Reposted by Dr Alice ClementProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Exciting news! We here at the LSU Museum of Natural Science @lsumns.bsky.social and Dept. of Biological Sciences are looking for Curator and Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Paleobiology! Come work with us! We are fun, supportive and active! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant ProfessorAll Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre... 03052
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ancient, Armored Fishes Crushed Jaw Evolution 🧪🦑🌎🐟nautil.usAncient, Armored Fishes Crushed Jaw Evolution - NautilusPlacoderms evolved unique approaches to the first-ever vertebrate jaws 13816
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I had a fabulous day at the Flinders Uni 3D digital data workshop yesterday! People working in biomedical engineering, palaeontology, archaeology and biology united by our shared love of digital 3D data & analysis. Hopefully some exciting new collaborations to follow... 080
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A cool brainy study, the results of which don’t surprise me that much. From my (very gross) observations of brains through time the fore + mid unit appear to operate quite differently from the hindbrain… 🐟 🧠 🐸 010
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementDr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A number of 🚨Science & Museum Jobs🚨 available at different levels right now for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections UK programme 🪩 #DiSSCo 🪩 fab if you're into 🌳science digitisation🌳 #ScienceJobs #MuseumJobs jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...jobs.nhm.ac.ukDiSSCo UK Digitiser:South Kensington 01016
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 22/09/2026events.humanitix.com/flinders-uni...events.humanitix.comFlinders University 3D Data Software, Analysis and Visualisation WorkshopBringing together biomedical and mechanical engineering, archaeology and palaeontology to discuss approaches to capturing, handling and publishing 3D data. 000
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementDr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨We're hiring a new Curator of Mammals!!🚨 🦍🐕🦝🐅🦓🦌🐃🐖🐏🐫🐘🦏🦛🐿️🦔🦇🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐋🦭🦒🧸 Come join the Vertebrate Unit at @nhmdk.bsky.social—a fantastic team in the heart of Denmark's beautiful capital! Amazing collections, incredible history. Please share widely! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...candidate.hr-manager.netTenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and Curator of MammalsTenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap 16378
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Flinders 3D Digital Data Workshop happening THIS THURSDAY! Please ensure you register your (free) attendance if you wish to join us for an informal dat of 3D data discussions (catch that laster beam!)static.klipy.comCrystal The Cavern Spirit Plays with LaserALT: Crystal The Cavern Spirit Plays with Laser 123
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A Flinders Palaeo fishy lunch catch up and exchange of fossils with the incomparable Dr Joseph Bevitt 🦴 🩻 @ansto.bsky.social 040
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementDr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026New paper out today! Led by Daniel Schwarz, we retrodeformed the skull and reconstructed the cranio-mandibular musculature of the giant stem-amphibian Mastodonsaurus giganteus. Our results show that Mastodonsaurus had a powerful bite and a crocodile- like bite-and-hold feeding style. 116653
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Another big potential #FishJob Curator of Fishes (or Mammals, but let it be ichthyology) at the American Museum of Natural History careers.amnh.org/postings/4925careers.amnh.orgAssistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Vertebrate ZoologyThe Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor in either the Department of Ichthyology or M... 03436
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Oops, I hadn’t even shared a link to our latest paper…. “Hard-object feeding adaptations infer relative predator-prey size relationships in #Devonian #placoderms” from @theskullywaglab.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41... published in Scientific Reports 🐟 🦷 🩻 #FEAnature.comHard-object feeding adaptations infer relative predator-prey size relationships in Devonian placoderms - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Hard-object feeding adaptations infer relative predator-prey size relationships in Devonian placoderms 02411
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Media for our recent #Gogo #placoderm #FEA paper www.yourweather.co.uk/news/science...yourweather.co.ukAncient fish packed jaws like medieval weaponsAncient fish packed jaws like medieval weapons, showing a diversity of jaw types needed for hard-object feeding in ancient reefs 094
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For those in Adelaide who work with digital 3D data, I'm organising an informal workshop for us to share insights on our methods, challenges and ideas at the "Flinders University 3D Data Software, Analysis and Visualisation Workshop" on Sep 24th Register here: events.humanitix.com/flinders-uni...events.humanitix.comFlinders University 3D Data Software, Analysis and Visualisation WorkshopBringing together biomedical and mechanical engineering, archaeology and palaeontology to discuss approaches to capturing, handling and publishing 3D data. 033
