Reposted by Katie O'ReillyNE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026these river otters are blissfully unaware the Cuyahoga has 13 fires in its history 1654289
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyNoah Bressman, PhD @noahwithfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My favorite emails from students are those with the subject, “What fish is this?” Here, we have a skilletfish, our local clingfish species that uses is suction cup-like pelvic fins to stick under crevices and in shells. 425434
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyColton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The eponymous mussels (and beautiful filamentous aquatic moss) of Musselshell Creek in the Lolo/Clearwater basin of Central Idaho. #invert 🟢 35011
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyDr. Sam Anderson @sam-science.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy new water-year! Welcome to hydrological 2027! 05017
Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A small business in northern Minnesota is harvesting and selling invasive rusty crayfish, including to a James Beard award-winning restaurant in Minneapolis www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...mprnews.orgFrom lake to table: Turning Minnesota's invasive crayfish into a local delicacyRusty crayfish have invaded more than 300 northern Minnesota lakes. Can Midwestern appetites help manage a destructive invasive species? 1167
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyHealing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition @healthylakes.org · 30/09/2026Thank you to all of our partners in the region who advocated for the GLRI's passage! And thank you to members of the Great Lakes delegation who moved this important legislation through, includ. leadership of @peters.senate.gov, Senator Moreno & Senator Husted www.healthylakes.org/latest-news/... 033
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyMSU Extension Center for Lakes and Streams @msue-lakes-streams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This new research out of Wisconsin suggests that herbicide treatments for invasive plants like Eurasian watermilfoil should be weighed carefully against the possible negative impacts of treatment on the lake ecosystem. 065
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyMinnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center @maisrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tune in to @kare11.bsky.social tonight 6:00pm CT: MAISRC Scholar Denver Link featured discussing mercury increases in fish species following zebra mussel invasions. You can read more about this research in this recent @univofminnesota.bsky.social Research Brief: twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/...twin-cities.umn.eduMercury increases in multiple fish species following zebra mussel invasionsNew research from the University of Minnesota found that zebra mussel invasions were associated with increased mercury concentrations in several Minnesota fish species. 063
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyKristen Behrens, PhD @behrenskristen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Alright fish folks I’m talking to some 4th and 5th graders at the museum next week about science and writing and need a good funky fish to test their observation skills + ability to remember things without writing them down (you bet I’m making a point). Any fish come to mind? 10125
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyAuburn SFAAS @auburnfisheries.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Do you call them crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdadfish, crawdaddy, mudbug, or freshwater lobster? Come with us as we explore the fascinating world of these creatures and what we've been learning from them!southernwaters.auburn.eduCrayfish, Crawfish, and CrawdadsImagine landing on and exploring a distant planet. But upon arriving, you discover an alien armored animal. It breathes through gills, carries its young beneath a tail, regenerates lost limbs, digs an... 0239
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyLigus @greyauk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I added another little painting to my Ko-fi - a smol and very red Chaunacops. The reference was Nautilus footage. 🐡 #SundayFishSketch #art #watercolour #noai ko-fi.com/s/440c260728 17124
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyQuake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Shovelnose sturgeon - hackleback, sand sturgeon, or switchtail #SundayFishSketch #sciart 🐡 04411
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyBetter Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026For #SundayFishSketch x Day 27 of #SciArtSeptember #Quill here is Ariopsis felis, the hardhead catfish. Which anyone who has fished the southeastern U.S. coast will have caught and cursed at loudly at least once. Those fin spines *HURT* 🐡🦑🧪 33712
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyJayce the Creature Creator @creatorjayce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Pumpkinseed Also coincidentally finished this just in time for Sunday Fish Sketch #fishart #sciart #sundayfishsketch 15114
