Bonnie Griffin
@bonnieandthebeasts.bsky.social
Curator and Visual Storyteller. Thayer Award nominee 2024. Scottish in Los Angeles. Research on Eph Thompson & animal intelligence. @eph_thompson_project on IG. BonnieGriffin.com
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Writing the biography of Eph Thompson (1859-1909) the greatest elephant trainer in the world 💗 Talks and articles available - let’s connect!
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Incredible 🤩
Tartan Army fans roar Flower of Scotland ahead of historic match against Denmark ⚽
Tartan Army fans roar Flower of Scotland ahead of historic match against Denmark ⚽
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Incredible 🤩
Tartan Army fans roar Flower of Scotland ahead of historic match against Denmark ⚽
Tartan Army fans roar Flower of Scotland ahead of historic match against Denmark ⚽
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Scotland 1 - 0 Denmark - S. McTominay 3'
Holy Crap that Bicycle Kick! The legend of McTominay and his hair continues!
Holy Crap that Bicycle Kick! The legend of McTominay and his hair continues!
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Scotland 1 - 0 Denmark - S. McTominay 3'
Holy Crap that Bicycle Kick! The legend of McTominay and his hair continues!
Holy Crap that Bicycle Kick! The legend of McTominay and his hair continues!
Quilted my quilt 🥵 it was like feeding a tree into a wood chipper (my poor 🪡⚙️) & the iron died but here it is in all its wonky glory! It represents the LA mountains & the earth after a forest fire (there’s a Cali poppy seed sewn into the fabric for themes of regrowth and potential 🌱 ) #quilting
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Quilted my quilt 🥵 it was like feeding a tree into a wood chipper (my poor 🪡⚙️) & the iron died but here it is in all its wonky glory! It represents the LA mountains & the earth after a forest fire (there’s a Cali poppy seed sewn into the fabric for themes of regrowth and potential 🌱 ) #quilting
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South Oxfordshire - With #wasps in the media and your garden, it's time for a FREE public talk devoted to them!
I'll be talking July 22nd - 7pm. Suitable for 12+ #Cholsey Pavilion
#MendTheGap #SpringlineProject
Book your free ticket here:
cholseyparishcouncil.gov.uk/springline-e...
#WaspLove
I'll be talking July 22nd - 7pm. Suitable for 12+ #Cholsey Pavilion
#MendTheGap #SpringlineProject
Book your free ticket here:
cholseyparishcouncil.gov.uk/springline-e...
#WaspLove
July 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
South Oxfordshire - With #wasps in the media and your garden, it's time for a FREE public talk devoted to them!
I'll be talking July 22nd - 7pm. Suitable for 12+ #Cholsey Pavilion
#MendTheGap #SpringlineProject
Book your free ticket here:
cholseyparishcouncil.gov.uk/springline-e...
#WaspLove
I'll be talking July 22nd - 7pm. Suitable for 12+ #Cholsey Pavilion
#MendTheGap #SpringlineProject
Book your free ticket here:
cholseyparishcouncil.gov.uk/springline-e...
#WaspLove
100 days till Christmas… #marilwydLA
September 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
100 days till Christmas… #marilwydLA
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The Website / Portal of the Project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan contains resources like the Maya Image Archive, the Maya Hieroglyphic Text and Image Archive, a calculator for Maya calendrics and other useful tools for Maya hieroglyphic studies classicmayan.org/portal/
December 10, 2023 at 8:27 PM
The Website / Portal of the Project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan contains resources like the Maya Image Archive, the Maya Hieroglyphic Text and Image Archive, a calculator for Maya calendrics and other useful tools for Maya hieroglyphic studies classicmayan.org/portal/
Today years old when I learned about these cute horned gophers!! Like mini upside down walrus! #rodents #tertiary #diversity #gophers
August 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Today years old when I learned about these cute horned gophers!! Like mini upside down walrus! #rodents #tertiary #diversity #gophers
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The AHG has moved to Bluesky! We're a predominantly online, international network, running a varied programme of seminars, conferences and other events since 2016.
We're looking forward to connecting and reconnecting here with all who are interested in animals in history!
animalhistorygroup.org
We're looking forward to connecting and reconnecting here with all who are interested in animals in history!
animalhistorygroup.org
January 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The AHG has moved to Bluesky! We're a predominantly online, international network, running a varied programme of seminars, conferences and other events since 2016.
We're looking forward to connecting and reconnecting here with all who are interested in animals in history!
animalhistorygroup.org
We're looking forward to connecting and reconnecting here with all who are interested in animals in history!
