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Helen Larson

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

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
theguardian.com
A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Stop filling BHP's tank: Cap the diesel handout getup.to/w7kojGc9CkGyUw
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Stop filling BHP's tank: Cap the diesel handout
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Dr. Beaman is on my list of dream expedition team members. This was a fantastic observation.which you can find on dive 402 part B starting at timestamp 1:34:52! Congrats Robin!
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If you, like me, are concerned about the direction our country will go if a Trump Tower is built in our country, then join me in objecting! petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/st... @getup.org.au
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Stop Trump Tower on the Gold Coast!
If you, like me, are concerned about the direction our country will go if a Trump Tower is built in our country, then join me in objecting!
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Dr. Chris Pepin-Neff (they/them) @pepinneff.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Cool research by Dr. Yi-Kai Tea!! Goblin Sharks! www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
smh.com.au
Goblin sharks off Sydney: The young scientist unveiling creatures of the deep
Australian scientist Yi-Kai Tea is investigating one of the weirdest realms of the ocean – and it’s right on Australia’s doorstep.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study
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Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study
The United States is the main market for “ornamental” marine fish, those that end up as pets in aquariums. Now, a new study of U.S.-based online retailers has found that nearly 90% of traded species…
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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🚨New Website blog 🚨 🧵 Did you watch Shark Whisperer on Netflix? I did & it was pseudoscientific rubbish. In this blog, I do a deep dive into the documentary; its subject, Ocean Ramsey; & the harmful effects of “shark influencers” on shark conservation (1/9) www.drjackacooper.com/writing/shar...
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Sam has a pretty good shirt!
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Warthogs are good for you.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This article on ‘Steps of Life’ inspired the cartoon below: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
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Uncle Rico Dynamite @unclericodynamite.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The gutless won't share
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The Desert Rat @roythedesertrat.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
He's a DICTATOR and the sooner we accept that fact the sooner we can organize against him. citizenshandbook.org/get_rid_of_a...
citizenshandbook.org
How to get rid of a dictator
Gene Sharpe, non-violent tactics
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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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: 🌏 🦑 🧪 🧵 urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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.
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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.
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Delivery of the goby book (first 2 volumes) has begun. Order at siamensis.co if you’d like a set.
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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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 😌
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
"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."
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Need your gobies identified? You need these books - first two volumes out now. Still writing vols 3-4!
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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.
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Mock-up of covers for deluxe edition of Gobioids of the World (in posh slip case). Cost $$!? Website for orders not yet functioning.
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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 “canary in the coal mine”), kelp beds, mangroves, etc, etc. www.fws.gov/project/moni...
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Gobioids of the World volumes 1&2 now being printed at Siamensis Press!
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Marine gobies are the best. My new shirt with artwork by Courtney Hildebrandt,
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
My task for the New Year; describe these. Much prettier before preservation!
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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Am here in Auckland at IPFC and forgot about Bluesky. All I’ve seen is rain. But Fish tomorrow!
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