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’m among great company as one of four recipients from Flinders University of an @arc-gov-au.bsky.social Future Fellowship award. Among other things, this will allow me to focus on research for the next four years, as well as employ some more people 🥳 news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2026/09...news.flinders.edu.auDeep dive for ARC fellowshipsFour Flinders University researchers have been awarded almost $4.5 million in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships. The grants will support research […] 1162
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementKevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The website is up: save-the-academy.org Important info, contact points, and news articles withinsave-the-academy.orgSave the Academy of Natural SciencesDon't mourn — organize. Rally Tue Sept 8, 10 a.m., 1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy. Nine things you can do today. 07854
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Cool new research on the #Thylacine, not like a wolf at all! 🐺 Congrats on the cool paper @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social et al.! 022
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementAndrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026New genus and species of lungfishes from the Famennian of Latvia - Jumisodus latus, named after the god "Jumis" from old Baltic mythology. 🧪⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio 0112
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026ARC says they'll announce outcomes of Future Fellowships (FT26) tomorrow (Tue 8 Sep). In recent times, these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time, though certainly with some variation. My bot will automatically post within a minute after the announcement. 64713
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Apparently there are just a few tickets left for my talk in next week’s Talks On Tuesdays live event on “Mysteries Of The Deep: How Brains have Evolved From Fish” 🐟 🧠 🤔 Join us at Laneway Social, East End (Adelaide), on Tuesday Sep 8 from 6:30pm. www.eventbrite.com/e/mysteries-...eventbrite.comMysteries Of The Deep: How Brains have Evolved From FishTalks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-mins + Q&A with Dr Alice Clement 020
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 01/09/2026What? This seems to be setting a concerning precedent… any chance this might be reversed? 100
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Get along to an interactive reading of “The Grandmother Fish” during the upcoming Nature Festival on Thursday October 1st. Guided by STEM superstars and read in 3 languages. Organised by the fab Dr Qam! www.naturefestival.org.au/event/the-st...naturefestival.org.auThe Story of Grandmother Fish | Nature Festival SAAn interactive retelling of Grandmother Fish, as told by grandmothers. Part of Nature Festival SA 000
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 01/09/2026JOB!! Collections Manager (Mammalogy and Ornithology) 🦘 🦜 at the Western Australian Museum search.jobs.wa.gov.au/jobs/collect...search.jobs.wa.gov.auCollections Manager (Mammalogy and Ornithology) - Perth Metropolitan, Western Australia, AustraliaWe currently have one (1) x Permanent, Part-time vacancy (0.6FTE or 45 hrs/fortnight) available for immediate filling. A Pool will also run for a period of 18 months. About us The Western Australian M... 099
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementJournal of Vertebrate Paleontology @jvertpaleo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026🚨New Pub!🚨A new Late Devonian dipnoan from the Ketleri Formation of Latvia🦴🇱🇻by Clement et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comA new Late Devonian dipnoan from the Ketleri Formation of LatviaDipnoans (lungfishes) reached their peak of taxonomic diversity and morphological disparity during the Devonian Period, followed by a pronounced decline in both thereafter. The Late Devonian (Famen... 033
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementOpen Palaeontology @openpalaeo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Open Palaeontology has a new look 💜 Our brand-new website is live! Same mission as ever: Diamond Open Access palaeo research — free to publish, free to read, for everyone. Come explore ➡️ www.openpalaeo.org #PaleoSky #OpenAccess #Palaeontologyopenpalaeo.orgCahiers de l'ILTPOpen Palaeontology is an international Diamond Open Access journal promoting open science in palaeontology 1138
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It’s beam time, baby! #Synchrotron scanning at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) with Sophie Sanchez, Paul Tafforeau, Sifra Bijl, and Bobbi Vakruchev 🩻 🦴 ☢️ @esrf.fr 061
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementPer Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026🧪 The latest from the Origin of Tetrapods project! For decades our Latvian colleagues have been excavating at Pavari, a Devonian locality yielding the tetrapod Ventastega. Here's a new lungfish from the same fauna, described by @draliceclement.bsky.social and the rest of us. 1347
