Peter Flood
@pjflood.bsky.social
Postdoc at University of Michigan SEAS | Population and Community Ecologist | Fishes | Global Change | Food Webs | Girl Dad | Bibliophile
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Long‐Term and Regional‐Scale Data Reveal Divergent Trends of Different Climate Variables on Fish Body Size Over 75 Years
This research demonstrated that over the past 75 years many ages of multiple species of freshwater fishes were decreasing in length through time and with increasing water temperatures. The largest de...
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1/ New research from our group @umich.edu in collaboration with MI DNR investigated if climate change is altering fish body size. Our team analyzed data from 13 species and 1,497 lakes from 1945-2020.
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#climatescience #umichresearch
#blueskyscience
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Long‐Term and Regional‐Scale Data Reveal Divergent Trends of Different Climate Variables on Fish Body Size Over 75 Years
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November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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A reminder, from the 2023 IPBES assessment of invasive alien species. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Invasive species cost humans $423bn each year and threaten world’s diversity
At least 3,500 harmful invasive species recorded in every region on Earth spread by human activity, says UN report
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
A reminder, from the 2023 IPBES assessment of invasive alien species. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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#Museums had a rough 2025: New AAM Report shows lower attendance, lost grants, and less money. 🙁
Museums had a rough 2025: Report shows lower attendance, lost grants, less money
The American Alliance of Museums put out its annual industry snapshot and it's not great. Trump's targeting of museum programming had downstream effects and put a "chill on corporate philanthropy."
www.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#Museums had a rough 2025: New AAM Report shows lower attendance, lost grants, and less money. 🙁
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From Yale University Press: "PONDS: An Illustrated Guide." #Freshwater food web spread.
🧪🌿🌎🐡🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #streams #rivers #FoodWebs
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November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
From Yale University Press: "PONDS: An Illustrated Guide." #Freshwater food web spread.
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Press release from UMich news about our recent paper in Global Change Biology:
news.umich.edu/fishes-young...
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news.umich.edu/fishes-young...
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Fishes, young and old, are shrinking in Michigan's inland lakes
A new study led by the University of Michigan shows that changes in climate are also changing the size of fishes in Michigan's inland lakes.
news.umich.edu
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Press release from UMich news about our recent paper in Global Change Biology:
news.umich.edu/fishes-young...
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“Behold The GARLIATH!”: Enormous “Living Fossil” Hauled From Mississippi Floodplains Stuns Scientists
www.iflscience.com/behold-the-g...
By @rachaelhfunnell.bsky.social @iflscience.com on that big Alligator Gar tagged & released @garlab.bsky.social #GarWeek
www.iflscience.com/behold-the-g...
By @rachaelhfunnell.bsky.social @iflscience.com on that big Alligator Gar tagged & released @garlab.bsky.social #GarWeek
“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.
www.iflscience.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“Behold The GARLIATH!”: Enormous “Living Fossil” Hauled From Mississippi Floodplains Stuns Scientists
www.iflscience.com/behold-the-g...
By @rachaelhfunnell.bsky.social @iflscience.com on that big Alligator Gar tagged & released @garlab.bsky.social #GarWeek
www.iflscience.com/behold-the-g...
By @rachaelhfunnell.bsky.social @iflscience.com on that big Alligator Gar tagged & released @garlab.bsky.social #GarWeek
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Reseeding the Chesapeake Bay’s underwater grasses takes combined state, volunteer effort | News From The States 🦑🧪🌎
Reseeding the Chesapeake Bay’s underwater grasses takes combined state, volunteer effort
Planting underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay is easier than you might think.After mixing the plants’ tiny, spherical seeds with a bucket of sand, the mixture is simply tossed off a boat into a…
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Reseeding the Chesapeake Bay’s underwater grasses takes combined state, volunteer effort | News From The States 🦑🧪🌎
1/ New research from our group @umich.edu in collaboration with MI DNR investigated if climate change is altering fish body size. Our team analyzed data from 13 species and 1,497 lakes from 1945-2020.
🐟 🧪 🌎🌐🌱
#climatescience #umichresearch
#blueskyscience
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🐟 🧪 🌎🌐🌱
#climatescience #umichresearch
#blueskyscience
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Long‐Term and Regional‐Scale Data Reveal Divergent Trends of Different Climate Variables on Fish Body Size Over 75 Years
This research demonstrated that over the past 75 years many ages of multiple species of freshwater fishes were decreasing in length through time and with increasing water temperatures. The largest de...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
1/ New research from our group @umich.edu in collaboration with MI DNR investigated if climate change is altering fish body size. Our team analyzed data from 13 species and 1,497 lakes from 1945-2020.
