Richard Fallon

Books Available to review for H-Environment Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...

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NEW EPISODE: 'A Pastoral Horror' (1890). A Tyrolean village is terrorised by a serial killer, armed with an alpine pickaxe... Chat about: early crime fiction; Jack the Ripper; Feldkirch; werewolves and cuckoo clocks! bit.ly/DODoyle; bit.ly/DOD72sn; #ArthurConanDoyle

Terrible Lizards: S12E02 Writing with Dinosaurs  This is available to watch on youtube here: Support the podcast (keep it advert free) and get exclusive content: We have talked plenty about dinosaurs in pop culture, including in movies, but ...

If you need Saturday listening material, check out my chat with @davehone.bsky.social and Iszi Lawrence on the latest Terrible Lizards podcast. Two medical doctors, two twentieth-century dinosaur novels. Whoever wins, we lose: terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls12e02-1

An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.

🎉 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 🌍 📚 🧪

Painting of a long-necked dinosaur-like sea monster rearing up on its hind legs, to make itself the same height as the top of the lighthouse. It is attacking the lighthouse which is crumbling and being destroyed.

"The monster opened its great toothed mouth and the sound that came from it was the sound of the Fog Horn itself. Lonely and vast and far away. The sound of isolation, a viewless sea, a cold night, apartness. That was the sound."

Ray Bradbury, 'The Foghorn' #BookologyThursday

🎨 by Zdeněk Burian

Dictyonema, retouched photograph by O. M. B. Bulman. Detail from part II of A Monograph of British Dendroid Graptolites (1928). #FossilFriday

Cost of living: Students praise 'essential' food bank service Queen's University Belfast says there were more than 10,500 visits by students to its food bank in the students' union.

Shocking. When I was an undergrad around 20 years ago, a decent summer job & the maintenance loan saw me (carefully) thru a whole year in a provincial city. The cost of living is now so insane that hundreds, maybe thousands, of students in Belfast are using food banks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In an Age of Science, Tennyson Grappled with an Unsettling New World His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the earth and the heavens.

Always a joy to find a piece by Kathryn Schulz in the latest New Yorker. This article (nay, meditation) on Richard Holmes’ new biography of Tennyson is quite wonderful. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

That would have been in the sequel

Like Jurassic Park (Crichton)? Like The Lost World (Doyle)? Like The Lost World (Crichton)? Then this is the podcast for you. Although people who said yes to the last question may be thinner on the ground.

Yes, it looks pretty bumbling

'Un mondo perduto': a sauropod dinosaur is seconds away from crashing into the water when Tower Bridge snaps.

This 1928 Italian cover for The Lost World ... I like it.

Close-up of red and black model of a theropod dinosaur.

Residents of Kent! Does anyone know if this guy is still on display in Maidstone Museum? Or has he long since departed?

Diorama behind glass of the therocephalian carnivore Scymnosaurus.

I've been reminded about this very impressive online resource: Iziko Museum's loving recreation of its 1959 Boonstra Diorama exhibition on the prehistoric life of the Karoo. (www.iziko.org.za/exhibitions/...)

The Piltdown forgery extended to other fossils supposedly from the site (but probably planted) that Dawson stained brown. My personal favourites being 'The Piltdown Clams'! Two specimens of Upper Cretaceous inoceramid bivalve derived from the #Chalk.

The model is dark brown or black in colour and although plaster, it looks like metal. It is of a living Iguanodon, not a skeleton/fossil.

Plaster model of Iguanodon - by Vernon Edwards. The model dates from the 1940s and is part of our current dinosaur exhibition in the upstairs corridor.
#Bexhill #Dinosaur

"Beautiful Shells For Bexhill Museum.
These specimens were exhibited at Miss Marsden's residence on Wednesday. When she received the members of the Bexhill Commercial Association and other local gentlemen." Bexhill Observer 22.2.1913. #Bexhill #Sussex #Museum #KateMarsden #Shell #History #1910s

Been attempting to track down the #Arctic natural #history specimens donated to the Whitby #Museum by William Scoresby Jr using old catalogues and photos. I've finally found a photo of his long-lost "sea-horse heads"! I've never seen walrus stuffed in this way. Also note the Ichthyosaur at the back!

A letter from Humphrey Gilbert-Carter to Harry Richardson Creswick, 3 May 1927, containing a pressed plant with yellow flowers.

A letter from Humphrey Gilbert-Carter to Harry Richardson Creswick, 3 May 1927, containing a pressed plant, on top of a 15th-century Bible.

The smell of old books. ‘Quite a small piece of Fenugreek would make your Bible smell like a ripe cheese.’

Humphrey Gilbert-Carter, Director of @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social to Harry Creswick @theul.bsky.social, identifying a plant in a 15th-century Bible as Helichrysum stoechas. Inc.1.A.7.2[860]

'Still-life with coffee pot.' (1914) Like the work of his close friend and fellow Camden Town Group member Charles Ginner, many of Malcolm Drummond’s paintings show his interest in structure and form.

common term, earwig, is derived from the Old English ēare, which means 'ear', and wicga, which means 'insect', or literally, 'beetle'.[2] Entomologists suggest that the origin of the name is a reference to the appearance of the hindwings, which are unique and distinctive among insects, and resemble a human ear when unfolded.[3][4] The name is more popularly thought to be related to the old wives' tale that earwigs burrowed into the brains of humans through the ear and laid their eggs there.[5] Earwigs are not known to purposefully climb into ear canals, but there has been at least one anecdotal report of earwigs being found in the ear.[6]

It's pretty pathetic that this is the best Wikipedia can do on cases of earwigs climbing into ears.

NEW ARTWORK for #FossilFriday
Here's "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay.

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #JurassicWorld #Ichthyosaurs #Pterosaurs #Crocodiles #Plesiosaurs

Just noticed your great video!

Make no bones about it, we love sharing our collections! For a sneaky peek at the recently digitised 'Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, extinct monsters of the ancient earth' by Thomas Hawkins, follow the link to Digitised Special Collections in our bio ⬆️ #DigitisedCollections #FossilFriday

Lithographs of Hawkins's sketches of Ichthyosaur anatomy, with handwritten attotations.

A very special #FossilFriday. Thanks to @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, one of the c19th's greatest works of palaeontological literature is now properly digitised: Thomas Hawkins's beautiful, epic, semi-unhinged Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44...)

Calling all Thomas Hardy scholars - I bought a book for an obscure Algernon Blackwood story only to discover that it appears to be inscribed by Hardy. Can anyone confirm? And who is Caroline (‘Sammy’)? 🧐

A frame piece of vert antique, a marble-like stone.

Gaze into the vert antique.

Photograph of the John Watson Building Stones Collection at the Cambridge University Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Join us for a Collections Lab at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social: ‘Building Stones: collections as resources for sustainable construction’, 27 March 2026, 12.00-2.00 pm.

www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/events/item/... @camunivmuseums.bsky.social

Just got my hot-off-the-press copy of the new edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, written by @tetzoo.bsky.social and yours truly, with gorgeous new cover art from @bobnichollsart.bsky.social: finally, a sauropodomorph on the cover 🦕🦕🦕 On sale soon!

University of Bristol asks Humanities and Languages academic staff to voluntarily quit Certain departments are being run into a ‘managed decline’, says Bristol UCU's co-President, as a new Voluntary Severance Scheme is announced.

'If they choose to take up the Voluntary Severance Scheme, open to all academic staff in the School of Humanities and the School of Modern Languages, staff essentially make themselves redundant in return for a good pay-out.'

9 months' pay; 3 weeks to decide. 1/3