Natural History Museum Science
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Curiosity, knowledge, solutions from and for nature @NHM_London: global collections, research, laboratories, libraries & collaboration from 350+ colleagues
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Natural History Museum
We’re the museum looking deeper into the Earth’s past to shape a new future where both people and planet thrive. Protecting the planet, it’s in our nature. 🌍
Dr Erica McAlister
Flies & Fleas @NHM_London; Author-The Secret Life of Flies, The Inside Out of Flies & A bug's World; HonF @RoyEntSoc; Chair @DipteristsForum #Scicom #HonFBNS
Digitising the NHM
We are mobilising the @NHM_London collections to help people and the planet thrive. See the #DigitalCollections on the Data Portal: https://t.co/apAKppKn7x
Kew Science
🌍🌿🍄 Understanding and protecting plants and fungi for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth #OurFutureIsBotanic
NHMdinolab
Dinosaur researcher at London's Natural History Museum. Tweeting about our research on dinosaurs & other aspects of vertebrate palaeontology (he/him) 🦕
A new paper by Imran Rahman (Imran Rahman) virtually recreated these environments from the Ediacaran period using fossils. By mixing seawater, they could have enhanced oxygen concentrations.
Learn more 👉bit.ly/3QVYIGx
Happy #WorldBeeDay 🐝 Like other pollinators, bees have incredibly important roles in #Ecosystems . Learn more about some of the threats they face and discover some of our digitised bees 👇
data.nhm.ac.uk
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…
Huge congratulations to Anjali Goswami (Prof. Anjali Goswami) who has been elected to the Fellowship of the @RoyalSociety. Anjali has made extraordinary contributions to the understanding of animal evolution while helping develop and inspire students. Well-earned and deserved!
I didn't get to see the #Auroraborealis or the pretty skies in London this time..however, keep smiling imagining the sky with the colours of the amazing we got the collections Natural History Museum. Sharing #Philippines ' endemic *Papilio chikae 🦋 for your delight 😊
To all nature loving educators!
Just over a week until the #EducationNaturePark ’s habitat heroes mission!🌎
What homes for wildlife do you have on your learning site? Find out by getting involved! 👇
bit.ly/4cprDMl
Oil and gas platforms impact on benthic #Invertebrate diversity and food web structure. Learn more 👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…
Largest donation of #Starfish the Museum has ever received. From the Marine Biology Lab Université libre de Bruxelles. A very happy #Echinoderms curator Hugh Carter now has the job of organising all of this.
How many starfish do you think was in this incredible donation?
#NaturalHistoryMuseum
Watch Ranee and G. Gnanasekaran in action 📸digitising some of the Sloane herbarium for this exciting new project that could improve understanding of plant biodiversity in Chennai and peoples' connection to them🌱
#Digitisation #Botany
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Ranee and G. Gnanasekaran are #Digitising Sloane herbarium specimens to help reconstruct the flora of late 17th and early 18th century Chennai. Funded by The Royal Society, this project has the potential to increase understanding of changing #Plant biodiversity and cultural links🌿
In 1993, North of Scotland, a lost Imperial Tie Fighter Pilot covered in #Bryozoans was collected by Mary Spencer Jones. In 2023, Bryo_Abbie using a SEM, revealed Yoda like Cribrilina punctata colonies.
Any other #StarWars related part of Nature?
#MayTheFourth be with you
Giants, like the 13m long snake 'titanoboa', have existed throughout history. But do they always go extinct? And can the fossil record help us preserve species today? Phil Mannion and Dr Susie Maidment explore gigantism and extinction:
Natural History Museum EarthSciences UCL youtube.com/watch?v=rjdHd-…
Gorgeous first day in the Middle Atlas mountains of Morocco with Dr Susie Maidment Kawtar Ech-charay, Driss & Khadija, getting the lay of the beautiful land, searching for Middle Jurassic microvertebrate sites & occasionally getting stuck up very high & slippery slopes. Bring on day 2!
Diverse gardens & organic compost are best for #earthworms ! 🪱 results of my PhD #EarthwormWatch project I developed with Lucy Robinson Alan G Jones Paul Eggleton Andy Purvis Natural History Museum Earthwatch Europe & Earthworm Society UK is now published European Journal of Soil Biology nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…
Parasitoid wasps that prey on spiders, subjugating them to lay eggs, changing behaviour and altering web spinning behaviour. Spectacular evolutionary diversity and intriguing biology in the Pimplinae from Keizo Takasuka Keito Takasuka and Gavin Broad doi.org/10.1163/187598…
How did pitcher plants evolve? These amazing and deadly insect traps are the result of three different variable characteristics Gustavo Burin Ulrike Bauer Guillaume Chomicki & al. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Pesticide use reduced by diverse crop rotation with environmental benefits, but areas with high pest resistance to pesticides need additional support. Experimental research from Alexa Varah Ken Norris et al ZSL Science Rothamsted Research The University of Sheffield doi.org/10.1038/s41598…
Bone-boring Osedax worms ate deep-sea remains of ancient marine plesiosaur and mosasaur reptiles - research from Sarah Jamison-Todd Sarah Jamison-Todd Adrian Glover Adrian Glover Phil Mannion, Paul Upchurch royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
Finding the balance between supporting nature and farmers. Great insight into the work of Derbyshire Wildlife Trust and local farmers in the Peak District by Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈 Learn more 👇 #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon
Farming for people and nature | Field Studies youtu.be/rna4Gft2QFE?si…
Collection tours of the specimens we are custodians of and the research we undertake ourselves and facilitate to all users is integral to the work of Natural History Museum Science It is a joy to discuss insect diversity, taxonomy and conservation to such engaged audiences as Wilder Norfolk