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Emily Troyer

@fishfetisher.bsky.social

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Postdoc at University of Michigan My research focuses on the morphological evolution of living and fossil fishes. I mainly post about fish and weird things I enjoy https://emilymtroyer.weebly.com/

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · Sep 2

Press for our recent paper! I had fun talking with UM News about weird fish jaws.

news.umich.edu/bite-by-bite...

Bite by bite: How jaws drove fish evolution

If you're reading this sentence, you might have a fish to thank. Fish were the first animals to evolve jaws. They use their jaws primarily to eat, but also for defense, as tools—such as to burrow or t...

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Jack Stack @jackstack.bsky.social · 1d

Accidentally made Hemicalypterus (Triassic, western USA) the most metal fish to ever live. Fun with Photoshop! Reconstruction drawing (original) by Sarah Gibson.

Black and white drawing of a round fish with spikes.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 1d

Cool moth I saw last week. Zale sp.

Brown moth resting on glass window pane.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 1d

oh, they're here!

Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 1d

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's SUPERFISH!

Coming soon to a museum near you.

Small museum exhibit being installed. Background features comic-book inspired layout. A model of a snakehead fish is in an upper case, with 3D prints of fish skulls in a case at the side.

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 1d

I think my PhD students want me to resign

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 1d

My bad, Ohio needs to get on this. www.nbc4i.com/news/politic...

Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 1d

What, no fish? 😅

Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Enya Strahler for submitting the winning design for the Evolution 2026 Conference logo!
www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo.html

Evolution Conference Information

Congratulations to Enya Strahler for submitting the winning design for the Evolution 2026 Conference logo! The selected logo includes the official state animals of Ohio, which represent a wide...

www.evolutionmeetings.org

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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Enya Strahler for submitting the winning design for the Evolution 2026 Conference logo!
www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo.html

Evolution Conference Information

Congratulations to Enya Strahler for submitting the winning design for the Evolution 2026 Conference logo! The selected logo includes the official state animals of Ohio, which represent a wide...

www.evolutionmeetings.org

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats!

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Linnea Lungstrom @linnealungstrom.bsky.social · 4d

No better reason to join Bluesky then to say the first chapter of my PhD is out as a preprint! New surgeonfish phylogeny, ecomorphological relationships, evolutionary shape correlations-with NEW method to accurately account for phylogenetic covariation among shapes!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of fin and body shape in the surgeonfishes

Patterns of evolutionary change in the fin and body shapes of fishes are strongly related to dietary ecology and locomotor mechanisms, and associations between shapes affects ecomorphological relation...

www.biorxiv.org

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 3d

Visiting Ohio be like:

Notification on Bluesky saying I need to verify my age in order to access direct messages.

"The laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult before accessing certain features on Bluesky, like adult content and direct messaging."

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 4d

Visiting the Newport Aquarium. Lots of great fishes 🥰🐟

Four eyed fish. It's eyes are above the water.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 5d

Phil, my Euphyllia paradivisa coral, basking in the morning sunlight in all his tentacled glory.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 5d

gnarly

Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 5d

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 6d

Did you not hear they are shutting down in March?

Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 6d

Great spotlight on our recent @currentbiology.bsky.social paper!

www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)01167-4

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 6d

I have it on good authority this journal will publish anything. 😅

Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 7d

Which journal would publish such a fragmented mess?
www.cell.com/current-biol...

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 6d

Happy World Octopus Day! To celebrate, here’s the first piece in my series of Octopolis tarot cards: The Fool!
#octopolis #worldoctopusday #octopus #tarot

$A digital illustration within a tarot card frame titled ‘The Fool’. The images is of a mimic octopus bursting through the surface of the ocean into a sunlit day. The octopus is covered in many colored stripes. It holds one arm up through which light refracts. In another arm it holds a bundle of kelp. Beneath the water is a yellow cuttlefish looking very happy.$

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 7d

Apparently yesterday was National Noodle Day! I am a day late and more than a dollar short, but anyways here's one of my chunky noodle gals.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 7d

My little panda garra has been adopted by the cory squad.

A large corydoras catfish next to a smaller striped panda garra fish

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 7d

I wouldn't want to encounter either of those guys in a dark alley!

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 7d

The audacity of Microsoft Word!! ☠️

a word document where "fishes" is underlined by a blue squiggle. There is a grammar note asking if I meant fossil "fuels" instead.

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 8d

Feel like a fish out of water? Meet the giant mudskipper! This fish needs to breathe air & spends a decent amount of time on land! Found on the muddy shores of mangroves in parts of Southeast Asia, it uses its pectoral fins to “walk” across mudflats.

Photo: mysorekid, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, iNaturalist

A photo of a mudskipper hauled out of water and onto a branch. The fish is brownish in color and has unusual facial features.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 9d

Showing off the @ummnh.bsky.social Fish Collection for ID Day! #TeamFish

Emily standing at a table filled with fish specimens

Fish specimens on a tray. From left to right: pike, seahorse, monkfish, bamboo shark

Preserved fish on a table. Top is a large swordfish skull. Bottom are left to right: porcupine pufferfish, burrfish, batfish

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 10d

Somehow this one is worse 😂