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Phil Hadland

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Palaeontologist working with natural science & archaeology collections. Also an independent ichnology & dinosaur researcher.

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Phil Hadland @fossilphil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is bloody brilliant!
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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
14 September 1825: geologists Roderick and Charlotte Murchison visit Lyme Regis and meet Mary Anning. They called first at the shop, but Mary was out fossil hunting in the rain. Roderick (and maybe Charlotte) found her, 'a fine intelligent young woman' on the beach 'with her dog, hammer & basket'.
Top, extract from Murchison's journal 'Charmouth Sept 14 1825 To day to Lyme & sat in the Plesiosaurus Bed with Mary Anning – a drenching rain'; centre left, portrait of Mary Anning in a green cloak and straw bonnet tied with a red ribbon; centre right, portrait of Roderick Murchison with a full head of hair and long sideburns; bottom, extract from Murchison's journal where he went to the 'Western Beach where I soon discovered her [Mary Anning] with her dog, hammer & basket – a fine intelligent young woman'
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Through additions to the ceiling in the Dinosaur Gallery, artist Ellie Fryer helps us to tell the story of how some dinosaurs survived a mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, flying into the Cenozoic 66 million years ago. Hastings Borough Council #FossilFriday
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This year, we hosted a photography course with students from the home education community. The exhibition on Friday 19 June at 3pm celebrates their work during the course. "Please come & have a chat with us — we'd love to share our love of photography with you". Kate Butts
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Happy Sussex day! June 16 is the county day for the historic county of Sussex and celebrates its rich heritage and culture. The event takes place on St Richard's Day, Sussex's patron saint. Image: Sussex Pottery holy water Stoup HASMG1947.41.1
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🦖 Happy Dinosaur Day!🦕 If you've not been yet, visit our Dinosaurs gallery to find out about Hastings, the Dinosaur Town. The fossils, found in & around the town, are the cast of an amazing story - 140 million years in the making! We're open again from tomorrow at 10am. Hastings Borough Council
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Meet Hastings Ancient Trees Fossils Tuesday 26 May 10am, 12noon & 2pm In partnership with CPRE Sussex to take part in the Tree Festival 2026. Children aged 3+welcomed and must be accompanied by an adult. FREE TICKETED EVENT – book for children only. hmag.org.uk/event/meet-h...
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
What does a geology collections curator actually do? 🪨 In our latest 'Six Questions' blog, Dr Hazel McGoff, Associate Professor in Environmental Science, shares insights into caring for the University of Reading’s geological collection! Read it here 👇 geocollnews.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/s...
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Six Questions for a Geology Collections Curator – Geological Collections at the University of Reading
Posted on by geocurators Written by Dr Hazel McGoff h.j.mcgoff@reading.ac.uk Associate Professor in Environmental Science. Member of the Geological Collections Group.  What sort of collections do y…
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Curators and stakeholders met at Amgueddfa Cymru to discuss threats to geology, particularly funding cuts, course closures, and staffing losses, and to explore collaborative ways to sustain the discipline. Give it a read here 👇 geocollnews.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/r...
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Report of a recent meeting held in Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Cardiff
Posted on by geocurators Written by Cindy Howells, Curator of Palaeontology at National Museum of Wales and Membership Officer of the Geological Collections Group. As many of us&nbsp…
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
GCG has launched a Small Grants Scheme, offering up to £1000 total, per round. Applications can be made for projects that focus on any aspect of geological specimens or collections, such as 👇
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Phil Hadland @fossilphil.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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The Cave
YouTube video by The Hastings Fossil Hunter
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Phil Hadland @fossilphil.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The Relics Roadshow is on Sat 21 Feb, from 10am to 3 pm. This free event allows visitors to bring in fossils, archaeological finds, & treasures for identification by experts & museum staff. For more information please see the event page here ow.ly/B8jo50Y8aLB @hastingsbc.bsky.social
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Happy birthday to Philip Rufford, born #onthisday in 1852! This Cretaceous fossil plant, Otozamites klipsteinii, is ~140 million years old & was collected by Philip in the 1890s in his favourite collecting area east of Hastings. See it on display in our Dinosaur Gallery! @hastingsbc.bsky.social
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Cindy Howells @palaeofossil.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The Reverend Conybeare watching over our morning rehearsal at Llandaff Cathedral today. #llandaffcathedral #earlygeologists #historyofgeology #conybeare
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Join us for Dinosaurs at Dusk next half term on 19th February! Travel back in time through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous geological periods in search of the ancestors of modern-day birds, the feathered dinosaurs. £5 pp Link to book: www.hmag.org.uk/event/dinosa... #HalfTermEvents
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Who knew galled brambles are a thing!? These were the preserve of Edward Connold (1862 - 1910) who published many books & papers on galls. You can find photos recently digitised from his collection here on our new collections pages ow.ly/TRWK50XALsx by searching 'connold' @hastingsbc.bsky.social
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Learn how to carve and print your own Japanese woodblock inspired by geological charts and maps in this 2 day workshop on 18 and 19 October. Book here: www.hmag.org.uk/event/memoir... @hastingsbc.bsky.social
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The Exploring Chainstitch workshop on 29 November is now open for booking! In this workshop, Emily Johns will introduce you to the many ways in which the humble chainstitch can be worked & guide you through several different types. Book here: www.hmag.org.uk/event/explor... @hastingsbc.bsky.social
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Phil Hadland @fossilphil.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I've been to the site and it's incredible. Everywhere you look there are trackways. #FossilFriday #Jurassic share.google/iiqxtiuGrxBs...
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UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint trackways unearthed - BBC News
About 200 footprints made by dinosaurs 166 million years ago have been unearthed in a quarry in Oxfordshire.
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We made a film in July 2025 to document continuing celebration around the subject of Hollington's local dinosaur in #TheDinosaurOnYourDoorstep. Huge thanks to all involved and to our funders @royalsociety.org @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_fl... @hastingsbc.bsky.social
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The Dinosaur on your Doorstep 2025
YouTube video by Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
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Phil Hadland @fossilphil.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A nice record of a continuing project that I initiated in 2022.
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Phil Hadland @fossilphil.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
No to appeasement!
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Are you an avid crime buff 🕵️? From 10:30am tomorrow to coincide with the final weekend of the Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime🕵️♀️ exhibition, meet local crime writers, explore their work & get your books signed. www.hmag.org.uk/event/crime-... @hastingsbc.bsky.social #CrimeWritersDay #Hastings
The Curator of the True Crime Museum Joel Griggs
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Missed our 'News from the Sector, June 2025' blog? Read it here now!👇 geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/n...
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News from the Sector – June 2025
News from the Sector is a monthly blog series featuring the latest geological and palaeontological news, jobs, exhibitions, and conferences. If you or your institution has anything they would …
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
There are some weird & wonderful objects in the Museum’s stored collections. One of them is a strange egg-laying mammal that looks like a mix of a duck, beaver & an otter. The platypus is now on temporary display in our natural history gallery. youtu.be/jp4X4Krl-DY @hastingsbc.bsky.social
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Platypus
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Are you an avid crime buff 🕵️‍♂️? From 10:30am on 9 August to coincide with the final weekend of the Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime🕵️‍♀️ exhibition, meet local crime writers, explore their work & get your books signed. www.hmag.org.uk/event/crime-... @hastingsbc.bsky.social #CrimeWritersDay #Hastings
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Crime Writers Day – Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
There are still places available for 'Your Place: Researching the History of Your Home'. In this interactive session, learn about what resources you can use at the museum to research the history of your home or where you live. www.hmag.org.uk/event/your-p... @hastingsbc.bsky.social
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Have you seen our newly revamped Dinosaurs gallery yet? It's full of beautiful artwork by Ellie Fryer based on the fossils that tell us what Hastings was like 140 million years ago during the #Cretaceous period. #FossilFriday #Dinosaurs #Geology @hastingsbc.bsky.social‬ youtube.com/shorts/1x0MC...
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Ellie Fryer Hastings Museum Dinosaur exhibition V5 4k
Have you seen our newly revamped #Dinosaurs gallery yet? It's full of beautiful artwork by Ellie Fryer illustrating the stories behind the amazing fossils th...
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Our favourite exhibits in Agatha Christie exhibition has to be the recreation of the Orient Express interior, complete with real train noises! #AgathaChristie #TheQueenOfCrime #Hastings @hastingsbc.bsky.social #FREE
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Have you seen episode 1 of the new @BBCEarth #WalkingWithDinosaurs? 🦖It features Triceratops, found in the USA & Canada. In our collection we have this section of brow horn with well preserved blood vessels. How it came to be here is a bit of a mystery. #FossilFriday @hastingsbc.bsky.social
Triceratops brown horn showing blood vesselsTriceratops brown horn showing blood vesselsTriceratops brown horn showing cross section with scale
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Phil Hadland @fossilphil.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Each month @originalgcg.bsky.social publishes a blog newsletter. This month has some very special content and opportunities.
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
​In our latest blog "Bad Bling," Lu Allington-Jones and Robin Hansen delve into the challenges of using certain minerals in jewellery due to their instability, toxicity, or fragility!💎 Give it a read here 👇 geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/b...
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Bad Bling
Posted on by geocurators Written Lu Allington-Jones (Principal Conservator) and Robin Hansen (Senior Curator, Minerals and Gems). Most gemstones are chosen for their hardness and stabilit…
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Phil Hadland @fossilphil.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Published in 1975, the book The Evolution and Ecology of the Dinosaurs 🦕 by Bev Halstead is now 50 years old. The illustrations may be dated, but they represent an important stage in science, and in the representation of dinosaurs, as one of the first #dinosaur books in printed colour #FossilFriday
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Check out our latest blog post by Dr Duncan Murdock! 🦖 We asked him six questions about his day-to-day work as Earth Collections Manager at Oxford University Museum of Natural History and editor of GCG’s Journal ‘Geological Curator’. Give it a read here 👇 geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/s...
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Six Questions for the GCG Committee  – Duncan Murdock
Posted on by geocurators Written by Duncan Murdock who works at Oxford University Museum of Natural History and is the editor of GCG’s Journal ‘Geological Curator’. 1. T…
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
GCG are proud to be supporting Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025! 🌟 #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. To read more about this initiative, please visit: www.neurodiversityweek.com/introduction
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
If you're interested in exploring inclusion and neurodiversity, particularly in Geoscience and museums, we invite you to join GCG's EDI Symposium on April 9th - 11th. The event is free, and you don't need to be a GCG member - everyone is welcome! Register at: www.geocurator.org/events/182-e...
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EDI Symposium 2025 - Geological Collections Group
The Geological Collections Group is for anyone who is interested in geological collections. Membership is open to all and is reasonably priced.
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Are you interested in learning more about cutting-edge techniques for visualising and analysing extinct & extant organisms?🦖 Then join us for GCG's Digital Morphology Workshop at the University of Leeds on April 1st, 2025! Secure your spot before March 24th here: www.geocurator.org/events/183-d...
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
News from the Sector, March 2025: ▪GCG’s EDI Symposium ▪Exhibitions: Hidden in Stone (Southampton), Breaking Ground (Oxford), Stories from DEEP TIME (Hastings) ▪Lectures: Unnatural History Museum & Palaeoverse ▪Publications: Geoconservation Research Read our latest blog post to find out more! 👇
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News from the Sector – March 2025
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
#OTD today is the 200th anniversary of the reading Gideon Mantell's paper to @royalsociety.org naming Iguanodon on 10 Feb 1825. The name comes from the similarity of the dinosaur's teeth to those of the Iguana. Dinosaurs with similar teeth found in #Hastings were also given this name in later years.
Page from Fitton's 1833 book 'A Geological Sketch of the Vicinity of Hastings' showing the teeth originally published as Iguanodon by Gideon Mantell in 1825.Iguana skull from South America. Accession number HASMG:SK.89Close up of a modern iguana's teeth.
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
From 2pm to 4pm, 23 Feb meet SOCO artists behind the beautiful and diverse artworks in Stories from DEEP TIME. Over the last year they've worked extremely hard to research & create a series of artworks inspired by the geological collection at the museum and our local geology. @hastingsbc.bsky.social
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
📢 In the latest GCG blog, Simon Harris, Collections Digitisation and Conservation Manager at @britgeosurvey.bsky.social, discusses the application of EasyLog Ambient Pharma in geological curation. Give it a read here: geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/g...
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Geology Curating Gear : EasyLog Ambient Pharma
by Simon Harris, Collections Digitisation and Conservation Manager, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, U.K and the GCG Web Coordinator. In a slight detour from the normal content of this blog, …
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Meet Siân Evans, a working coppersmith who investigates the ancient metalworking techniques found in archaeological relics from around the world. Siân will be part of our annual Relics Roadshow on 15 February 10-4pm. www.hmag.org.uk/event/relics... @hastingsbc.bsky.social
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Philip Rufford was born #OTD in 1852. For many years, he was the Museum's authority on natural history & images from his book 'The Geology of the East Cliff, Hastings' feature in our new exhibition, 'Stories from DEEP TIME', now OPEN. www.hmag.org.uk/see-and-do/e... @hastingsbc.bsky.social #Hastings
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Phil Hadland @fossilphil.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The topic of decolonisation of museum collections is relevant across all collection themes. buff.ly/40OH0sX #FossilFriday
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Maastricht seeks return of valuable prehistoric reptile fossil looted by France in the 18th century
The piece has been exhibited in the Museum of Natural History in Paris since 1795 and is regarded as comparable ‘to what Tutankhamun represents for archaeology’
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
📢 New on the GCG blog: Celebrating Dr Susan Turner's remarkable 50-year journey as a geologist and geological curator. Give it a read here: geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/s...
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Susan Turner: Geologist and Geological Curator of 50+ years
Written by Dr Susan Turner Queensland Museum Geosciences paleodeadfish@yahoo.com I became a member of the Geological Curators’ Group at the second meeting of the newly founded group in Sheffield in…
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Hastings Museum & Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Calling all local community creatives! We're now seeking a partner to work with us on the delivery of a programme of community outreach in Ore as part of our NPO. Deadline 23 Feb 2025. #Hastings www.hmag.org.uk/see-and-do/p... @hastingsbc.bsky.social
A view of Old London Road in Hastings from the early nineteen hundreds with shops and a horse drawn cart.
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Phil Hadland @fossilphil.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
My blog on the Hastings museum geology collection.
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We are very pleased to be able to bring you the newest issue of our journal, Geological Curator – 11(9)! From Trilobite thin section analysis, to Hastings’ dinosaur heritage - login to give it a read here! 👇 www.geocurator.org/journal
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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
📣 Abstract submission is now open for GCG's 'Moving towards inclusive spaces in Geoscience collections and workplaces' symposium! If you'd like to speak at this event, please submit a brief summary of your talk to edi.geocurator.org by the 21st February 2025! 📅
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