Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.
#PhDsky
Good to see that people have been enjoying watching bee-flies for almost 400 years 😀 #BeeFlyWatch
Call for art.
📣 Call for art
Artists and creatives - submit your work to CRASSH's 25th anniversary exhibition!
The theme is 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' and can be interpreted broadly, from personal to global
Deadline 31 July 2026
Find out more at bit.ly/4svggKv
A composite image made of many layers of pressed flowers on a Cambridge blue background.
An extraordinary herbarium containing almost 300 pressed plants is now available to explore online.
It has been digitised with support from the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Edward Hanmer’s Herbarium (MS Add.10547): https://loom.ly/J1Zj8OM
@camdiglib.bsky.social
Leopard seal, taxidermy
Cambridge University Museum of Zoology
Today is the International Day of Happiness, a chance to reflect on what makes us happy. Right now, working with all my amazing new colleagues @zoologymuseum.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social makes me 😍. This leopard seal is also very happy, and would love to have you visit. What makes you happy?
Please share - and there’s an Information session online next week, 24 March 11:00–12:00 pm BST. Register your interest via the link on this webpage: www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Info slide: Who will your network be?
Would you like to run your own Research Network at CRASSH?
Applications are now open for Networks in 2026-27
You will receive funding of up to £2,000 per academic year, plus logistical assistance and a platform for events
➡️ The deadline for applications is 5 May 2026
https://bit.ly/3BknsiZ
Montage of three images showing pressed plants in printed books.
A pleasure to host a @camglamresearch.bsky.social workshop yesterday @theul.bsky.social on ‘Discovering pressed plants in books and how to care for them’, led by @annalsvensson.bsky.social.
Montage showing pressed plant specimens from an 18th-century bound herbarium.
Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...
Thomas Malton the Younger, 1748–1804, King's Parade, Cambridge, between 1798 and 1799, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1996.22.25.
1/ Explore the NEW website for the Legacies of Enslavement Special Initiative ⬇️
A central online hub for all research, collaboration and public engagement exploring @cam.ac.uk's historical links to slavery & the wider afterlives of enslavement and colonialism.
🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/new-web...
What will your event be?
Apply for CRASSH events funding! 💫
Have you got an idea that may:
- Foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures?
- Forge new collaborations ?
- Bring academic research to wider publics?
- Explore research and artistic practice?
Apply by 17 May 2026
https://bit.ly/3CaV97M
Plant specimens in the bound herbarium collected by William Paine titled "Plants collected in ye County's of Hants, Sussex, Surrey, Bucks, Berks, Middlesex & Oxon Anno 1737". The specimen of Navelwort (modern Umbilicus rupestris) beside it also appears to be from the same location)
"Wild-sea Holley by ye passage as you goe from portsmouth into Cornwall" collected by William Paine, 1737, from @cuherb.bsky.social. Now, this is in fact from Plymouth, and in modern parlance it is Eryngium campestre
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social @timpurches.bsky.social
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There's lots of talk about the growth of Cambridge. But what materials will the buidings be made of?
This @camglamresearch.bsky.social roundtable is focusing on the potential of local stone and the university's collections of natural materials.
📆 27 March 2026. 12.00 - 2.00
Please share!
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The zoology collection in Turin shares the same building as the herbarium, and I thought this was the most beautiful display @zoologymuseum.bsky.social
Photograph of the John Watson Building Stones Collection at the Cambridge University Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
Join us for a Collections Lab at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social: ‘Building Stones: collections as resources for sustainable construction’, 27 March 2026, 12.00-2.00 pm.
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/events/item/... @camunivmuseums.bsky.social
Pride in Nature tours poster
Penguin
Giraffe skeleton
It’s LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚧️ History Month, so let’s celebrate diversity in nature. Our penguin 🐧 and giraffe 🦒 both represent animal groups famous for their same-sex relationships and behaviour. If you want to learn more about non-binary nature, come on one of our tours @zoologymuseum.bsky.social
Cambridge Digital Library is home to 130 collections containing 1.5 million images of 160,000 items (6593 of which have transcription), that originate from at least 2000 places around the globe...
