@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

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

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

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

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 🐢

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

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

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...

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 💥