Daniel Symonds

@thepopenjay The whole thing

Bonus Votes! Help decide the #SUNY #MascotMadness Champion for 2023 and next year's Mascot Ambassador. Every vote counts: 🔁RT = Oakie the Acorn 💙Like = Wolfie Seawolf

@TimLane13 @DrLouLavictoire @MattAshton81 @WestCumbriaRT @freshwaterbio galvandirect.com/groundroddrive… Here is what I bought. Works great. In areas of bedrock you have to search for a seam. By the end of the day you'll feel like you foul tipped about 1000 baseballs. Better than a sledge though.

@DrLouLavictoire @MattAshton81 @WestCumbriaRT @freshwaterbio @MusselDS Found it: youtu.be/zF9WOU67q6E He was able to drive through rock with it. I’m getting one. My days of splashing with sledge hammers is over…😆

Newborn photo shoot for Momma Appalachian Monkeyface! #aww #baby #freshwatermussel #endangeredspecies #VDWR_AWCC #putusbackinthewater

Gopro/Wallet, Class ring, and apple watch all headed back to their owners. Hilarious seeing them react to river treasure they thought was lost forever.

River Treasure from a day on the Namekagon in Wisconsin. Apple watch, gopro, and 1/3 phones still work. A 1997 class ring already headed back to its owner, who lost it 20 years ago.

@thepopenjay I was off twitter long enough for you to have a baby. Congrats!

@CbusMetroParks Pleasant Valley Darby Creek isn't open. Is there any rhyme or reason to when that park is open/closed? Is there somewhere I can check ahead of time to see if it's closed?

Alert: Cross-country skiing is open at Battelle Darby Creek, Highbanks, Prairie Oaks and Glacier Ridge 🎿

.@Nomar5 & @TheRealJHair share their thoughts on Joe Kelly's eight-game suspension.

It's hump day, so check out the cool humps on this federally endangered Cumberland Monkeyface (Theliderma intermedia). This exact specimen was collected in the Powell River, Virginia by @TimLane13 (photo credit) and @VDGIF Aquatic Wildlife Conservation Center

See thread: 5k E. aureola successfully transformed. Covid, be damned!! Of those, ~1,800 have made it to 1 mo. & ~600 um. Please, say a prayer or send a positive vibe to these little clams. They rep the latest positive result for the species but time is running out. #VDGIF_AWCC

@reinaamariee It's the work from home equivalent of a printer knowing the exact time you're desperate for it to just work.

@MusselDS It’s the worst! I still don’t know what happened. I video called my coworker after the meeting to debrief and audio/visual connected without issue. So bizarre

Is there some messed-up law of the universe that states when you have an important virtual meeting you’ve been planning for over half a year, your internet must malfunction a couple of hours before that meeting?

@reinaamariee Same thing happened to me the other day. 6 weeks of no problems. Big presentation via skype? Time to update literally everything without asking.

Well folks, my computer tried really hard to sabotage me this morning, but I’m happy to report that everything got sorted out and the meeting went well!

Freshwater mussels are one of the planet's most endangered groups of animals - in North America alone, 30 species have gone extinct over the last century + 65% of those left are considered endangered, threatened or vulnerable #EndangeredSpeciesDay blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-cou…

@jameslkunz72 @USGSAquaticLife @USGS How old are they?

Juvenile Arkansas Brokenray (Lampsilis reeveiana) being grown out for an in-situ study in the Buffalo National River, Arkansas on a 1mm grid. #Freshwatermussels @USGSAquaticLife @USGS

Check out this awesome Black Sandshell (Ligumia recta) showing off it's lure and siphons. This species can grow exceptionally long, up to 180mm (7 inches). Photo Credit: Kirt Jirka, Oswayo Creek, NY.

Just while I wait for them to have an actual rematch.

@DaveZanatta @MattAshton81 Make sure to start a life list of species for them. So when they're applying for grad school they can say they did their first survey 15 years ago.

@MattAshton81 I don’t know if the excellent summer day camp programs our town offers will be available this year. Grandparents are all in Canada (closed border) and all high risk (70+). The kid might become a field assistant.

Totally me too. Even with just 1 kid. So much uncertainty moving forward. I don’t know how field season is going to go. 🤷‍♂️

@PhishBiologist @TimLane13 @Gnarly_Larvae @TimLane13 add this to your to-do list.

Todd Amacker took this close up of the FE Fluted kidneyshell’s conglutinate lures. Incredible detail in the mimicry!! No wonder the fish hosts are easily fooled! #freshwatermussels

@Gnarly_Larvae @TimLane13 What if we have lures/mimic's all wrong. What if the black flies evolved to look like mussel lures?

@MusselDS @TimLane13 Tim, any idea if the timing in the two species’ conglutinate production is different? Maybe Fluted produces them later when at the same time when black flies are pupating?