Shannon Tennant (Senior Librarian @elonuniversity.bsky.social) added my children's book on evolution (illustrated by my daughter, and called 'Nature Selecting') on WorldCat (a shared catalog for libraries all over the world)!
Download a free pdf here:
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A closeup of the ‘split’ eyes on Anableps dowei, the ‘four-eyed’ fish that can see above and below water simultaneously and equally well (LSUMZ 15116 collected in El Salvador). #LSU_Fish the topic of tonight’s #lsusciencecafe
@lsu.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social
I just learned that OMB is required to respond to every comment on the anti-peer-review rule. So that means our comments really matter, at the very least by gumming up the gears. Send your comment today.
CryptoVision
"Integrating deep learning, biological hierarchies, and high-resolution imagery to create a new identification tool for cryptic coral reef fishes"
Reginato & Brandl 2026 @plos.org
#ichthyology #OA
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