Palaeontologist Mary Anning 'sick of fossils', letter suggests The collector's discoveries helped shape scientific understanding of prehistoric life.

Well it turns out that even Mary Anning got fed up with fossils

BBC News - Palaeontologist Mary Anning 'sick of fossils', letter suggests - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

Hands up if youre a woman who posted about #InternationalWomensDay on behalf of your organisation?

#IWD
#WhosDoingTheWork

@ellietheelement.bsky.social and @themuseumofliz.bsky.social will be leading a Zine-making Workshop.

We have panels too:

Authentically Engaging with LGBTQ+ Groups, with @russellarnott.bsky.social, Alex Blomfield and Lou Mather, Catherine Mercer and Em Merrin May Armstrong,

(2/3)

Symposium | Exploring Queerness in Natural History A one-day, interdisciplinary symposium centring LGBTQ+ inclusion in the environmental sector.

The programme is out for our Symposium, Exploring Queerness in Natural History, on 5 February.

We're excited to hear from our Symposium Curators, Connor Butler and @aquadan1.bsky.social, as well as talks from Simon Goldhill, @canopyrobin.com and @rossbrooks.co.uk. (1/3)

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Blue background with the text 'No Funding No Museum' and 'Banbury Museum and Gallery' overlain with a red slashed circle.

Help! Banbury Museum has been told that Cherwell District Council is cancelling ALL of its core funding.

There is a very tight deadline - Friday 19th December - to tell the Council what you think.

Please respond to the consultation and share this post

www.banburymuseum.org/news/no-fund...

Plastic dinosaurs getting intimate

Plastic dinosaurs having a cuddle after a few drinks

Things got a bit out of hand a the Sedgwick Museum #Christmas party

@sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
#dinosaurs

03-Dec-1831: Darwin’s first night aboard HMS Beagle Darwin records his experimentations with a hammock.

03-Dec: On this day in 1831, Charles Darwin spent his first night aboard HMS Beagle as she lay at anchor in Barnet Pool, Plymouth. More here…
friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar...
#HistSci

Christmas decorations display in a shop, with signs above saying 'Curate & Collect', Wordly Treasures' and 'ancient wonders'

John Lewis Christmas decorations department sounding a bit like the British Museum

#museums #christmas

1 day left to support this important project....

Picture of fossil turtle on wall of U-bahn station, with station sign 'Bockenheimer Warte: Senckenbergmuseum'

Large photo of trilobite fossils on wall of U-bahn station

Travel to the Senckenberg Museum @sgn.one by U-bahn and you get to meet the nature even before you get to the museum
#Frankfurt #fossils

A view of Aercap House showing the black Kilkenny limestone at pavement level. The upper stories are clad in Portland Roach

Fossil corals and brachiopods in Kilkenny limestone.

A best of fossil brachiopods in Kilkenny limestone

Portland Roach at the op of the image with mouldic porosity caused by dissolved fossils. Wicklow granite is in the lower half of this image.

Aercap House on St Stephen’s Green, clad in Kilkenny limestone, Portland roach and Wicklow granite #urbangeology #dublin

Just to clarify, this is really quite a small specimen and my backside is correspondingly petite 🐢

Dinosaur skeletons in a museum

Impossible to photograph well with my crappy phone, but here is the lovely herd of #Iguanodon at @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social , the mother lode of all those Iguanodon casts in museums across Europe ( including @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social )
#museums #dinosaurs 🦖

Liz Hide inspecting a huge fossil turtle - around the size of a car

The largest ever turtle - 74-million-year-old Archelon - really was quite large. (@themuseumofliz.bsky.social for scale) 🐢
On display at @nhmwien.bsky.social

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Here's another Bernissart Iguanodon 'sibling' in the Senckenberg Museum, #Frankfurt, this time remounted to show its more correct life quadripedal position
#dinosaur

Remote sensing of lichens with drones for detecting dinosaur bones Brian Pickles and colleagues show that exposed dinosaur bones can be remote sensed with drones by virtue of colored lichens growing on them.

This is quite cool - finding lichens using drones, which tell you where dinosaur bones are.

Or curious taxidermy hybrid?
@jackdashby.bsky.social

Human-thylacine interaction
@jackdashby.bsky.social @nhmwien.bsky.social

Close-up of an ichthyosaur jaw, Myopterygius campylodon (Carter). Location: Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Walking down the Madingley Road today I'll be sure to look out for ichthyosaurs. In the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social, of course.

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

📣New job @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
Interested in a career in archives? We're looking for an Archive Assistant to document and care for our archives, and enable researchers to access them
Closing date 6 July
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50926/?f...

#archives #museumjobs

A museum display case containing many samples of rocks, with the title 'Specimens of Colonial &Foreign Building Stones', part of the John Watson economic geology collection at the Sedgwick Museum

I'm happy to chat to anyone interested in working with the collections @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social for this post doc opportunity - and open to a wide range of suggestions.

Closing date for applications is 26 May

#postdoc #naturalhistory

A tray tray of mineral specimens from the C17 collection of John Woodward, in the Sedgwick Museum

Are you a humanities researcher interested in exploring geological collections? The Natural History Humanities initiative has an exciting opportunity for a 2 Yr postdoc, ideally focuseed on geological and/or biological collecfions @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50729/#:....

Two pairs of hands holding a variety of minerals which are different colours. On the left, 5 minerals which are blue, pink and white are held in the same configuration as the transgender flag. On the right, 4 minerals which are yellow, white, purple and black are held in the same configuration as the non-binary flag. Underneath the hands is green foliage acting as a backdrop.

“Minerals are from the Earth and the Earth belongs to everyone. So everyone should be welcome in society.” – Y10 work experience student, 2022

What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

This article from Marina Hyde pretty much matches my feelings about the blue origin flight. It feels like the message behind the flight was actually Jeff Bezos and his cronies saying "Look, we've made space flight so easy even women can do it!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

...and sorry @natstephen.bsky.social that you weren't able to join us - perhaps we could catch up another time?

Just seen this, @mirandastearn.bsky.social - do you think we might have come close?

Pride progress flag , comprising images of coloured rocks and minerals

Enjoyable & important conversations on gender, stereotyping, representation & 'queer possibility' in #geoscience & #museums this morning.

Thank you @magmidd.bsky.social @girlsingeosci.bsky.social & Gemma Laker @originalgcg.bsky.social for bringing us together