Tannis Davidson

Illuminated tyvek- brilliant!

Hannah Cornish and Alice Holloway holding up a black drape behind UCL Grant Museum’s male gorilla skeleton ‘Hugo’ for some quick photos. They are smiling but their arms are screaming.

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

Awesome work Omar!!!

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

Exhibition poster for Royal College of Music Museum’s temporary exhibition ‘Kurt Cobain Unplugged’ showing Kurt and his guitar.

The 1959 Martin D-18E guitar used by Kurt Cobain in the MTV Unplugged in New York album displayed in the exhibition.

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.

New nickname noted 😂

African rock python skeleton articulated around a branch and temporarily suspended between coat racks. Which is the best use of coat racks ever.

Emilia Kingham holding branch with python skeleton before mounting in newly refurbished case. Alice Holloway crunching the numbers in distance.

Alice Holloway, Cyrus Shroff and Hannah Cornish ease python skeleton into case for positioning.

She’s up! Python skeleton hanging in case at UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology.

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 🧵)

Taxidermy pink fairy armadillo specimen on black base with decanted Grant Museum specimens on tables in the background.

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!

UCL Grant Museum from above showing empty vertebrate cases.

Empty fish case looking through to museum.

False gharial skeleton on newly-painted base.

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

‘Sadmin’ 😂

There are strange things done in the midnight sun…

Watch Katrina: Come Hell and High Water | Netflix Official Site Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, survivors reflect on the disastrous storm that forever changed their lives and the systemic inequities it exposed.

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Come Hell or High Water
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Nature headline "I invented a life-saving frog sauna." Photo of said frogs in said sauna

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

If we liked wasps more, we could learn from them Wasps have a terrible image problem but, after seeing an exhibition that highlights their design abilities, Will Wiles thinks we could learn from them

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’.

how to draw a crab. a fun and creative guide for beginners with @franzanth fig 1. draw a circle with sticks. the image is as described. fig 2. draw the rest of the fucking crab. the image is a fully fleshed out crab drawing in full color, purple and yellow.

follow for more crab tutorials

A wasp on a purple flower.

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...

You’ll love it! Reminiscent of Wingspan but completely completely new gameplay. 🐠

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!! 🐝

Wasp Talk - shire-pest-solutions.co.uk I deal with wasps almost every day. So attending a wasp talk dedicated to saving wasps felt strange but hearing Professor Seirian Sumner.

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/

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

showyourstripes.info/c/europe/uni...

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 Collaborating with Indigenous artists and sampling melting glaciers, the Northern Irish artists are championing Arctic culture – and documenting a collapsing world

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

Right on brand! Wasps are exciting!

A mummy mask for a crocodile head that's white with teeth and eyes complete with eyelashes painted on

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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And we’ve had a recent revamp so the museum and specimens are looking better than ever 😍!