Tannis Davidson

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 🌍 📚 🧪

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

UCL illuminated show with micrarium exhibit microscope slides across Wilkins building.

Wilkins building with illuminations of jarred specimens, bones and CT printed gharial skulls (Dr Laura Porro UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy and team at UCL Bartlett B:Made studio)

UCL illuminated projections showing historic images of teaching classes in Grant Museum with leafy backdrop. Bioacoustics by Dr Jim Labisko UCL CBER.

Projections showing reconstructed Grant Museum dodo skeletons that were scanned and rearticulated by UCL anatomy student Byron Jarrett (UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy).

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.

UCL museum staff moving a trolley with a carefully wrapped gorilla skeleton. An umbrella is held over the gorilla.

Our gorilla skeleton is on the move ahead of preparations for the upcoming bicentenary celebrations. #UCL200

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

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

PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos – January 20, 2026 YouTube video by cpac

www.youtube.com/live/uStuQ-T...

A visitor in the Grant Museum of Zoology using a virtual reality headset.

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

Colour photo. The preserved red slender loris at the Grant Museum, in a “damn you all to hell” pose

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

Waspy dressed visitors flank UCL’s wasp woman Seirian Sumner in front of Peter Ayres’ wasp nest sculptures in the Grant Museum of Zoology.

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.

QI - Series W: 10. ‘W’ Animals Sandi Toksvig looks at animals which start with a W with Nabil Abdulrashid, Holly Walsh, Sam Campbell and Alan Davies.

Brilliant new @qi.com episode ‘W Animals’ featuring one of @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social ‘s famous specimens!

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Jamaica Road intersection

Tower Bridge in fog

Tower Bridge in fog

Butlers Wharf and Tower Bridge

London #fog

Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda Finland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especial...

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...

Piecing it together: the work of London School of Mosaic Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 750,000 artworks by over 70,000 artists.

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.

YouTube video by HBO The Wire: Shit Clay Davis Says | HBO

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 Birders are flocking to Vancouver’s Sunset Beach Park this weekend to take in an incredibly rare sight—the first time on record a particular species of bird has ever been seen in Canada.

‘Once in a lifetime’: Crowds gather in Vancouver to look at bird never before seen in Canada

We caught up with one of the kids who sang on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' He's 72 now 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.

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.

UCL zoology and science team enjoy a pre-Christmas beverage with portrait of Jeremy Bentham in background.

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

A table of times, speakers, institutions and topics. For clearer details, please go to the eventbrite advert linked in the main body of this post

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

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Whaaaat?! Amazing Tim!! Congratulations!

You’re welcome Dr.

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