HulloThere

PhD student at Southampton, studying mesopelagic fish ecology. Occasional writer and amateur baker. Tweets about fish in superlatives. Opinions my own.

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Bit of a cool note to end the evening on - I am now a published scientist! Go read all about the cool mesopelagic fishes I found in the #DiscoveryCollections during my MSci project. Endless thanks to @tammy_horton and @NOCnews for all their support! https://t.co/EdK7cirKhO

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@masao_101 Really lovely Vinciguerria - the ones I've seen in nets tend to lose the silver skin!

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@webeand @okaypompeii Guy who definitely knows what Blue Velvet is about

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@spazzwrongs @RAF_Bomber @KillJamesBond I don't blame them for dropping it but I do miss Respecting The Troops at times

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@p_s_clarke @ToughSf Niven walked, stumbled, tripped and fell face-first into some of the most grotesque misogyny I've ever read so that Banks could run

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@graywanderer813 @_x_takes_ Surely you'll be able to point me towards all the successful court cases that prove this

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@Srirachachau But also consider how nice it is that the stripe running up their flanks is matched by one on the babies so that when a mother carries its offspring they blend together and predators can't spot the weaker juvenile <3

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@procrastixote @WRXGOON @pissvortex ... and given that for my entire adult life the politics of the UK and elsewhere has been almost entirely about regression, it is something I think about a lot. Coming out of Soton Central and seeing this building actually makes my heart soar.

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@procrastixote @WRXGOON @pissvortex I think what appeals to me about it is that, especially in the UK, it feels like the last time when society truly organised itself around doing things differently. To come out of the ashes of WW2 and build something truly new is very inspiring to me...

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@limaichay @6Ezjw9QV4ebAkAx I'd wager it's a juvenile of something codlike - it has quite a strong resemblance to Raniceps but I don't know what sorta stuff they have in the Pacific and I can't find any pics of Raniceps juveniles

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@mindofprospect Why are all these people in a museum wandering around when they could be getting angry and tweeting. Fucking losers eh?

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@polaris_616 @doomedsarcoma Ok great, thank you for taking the time to explain!

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@pekrbs613 Polypterus have external gills??

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@wormsofbarlo Something cool about this individual is that it still has that long, tapering tail. Most large adults you see stranded have lost their tails - they probably drop them like lizards

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@krish_bohra Sure, I just like the fishes with morphological diversity ;)

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@FloeTurtle3391 @HodariNundu @ridgear_ Yea no worries, and as said that inking response isn't something any shark can do (though Mollisquama are sort of bioluminescent analogues!)

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@FloeTurtle3391 @HodariNundu @ridgear_ The tails on sharks (and all fishes) move side-to-side during swimming. You can see the tail on this Kogia moving vertically (hence the big splashes), and the head is visible when the poor thing briefly beaches itself.