Counting principal caudal-fin rays on some African mountain catfishes (Amphilius). 6 + 7

You guys aren't ready for this yet. But your kids are gonna love it

Adding some relevant instructional images to my lab.

Pollinators enjoying the goldenrod

A hidden friend!

My buttonbush is putting in the work this afternoon

20 seconds of relative calm from a small spring trickling into the Sare River in Kenya.

Sampling around Migori, Kenya. Hard to set and hold the seine in the fast flows but collected many Chiloglanis somereni. I was doing pretty good transferring them to the collecting jug, but got careless and grabbed one by the tail instead of a spine. It flipped and hit my finger pretty good.

Sampled the Riana River today after a 14 year hiatus. Last sampled in 2011 with the original IRES crew. Thankfully, things are still in decent shape. Dreamed of this river over the years because of the Chiloglanis and Zaireichthys collected. Today added some Gnathonemus sp.

Taking tissues from samples with lots of interest from the local community. Great time to talk about what we are doing and why these fishes and macroinvertebrates are important.

Glad to be back in Kenya. Joining our NSF-funded IRES group for the 2nd three weeks of research on freshwater biodiversity. I'll share pics as we go.

Safely arrived in Kenya. Working with students from Randolph-Macon College, Tulane University, and the National Museums of Kenya. Will survey freshwater biodiversity in western Kenya for the next few weeks. Nice lunch at the museum and cataloging specimens from the past several weeks.

With the CIPRES portal coming to an end next year, I wonder where people are moving their analyses to? I know of ngphylogeny.fr and a few others, but it would be great to hear what others are using.

There is grandeur in this view of life. A couple weeks of down time before heading to Kenya. Good to catch up on some projects.

Interesting, we worked on this years ago with 3d scans. Good to see this coming up again.

I nice place to stop and point out the differences between English ivy and poison ivy to my 5 yo on our walk to the library.