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Liz Hide

@themuseumofliz.bsky.social
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fossil botherer, museum nerd, equality fanatic 🏳️‍🌈 Director, @SedgwickMuseum.bsky.social Cambridge Trustee, Whitchurch Silk Mill linktr.ee/themuseumofliz

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wouldn't it be nice if this became a "movement". RNLI produces lots of stuff: beanie hats, towels, fantastic yellow wellie planters, toy lifeboats etc. all there to show our support for the amazing volunteers.
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thursday is my day in the collections, so here's the Devonian starfish Helianthaster gyalinus (UMMP IP 30527).
Starfish with numerous arms preserved as impression on a dark gray rock.
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Unveiling a #BluePlaque for a #palaeontologist! Celebrating Dorothea Bate at Tring Museum @nhm-london.bsky.social
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Repair cafe at the Polar Museum @scottpolar.bsky.social comes with a mending-themed tour of the museum: Captain Scott's sledge repair kit, a spoon bodged from bits on board ship, and Shackleton's fixed-up snow goggles
A set of old tools in a canvas bagA silver spoon made from different pieces of metal
A hand holding a brightly coloured bag being sewn on a sewing machineA historic photo of men on a polar expedition mending their sledges
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Got to spend 2 days hanging out with folks who do interesting fossily stuff. Talked our socks off about Deep Time and global crises Celebrated 10 years of the Popularising Palaeontology network #PopPalaeo Now need to lie down Thank you @chrismanias.bsky.social and everyone at the workshop
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This reflection, from the Nature editorial team, is outstanding. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The death of Jason Arday must prompt deep reflection
Universities and media organizations need to scrutinize their roles in the events that led to this tragedy.
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My frown does not well represent my general positivity and optimism about this subject 😉
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Next at #PopPalaeo is Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social on engaging with deep time at the Sedgwick Museum. Museums can inspire the next generation, connect with underprivileged groups, promote the value of deep time science and more. Liz discussed a list of events and projects.
Speaker Liz Hide with screen showing opening slide.
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Making Deep Time Visible in Stone and Space great blog by Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel @nhmwien.bsky.social on how architects of C19th natural history museums worked with geologists to express deep time thro their buildings, incl @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social valuepast.hypotheses.org/6678
A carved stone mammoth on the side of a building
A lizard-like dinosaur carved in wood on the edge of a library shelf
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Well it turns out that even Mary Anning got fed up with fossils BBC News - Palaeontologist Mary Anning 'sick of fossils', letter suggests - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Palaeontologist Mary Anning 'sick of fossils', letter suggests
The collector's discoveries helped shape scientific understanding of prehistoric life.
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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Hands up if youre a woman who posted about #InternationalWomensDay on behalf of your organisation? #IWD #WhosDoingTheWork
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@ellietheelement.bsky.social and @themuseumofliz.bsky.social will be leading a Zine-making Workshop. We have panels too: Authentically Engaging with LGBTQ+ Groups, with @russellarnott.bsky.social, Alex Blomfield and Lou Mather, Catherine Mercer and Em Merrin May Armstrong, (2/3)
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The programme is out for our Symposium, Exploring Queerness in Natural History, on 5 February. We're excited to hear from our Symposium Curators, Connor Butler and @aquadan1.bsky.social, as well as talks from Simon Goldhill, @canopyrobin.com and @rossbrooks.co.uk. (1/3) buff.ly/jc6Unz7
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Symposium | Exploring Queerness in Natural History
A one-day, interdisciplinary symposium centring LGBTQ+ inclusion in the environmental sector.
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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Help! Banbury Museum has been told that Cherwell District Council is cancelling ALL of its core funding. There is a very tight deadline - Friday 19th December - to tell the Council what you think. Please respond to the consultation and share this post www.banburymuseum.org/news/no-fund...
Blue background with the text 'No Funding No Museum' and 'Banbury Museum and Gallery' overlain with a red slashed circle.
