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 🌍 📚 🧪
So sad to hear this news. I knew Hans as a colleague @romtoronto.bsky.social where he was always generous with his time and expertise.
Ha! I’m sure a few curators here may be updating their snatch lists!
I came here for this
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
@uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social
Last chance to see our World of Wasps exhibition, available to view until 24 January! Zoom inside a virtual wasp’s nest and see their life as master architects, pest controllers and pollinators. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
A visit to the Grant Museum of Zoology was very cathartic today - a lot of the creatures appeared to be venting their frustrations with current affairs..
Here’s what it usually looks like
It was buzzing in @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social today with #WaspLove on full display with a visit from Shona and Tam Reppe and @waspwoman.bsky.social herself! See World of Wasps exhibition before it closes on Jan 24.
Brilliant new @qi.com episode ‘W Animals’ featuring one of @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social ‘s famous specimens!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
London #fog
Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult
apnews.com/article/fake...
I think this is the most important thing I have written this year. Just published on @artukdotorg.bsky.social It is about the closure of the London School of Mosaic. artuk.org/discover/sto...
Calling all model makers, 3D scanners, anatomists, digital dissecters❗️❗️❗️
I'm the organiser of the symposium "Digital Resilience: Immortalising biodiversity through 3D anatomical models". Most of my network on here have incredible work that I'd love to see, so submit an abstract! Open 7th Jan 😁
Call for papers for the 2026 NatSCA conference ‘Collaborating and Connecting with Natural History’. Join us in Belfast May 14-15!
Submission deadline Feb 8. natsca.org/natsca-2026
There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. We loved all the characters you played, especially as Clay Davis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...
‘Once in a lifetime’: Crowds gather in Vancouver to look at bird never before seen in Canada
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.