🐟 🧪 🌎🌐🌱
#climatescience #umichresearch
#blueskyscience
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🐟 🧪 🌎🌐🌱
#climatescience #umichresearch
#blueskyscience
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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1/ Carlton & Cohen (1993) described the global transport of species as "ecological roulette" (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), whereas Paine & Zaret (1973) equated the introduction of non-native species to ecological gambling (jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...). #bioinvasions #invasivespecies
Ecological Gambling
MOST natural ecosystems are overwhelmingly complex, and conventional ecological wisdom holds that tropical communities are more so than their temperature or higherlatitude equivalents. This belief has...
jamanetwork.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:09 AM
1/ Carlton & Cohen (1993) described the global transport of species as "ecological roulette" (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), whereas Paine & Zaret (1973) equated the introduction of non-native species to ecological gambling (jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...). #bioinvasions #invasivespecies
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🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social
www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...
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EMERGE Alaska | College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
www.uaf.edu
October 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social
www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...
www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...
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This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together
But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
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But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
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October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together
But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
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But it's a story with an under-recognised hero
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Hot off the press is the final chapter of my dissertation now published in @pnas.org Here, I explore the genetic drivers of extreme body size reduction using goby fishes as a model. I'll write up a short summary thread later tonight...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hot off the press is the final chapter of my dissertation now published in @pnas.org Here, I explore the genetic drivers of extreme body size reduction using goby fishes as a model. I'll write up a short summary thread later tonight...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Hang out with these baby Alligator Gars for a bit; they’re eating sea monkeys (aka brine shrimp larvae)!
#GarWeek is coming November 3-7, 2025!
#GarWeek is coming November 3-7, 2025!
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Hang out with these baby Alligator Gars for a bit; they’re eating sea monkeys (aka brine shrimp larvae)!
#GarWeek is coming November 3-7, 2025!
#GarWeek is coming November 3-7, 2025!
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A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
Oh did we ever. I still remember phones numbers of friends and family that haven't changed, and old numbers for some that have. The only new number I've memorized in the smart phone era is my spouse's because it's on our dog's collar and that's what I see when she's licks my face every morning.
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Oh did we ever. I still remember phones numbers of friends and family that haven't changed, and old numbers for some that have. The only new number I've memorized in the smart phone era is my spouse's because it's on our dog's collar and that's what I see when she's licks my face every morning.
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What IOB authors have been up to?
check out 2024's
Brandon Guell
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Insta
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IOB read- Egg-Clutch #Biomechanics Affect Escape-Hatching #Behavior & Performance
B A Güell et al
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#science #biology
check out 2024's
Brandon Guell
brandonguell.com/media
Insta
www.instagram.com/brandon_guell/
YouTube @brandon_guell
IOB read- Egg-Clutch #Biomechanics Affect Escape-Hatching #Behavior & Performance
B A Güell et al
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#science #biology
October 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
What IOB authors have been up to?
check out 2024's
Brandon Guell
brandonguell.com/media
Insta
www.instagram.com/brandon_guell/
YouTube @brandon_guell
IOB read- Egg-Clutch #Biomechanics Affect Escape-Hatching #Behavior & Performance
B A Güell et al
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#science #biology
check out 2024's
Brandon Guell
brandonguell.com/media
Insta
www.instagram.com/brandon_guell/
YouTube @brandon_guell
IOB read- Egg-Clutch #Biomechanics Affect Escape-Hatching #Behavior & Performance
B A Güell et al
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#science #biology
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Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!!
Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.
The world is cruel but squid are good.
Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.
The world is cruel but squid are good.
October 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Climate change is reshaping the fish communities of rivers across the US - my commentary in @nature.com to accompany the new study led by @rumschsl.bsky.social rdcu.be/eHY6B 🌍🧪
Climate change is reshaping fish communities in the United States | Nature
Rising temperatures and the introduction of non-native fishes have been linked to rapid changes in fish communities across the United States. Rising temperatures and the introduction of non-native fishes have been linked to rapid changes in fish communities across the United States.
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September 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Climate change is reshaping the fish communities of rivers across the US - my commentary in @nature.com to accompany the new study led by @rumschsl.bsky.social rdcu.be/eHY6B 🌍🧪
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Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate
October 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate
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"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."
Jane Goodall on Fighting Sexism and What Chimpanzees Taught Her
Jane Goodall discusses what keeps her motivated six decades into her career and how she combated sexism.
www.rollingstone.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."
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Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.
A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.
A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.