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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 4h

Any time!

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 4h

Congrats, Tom! This looks cool as hell!

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favorite Hawaiian endemics

A photo of the inside of someone’s leg with a big tattoo of a Hawaiian poppy (pua kala)

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 4d

Oh man I saw this one live as it was streaming. So amazing.

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Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 4d

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 5d

Hey at least you'll not forget that happy night?

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 5d

"mooSOObee"

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 6d

This sucks but it always struck me as stupid that it wasn't just a website to begin with. Like why the obsession/need to make it an ios app? Make it a website! You can still use your iphone!

www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Apple Took Down These ICE-Tracking Apps. The Developers Aren't Giving Up

“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.

www.wired.com

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 9d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 9d

This one was so good.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 10d

I have never seen a single episode of Seinfeld.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 10d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 10d

@baronvonurchin.bsky.social

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 10d

For my algae heads: happy spooky season!

(📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here)

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The bulbous ends of two pieces of bull kelp (Nerocystis luetkiana) carved into grinning jack o lanterns. They are on a rocky beach and you can see waves in the background.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 13d

There won’t *not* be a certain amount of schadenfreude when service members suddenly have to start paying actual Hawai’i grocery prices like the rest of us…

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 19d

More than once I've brought up the lack of data in review (in spite of journal data accessibility policies) and the paper went on to be published without data anyway.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 19d

I think it's often the case that neither the editor/journal staff nor reviewer checks or cares if a given manuscript meets the data policy. I've reviewed multiple manuscripts where data availability was a condition of submission but it got to me anyway...

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 23d

*I did not take any photos of the Très Riches Heures so I have gifted you this axe-wielding beast rider from a completely different and unrelated manuscript. The "astrological man" page is a scanned image from the internet.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 23d

Everything else sucks, but these things I got to do in 2025 have truly helped me keep my head above water:

1) Descend in a submersible and face a living nautilus.
2) See the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry in person*.

h/t to @book-historia.bsky.social for alerting me that the TRH was on display

An underwater photo of a nautilus at a slightly oblique angle with its feeding tentacles extended and pointing down and to the left. It's red and white with swirly stripes on its shell. We're not 100% certain what species is. It looks a lot like Nautilus vanuatuensis but given where we observed it and some of its characteristics, it may actually be undescribed.

An illumination from a medieval manuscript of a guy in a blue robe holding an axe and apparently riding some sort of beast. It's not clear what sort of thing it is but I think it might be a boar. There seem to be artichokes in there too?

The famous "astrological/anotomical man" leaf from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berrry. It shows a nude man facing us covered with astrological symbols. Behind him is a nude woman(?) facing away. Around the outside is an astrological calendar showing all the signs and presumably when in the year they become relevant. There's a lot of glorious blue pigment used in the illumination, which is all made from lapis-lazuli. It's spectacular.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 23d

I never imagined a bird could look like an elephant seal, but this one kind of looks like an elephant seal.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 24d

Honestly, same

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 25d

I would love to see more lavish costumed historical dramas set in the Pacific (and filmed in their languages): Fijians in conflict with the Tuʻi Tonga Empire, first contact between Rapa Nui and the mainland of South America, the story of Tupaia the navigator…

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 26d

I'd love to be added as well! (tho I admittedly haven't been posting much science lately)

dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 29d

"what do you want them to do?"

Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 29d

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Sep 13

Remember how scary it was for the 36 hours where it felt like the Right could explode into violence as a repercussion of an assassination? That's what our trans brothers & sisters feel like every fucking day

We have to protect them at all costs. They are our line in the sand; not a bargaining chip.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · Sep 12

I am once again* begging Michael Hobbes to include a screenshot of the byline

*the first time in actuality but the zillionth time in intention