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Kim Chandler

@kimchandler.bsky.social

Natural History Collections Assistant at National Museum of Ireland. PhD in Red Squirrel Craniomandibular Morphology and Biomechanics.

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National Museum of Ireland@nmireland.bsky.social · 6d ago

MA Museum Studies student Sydney Vu Huynh shares insights from her placement at the National Museum of Ireland's Collections Resource Centre, where she gained hands-on experience in collections management, conservation and archives www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #MuseumStudies #CollectionsManagement

Inside the Collections Resource Centre: My Placement Experience as a Museum Studies Student | National Museum of Ireland

Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions

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Nigel Monaghan@nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“Opening a standalone women's museum in Ireland in 2026 risks reinforcing separation at a time when integration should be the goal” one of many issues worth discussing before an abandoned failed visitor centre in Limerick is turned into a ‘women’s museum’ www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #SpeirGorm

Why Irish women's history belongs in every museum & not just one

Opening a standalone women's museum in Ireland in 2026 risks reinforcing separation at a time when integration should be the goal

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Kim Chandler@kimchandler.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Nice to see another paper out using samples from the chalk project I worked on last year @nhm.org. Well done Chloe & team!

ChaSE Project@chalksea.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨New ChaSE paper!🚨 'Slimehead Size Through Time'. Led by Masters student Chloe Griffiths, we used #chalk collections @nhm-london.bsky.social of the 🐟 genus Hoplopteryx & stable isotope analyses @ucl.ac.uk to see how fish body size varied with #Cretaceous climate change. 🌡📏 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Kim Chandler@kimchandler.bsky.social · last yr.

Research out that I was involved in at the @nhm.org under the @chalksea.bsky.social project! I had a great time sampling chalk specimens for this project. Congrats @plesiosarahs.bsky.social and co.!!

Marc Jones@marcehjones.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy Birthday #EuniceNewtonFoote! 🎂 She would be 206 years old today! We recently named the trace fossil #Osspecuseunicefooteae after her in this study led by @plesiosarahs.bsky.social on Cretaceous bone-eating worms: - journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... - journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🦴🪱

Images of the trace fossil Osspecus eunicefooteae. The inset shows a post mortem burrow in the bone of an fossilised ichthyosaur (from the Cretaceous of the UK) as seen in a slice from a micro X-ray CT scan. The main panel shows a 3D digital model of the burrow made in specialist software (Avizo) by tracing the burrow slice by slice. The burrow is about 2.7 mm across.
Kim Mawhinney@kimcmawhinney.bsky.social · last yr.

Can’t wait for you all to see this new exhibition at the Ulster Museum. Opening to the public on 21 Feb, Wild Ireland: Past, Present, Future showcases over 60 amazing wildlife paintings by Julian Friers and his collaboration with curator Dr Mike Simms.

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Science X / Phys.org@sciencex.bsky.social · 2y ago

Human-fed red squirrels in Britain developed weaker jaws and flatter skulls due to a diet of soft-shelled peanuts, highlighting the potential negative impact of human intervention on wildlife. doi.org/g8zxdx

Human-fed red squirrels in Britain develop weaker jaws and flatter skulls

A large team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. has found evidence that red squirrels fed by humans in a town on England's west coast lost muscle mass and experienced changes to the shape of their skulls.

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Kim Chandler@kimchandler.bsky.social · 2y ago

Delighted to have the first paper of my PhD out in Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Morphological change in an isolated population of red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in Britain | Royal Society Open Science

The mechanical properties of dietary items are known to influence skull morphology, either through evolution or by phenotypic plasticity. Here, we investigated the impact of supplementary feeding of p...

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