Reposted by Liz HideCharlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Wouldn'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. 1115
Reposted by Liz HideMatt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Thursday is my day in the collections, so here's the Devonian starfish Helianthaster gyalinus (UMMP IP 30527). 5708
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Unveiling a #BluePlaque for a #palaeontologist! Celebrating Dorothea Bate at Tring Museum @nhm-london.bsky.social 010
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Repair 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 020
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Got 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 092
Reposted by Liz HideProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This reflection, from the Nature editorial team, is outstanding. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comThe death of Jason Arday must prompt deep reflectionUniversities and media organizations need to scrutinize their roles in the events that led to this tragedy. 1148
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My frown does not well represent my general positivity and optimism about this subject 😉 1132
Reposted by Liz HideDarren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Next 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. 1173
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Making 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 1176
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Well 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...bbc.co.ukPalaeontologist Mary Anning 'sick of fossils', letter suggestsThe collector's discoveries helped shape scientific understanding of prehistoric life. 052
Reposted by Liz HideTerrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 12/03/2026If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz 21957611149
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Hands up if youre a woman who posted about #InternationalWomensDay on behalf of your organisation? #IWD #WhosDoingTheWork 030
Reposted by Liz HideThe 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) 1111
Reposted by Liz HideThe Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 08/01/2026The 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/jc6Unz7eventbrite.co.ukSymposium | Exploring Queerness in Natural HistoryA one-day, interdisciplinary symposium centring LGBTQ+ inclusion in the environmental sector. 16732
Reposted by Liz HideDr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Help! 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... 24655
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Things got a bit out of hand a the Sedgwick Museum #Christmas party @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social #dinosaurs 020
Reposted by Liz HideRichard Carter, FCD @friendsofdarwin.bsky.social · 03/12/202503-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... #HistScifriendsofdarwin.com03-Dec-1831: Darwin’s first night aboard HMS BeagleDarwin records his experimentations with a hammock. 1123
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 04/12/2025John Lewis Christmas decorations department sounding a bit like the British Museum #museums #christmas 071
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 29/11/20251 day left to support this important project.... 010
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Travel 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 1101
Reposted by Liz HideRuth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Aercap House on St Stephen’s Green, clad in Kilkenny limestone, Portland roach and Wicklow granite #urbangeology #dublin 0317
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Just to clarify, this is really quite a small specimen and my backside is correspondingly petite 🐢 1142
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Impossible 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 🦖 061
Reposted by Liz HideJack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 04/11/2025The largest ever turtle - 74-million-year-old Archelon - really was quite large. (@themuseumofliz.bsky.social for scale) 🐢 On display at @nhmwien.bsky.social 3132
Reposted by Liz HideDr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching 5245181434
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Here's another Bernissart Iguanodon 'sibling' in the Senckenberg Museum, #Frankfurt, this time remounted to show its more correct life quadripedal position #dinosaur 0345
Reposted by Liz HideDr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 03/11/2025This is quite cool - finding lichens using drones, which tell you where dinosaur bones are.cell.comRemote sensing of lichens with drones for detecting dinosaur bonesBrian Pickles and colleagues show that exposed dinosaur bones can be remote sensed with drones by virtue of colored lichens growing on them. 14712
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Human-thylacine interaction @jackdashby.bsky.social @nhmwien.bsky.social 1173
Reposted by Liz HideRichard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Walking down the Madingley Road today I'll be sure to look out for ichthyosaurs. In the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social, of course. 1459
Reposted by Liz HideRichard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 09/10/2025A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture? 361949342
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 031
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Are 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/#:.... 186
Reposted by Liz HideSedgwick 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 281
Reposted by Liz HideProf Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025This 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...theguardian.comWhat’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina HydeThe all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde 2174
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Just seen this, @mirandastearn.bsky.social - do you think we might have come close? 130
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Enjoyable & 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 271
Reposted by Liz HideCharlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I'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!dukeupress.eduCamera Geologica 1144
Reposted by Liz HideAuke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 09/04/2025NEW 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 361576744
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025What 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 0105
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Super 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 012
Reposted by Liz HideHistory of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 23/03/2025March 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... 0268
Reposted by Liz HideAndy 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. 2547
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Weve 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 2184
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...theguardian.comBoys widen gap over girls in maths and science in England, study revealsAnalysis of post-Covid performance overturns recent claims that boys are falling behind girls at school 000
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025So sorry to hear this. Thank you @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social for sharing the sad news 010
Reposted by Liz HideCambridge Earth Sciences @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Professor 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...cam.ac.ukInto the underworldSanne 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... 062
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025EDI 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... 053
Reposted by Liz HideAmelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I was interviewed for this piece! It is a very important topic so do give it a read. hyperallergic.com/992452/its-t...hyperallergic.comIt’s Time for Museums to Step Up for Queer and Trans PeopleAmid ceaseless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, art institutions have a responsibility to center and support their queer and trans staff and visitors. 02314
Reposted by Liz HideMatt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025For #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). 0238