Afternoon doing IDs with this amazing field guide from @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Working on my first love again today ❤️

Sam's Advent Calendar of Awesome People! Everyday until Christmas, I'm going to highlight someone I think deserves your love and appreciation! Its Day 2, so let's do two folks as I was busy yesterday! Let me introduce you to @drtalksalot.bsky.social & @sciwithrach.bsky.social

Unfortunately I have a zero tolerance policy for people who shill Harry Potter products and content. After everything, your allegiance to nostalgia still outweighs your allegiance to trans+ people? Sorry not sorry.

I will have to drag my northern in laws over to the Manchester transport museum : ))

Desperately jealous of locals who can take FREE HERITAGE BUS RIDES!

Anybody wanna show me some diatoms? Really itching to look at diatoms

Are you... - From a racially marginalised background? - Interested in studies or careers in Earth, environmental, or ecological sciences? Book your FREE ticket to the Explorers Conference 2024! When: Thursday 28th November Where: NHM, London www.eventbrite.com/e/explorers-...

I LOVE THESE. Let me add this adorable orange tip that was digitized during the iCollections project. Here they are! And here's "A History of Shropshire" which features a snippet about this exact specimen. Famous!

Also may post about burnout recovery on here. Working at a big national museum is perhaps the greatest thing that's ever happened to me, but because I feel so lucky and grateful I have pushed myself too far. (Multiple times, habitually.) And folks, no job is worth your life.

Woah hello new followers! Welcome! Right now I'm taking some time off work due to stress (😬🤒), but hopefully when I get back I'll have plenty of sick Leps to share with you all. To tide you over, here is a little elephant hawkmoth caterpillar I saw a couple months ago.

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Embarrassingly, all opinions here are my own

When I get more followers I'll do an actual introduction post but until then just know I'm doing cool stuff at the NHM, and banging on the walls of the GMT time zone yearning to be awake when all my Americans are posting

I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

No luck with the slime moulds but plenty of fungus about. Highlights:

On the hunt for slime moulds this morning in Huddersfield! Will report back if we are successful

Switching back to twitter does feel a bit like exiting the restaurant to start dumpster diving

if busta rhymes was british he’d be called borcester rhymes

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Okay, so I'm writing something for my staff intranet for Trans Awareness week and made up this image to go along with it, using images from our digitised collections. I discovered a strange little story in my hunt for pink lepidoptera...🧵 #digitalcollections #lepidoptera #naturalhistory