We are looking to hire an outstanding individual to become the new Fish Collection Manager at UMich Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Michigan. Email me with questions. See details and apply careers.umich.edu under Job opening ID 252004. Please RT. ASIH American Fisheries Society

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I present to you the stunning Niobrara River in northern Nebraska with the birds, crickets and katydids chirping. Listen to the glow of the water

Discovering the likely type locality of Fundulopanchax spoorenbergi (Berkenkamp, 1976) in the Lower Cross Basin (Nigeria) mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

To celebrate #CatfishMonth, Nathan K. Lujan (Curator of Fishes) shares some different Loricariids from ROM’s storage! #ichthyology #nature #science

Outstanding new #buffalofish paper 🚨 from Lackmann et al. If you somehow still don't feel that this critter and other #nongame fishes like it are a national treasure deserving of #conservation protections, please check out this paragraph... #fisheries nature.com/articles/s4159…

New paper by Takeuchi et al. shows the diet of a juvenile cichlid in Lake Malawi, Docimodus evelynae, largely consists of the "snout warts" of the cyprinid Labeo cylindricus. Amazing! doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Phylogeny & new classification of Characidae tetras and related families has been just published w/ 575 taxa, 494 species, 123 genera, 1348 UCE loci, 4 families, 29 subfamilies, 13 authors and 6y of project! Fruit from my previous postdoc FAPESP/Brazil. academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

Hey #Sciencetwitter: I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join the Wildlife & Water lab at Odum School of Ecology w/ some funding available for work on Nature-based Solutions, (freshwater) biodiversity & bird conservation, ecohydrology, & wetland ecology. Please share w/ friends/colleagues!

Discovering the likely type locality of Fundulopanchax spoorenbergi (Berkenkamp, 1976) in the Lower Cross Basin (Nigeria) Popoola & Van der Zee. 2024. Zootaxa 5501 (4): 596–600 mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

Join us next week as NARO_NaFIRRI launches the photographic atlases of the fishes of Uganda Venue: Online (zoom) Date: 12th September 2024 Time 3:30-5:00 PM EAT Register: zoom.us/meeting/regist… View full program: docs.google.com/document/d/1ng… NARO Uganda MAAIF 🇺🇬

Grace Kioko, one of Kenya’s few spider experts, is making remarkable strides in a field long dominated by men. At only 32, she’s leading groundbreaking research that is putting Kenya at the forefront of global arachnology. Kioko reflects on her transformative studies in China and

Protecting our watersheds means protecting our future. In Nairobi, sustainable farming boosted local income by $50M annually, while in Cape Town, watershed restoration saves water at half the cost. #AFSForum2024 Learn more: nature.ly/4ethbUv 📸©Bobby Neptune & Roshni Lodhia

Lake Tabitabi- fishing boats are made of tree bark & punted with poles. Trees are hollowed out and a fire set within (saw one). In deep water, they paddle with poles, no blades- hard work!

This is the 3rd pack of wild dogs with pups we’ve viewed on MalaMala this denning season 📷 by ranger @deon_wildlifephotography #nature #dogs #wildlife #endangered

Last day: first Lake Kamphambe, upstream from Chilingali yielded 8 species from 20 specimens in a gillnetter's catch. No endemics but first appearances in this survey for Labeo cylindricus and Brachyalestes imberi. Lots of T. sparrmanii.

Our #mormyrid paper is finally out in Eco&Evo!😍 We show that trophic ecology of African elephant fishes differs within the species community, incl. three species (two undescribed!:-) of the Mormyrus genus from the Sanaga River in Cameroon. Thks, Gina! doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7…

New paper from the Piller lab. Life in the fastlane? A comparative analysis of gene expression profiles across annual, semi-annual, and non-annual killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Rural Lake County, SD at dusk, hazy from the Canadian wildfires

Happening now: Launch of the Atlases on the fishes of Uganda by NaFIRRI