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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It is time! It's been a hell of an academic journey to get here, and I am so grateful to my husband, mentors, family, and friends who supported me along the way. **sound on for maximum gravitas**

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Check out my pride gar gyotaku shirt and canvas print on Etsy, for all your fish-based LGBTQ+ celebrations! www.etsy.com/listing/4367... www.etsy.com/listing/1848...

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"Here we show substantial declines in the rates of collection of specimen data over recent decades, from analysis of over 150 million records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) spanning more than two centuries" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 #Macroecology #EvoBio #Paleobio

GBIF specimen records—number of specimens, unique species and spatial extent for Chordata, Arthropoda and Plantae (1950–2019).

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Great video highlighting the value of natural history collections and the importance of preserving them for generations to come

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The Library of Life - Dahiana Arcila, Ricardo Betancur-R., Ben Frable

YouTube video by FishEvolutionLab-Edu

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The BIGGEST Alligator Gar I’ve ever encountered!!! Truly GARgantuan, tagged and released!

A fish scientist places his hand on the head of a giant Alligator Gar.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.” Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node. thenode.biologists.com/developmenta... #Disability

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Developmental Biology and Disability - the Node

Hopeful monsters. Morphospace. Mutation. Natural variation. Mutagenesis screens. Polymorphism. Deformity. Phenotype. Disease. Adaptation. Anomaly.

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Come join our department at MTSU! We are looking for an assistant or associate professor in physiology. careers.mtsu.edu/en-us/job/49...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2025

…Let me say that again: Expert coders using "generative AI" demonstrated a nearly 20% *increase* in their time, vs when writing code on their own; oh, and those increases are *worse* on the tasks with which they have more familiarity. But that's not even the crucial part; this is the crucial part:…

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

By request, I've added an old t-shirt design from grad school to my etsy shop. Evolution friends might appreciate it! www.etsy.com/listing/4367... www.etsy.com/listing/4367...

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology! Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions. (Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.) lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

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Postdoctoral Researcher

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Trying out some blankets on my Etsy gyotaku shop, check out my "monster fish" design! www.etsy.com/listing/4304... #teamfish #monsterfish #gyotaku #fishkeeping

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I am thrilled to announce that I have joined the MOBI (molecular biosciences) faculty at MTSU and am now able to supervise PhD students. Possible projects in southeastern fish ecomorphology, darter cranial anatomy (muscles, brains, skulls), and fish biology/macroevolution in general. #teamfish #MTSU

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Byte Size Treasure 🦈 🔜 Aquashella NJ @bytesizetreasure.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

We're all collectively crying over the Anglerfish and Howie right now, right? 😭 RIGHT? They weren’t JUST any fish and any crab—they were resilience, light, and a reminder that even the smallest lives can touch millions. [ #art #design #anglerfish #crab ]

A couple of designs. The left design is a blue background with purple text that reads "0 Days Since I Cried About an Anglerfish". The border of the design is a pale white nautical rope and features a purple anglerfish smiling brightly. The right design is similar, with a green background and purple text that reads "0 Days Since I Cried About a Crab". To the side of the border on this one, is a small purple crab with big bright eyes.

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Museum folks! We have gotten a donation of some amazing old taxidermy pieces and I am just fascinated by one item. It's a large cabinet in what looks like a Victorian style and has some old features (oil painting background, solid carved wood frame)...

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I hadn't posted about this paper before, but over the summer I added unbending features (sensu TPSutil) for fish landmark data to my package LOST. Just sent an update to CRAN to make unbend.tps.poly work for 2D and 3D data, planning to update unbend.spine too onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I am taking up to 2 applicants for the masters program in biology at MTSU this coming fall. Projects working on cichlid ecomorphology, cichlid fossils and missing data. Experience with fish, geomorph or R a plus. Funding for stipend and travel support.

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Lots of new gyotaku designs available in my etsy shop! Also added new canvas prints from printful - cheaper than my prior art paper prints and no need to frame! #teamfish #gyotaku #monsterfish #art arbourfishart.etsy.com

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Alice Leavey @leaveylab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The last paper coming from my #PhD thesis has just been published in the Journal of Morphology! 🐸 We use #diceCT and @fountainscholar.bsky.social 's GoodFibes package to examine how muscle fibre architecture varies across #frogs specialising in jumping, walking and swimming: doi.org/10.1002/jmor...

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Frog Fibres: What Muscle Architecture Can Tell Us About Anuran Locomotor Function

Our study utilises a new, automated approach to digitally extracting muscle fibres from μCT data, allowing us to present the first digital analysis of muscle fibre architecture in frogs, including so...

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Very pleased that my new paper on darter cranial musculature is out now in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Some anatomical surprises (weird, extra divisions of the AM) compared to Perca!

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I am in love with this note at the top of the wiki page for oarfish. #teamfish

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Plans for #GarWeek 2024 are in the works! It will look a little different this time around, spread across multiple platforms…and for the first time on BlueSky!

A stout Alligator Gar (fish) is backlit in an aquarium. Smaller gars and other fish species can be seen around it.

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Lincoln Savi @lincolnsavi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

3 hours goes by quickly when you're painting a round goby. #sciart #teamfish #invasivespecies

A hand-painted, 3D-printed, model of a round goby that was printed in clear resin on an Anycubic photon 3D printer. The model is nearing completion but it still needs to have its pectoral fins glued in place.

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Shameless plug of my etsy shop featuring gyotaku prints and clothes now that I've made my way over here 🦋 www.etsy.com/shop/arbourf...

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Friends on the new platform, you can find my collection of 3D fish and anatomy models on sketchfab here: sketchfab.com/MTSUichthyol.... May be migrating to "fab" eventually. If you use these for teaching or 3D printing please shoot me an email so I can make note of that for grants/service/etc.

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3D models by MTSUichthyology

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