Diversity Fellow @Augustana_IL | SREB Scholar | Molecular ecologist/ichthyologist | 🏳️🌈 she/her | views my own
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Brittany McCall retweeted
🚨 NEW SPECIES 2023 🚨
A minnow hiding in a megacity, 7 Swiss whitefish, and a cavefish that eats out of people’s hands.
This #WorldWildlifeDay we release our annual New Species report, detailing the 243 species of freshwater fish identified in 2023.
👉 buff.ly/3iGq5CU
ALT A photograph of a pale white fish with no eyes and a horn, swimming underwater. Text says: "Longhorn cavefish Sinocyclocheilus longicornus", "New Species 2023 report released" and "© Jia-Jun Zhou"
Love any excuse to incorporate Legos into a class! Students brought their concepts of renewable energy sources to life and critically assess how sustainable these ideas are...as well as the irony of using Legos
Brittany McCall retweeted
New paper out of the Fluker Lab on life history aspects of the Caddo Madtom! Just one of many amazing projects led by Brittany McCall (@McCallMeB). The paper can be found here: trace.tennessee.edu/sfcproce…
It's been a great experience working alongside @Augustana_IL students in environmental studies. Students collected data for their class project while gathering data that will be used to inform management decisions in local watersheds of the Quad Cities.
📸 posted w/ permission
Brittany McCall retweeted
1/4 Second of two new papers out today #NearLab w/Matthew Thomas, Rebecca Blanton, & @AvaGhezel find paper rb.gy/sc3k where we delimit the two gorgeous species of arrow darters, Etheostoma sagitta and E. spilotum
Brittany McCall retweeted
Our #review of the past 10 years of aquatic eDNA is here! We looked at 407 manuscripts and provide:
- 17 key considerations to guide study design and method selection
- a list of 663 PCR primers for aquatic eDNA research (largest to date)
authors.elsevier.com/c/1ggaw…
Brittany McCall retweeted
please RT: my advisors are hiring postdocs and grad students at Auburn! we work in lots of disciplines (ecophys, mvmt ecology, telemetry, microchemistry, etc.) flexible project design for applicants. migrate to beautiful alabama! aub.ie/IC-GRAs
aub.ie/IC-postdoc
Brittany McCall retweeted
🧵1/9 The Bowfin Amia, the sole survivor of a 200-million year-old fish lineage, harbors HIDDEN SPECIES!
Excited to announce the preprint of paper with @TJNear, @DaeminKim3 @SolomonRDavid and colleagues here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #Biology #Evolution #Bowfin #Fish
Brittany McCall retweeted
Please help me disseminate this call to any potential candidates you may know.
Brittany McCall retweeted
3 phd projects available! Evolution and ecology of Eastern Australian reptiles past and present. Candidates will apply for a scholarship through Monash University. @MonashBiol @Aussiedinosaurs @joanna_sumner99
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Breakdown on Fish Ita bags~ I have a few left in stock but will be restocking tomorrow~ Second post shows the other bags
You can nab one here:
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Thermal tolerance of madtoms progress:
✅ Black River Madtom
◼️ Caddo River Madtom - a species of greatest conservation need for Arkansas and will be in review for federal listing next year. With streams warming it is important to understand if they can acclimate to warmer temps
Excited to be able to share some cool phylogenetic results of madtom catfishes @BLFluker, Jacob Egge and I have found @SEFishesCouncil later today!
Brittany McCall retweeted
Tomorrow I am going wayy out of my comfort zone and presenting a habitat suitability model on the Etowah Darter @McCallMeB and I developed. This plant nerd is about to spend two days talking fish and I couldn't be more excited! @SEFishesCouncil
Brittany McCall retweeted
I am pleased to announce that I’ve decided to go net-zero on swear words and bad language. In the event that I should say something inappropriate I pledge to compensate that by saying something nice. #COP26
Brittany McCall retweeted
PLEASE RT! Dr. Rachel Bowden and I are looking for two PhD students to start in the Fall of 2022 and work on an NSF funded project investigating how turtles with TSD respond to heatwaves. Please contact me ([email protected]) to find out more.
So excited to have madtom catfish in the lab! It's been interesting to say the least. Probably my favorite moment, building them homes and seeing them choose the space within the heater and under the filter sponge instead 🤦 just like a cat choosing the box over a bed