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyRyan Greenway @ryangreenway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A blue wing olive mayfly and matching fly fishing lure for #SciArtSeptember / #SundayFishSketch 27 “quill.” Fly fishing lures aim to imitate small invertebrate prey of fish by combining natural and artificial materials, with quills making great segmented bodies for aquatic insect models. 03910
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyLiz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A quillback rockfish. Not quite a drawing with a quill but with a dip pen, which feels of-a-sort. - #SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 27: Quill 216957
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyJohn F Tollefson @jftollefson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Day 26 - #quill A Quillback (Carpoides cyprinus). A medium-sized sucker that inhabits local rivers with gravel/sandy bottoms. If anyone has a good tutorial on doing scales…I generally avoid them like the plague, as you can see why here. #SciArtSeptember #SundayFishSketch #fishart #watercolor 22710
Reposted by Katie O'ReillySarage @sarahcpjones.bsky.social · 27/09/202627. Quill. Porcupine fish. I'm knackered and had to dig deep for that one. #SciArt #SciArtSeptember #SundayFishSketch 06023
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyKristen Behrens, PhD @behrenskristen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026For the last #SciArtSeptember #SundayFishSketch, Day 27 Quill I did a lionfish which was an ambitious choice when I’m getting over a bug I picked up at the conference 😅 33710
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyDeclan Troy @troydeclan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I wanted to photograph this moose as he was shedding velvet but on the big day he played hard to get. Once it was gone I couldn't shake him, he was everywhere I went. Chugach State Park #Alaska 519534
Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026No, Microsoft Word, I'm not writing about "dressed mussels," I am writing about "dressenid mussels" 1282
Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Petition to rename "coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb" to "millions of gizzard shad vs Canada's largest nuclear power plant" Except in this case, the fish won www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caAn enormous fish die-off tested Canada's largest nuclear plant. A changing climate could test many more | CBC NewsA freak fish event that 'challenged reactor safety' at Canada's largest nuclear plant shows why the nuclear energy governments are relying on to fight climate change must also become more resilient to... 083
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyLiz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A small book, made using Atlantic bay scallop shells. The book features tiny drawings of estuary plants and animals from Nova Scotia. - #SciArtSeptember Day 16: Scallop 414435
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyWBEZ @wbez.org · 23/09/2026Senators from Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin are calling for a meeting to discuss the repeated pauses around the Brandon Road Interbasin Project.wbez.orgGreat Lakes Senators call on Trump to stop delaying invasive carp barrier 092
Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Cleveland Rocks (if you're a baby sturgeon): Before juvenile lake sturgeon were released into the Cuyahoga River last year, they received tiny acoustic transmitters - now, early data shows that many are sticking close to Cleveland Harbor. signalcleveland.org/lake-erie-ba...signalcleveland.orgLake Erie’s baby sturgeon are thriving a year after release - Signal ClevelandAhead of Saturday's Sturgeon Fest, we checked in on the little babies released last year. How are they doing? Early signs are promising. 0248
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyBen Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The dam removals that get the most press tend to be superlative western ones, like the Klamath and Elwha—big rivers, big fish. For @biographic.bsky.social, I wrote about some equally vital, under-the-radar projects now restoring eastern streams, one old mill dam at a time. #AlewivesAreTheNewSalmon 515170
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyCount Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026806's spring cub is so chubby she has ankle rolls. What a good mom 806 is. #katmai 534389
Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Want to know more about Wisconsin’s Menominee River sturgeon elevator? Lucky for you, there's already a pun-filled blog post about it thefisheriesblog.com/2022/11/14/o...thefisheriesblog.comOver the River: Giving Fish a Lift with the Sturgeon ElevatorGoing up? A Sturgeon Elevator elevates migratory fish to upstream spawning opportunities. 0132
Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Move over, Salmon Cannon, it's Sturgeon Elevator's time to shine www.mlive.com/environment/...mlive.comWatch lake sturgeon ride an elevator at an Upper Peninsula hydroelectric damA fish elevator in Michigan is helping save one of the Great Lakes’ most ancient species from extinction. 2278
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyCelestial Whale Studio @celestialwhale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Honeycomb Stingray 🍯 D15: Honeycomb #SciartSeptember #sciart #digitalillustration 27416
