The cichlid crew while feeding. 🐟 #photography #fishkeeping

The cichlid crew while feeding. 🐟 #photography #fishkeeping

#MolluscMonday The L.F. Spath collection at the NHM in London includes numerous thin sections through the early growth stages of ammonoids. This crudely photographed example is of a Cretaceous ammonite.

A bonus for #MolluscMonday, the first fossil I spotted today in Singapore, a sectioned ammonite on a polished slab of German Jurassic Treuchtlingen Formation used to clad a wall in Changi Airport.

Please share the announcement of this new fellowship scheme widely with your students and colleagues www.linkedin.com/posts/initia...

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Very excited to share my exploration of the phylogenetics of early ray-finned fishes, out today in the Anatomical Record! Really busy day but I’ll have more info shortly. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Essay on my phylogenetics paper that looks at my next steps as a researcher and paleontology in the 21st century. open.substack.com/pub/fishhist...

Microbial community succession of home aquarium biofilters associated with early establishment of comammox Nitrospira -in #ISMEComms from @joshdneufeld.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

natureconservation.pensoft.net/article/1603... 🐟🧪

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Hey, do ya like Sturgeon? We sure do! Want to learn about how repopulating their native habitats can actually help humans, too? I bet you do! Check out episode 66, with our friend and incredible guest, Dr. Jeff Wyatt! You can find the episode on your podcatcher of choice, right now!

Amazing development of the genital tassel on the dominant male Oreochromis squamipinnis (Lake Malawi endemic).

Some of the other cichlids from my „Pan-African“ aquarium: Paralabidochromis sauvagei, from Lake Victoria, H. sp. „Ruby Green“, a female, Coptodon bythobates, from Lake Bermin in Cameroon. 🐟 #photography #fishkeeping

Een geplukte Archaeopteryx klaar om te worden gebraden #FossilFriday

#Ammonite hunting on Lyme Regis beach with new palaeo friends closed our #2025SVP fieldtrip 🥰

Yoyo loach from one of my aquariums. A freshwater ornamental #fish I've had for several years. For #fishyfriday. #fish #aquarium #fishkeeping 🐟

It's time for #FishOfTheWeek and today I want to talk about a really cool fish that has become much maligned (not without reason) in North America. That's right, today we're gonna talk about the so-called Frankenfish. The snakehead 1/7

Three weeks, no picture of moth posted by me. Yes, the season is coming to an end, but still some interesting species are still on the wing, as this Asteroscopus sphinx. It came to the light yesterday in Berlin. #teammoth, #moth, #stadtnatur, #berlinbiodiversity, #berlin, #urbanbiodiversity

Some of the other cichlids from my „Pan-African“ aquarium: Paralabidochromis sauvagei, from Lake Victoria, H. sp. „Ruby Green“, a female, Coptodon bythobates, from Lake Bermin in Cameroon. 🐟 #photography #fishkeeping

Tonight, the Groningen region in the Netherlands was shaken by a magnitude 3.4 #earthquake, according to KNMI. This is the biggest eq in the region in the past 6 years. Here's the seismogram from my Raspishake in Herne, Germany, 211 km away from the epicenter. 🧪⚒️ #Geology @raspishake.bsky.social

Haplochromis sp. „Ruby Green“, a threatened species of cichlid from Uganda. A close relative of the cichlids of Lake Victoria, Africa‘s largest lake. 🐟 #photography #fishkeeping #conservation

the subtle green/yellow iridescence on my penguin tetras is so nice

This is an Eastern Cape giant cycad. This specimen at Kew Gardens is the world's oldest potted plant* & it is older than the United States. I found this oddly comforting? Certain systems seem deeply entrenched & unchangeable but in reality there are houseplants that have been around longer.🧪🌿

A snail appreciation post. I've been collecting longitudinal population data on my rabbit snail population since I got George & Gracie in early 2020. They went on to have many children and today the population is still going strong, although slightly declining as the snails enter old age.

JOB OPPORTUNITY! Senior Researcher in Freshwater Environmental Genetics to work with us on the ERC REFRESH Programme studying the role of dissolved organic matter in freshwater ecosystems shorturl.at/zOajg @pennyjohnes.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @ercrefresh.bsky.social @danread.bsky.social

Haplochromis sp. „Ruby Green“, a threatened species of cichlid from Uganda. A close relative of the cichlids of Lake Victoria, Africa‘s largest lake. 🐟 #photography #fishkeeping #conservation

My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have. apply.interfolio.com/177547

Are you a postdoc or Asst. Prof on the job market? Check out our listing and consider applying! The search is very broad and it’s in a great department, location, university! Even with the crazy schedule that comes with being a PI- I love my job @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social!

My observation of the day: Carabus granulatus heavily colonised by the mite Iphidosoma fimetarium. Naturally, I had no idea which mite this might be - iNaturalist owen_seeman provided the identification. 👍 iNaturalist #stadtnatur, #berlinbiodiversity, #berlin, #urbanbiodiversity

Want to do a PhD linking palaeontology, ecological modelling and polar ecosystems? Look no further than this NERC GW4+ DLTP funded project with @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social at @bas.ac.uk & @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social and others (inc me). www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...

My baby #sparklinggourami all grown up in my moms #fishtank. They are so much bigger than their parents.

#Museums had a rough 2025: New AAM Report shows lower attendance, lost grants, and less money. 🙁

old fish skech ... I think I haven't shared this one here 🐟🐡

Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸 vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...

Our new study: territorial cichlids ramped up metabolic rate around conspecifics, while cardinal tetras showed little change. And only in tetras did individual sociability relate to metabolic rate. Energetic consequences of “social living” depend on social system. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧪ETHOLOGY: Holtz et al. use a computer vision pipeline to uncover subtle differences in movement patterns in Lake Malawi cichlids — showing how behavior may help maintain biodiversity beyond diet differences. 🐟📹🤖 It's #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/eth.... #Cichlids #ComputerVision #MachineLearning

PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social

www.scielo.br/j/ni/a/yntXm... I‘m all for fish descriptions having titles like that. 🐟🧪

So in German, cichlids are called ‚Buntbarsche‘, which literally means ‚colorful perches‘. While they‘re not related to true perches, I guess the ‚colorful‘ part fits quite well. 🐟 #photography #fishkeeping

Check out our new paper led by @apohle.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy #openaccess 🧪

Lophophorata is monophyletic! Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata. A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social! More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...

#MolluscMonday Balanced on a wall beneath the ice-cream parlour at Aubeterre (Charente, France) is a fossil of the large rudist bivalve Hippurites, probably collected from a local field underlain by Campanian limestones.

Challenging traditional methods of age estimation: elemental and isotopic characterisation of speartooth shark Glyphis glyphis vertebra www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

Microstructural & geochemical evidence offers a solution to the cephalopod cameral deposits riddle onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @datadryad.bsky.social

everyone, go watch this video of a snail giving birth to 3 adorable babies

Our paper on tinamou evolution is finally out in @systbiol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.