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Things got a bit out of hand a the Sedgwick Museum #Christmas party @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social #dinosaurs
Plastic dinosaurs getting intimate Plastic dinosaurs having a cuddle after a few drinks
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Richard Carter, FCD @friendsofdarwin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
03-Dec: On this day in 1831, Charles Darwin spent his first night aboard HMS Beagle as she lay at anchor in Barnet Pool, Plymouth. More here… friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar... #HistSci
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03-Dec-1831: Darwin’s first night aboard HMS Beagle
Darwin records his experimentations with a hammock.
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
John Lewis Christmas decorations department sounding a bit like the British Museum #museums #christmas
Christmas decorations display in a shop, with signs above saying 'Curate & Collect', Wordly Treasures' and 'ancient wonders'
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
1 day left to support this important project....
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Travel to the Senckenberg Museum @sgn.one by U-bahn and you get to meet the nature even before you get to the museum #Frankfurt #fossils
Picture of fossil turtle on wall of U-bahn station, with station sign  'Bockenheimer Warte: Senckenbergmuseum'
Large photo of trilobite fossils on wall of U-bahn station
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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Aercap House on St Stephen’s Green, clad in Kilkenny limestone, Portland roach and Wicklow granite #urbangeology #dublin
A view of Aercap House showing the black  Kilkenny limestone at pavement level. The upper stories are clad in Portland RoachFossil corals and brachiopods in Kilkenny limestone. A best of fossil brachiopods in Kilkenny limestone Portland Roach at the op of the image with mouldic porosity caused by dissolved fossils. Wicklow granite is in the lower half of this image.
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Just to clarify, this is really quite a small specimen and my backside is correspondingly petite 🐢
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Impossible to photograph well with my crappy phone, but here is the lovely herd of #Iguanodon at @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social , the mother lode of all those Iguanodon casts in museums across Europe ( including @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social ) #museums #dinosaurs 🦖
Dinosaur skeletons in a museum
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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The largest ever turtle - 74-million-year-old Archelon - really was quite large. (@themuseumofliz.bsky.social for scale) 🐢 On display at @nhmwien.bsky.social
Liz Hide inspecting a huge fossil turtle - around the size of a car
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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Here's another Bernissart Iguanodon 'sibling' in the Senckenberg Museum, #Frankfurt, this time remounted to show its more correct life quadripedal position #dinosaur
Skeleton of a dinosaurs on four legs
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This is quite cool - finding lichens using drones, which tell you where dinosaur bones are.
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Remote sensing of lichens with drones for detecting dinosaur bones
Brian Pickles and colleagues show that exposed dinosaur bones can be remote sensed with drones by virtue of colored lichens growing on them.
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Human-thylacine interaction @jackdashby.bsky.social @nhmwien.bsky.social
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Walking down the Madingley Road today I'll be sure to look out for ichthyosaurs. In the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social, of course.
Close-up of an ichthyosaur jaw, Myopterygius campylodon (Carter). Location: Madingley Road, Cambridge.
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
📣New job @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social Interested in a career in archives? We're looking for an Archive Assistant to document and care for our archives, and enable researchers to access them Closing date 6 July www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50926/?f... #archives #museumjobs
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Are you a humanities researcher interested in exploring geological collections? The Natural History Humanities initiative has an exciting opportunity for a 2 Yr postdoc, ideally focuseed on geological and/or biological collecfions @cambridgeuni.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50729/#:....
A tray tray of mineral specimens from the C17 collection of John Woodward, in the Sedgwick Museum
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Sedgwick Museum @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“Minerals are from the Earth and the Earth belongs to everyone. So everyone should be welcome in society.” – Y10 work experience student, 2022
Two pairs of hands holding a variety of minerals which are different colours. On the left, 5 minerals which are blue, pink and white are held in the same configuration as the transgender flag. On the right, 4 minerals which are yellow, white, purple and black are held in the same configuration as the non-binary flag. Underneath the hands is green foliage acting as a backdrop.