Reposted by Katie O'ReillySarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I want you to think about the kids in your life. Maybe those kids are 8. Maybe they are 32. Do they know enough about snails? Hard to imagine anyone truly knowing *enough* about snails. Help those kids learn snailhood. Get them a Snail Facts advent calendar. SquidFacts.net. 13421144
Reposted by Katie O'Reillylinseyis.bsky.social @linseyis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I am lucky enough to live by the Skagit wild & scenic river, which supports five salmon species, and in a state that has demolished the Elwha and other dams. I may not know how to paint salmon, but I know that a meandering river is good for the health of the ecosystem #sciartseptember meandering 03511
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyTitus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Shiners, shiners, shiners for #sundayfishsketch. Today is Red Shiner and a bonus of 9 other shiners! 22910
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyQuake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Learning about bristlemouths this week for #SundayFishSketch 05515
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyRyan Greenway @ryangreenway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Red River pupfish (Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis) in #watercolor and ink for #SciArtSeptember 20 / #SundayFishSketch “Meander.” These little fish occur in the meandering, sandy-bottomed streams in the upper Red River basin of western Oklahoma and Northwest Texas, particularly in harsh environments. 15721
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyPaul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Miss Idaho stealin' my signature look. 1120042
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyJohn F Tollefson @jftollefson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Day 20 - #meander The Slough Darter (Etheostoma gracile) I thought back to my aquatic ecology courses and finding this species in the slow water of small river bends (meanders) in SE Kansas. Watercolor + colored pencil. #SciArtSeptember #fishart #watercolor #SundayFishSketch 03611
Reposted by Katie O'ReillySarage @sarahcpjones.bsky.social · 20/09/202620. Meander. Ribbon eel. #SciArt #SciArtSeptember 22915
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyBetter Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚! @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It's not a worm, it's not a snake. It has no eyes, no pigment, no fins. For #SundayFishSketch x Day 20 of #SciArtSeptember #Meander here is Rakthamichthys, a swamp eel genus adapted to live in aquifers, wet soil, and other underground habitats in India. What a meandering evolutionary journey! 🦑🐡🧪 2218
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyKristen Behrens, PhD @behrenskristen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#SciArtSeptember #SundayFishSketch Day 20 is Meander, which made me think of the meandering creeks and streams I grew up mucking about in. So here are some of the fishy contents of those streams! This is the most time I’ve ever spent on a piece of art or done a background and my neck hurts #SciArt 33414
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyDhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#SundayFishSketch Oh look, an internal scream found embodied form as a scribble-fish! 👀 Still experimenting with composition for a piece on ribbon eels (maybe, should be fun, let's see!) 🐡 #fishArt #art #wildlift #natureArt 05815
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyLiz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A bitterling puppet, with a meander-patterned banner. Bitterlings are listed in The Fish Fauna of the Büyük Menderes River: Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Features, published in 2013. 🐟 - #SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 20: Meander 15717
Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And became my alma mater's nickname! The University of Miami - which had just opened the previous year in 1925 - continued classes in late October 1926 following the storm, which inspired the “Hurricanes”/"Canes" nickname 051
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyCoral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Please accept a nuzzle from a manatee muzzle (We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!!) 🥹〰️🐮🐮〰️ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #nuzzle #muzzle #coralcitycamera 211211241
Reposted by Katie O'ReillyAnthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Invasive species pose diverse risks to human health. Zebra mussel invasion promotes blue-green algal blooms in lakes: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... And algal blooms can produce toxic airborne particles that are breathed in by people (see below). 0113
Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I love love love that they specified only "small ones" for catfish 030
Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Harmful algae blooms might not just cause harm in the water. Researchers are working to understand how the toxins produced in these blooms can become airborne and impact people’s health - something boaters and anglers around Lake Erie call "August cough" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caScientists near Lake Erie are studying the health impacts of airborne algae | CBC NewsSo far, the American-led research has tracked roughly 200 people connected to Lake Erie coastal communities. 0103