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🐟Conservation, research, and #SciComm
🐟Principal Investigator @solomonrdavid.bsky.social
🐟Co-authored by the #GarLab Team
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notifications Dr Solomon David liked my "I was gonna make an edit for a joke but it turns out cigarfish are real" post Dr Solomon David's bluesky profile fish scientist & prof aka the gar guy
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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sj463.bsky.social
fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish fish
#fishart
Flatheaded catfish Alligator gar
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
SNEAK PEEK of filming GarLab for IMAX!!!

Award-winning Director lan Shive and Cinematographer Toni Stintzing visit @garlab.bsky.social to shoot part of an upcoming nature documentary!
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
Saving the C-Gar!

“Cuban scientists race against time to save fish as old as the dinosaurs”

LINK: www.reuters.com/business/env...
A worker at a hydrobiological station hatchery uses a fish net to catch a manjuari, a critically endangered fish according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
Just when you think gars can’t get any bigger, we’re taking them to IMAX 😮
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A cinematographer shoots video of a gar in an aquarium. A cinematographer shoots video of gars in an aquarium.
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
Support @garlab.bsky.social & native fish conservation and receive a limited edition #GarWeek sticker!

crowdfund.umn.edu/participant/... #UMNGive
Promotional graphic for GarLab’s Give to the Max Day (day of charitable giving in Minnesota).
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
garlab.bsky.social
May I have this dance? 💃🏻🐟

#garlab #gar #dancingwiththestars #dancingwiththegars
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
In newly reconnected backwaters of the Lower Mississippi River, an ancient fish finds its way home www.nfwf.org/media-center...

Update on National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and partners’ Mississippi River floodplain restoration work!
Giving alligator gar a lifeline in the Lower Mississippi River
At dawn, the woods are hushed and damp. River water meanders between towering trees, and a long shadow glides just beneath the surface. A flash of silver breaches the surface before sliding back into ...
www.nfwf.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
NEW episode of MeatEater Podcast chatting gars & native fish conservation!

Grateful for the opportunity to chat stewardship of freshwater natural resources with Steve Rinella and the hunting & fishing crew! youtu.be/xLDSV5qbyzw?...
November 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
Students perspectives on Alligator Gar fieldwork down south @garlab.bsky.social!

University of Minnesota students reel in a fin-tastic catch during Mississippi River fieldwork
cfans.umn.edu/news/alligat...
Three photos forming a photo banner, featuring fish ecology students working with gar fish.
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
WHY sturgeon gotta be like that???
[wait for it]

North America’s largest freshwater fish (White Sturgeon) is obviously jealous of the second largest (Alligator Gar) with its armored scales, teeth, poisonous eggs, air-breathing…but I suppose barbels are cool? 😅
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
You KNOW what else I saw?

GARora Borealis!
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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amfisheriessoc.bsky.social
Enjoying #GarWeek? Join us for a webinar on Weds, Nov 12, at 2 pm EST, highlighting positive social and conservation developments for important native fishes, including gars. Featuring @solomonrdavid.bsky.social, Alec Lackmann, & @dirtydog.bsky.social. Register now: fisheries.org/2025/10/webi....
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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iflscience.com
“Behold The GARLIATH!”: Enormous “Living Fossil” Hauled From Mississippi Floodplains Stuns Scientists

www.iflscience.com/behold-the-g...
“Behold The GARLIATH!”: Scientists Catch (And Release) An Enormous River Monster On Mississippi Floodplains
Alligator gars: putting the “gar” in gargantuan for 100 million years.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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nerdrvt.bsky.social
Literally everyone else at the zoo today when I mentioned it was #garweek:
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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joshbarbershop.bsky.social
Write a lil Gar Rap for the haters 😆🐟
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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thekristeno.bsky.social
Here's my #GARtwork for #GarWeek 2025. I call this markers on paper composition “Under the Surface.” It’s inspired by the alligator gar’s magical smile + the power of #scicomm.

Thank you to @garlab.bsky.social,
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social, OKWildlifeDept, + all involved in #GarWeek2025

#sciart
An abstract, colorful marker interpretation of a fish with a very long nose with many sharp teeth. The illustration is heavily yellow with a rainbow effect around most to the roughly painted lines. It's bright and the essence of an alligator gar (long nosed fish) is distilled in frenetic warm color choices. Jagged lines mimic the gar's sharp teeth and a repeated eyeball pattern draws attention to the fish's face.
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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drfishsg.bsky.social
Find a person who looks at you the way @solomonrdavid.bsky.social looks at gar!

#GarWeek

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw84...
Why Gars Deserve a Week of Their Own | Great Lakes Now
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November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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friedmanlab.bsky.social
#FossilFriday 🤝 #GarWeek
Fossil gars displayed at the AMNH. Atractosteus from the Green River Fm. (top) and Obaichthys from the Santana Fm. (bottom).
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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hopstar.bsky.social
Mississippi mentioned in #GarWeek 🤌🏻
garlab.bsky.social GarLab @garlab.bsky.social · 18d
We hope to continue our efforts and collaborations in Mississippi, and promote floodplain conservation. 

#GarWeek #Conservation #Fisheries #Research #Garology #FishSciComm #SciComm
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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drfishsg.bsky.social
Combining the life cycle theme for #sundayfishsketch h with #GarWeek for a quick ink sketch of the Alligator Gar life cycle. Eggs -> larval -> juvenile -> adult -> back to eggs!

Don't eat those eggs!
Ink sketch of alligator gar life cycle from egg to adult and back again.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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dynamoterror.bsky.social
A quick doodle for the final day of #GarWeek, a large melanistic Alligator Gar cruises underneath an oblivious Ocelot somewhere in the bayous of Louisiana. A scene that may have happened several times in the past, and may continue to occur if both species are valued and protected. #wildlife #sciart
Black-and-white pencil sketch of a melanistic Alligator Gar swimming underneath a much smaller Ocelot that’s paddling on the surface above it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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caseydavid.bsky.social
Annual #garweek post! As @solomonrdavid.bsky.social ‘s favorite week comes to a close, we say cheers to these fantastic fishes! I loved having a reason to wear all my gar jewelry 🫶
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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greatlakesnow.bsky.social
It's #GarWeek! Celebrate these living fossils by learning all about what makes this freshwater species known as "trash fish" so special in our latest conversation with @solomonrdavid.bsky.social.

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Why Gars Deserve a Week of Their Own | Great Lakes Now
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November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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dtartar.bsky.social
Convinced Shannon to do a paint night with me for #garweek! Her gar bus brings me so much joy🌞
#GARtwork
Two paintings, top painting of Miyazaki's cat bus reimagined as a gar, bottom painting an alligator gar swimming
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM