Making Deep Time Visible in Stone and Space great blog by Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel @nhmwien.bsky.social on how architects of C19th natural history museums worked with geologists to express deep time thro their buildings, incl @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social valuepast.hypotheses.org/6678

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...

Palaeontologist Mary Anning 'sick of fossils', letter suggests

The collector's discoveries helped shape scientific understanding of prehistoric life.

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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)

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) buff.ly/jc6Unz7

Symposium | Exploring Queerness in Natural History

A one-day, interdisciplinary symposium centring LGBTQ+ inclusion in the environmental sector.

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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...

Things got a bit out of hand a the Sedgwick Museum #Christmas party @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social #dinosaurs

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

03-Dec-1831: Darwin’s first night aboard HMS Beagle

Darwin records his experimentations with a hammock.

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

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

Scottish Geology Trust@scottishgeology.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Siccar Point is one of the most important geoheritage sites in the world; we think visitors deserve to hear why. Help us install a Deep Time Trail - donate to the Crowdfunder now. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/siccar-point youtu.be/OeHsVJiO9gE

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

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 🐢

Jack Ashby@jackdashby.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

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 🦖

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

Jack Ashby@jackdashby.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I like the idea of museum specimens having "siblings", like casts of the same original #fossils that were sent to different #museums around the world. @themuseumofliz.bsky.social and I have been "collecting" siblings of the Iguanodon in Cambridge - here's one in @nhmwien.bsky.social in #Vienna. 🦖

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

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.

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

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

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/#:....

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

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...

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

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

Margaret Middleton@magmidd.bsky.social · 2y ago

omg I visited 79 museums and historic sites in 2024

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

I'm currently reading the excellent Camera Geologica by @siobhanangus.bsky.social - I'm asking similar questions about minerals in media tech. I'm half way through a chapter about silver, and the sheer quantity of silver mined and used historically by the photography industry is mind boggling!

Liz Hide@themuseumofliz.bsky.social · last yr.

What kind of labour gets recognised, when we think about minerals in museums? Who do we involve in recovering and telling their stories? Helpful prompts from @ellietheelement.bsky.social in @originalgcg.bsky.social EDI symposium this morning, relevant to our thinking @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social

Also gets award 🏅for best last sentence

Jack Ashby@jackdashby.bsky.social · last yr.

An interesting read for dog-owners - whatever their benefits, this study sets out the enormous impact pet dogs have on wildlife and the environment (the dry pet food industry produces more C02 than the vast majority of countries do, for example) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...