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Dr Alice Clement
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Evolutionary Biologist & Palaeontologist 🦴Lungfish Enthusiast 🐟 Loves Brains & CT 🧠 Flinders Palaeontology 🇦🇺 Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology 🩻 Royal Society SA Vice President 👑
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A great seminar from Prof Shaun P Collin (LaTrobe) today on shark sensory systems, followed up with an afternoon talking all about reptile brains 🦈 🧠 🐍 #neuroecology #palaeoneurology @jcroweriddell.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Quick guide to exploring CT scans on MorphoSource
YouTube video by Gray's Vertebrate Anatomy
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November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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ANSTO’s neutron and synchrotron facilities are among the best-run and most productive parts of Australia’s research system... It would be a grave mistake to allow short-term accounting to jeopardise long-term national capability.
theconversation.com/cuts-to-key-...
Cuts to key research facilities threaten Australia’s ability to be a global scientific leader
At the same time Australia has inked a deal with the US on critical minerals, it’s proposing cuts to facilities that underpin its clean energy ambitions.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Flinders Fishy Fridays 🐟🦈
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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"How I made a magnetized model of a 385 million year old placoderm" brought to you by Flinders Palaeo and The SkullyWagLab @theskullywaglab.bsky.social

#placoderm #GogoFormation #arthrodire #Blender #3Dprinting

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How I made a magnetized model of a 385 million year old placoderm
YouTube video by The Skullywag Lab
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October 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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CSIRO is #hiring a Collection Manager for the Australian National Fish Collection 🐟

📍 Hobart, #Tasmania
💰 $96,000 - $109,000
🚨Deadline: 31 Oct 2025

👀 jobs.csiro.au/job/Hobart%2...
October 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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This year's 2025 Wells Palaeontology Lecture will be a three-part presentation from Dr Rex Mitchell, Dr Aidan Couzens and Dr Isaac Kerr, all EMCRs in CSE, Flinders University. 🦘

Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2025-wells...
2025 Wells Palaeontology Lecture & Social Event
New Insights into the Evolution of Kangaroos, Australia’s Most Iconic Animals
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October 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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STEM at the Tav with Yuri Ogawa (butterfly vision) and Ilka Wallis (PFAS in groundwater). Many thanks to Rosie and FLASC for organising!
October 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Palaeo Job! Project Officer (Palaeontology) at the WAM. search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
WA Government Jobs | Project Officer (Palaeontology)
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October 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Wow! Pleased to announce that our Virtual Museum of Australian Palaeontology (VAMP) is the recipient of a
SORTEE Eco-Evo Commendation Award for efforts fostering Open Science values and practices. #OpenScience #SORTEE #EcoEvo #palaeontology sites.flinders.edu.au/vamp/ sortee.org/awards/
October 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Fish cranial kinesis model is now listed in my Etsy shop! Hopefully useful for showing the mechanism that opens and closes a teleost fish's mouth.

(Ships from US) blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#SciArt #SciComm #BSNM #ArtShop #Fish
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Come along to hear about some awesome science on Oct 14th 👣🦈🌊🐝 #STEMattheTav @flindersuniversity.bsky.social #palaeontology #sharks #hydrogeology #insects
October 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Don't forget to get your #CAVEPS merch here using our amazing logo featuring #plesiosaur Umoonasaurus, #lungfish Metaceratodus, #echidna Megalibgwilia, and #flamingo Phoeniconotius, designed by Dr Jonathan Cramb: www.toothygrin.com.au/shop/categor...
CAVEPS 2025
We create amazing designs.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Fully funded PhD scholarship on Scorpion Evolution at Flinders University, working with Russell Bicknell, Bruno Buzzato
@brunobuzatto.bsky.social and myself

Details at this link:
www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

Please spread the word!
October 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Many animals can reshape and shed their teeth – and now scientists have traced this ability back 380 million years #Bullerichthys #GogoFormation #Devonian

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Many animals can reshape and shed their teeth – and now scientists have traced this ability back 380 million years
A new study of ancient, extinct fish known as placoderms provides another piece of the evolutionary puzzle about our deep time, aquatic ancestors.
theconversation.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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“Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late Devonian to present”, published now in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, comparing trait space occupation between 3 Late #Devonian communities with modern ones