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Big thanks to my colleagues for the invitation to collaborate on this material from the Pavāri-2 site of the Ketleri Formation: Ervīns Lukševičs, Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social,Valters Alksnītis, Aubrey Keirnan @aub-birdy.bsky.social & Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki @grzegorzniedz.bsky.social 082
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 25/08/2026New #lungfish just dropped! Welcome to the world, Jumisodus latus, a #Devonian lungfish from the Famennian of #Latvia! Named for the Latvian figure 'Jumis', god of fertility and harvest, whose symbol represents the tooth plate outline in this new taxon... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comA new Late Devonian dipnoan from the Ketleri Formation of LatviaDipnoans (lungfishes) reached their peak of taxonomic diversity and morphological disparity during the Devonian Period, followed by a pronounced decline in both thereafter. The Late Devonian (Famen... 24016
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 25/08/2026PalAss meeting will be in Oxford (UK) this December #palaeontology 🦴 palass.org/annual-meeti...palass.orgAnnual Meeting 2026 - Oxford, UK: Overview | The Palaeontological Association 010
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Help strengthen the case that Australians care about science, by sending a message to your MP. Every message opens conversations with Parliamentarians and gets us closer to a science system that’s fit-for-purpose. Link in bio 🔗 or head over to restorescience.com.aurestorescience.com.auBack Australia's AbilityHelp us restore investment in Australian science 022
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A great week spent in the #Stockholm Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, photographing, scanning and loaning beautiful fish fossils. Big thanks Vivi, Thomas, Therese and Ashley for all your help 🙏🏾 #museum #fossils 041
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementJohn P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Wake up babe! A new online resource for fish nerds just dropped. 🐟🧪 www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fis...floridamuseum.ufl.eduFish Families of the World GalleryThis searchable gallery includes entries for fish families of the world, which may include photographs of preserved specimens, reconstructed CT and photogrammetry 3D models, xrays, characteristics for... 514567
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 13/08/2026A new #palaeohistology paper out from Sophie Sanchez & other great colleagues on the "Ossification of the #pectoral fin of Glyptolepis: implications for the evolution of the #lungfish appendicular skeleton". Happy to have played a very small part in this cool study link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comOssification of the pectoral fin of Glyptolepis groenlandica: implications for the evolution of the lungfish appendicular skeleton - Developmental Biology AdvancesLungfishes are commonly considered to be the sister group to tetrapods. They appeared around 415 million years ago, then rapidly evolved, diversified and spread. Although many morphological characteri... 055
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementPer Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026🧪Another open-access paper from our lab came out a while ago but I forgot to post a link, so here it is. Ossification of the pectoral fin skeleton of a phylogenetically basal stem lungfish. Based on the same material as my very first paper, from 1989! link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comOssification of the pectoral fin of Glyptolepis groenlandica: implications for the evolution of the lungfish appendicular skeleton - Developmental Biology AdvancesDevelopmental Biology Advances - Lungfishes are commonly considered to be the sister group to tetrapods. They appeared around 415 million years ago, then rapidly evolved, diversified and spread.... 04114
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementBob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... 0146203
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Palaeo in the Pub is back Aug 27th with a fishy bonanza! Featuring a fabulous line up of fishy Flinders students. Get your tickets here: campus.hellorubric.com?eid=72577campus.hellorubric.comLink in bio 011
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementDr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Do 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/3NSfTutgo.nature.comPalaeoneurologyThis Collection welcomes submissions of integrative, and multidisciplinary research on palaeoneurology. 13516
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementWeisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Nocturnal and not that silly? New paper headed by @evolsara.bsky.social with @evoneuro.bsky.social , @aub-birdy.bsky.social and many others about the dodo's sensory world! See links to Sara's YouTube video and our The Conversation article below 👇. doi.org/10.1093/zool... 1177
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Congratulations. An amazing collection you have at your fingertips there! 000
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The 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...ansto.gov.auUser Meeting 2026 | ANSTO 020
Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Visiting some #lungfish, alive and dead, today at NMV Melbourne Museum 🐟 070
Reposted by Dr Alice ClementARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The 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).arc.gov.au 32620