The ANSTO Australian Synchrotron User Meeting (ANSTO UM2026) will be held in person at the Australian Synchrotron in Clayton, Victoria from 8-10th November 2026. www.ansto.gov.au/whats-on/use...
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Dr Alice Clement
@draliceclement.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist & Palaeontologist 🦴Lungfish Enthusiast 🐟 Loves Brains & CT 🧠 Flinders Palaeontology 🇦🇺 Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology 🩻 Royal Society SA Vice President 👑
The ARC has released their new set of grant schemes ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... Before implementing them, they’re now going to “consult with the sector”. Hopefully genuinely, not just with a few disengaged DVCRs. In the meantime, there’ll be another round of Discovery Projects (DP28).
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With my upcoming departure from the University of Michigan, I've found myself deep in the job hunt process. Moving back to Canada from the U.S is certainly something I'm really looking forward too. If any 🇨🇦 labs (especially in Alberta) are searching for a µ-CT expert, please let me know!
SVPCA is back! This September in Southhampton UK www.geocollections.org/events/199-s...
SVPCA 2026 - Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy - Geological Collections Group
The Geological Collections Group is for anyone who is interested in geological collections. Membership is open to all and is reasonably priced.
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For anyone interested, here is a link to a CBC Radio interview this morning about our new book on bird brains and behaviour: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... And the open access link can be found in my bio. #birds #neuroskyence #neuroethology #Canada 🪶🇨🇦🧪🧠
During hot, dry seasons, African lungfish aestivate inside mucus cocoons. And the cocoons are alive.
The lungfish cocoon is a living tissue with antimicrobial functions
The mucus cocoon of terrestrialized African lungfish is a living tissue with potent antimicrobial functions.
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Happy to share our new paper in Nat. Comm. on the evolution of planktivory in surgeonfishes and relatives 🐠🧬 Combining fossils and genomics, we find multiple independent origins of planktivory, plus convergent positive selection in key genes linked to planktivory. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really excited to share that Chris Martinez & my paper on ecological, functional, & evolutionary diversity produced by novel jaw joints in fishes is out at@evojlinnsoc.bsky.social! We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Interested in marine ecology + palaeontology for Honours at Flinders University? Great opportunity to learn about #sharks or #KillerWhales, how they feed, and how we can detect that using #DentalMicrowear. Great supervisory team! Interested? Send your CV and GPA to lauren.meyer@flinders.edu.au
Interesting dive into endocast anatomy in some of the closest 'fish' relatives of land vertebrates. Congrats to @draliceclement.bsky.social & team.
The Palaeontological Association@thepalass.bsky.social · 2mo agoEthmosphenoid endocasts elucidate evolutionary brain divergences & interrelationships of stem tetrapods onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @draliceclement.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology #FossilFriday
More from @draliceclement.bskyt.social and team, this time focusing on jaw function in arthrodire placoderms from Gogo: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hard-object feeding adaptations infer relative predator-prey size relationships in Devonian placoderms - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Hard-object feeding adaptations infer relative predator-prey size relationships in Devonian placoderms
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Ethmosphenoid endocasts elucidate evolutionary brain divergences & interrelationships of stem tetrapods onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @draliceclement.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology #FossilFriday
New in @science.org ...since our first discoveries of early tetrapods, they have been thought of as "amphibians" characterized by aquatic larvae. But is this true? For the first time, we report exceptional fossils of stem tetrapod babies that upend this paradigm. 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Direct development of stem tetrapods across the fin-to-limb transition
Modern amphibians are characterized by an aquatic larval stage that ends abruptly with a period of widespread tissue remodeling (metamorphosis) upon transition to terrestrial adulthood. A transient la...
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🧠 At long last... our paper "Ethmosphenoid #endocasts elucidate evolutionary #brain divergences and interrelationships of stem tetrapods (Sarcopterygii, #Tetrapodomorpha)" has been published, today in Papers in Palaentology @thepalass.bsky.social - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Ethmosphenoid endocasts elucidate evolutionary brain divergences and interrelationships of stem tetrapods (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha)
Nearly half of all living vertebrate diversity can be traced back to a single lineage of lobe-finned fishes (piscine sarcopterygians) that radiated during the Palaeozoic Era. In recent years, the phy...
