📣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...

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

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!

Also gets award 🏅for best last sentence

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

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

Super PhD studentship opportunity rummaging in some fantastic collections @theul.bsky.social exploring the role of women in curating scientific heritage And we're very happy that the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social is a partner in this project #PhD #HistoryofScience #WomensHistory

March 23, 1884, birthday of Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert. Political activist and first female Fellow of the Geological Society (after various attempts to deny her membership), she studied glacial erosion & igneous petrology 🪨🔬 trowelblazers.com/2016/05/06/r...

"I'm going to go touch fossil" is the equivalent I use in the office, when it has been a day of way too many emails and meetings, and not enough time with dead things.

Weve been fighting for a new lift and decent respectful access to the Sedgwick Museum @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social for more than 5 years, so it's a small but satisfying step to see the planning notices go up on the street today 👩‍🦽 #access #museum

'boys reported being very confident [in] maths & science while a large percentage of girls said they were not confident.' ..and... 'there were significant gaps between pupils who had access to a large number of books at home & those who did not' www.theguardian.com/education/20...

So sorry to hear this. Thank you @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social for sharing the sad news

Professor Sanne Cottaar uses #earthquake waves to gaze deep into Earth’s interior, “It sometimes feels like the Earth is throwing clues at me. It’s my job to put it all together and solve the mystery." Read on to find out what it means to be a Deep Earth Explorer ➡️ www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sann...

EDI in #geoscience and #museums - sign up for these free online symposia organised by the Geological Collections Group @originalgcg.bsky.social Focusing on colonial legacies, gender & queer representation, and inclusion & neurodiversity in the workplace www.geocurator.org/events/182-e...

I was interviewed for this piece! It is a very important topic so do give it a read. hyperallergic.com/992452/its-t...

For #FossilFriday, fish tiles from the old fossil fish gallery at NHM, now the main gift shop: Pterichthyodes (Devonian placoderm), Holoptychius (Devonian sarcopterygian), Exellia (Eocene percomorph), and Polypterus (Recent).

#FossilFriday: The famous ichthyosaur skull discovered by #MaryAnning 's brother in 1811 was probably first seen by the pubic in an exhibition by William Bullock from late February 1814, not in London but at Corri’s Concert Halls in Edinburgh. More here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#FossilFriday On February 28, 1878, several dozen Iguanodon fossils were discovered at Bernissart, Belgium. Louis Dollo devoted himself to the study of the Iguanodons. ⚒️🧪 wp.me/p3ihHu-10W #OTD #histsci #sciart

This is a great thread and resources on inclusive fieldwork for LGBTQ+ researchers 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 A few years ago, with input from @thelabandfield.bsky.social, @bmatb.expmicromech.com, and others, I wrote a short piece on this for @geolsoc.bsky.social focused on #geoscience www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist...

Interested in tackling the woeful lack of diversity in #EarthScience? Here's a short 🧵 from a talk i gave yesterday @herdman.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social for #LGBThistorymonth 👀looking at you, @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social !🏳️‍🌈

In or around #Liverpool tomorrow (Thursday)? I'll be speaking to the Herdman Society @herdman.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social about #LGBTQ+ history and the lack of diversity in Earth science #lgbtqhistorymonth 🏳️‍🌈

Next month, I’ll be starting my year’s programme of #urbangeology walks introducing the building stones of London with London Walks. The first date is 8 Feb. Cost, details and reservations at this link www.walks.com/our-walks/ge...

"Mr Melham is a museum enthusiast" www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/lond...

Drawings done for the Warsaw Geological Museum for a Trilobite exhibition: such as one tackling a penis worm, and other liberating its cheeks.

Today: it's been super-satisfying to be helping the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social team move parts of the Museums rock collection of rocks into our Collections Research Centre where they're available for researchers and students #museums #geology

Still time to apply for these roles.

The @geolsoc.bsky.social magazine, @geoscientistmag.bsky.social, is now on #BlueSky! #geoscience #geology bsky.app/profile/geos...

💥 timeline cleanse — I saw a hat made from a mushroom at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum today you’re welcome 💥

Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🥳 The Oxford Geoheritage Virtual Conference is back! 🌍 Three half days of the best new ideas in geoheritage from all around the world, and totally free to attend. 🌐 Register and submit your abstract now: buff.ly/4hoKLM2

Interested in how we might look more critically at mineral collections in museums, and think about extractivism, empire & environment? I'll be speaking about #Darwin at a virtual launch event next Tues 28Jan for a Museum & Society special issue 'Mobilising Museum Minerals' Link in bio #museums

📢 Rediscover natural history! The Linnean Society of London invites historians, archivists, curators, and artists to (re)visit natural history. 🗓️ Tuesday, February 11 · 9:30am - 7pm GMT - London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-... Supported by BSHS through a small events grant! 🌟

Great photos, Liz - especially the Mosasaur! Ideally we would have some signage put up that points people to it’s best viewing area 📸

Finally made it to Crystal Palace to see the #Dinosaurs yesterday (tho of course only 3 of them are actually dinos). They're the first 3D representations of dinosaurs, based on evidence available in 1852 @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social

'Many collaborations begin with the idea of increasing public engagement, but can often go on to provide new perspectives in research' Great report on last years #EarthsCanvas meeting @geolsoc.bsky.social reminding me how inspiring and important it can be for geologists to collaborate with artists

Opening up the doors of the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social on the first day of the #NewYear. It's exactly six years since I started in this role, and it's lovely to reflect on how much the team have achieved in that time 👏👏👏 #HappyNewYear

I've been reading Paul Brinkman's (why aren't you on here yet?) new book, Now is the Time to Collect (2024 University of Alabama Press). It chronicles the museum's expedition to Somalia of 1896. This is when the cheetah kittens—and most of the African mammals on display—were collected.

So, you want to be a palaeontologist and study prehistoric life, but don't know where to start? Maybe you worry you're not good enough? That you can't do field work? Or you can't afford it? Let me take you through different options for making it in the field 👇(🧵)

Blue Morning Glory, 1938 by Georgia O’Keeffe #womensart

Career goals

Interesting to think that the specimens I have collected and field notes, maps etc could inform future generations about cultural behaviours. This paper highlights potential for some fascinating projects using archived materials! #history #science #geology 🧪🔬⛏️📔

Excellent example of reinventing the museum for 21st century

Interested in starting 2025 with an exciting new role at one of the world's leading geological surveys? We have a variety of vacancies available which close in early January. Find out more: bgs.ac.uk/about-bgs/wo...

December 29, 1867, birthday of Annie Montague Alexander, philanthropist, naturalist & #dinosaur hunter. She co-founded the Museum of Natural History of the University of California 🦖 museumoftheearth.org/daring-to-di...

PhD position at Bristol in my research group. Please can people share with their networks 🐝 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...