👀 Have you ever wondered what that looks like? 😮
Enjoy some data fireworks! - cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
Mounted slab with a v-shaped graptolite on it, surrounded by curatorial labels.
For #FossilFriday, a cute Didymograptus deflexus collected by William Kinsey Dover and his sister Sarah Anne Willes Dover of Keswick, now in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social.
One for the graptolite fans.
Discussing musical instruments from Tahiti and Aotearoa New Zealand in the MAA collections. (L-R) Tahe Drollet, Rosanna Raymond, Eve Haddow, Miriama Bono, and Salvador Brown. Photograph by Rachel Hand
New blogpost: ‘Journeying with Mai: Activating Pacific arts and heritage at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’, by Dr Eve Haddow, Senior Curator in Anthropology.
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/journey...
Illustration of a giant toad studded with arrows beside a dead body.
The early twentieth century is about the last time a professional illustrator might not have a dinosaur reference at hand and instead relied on the author's similes. Thus this Megalosaurus/Allosaurus in the Je Sais Tout serial of The Lost World. Conan Doyle says the dinosaur resembled a toad.
A rainbow stegosaurs
Pins: a trex and a triceratops. Both silver metal skeletons.
A display of pride pins including pronoun badges and colourful test tubes. There are home made pride flags next to them.
Before dashing off from Cambridge I nipped in to Sedgwick museum. One of the few places to get my pins in-person how cute!
"Getting to spend my last summer before university doing something I love while also preparing for my future was amazing."
Great to read the experiences of one of our Museum Experience Interns based at @maacambridge.bsky.social last summer. Applications for our next internship will open in March.
Love this - great way of showing how this kind of folding book actually worked.
Happy #SquirrelAppreciationDay! 🐿️
Ambivalent Archives term events.
The Ambivalent Archives network are back this term with a number of really exciting events, starting with the participatory workshop 'Photo-Embroidery: Archiving the landscapes that we carry within'.
Find out more about the programme at https://bit.ly/4quHtfq
📺 Reclaiming indigenous history from Amazonian soil and palaeobotany 🌿
Archaeological research is transforming perceptions of the Amazon rainforest, revealing the extent of anthropogenic soils and inviting a critical rethinking of early plant use in South America
https://bit.ly/4sCT5OV
Colourful toy dinosaurs on display, including a big blue Brachiosaurus.
I like the idea of UCL students in the 1970s trying solemnly to examine the chunky Polacanthus toy and dweeb Spinosaurus. From the historic collections of the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social.
Close-up of a vibrant jade vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) with its distinctive turquoise, claw-shaped flowers hanging in a cascade.
Close-up image of a passion flower in bloom, showing detailed yellow filaments and green petals, against a blurred natural background.
🪴From 11 Feb-12 Apr, Talking Plants invites you to the Glasshouse Range to scan QR codes, ask questions and get a unique response inspired by that plant’s story.
🌱An interactive exhibition using AI to explore the stories of living plants – included with Garden admission.
🌿So, what would you ask?
A brightly coloured illustration with central text reading Twilight at the Museums, come and explore Cambridge museums after hours this half term, surrounded by museum icons including a book, globe, torch, lantern, camear, flower and dinosaur head.
It’s time to get glowing! #TwilightAtTheMuseums is back 🌟
Explore Cambridge museums after hours this February half term and celebrate 20 years of Twilight.
See all events and book your visit from today: www.museums.cam.ac.uk/theme/twilight
Congratulations to Kimberly Glassman, Research Associate at the Fitz and a CCC Natural History Humanities postdoc, on her publication ‘Deciphering botanical notation in William Jackson Hooker’s Flora Boreali-Americana (1829–1840)’, based on her PhD research.
www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...