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Great keynote address by Dr Alice Clements on the evolution of brains and air breathing

Prof Kate Trinajstic presenting work on visual niche in Budgeree namugawa (Gogo fishes, particularly the placoderms) at #CAVEPS2023 Dr Kate Trinajstic

First Nations writer ⁦Ben Abbatangelo⁩ says Australia should be removed as a signatory to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, after joining the Opposition to vote down a bill enshrining UNDRIP into Australian Law.

We celebrated our postgrad student seminar day last week 🎉 and reflected on the last 12 months. Overall I’ve had a great year and I hope 2023’s been good to you too. 📷 Dr Alice C loves lungfish (she/her)

I hope you have a great silly season, peace and love from me and my E. coli mates 🎄

New paper day! 🆕 "A new stem-tetrapod fish from the Middle–Late Devonian of central Australia" out today in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology introducing *Harajicadectes zhumini* to the world... tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This #ValentinesDay, let that special sarcopterygian know…

I got to marvel at Samorn the elephant this week, the last to live at Adelaide Zoo. She’s huge! Fumehood in the background for scale. She’s lost a bit of weight since the first time we met though 😂 thanks heaps to Anthony and the Vet Anatomy UofA crew for the visit 🐘

Walking the high altitude landscape of the Transantarctic Mountains in 2017. b/w photo by Adam Maloof

Hunterian specimen of the front half an Osteolepis, a fossil fish from near Gordon Castle in northern Scotland. #FossilFriday

Support natural science research, anthropology, archaeology, and staff of the SAM! Join the protest rally against the would-be devastating proposed changes to the South Australian Museum this Saturday April 13th from 11 am at Parliament House, Adelaide. indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/…

Dr Gludhug Purnomo’s invited talk on human genetic research in Wallacea and Sahul showed how community engagement benefits both researchers and the local populations. Great to catch Gludi at the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories conference #ISBER

Keep science and First Nations culture alive at the SA Museum South Australian Museum Rally on parliament steps today.

Flinders Palaeontology “Fish Folk” out for a meal with Dr Kate Trinajstic in Adelaide last night Corinne Mensforth Joshua Bland 🐟🐟🐟

My LAX-Montreal trip was actually a scenic flight of the Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Hoover Dam and Rocky Mountains 😍 ridiculous scenes out the window. I’m stoked to be headed to my 1st International Symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates, can’t wait to meet the fishy folks!

Corinne Mensforth with another great poster. If you’re at #ISELV2024 make sure you check out newly described anatomy of Koharalepis illuminated by neutron tomography #palaeontology

Endangered lizards, at risk of extinction due to climate change, surviving at secret site abc.net.au/news/science/2… via ABC Australia

Bottlenose buffet 🐬 Aldinga Beach

We weren’t just welcoming the first day of spring today… lovely to have Prof Christian Klug University of Zurich join us in Adelaide for a picnic with the Flinders Palaeontology “fish people” 🍕 🍷

Ok folks I'm out, see you over on BlueSky and Instagram at corinnemensforth