Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.

Celebrating the amazing work of the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social and @ucl.ac.uk #science museum teams alongside our spiritual patron Jeremy Bentham.

Great news! We can now publish full details of our timetable for our Annual #Symposium on Th 19Feb2026 in London, celebrating #UCL200 and focusing on #Anatomy: Past, Present & Future. Please order your FREE ticket and obtain further info: tinyurl.com/UCL200Anatom... @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Congratulations to the wonderful @rachelhester.bsky.social !! Well done we are all so proud of you @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social !

Save the date: 19Feb2026. Our all-day #symposium, celebrating #UCL200, is now bookable, FREE: tinyurl.com/UCL200Anatom... Topic: #Anatomy: Past, Present & Future - 14+ speakers, plenty of discussion/networking opportunities; refreshments & lunch included @ucl.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

Today’s @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social we packed our very special gorilla skeleton who is away for specialist conservation and re-mounting. He will be back in the new year and will play a central role in forthcoming @ucl.ac.uk bicentenary celebrations! #ucl200

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

Confirmed (again) today at Birmingham #museum stores that every natural history collection (as least in the UK) has one (but likely two) overstuffed Bosc monitors.

Extensive #taxidermy bird collection at Birmingham #museum stores including nestlings. Thank you @lukaslarge.bsky.social for hosting @natsca.bsky.social committee!

Fabulous talk today by @idrisadams.bsky.social in @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social all about why we should all love wasps - especially solitary wasps 🐝! #WaspLove #WorldOfWasps

Join us tomorrow for a very special night @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social as a part of @ucl.ac.uk MultiCOP supporting COP30. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...

Saltwater crocodile mirror

My first wasp publication is out! @waspwoman.bsky.social and I have written a piece highlighting why wasps are so cool in Frontiers for Young Minds... perfect for children but equally as fascinating for all ages!

@idrisadams.bsky.social's 1st wasp paper! Although written for & reviewed by kids, it's good for wasp-wary adults too! And a perfect companion for a visit to the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social #WorldOfWasps free exhibition www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... @uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

RIP Lô Borges, read @andybeta.bsky.social: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Easy Saturday vibes youtu.be/SyjZ0mXEsUM?...

An installation at Lochmaddy explores the catastrophic impact of our relationship with nature and its long-term effects. The work provokes a dialogue on how the rising sea levels will affect coastal areas, its inhabitants and land usage in the future.... kottke.org/19/03/a-ligh...

Join us for today’s lunchtime @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social Research in Focus talk with @knapprew.bsky.social from @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social discussing how museum specimens can be used to study brain evolution.

love everything about this www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

There are a lot of reeeeaaaallly cool things going on @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social World Anatomy Day this Saturday - don’t miss it! 11am - 2pm Oct 18. 🩻🐊🦴

It has been an enormous pleasure to work with @uclcber.bsky.social wasp dream team @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social and @idrisadams.bsky.social to highlight their amazing research in this world first exhibition on #wasps!

Researchers from the Sumner Lab talk about how their research informed our latest virtual reality exhibition, World of Wasps. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps

WOW!

If you ever wondered how to photograph a gorilla skeleton without a studio …

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Nirvana fans of the MTV Unplugged in New York album should check out the @rcmlondon.bsky.social exhibition about the recording. The guitar, the jumper and rare memorabilia are on display until November 18 in London.

So the answer to the question ‘how many people does it take to hang a python skeleton’ is five.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

One of the benefits of decanting thousands of specimens for casework and redisplay is that you have the opportunity to deep dive into their histories and records. Just connected the archival dots of this pink fairy armadillo and it is an original @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social specimen from 1828!

Wondering why @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social is closed this week? Case refurbishments and new displays on the way!

WATCH Katrina Come Hell or High Water www.netflix.com/title/81676595

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An exhibition @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social swats away some of our negative perceptions of wasps. Will Wiles considers the success of its attempt to ‘reposition the beer-garden menace as an evolutionary marvel’.

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Get to know the team behind World of Wasps in this interview about creating our latest virtual reality exhibition. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...

The scan I did of a paper wasp nest earlier this year is now a VR exhibit at the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social - check it out next time you're in London!! 🐝

As someone who's putting considerable effort into changing perceptions of wasps from "kill" to "appreciate", I often feel at odds in the company of pest controllers. But Steve Light is a pest-controller who I hope represents a change. Read his blog. #WaspLove shire-pest-solutions.co.uk/wasp-talk/

South Oxfordshire - With #wasps in the media and your garden, it's time for a FREE public talk devoted to them! I'll be talking July 22nd - 7pm. Suitable for 12+ #Cholsey Pavilion #MendTheGap #SpringlineProject Book your free ticket here: cholseyparishcouncil.gov.uk/springline-e... #WaspLove

‘Seeing climate change like this, it changes you’: dance duo Bicep on making an album in Greenland

This mummy mask for a crocodile, from Roman Egypt and now in Munich in their Egypt museum, is pretty wild.

Happy 20th anniversary UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage! Proud to be an alumna and to share my story of how this programme shaped my career.

Thrilled to work with @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social researchers to communicate their incredible work on wasps! Many thanks to @hannahcornish.bsky.social, Alice Holloway, @ucllccos.bsky.social wider team, @uclnews.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for all their support 🐝

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World of Wasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social is open! Over a year in the making by this incredible team, the exhibition features displays, virtual reality, projections and paper sculptures drawing upon @uclcber.bsky.social research @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social

#WorldOfWasps exhibition opens today @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social. Delighted to talk about it on #BBCRadio4 #TodayProgramme today -7.22am. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... VR wasp experiences; wasp art; real wasp nests! Embrace your inner #WaspLove! @uclcber.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...

Our new exhibition World of Wasps opens today! Here’s a peek at what it looks like:

Early start for me with @bbc5live.bsky.social interview on #WorldOfWasps exhibition @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social! Open tomorrow(25/6)! Tour the world’s wasps; VR experience inside a wasp nest! Unleash your #WaspLove! www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @uclnews.bsky.social