Todd Clardy, PhD

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Fish biologist interested in all things fishy, particularly comparative and functional anatomy and early life history. I play with a CT scanner a lot. Collections manager for the Department of Ichthyology at the NHMLA.

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Stingray feeding pits can create dramatic landscapes in shallow environments. Apparently, this habitat alteration does not affect macrobenthic diversity compared to nearby undisturbed areas. Interesting! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Do stingray feeding pits enhance intertidal macrobenthic biodiversity? - Hydrobiologialink.springer.com Little is known of the macrobenthos supported within stingray feeding pits. Compared to adjacent unpitted areas during low tide, macrobenthic abundance and biodiversity within the stingray pits might ...

A little Saturday morning shark science for ya. 🐟🦈 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fluid dynamic properties of shark caudal fin morphology and its relationship to habitats - Ichthyological Researchlink.springer.com Locomotion is essential for the survival of fish because it influences the success rate of avoiding danger and predation. In particular, differences in the hydrodynamic properties of the caudal fin ha...

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NEW PAPER: Novel pre-copulatory behavior in basking sharks observed by drone. 🦈 🦑 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Look at those chompers! Anoplogaster is called fangtooth for a reason. 🐟🧪

Spending my Sunday trying to decide which Los Angeles area haunted house to apply for this fall.

Manuscript edits on a Saturday morning.

Our museum database is updating from v 8.0 to v 9.0 this weekend and I’m so excited to see what fun changes are being made.

Is there a way to ban “artists” from appearing in a Spotify playlist? I don’t ever need to hear another Creed song. My life would be marginally better without Nickelback in it. Any way to purge “artists” like them from the algorithm?

Okay, how do I make this into a t-shirt to send to all my sharky and pirate friends?

They don’t make ‘em like they used to.

Chef Boyardee Sharks (circa 1990-circa 1995): Canned, shark-shaped pasta in a tomato sauce, available with or without mini meatballs

If we are going to use AI, can we use it for something productive, like formatting a manuscript instantly for whatever journal we are submitting to?

I had forgotten that Clive Barker wrote the short story that Candyman is based on. Then I read "The Forbidden" from The Books of Blood: Volume 5 last night and I started yelling "Candyman, Candyman, CandyMAN!" when I realized what I was reading. Good stuff.

Help us name the newest dino to be displayed at the NHMLA. It will be one of the featured attractions in the new building expansion for the museum, scheduled to open in the next few months. A few of us suggested naming it "Big Ass Dinosaur", but that didn't make the list for the poll.

🦕 Something BIG is heading to our NHM Commons, opening this fall! Our new community hub will feature a 75’ long-neck sauropod with GREEN bones—the only one of its kind in the world—and we need YOUR help giving L.A.'s next icon a name! Select your favorite now through June 20: bit.ly/NewGreenDino

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Back by popular demand - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2025! PIs - Enter your position info here: forms.gle/adBbhEBqYUg5... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share!

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2025forms.gle Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2025 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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🐟 How do plastics invading CA waters affect sea creatures 𝘢𝘯𝘥 land-loving pescatarians? Learn more as Ichthyology Curator Dr. Bill Ludt and UNLAB mentee Jessica Flores dive into the ingestion investigation: bit.ly/DeepDiveMicro

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Do you work in ecology/evolution? Did you do a study that is too small to publish as a full manuscript? Negative results? Part of a larger effort? Consider publishing in microPublication Biology: EEB! www.micropublication.org/journals/bio... Short papers, one figure. And we peer review! Please RT

microPublication - Get Your Data Out, Be Citedwww.micropublication.org

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Whitish film covering a newborn white shark was not intrauterine material but embryonic epithelium 🦈🐟🦑🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Whitish film covering a newborn white shark was not intrauterine material but embryonic epithelium - Environmental Biology of Fisheslink.springer.com We provide an alternative interpretation for the “whitish film” that covered the young white shark observed with an aerial drone in a paper published recently (Gauna and Sternes, Environ Biol Fish 107...

Every time I read something about the liver transplant process, I feel even luckier to be alive. Good thing I live in LA and mine was handled by Cedars Sinai. I’m a lucky boy. www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/h...

New US liver transplant policy raises cost and equity concerns, according to new study | CNNwww.cnn.com Changes to the policy that governs how liver transplants are allocated in the United States were meant to increase the number of transplants and make the process more equitable, but a new study raises...

We are coming into the final days of this auction! If you want an original gyotaku from one of the rarest fish in the sea, you still have time to bid! Proceeds benefit the Department of Ichthyology at the museum.

Looking to give back to some moms this #MothersDay? Now you have an exclusive opportunity to bid on one of five original Gyotaku Pacific Footballfish Rubbings by world-renowned artist Dwight Hwang: bit.ly/NHMMDA24

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FINAL DAYS. Don't miss your opportunity to own an original gyotaku print of the incredibly rare Pacific Footballfish by Artist Dwight Hwang in support of the research, staff, and students of NHMLA's Ichthyology department! Auction ends June 5: bit.ly/NHMLACpfbf

I'm looking to upgrade my computer for the office, investing in a beefy gaming rig to process ct scans. The question I have for folks is: should I go with a dual monitor setup or ultrawide monitor? Thoughts? Opinions?

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With a banner week for mollusks behind them, the international team of scientists aboard Kaimei—the world’s most advanced research vessel—bids Minami-Daitō goodbye after exploring some of the biodiversity in and around its undersea limestone caves: bit.ly/D-ARK1 📷 JAMSTEC

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I'm looking to do more for #disability in #academia. If you want a speaker for an event etc. in this theme, please contact me. I'd even enjoy just talking informally w/academics about lived experiences as disabled persons. #DisabledAcademic #AcademicChatter #DisabledInSTEM

The neighborhood delivery robot, stuck against a wall on the sidewalk, is dressed up to promote the movie Garfield, now in theaters. That may be the most LA sentence I’ve ever written.

If anyone has more information about this stranding, please let me know. We are trying to find out if the specimen was collected, if these photos are its only documentation, and if there is more info available. www.oregonlive.com/living/2024/...

Oregon Coast discovery: Rare deep-sea fish washes up at Cannon Beachwww.oregonlive.com It always pays to keep one eye on the ocean and one eye on the sand when you’re walking along the beach at the Oregon Coast.

Saw one of these up close today at the doctors’s office. I hope it’s not MY doctor’s ride.

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Excited to share that the @nhmla.bsky.social Ichthyology Department is partnering with gyotaku artist Dwight Hwang to auction an original print of a Pacific Footballfish! Bid on an amazing piece of art and support research! Please share! 🐟🧪

AUCTION NOW LIVE! Proceeds from this auction will directly support research and student involvement in the #NHMLAC's Ichthyology Department: bit.ly/NHMMDA24

Pacific Footballfish: Original Gyotaku Print by Dwight Hwang by Natural History Museums of Los Angeles Countybit.ly

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Prepare for an expedition into the deep sea caves around Japan's Minami-Daitō Island as we follow Dr. Jann Vendetti (Curator, Malacology) with Dispatches from the D-ARK: bit.ly/D-ARK1