#crustacea #oceans 🦞

Today my heart is with Baroness Doreen Lawrence and her family 💔
In strength, in solidarity, in power and in love. ❤️

RIP Power #StephenLawrence

Celebrating our Dr Erica McAlister’s launch of nhmshop.co.uk/metamorphosis-… tonight! Miranda Lowe CBE Stephanie Holt Hannah Cornish 🪰❤️

#MuseumCurator illuminati right here = find your tribe 📚 ⁦Hannah Cornish⁩ ⁦Miranda Lowe CBE⁩ ⁦Stephanie Holt⁩ ⁦Tannis Davidson⁩ we are momentarily missing ⁦Dr Erica McAlister⁩ who is busy launching nhmshop.co.uk/metamorphosis-… 🪰 🖤

The National Museum Wales is under threat. Museums are important repositories of knowledge and heritage, places of inspiration, and crucial for education.
Please consider signing the petition to increase its funding - it's close to reaching 10,000 signatures, when it will be

🎉 My new article is now available online with Museum History Journal - “Money matters: ‘following the money’ to reconstruct Walter Rothschild’s ‘zoological enterprise’ and the history of the Zoological Museum Tring, 1889–1900 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Evelyn Cheesman #DiedOnThisDay in 1969. She was a British entomologist and traveller who collected over 70,000 specimens on her travels.

Solanum cheesmaniae, a species of a wild tomato is named in her honour.

Click on our link to learn more about her.
nhm.ac.uk/discover/lucy-…

We've launched a new funding award to support researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to stay in research and advance their careers.

💰 £200,000 per researcher
🗓️ Up to two years
✅ Apply by 18 June

Find out more ⤵️
wellcome.org/grant-funding/…

We are excited to collaborate with the London NERC DTP and ZSL to create a summer school for 16-18 year olds.

We are looking for scientists, artists and, and activists/community builds to co-develop summer school activities exploring environmental and climate justice!

Obituary for my friend & 'troublemaker' Mar Dixon. Difficult to write as she did so much, impossible to include everything. I hope I've captured some of what made Mar such a special person & the positive influence she had on museums & people
Museums Association
museumsassociation.org/museums-journa…

Enjoy Pitt Rivers Museum and Oxford University Museum of Natural History after hours at our May Late Night: Water World event - meet the researchers, do activities, object handling & games, browse the galleries & enjoy music, lights & the bar!
Fri 17 May, 7-10pm. Free but booking required.
bit.ly/3VMh3cg

1886 COLONIAL & INDIAN EXHIBITION: objects, questions, repercussions. FREE conference online/in-person @StHughesCollege University of Oxford Jun 24 2024 Speakers inc Kate Nichols Uni of Birmingham & Little Shark The University of Manchester Book: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-1886-col… Kew Gardens Library and Archives MGHG

The barrel jellyfish – gentle giant of the oceans theguardian.com/environment/20…

Invertebrate of the year 2024: all hail Earth’s spineless heroes theguardian.com/environment/20…

The Chair of the Board of Trustees, George Osborne, has announced that Dr Nicholas Cullinan OBE has been appointed Director of the British Museum following approval by the Government. Read our full statement here: ow.ly/Z2H550PIaAw

📷 © Zoë Law, 2018

#corals #oceans

Fancy overseeing the strategy and governance of a world-class museum and scientific institution? Well here's a rare opportunity to do just that...😮

We're looking for two new Trustees to join the Natural History Museum Board!

Find out more and apply 👉 brnw.ch/21wIerT

Miranda Lowe CBE
British African Women History Zoom Weekender
Friday March 29 - Sunday March 31 2024

#WomensHistoryMonth2024
#ClaudiaJones60
#DameJocelynBarrow
#BritishAfricanWomenHistory

eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-african-…

We’ve recovered a collection of globally important shells from Captain Cook’s fated third voyage, previously thought to have been lost for 40 years 🐚

See them on display at Chesters Roman Fort in Northumberland for the first time in 100 years 📍 👀

➡️ bit.ly/3Ta3j8A