Liz Hide
@themuseumofliz.bsky.social
fossil botherer, museum nerd, equality fanatic 🏳️🌈
Director, @SedgwickMuseum.bsky.social Cambridge
Trustee, Whitchurch Silk Mill
https://linktr.ee/themuseumofliz
Director, @SedgwickMuseum.bsky.social Cambridge
Trustee, Whitchurch Silk Mill
https://linktr.ee/themuseumofliz
1 day left to support this important project....
Siccar Point is one of the most important geoheritage sites in the world; we think visitors deserve to hear why.
Help us install a Deep Time Trail - donate to the Crowdfunder now. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/siccar-point
youtu.be/OeHsVJiO9gE
Help us install a Deep Time Trail - donate to the Crowdfunder now. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/siccar-point
youtu.be/OeHsVJiO9gE
Help us build a Deep Time Trail at Siccar Point
YouTube video by Scottish Geology Trust
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
1 day left to support this important project....
Travel to the Senckenberg Museum @sgn.one by U-bahn and you get to meet the nature even before you get to the museum
#Frankfurt #fossils
#Frankfurt #fossils
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Travel to the Senckenberg Museum @sgn.one by U-bahn and you get to meet the nature even before you get to the museum
#Frankfurt #fossils
#Frankfurt #fossils
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Aercap House on St Stephen’s Green, clad in Kilkenny limestone, Portland roach and Wicklow granite #urbangeology #dublin
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Aercap House on St Stephen’s Green, clad in Kilkenny limestone, Portland roach and Wicklow granite #urbangeology #dublin
Just to clarify, this is really quite a small specimen and my backside is correspondingly petite 🐢
The largest ever turtle - 74-million-year-old Archelon - really was quite large. (@themuseumofliz.bsky.social for scale) 🐢
On display at @nhmwien.bsky.social
On display at @nhmwien.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Just to clarify, this is really quite a small specimen and my backside is correspondingly petite 🐢
Impossible to photograph well with my crappy phone, but here is the lovely herd of #Iguanodon at @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social , the mother lode of all those Iguanodon casts in museums across Europe ( including @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social )
#museums #dinosaurs 🦖
#museums #dinosaurs 🦖
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Impossible to photograph well with my crappy phone, but here is the lovely herd of #Iguanodon at @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social , the mother lode of all those Iguanodon casts in museums across Europe ( including @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social )
#museums #dinosaurs 🦖
#museums #dinosaurs 🦖
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The largest ever turtle - 74-million-year-old Archelon - really was quite large. (@themuseumofliz.bsky.social for scale) 🐢
On display at @nhmwien.bsky.social
On display at @nhmwien.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The largest ever turtle - 74-million-year-old Archelon - really was quite large. (@themuseumofliz.bsky.social for scale) 🐢
On display at @nhmwien.bsky.social
On display at @nhmwien.bsky.social
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Here's another Bernissart Iguanodon 'sibling' in the Senckenberg Museum, #Frankfurt, this time remounted to show its more correct life quadripedal position
#dinosaur
#dinosaur
November 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Here's another Bernissart Iguanodon 'sibling' in the Senckenberg Museum, #Frankfurt, this time remounted to show its more correct life quadripedal position
#dinosaur
#dinosaur
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This is quite cool - finding lichens using drones, which tell you where dinosaur bones are.
Remote sensing of lichens with drones for detecting dinosaur bones
Brian Pickles and colleagues show that exposed dinosaur bones can be remote sensed
with drones by virtue of colored lichens growing on them.
www.cell.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is quite cool - finding lichens using drones, which tell you where dinosaur bones are.
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Walking down the Madingley Road today I'll be sure to look out for ichthyosaurs. In the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social, of course.
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Walking down the Madingley Road today I'll be sure to look out for ichthyosaurs. In the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social, of course.
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A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?
October 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?
📣New job @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
Interested in a career in archives? We're looking for an Archive Assistant to document and care for our archives, and enable researchers to access them
Closing date 6 July
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50926/?f...
#archives #museumjobs
Interested in a career in archives? We're looking for an Archive Assistant to document and care for our archives, and enable researchers to access them
Closing date 6 July
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50926/?f...
#archives #museumjobs
June 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
📣New job @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
Interested in a career in archives? We're looking for an Archive Assistant to document and care for our archives, and enable researchers to access them
Closing date 6 July
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50926/?f...
#archives #museumjobs
Interested in a career in archives? We're looking for an Archive Assistant to document and care for our archives, and enable researchers to access them
Closing date 6 July
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50926/?f...
#archives #museumjobs
Are you a humanities researcher interested in exploring geological collections? The Natural History Humanities initiative has an exciting opportunity for a 2 Yr postdoc, ideally focuseed on geological and/or biological collecfions @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50729/#:....
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50729/#:....
May 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Are you a humanities researcher interested in exploring geological collections? The Natural History Humanities initiative has an exciting opportunity for a 2 Yr postdoc, ideally focuseed on geological and/or biological collecfions @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50729/#:....
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50729/#:....
