Richard Fallon
@richardfallon.bsky.social
Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more.
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Richard Fallon
@richardfallon.bsky.social
· Sep 15
In a few weeks, I'll be starting a new role as Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at Cambridge, based at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social. As part of @camglamresearch.bsky.social, my project will be about 'Re-Excavating the Cambridge School of Geology, 1850–1914'.
Astonished to learn that my book Contesting Earth's History is suddenly, perhaps for a brief window, almost affordable. Why? Who knows.
I read little non-fic or academic, @richardfallon.bsky.social book fascinated me when I read a sample, esp as a fan of lost worlds and hollow earth fiction
'They-who-shall-not-be-named' had it down to £29 from £88, which I couldn't pass up
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'They-who-shall-not-be-named' had it down to £29 from £88, which I couldn't pass up
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
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January 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Astonished to learn that my book Contesting Earth's History is suddenly, perhaps for a brief window, almost affordable. Why? Who knows.
Surprised Philip Larkin agreed to model for this advert.
January 5, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Surprised Philip Larkin agreed to model for this advert.
The thermostat's reading Pleistocene at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social.
January 5, 2026 at 8:53 AM
The thermostat's reading Pleistocene at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social.
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𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 from all of us at Systematics and Biodiversity ✨ Wishing you all a great 2026✨
Throwback to our most read paper of 2025 by Scott 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭.: Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753) 🌿
Read here: buff.ly/ce37BTZ #Taxonomy #Collections
Throwback to our most read paper of 2025 by Scott 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭.: Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753) 🌿
Read here: buff.ly/ce37BTZ #Taxonomy #Collections
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 AM
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 from all of us at Systematics and Biodiversity ✨ Wishing you all a great 2026✨
Throwback to our most read paper of 2025 by Scott 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭.: Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753) 🌿
Read here: buff.ly/ce37BTZ #Taxonomy #Collections
Throwback to our most read paper of 2025 by Scott 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭.: Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753) 🌿
Read here: buff.ly/ce37BTZ #Taxonomy #Collections
That Siegfried Sassoon sure could write 'em (when he wanted to).
January 3, 2026 at 8:12 AM
That Siegfried Sassoon sure could write 'em (when he wanted to).
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Happy New Year! Excited to announce that as of January 1, @sarahmpicks.bsky.social and I are the new co-editors-in-chief of the Endeavour history and philosophy of science journal. If ever you had an idea for an article in that realm, now is the time to pitch it to us!
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January 1, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Happy New Year! Excited to announce that as of January 1, @sarahmpicks.bsky.social and I are the new co-editors-in-chief of the Endeavour history and philosophy of science journal. If ever you had an idea for an article in that realm, now is the time to pitch it to us!
Here's a weird but charismatic bird. It was produced by James Powell and Sons, Whitefriars, c. 1850 (Stained Glass Museum, Ely). Happy New Year, everyone!
January 1, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Here's a weird but charismatic bird. It was produced by James Powell and Sons, Whitefriars, c. 1850 (Stained Glass Museum, Ely). Happy New Year, everyone!
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Pretty silver on this Silver-studded blue, from Edmund Sandars, ‘A Butterfly book for the pocket’ (1939).
December 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Pretty silver on this Silver-studded blue, from Edmund Sandars, ‘A Butterfly book for the pocket’ (1939).
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A weird tale for New Year's Eve.
"Ancient Lights" by Algernon Blackwood.
31 Dec, streamed live at 8pm, and available to catch up any time.
Free to view. Just click here:
youtube.com/live/BsrjjVd...
"Ancient Lights" by Algernon Blackwood.
31 Dec, streamed live at 8pm, and available to catch up any time.
Free to view. Just click here:
youtube.com/live/BsrjjVd...
Ancient Lights by Algernon Blackwood
YouTube video by Nunkie Films
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December 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A weird tale for New Year's Eve.
"Ancient Lights" by Algernon Blackwood.
31 Dec, streamed live at 8pm, and available to catch up any time.
Free to view. Just click here:
youtube.com/live/BsrjjVd...
"Ancient Lights" by Algernon Blackwood.
31 Dec, streamed live at 8pm, and available to catch up any time.
Free to view. Just click here:
youtube.com/live/BsrjjVd...
The collections at Ely Stained Glass Museum are brilliant. Here's part of a jokey 1930 take on The Prodigal Son, made by Moira Forsyth while she was attending the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social.
December 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The collections at Ely Stained Glass Museum are brilliant. Here's part of a jokey 1930 take on The Prodigal Son, made by Moira Forsyth while she was attending the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social.
Algernon Blackwood connoisseurs: should I read this?
December 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Algernon Blackwood connoisseurs: should I read this?
