Hannah Cornish
@hannahcornish.bsky.social
Curator at UCL Grant Museum of Zoology. Animals, museums, fibre arts, nerdery. She/her. Views my own.
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My job is very glamorous
If you ever wondered how to photograph a gorilla skeleton without a studio …
October 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
My job is very glamorous
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If you ever wondered how to photograph a gorilla skeleton without a studio …
October 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If you ever wondered how to photograph a gorilla skeleton without a studio …
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So the answer to the question ‘how many people does it take to hang a python skeleton’ is five.
September 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So the answer to the question ‘how many people does it take to hang a python skeleton’ is five.
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One of the benefits of decanting thousands of specimens for casework and redisplay is that you have the opportunity to deep dive into their histories and records. Just connected the archival dots of this pink fairy armadillo and it is an original @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social specimen from 1828!
September 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
One of the benefits of decanting thousands of specimens for casework and redisplay is that you have the opportunity to deep dive into their histories and records. Just connected the archival dots of this pink fairy armadillo and it is an original @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social specimen from 1828!
Why is @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social closed for two weeks? We are refitting some cases, so right now, it looks like this. Trust me, it's more organised than it appears! I'm enjoying sharing a desk with my lion skeleton coworker
September 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Why is @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social closed for two weeks? We are refitting some cases, so right now, it looks like this. Trust me, it's more organised than it appears! I'm enjoying sharing a desk with my lion skeleton coworker
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Huge thanks to @tannisdavidson.bsky.social and team for making the impossible dream come true:
THE WORLD'S FIRST ART-SCIENCE WASP EXHIBITION!
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
...from wasp researchers behind #WorldOfWasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social...
@cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social
THE WORLD'S FIRST ART-SCIENCE WASP EXHIBITION!
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
...from wasp researchers behind #WorldOfWasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social...
@cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Huge thanks to @tannisdavidson.bsky.social and team for making the impossible dream come true:
THE WORLD'S FIRST ART-SCIENCE WASP EXHIBITION!
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
...from wasp researchers behind #WorldOfWasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social...
@cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social
THE WORLD'S FIRST ART-SCIENCE WASP EXHIBITION!
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
...from wasp researchers behind #WorldOfWasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social...
@cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social
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See the life of wasps as master architects, pest controllers and pollinators. Discover the delightfully relatable social goings-on inside our virtual nest at our upcoming exhibition from 25 June. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
June 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
See the life of wasps as master architects, pest controllers and pollinators. Discover the delightfully relatable social goings-on inside our virtual nest at our upcoming exhibition from 25 June. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
It's finally here, the totebag to end all totebags from @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It's finally here, the totebag to end all totebags from @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social
Don't miss what is almost certainly the world's first museum exhibition all about wasps, opening on 25th June. The Grant Museum will be buzzing 🐝
Zoom inside a virtual wasp’s nest and experience the hidden, intimate ‘World of Wasps’ – their homes, their lifestyles and their relationships. See our upcoming exhibition based on @ucl.ac.uk research. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
June 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Don't miss what is almost certainly the world's first museum exhibition all about wasps, opening on 25th June. The Grant Museum will be buzzing 🐝
What's on the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social trolley today?
May 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
What's on the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social trolley today?
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A lot of #museums are removing human remains from display if they don't have explicit consent from the person. They're often replaced with casts sourced commercially, but @hannahcornish.bsky.social at #NatSCA2025 pointed out that often these casts are made from remains that also don't have consent.
May 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A lot of #museums are removing human remains from display if they don't have explicit consent from the person. They're often replaced with casts sourced commercially, but @hannahcornish.bsky.social at #NatSCA2025 pointed out that often these casts are made from remains that also don't have consent.
How do you move a 3 metre long, 150 year old dugong skeleton?
The @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social dugong (known as Dougal or Derek to its friends) has been taken off display to be re-mounted by conservator Nigel Larkin. It will be back in the new year looking better than ever.
The @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social dugong (known as Dougal or Derek to its friends) has been taken off display to be re-mounted by conservator Nigel Larkin. It will be back in the new year looking better than ever.
May 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
How do you move a 3 metre long, 150 year old dugong skeleton?
The @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social dugong (known as Dougal or Derek to its friends) has been taken off display to be re-mounted by conservator Nigel Larkin. It will be back in the new year looking better than ever.
The @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social dugong (known as Dougal or Derek to its friends) has been taken off display to be re-mounted by conservator Nigel Larkin. It will be back in the new year looking better than ever.
On the trolley today at the Grant Museum @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
On the trolley today at the Grant Museum @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social
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When it comes to certain parts of anatomy, #museums have been deliberately teaching people the wrong thing.
Most #mammals have a bone in their penis but natural history museums usually remove them from display, as I told @iflscience.com (& wrote in #NaturesMemory):
www.iflscience.com/where-have-a...
Most #mammals have a bone in their penis but natural history museums usually remove them from display, as I told @iflscience.com (& wrote in #NaturesMemory):
www.iflscience.com/where-have-a...
The Surprising (And Very Unscientific) Reason Why Penis Bones Are So Rare In Natural History Museums
#NotAllMuseums (but a lot of them) seem have to banished the penis bone. Why?
www.iflscience.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
When it comes to certain parts of anatomy, #museums have been deliberately teaching people the wrong thing.
Most #mammals have a bone in their penis but natural history museums usually remove them from display, as I told @iflscience.com (& wrote in #NaturesMemory):
www.iflscience.com/where-have-a...
Most #mammals have a bone in their penis but natural history museums usually remove them from display, as I told @iflscience.com (& wrote in #NaturesMemory):
www.iflscience.com/where-have-a...
This was brilliant!
Have a listen! 📻
I'll be chatting about #NaturesMemory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History #Museums, with the legendary @cerysmatthews.bsky.social at 11ish today on BBC Radio 6 Music. 🤩
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I'll be chatting about #NaturesMemory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History #Museums, with the legendary @cerysmatthews.bsky.social at 11ish today on BBC Radio 6 Music. 🤩
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
May 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This was brilliant!
I thought my first post on Bluesky should be something positive and motivational
May 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I thought my first post on Bluesky should be something positive and motivational