Lee = MS squared 🐟🌊🏳️⚧️
Nonbinary by birth (they/them) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Aquatic ecologist by profession 🐟🐠🐡
Kind by choice
Fisheries, human impacts, sustainability, all things water
Currently studying how environmental stressors affect aquatic-terrestrial linkages in Germany 🇩🇪
- Reposted by Lee = MS squared 🐟🌊🏳️⚧️That's a wrap on 2025's #25DaysofFishmas - the 10th year of #Fishmas silliness! Thanks to everyone who has followed along as we explored some of the amazing fish that call the US home. From Atlantic to Pacific, there's a lot worth protecting - wishing everyone peace and renewal of hope for 2026.
- Reposted by Lee = MS squared 🐟🌊🏳️⚧️From a serious-looking sculpin to the Arctic's only air-breathing fish, the Northwest leg of the #25DaysofFishmas road trip was full of surprises! Our trip's almost done, but not without a final stop in the Northeast + #GreatLakes region - because there's no place like H.O.M.E.S. for the holidays!
- To this day, I've never found anything more spiritual than a river
- Reposted by Lee = MS squared 🐟🌊🏳️⚧️If a “little toy doll(y) that toddles and coos” is on your list, Salmonid Claus is definitely going to deliver on Day 21 of #25DaysofFishmas! We end the northwest leg of our road trip with the Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma), a brightly colored fish + this week’s #SundayFishSketch mystery species!
- Today is Sunday AND the winter solstice AND we were gifted with a beautiful day and bright blue sky. Can't waste the gift!
- Sometimes when I'm shopping here in Germany I see things that I just can't pass up
- Reposted by Lee = MS squared 🐟🌊🏳️⚧️Day 19’s #25DaysofFishmas feature wouldn’t feel out of place at Santa’s Workshop! ❄️ We trade a our road-trip car for a seaplane and head north - very north - to Alaska and the Alaska Blackfish (Dallia pectoralis), a tough-as-ice fish that breathes air and has been described as “a bulldog with fins”
- I have so much willpower and self control in all areas of my life. Until the very moment I lay eyes on a pretty plant or a bookstore Oh well! Worst comes to worst, someone gets some free plants in 3 years. The books I'll ship
- When it comes to fish with unfortunate names, the chubsucker really got screwed. So for this #FishOfTheWeek let's learn enough for them to redeem themselves. There are 4 species of chubsucker, all belonging to the Erimyzon genus. And if you think their genus name saves them, you're wrong 1/7
- Reposted by Lee = MS squared 🐟🌊🏳️⚧️This week's #SundayFishSketch - #25DaysofFishmas mystery fish is a bit of a tough one, so one more clue: males and females of this species form monogamous pairs before spawning, and both provide parental care for their eggs/young
- Here are this Sunday's #SundayFishSketch - #25DaysofFishmas mystery fish species clues! For Sunday December 14, sketch the species you think these clues are describing (don't spoil it early if you know it!). The answer will be revealed with the day's #Fishmas calendar! @lampichthys.bsky.social
- Reposted by Lee = MS squared 🐟🌊🏳️⚧️taxonomy 101: whales are not fish taxonomy 201: whales are hoofed animals taxonomy 301: whales are fish
- Reposted by Lee = MS squared 🐟🌊🏳️⚧️If you can think of a better fish for Day 8 of #25DaysofFishmas, let minnow! Westward ho, we go on our #Fishmas road trip to the canyon rivers of the Intermountain West, home of the Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius), a minnow who's no small fry - meet the largest minnow in North America!
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- When we think about fish large enough to attack people, sharks are usually what comes to mind. However, there is one fish in the ocean that even most sharks would choose to leave alone. And that is the goliath grouper, a fitting choice for #FishOfTheWeek 1/6
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- This singing moose head hung over the stand selling glühwein and one of my friends loved it. I just kept thinking of Billy Bass...
- The Christmas market opened on Thursday so naturally we had to go last night and enjoy it. A few glasses of glühwein and I mind the crowds a whole lot less
- When it comes to remaining unseen, there are many animals with insanely good camouflage. But fish really take camouflage to every extreme. For this #FishOfTheWeek, let's look at fishes power of invisibility 1/6
- It decided to snow a bit this morning and we rescued a poor hedgehog that got caught out in it instead of safely hibernating. He was taken to a wildlife rehab where they'll help him to gain some weight and be properly prepared for winter
- Today is World Fisheries Day, so for #FishOfTheWeek let's talk about a fisheries issue that is becoming more and more common, reductions in size of fishes due to fishing pressure. This may seem like a small issue but is in fact a major problem for many reasons 1/5
- It's time for #FishOfTheWeek and today I want to talk about a really cool fish that has become much maligned (not without reason) in North America. That's right, today we're gonna talk about the so-called Frankenfish. The snakehead 1/7
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