Helen Larson

The Ram's Horn Squid (Spirula spirula) is the only living member of the order Spirulida. It's rather unique squid, with a spiral internal shell, photophores on the tip of its mantle, and the way it swims upside down.

The first time we saw one alive in its natural habitat was in 2020!

#SQUIDtember

Sam has a pretty good shirt!

Looks like Amblyglyphidodon.

Warthogs are good for you.

This article on ‘Steps of Life’ inspired the cartoon below:
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The gutless won't share

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

Rubycon is perfect desert music.

This works for fish conferences too. Perfect.

Restricted to house by fractured pelvis so working on “trauma teddies “ for kids in hospital. 4-ply and 8-ply sizes.

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

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

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

That is a katydid!

Yes that is correct!

Computer-generated thing.

Wow the Naso are wonderful!

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:

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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Awful computer image.

Delivery of the goby book (first 2 volumes) has begun. Order at siamensis.co if you’d like a set.

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 😌

"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

Need your gobies identified? You need these books - first two volumes out now. Still writing vols 3-4!

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.

Mock-up of covers for deluxe edition of Gobioids of the World (in posh slip case). Cost $$!? Website for orders not yet functioning.