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I gave a brief presentation in the National Imaging Facility (NIF) Museum Special Interest Group meeting today on a new protocol being developed by Flinders Uni PhD student Ramon Fritzen with myself and collaborators on "Segmentation & Quantification of Small Volumes from MCT using Deep Learning"
Another beautiful 3D coelacanth, Aemilia, this one from the Carboniferous of USA, published today by Jorge and colleagues. Great work! sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...
A new Carboniferous coelacanth illuminates the evolution of the actinistian hyobranchial skeleton
The hyobranchial skeleton plays a fundamental role in breathing and feeding in gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates). Nevertheless, despite a relatively rich fossil record spanning more than 400 million ye...
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“Rare and eccentric-looking #GoblinSharks seen alive in their deep ocean habitat for first time!” 🦈 SO, I’m going to take this opportunity to share an article I wrote for @theconversation.com about marine “living fossils” where I mention amazing Goblin Sharks theconversation.com/from-coelaca...
From coelacanths to crinoids: these 9 ‘living fossils’ haven’t changed in millions of years
Deep in the oceans dwell creatures that can evade many of the evolutionary drivers of life on land – and they remain seemingly unchanged through time.
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Introducing the undulating tripod gait, the walking strategy used by many fishes. We tracked the fishes, built a model, a robot, and found that 3 body segments, 2 fins, and friction are all it takes. No specialized anatomy required. Out today in Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thursday is collections day, so here's a lungfish burrow from the Permian of Texas, featuring its inhabitant in cross-section (UMMP VP 61142).
Check out #Wonder, the great #podcast by Anthony Reid and Holly Cooke that delves into Earth’s natural wonders. Some awesome #geology guests include Heidi Allen, Alan Collin’s, Jackie Halpin & more! Latest episode features yours truly… FISH! www.youtube.com/watch?v=60o3...
Our fishy ancestors: Dr Alice Clement on the palaeontology of the lobefinned fish
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Are you interested in hearing about progress and challenges in 3D biodiversity imaging and beyond? If so, register to the upcoming National Imaging Facilities event coming up on June 17 (I'm speaking about segmentation using machine learning), see you online? events.humanitix.com/nif-museums-...
NIF Museums Special Interest Group workshop 2026: Progress and challenges in 3D biodiversity imaging and beyond
A workshop convened by the National Imaging Facility Museums Special Interest Group on challenges and successes of 3D biodiversity/museums collection imaging.
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Do you do palaeoneurology? If so, please get in touch!
Dr Alice Clement@draliceclement.bsky.social · 3mo agoDo you work on #palaeoneurology ? I’m honored to be serving as @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports collection Guest Editor on this most awesome topic, and I am eager to read your submission! #brain #evolution 🧠 Learn more about the collection and how to contribute: go.nature.com/3NSfTut
The RSSA Small Research Grants Scheme is now open! Get your application in before June 30th for your chance at up to $2500 AUD for your research project in the natural sciences. www.rssa.org.au/awards-and-g...
Awards and Grants - ROYAL SOCIETY SA
To recognise work, expertise or publications considered to be outstanding, the Society has three awards with which it can indicate this recognition.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Prof John Long on his election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences! So well deserved! science.org.au/news-events/... #bigwiginthehouse
Academy honours Australia's eminent scientists | Australian Academy of Science
The Academy has elected 28 new members for 2026, recognising outstanding contributions from ancient dinosaur discoveries to next-generation electronics.
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Do you work on #palaeoneurology ? I’m honored to be serving as @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports collection Guest Editor on this most awesome topic, and I am eager to read your submission! #brain #evolution 🧠 Learn more about the collection and how to contribute: go.nature.com/3NSfTut
Palaeoneurology
This Collection welcomes submissions of integrative, and multidisciplinary research on palaeoneurology.
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Palaeo job! Lab coordinator and tour guide job at Australian Age of Dinosaurs (QLD) m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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Talk from Dr Rex Mitchell coming up next week, bought to you by Royal Society of South Australia, get on it! Guest Presenter: Dr Rex Mitchell @theskullywaglab.bsky.social Title: Form and function of the skull: Refining the assumptions events.humanitix.com/rssa-may-202...
RSSA May 2026 Meeting and Scientific Presentation
RSSA May Meeting and Scientific Presentation
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