A few years back, a very unexpected relationship was found between Cichlids and convict fish. We have now explored this relationship further, and found that it might not be nearly as clear as once thought..... (photo by Ian Roussopoulos)
www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S105....
Have fun in Rome, I just got back and I loved it, as always!!!
A few fishes from Hawaii....
I have just spent a month teaching a field class in Corsica, what a treat! and a few fishes....
Are these the real sizes of what ostracoderms would have been like? I assumed them to be larger
You know what is better than an ichthyologist? Two ichthyologists in a plane! Thank you @fishguy.bsky.social this was the best birthday present I could have.
Our new paper on population genomics of black surfperch. I am incredibly happy, decades in the making....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Mom Amphiprion maohiensis and a baby (most likely not hers, although there is some self-recruitment....)
Fun to take a picture yesterday of the newly described Amphiprion maohiensis in Moorea.
New anemonefish species alert! After many years working with this species, we finally also described it as a the Polynesian Anemonefish. zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1414...
Evening beach seine in Lake Malawi......
Malawi is said to be the warm heart of Africa and it really is….
The lilac-breasted roller is a very common bird in Kruger. Yet, it is magnificent....
Today I got a chance to visit Sterkfontein caves. There, I found a collection of classic casts. I tried to recreate from memory a super famous picture of Richard Leakey holding a fossil found by his mother, Mary (nutcracker man) and a fossil he found (Turkana boy). I know this is nerdy and silly..
This is as timely as it gets. I start teaching my field class in Southern Africa tomorrow! Brilliant paper! www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Wow, autocorrect did it again!!! Masaki not Masala obviously…
Who had the coolest lab? We do!!!
Masala Miya. Closing talk of IPFC. How lucky we are!!!
Vincent Laudet speaking on clownfish/ anemone symbiosis
Went to Aquarium street in Taipei last night with the lab. It looks like @solomonrdavid.bsky.social dream/nightmare….
Jenn Caselle is the new Bleeker Awardee for Ecology!!! Yippee!!! #IPFC
goofball alert! visiting the aquarium district in Taipei with Shinji and Eric!
Indo Pacific Fish Conference in Taiwan with the lab. So great!
Ron Fricke on the Catalog of Fishes!! #IPFC 2025
Helen Larson is the recipient of the Bleeker award for systematics. She forgot more about gobies than most will ever know. #IPFC 2025
Jessica Glass talking about population genomics of pacific herring! #IPFC 2025
Manon Mercader on clownfish diversification! #IPFC 2025
Jennifer Donelson talking about one of my favorite species… #IPFC 2025.
Keynote lecture by Larry Page. #IPFC 2025