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Dr Alice Clement

@draliceclement.bsky.social
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Evolutionary Biologist & Palaeontologist 🦴 Lungfish Enthusiast 🐟 Loves Brains & CT 🧠 Flinders Palaeontology 🇦🇺 ARC Future Fellow 2027-30 👩🏼‍🔬 Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology 🩻

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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Peter’s work is just phenomenal!
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exciting 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...
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Assistant Professor
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ancient, Armored Fishes Crushed Jaw Evolution 🧪🦑🌎🐟
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Ancient, Armored Fishes Crushed Jaw Evolution - Nautilus
Placoderms evolved unique approaches to the first-ever vertebrate jaws
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I 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...
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A 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… 🐟 🧠 🐸
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cool!
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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A 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...
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DiSSCo UK Digitiser:South Kensington
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Flinders University 3D Data Software, Analysis and Visualisation Workshop
Bringing together biomedical and mechanical engineering, archaeology and palaeontology to discuss approaches to capturing, handling and publishing 3D data.
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Dr 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...
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals
Tenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Flinders 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!)
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Crystal The Cavern Spirit Plays with Laser
ALT: Crystal The Cavern Spirit Plays with Laser
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Flinders Palaeo fishy lunch catch up and exchange of fossils with the incomparable Dr Joseph Bevitt 🦴 🩻 @ansto.bsky.social
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Dr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New 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.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Another big potential #FishJob Curator of Fishes (or Mammals, but let it be ichthyology) at the American Museum of Natural History careers.amnh.org/postings/4925
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Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Vertebrate Zoology
The 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...
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great mug!
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oops, 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 🐟 🦷 🩻 #FEA
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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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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Media for our recent #Gogo #placoderm #FEA paper www.yourweather.co.uk/news/science...
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Ancient fish packed jaws like medieval weapons
Ancient fish packed jaws like medieval weapons, showing a diversity of jaw types needed for hard-object feeding in ancient reefs
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For 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...
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Flinders University 3D Data Software, Analysis and Visualisation Workshop
Bringing together biomedical and mechanical engineering, archaeology and palaeontology to discuss approaches to capturing, handling and publishing 3D data.
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’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...
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Deep dive for ARC fellowships
Four 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 […]
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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The website is up: save-the-academy.org Important info, contact points, and news articles within
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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences
Don't mourn — organize. Rally Tue Sept 8, 10 a.m., 1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy. Nine things you can do today.
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Cool new research on the #Thylacine, not like a wolf at all! 🐺 Congrats on the cool paper @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social et al.!
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New genus and species of lungfishes from the Famennian of Latvia - Jumisodus latus, named after the god "Jumis" from old Baltic mythology. 🧪⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio
Comparison of selected Paleozoic lungfishes with tooth plates and parasphenoid in palatal view from digital 3D models.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ARC 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.
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t like slippery slopes…
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Into brains? 🧠
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Apparently 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-...
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Mysteries Of The Deep: How Brains have Evolved From Fish
Talks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-mins + Q&A with Dr Alice Clement
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What? This seems to be setting a concerning precedent… any chance this might be reversed?
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Get 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...
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The Story of Grandmother Fish | Nature Festival SA
An interactive retelling of Grandmother Fish, as told by grandmothers. Part of Nature Festival SA
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
JOB!! Collections Manager (Mammalogy and Ornithology) 🦘 🦜 at the Western Australian Museum search.jobs.wa.gov.au/jobs/collect...
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Collections Manager (Mammalogy and Ornithology) - Perth Metropolitan, Western Australia, Australia
We 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...
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Journal 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....
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A new Late Devonian dipnoan from the Ketleri Formation of Latvia
Dipnoans (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...
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Open Palaeontology @openpalaeo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Open 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 #Palaeontology
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Cahiers de l'ILTP
Open Palaeontology is an international Diamond Open Access journal promoting open science in palaeontology
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It’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
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Per 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.
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Big 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
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New #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....
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A new Late Devonian dipnoan from the Ketleri Formation of Latvia
Dipnoans (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...
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
PalAss meeting will be in Oxford (UK) this December #palaeontology 🦴 palass.org/annual-meeti...
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Annual Meeting 2026 - Oxford, UK: Overview | The Palaeontological Association
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Help 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.au
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Back Australia's Ability
Help us restore investment in Australian science
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A 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
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Wake up babe! A new online resource for fish nerds just dropped. 🐟🧪 www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fis...
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Fish Families of the World Gallery
This 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...
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A 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...
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Ossification of the pectoral fin of Glyptolepis groenlandica: implications for the evolution of the lungfish appendicular skeleton - Developmental 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. Although many morphological characteri...
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Per 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...
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Ossification of the pectoral fin of Glyptolepis groenlandica: implications for the evolution of the lungfish appendicular skeleton - Developmental Biology Advances
Developmental 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....
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Are 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...
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Palaeo 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=72577
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Link in bio
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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
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Palaeoneurology
This Collection welcomes submissions of integrative, and multidisciplinary research on palaeoneurology.
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Awesome stuff!!
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
SOO Cool!
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Weisbecker B&B Lab @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nocturnal 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...
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Congratulations. An amazing collection you have at your fingertips there!
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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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User Meeting 2026 | ANSTO
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Visiting some #lungfish, alive and dead, today at NMV Melbourne Museum 🐟
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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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