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fossil botherer • museum nerd • 🌈 she/her • Director @sedgwickmuseum • Gender Equality Champion @cambridge_uni • Trustee @whitchurchmill •
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05-02-2012 13:05:24
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Wow, Just Like Us, what a great mentoring induction session tonight! Such an interesting and inspiring group of people, It'll be a huge priviledge to be part of your programme supporting young LGBT+ people 🌈💪
Help digitise the Cambridge University Herbarium 🌿
Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) is home to over 1.1m plant specimens collected over 300+ years. The team is looking for online volunteers to transcribe specimen labels & make them accessible to biodiversity researchers.
Join in: bit.ly/44e2UqB
'Our shared history begins with gunshots & the throwing of spears'
'After 254 years it is time for the spears to come home'
Today in Cambridge, spears taken by Cook at Kamay (Botany Bay) in 1770 were returned to the La Perouse Aboriginal community
Trinity College Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Applications to our 4 CC-EE CDP fully funded AHRC studentships are now open! ccc.cam.ac.uk/cc-ee/students…
Exciting opportunities to research amazing collections of Fitzwilliam Museum Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery in partnership with Cambridge University ARU Durham University
News | Warning over closure of sites as Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales – Museum Wales grapples with budget cut – Amgueddfa Caerdydd could shut without 'urgent, critical work', says chief executive
Read: ow.ly/RycF50RhnlY
Read all about our new joint Cambridge Earth Sciences and Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge MPhil course on planetary science and life in the universe. Apply now! Watch the promo video here youtu.be/KrIJbCmDcoc?si…
Here's a great project looking for support thro kickstarter: ✨ olivia rafferty ✨🏔 writes songs inspired by geology kck.st/3Q3qLmS
#NationalPetDay did you say? Here's Mr Bing, the time Rachel Mills and I took him climbing at Portland and the limestone was too much for his little feet. 🐾
#GeologistsDogs
News | University of Cambridge Museums get £15m for collections-based research – The Sedgwick Museum among nine institutions that will share funding over the next five years
Read: ow.ly/TCAU50Re7Rt
thank you Museums Association for featuring @sedgwickmuseum University of Cambridge Museums
This Research England funding is transformational for our collections & people who use them
Nationally, a very positive picture for university museums but my thoughts are with those not receiving funding they need
Bone-eating worms from the Cretaceous! 🪱
Some great new research just published by Sarah Jamison-Todd Phil Mannion Adrian Glover
& Paul Upchurch looked at worm borings in plesiosaur bone specimens from the Museum's collections
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
Research England has announced the results of the HEMG funding review with the overall good news of a 20% increase in the fund.
Congratulations to new recipients, and we will be reaching out to those who received less positive news today.
Details here:
ukri.org/what-we-do/bro…
Transformative funding outcome for The Sedgwick Museum - a big thank you to everyone who helped, including colleagues in University of Cambridge Museums
We are delighted with Research England's recent announcement of funding for the Sedgwick Museum! This recognition of the importance of our collections,
and a huge boost to our plans to improve how we support research & researchers 🦖💎🪨🏛 🎉
esc.cam.ac.uk/news
