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

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

Visiting some #lungfish, alive and dead, today at NMV Melbourne Museum 🐟

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

I started this work way back in (or before?) 2020 for our ARC DP project "Brains Frozen in Time". Big thanks to all co-authors, with a team that truly spans the globe: Richard CLOUTIER, Oleg LEBEDEV, Tom CHALLANDS, Jing LU, Joseph BEVITT, Laurent HOULE, Shaun COLLIN, & John LONG. Hope you like it!

In this work we scaned 13 taxa of stem tetrapods within 3 families (‘Tristichopteridae’, ‘Osteolepididae’, Megalichthyidae) to examine skull and #endocast morphology using PCA for phylogenetic signal. All 3D models are online in our #MorphoSource project at: www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

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"

Student projects these days 🤯🦖 #FlindersPalaeo

Congratulations to Laurent Houle on his excellent PhD thesis and defenence today on "the morphological evolution of the brain in salamanders". I wish I could have been there to examine (and celebrate) in person, but Adelaide is a long way from Quebec...

Thanks for a great week, bye bye Wellington Caves! #FlindersPalaeo Now for the long drive home… 🚙 #Diprotodon #WellingtonCaves

Flinders Uni 3rd year #palaeontology students have had a great time working at the original #Canowindra Age of Fishes #fossil site this week! Huge thanks to David and Aleysha for having us out there! 🦴 🐟 @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

It was a good turn out yesterday for my talk at the Age of Fishes museum in #Canowindra. Met some very passionate young people, and many others young at heart! Big thanks to the staff and volunteers there who are always so welcoming! #palaeontology #Devonian #fossils

Happy to have Dr Russell Bicknell working with us at Flinders from this year. Awesome Arthropods!

A lovely visit from Prof. Kate Trinajstic to work with the Flinders fish people for a few days #palaeontology #FlindersPalaeo

Honours student research proposal talks today. Thomas Turner talking Gogo crustaceans, and Jim Newbould im Cenozoic lungfish tooth plates. Both did a great job! #FlindersPalaeo @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

This long weekend was a lovely excuse to get the fish crew all together for a BBQ (and some very tasty cake from Jim!) #FlindersPalaeo #palaeontology Fishy, fishy, fishy! 🐟

My students are baking #lungfish tooth plate brownies now … yum!

At the NHM in London, having a fabulous time one hand looking at lovely fossils 🦴 🐟… and incredibly frustrated on the other as the scanner we lugged all the way to Europe isn’t working! GAH!! 😫 🩻 #palaeontology #polygaisshit #naturalhistory #museum

Had a great time at ISELV in Morocco, and especially proud to have had 3 of my PhD students along for the ride, and a special presentation to honour John Long on his retirement ! #palaeontology #earlyvertebrates #ISELV2026

ISELV pre-conference field trip took us from the coast at Agadir with a visit to #Anza museum and pterosaur & dinosaur tracks on the beach, and back up the Atlas Mountains for some #Palaeozoic sites (Cambrian-Permian) near Taroudant and Lamnizla, finishing up with a brief jaunt through Marrakesh! 🇲🇦

ISELV pre-conference field trip has started strong, led by our fantastic host Abdul Lagnaoui! Day 1 & 2 spent in the #Cretaceous and #Jurassic of #Morocco 🇲🇦 🦖 🦕 heading back in time to Permian and Carboniferous next … #palaeontology #ISELV2026

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

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