Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

Today’s eel: Every edition of this newsletter is named after an eel. Today's eel is Simenchelys parasitica, which also goes by a series of fairly rude names including snubnose eel, pug-nosed eel, slime eel, and snub-nose parasitic eel. I picked it because these eels are fairly gross (the way I felt about 2022) and also have a lot of fascinating potential we can scavenge (how I'm hoping to feel about 2022 in the future).

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

[image: an eel, with yellow skin spotted with black spots, swimming in a tank with other colorful fish]

Today’s eel: Every edition of this newsletter is named after an eel. Normally that means an eel species, but today's issue is named after a specific, individual eel. His name is Larry Gordon, and he lives in Tacoma, Washington. I read about Larry in this delightful story by Emily Anthes, and I really do hope you go read the whole thing because it's great.

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

[image: A photograph of Protanguilla palau, a pinkish eel that has a long body and white tipped fins, swimming along the seafloor, which is white]

Note: Today's newsletter is LONG! If you want to read it in a browser here's a link. There are also a lot of images. SORRY. I haven't sent one of these in a year, please forgive me for being long winded.

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

image: a single skinny eel against a blue background

Today’s eel: Every edition of this newsletter is named after an eel. Today’s is the Hawaiian garden eel (Gorgasia hawaiiensis). I can’t believe we haven’t talked about garden eels in the past in this newsletter, since I have a real soft spot for them. There are about 35 known species of garden eel and their namesake comes from the fact that they bury themselves in the sand and seem to almost grow, like a little eel garden.

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

: is one of a handful of so-called “sawtooth eels.” But the thing that sets apart from the rest of the sawtooth family is, in science talk, “reduced dentition.” In other words, can be distinguished from other sawtooths because it has less sawtoothy teeth. It looks a bit more like a snipe eel, .

Hi all,

This is just a quick housekeeping email to say that I’m moving this newsletter away from Substack. At this point you either know all about why, or have no clue what I’m talking about at all. If you want to read up on what’s going on, other folks have covered it far better than I can. Substack can choose to pay and promote whoever they like, and I can choose to leave if their editorial choices don’t align with my values. And suffice to say that platforming and paying TERFs & racists isn’t something I want to participate in, to put it lightly.

You don’t have to do anything to stay subscribed, but the next time you get an email from the eel bucket, it will look slightly different. You’ll get one of those from me soon to confirm that the switch has been made successfully.

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?

Welcome to today’s bucket of eels. I’m Rose. Let’s pull out some eels, shall we?