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it's so weird to encounter the word "grouper" in reference to a fish
(to me it is the name of an Android tablet)

Shinichi Kobayashi has idyllic memories of growing up on Naoshima, one of the nearly 3,000 islands scattered across Japan's Seto Inland Sea.
"We would go clam digging," said the 75-year-old, who became the island's mayor in 2018.
"During the summer, I would spend entire days swimming in the sea, catching turban shells and fish, getting deeply tanned."
"I don't recall seeing any foreign visitors," he added.
Kobayashi's hom…

Setouchi Triennale 2025
The Setouchi Triennale is a contemporary art festival held every three years on the islands of the Seto Inland Sea.

it breaks my heart to think of the world my children and grandchildren are inheriting
#whitefish #GreatLakes #FoodWeb #biodiversity

Iconic whitefish on edge of collapse as Great Lakes biodiversity crisis deepens | Bridge Michigan
Few fish are as synonymous with Michigan as whitefish. Pushed to the edge by invasive species, their struggle is the tip of a cataclysmic species collapse that could change our way of life.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05822 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Self-reorganization and Information Transfer in Massive Schools of Fish
The remarkable cohesion and coordination observed in moving animal groups and their collective responsiveness to threats are thought to be mediated by scale-free correlations, where changes in the behavior of one animal influence others in the group, regardless of the distance between them. But are these features independent of group size? Here, we investigate group cohesiveness and collective responsiveness in computational models of massive schools of fish of up to 50,000 individuals. We show…