If anyone out there works for a museum (anywhere in the world) that would like to have me give a similar talk about extinction & museums with a local twist, please contact me!

Come to my talk on pelicans, palaeo, and ecological insights for reintroduction tomorrow at #BES2025 in Edinburgh in Lammermuir 2 at 12pm! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦴🧪

Dr Mike Day @nhm-london.bsky.social, Dr Joanne Cooper and Miss Judith White at Tring, Jason Cumberworth at Peterborough Museum, Emily Banfield and Vida Rajkovaca at CAU, Justin Wiles at CCC, Daniel Field, Matt Lowe, and Matt Riley at Cambridge, and Amal Kreisheh at Somerset Museums Service.

I was pleased to present my research on using collections to understand pelican extinction and ecology in England to inform a potential reintroduction #BOUasm25, and I would like to specially thank @bou.org.uk and all the museum curators without whom this research would not be possible >>

1/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community.
Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research.
However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research?
#ornithology

Lucia Snyderman finishes off our first session with her presentation “Museum collections reveal Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) palaeoecology in England and offer reintroduction insights” 💡

@aukwardlucia.bsky.social  #BOUasm25 #palaeontology #palaeoecology

🚨Caribbean mammal PhD opportunity🚨

🧪🌿Reconstructing the trophic ecology of Caribbean mammals: new baselines to understand island evolution, extinction & conservation🐀🌴

@uor-research.bsky.social, @zslofficial.bsky.social, @nhm.org, and with me at Durrell!

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Looking forward to sharing my work on extinct pelicans in England tomorrow and discussing conservation-relevant applications and the future of museum collections! #BOUasm25 🧪

Will you be at BES?!

Have you ever wondered what’s in a dead bird bone?! I will be sharing my latest pelican extinction and ecology results at #BES2025! 🧪

Words to Light the Dark: Writing the worlds of other animals How do we bridge the experiential gap between that of humans and other animals with writing that feels intelligible to us, while reaching for the differences in how other animals sense, think, and act...

On 2 Sept at 7pm, I'll be holding an online @walklistencreate.org writer's salon with Emma Geen (author of one of my all-time favourite sci-fis) on the deeply fascinating question of how to write the worlds of other animals. Book a ticket and join us!

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Thrilled to share our new paper, led by @jonscibulski.bsky.social, on the rich 16kyr-long history of human-ocean interactions along the Pacific coast of Panama and Costa Rica. Inspired by the late Richard Cooke MBE and beautifully illustrated by his son, @cookedillustrations.com #PaleoSky

I had an amazing time presenting my preliminary PhD research on pelican palaeoecology at the @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich! Saw fascinating presentations, learned a lot, and met many inspiring people working to bridge the gap between palaeontology, ecology, and conservation!

Come to my talk about pelican palaeoecology tomorrow at 14:30!

WOW it was a joy to co-organise (with the lovely @juliettewaterman.bsky.social & @aukwardlucia.bsky.social ) the ICAZ Stable Isotope Working Group conference this year with the fun (and important) theme "Back to the Future"!

HUGE thanks to everyone who joined in-person or online you're all amazing

Hello! Have you come across any pelican or sturgeon bones by chance?

Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s a problem for fishing’s future, and for whales, corals and other ocean life America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.

The greatest threat to ocean biodiversity in the past 50 yrs—more than climate change or plastic pollution—is unsustainable fishing. So countries around the world have been creating marine protected areas.

But in the US, 47 is undoing marine protection.

A marine biologist explains, No pay wall.

Bugs, Bones and Conservation Goals Archaeological scientists are experts at using the past to help us understand the modern world. So come along to find out how ancient DNA and diseases can …

Join us at 7:30pm 19 May at Park House for @pintofscience.uk #Pint25 to hear about:

🕷️Why spiders deserve saving - even if they scare you!
🦴How the buried secrets of sickness can aid modern environmental health issues
🧪And a special panel of women in STEM

Get your tickets here! 🔗 rdg.ac/42spFXl

On the first night, you will hear about uncharismatic arthropods and impacts of pollution on humans in historical London, followed by a women in STEM panel. Stay for the last night, where I will be sharing my research on pelican extinction and thoughts on a potential reintroduction to England.

I’m excited to co-coordinate and contribute to this year's @pintofscience.uk 🧪 festival in Reading! We've organized three nights of science talks in Park House on the University of Reading campus from 7-9:30pm May 19-21. #Pint25 Book tickets here: lnkd.in/gA3K_uQ7

Thank you to Rhian Rowson for allowing me to access and utilize Bristol’s impressive collections for my PhD research. 🧪

Today I visited the collections at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery to sample historical cormorants for stable isotope analysis, which will allow me to contextualize the data I have generated for extinct pelicans in England and determine their past ecology/diet to inform a potential reintroduction.

Cannot wait to share my isotope data on pelican palaeoecology and its relevance for informing species reintroductions at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich this summer! Hope to see you there :)

Recent Advances in the use of Stable Isotopes in Environmental Science Professor Melanie Leng presents the Battarbee Lecture 2025 on advances in stable isotopes and their applications in environmental science.

🔬 Exciting news! Join us on 8 May for the Battarbee Lecture 2025, featuring @meljleng.bsky.social on the power of stable isotopes in environmental science.

🔗 Register now!

#UCLGeography #ScienceTalks

The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a sample

This is excrutiating for us to watch back, but was fun to film and I hope will be of use more broadly. Let us know if you use it for teaching etc.! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-...

Upcoming conference alert from one of our Stable Isotopes Working Group! Check out more info and abstract submission in the link provided.

Stable Isotopes Launch This is "Stable Isotopes Launch" by GAEAcademy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

NEIF has launched an online course developed by our stable isotope teams at BGS and SUERC covering the fundamentals of stable isotopes. Through these 5 videos, covering basic terminology, notations, essential equations, and potential applications of stable isotopes.
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Thank you very much for your helpful feedback!! @profchrisharrod.bsky.social & @clivetrue.bsky.social

We learned from experts in the field who generously shared their expansive knowledge, time, and enthusiasm: Dr. Chris Harrod, Dr. Clive Trueman, Dr. Tamsin O’Connell, Dr. Alexia Massa Gallucci, Dr. Sarah Magozzi and Dr. Jose Canseco.

This week I learned about stable isotope ecology in Siracusa, Sicily alongside PhD students from around the world doing exciting and important research to better understand ecological systems and change through space and time.