dr. mykle hoban

@thefishbotherer.bsky.social

1012 Followers 390 Following

A dedicated follower of fishes. Technical diving, mesophotic reefs, and biodiversity at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. (he/they)

The Towie stone ball. A mysterious carved object from the Scottish Neolithic.
A bunch of bright red brachiopods in an outstretched hands.
Crazy geology where there are almost geometric spaces hollowed out. It’s red and grey and dark brown.
Two people in reverse mermaid costumes.
A portrait of a guy in profile but the whole thing is made up of various sea creatures. Most fish, but there’s also an octopus and shrimp and some red coral, among others.
The cockpit stone circle near Askham. A guy is lying in the middle.
A very large hermit crab using a spray paint can lid as a shell. I think the crab is Coenobita brevimanus
A warning sign that says “forbidden: not allowed on the….(presumably plane but it’s out of frame”. Beneath that are the icons of some things you can’t bring on the plane, like fireworks, poisons, cigarette lighters, and….war club.
A video of shallow water from above as a massive sea turtle swims through the frame from left to right.
it’s captain Picard screaming “there are four lights” except he’s saying “there are four soups”
it's a bunch of moorish idols swimming around in shallow water above reddish coral
a video of two very colorful fishes swimming in amongst a bunch of very colorful shrimps
A guy in black overalls and weird blue smurf boots leaping into the air above a flat snowy expanse. There's a mountain in the distance with lenticular clouds above. The guy has a weird grimace on his face but in truth he's having an amazing time.
A movie poster for the lost boys. It says “sleep all day, party all night, never grow old, never die. It’s fun to be a vampire”
a spotted eagle ray swimming on the surface of green water
it's a video shot from above of a diamond shape spotted stingray swimming through shallow water
a porcupinefish snuffling through very shallow water
a video taken from above of several squid floating in shallow water above a reef flat
a short video of a bonefish swimming in shallow water over a reef flat, shot from above.
Short video of a small green striped fish in someone’s hands. Its pectoral fins are very stripey!
A very pretty stripy snail on a leaf
Sally Timms and Jon Langford making funny faces and expressions. Langford appears to shaking his fists at the sky and Sally is gritting her teeth and bugging out her eyes.
the banner of the whitehouse account with a thing saying it's already blocked by a labeler I use
It's a gif of wesley snipes from blade saying "some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill."
A photo of the inside of someone’s leg with a big tattoo of a Hawaiian poppy (pua kala)
The bulbous ends of two pieces of bull kelp (Nerocystis luetkiana) carved into grinning jack o lanterns. They are on a rocky beach and you can see waves in the background.
An underwater photo of a nautilus at a slightly oblique angle with its feeding tentacles extended and pointing down and to the left. It's red and white with swirly stripes on its shell. We're not 100% certain what species is. It looks a lot like Nautilus vanuatuensis but given where we observed it and some of its characteristics, it may actually be undescribed.
a dolmen, which is to say a large flat stone on top of some other stones forming the remnants of a Neolithic chambered cairn
A sign from a park on O‘ahu giving information about environmental stewardship and protecting native ecosystems.
A CAP plot, which is similar to the dbRDA plot above, showing both the shallow crabs (yellow and violet, from the Main and Northwestern islands respectively) and the deep ones from O‘ahu (red is 30 m, light teal is 60 m and dark teal is 90 m). The shallow groups form a distinct cluster on the bottom left of the plot and the deeper ones form their own clusters on the upper right side. Notably, the 30 m group is distinct (and a bit more dispersed) while the 60 m and 90 m groups are overlapping and grouped more tightly.
A dbRDA plot, representing each sampled crab community as a dot, with the dots being colored by whether they came from the Main (yellow) or Northwestern (violet) Hawaiian Islands. The closer the dots are to each other, the more similar those crab communities are. There are lightly shaded ellipses in the background representing the 95% confidence area for the Main (yellow) and Northwestern (violet) islands. The dots and ellipses form two separate (but overlapping) groups, indicating that crab communities from the Main and Northwestern Islands are different from one another. On top of all of that is a group of vectors (arrows pointing out from the center of the plot) labeled with different environmental factors. These are the factors that were significant in our model, The longer the arrow, the stronger the relationship. The direction of the arrows show, to some degree, the way that each factor influences community differences. The longest two arrows are labeled Sea-surface temperature and Chlorophyll-A.
Three different views of ARMS units deployed on Hawaiian reefs. They are little cubes of grey PVC plates stacked on top of each other, bolted to a base plate, and attached to the reef. They're covered in all sorts of algae and encrusting life.
A sign that says “forbidden” and has a few things listed like poisons and fireworks, but the thing in the center is a silhouette of a Fijian war club in a red circle and it just says “war club”
A color chart of skin tones where lighter shades are listed as “okay” and darker ones as “not okay”. I think it’s from family guy. It gets posted all the time.
a closeup of a fish that I at first thought might have been a plectranthias but on further investigation I think it's actually an undescribed genus and species
a picture of gary "the smiler" callahan, a character from the comic series transmetropolitan. at one point in the series he's running for president and he says "I want to be president because I hate you. I want to fuck with you."
A bumpy grey sea slug on coral rock out of the water.
A large heart urchin test held in someone’s hand with grass in the background for some reason.
Picture of a small cute blenny (a fish) with a white body and a red and orange head that looks like it’s covered in glowing embers. It also sort of looks like a Matt Groening cartoon.
A screenshot from the article about the mining company called “Griftco” that says they also bought “Butt minerals in the Nipissing district”
Four seashells from bubble snails fluorescing pinkish red under UV light.