We built a hotel for roof-breeding kittiwakes on Røst and share our first experiences in a paper now published in SEABIRD, with recommendations for those attempting a similar project. High attendance but few breeding attempts in the first year. doi.org/10.61350/sbj... 📷 T Anker-Nilssen

Just a normal day at work with @tannisdavidson.bsky.social and the team from @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social getting thigns for our @royalsociety.org #SummerScience exihibition to the Royal Society...

Best morning ever

We were thrilled to be on the green carpet last night for the world premiere of ‘How to Live on Earth’ – a new feature documentary presented by Benedict Cumberbatch. The film, opening during #LCAW2026, explores how we can build a future that works with nature, not against it. @uclnews.bsky.social

The moles are tremendously honoured to have inspired this poem. We like to think their ghosts are friends too. @glassjarofmoles.bsky.social

UK 16yr olds will soon be able to take a GCSE in Natural History. #DofE have released the curriculum specification for public consultation. My thoughts on how it performs in @uk.theconversation.com @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @curlewaction.bsky.social theconversation.com/eco-literate...

We’re really excited to be a part of this! Join us @royalsociety.org for cutting-edge scientific activities, specimens and more!

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

UCL’s Laura Porro recently teamed up with children’s TV presenter Maddie Moate to explore dinosaur diets, reptile teeth, and even what brains can tell us about intelligence. 🔗 Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Still life

"Papua New Guinea has detailed its plans to protect approximately 200,000 km² of Pacific Ocean waters – an area roughly the size of the United Kingdom – from fishing and all other destructive human activity." Papua New Guinea announces largest MPA in its history share.google/Lx6z18O1Bhiw...

Beetle News! 🪲 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

'Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health.' Study after study after study suggests funding the arts funds good health, not that policy reflects it. 1/2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwkM... Unbelievable work by @kiabugboy.bsky.social! Please go give it a watch!

Join us in wishing Sir David Attenborough a Happy 100th Birthday! 🎉 An inspiration to us all and the world’s greatest science communicator, here he is in the Grant Museum in 2014 filming ‘Attenborough’s Fabulous Frogs’. 🐸

Join British Museum staff as they embark on a new research project, using modern X-ray and CT scanning techniques to reveal what's inside Ancient Egyptian animal mummies.

Wishing a Happy 200th Birthday to @zslofficial.bsky.social! Our orangutan taxidermy specimen lived at London zoo from 1913-1917 and was later donated to @ucl.ac.uk. Today we welcomed students and ZSL staff for a special UCL + ZSL bicentenary drawing workshop celebrating our two institutions.

Come work with us! We are recruiting for a 1 year maternity cover Curator (Science Collections). www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Oh oh here she comes

Thames seal blobbing along 😍

Metal as ffff

There’s a seal at Rotherhithe Pier!

Congratulations @beetlequeen.bsky.social on this remarkable paper towards resolving the evolutionary relationships of ground beetles!! 🪲🪲🪲

Harpalinae, one of the largest subfamilies of beetles in the world with ~19,000 species, but not as you know it! #taxonomy #systematics #entomology #MuseumCollections resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#ImaginaryMuseum Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter, April 26, 1865 – March 7, 1931 Spring, c 1900 Oil on canvas, 52.3 x 31.4 in Belvedere Palace, Vienna Visit danieljlieberman.com to enjoy more great art

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

girl take us with you

The Bat Conservation Trust’s Nocturnal Garden at #RHS Chelsea Flower Show www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events...

Artemis II is humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. https://to.pbs.org/411ctbM

Stunning

New #Postdoc alert! This is a really cool project, working with a great team including the wonderful @drphilcox.bsky.social and @toriherridge.bsky.social. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

New paper out today in @consbiog.bsky.social 🎉 How did the introduced alpine newt spread so widely across Britain? Was it natural dispersal - or did humans help it along? 🧵👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jimlabisko.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social

Thrilled to have Yuri Suzuki and the team from Tropic Magazine visit @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social today discussing art, design and zoology for a forthcoming article!

Anyone for a pint of chameleon? Best way to stabilise our freeze-dried specimen for CT scanning. And what a surprise to see that she has eggs! @laurabporro.bsky.social @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social

We are so pleased that World of Wasps has made the shortlist! A huge interdisciplinary team effort with @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social from @uclcber.bsky.social, Datascape Realities, @leaveylab.bsky.social @eloygl.bsky.social from @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social!

NatSCA is pleased to invite applications to this year’s Bill Pettit Memorial Award. Up to £3,000 is available to NatSCA members to support projects including the conservation, access and use of natural science collections. Deadline 13th April 2026. www.natsca.org/bill-pettit-...

For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossal’s dire wolf.

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

This evening we were thrilled to host @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social and hear her insights about extinction and how it is presented in natural history museums in her new book Ghosts Behind Glass. A must-read for all nature and museum lovers!

Help a toad across the road – and five more ways to save these endangered amphibians

My resPEcts to Rev Jax and his family are immense. This is a man who inspired & gave personal time to me and my family. Ironically I could not attend his homegoing because it was the same day of a matriarch in my own family 2000 miles away.Real talk for real dude who did real things in real life.🙏🏿👊🏿

Love reading the visitor comments @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social ❤️ ‘Why the gibbon chill like that’? Why indeed but also, why not?

We have lift off! The new mount for our hyrax study skin not only elevates it for pest prevention but gives it the super hero pose appropriate for this unintentionally aerodynamic specimen.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

UCL200 bicentenary projection show was spectacular! Showcasing 200 years of @ucl.ac.uk innovation and impact. @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social portion featuring the micrarium, moles, @ucllifesciences.bsky.social biodiversity research and @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social collaborations and student projects.

Our gorilla skeleton is on the move ahead of preparations for the upcoming bicentenary celebrations. #UCL200

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Wow this is so good