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late Devonian to present
The diversity and distribution of species' traits in an ecological community determine how it functions. While modern fish communities conserve trait …
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September 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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New paper out yesterday "New specimens of the arthrodire Bullerichthys fascidens Dennis and Miles 1980 show incipient site-specific osteichthyan-like tooth addition and resorption"

Read it now in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
New specimens of the arthrodire Bullerichthys fascidens Dennis and Miles 1980 show incipient site-specific osteichthyan-like tooth addition and resorption - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
The arthrodiran placoderm Bullerichthys fascidens, from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation, Western Australia, was originally described from an incomplete headshield with only the spinal and interolater...
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September 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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48 hours, 8 sharks, 3 researchers and a WHOLE LOT OF DATA! 🦈 🩻 Another busy and successful trip to @ansto.bsky.social synchrotron!

With @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social for an exciting new project with @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social & our other fabulous collaborators… 🦈🦈🦈
September 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late #Devonian to present www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#traits #fish #evolution #ecology 🌏🧪
September 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Jaw by jaw: How biting shaped the evolution of fish
In the sprawling timeline of life’s evolution on Earth, few chapters capture the imagination quite like the earliest development of vertebrate jaws. These seemingly simple structures not only r
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September 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Visualizing this as a morphospace, we see the lungfish jaws (on the right) are much thicker and stockier compared to ray-finned fishes (lower left). 11/15
A morphospace plot. Each dot in the plot is colored according to a mechanical advantage value (yellow is the highest and dark purple the lowest). The dots generally go from dark purple in the lower left hand corner and gradually change color to yellow in the top right corner. There are representative CT scan models of lower jaws throughout the plot.
September 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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If we look at jaw shape as a morphospace thru time, we see lungfish (Dipnoi) burst out of the gate during the early Devonian, leaving the ray-finned fishes, and most of their lobe-fin relatives, far behind. 9/15
A traitgram through time. There is a geological scale on the x-axis going from the Silurian period (430 million years go) to the end of the Devonian (359 million years ago). The y-axis shows PC1, or principal component 1 of the shape analysis. There are colored dots in the plot representing 1 individal species. There are seven major groups represented by a colored silhouette: Actinopterygii is lime green, Stem Sarcopterygii is red, Onychodontida is dark blue, Actinistia is light blue, Tetrapodomorpha is yellow, Non-dipnoan dipnomorpha is light purple, and Dipnoi is orange. Overall, most dots in the traitgram cluster together through time, but the species in Dipnoi extend far into the upper portion of shape space.
September 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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When we compare how fast/slow these jaws are evolving, we find a neat pattern. Devonian lungfish really stand out with their super fast rates, while early ray-finned fishes are comparatively very slow. 8/15
A circular phylogenetic tree with seven major groups of fishes indicated around the branches. There are colored silhouettes representing each bony fish clade (Actinopterygii is lime green, Stem Sarcopterygii is red, Onychodontida is dark blue, Actinistia is light blue, Tetrapodomorpha is yellow, Non-dipnoan dipnomorpha is light purple, and Dipnoi is orange. The tree branches are colored by rate of shape, some branches are dark blue (indicating slow rates) and some are purple to yellow (fastest rates). Most of the tree is dark blue to light purple branches, but the Dipnoi clade (lungfishes) are light purple to orange to yellow, indicating fast rates of jaw shape evolution).
September 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"Macroevolutionary role reversals in the earliest radiation of bony fishes", led by @fishfetisher.bsky.social Emily Troyer & Rafael Rivero-Vega in Current Biology examines 86 species of early bony fishes to examine shape variation, rates of evo & Mech Adv through time.
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Macroevolutionary role reversals in the earliest radiation of bony fishes
Troyer et al. examine lower jaw evolution in Silurian-Devonian bony fishes and find substantial differences in patterns of morphological disparity, rates of shape evolution, and functional diversity b...
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September 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15
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Macroevolutionary role reversals in the earliest radiation of bony fishes
Troyer et al. examine lower jaw evolution in Silurian-Devonian bony fishes and find substantial differences in patterns of morphological disparity, rates of shape evolution, and functional diversity b...
www.cell.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM