dr. mykle hoban
@thefishbotherer.bsky.social
A dedicated follower of fishes. Technical diving, mesophotic reefs, and biodiversity at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. (he/they)
Introduce yourself with five shows you've seen multiple times
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (every west coast date since like 2001)
Shellac (4x?)
Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co (3x, RIP Jason Molina)
Red Sparrowes (4x)
Sleep (3x)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (every west coast date since like 2001)
Shellac (4x?)
Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co (3x, RIP Jason Molina)
Red Sparrowes (4x)
Sleep (3x)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Introduce yourself with five shows you've seen multiple times
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (every west coast date since like 2001)
Shellac (4x?)
Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co (3x, RIP Jason Molina)
Red Sparrowes (4x)
Sleep (3x)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (every west coast date since like 2001)
Shellac (4x?)
Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co (3x, RIP Jason Molina)
Red Sparrowes (4x)
Sleep (3x)
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Happy birthday Wata! ✌️
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Happy birthday Wata! ✌️
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from
Lilipuna Pier videos, part 4, bringing back #FlatFuckFriday (is that a thing still?):
Here's a young hīhīmanu or spotted eagle ray (Aeotobatus ocellatus). They seem to like to forage on the shallow reef flat under the pier and I love seeing them.
🐠🦑
Here's a young hīhīmanu or spotted eagle ray (Aeotobatus ocellatus). They seem to like to forage on the shallow reef flat under the pier and I love seeing them.
🐠🦑
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Lilipuna Pier videos, part 4, bringing back #FlatFuckFriday (is that a thing still?):
Here's a young hīhīmanu or spotted eagle ray (Aeotobatus ocellatus). They seem to like to forage on the shallow reef flat under the pier and I love seeing them.
🐠🦑
Here's a young hīhīmanu or spotted eagle ray (Aeotobatus ocellatus). They seem to like to forage on the shallow reef flat under the pier and I love seeing them.
🐠🦑
I hold the dubious honor of having done so on All Seven Continents. So I’m gonna cheat and say my exotic location is that collections as a whole.
what's the most exotic place you've ever puked? mine's not exactly exotic but i did once have a hangover at the nyc facebook office and barfed in their very nice bathroom
Got food poisoning from Fogo De Chao. Puked out the side of a moving cab along beautiful Copacabana Beach. The most exotic place I'll probably ever puke!
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I hold the dubious honor of having done so on All Seven Continents. So I’m gonna cheat and say my exotic location is that collections as a whole.
Part 3 of Bad Videos Taken from the Lilipuna Pier:
This smiley guy is Diodon hystrix, the kōkala or spotted porcupinefish. For some reason there's almost always a big aggregation of these guys in the deeper water off the end of the pier and I don't know why (though it's probably cleaning).
🐠🦑
This smiley guy is Diodon hystrix, the kōkala or spotted porcupinefish. For some reason there's almost always a big aggregation of these guys in the deeper water off the end of the pier and I don't know why (though it's probably cleaning).
🐠🦑
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Part 3 of Bad Videos Taken from the Lilipuna Pier:
This smiley guy is Diodon hystrix, the kōkala or spotted porcupinefish. For some reason there's almost always a big aggregation of these guys in the deeper water off the end of the pier and I don't know why (though it's probably cleaning).
🐠🦑
This smiley guy is Diodon hystrix, the kōkala or spotted porcupinefish. For some reason there's almost always a big aggregation of these guys in the deeper water off the end of the pier and I don't know why (though it's probably cleaning).
🐠🦑
Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier, Part 2.
Today, we got squid. These are muhe‘e or bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). I don't see them often, so I consider it a treat that several were hanging around this morning.
🐠🦑
Today, we got squid. These are muhe‘e or bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). I don't see them often, so I consider it a treat that several were hanging around this morning.
🐠🦑
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier, Part 2.
Today, we got squid. These are muhe‘e or bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). I don't see them often, so I consider it a treat that several were hanging around this morning.
🐠🦑
Today, we got squid. These are muhe‘e or bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). I don't see them often, so I consider it a treat that several were hanging around this morning.
🐠🦑
Part one of a potentially ongoing series entitled Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier*
Let's start with a common one (but a fun one). This is the ‘ō‘io orshortjaw bonefish, Albula glossodonta. For some reason, they're often bigger in Hawai‘i than elsewhere in the Pacific.
🐠🦑
Let's start with a common one (but a fun one). This is the ‘ō‘io orshortjaw bonefish, Albula glossodonta. For some reason, they're often bigger in Hawai‘i than elsewhere in the Pacific.
🐠🦑
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Part one of a potentially ongoing series entitled Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier*
Let's start with a common one (but a fun one). This is the ‘ō‘io orshortjaw bonefish, Albula glossodonta. For some reason, they're often bigger in Hawai‘i than elsewhere in the Pacific.
🐠🦑
Let's start with a common one (but a fun one). This is the ‘ō‘io orshortjaw bonefish, Albula glossodonta. For some reason, they're often bigger in Hawai‘i than elsewhere in the Pacific.
🐠🦑
A beautiful kelpfish (Gibbonsia metzi) from an after-dark negative tide near Santa Cruz, CA. Look at his little striped mittens! 🐟🐠🐟
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
A beautiful kelpfish (Gibbonsia metzi) from an after-dark negative tide near Santa Cruz, CA. Look at his little striped mittens! 🐟🐠🐟
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after a lifetime of constituents being furious at them for doing nothing the democrats have decided to do something the one time everybody begged them to do nothing
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
after a lifetime of constituents being furious at them for doing nothing the democrats have decided to do something the one time everybody begged them to do nothing
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
This is good advice
go thrifting for CDs with a friend and come home with ten albums for 5 bucks that you bought purely on aura and listen to them all through and through regardless of whether or not you'd listen to it again and listen with intent and talk about it with your friend afterwards.
October 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is good advice
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I have no choice but to believe you if you tell me you can't tell the difference between the totenkopf and the Jolly Roger but if that's the case you should absolutely not be allowed to drive a car
October 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I have no choice but to believe you if you tell me you can't tell the difference between the totenkopf and the Jolly Roger but if that's the case you should absolutely not be allowed to drive a car
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
(these are real people but also they are Characters)
(these are real people but also they are Characters)
October 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
(these are real people but also they are Characters)
(these are real people but also they are Characters)
New paper! We tested #eDNA primers for detecting #fishes in Hawai‘i. 12S (MiFish, Riaz) performed best w/r/t fish sequence proportion. However, our major conclusion is that mock communities can lead you astray, since they don't accurately predict how primers will perform in a natural environment.
Metabarcoding Primers for Indo‐Pacific Fishes
We compared the relative performance of five metabarcoding primers (Berry 16S, Riaz 12S, MiFish E 12S, MiFish U 12S, and Leray CO1) to recover Indo-Pacific fish taxa. We tested the primers using temp...
dx.doi.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
What's the best one liner in movie history?
October 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
What's the best one liner in movie history?
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"mooSOObee"
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
"mooSOObee"
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-...
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
October 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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-...
www.wired.com/story/apple-...
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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
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
October 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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
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
I have never seen a single episode of Seinfeld.
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.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I have never seen a single episode of Seinfeld.
For my algae heads: happy spooky season!
(📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here)
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(📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here)
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October 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
For my algae heads: happy spooky season!
(📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here)
🦑
(📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here)
🦑