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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Are you hip to the Bardo Pond cover of this? Because it’s really good.

dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gustav Paulay, invertebrate zoologist nonpareil, would occasionally go one further and actually make that 5-phylum stew!

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh shit, thank you for this information.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Seeing Ed Sheeran's own band quitting on him is, I have to say, really doing it for me. Restoring one shred of hope for humanity.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They followed the how-to video “building a human”: youtu.be/5rO-I7butL4?...

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Building A Human

YouTube video by Peter Serafinowicz

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Breakfast buffets in Asian hotels are undefeatable.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I was recently on a research expedition to the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and witnessed this real-life Böcklin Isle of the Dead. Picture me trying to explain the reference to a bunch of scientists and professional mariners.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh man I remember the first time I saw a Beroe. It was at a 20-foot safety stop at the end of a dive in the Channel Islands and I saw this giant pinkish comb jelly just going absolutely HAM on the smaller sea gooseberries.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This happened here in Hawaii like three times just in the last couple years! People just followed google down the boat ramp into the harbor with people watching and shouting the whole time.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

House passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midterms

Continuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’ve seen Nick Cave & co more times than I can count and every one was a powerful experience but the two Dirty Three shows I was fortunate to attend really blew me away. Which is to say “AH OUAIS WARREN ELLIS!” indeed

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I had a real bucket list day for #fishes today. I’ve seen this species once, at the edge of visibility, at about 325ft deep but here at Hōlanikū/Kure Atoll they’re much shallower. Genicanthus personatus, or the masked angelfish. 🦑Just look at this thing!🐠 (no strobes, so sorry about the colors)

A male masked angelfish. It’s a mostly white fish with an orange face mask, orange pectoral fins, and an orange dorsal margin. It has a thick black band on the caudal peduncle. The colors are a bit off since the photo was taken in ~70 feet of water without external lighting. This species has sold for tens of thousands of dollars in the aquarium trade.

A female masked angelfish. It’s mostly white with a black mask on its face and black band on the caudal peduncle. The pelvic fins are yellow.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of the more surreal experiences of my life was when I was doing a three month residency at the Smithsonian and I got home from work one day to find the house I was renting a room in randomly having a log cabin republicans party.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

As I research and write I can feel my brain changing and growing. It's an incredible feeling. I look down on people who write and research using AI. It's gross and evil and you are missing the point of living.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Thanks! Its unofficial subtitle is "How, in the year of our lord 2026, it's still possible to get away with doing decent science using a single mitochondrial marker."

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I posted a read-only share link above but feel free to DM me if you want the PDF!

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The population genetics and some ancestral-state reconstructions hinted at the fact that one of the Hawaiian endemics may have originated in the Eastern Pacific and that the other one might be ancestral to its Pacific relative rather than the other way around!

a phylogenetic tree showing ancestral range reconstructions for a few different species.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Over the course of many years we build a collection of tissue samples from across Hawai‘i and the Indo-Pacific. The phylogenetics showed us that one of the Hawaiian species may not yet be fully diverged from its Pacific relative AND that the one in the Marquesas could be a new (undescribed) species.

A closeup of a small black and white and yellow fang blenny with what might look like a piano keyboard down its side which is funny because these are sometimes called piano fangblennies. This is the potentially new endemic species from the Marquesas.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New paper on saber-toothed blennies! Wherever we went we got bit by these feisty little #fishes so we started wondering what their whole deal was. We have 2 endemic Hawaiian species and we wanted to know where they came from. Many years and many more bites we finally have a bit of an answer. 🐟️ 🦑 🧪

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Origins and relationships of endemic Hawaiian sabre‐toothed blennies in the genus <fi>Plagiotremus</fi> (Blennioidei: Blenniidae)

A deep dive into several species of Indo-Pacific fangblenny

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Reminiscent to me of Arnold Böcklin’s “Isle of the Dead.”

A painting of an island with vertical sides and cedar trees growing in the middle behind a gated wall.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Day 2 of Papahānaumokuākea expedition. Dawn at Nihoa Island. This tiny island has more than 30 heiau (ancient Hawaiian sacred structures) built across hundreds of years and seeing it at sunrise, you can really understand why.

A volcanic island with sheer vertical cliffs rises from the ocean.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Every single year I see the first kōlea and think "seems early for them to be back," and every year it is always exactly the first or second week of August.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"this is a successful blockbuster that has helped ignite an admirable interest in the classics, but as an expert I personally would have been ashamed to write it and couldn't fully enjoy it" is not the unhinged rant some people accused it of being

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Linear A Indus Valley/Harappan script

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Brian Hill @brianhill53703.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

(Don LaFontaine voice): "In a world where plums are cold and delicious, one person decides to break all the rules..."

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

And real! (although too viscous to actually breathe in real life)

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have had the great pleasure of visiting Mrs Chippy’s (and McNeish’s) monument in Wellington.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/07/2026

Goodnight.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I accidentally hit the email link and it pre-populates the subject line as “I’m lost in the legal jungle.”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Disappointing to see the society account using AI imagery like this.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

These are Calloria inconspicua, I believe.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

These are cool as hell. Especially since I just found these living brachiopods in Whangaumu Bay, Aotearoa.

A bunch of bright red brachiopods in an outstretched hands.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Can a #geologist explain this to me? From near Whangaumu Bay, Aotearoa.

Crazy geology where there are almost geometric spaces hollowed out. It’s red and grey and dark brown.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"I use chatgpt as a search engine" "I use minesweeper as a website browser" "I use the lego pirate ship when I want to boil an egg"

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This things grow like gangbusters all around my house, mostly in rock walls. But the few times I’ve tried to keep one in a pot indoors, no luck.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Or in other words: Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Amazingly, I ran into another one that night.

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