Dr Rebecca Bennion
@calymeneblue.bsky.social
Palaeontologist working in a local history museum 🖼️ collections (of all kinds), curation, and community engagement 🐬 PhD on whales and marine reptiles, now also working on sharks and cave archaeology
Great to be at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition today in London!
Come chat to us about the untapped conservation science potential of small rural museums - and add some colourful data to our graph!
@thefollysettle.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
Come chat to us about the untapped conservation science potential of small rural museums - and add some colourful data to our graph!
@thefollysettle.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
July 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Great to be at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition today in London!
Come chat to us about the untapped conservation science potential of small rural museums - and add some colourful data to our graph!
@thefollysettle.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
Come chat to us about the untapped conservation science potential of small rural museums - and add some colourful data to our graph!
@thefollysettle.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
Quite sad to take down my Craven Faults exhibition this weekend but it had a good run in 2024!
I'm particularly proud of the map display 🤩
I'm particularly proud of the map display 🤩
January 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Quite sad to take down my Craven Faults exhibition this weekend but it had a good run in 2024!
I'm particularly proud of the map display 🤩
I'm particularly proud of the map display 🤩
Blown away by this exhibition at Gallery Oldham yesterday - a 1950s British birds handbook with every species which is threatened or endangered greyed out...
Such a simple way to get across a very powerful message!
Credit to the artist: Rebecca Chesney
Such a simple way to get across a very powerful message!
Credit to the artist: Rebecca Chesney
December 12, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Blown away by this exhibition at Gallery Oldham yesterday - a 1950s British birds handbook with every species which is threatened or endangered greyed out...
Such a simple way to get across a very powerful message!
Credit to the artist: Rebecca Chesney
Such a simple way to get across a very powerful message!
Credit to the artist: Rebecca Chesney
It was great to visit the museum at Creswell Crags earlier this week 🦣
We were there to see the collections but it was a beautiful winter's day so we had to go for a walk around the gorge as well! It is such a spectacular place!
We were there to see the collections but it was a beautiful winter's day so we had to go for a walk around the gorge as well! It is such a spectacular place!
December 5, 2024 at 12:01 PM
It was great to visit the museum at Creswell Crags earlier this week 🦣
We were there to see the collections but it was a beautiful winter's day so we had to go for a walk around the gorge as well! It is such a spectacular place!
We were there to see the collections but it was a beautiful winter's day so we had to go for a walk around the gorge as well! It is such a spectacular place!
Something from my recent Sedgwick Museum trip for #FossilFriday...
All fossils in museums have an associated human story. I'd be very intrigued to know this one!
All fossils in museums have an associated human story. I'd be very intrigued to know this one!
November 29, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Something from my recent Sedgwick Museum trip for #FossilFriday...
All fossils in museums have an associated human story. I'd be very intrigued to know this one!
All fossils in museums have an associated human story. I'd be very intrigued to know this one!
Fantastic to be back in Cambridge this week, catching up with old friends both fossil and human!
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Fantastic to be back in Cambridge this week, catching up with old friends both fossil and human!
I am a huge fan of:
- hidden stories in museum collections
- digital preservation and digitisation
- the importance of social history archives for natural history research
- fossils, especially whales, marine reptiles, sharks, and Ice Age cave faunas!
📷 SETCL 2022.1.15.3 Ingleborough Cave
- hidden stories in museum collections
- digital preservation and digitisation
- the importance of social history archives for natural history research
- fossils, especially whales, marine reptiles, sharks, and Ice Age cave faunas!
📷 SETCL 2022.1.15.3 Ingleborough Cave
November 16, 2024 at 1:28 PM
I am a huge fan of:
- hidden stories in museum collections
- digital preservation and digitisation
- the importance of social history archives for natural history research
- fossils, especially whales, marine reptiles, sharks, and Ice Age cave faunas!
📷 SETCL 2022.1.15.3 Ingleborough Cave
- hidden stories in museum collections
- digital preservation and digitisation
- the importance of social history archives for natural history research
- fossils, especially whales, marine reptiles, sharks, and Ice Age cave faunas!
📷 SETCL 2022.1.15.3 Ingleborough Cave
I'm also a palaeontologist with a PhD in the evolution and ecology of marine vertebrates (ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, whales and dolphins)
This is the magnificent skull of an ichthyosaur called Temnodontosaurus on display at Banz Castle in Germany 😍
This is the magnificent skull of an ichthyosaur called Temnodontosaurus on display at Banz Castle in Germany 😍
November 16, 2024 at 1:28 PM
I'm also a palaeontologist with a PhD in the evolution and ecology of marine vertebrates (ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, whales and dolphins)
This is the magnificent skull of an ichthyosaur called Temnodontosaurus on display at Banz Castle in Germany 😍
This is the magnificent skull of an ichthyosaur called Temnodontosaurus on display at Banz Castle in Germany 😍
Hello new followers!
I'm a member of the collections team at the Museum of North Craven Life in the Yorkshire Dales (also known as the Folly). Its a beautiful place to work!
I'm working on a project aiming to better understand our collections and connect them with our local communities
I'm a member of the collections team at the Museum of North Craven Life in the Yorkshire Dales (also known as the Folly). Its a beautiful place to work!
I'm working on a project aiming to better understand our collections and connect them with our local communities
November 16, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Hello new followers!
I'm a member of the collections team at the Museum of North Craven Life in the Yorkshire Dales (also known as the Folly). Its a beautiful place to work!
I'm working on a project aiming to better understand our collections and connect them with our local communities
I'm a member of the collections team at the Museum of North Craven Life in the Yorkshire Dales (also known as the Folly). Its a beautiful place to work!
I'm working on a project aiming to better understand our collections and connect them with our local communities
I'm pleased to announce that I have a new job - for the next 6 months I will be the Collections Assistant for Natural History at Gallery Oldham!
They have an amazing collection, and I am very happy that it includes an ichthyosaur #FossilFriday
They have an amazing collection, and I am very happy that it includes an ichthyosaur #FossilFriday
September 15, 2023 at 5:55 PM
I'm pleased to announce that I have a new job - for the next 6 months I will be the Collections Assistant for Natural History at Gallery Oldham!
They have an amazing collection, and I am very happy that it includes an ichthyosaur #FossilFriday
They have an amazing collection, and I am very happy that it includes an ichthyosaur #FossilFriday
I finally made it over to Blue Sky! Hello! 👋
I'm a palaeontologist and museum freelancer, working in public engagement and natural history collection curation. I recently finished my PhD looking at convergent evolution in ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, and cetaceans.
I'm a palaeontologist and museum freelancer, working in public engagement and natural history collection curation. I recently finished my PhD looking at convergent evolution in ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, and cetaceans.
September 14, 2023 at 3:05 PM
I finally made it over to Blue Sky! Hello! 👋
I'm a palaeontologist and museum freelancer, working in public engagement and natural history collection curation. I recently finished my PhD looking at convergent evolution in ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, and cetaceans.
I'm a palaeontologist and museum freelancer, working in public engagement and natural history collection curation. I recently finished my PhD looking at convergent evolution in ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, and cetaceans.