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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Working on my first love again today ❤️

Tray of larger micro moths including burnets and foresters with vivid red and green colouration

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Sam Langford @samsighs.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Sam's Advent Calendar of Awesome People! Everyday until Christmas, I'm going to highlight someone I think deserves your love and appreciation! Its Day 2, so let's do two folks as I was busy yesterday! Let me introduce you to @drtalksalot.bsky.social & @sciwithrach.bsky.social

A brown man with a white jumper that says Consume with a picture of a caterpillar

A black femme with black and brown dreaded hair and a red jacket

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Unfortunately I have a zero tolerance policy for people who shill Harry Potter products and content. After everything, your allegiance to nostalgia still outweighs your allegiance to trans+ people? Sorry not sorry.

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I will have to drag my northern in laws over to the Manchester transport museum : ))

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Desperately jealous of locals who can take FREE HERITAGE BUS RIDES!

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Anybody wanna show me some diatoms? Really itching to look at diatoms

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Nuz. | নুজহাত (She/Her) @thensheappears.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Are you... - From a racially marginalised background? - Interested in studies or careers in Earth, environmental, or ecological sciences? Book your FREE ticket to the Explorers Conference 2024! When: Thursday 28th November Where: NHM, London www.eventbrite.com/e/explorers-...

A group of people from Black, Asian, Arab and other racially marginalised background gathered together, smiling and posing for the camera, in a foyer with blue walls

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Also little homie still has BOTH antennae which is crazy impressive for a guy collected in 1888

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I LOVE THESE. Let me add this adorable orange tip that was digitized during the iCollections project. Here they are! And here's "A History of Shropshire" which features a snippet about this exact specimen. Famous!

Screenshotted text that reads: "ab. androgyna, Newnham. On 23 May, 1888, I caught a splendid ab. of this species, in which the right wings are those of the female, while the left ones offer the coloration of the male. The larva is very common about Church Stretton in July on various wild cruciferae, such as Cardamines pratensis, Hesperia matronalis, but especially on Sisymbrium officinale so common along our hedges, and the yellowish pyramidal ova are often met with on the underside of the calyx in June."

Bilateral gynandromorphic orange tip with labels that read "Crabtree Sale" "Church Stretton, Taken by F.B. Newnham, 23-v-1888." The specimen is a bit yellowed and dusty, but exceedingly lovely.

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Also may post about burnout recovery on here. Working at a big national museum is perhaps the greatest thing that's ever happened to me, but because I feel so lucky and grateful I have pushed myself too far. (Multiple times, habitually.) And folks, no job is worth your life.

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Woah hello new followers! Welcome! Right now I'm taking some time off work due to stress (😬🤒), but hopefully when I get back I'll have plenty of sick Leps to share with you all. To tide you over, here is a little elephant hawkmoth caterpillar I saw a couple months ago.

Small brown elephant hawkmoth caterpillar with its head raised, sitting on a green, leafy plant with purple flowers. Maybe a willowherb?

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Embarrassingly, all opinions here are my own

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

When I get more followers I'll do an actual introduction post but until then just know I'm doing cool stuff at the NHM, and banging on the walls of the GMT time zone yearning to be awake when all my Americans are posting

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

No luck with the slime moulds but plenty of fungus about. Highlights:

White mushrooms on the end of a log, forming a wavy pattern

Small orange dots of fungus on the side of a fallen log

Small black balls of fungus on the side of a fallen log

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

On the hunt for slime moulds this morning in Huddersfield! Will report back if we are successful

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Switching back to twitter does feel a bit like exiting the restaurant to start dumpster diving

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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Starter packs

BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Just arrived! Can I join the list? Paying the lep tax for your services:

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Some collectors used to run experiments on cocoons by exposing them to high heat or cold to create interesting colour morphs. But these interesting little fellows? They're a little different from their peers, but perfectly natural. Happy Trans Awareness week 🏳️‍⚧️🤍🩷🩵

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Well, thanks to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, here's the original publication, free for us to read. I was quite surprised to find that these aberrations may be naturally occurring.

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Enter: Bizarre cinnabar moth aberrations. These guys are almost entirely red or peach, perfect for making a trans flag out of leps! Most aberrations are nonsense, so I was very curious about these here, as they are all from RW Watson's collection. Surely he published these?

Mostly red cinnabar moth from Dorset, bred by Watson

Mostly orange-red cinnabar from Dorset, bred by Watson

Mostly red cinnabar bred by Watson, some of the typical pattern is visible

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My next stop? How about a red moth that I can desaturate a little bit. That leaves mostly burnet moths and cinnabar moths. My predicament? These little fellows are more black than red. (OR SO I THOUGHT!)

Normal cinnabar moth, mostly black with red stripes and dots

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Now, the UK does not really have pink butterflies or moths. They're very uncommon anywhere, and our closest creature is the small elephant hawk moth. Kinda pink, kinda not. Very pointy shaped.

Small elephant hawkmoth with very cute pink and green colours

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Glory Turnbull @themonstrumologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Okay, so I'm writing something for my staff intranet for Trans Awareness week and made up this image to go along with it, using images from our digitised collections. I discovered a strange little story in my hunt for pink lepidoptera...🧵 #digitalcollections #lepidoptera #naturalhistory

Trans flag made from images of butterflies and moths including cinnabar, Holly blue, and cabbage white

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