Giacomo Bernardi
I work on fish molecular ecology. I like to dive, sail, fly, rock climb, and motorcycles. But mostly, I like fish.... 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
- A few fishes from Hawaii....
- I have just spent a month teaching a field class in Corsica, what a treat! and a few fishes....
- 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....
- Masala Miya. Closing talk of IPFC. How lucky we are!!!
- Wow, autocorrect did it again!!! Masaki not Masala obviously…
- Who had the coolest lab? We do!!!
- 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
- And there is starts!! #IPFC 2025 in Taipei!!! Thank you Wei-Jen!
- Brilliant talk on genomics of Malawi Cichlids today by Richard Durbin
- I know they are introduced in Hawaii, but Madagascar day geckos are so beautiful
- Yet more fish from today…
- Just a few Hawaiian fishes I shot a couple of days ago, because in these times, we all need more fish pixes.
- Why is it that when we see an interesting picture we always have the wrong setup? Flame wrasse, Hawaii…
- Reposted by Giacomo BernardiOur preprint is out! Kudos to @josanesousa.bsky.social, @gabrielalima19.bsky.social, @perezlouise.bsky.social and undergraduate prodigy Hannah Shof! By comparing Polypterus fin and axolotl limb we find shared and new regeneration programs. @lsuscience.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Giacomo BernardiChris Thacker and I have published a new review on the phylogenetics and biology of acanthopterygian fishes. This lineage includes more than 19,100 species, comprising nearly one third of all species of vertebrate animals! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- I think we all need to keep our mind healthy these days. Few things make me more happy than a fun boat ride to a field site. Hmm, maybe lobster and fish.
- Fish catch in Bequia
- Anole (I mean, I think it is an Anole) in Bequia
- Beautiful condor today at the Pinnacles National Park
- Bluesky #nanopore hive. For my last four runs, I have had an issue with the guppy basecaller. When I QC my fastq files, I see that the adapter content is faulty, with the presence of Poly A and Poly G. Any ideas of how to remedy this and what would cause it?
