Hanging out with my emotional support lamprey to record an episode of Palaeo Jam with Michael Mills about FISH #podcast #palaeontology #evolution

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

⁉️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...

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. 🧵

JOB ALERT! Collection Manager job going in Palaeontology at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collecti...

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

CAVEPS Conference dinner and auction

Austin Fitzpatrick with new insight into the “Devonian billabong of Canowindra” #CAVEPS2025

Prof John Long with “Gogo Formation palaeoecology” at #CAVEPS2025

M. Ramon Fritzen with “Digital analysis in the Devonian lungfish Chirodipterus” #CAVEPS2025

Corinne Mensforth with “Making waves in the fish-tetrapod transition” at #CAVEPS2025 @corinnemensforth.bsky.social

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

Flinders Fishy Folk had some great posters at CAVEPS

39 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.

CAVEPS smoking ceremony and welcome function. Here we go!

The jacaranda is blooming and the CAVEPS beers are here 💜 Must be time for CAVEPS 2025 to begin! Can’t wait to see more than 180 delegates descend on Kaurna Yarta/Adelaide this week!

Great video highlighting the value of natural history collections and the importance of preserving them for generations to come

A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies. #neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶 direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Investment in R&D in Australia is at a historic low. If this recent / current trend continues, within five years Australia will be among the lowest of OECD countries.... www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

Fish with legs! During the Devonian period, transitional species that began to crawl out of the oceans and visit the shores. Which one is your fave? Art from my book DINOSAURS 🦕📚 get your copy here for Oct 14: rachelignotofskydesign.com/dinosaurs #sciart #fossiladdict #evolution #paleoart

Publication alert!🧪 Major new volume on early tetrapods and Carboniferous palaeoenvironments. The festschrift for Tim Smithson has just been published by Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Most articles are open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I’m not there in person, but it’s still a buzz to know some of my work is getting spoken about. Hope everyone has a great time at #SVP2025 #2025SVP Thanks for flying the sarcopt flag @jorgemondejar.bsky.social

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

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-...

Flinders Fishy Fridays 🐟🦈

"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 www.youtube.com/shorts/0NByE...

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...

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...

STEM at the Tav with Yuri Ogawa (butterfly vision) and Ilka Wallis (PFAS in groundwater). Many thanks to Rosie and FLASC for organising!

Palaeo Job! Project Officer (Palaeontology) at the WAM. search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

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/

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

Come along to hear about some awesome science on Oct 14th 👣🦈🌊🐝 #STEMattheTav @flindersuniversity.bsky.social #palaeontology #sharks #hydrogeology #insects

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...

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!

Many animals can reshape and shed their teeth – and now scientists have traced this ability back 380 million years #Bullerichthys #GogoFormation #Devonian theconversation.com/many-animals...

“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...

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....

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… 🦈🦈🦈

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 🌏🧪

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

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

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

"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. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Registration for @CAVEPS_Palaeo conference is now open, secure your place here: pay.flinders.edu.au/SAE039 Visit the website for more info: www.caveps.org