@draliceclement.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist & Palaeontologist 🦴Lungfish Enthusiast 🐟 Loves Brains & CT 🧠 Flinders Palaeontology 🇦🇺 Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology 🩻 Royal Society SA Vice President 👑
At the NHM in London, having a fabulous time one hand looking at lovely fossils 🦴 🐟… and incredibly frustrated on the other as the scanner we lugged all the way to Europe isn’t working! GAH!! 😫 🩻 #palaeontology #polygaisshit #naturalhistory #museum
12.02.2026 15:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Had a great time at ISELV in Morocco, and especially proud to have had 3 of my PhD students along for the ride, and a special presentation to honour John Long on his retirement ! #palaeontology #earlyvertebrates #ISELV2026
09.02.2026 15:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EAVP2026 first circular and registration information available here: eavp2026.weebly.com
09.02.2026 11:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Stellenausschreibung für eine Postdoc-Position (m/w/d) in Temnospondyl-Geochemie am Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart.
The Stuttgart Natural History Museum is offering a postdoc position (m/f/d) in Temnospondyl Geochemistry
E 13 TV-L, 100 %, 2 years
Application deadline: March 8th, 2026
➡ Further information: https://t1p.de/nwrfi
Lets talk about fish (a podcast), with Michael Mills
www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-bz...
ISELV pre-conference field trip took us from the coast at Agadir with a visit to #Anza museum and pterosaur & dinosaur tracks on the beach, and back up the Atlas Mountains for some #Palaeozoic sites (Cambrian-Permian) near Taroudant and Lamnizla, finishing up with a brief jaunt through Marrakesh! 🇲🇦
06.02.2026 10:50 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Lungfish news!!!
www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/An...
Read the original research article in the Canadian Journal of Zoology from @draliceclement.bsky.social and team at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in Australia
Thiele et al. doi.org/10.1139/cjz-...
This article is part of an upcoming collection on Palaeoichthyology in honour of Mark V.H. Wilson.
ISELV pre-conference field trip has started strong, led by our fantastic host Abdul Lagnaoui! Day 1 & 2 spent in the #Cretaceous and #Jurassic of #Morocco 🇲🇦 🦖 🦕 heading back in time to Permian and Carboniferous next … #palaeontology #ISELV2026
31.01.2026 19:26 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Enigmatic indeed! New paper out today, led by my wonderful (then 3rd year) student Hannah Thiele on “Deciphering Cainocara enigma from the Late #Devonian #Gogo Formation, Australia” #FlindersPalaeo
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Get along to the Sprigg Lecture at the SAM to hear from palaeo artist extraordinaire Peter Trusler next month. And keep any eye out for some awesome Australia Post stamps hitting post offices soon!
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Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws?
You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni
🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!
Hanging out with my emotional support lamprey to record an episode of Palaeo Jam with Michael Mills about FISH #podcast #palaeontology #evolution
16.01.2026 04:42 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Black text on white background. Screenshot of ARC’s Network Message regarding delays to grant announcements because of new security arrangements.
⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months!
This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.
Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
JOB ALERT! Site Interpreter for the soon to open Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia. The ability to present complex scientific information in easily understandable way with an artistic flair are essential. #palaeontology #Nilpena #Ediacara
iworkfor.sa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa and Elga Mark-Kurik on Kreuzritter lake (Kryzhiuochiu ezheras), under an umbrella, north of Vilnius,Lithuania, 1977 (photo H.-P. Schultze).
Model of sacabambaspis helsinki
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
11.11.2025 04:08 — 👍 1377 🔁 486 💬 11 📌 14JOB ALERT! Collection Manager job going in Palaeontology at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collecti...
15.12.2025 04:54 — 👍 27 🔁 37 💬 0 📌 1Lycka till!
05.12.2025 08:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
190 delegates attended #CAVEPS2025 in Kaurna Yarra / Adelaide this week! A big thanks from the organising committee to everyone involved for helping it be such a fabulous meeting! @megalibgwilia.bsky.social
Next time, Otago! 🇳🇿
Joshu Batt with Rethinking early tetrapodomorph jaws #CAVEPS2025
28.11.2025 05:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CAVEPS Conference dinner and auction
27.11.2025 22:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Austin Fitzpatrick with new insight into the “Devonian billabong of Canowindra” #CAVEPS2025
26.11.2025 22:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prof John Long with “Gogo Formation palaeoecology” at #CAVEPS2025
26.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
M. Ramon Fritzen with “Digital analysis in the Devonian lungfish Chirodipterus” #CAVEPS2025
26.11.2025 22:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Corinne Mensforth with “Making waves in the fish-tetrapod transition” at #CAVEPS2025 @corinnemensforth.bsky.social
26.11.2025 21:59 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Also postdoc Rex @theskullywaglab.bsky.social with our magnetised build your own placoderm poster and model. People had great fun trying to assemble it! #CAVEPS2025
25.11.2025 22:14 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
Flinders Fishy Folk had some great posters at CAVEPS
25.11.2025 22:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 039 people, one quarter of the CAVEPS delegates, attended our best practice workshop for collaborating with Indigenous communities. The yarning circle couldn't get any bigger. This gives me hope that the future is looking bright for decolonising vertebrate palaeontology in Australasia.
25.11.2025 12:33 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
CAVEPS smoking ceremony and welcome function. Here we go!
24.11.2025 22:17 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0