Noah Bressman, PhD

ICB's first of the #Invasive #species from non-traditional viewpoints and/or new angles grouping

Organized by @noahwithfish.bsky.social

Harvest of Northern #Snakehead with #Bowfishing in Maryland

by Love , Newhard , Amato , Walker , Hanlon

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

#fisheries #science

Psh, fish can use tools, too… but this is some quite complex tool use and problem solving by animals!

Sometimes you stumble on some #sharkscience that makes you think you don't really know anything about them at all. Yesterday i found this paper: "Observations of the bowmouth guitarfish by-catches by the tropical tuna purse seine fleet in the Indian Ocean’s open waters"
doi.org/10.1017/S002...

Min-vlog from #SICB2026! @sicb.bsky.social @sarahmackattack.bsky.social @taorminalepore.bsky.social @noahwithfish.bsky.social

#SICB2026 goers get involved in
ICB's Inked in Science -
Science Ink: #Tattoos Of The #Science Obsessed-review of the @carlzimmer.com #book
reviewed by Lauren Hamilton

integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/s...

& read the paper by @noahwithfish.bsky.social inspiring our cover

Freshwater fish underrepresented in Convention on Migratory Species Action is urgently needed to unlock the potential of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) to advance the conservation of migratory freshwater fishes, according...

iucn.org/news/202601/...

The American Dipper is NA’s only aquatic songbird, and happens to be in my top 2 birds🐦! Here’s one I happened to see at Multnomah Falls just outside a Portland for #SICB2026 doing its namesake “dipping” behavior! They will all walk around underwater looking for 🐛 and lil 🐟 to eat

So long Portland, it was a great #SICB2026, full of great science, great food (and fun commiseration when the food wasn’t so great), new and old friends, waterfalls, great science, an most importantly, great scientific community! See y’all in Pittsburgh for #SICB2027!

I’m glad you have a strategy 😂

They are really cool! But be careful, there was a diver that befriended a moray & hand fed it Vienna sausages from a bag regularly. One day, he struggled to open the bag quickly enough a the eel mistook his thumb for a sausage and bit it… then the pharyngeal jaw bit… pop! Now he can only count to 9

I thought I had one with an oarfish from them, but it’s just giant squid, morays, Loch Ness monster, narwhal with a lightsaber, anglerfish, and a few others, including a different elongate fish (mostly cutoff in this image) that could loosely be interpreted as an oarfish. But I have matching shorts!

I ended up getting that coelacanth one and a garden eel one! I like the colors and patterns but not the best quality material compared to some other ones. I’ve been liking RSVLTs for their quality and they now have a wild assortment of animal shirts. I may wear my monotreme & marsupial one tomorrow!

My lab is seeking a #postdoc for a 3-year project on Pilbara leaf-nosed #bat 🦇 conservation, addressing climate change vulnerability using physiological, ecological, & modelling approaches.

Apply now: murdoch.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/MurdochCaree...

Sketches cyborg roach and cosplay for science druid emporium

I've only been to 30min worth of #SICB2026 talks and I've already learned about cyborg roaches and druids making native seed balls. LFG

I’m excited to be the first ever Artist-in-Residence at #SICB2026! Stop by the @sicbjournals.bsky.social booth during the poster session to chat with me about scientific art and take home some swag with my artwork on it! 🐡

#SICB2026 is almost starting!

If there, be sure to stop by the expo areas at coffee breaks to get must have items like these light catchers made from
@noahwithfish.bsky.social 's art & issue 6's
#octopus cover by Janina Rockner & Letizia Zullo.

@jmacrander.bsky.social is hosting the booth!

Thanks! I’m doing what I can

I don’t think so, but we will be publishing the results of our study with @sicbjournals.bsky.social shortly after the presentation

Come learn about effective ND strategies for success in academia (so you don't have to start from scratch)! Relatedly, I will be sharing my experiences as a panelist at the Symposium's Welcome, Community Building, & Networking Workshop on Jan. 4th at 12:15 in Room Oregon 202, see you there! (2/2)

I'll be presenting on a very different topic than usual for #SICB2026... "Strengths, challenges, & experiences of neurodivergent faculty in academia" at 8:45am on Jan. 7th in Room A105 as part of Symposium 12: Disabled & Neurodivergent perception, community, & identity in the biosciences (1/2)

Having done a similar postdoc in the Fudge Lab on hagfish slime, I highly recommend this opportunity!

Have you checked out ecoevojobs.net?

Ooo cool! Where did you get cards like those? I need to order more soon

Horn Point Confirms Deep NOAA Cuts A nearly 50 percent reduction in federal funding for oyster restoration threatens to sharply reduce oyster production in the Chesapeake Bay, jeopardizing one of the region’s most successful environmen...

Our first direct hit. Oddly our oyster work is the most popular thing we do. Great return on investment for taxpayers funding bay restoration.

cambridgespy.substack.com/p/horn-point...

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”

“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

24” chain pickerel

Oh I just let them go as part of a winter catch and release tournament. Caught a 24” yesterday and one this tournament a couple of years ago with a 27”, but probably got one about 30” a year before that

Hmm good to know, I’ll have to try it on my computer!

That’s correct, Chain pickerel (Esox niger). I’m getting dinner with Canadians tomorrow that talk fishing and it always gets confusing… oof, I’ve been there but I would prefer lipping a walleye over a pickerel of the same size

And this was a couple weeks after a big pickerel chomped on my hand while I tried removing the hook. I was using pliers, but that 23” fish lunged out of the net at my hand and took a few bites and slashes at me. Blood went everywhere, it was like a murder scene on my kayak 😂

I usually switch out my treble hooks for single hooks, but nothin was biting my pre-rigged baits with single hooks all day, so I tried rapid fire bait changing until one of them got a bite (at which point I planned on replacing those hooks). Turns out a 15 lb carp struck a crankbait