Polychaete Bob

Just under a week to get your applications in - We are looking for a new Head of Zoology at National Museum Cardiff
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JOB ALERT 🫎🦋🐞🪱🐍🦦🐚
Come and work with us at National Museum Cardiff. Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales seeks a new Head of Zoology to lead an experienced curatorial team driving forward innovative research and public engagement programmes.

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A few of the visitors to the garden. Lucky to have so many woodpeckers visit

Absolutely loving my new T shirt from @sillytees.bsky.social. If you know you know! 😆🤣

Great game of cricket yesterday against Cowbridge. Went right down to the wire, with only 5 runs in it. So glad to come away with the win.

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Finishing off the deep clean in the natural history galleries for another year. Today was dusting dinosaurs 🦕 🦖🧽
Great to get up close with these amazing specimens and models. Can officially report that they are all sparkling now and ready to welcome dino fans in the morning.

Lovely visit to Castell Coch this afternoon. Lots of conservation work going on but still lots to see and the ceilings are just beautiful.

I am so pleased that we were able to get to the Tower of London whilst the Poppies to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of WWII were there. So moving and poignant to see.

Day 2 in the big smoke and 28,000 steps later we had visited Trafalgar Square, Marble Arch, Horse Guards, Westminster, Whitehall, Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Greenwhich, Buckingham Palace, Leicester Square, China Town, Covent Garden and to finished off with Phantom of the Opera.

Really enjoyed visiting @sciencemuseum.org.uk, loads of great exhibitions. My daughter particularly enjoyed the history of medicine exhibit. Shame the space exhibit is currently closed but the flight exhibits were excellent.

They are amazing, the whole building is

Some of the fab exhibits @nhm.org. We spent hours looking around even though it’s a bit of a busman’s holiday for me. Even managed to find some polychaetes in the Darwin Centre and bumped into the fab Emma Sherlock for a catch up.

What an amazing building the @nhm.org is! I am just as fascinated by the architecture as the exhibits. There’s so much to look at, every column and ceiling is amazing!

I had the great pleasure of attending Salvage Training this week at work. A fantastic course aimed at familiarising staff to procedures in the event of an emergency or incident. Pictured below is our attempt at building a wind tunnel to dry out damp books @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social

Had a great time photographing the Home Nations Masters Hockey Tournament in Swansea this weekend. Thanks to Dawn for this brilliant photo of me poised to take photos, excellent 🙌. Very excited to use my new gadget ☂️

This horse fly was keeping me company on the way to work!

Another day doing a deep clean of the natural history galleries @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social. Working on the shore and woodlands making them sparkle for the visitors

Many thanks to Katherine Jones and @polychaetebob.bsky.social for these snaps from Summer Mixed Training between Bridgend Hockey Club and Bridgend Ladies Hockey Club. There’s loads more over on our Facebook page.

Imaging the Holotype of Magelona anuheone Magalhães, Bailey-Brock & Watling, 2018 on #WormWednesday

Gardens done, time to kick back with a cuppa in the sunshine ☀️

A good day in the image suite taking photos of worms from the Gulf of Mexico.

Amazing to see how good Jones was at dissecting and mounting specimens. No wonder his drawings were so good #wormWednesday

A lovely spot on my lunchtime walk today - Cimbex femoratus- birch sawfly 🪰 #ButePark

And the second puzzle of the year is finished. A lovely cabinet of natural history curiosities!

A long, pink-and-gray worm with lots of pointy segments lays against small pebbles.

A grayish-green creature with lots of segments and appendages on its face peers at the camera.

Pile worms — scientific name Nereis vexillosa — can reach up to 30 centimeters (a little over 11 inches) long and are often found burrowed in sand or among mussels & barnacles. 🧵⤵️

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First jigsaw of the year complete, and it’s a beautiful one. Was pretty hard but loved doing it. Thank you Harry, for such a lovely present.