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Helen Larson

@eviota.bsky.social

Gobyologist and birdo. Emeritus Curator of Fishes at NT Museum Darwin, living in the Wet Tropics of NE Australia.

196 Followers  |  22 Following  |  34 Posts  |  Joined: 30.10.2023  |  2.1778

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Looks like Amblyglyphidodon.

25.06.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Warthogs are good for you.

24.06.2025 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This article on β€˜Steps of Life’ inspired the cartoon below:
publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

14.06.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 348    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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The gutless won't share

12.06.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1661    πŸ” 633    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 25

I had to follow you because you are a Goby cat and I am the Goby queen.

28.05.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rubycon is perfect desert music.

28.05.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This works for fish conferences too. Perfect.

26.05.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Restricted to house by fractured pelvis so working on β€œtrauma teddies β€œ for kids in hospital. 4-ply and 8-ply sizes.

25.05.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
How to get rid of a dictator Gene Sharpe, non-violent tactics

He's a DICTATOR and the sooner we accept that fact the sooner we can organize against him.

citizenshandbook.org/get_rid_of_a...

15.04.2025 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 211    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Simon, can you send me a pdf please please? I cannot do these expensive pdfs.

25.03.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We enjoy your nice mushrooms very much! Keep it up.

25.03.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That is a katydid!

24.03.2025 06:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes that is correct!

13.03.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Computer-generated thing.

12.03.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow the Naso are wonderful!

01.03.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Fig. 1. Threatened animal listings in major online marketplaces: Wedges indicate the proportion of unique full matches by English and Latin scientific names identified within a 15-week automated search crawl. A total of 546 matches were identified advertising body parts or eggs of 83 species listed as vulnerable or endangered by the IUCN or banned in international trade by CITES. 96 % of listings were hosted on domains ebay.com, etsy.com, thetaxidermystore.com, and gumtree.com.

Fig. 1. Threatened animal listings in major online marketplaces: Wedges indicate the proportion of unique full matches by English and Latin scientific names identified within a 15-week automated search crawl. A total of 546 matches were identified advertising body parts or eggs of 83 species listed as vulnerable or endangered by the IUCN or banned in international trade by CITES. 96 % of listings were hosted on domains ebay.com, etsy.com, thetaxidermystore.com, and gumtree.com.

We programmed a crawler to search open web marketplaces for every animal on the IUCN red list.

Nearly 2/3 of our matches were shark jaws, comprising 9 of the top 10 openly traded threatened species.

A glimpse of the global trophy trade of endangered sharks:

🌏 πŸ¦‘ πŸ§ͺ 🧡
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

19.02.2025 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

19.02.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 145638    πŸ” 30373    πŸ’¬ 2327    πŸ“Œ 1537
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I got mad about people/governments the other day and ordered this from Effin’ Birds. Covering bits so not to offend delicate sensibilities. Trying not to laugh.

18.02.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Further to the awful Fishtaxa 'journal' written by computers, I noticed that my goby-colleague Hamid Esmaeili was listed as Editor-in-Chief, with his address. he had no idea this existed. There is even a goby paper from 2024 which is complete computer-generated rubbish.

18.02.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Doug Hoese has just received his copies of our book! Mine still stuck in truck queue behind floodwaters. He says photos look spectacular- Nonn Panitvong has done us proud.

15.02.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They are lovely! Here is the view from our verandah where I knit sometimes. Was first day of sun after two weeks constant monsoon rain.

13.02.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Awful computer image.

09.02.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delivery of the goby book (first 2 volumes) has begun. Order at siamensis.co if you’d like a set.

22.01.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seems like a good day to post a collage of Priolepis gobies, which occur on coral reefs worldwide. As cave specialists, they spend most of their time perched upside-down on the ceiling with little regard for the nasty world outside their quiet, sheltered abode. Yet, they are beautiful & thriving 😌

20.01.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
 
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
 
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met.
 
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
 
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
 
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
 
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
 
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone.
 
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."

"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

16.01.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 17072    πŸ” 3389    πŸ’¬ 178    πŸ“Œ 231
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Need your gobies identified? You need these books - first two volumes out now. Still writing vols 3-4!

09.01.2025 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nordy the Spotted (aka Nordmann’s) greenshank has a damaged foot now. Fifth time that he/she has visited the Cairns mudflats and has not told any of its compatriots how many good crabs and small fishes there are here.

26.12.2024 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mock-up of covers for deluxe edition of Gobioids of the World (in posh slip case). Cost $$!? Website for orders not yet functioning.

20.12.2024 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mass-mortality and reproductive failure of sea birds in Alaska, due to climate change.

Many similarities to global declines of coral reefs (the so-called β€œcanary in the coal mine”), kelp beds, mangroves, etc, etc.
www.fws.gov/project/moni...

18.12.2024 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5
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Gobioids of the World volumes 1&2 now being printed at Siamensis Press!

19.12.2024 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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