animalhistorygroup.org
This shuddersome Miocene whale from…wait for it…Bakersfield! My only previous references were the wonderful TV series ‘Baskets’ and Vally Fever…now I’m down a rabbit hole with Desmostylus and more Miocene monsters! Specimen at Santa Barbara NHM. #whale #bakersfield #miocene #skullfriday
August 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This shuddersome Miocene whale from…wait for it…Bakersfield! My only previous references were the wonderful TV series ‘Baskets’ and Vally Fever…now I’m down a rabbit hole with Desmostylus and more Miocene monsters! Specimen at Santa Barbara NHM. #whale #bakersfield #miocene #skullfriday
This gobsmackingly gorgeous Chumash basket at Santa Barbara NHM #beautiful #chumash #basketweaving #skillstothehills
August 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This gobsmackingly gorgeous Chumash basket at Santa Barbara NHM #beautiful #chumash #basketweaving #skillstothehills
Enjoying these opossum interpretations at Santa Barbara NHM! Just your friendly neighbourhood marsupial trash queen! 💕 #taxidermy #illustration
August 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Enjoying these opossum interpretations at Santa Barbara NHM! Just your friendly neighbourhood marsupial trash queen! 💕 #taxidermy #illustration
A little bit of Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) Leafe, shell and Jacks 1957 #surrealist #womenartist #witchy #americanart
August 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
A little bit of Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) Leafe, shell and Jacks 1957 #surrealist #womenartist #witchy #americanart
Some wonderful Indigenous knowledge of Polar Bear ecology being recorded circa 1818. TW: he calls Inuit people 'Indians' - a problematic 'catch-all' term. Working on @acadnatsci.bsky.social 's collection. #indigenousknowledge #inuit #polarbear #bears #ecology #lifecycle
August 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Some wonderful Indigenous knowledge of Polar Bear ecology being recorded circa 1818. TW: he calls Inuit people 'Indians' - a problematic 'catch-all' term. Working on @acadnatsci.bsky.social 's collection. #indigenousknowledge #inuit #polarbear #bears #ecology #lifecycle
Quilt making to combine my obsessions with American decorative arts & the #kaleidoscope - invented by Scottish scientist Sir David Brewster (British pat. no. 4136) in 1817 with hopes it would be used for “exhibiting & creating beautiful Forms & Patterns of great use in all the ornamental Arts” 🏴 🇺🇸
August 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Quilt making to combine my obsessions with American decorative arts & the #kaleidoscope - invented by Scottish scientist Sir David Brewster (British pat. no. 4136) in 1817 with hopes it would be used for “exhibiting & creating beautiful Forms & Patterns of great use in all the ornamental Arts” 🏴 🇺🇸
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Job opportunity Principal Curator of Collection Development (Archaeology), National Museum Cardiff , Closing date 29th August nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
Principal Curator of Collection Development (Archaeology), National Museum Cardiff | Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales iRecruit Careers Portal
To help in the delivery of your objectives you will manage a small team of archaeologists focused on collections care and public engagement, and work as part of a cross-departmental group ensuring best practice in collections care across disciplines.
nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Job opportunity Principal Curator of Collection Development (Archaeology), National Museum Cardiff , Closing date 29th August nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
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a new plesiosaur has been identified from early jurassic germany! a warm welcome to plesionectes longicollum, known from an almost complete and articulated specimen that preserves a staggering 41 cervical vertebrae 🤯
peerj.com/articles/196...
peerj.com/articles/196...
August 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
a new plesiosaur has been identified from early jurassic germany! a warm welcome to plesionectes longicollum, known from an almost complete and articulated specimen that preserves a staggering 41 cervical vertebrae 🤯
peerj.com/articles/196...
peerj.com/articles/196...
Just completed the Canadian Conservation Institutes course Preservation Housekeeping for Heritage Sites and Small Museums! Great refresher and I learned it’s long overdue time to get the Los Angeles air pollution, grit and dust off my books at home 🙈 Can you spot the odd one out? #oneofthesethings
August 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just completed the Canadian Conservation Institutes course Preservation Housekeeping for Heritage Sites and Small Museums! Great refresher and I learned it’s long overdue time to get the Los Angeles air pollution, grit and dust off my books at home 🙈 Can you spot the odd one out? #oneofthesethings
August 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Happy Summerween! Showing some appreciation for these hand-made slugs at Bristol Museum - made by multifaceted curator Rhian Rowson. See the ghost slug (the big white/purple one) Selenochlamys ysbryda 👻👻 All beautiful, slimey wee pals! #gastropoda #slug #ghost
July 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Happy Summerween! Showing some appreciation for these hand-made slugs at Bristol Museum - made by multifaceted curator Rhian Rowson. See the ghost slug (the big white/purple one) Selenochlamys ysbryda 👻👻 All beautiful, slimey wee pals! #gastropoda #slug #ghost
This little cutie inside a glass on my table top - Colonus hesperus - 🥹 #arachnid #spiders #jumpingspider #inaturalist
July 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This little cutie inside a glass on my table top - Colonus hesperus - 🥹 #arachnid #spiders #jumpingspider #inaturalist
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We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology.
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
January 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology.
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
Brushing up on my folk horror curriculum with this fantastic practical effect apparition in Whistle and I’ll Come to You, 1968, based on the ghost story by M.R. James, named after Burns poem Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad #folkhorror #bedsheets #shudder
July 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Brushing up on my folk horror curriculum with this fantastic practical effect apparition in Whistle and I’ll Come to You, 1968, based on the ghost story by M.R. James, named after Burns poem Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad #folkhorror #bedsheets #shudder
Find yourself someone who selectively breeds a carnation to honor their ancestors journey 🥲 Asexual Clone Mutation by Bruce and Normal Yotemono @gettymuseum #queerlove #botany #love #carnation
July 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Find yourself someone who selectively breeds a carnation to honor their ancestors journey 🥲 Asexual Clone Mutation by Bruce and Normal Yotemono @gettymuseum #queerlove #botany #love #carnation
Cried like a baby at this gut wrenching photograph. Too much to explain via a post but something about seeing ourselves and our culture (good and bad) through animal lenses gets me right in the guts. Untitled (Buffalo)
By the brilliant David Wojnarowicz @gettymuseum.bsky.social
By the brilliant David Wojnarowicz @gettymuseum.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Cried like a baby at this gut wrenching photograph. Too much to explain via a post but something about seeing ourselves and our culture (good and bad) through animal lenses gets me right in the guts. Untitled (Buffalo)
By the brilliant David Wojnarowicz @gettymuseum.bsky.social
By the brilliant David Wojnarowicz @gettymuseum.bsky.social