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“Minerals are from the Earth and the Earth belongs to everyone. So everyone should be welcome in society.” – Y10 work experience student, 2022
May 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“Minerals are from the Earth and the Earth belongs to everyone. So everyone should be welcome in society.” – Y10 work experience student, 2022
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This article from Marina Hyde pretty much matches my feelings about the blue origin flight. It feels like the message behind the flight was actually Jeff Bezos and his cronies saying "Look, we've made space flight so easy even women can do it!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde
The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This article from Marina Hyde pretty much matches my feelings about the blue origin flight. It feels like the message behind the flight was actually Jeff Bezos and his cronies saying "Look, we've made space flight so easy even women can do it!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Just seen this, @mirandastearn.bsky.social - do you think we might have come close?
April 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Just seen this, @mirandastearn.bsky.social - do you think we might have come close?
Enjoyable & important conversations on gender, stereotyping, representation & 'queer possibility' in #geoscience & #museums this morning.
Thank you @magmidd.bsky.social @girlsingeosci.bsky.social & Gemma Laker @originalgcg.bsky.social for bringing us together
Thank you @magmidd.bsky.social @girlsingeosci.bsky.social & Gemma Laker @originalgcg.bsky.social for bringing us together
April 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Enjoyable & important conversations on gender, stereotyping, representation & 'queer possibility' in #geoscience & #museums this morning.
Thank you @magmidd.bsky.social @girlsingeosci.bsky.social & Gemma Laker @originalgcg.bsky.social for bringing us together
Thank you @magmidd.bsky.social @girlsingeosci.bsky.social & Gemma Laker @originalgcg.bsky.social for bringing us together
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I'm currently reading the excellent Camera Geologica by @siobhanangus.bsky.social - I'm asking similar questions about minerals in media tech. I'm half way through a chapter about silver, and the sheer quantity of silver mined and used historically by the photography industry is mind boggling!
April 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I'm currently reading the excellent Camera Geologica by @siobhanangus.bsky.social - I'm asking similar questions about minerals in media tech. I'm half way through a chapter about silver, and the sheer quantity of silver mined and used historically by the photography industry is mind boggling!
Also gets award 🏅for best last sentence
An interesting read for dog-owners - whatever their benefits, this study sets out the enormous impact pet dogs have on wildlife and the environment (the dry pet food industry produces more C02 than the vast majority of countries do, for example)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds
Scale of environmental damage attributed to huge number of dogs globally as well as ‘lax or uninformed behaviour of dog owners’
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Also gets award 🏅for best last sentence
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NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
April 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
What kind of labour gets recognised, when we think about minerals in museums?
Who do we involve in recovering and telling their stories?
Helpful prompts from @ellietheelement.bsky.social in @originalgcg.bsky.social EDI symposium this morning, relevant to our thinking @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
Who do we involve in recovering and telling their stories?
Helpful prompts from @ellietheelement.bsky.social in @originalgcg.bsky.social EDI symposium this morning, relevant to our thinking @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What kind of labour gets recognised, when we think about minerals in museums?
Who do we involve in recovering and telling their stories?
Helpful prompts from @ellietheelement.bsky.social in @originalgcg.bsky.social EDI symposium this morning, relevant to our thinking @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
Who do we involve in recovering and telling their stories?
Helpful prompts from @ellietheelement.bsky.social in @originalgcg.bsky.social EDI symposium this morning, relevant to our thinking @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
Super PhD studentship opportunity rummaging in some fantastic collections @theul.bsky.social exploring the role of women in curating scientific heritage
And we're very happy that the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social is a partner in this project
#PhD #HistoryofScience
#WomensHistory
And we're very happy that the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social is a partner in this project
#PhD #HistoryofScience
#WomensHistory
🔬 Applications are open for the UL and @universityofleeds.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship:
The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/hXILBEo
@camglamresearch.bsky.social
The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/hXILBEo
@camglamresearch.bsky.social
Cambridge University Library and University of Leeds - Collections Connections Communities
loom.ly
April 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Super PhD studentship opportunity rummaging in some fantastic collections @theul.bsky.social exploring the role of women in curating scientific heritage
And we're very happy that the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social is a partner in this project
#PhD #HistoryofScience
#WomensHistory
And we're very happy that the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social is a partner in this project
#PhD #HistoryofScience
#WomensHistory
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March 23, 1884, birthday of Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert. Political activist and first female Fellow of the Geological Society (after various attempts to deny her membership), she studied glacial erosion & igneous petrology 🪨🔬
trowelblazers.com/2016/05/06/r...
trowelblazers.com/2016/05/06/r...
March 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
March 23, 1884, birthday of Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert. Political activist and first female Fellow of the Geological Society (after various attempts to deny her membership), she studied glacial erosion & igneous petrology 🪨🔬
trowelblazers.com/2016/05/06/r...
trowelblazers.com/2016/05/06/r...
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"I'm going to go touch fossil" is the equivalent I use in the office, when it has been a day of way too many emails and meetings, and not enough time with dead things.
go touch grass:
- overused
- often requires bowing, difficult for people with bad back
- feels like taking a stroll around the busy neighborhood
go touch fern:
- edgy, exciting
- more elevation options for people with limited mobility
- feels like taking a stroll among big bugs in the Carboniferous
- overused
- often requires bowing, difficult for people with bad back
- feels like taking a stroll around the busy neighborhood
go touch fern:
- edgy, exciting
- more elevation options for people with limited mobility
- feels like taking a stroll among big bugs in the Carboniferous
March 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"I'm going to go touch fossil" is the equivalent I use in the office, when it has been a day of way too many emails and meetings, and not enough time with dead things.