Jack Ashby
@JackDAshby
Award-winning author #PlatypusMatters. Assistant Director of @ZoologyMuseum at @Cambridge_Uni. Australian mammal nerd. @Nat_SCA Trustee. Own views
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https://www.waterstones.com/book/platypus-matters/jack-ashby/9780008431471 28-10-2013 14:43:55
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Behold, the #wombat twerk.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombat s
When you can’t get enough of folks..I love these bastions of Natural History collections - so happy to see them in triple (Jack Ashby is beheaded in one!)
NatSCA is in good hands with these folks on committee - Tannis Davidson jennifer gallichan
We get a lot of questions in natural history #museums . The Booth Museum Bts invited visitors to write their Qs on postcards, then staff wrote the answers on the cards, and then put them in albums back in the gallery. [I spy one about platypuses🤓] A great talk at #NatSCA2024 .
My gift to you: a young snow wombat.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombat s
My talk, 'Re-presenting representation: complicated identities of celebrated figures' is now on Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group's channel.
I discuss the eminent Australian scientist, EC Stirling, & explore why narratives about him don't reference his African-Jamaican heritage:
youtu.be/wfU9PhVXx64?si…
Wombats have the largest brain of any #marsupial . Their blank expressions are just a reflection of the fact that they know they can outsmart you.🧠
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat s #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombat
Well, shucks. This is nice! 😊
'It is rare to find such an exploration of biology, conservation, behaviour, and cultural significance in such an accessible form. #PlatypusMatters is a triumph of natural history writing'
Uncivilised: Ten Lies That Made The West is brilliant.
With the easy style of a profoundly well-read, witty, wise fictional bartender, Subhadra Das explores how pillars of Western civilisation, from notions of democracy, law, art & science, may not be all they're cracked up to be