Day 2 16th ISELV kicked off with Tetsuto Miyashita covering some great new work in his keynote. He has scanned and reconstructed 3D internal anatomy of the cheeky osteostracan Norselaspis

Jumping on That Damn Phone to celebrate Vishruth Venkat’s first conference repping the #coateslab, presenting his research on lateral line development at 16th ISELV!

Continuing the #coateslab highlights, today Abigail Caron presented her first in-person paleo talk on the precious Pennsylvanian pisce with phylogenetic portents Trawdenia at 16th ISELV! Some really marvelous CT scans and detailed anatomy expertly discussed!

Having the strongest sense of FOMO to not be joining my “early verts” family and colleagues at 16th ISELV in Valencia, Spain, this week. It’s my favourite meeting by far and some Mediterranean sun would be lovely right now…

Safari time with Richard Dearden 16th ISELV

Boattrip to the conference dinner! 16th ISELV

Had an awesome time at 16th ISELV! Powering through the post disco exhaustion

Finding fossils in Spain on the post conference field trip

And here is poor old “Jarvik”, Philippe Janvier’s lungfish!

Home after ten days away in San Francisco and Valencia. Had a brilliant time at 16th ISELV with most of the @Palaeo_Bham fossil fish crew. I felt *super* nervous giving an in-person talk but I couldn’t have asked for a nicer audience to give it to! Now to sleep for a week 😴

What better way to wrap up the amazing 16th ISELV meeting than a sunset seaside swim? Thanks to Vishruth Venkat Ben Otoo Abigail Caron for a memorable couple of days exploring the city - I’ll be sad to leave Valencia tomorrow, but definitely come back someday!

I had an absolutely lovely time 16th ISELV 🇪🇸, thank you to everyone for being so welcoming!! I'm feeling reinvigorated about my work and it's thanks to all of you. 🥂🐟☠️

Huge congrats to Humberto Ferron Humberto G. Ferrón, alum of UoB Palaeobiology who received the Erik Stensiö young scientist award at the recent Early Vertebrates meeting 16th ISELV in Valencia last week. Very richly deserved!

It was a great pleasure to welcome our colleagues in Valencia at the 16th ISELV. We had a lovely time during both the meeting and the post-conference fieldtrip. Lots of fossils and good food 🐟🥘. See you all in Canada!

arm fish, netherlands, 13th century

Introducing Tiktaalik’s new cousin Qikiqtania wakei, a fishpod from the Devonian of the Canadian Arctic! See bit.ly/3cuRQi7 @TomDoesScience The specimen was found 5 days before Tiktaalik in July, 2004.1/7

First PhD chapter is now published! Such huge thanks to Sam Giles Dr Emma Dunne & Soph Fasey for getting this out 😊😊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

Good news come in pairs! Very excited to see that my application for Leonardo BBVA research proyects was awarded. One step closer to built my own team. More exciting news comming soon! Fundación BBVA @ICBiBE_UV Link to the press release (only in Spanish): uv.es/uvweb/uv-notic…

New paper by France Charest with ⁦⁦Richard Cloutier⁩! In it we investigate and compare the development of the median fins in a diverse selection of both extant and extinct osteichthyans. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…