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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A good way to watch the eclipse is to use your binoculars the wrong way round to project onto paper

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

When biology is art. TS section of mouse. Student slide from 1990 histology class. @uniofreading.bsky.social

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Visited Romsey Abbey in Hampshire yesterday. This stunning stained glass window designed by Sophie Hacker was installed to mark the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale's birth.

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Beautiful clear blue skies over our house yesterday with no sign of plane contrails. A sign of the times?

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Early spider orchids scattered on the hill down to dancing ledge #isleofpurbeck #dorsetwildlife

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Hive mind - is this a cackling goose? It is with a Canada goose at Titchfield, Hampshire

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Our @colezoology.bsky.social display on animal symmetry for the visually impaired was finished by conservator Fred. Thanks to the friends of the @uniofreading.bsky.social for funding. Come and have a feel! #animalsymmetry #brailledisplay

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

It’s that time of the year. First year zoology practical with some great specimens from @colezoology.bsky.social @wetconservatrix.bsky.social

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Species list from our Devon field course

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Near the end of our undergraduate biodiversity fieldcourse in Devon. Lots of species and much fun had #universityofreading

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

It’s graduation day!!! Congratulations to all our students #graduation

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Charles Lyell was a famous geologist who had a strong influence on Darwin. He was interested in taphonomy and studied dried samples of mud with bird tracks and rain drops. We are lucky to have some of these featured (Figure 20) in his famous Principles of Geology! @colezoology.bsky.social

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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

What if we measured progress not just by income or life expectancy - but by how well we live with the rest of nature? A major new paper proposes the 'Nature Relationship Index (NRI)' - a bold rethink of development metrics. Here’s why it matters.👇 #NatureRelationshipIndex #GlobalThreads

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

@colezoology.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky!! Looking forward to seeing cool specimens. In the meantime here we are with Norman the elephant.

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy Summer Solstice 2025 to all my pagan friends. Summer is officially here.

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Fossicking along the Fleet always results in small treasures!! Move over Lyme Regis.

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Don’t just sit there, eat them!!!!!!

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Found a stunning Harlequin ladybird larva on my garden but it wasn’t interested in eating my greenfly. @hatbirder.bsky.social

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We have been waiting for this to happen. Hopefully an isolated incident. West Nile virus killed many elderly people in the US. #arboviruses #mosquitoesinBritain

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Our most common urban mosquito, Culex pipiens, is carrying Usutu virus in Southern England, killing blackbirds. These mosquitoes breed in standing water, so you could be growing them in your garden. #climatechange #mosquitobornevirus #gardenbirds

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Weymouth and Chesil Beach looking magnificent at the weekend #lovedorset #seathrift

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Ammonites, belemnites, beautiful crinoids and a tooth of some kind (?) from Oxford Clay #JurassicCoast #Tidmoorpoint #fossilhunting

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

These large oil beetles from Andalusia, Spain, are beautiful! Cool enough that they are a bit dozy. #springtimeinSpain #beetles @hatbirder.bsky.social

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

40 million year old molluscs are easy pickings from the Barton clays at Barton on Sea, Hampshire. #fossils #fossilmolluscs

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

More palaeo models have arrived for teaching and Cole Museum of Zoology display! Thanks to Bruce Currie. Eurypterid, Brachiopod, Rangeomorph paleozoo.com.au #palaeoteaching #UniofReading #Historyoflifeonearth

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Finally got to visit the Great Bustards on Salisbury plains. Probably the heaviest flying birds on the planet. Saw a group of 12 males displaying. greatbustard.org

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Giving undergraduate students modelling clay definitely makes them engage with material in the Cambrian life practical. #palaeontology #uniofreading #historyoflifeonearth

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Palaeontology trilobite practical tomorrow and I’m hoping the students appreciate these wonderful trilobite eyes. #trilobite #palaeontologyatUoR #Colemuseumofzoology @unirdgento.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Cole Museum Volunteer session today sorting through some of our molluscs. Although the specimens are 100 years old the shells look so fresh #mollusccollection #uniofreading #extracurricularlearning

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

History of Life on Earth practical today with real Ediacaran fossils for students to study up close. #ediacaran #dickinsonia #uniofreading

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This Cole Museum mussel was put out in class to demonstrate the bivalve to find that it has a little pea crab inside! Pinnotheres pisum. #colemuseumofzoology #uniofreading #invertebratezoology #peacrab #parasite #joriescolourpreservation @wetconservatrix.bsky.social @hatbirder.bsky.social

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Chris Foster @chrisfoster.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Some surprising mollusc morphology in today's invertebrate zoology practical with @acallazoo.bsky.social 👀🐌

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Semester began this week which means practicals and dusting off things in jars for students to see. #zoology #invertebrates #molluscs #urochordates

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Excited to have some new museum models from paleozoo.com.au which arrived from Australia in a record short period of time. Here is Sanctacaris uncata, (Holy crab?) a Cambrian stem group arthropod.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It’s #WorldBivalveDay! Corculum cardissa, the heart cockle, is a species of marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae found in the Indo-Pacific. If viewed from the side, it looks like a heart. There is a lot of colour variation in shells, but they often have patterns in coral pink like those 🧵

My linocut shows three heart cockles (Corculum cardissa) with the words, “You warm the cockles of my heart”. Each 6.5” x 8” print is hand printed on Japanese paper. The cockles are viewed from the side so they look like hearts and have varied patterns in two tints of coral pink (spots, concentric stripes with wavy patterns and splotches around the edge of the heart shape).

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Just had a peak in the amazing new collections storage space of the #ColeMuseum This is @wetconservatrix.bsky.social modelling a GIANT polychaete with @chrisfoster.bsky.social, @acallazoo.bsky.social and myself have specimen selfies with it

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Fingers, tongues and toes. Part of the historic collection that has been used continuously for the last 100 years (and more) by students at the University of Reading #ColeMuseum @acallazoo.bsky.social @wetconservatrix.bsky.social

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

On the surface of sand dunes of Fuerteventura lie thousands of ichnofossil solitary bee nests. Many show signs of predation. natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1012366/...

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Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Watch out Fuerteventura! Ready to emerge in January!! #mosquito #fuerteventura

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Dave Ewing @daveewing.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Application deadline 6th January! Please share #vbd

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