📢 Join CHIPOLATA! Two PhD fellowships and one postdoctoral fellowship linked with our project on "Climate change and harvesting impacts on the pelagic fish community of Lake Tanganyika (#chipolata)" are available. Please RT. site.nord.no/landscapegenom…

See our latest work on the inestinal lengths of fishes: doi.org/10.1007/s11160… Congrats to MaJo and everyone involved!

See our latest work on the adaptive radiation of snails of the genus Tylomelania in Sulawesi: rdcu.be/dEN7D Congrats to Björn Stelbrink and all involved!

Amazing work by Carolin et al, on curiosity in our Lake Tanganyika cichlids!

Vandaag start #icabiodiversitychallenge 🦋 Vorig jaar telden we aan #kuleuven meer dan 1.500 dier- en plantensoorten op onze campussen 🌻 Doe nog tot 28 juni mee en help de biodiversiteit in kaart te brengen 🔍 Meer info over telmomenten en registratie bit.ly/49ZnBrz

Grateful to have been able to present my work here, and to attend such an interesting and important conference #symbnet2024

162 participants, 26 countries from 5 continents. Thank you all for making #SymbNET2024 such a great success! 💙

New paper out: An Updated Checklist of the Fishes from the Upper Malagarazi (Lake Tanganyika Basin) in Burundi: Implications for an under Implementation Malagarazi Nature Reserve - goo.gl/scholar/7acswJ

Important phylogenetics work here Evolution of the Italian pasta ripiena: the first steps toward a scientific classification link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our new study on the description of Enteromius nzigidaherai, endemic to the upper Malagarazi in Burundi onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…

Another study on our description of two new Enteromius species from the Middle Congo: Enteromius cerinus and Enteromius ruforum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…

X-ray video from a new study reveals an eel’s daring escape from a predator’s stomach. Learn more: bit.ly/3zHng0Q News from Science

PhD thesis submitted! 🥂

Today, at age 75, my Congolese collaborator Mulimbwa N’Sibula successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Kisangani. Congratulations Dr. Mulimbwa with this fantastic achievement, and thanks for serving as such a great example of perseverance! site.nord.no/landscapegenom…

Last Friday, I defended my PhD work of the last 4 years and officially became a Doctor in Biology!! 🇨🇭🧬🐠🍤🍾 Walter Salzburger Lab

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝑇𝑒𝑙𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑧𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑖. Morphological diversity of the genus #𝑇𝑒𝑙𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠 from the #LakeTanganyika drainage with the description of a new riverine species. #Lamprologine #Cichlids 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…

Happy that I could be part of this new study on the feeding ecology of the Maghreb bleak, Tropidophoxinellus callensis, in Algeria doi.org/10.15421/012447 picture credit: Baikeche et al., 2021 (Biodivers. J.)

Men risk drowning to flee conscription by Congolese rebels bbc.in/41nnXG9

Out in ME! New study led by Charlotte Huyghe uses shotgun #metagenomics to study the diet of Lake Tanganyikan cichlid #fish, revealing a great diversity of food sources within this adaptive radiation. Wiley Ecology & Evolution Universität Basel 🔗: buff.ly/QrJUGuG 📷: Adrian Indermaur 1/2