A huge thank you to everyone who came along and made it such a good day and for such good conversation. Special thanks to the CTP team, and our wonderful curators who brought out some of Pennants specimens from the collections. #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #NHMScience #Museums #HistoryOfScience

Re-examining Britain’s role in whaling | Natural History Museum Dr Sophia Nicolov explores what the Museum’s whale, dolphin and porpoise collection can tell us about Britain’s role in whaling.

Whaling and natural history collections - @sophianicolov.bsky.social explores skeletal evidence and tales of whales in her historical research in this #NHMScience blog, part of Natural History Museum's development of a Culture and Collections Theme www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

Bodies in the Thames - radiocarbon dating of human remains shows high proportion from Bronze Age and Iron Age, raising questions about funerary practices - research from @nic-arthur.bsky.social @drheatherbonney.bsky.social #NHMScience and Jane Sidell Historic England doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in tetrapods is driven by varying patterns of sex-specific selection on size - Nature Ecology & Evolution A phylogenetic comparative analysis of male and female body size across tetrapods globally shows that directional change in size is usually greater in males but reveals different underlying mechanisms...

Male southern elephant seals are 5.3 times heavier than females but female helmeted water toads are 21 times heavier than males. What is the reason for sexual size dimorphism in evolutionary terms? #NHMScience @nhcooper123.bsky.social & al investigate www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DiSSCo UK Technical Project Lead:South Kensington Do you want to be part of an exciting programme enabling critical research into biodiversity and climate change? Do you have technical and project management skills? Come and join us as the new Techni...

DiSSCo UK - glittering job opportunity! #NHMScience @nhm-london.bsky.social recruiting a Technical Project Lead for this major programme delivering digital collections across the UK to support science, innovation and collaboration. jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Big-eyed conch snails use vision to jump away from predators Conch snails make death-defying leaps to evade deadly predators.

Big eyes and acrobatic leaps! the unlikely talents of Conch gastropods show the way to avoid predators

research from Alison Irwin, Suzanne Williams #NHMScience &al., article from James Ashworth www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...