HulloThere

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

A greater Argentine (Argentina silus)
A screenshot of a reel showing delicious looking pork served by a street vendor, with the nonsensical translated caption "The chopsticks I encounter in the vegetable market are burned white, and the entrance is gone!"
A brick castle with Scandinavian features, including a clocktower with a weird wavy roof. There is a herb garden in the foreground.
The front slide of a presentation entitled "Metabolic diversity of deep pelagic teleosts revealed through otolith-based isotope proxy". The right side of the slide is taken up by a film image showing a diversity of deep pelagic fish on a white plastic surface.
A photo from inside a short corridor; the nearest end is insanely blue, the far end is insanely pink, all are lit by fluorescent tubes. Out the end there are white walls visible.
Cute fuzzy guys
A screenshot of a "people also ask" on google that has a kinda unreadable AI thing about what the correct plural of fish is
A bright green metallic weevil with a tastefully ridged back, eyes that seem to sparkle intelligently, perky antennae and a little snout that almost seems to smile :) I think he’s Phyllobius
A screenshot of a tweet from Nov 2024 that includes a screenshot of several blobby grey fish hanging out on yellow sediment with the caption “Went to the Guentherus aggregation at the edge of the coral reef and no one knew you 💅👀”
A mayfly on a white wall
The fish is looking at you with big dark eyes going :3
A black-and-white photo of a bizarre alien landscape against a starfield. On the left, a jagged cliff towers high, its lower reaches lost in a smooth drift of dust; boulders areon the bottom right of the image. The sky is dark, but flecked with bright stars and, closer, across the whole images, streaks left by particles of ice and dust.
The cover of a pamphlet, published in 1913, titled "The Nummulosphere - An Account of the ORGANIC ORIGIN of so-called IGNEOUS ROCKS and of ABYSSAL RED CLAYS" by R. Kirkpatrick. The cover illustration is a globe covered in oceans, at the top of which sits King Neptune riding four horses; he is holding his trident, at the tip of which is impaled a foraminiferan.
Dean Norris looking sad
Two images from a figure given in D'Onghia et al 2018's paper "Using a benthic lander to explore and monitor vulnerable ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea." The first shows a crab standing over a pile of mackerel waving a tattered bit of sponge above its head with its back legs, seeming to threaten a blackbelly rosefish that has turned away. The second shows a massive shark, mouth open, with a similar crab stuffing a bit of sponge into its gob. Very feisty.
A picture of me (a schlubby white guy with long brown hair and a bad beard) wearing a navy blue hoody and jeans stood on the deck of a ship. Behind me, the Atlantic Ocean stretches out, tally, fluffy clouds arranged in rank and file to the horizon.
AI wank sea cucumber posted by some bozo
A sea pig.
Two bluesky posts in a row: one celebrates the "extraordinary" diversity of sharks, the other just casually has illustrations of a half dozen of the weirdest fishes in the sea.
An ROV photograph of an Oxynotus roughshark against a muddy background. The fish is bizarre with a small head, very pointy dorsal fins, and an enormous, swollen belly. Credits: Marine Institute/Kerry Howell
A pile of Salanx bonefish on banana(?) leaves. They are white and translucent, broadly cylindrical with big, goofy, googly eyes. They look kinda like udon or beansprouts.
A plate of chanquetes - whole, small, golden deep-fried fishes served with lemon wedges. They kinda look like segments of onion rings.
A very small, almost entirely transparent fish. The eyes are the only pigmented part of it, and you can clearly see the gas bladder as a central bubble in the middle of the body. Credit: wouterteunissen via iNaturalist
A Ceratias anglerfish
Homer Simpon lean out of moving car, his two hairs flapping lackadaisically in the hair, his smile huge and funny and genuine. The caption says "NEW DATA DAY!", in mimicry of the original New Billboard Day gag.
~100 fish drawn in amateurish black and white doodles - mainly eels, catfish, and carpy things
A really quite pathetic looking specimen of a deep sea fish held on an upsettingly stained blue plastic glove. The fish has a big eye and a smushed face with a dark stomach, and the back half is spotted with regular dark clumps of black pigment and photophores.
A top-down view of an orange plastic basket filled with small silver fish; there are thousands of them!
A crested morwong, a stripy fish shaped like a long triangle with a very high, spiny dorsal fin on the forehead, sits on a sandy bottom. Credit: Erik Shlogl via FoA
A Callionymus lyra fish held in a gloved hand; it has mauve spots on amber skin with a bright blue eye and big spines on the head.
A pic of a speckled, lovely ballan wrasse in an aquarium setting
The launch of Artemis II on a Space Launch System rocket; the vehicle is HUGE, with a massive core stage consisting of big fuel tanks coated in rough brick-red insulating foam, under which fire four space shuttle main engines, their flames rendered invisible by the incredible pillars of fire bursting from the solid rocket boosters either side. Atop the orange tanks sits the spacecraft, capped with a smooth fairing and a long, elegant launch escape tower. Clouds of dark grey steam and smoke billow around its base as it ascends into a blue sky.
A rendering of the Dynetics moon lander on the lunar surface. It is shaped like a squat rectangle made out of trusses, with a pressurised cylinder at its centre, big golden spherical fuel tanks and two quartets of engines. The solar panels roll out from the top like bunny ears.
A photo of a large but quite drab flatfish on a blue plastic conveyor belt
A black and white photo of a Russian helicopter dropping sand over the Chernobyl power plant
A diagram of the North American plate overlayed onto a map of North America and the Arctic. It extends from Central America all the way to Kamchatka on one side and runs down the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Iceland on the other.
A screenshot of Google Earth, focusing on the Channel Islands off the coast of California. Amusingly, the label for this archipelago is wiggly so that it passes over Santa Rosa, San Nicolas and San Clemente.
A dumbass little cartoon of two little bees saying some nonsense with a tumblr caption
A twisting pile of haunting ceramic faces next to weird twisting rope-chains. Jinkies.
A screenshot of the heading for Yoshida et al 2025: “Seminal vesicle protein caCA12 in Corydoras aeneus inhibits sperm motility for sperm drinking”
120 line drawings of little fishes on a white backdrop
A lithodoras catfish in a glass jar
Iconic TV fish botherer Jeremy Wade poses with a Goonch catfish that he’s holding out of muddy water. The Goonch is shaped like a “normal” pleco-ish catfish but is huge (~1.5m long) and has a massive mouth full of sharp teeth. Credit: River Monsters I assume?
A fish with three pairs of horns along its head and back and an intricate striped pattern on its bulbous lumpy body swims among seaweed. Credit: Alan Travers via Wikimedia.
A silver fish hovering head down over flat sandy grey
Just over a hundred black digital pencil drawings of bony fish on a white background- this image mostly consists of catfishes, eels, and freshwater fishes
An image of three blunt-headed fish approaching a camera on a brown muddy seafloor. One is very close to the camera, meaning it is subject to a slight fish-eye distortion. They look intimidating. Credit: UWA Minderoo