Paul Delvaux's painting The Awakening of the Forest (1939) was inspired by the subterranean forest in Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth. As far as I know (not much), we don't have a wide-ranging study of Surrealism's relationship with Earth's history (www.artic.edu/artworks/111...)
December 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Paul Delvaux's painting The Awakening of the Forest (1939) was inspired by the subterranean forest in Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth. As far as I know (not much), we don't have a wide-ranging study of Surrealism's relationship with Earth's history (www.artic.edu/artworks/111...)
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Paul Delvaux (Belgian, 1897–1994). Loneliness (1956, oil).
December 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Paul Delvaux (Belgian, 1897–1994). Loneliness (1956, oil).
This book contains a hell of a lot of murderous Norman peasants. And typos.
December 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This book contains a hell of a lot of murderous Norman peasants. And typos.
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Local enthusiasts in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland want to install a sculpture of the fossilised shark found there in 1982 where experts could see the last meal eaten by the fish 330 million years ago. 👇
The prehistoric shark found in a town in Scotland
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The prehistoric shark found in a town in Scotland
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The prehistoric shark found in a suburban town in Scotland
The fossil was so complete experts could see remains of the last meal it ate, 330 million years after it died.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Local enthusiasts in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland want to install a sculpture of the fossilised shark found there in 1982 where experts could see the last meal eaten by the fish 330 million years ago. 👇
The prehistoric shark found in a town in Scotland
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The prehistoric shark found in a town in Scotland
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Qui c'est qui veut la bonne sousoupe cancérigène ?
December 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Qui c'est qui veut la bonne sousoupe cancérigène ?
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Took a bit of time the other day to visit the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton). Two different exhibitions include work by Lawren Harris, who is possibly my favourite Canadian artist. This one is typical of mid-career Harris. 'Mountain Sketch', 1924.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Took a bit of time the other day to visit the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton). Two different exhibitions include work by Lawren Harris, who is possibly my favourite Canadian artist. This one is typical of mid-career Harris. 'Mountain Sketch', 1924.
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For #FossilFriday here is some #UrbanGeology. Visiting York Minster but my eyes were drawn to C18 memorials with very dark limestone and lovely #fossil #corals.
December 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
For #FossilFriday here is some #UrbanGeology. Visiting York Minster but my eyes were drawn to C18 memorials with very dark limestone and lovely #fossil #corals.
Spot the clergyman-geologist goblin chipping away at the rock. A festive detail from Arthur Rackham's 'Common Objects at the Seaside ', painted for Punch's 1905 Almanack.
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Spot the clergyman-geologist goblin chipping away at the rock. A festive detail from Arthur Rackham's 'Common Objects at the Seaside ', painted for Punch's 1905 Almanack.
Augusta and Burian's Prehistoric Animals is an especially beautiful book of 'scenes from deep time', but the effort doesn't just go into the charismatic dinosaurs and mega-mammals. Exhibit A: The Stegocephalians.
December 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Augusta and Burian's Prehistoric Animals is an especially beautiful book of 'scenes from deep time', but the effort doesn't just go into the charismatic dinosaurs and mega-mammals. Exhibit A: The Stegocephalians.
Futurama response mechanism activated
December 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Futurama response mechanism activated
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I’m bursting with pride to say I passed my viva @lboroenglish.bsky.social last week!
Thank you to my examiners @andrewkingc19.bsky.social & @drclaireocall.bsky.social for such a positive experience and my supervisors @profsarahparker.bsky.social & @braddonite.bsky.social for a truly memorable day!
Thank you to my examiners @andrewkingc19.bsky.social & @drclaireocall.bsky.social for such a positive experience and my supervisors @profsarahparker.bsky.social & @braddonite.bsky.social for a truly memorable day!
December 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I’m bursting with pride to say I passed my viva @lboroenglish.bsky.social last week!
Thank you to my examiners @andrewkingc19.bsky.social & @drclaireocall.bsky.social for such a positive experience and my supervisors @profsarahparker.bsky.social & @braddonite.bsky.social for a truly memorable day!
Thank you to my examiners @andrewkingc19.bsky.social & @drclaireocall.bsky.social for such a positive experience and my supervisors @profsarahparker.bsky.social & @braddonite.bsky.social for a truly memorable day!
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Loving the new flyer for next year's (50th anniversary) Magic Lantern Society convention
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Loving the new flyer for next year's (50th anniversary) Magic Lantern Society convention
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And with that the last formation piece of the year is done! Monte Bolca is one of the most famous productive fossil lagerstätten in the world! This Italian paradise for Eocene fossils is just as ingrained into paleontology like Solnhofen or Hell Creek. But since we...
December 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
And with that the last formation piece of the year is done! Monte Bolca is one of the most famous productive fossil lagerstätten in the world! This Italian paradise for Eocene fossils is just as ingrained into paleontology like Solnhofen or Hell Creek. But since we...