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Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This article from Marina Hyde pretty much matches my feelings about the blue origin flight. It feels like the message behind the flight was actually Jeff Bezos and his cronies saying "Look, we've made space flight so easy even women can do it!" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde
The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just seen this, @mirandastearn.bsky.social - do you think we might have come close?
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Enjoyable & important conversations on gender, stereotyping, representation & 'queer possibility' in #geoscience & #museums this morning. Thank you @magmidd.bsky.social @girlsingeosci.bsky.social & Gemma Laker @originalgcg.bsky.social for bringing us together
Pride progress flag , comprising images of coloured rocks and minerals
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Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I'm currently reading the excellent Camera Geologica by @siobhanangus.bsky.social - I'm asking similar questions about minerals in media tech. I'm half way through a chapter about silver, and the sheer quantity of silver mined and used historically by the photography industry is mind boggling!
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Camera Geologica
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Also gets award 🏅for best last sentence
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 09/04/2025
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
What kind of labour gets recognised, when we think about minerals in museums? Who do we involve in recovering and telling their stories? Helpful prompts from @ellietheelement.bsky.social in @originalgcg.bsky.social EDI symposium this morning, relevant to our thinking @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Super PhD studentship opportunity rummaging in some fantastic collections @theul.bsky.social exploring the role of women in curating scientific heritage And we're very happy that the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social is a partner in this project #PhD #HistoryofScience #WomensHistory
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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
March 23, 1884, birthday of Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert. Political activist and first female Fellow of the Geological Society (after various attempts to deny her membership), she studied glacial erosion & igneous petrology 🪨🔬 trowelblazers.com/2016/05/06/r...
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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"I'm going to go touch fossil" is the equivalent I use in the office, when it has been a day of way too many emails and meetings, and not enough time with dead things.
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Weve been fighting for a new lift and decent respectful access to the Sedgwick Museum @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social for more than 5 years, so it's a small but satisfying step to see the planning notices go up on the street today 👩‍🦽 #access #museum
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
'boys reported being very confident [in] maths & science while a large percentage of girls said they were not confident.' ..and... 'there were significant gaps between pupils who had access to a large number of books at home & those who did not' www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Boys widen gap over girls in maths and science in England, study reveals
Analysis of post-Covid performance overturns recent claims that boys are falling behind girls at school
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
So sorry to hear this. Thank you @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social for sharing the sad news
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Cambridge Earth Sciences @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Professor Sanne Cottaar uses #earthquake waves to gaze deep into Earth’s interior, “It sometimes feels like the Earth is throwing clues at me. It’s my job to put it all together and solve the mystery." Read on to find out what it means to be a Deep Earth Explorer ➡️ www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sann...
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Into the underworld
Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it shaped the surface and allowed life to form. At the core of these questions i...
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Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
EDI in #geoscience and #museums - sign up for these free online symposia organised by the Geological Collections Group @originalgcg.bsky.social Focusing on colonial legacies, gender & queer representation, and inclusion & neurodiversity in the workplace www.geocurator.org/events/182-e...
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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I was interviewed for this piece! It is a very important topic so do give it a read. hyperallergic.com/992452/its-t...
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It’s Time for Museums to Step Up for Queer and Trans People
Amid ceaseless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, art institutions have a responsibility to center and support their queer and trans staff and visitors.
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
For #FossilFriday, fish tiles from the old fossil fish gallery at NHM, now the main gift shop: Pterichthyodes (Devonian placoderm), Holoptychius (Devonian sarcopterygian), Exellia (Eocene percomorph), and Polypterus (Recent).
Bas relief tile depicting antiarch placoderm.Bas relief tile depicting porolepiform.Bas relief tile depicting perch-like fish with high dorsal fin and long pelvics.Bas relief of Polypterus eating a worm.
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