Next time you’re staring at #NiagaraFalls wondering what could be more impressive, just think of all the fishes like this one erecting mounds of up to 7,000 stones just upstream.

A really impressive River Chub ( #Nocomis_micropogon ) collected in 1975 from the Niagara River upstream of Niagara Falls, now a permanent record of #biodiversity at Royal Ontario Museum (ROM 31091).

Big success story out of Suriname!

Government denies Mennonites request to begin ag projects that would cause massive deforestation

'Minister Ramdin explains there were 2 main reasons for stopping project: social reality & large-scale deforestation'

srherald.com/suriname/2024/…

cbc.ca/news/canada/lo…

We have very few places left in our course on biodiversity genomics in Ecuador on 20-24 July. If you would like to take the course, please sign up asap, latest until 10 May: elen-lepidoptera.org/biodiversity-g…

Community success story from International Rivers! ✊🌎

After more than 10 years of community mobilisation, Brazil's Mato Grosso government halts licensing for a proposed Castanheira hydroelectric dam on the Arinos River.

#Climate #Brazil #IndigenousPeople

internationalrivers.org/news/press-rel…

Check out this new piece I wrote for ROM Magazine on an epic 2005 expedition to southern Venezuela, and the start of my 19-year collaboration and friendship with contemporary artist David Brooks!

Happy to have another opportunity to share this great specimen of #Acanthicus_hystrix ....another reason why natural history collections are so important!

Despite its size, this critter is more closely related to elephants than shrews! Meet the black & rufous elephant shrew, a distant relative of manatees & hyraxes. This fast-moving mammal creates networks of foraging trails to patrol its territory & to escape from foes.

This may be one of the biggest papers I ever have the privilege to be part of.

Out now in Science Magazine, we ask: Are nature conservation interventions working?

The answer is YES. We now need to fund MORE to reverse global biodiversity declines.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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An African loricariid?!?!??

Species are as real as the Tree of Life. Species boundaries represent the natural limits of gene flow and natural selection. Species phenotypes represent quasi-stable aspects of the environmental fabric in which other species interact and evolve.

Your semi-regular update that the online #Catalog_of_Fishes now records a total of 36,779 valid fish species, with 18,675 (50.8%) reported from freshwaters.

A terrible proposal. Everyone needs to live sustainably, within their means. The abundance of freshwater in the Great Lakes does not justify unsustainable growth in the mid/southwest. michigandaily.com/opinion/column…

Another job opening! I am hiring a postdoc in my lab at University College London to work on developing new phylogenetic comparative methods for modeling the evolution of complex phenotypes! Details here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

(Almost) all pycnodonts from Haqel, Lebanon.
The early Cretaceous had a most diverse pycnodont genus and some of them were extremely weird.
#fossilfishart #paleoart #sciart

I think it's more accurate to say that fish are criminally understudied and that mammals are overrated 😎

My grandfather built motors that powered big machines. In a lab not so different from his workshop, my colleagues and I uncovered the assembly of the bacterial motor. Today, this discovery has been published in Nature Microbiology #MolecularNodes #Discovery nature.com/articles/s4156…

Great news for Canadian research and training programs!

Important changes and welcome increases to student scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships. Looks like Banting and Vanier are going away.