In de minidocumentairereeks ‘Onze Natuur Doorgrond’ geven onze onderzoekers je een inkijk in de wondere werking van de Belgische natuur. 🌳 In de laatste aflevering zoomen de experts in op invasieve exoten die ons ecosysteem stevig verstoren: youtube.com/watch?v=eQqZ8h…

Just out: "Surrounded by Great Lakes: Assessing the ichthyological diversity of Northern Zambian drainage systems" by Schedel et al. in J. Great Lakes Research doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr…

Job Opportunity: 2-year post-doctoral research fellowship in systematics of African freshwater fishes at SAIAB, Makhanda, South Africa. 24 Nov deadline! saiab.ac.za/about-us/vacan…

You are a PhD student in Ecology or evolutionary biology and are looking for a conference combining both science and fun? Say no more! #EMPSEB29🦅 is here for you!

⏰Your attention PhD students! EMPSEB29 registration deadline is coming soon! It is after midnight on January 15th. Prepare your best abstract and send it to us to be part of the #EMPSEB29 community. Register here: empseb29.pages.ist.ac.at/registration/

We "cleaned up" one of the taxonomic misplacements in the cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika with Gnathochromis remaining for G. permaxillaris and a new genus Jabarichromis for J. pfefferi. Great work by Anja, Dr. Frederic D.B. Schedel, Fabrizia, Adrian Indermaur: mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

See our latest work on the evolution of the taste and smell receptor genes across vertebrates in Nature Communications. Congrats to all involved, in particular to Maxime Policarpo. rdcu.be/dyJ3n

This is a video that I made about a year ago, as an alternative presentation on the EMPSEB28 conference. Have a look if you want to know more about my PhD study and what we did during our fieldwork at Lake Tanganyika: Diving for cichlids: youtu.be/-4qbvGpVlv8?fe…

Job offer: come and join us at BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt ! uhasselt.be/en/about-hasse…

📢 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! 💙

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