Bonnie Griffin

100 days till Christmas… #marilwydLA

This is so cool Dr Prager!

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The Website / Portal of the Project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan contains resources like the Maya Image Archive, the Maya Hieroglyphic Text and Image Archive, a calculator for Maya calendrics and other useful tools for Maya hieroglyphic studies classicmayan.org/portal/

Today years old when I learned about these cute horned gophers!! Like mini upside down walrus! #rodents #tertiary #diversity #gophers

Banner with a blue circle and white text reading 'Animal History Group'. In the background is a cropped image of blue and white William de Morgan animal tiles.

The AHG has moved to Bluesky! We're a predominantly online, international network, running a varied programme of seminars, conferences and other events since 2016.

We're looking forward to connecting and reconnecting here with all who are interested in animals in history!

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This shuddersome Miocene whale from…wait for it…Bakersfield! My only previous references were the wonderful TV series ‘Baskets’ and Vally Fever…now I’m down a rabbit hole with Desmostylus and more Miocene monsters! Specimen at Santa Barbara NHM. #whale #bakersfield #miocene #skullfriday

This gobsmackingly gorgeous Chumash basket at Santa Barbara NHM #beautiful #chumash #basketweaving #skillstothehills

Enjoying these opossum interpretations at Santa Barbara NHM! Just your friendly neighbourhood marsupial trash queen! 💕 #taxidermy #illustration

Excited for this podcast!

A little bit of Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) Leafe, shell and Jacks 1957 #surrealist #womenartist #witchy #americanart

Of all the problems with AI, this is one use I can get behind: it transcribes the handwriting & then a human corrects it. I highly recommend @zooniverse.bsky.social - a great way to volunteer and get knowledge and heritage more accessible while working on collections from around the world 💕

Some wonderful Indigenous knowledge of Polar Bear ecology being recorded circa 1818. TW: he calls Inuit people 'Indians' - a problematic 'catch-all' term. Working on @acadnatsci.bsky.social 's collection. #indigenousknowledge #inuit #polarbear #bears #ecology #lifecycle

Ha ha ha! 😆

I always pretend it’s trying to talk to me in Morse code!

Quilt making to combine my obsessions with American decorative arts & the #kaleidoscope - invented by Scottish scientist Sir David Brewster (British pat. no. 4136) in 1817 with hopes it would be used for “exhibiting & creating beautiful Forms & Patterns of great use in all the ornamental Arts” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇸

Museum of off-brand ice-cream vans 🍦

This onion article was an absolute skewer! 😬😅🫠

Job opportunity Principal Curator of Collection Development (Archaeology), National Museum Cardiff , Closing date 29th August nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...

a photograph of the plesionectes holotype

a new plesiosaur has been identified from early jurassic germany! a warm welcome to plesionectes longicollum, known from an almost complete and articulated specimen that preserves a staggering 41 cervical vertebrae 🤯
peerj.com/articles/196...

Just completed the Canadian Conservation Institutes course Preservation Housekeeping for Heritage Sites and Small Museums! Great refresher and I learned it’s long overdue time to get the Los Angeles air pollution, grit and dust off my books at home 🙈 Can you spot the odd one out? #oneofthesethings

Just love this beautiful raven by Pitaloosie Saila #bird #art

Happy Summerween! Showing some appreciation for these hand-made slugs at Bristol Museum - made by multifaceted curator Rhian Rowson. See the ghost slug (the big white/purple one) Selenochlamys ysbryda 👻👻 All beautiful, slimey wee pals! #gastropoda #slug #ghost

This little cutie inside a glass on my table top - Colonus hesperus - 🥹 #arachnid #spiders #jumpingspider #inaturalist

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology.

www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

What a talented, elegant man! 🥰

Brushing up on my folk horror curriculum with this fantastic practical effect apparition in Whistle and I’ll Come to You, 1968, based on the ghost story by M.R. James, named after Burns poem Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad #folkhorror #bedsheets #shudder

Find yourself someone who selectively breeds a carnation to honor their ancestors journey 🥲 Asexual Clone Mutation by Bruce and Normal Yotemono @gettymuseum #queerlove #botany #love #carnation

Cried like a baby at this gut wrenching photograph. Too much to explain via a post but something about seeing ourselves and our culture (good and bad) through animal lenses gets me right in the guts. Untitled (Buffalo)
By the brilliant David Wojnarowicz @gettymuseum.bsky.social

Crying away @gettymuseum.bsky.social. I want to live in a world where this can happen ❤️‍🩹 brilliant work by Tourmaline. #queerlove #dreaming #abundance #tenfold

The Spanish dance in question! Just love those huge frilly knickers! 📸 photo Altonaer Nachrichter 1902 @EphThompsonProject archive