Chris Manias
@chrismanias.bsky.social
Historian of science based at King's College London, working on history of evolutionary & deep-time sciences and environmental history. Runs #PopPalaeo ( www.poppalaeo.com ) and co-leads the King's Environmental Humanities network
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It's quite unusual www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tom Bones: Sir Tom Jones chuffed after museum mammoth named after him
More than 18,000 visitors to the National Museum Cardiff voted to name the mammoth "Tom Bones".
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It's quite unusual www.bbc.com/news/article...
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A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Morus, Macsen or Tom Bones - a hard choice! 🦣
News | National Museum Cardiff asks public to decide name of new woolly mammoth
Three possible names selected for 3D-printed skeleton out of 1,400-plus suggestions.
Read: https://ow.ly/airG50XjGit
Three possible names selected for 3D-printed skeleton out of 1,400-plus suggestions.
Read: https://ow.ly/airG50XjGit
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Morus, Macsen or Tom Bones - a hard choice! 🦣
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Retro-Chinese palaeoart
Dsungaripterus weii, from one of the first reports on Chinese pterosaurs, by Yang Zhongjian, aka the "Father of Chinese Vertebrate Paleontology" from 1964. You can find the panel mounting of the associated skeleton in the Beijing Palaeozoological Museum. Art by W. L. Shen.
Dsungaripterus weii, from one of the first reports on Chinese pterosaurs, by Yang Zhongjian, aka the "Father of Chinese Vertebrate Paleontology" from 1964. You can find the panel mounting of the associated skeleton in the Beijing Palaeozoological Museum. Art by W. L. Shen.
October 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Retro-Chinese palaeoart
Dsungaripterus weii, from one of the first reports on Chinese pterosaurs, by Yang Zhongjian, aka the "Father of Chinese Vertebrate Paleontology" from 1964. You can find the panel mounting of the associated skeleton in the Beijing Palaeozoological Museum. Art by W. L. Shen.
Dsungaripterus weii, from one of the first reports on Chinese pterosaurs, by Yang Zhongjian, aka the "Father of Chinese Vertebrate Paleontology" from 1964. You can find the panel mounting of the associated skeleton in the Beijing Palaeozoological Museum. Art by W. L. Shen.
Afternoon trip to the Nairobi Railway Museum - lots of good trains!
October 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Afternoon trip to the Nairobi Railway Museum - lots of good trains!
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And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
Impressive guy guarding National Museums Kenya
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Impressive guy guarding National Museums Kenya
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Time to nominate yourself or an artist you worked with for this excellent award!
🚨Our next Marsh Palaeoart Award launches next week! 🚨Recognising talent in the depiction of fossil fauna, this award is judged by a panel of artists and scientists, and has a cash prize of £500 💰 Check our website for more info: palaeosoc.org/grants.../th...
October 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Time to nominate yourself or an artist you worked with for this excellent award!
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Palaeontology and pancakes at Uncle Bill's Pancake House in Cape May, New Jersey, U.S.A. 😃🥞🦕 @uclpress.bsky.social @chrismanias.bsky.social #Booksky
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Palaeontology and pancakes at Uncle Bill's Pancake House in Cape May, New Jersey, U.S.A. 😃🥞🦕 @uclpress.bsky.social @chrismanias.bsky.social #Booksky
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A very good morning from this unimpressed glyptodon model - which was to be one of twelve real scale sculptures in Ciutadella Park, Barcelona.
Only a mammoth was completed before the project ended in 1910
(All the models are here:
mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...)
Only a mammoth was completed before the project ended in 1910
(All the models are here:
mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...)
October 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
A very good morning from this unimpressed glyptodon model - which was to be one of twelve real scale sculptures in Ciutadella Park, Barcelona.
Only a mammoth was completed before the project ended in 1910
(All the models are here:
mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...)
Only a mammoth was completed before the project ended in 1910
(All the models are here:
mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...)
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A call for 🦕🦖🦣 contributors! With Victor Monnin, I'm editing a collection about extinct animal parks—it's a field guide, of sorts, that turns a critical eye on places real, imagined, and yet to be. Find the full CFP for LANDS OF THE LOST here: tinyurl.com/dinoparks #PaleoSky #HistSci #EnvHist #STS
October 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A call for 🦕🦖🦣 contributors! With Victor Monnin, I'm editing a collection about extinct animal parks—it's a field guide, of sorts, that turns a critical eye on places real, imagined, and yet to be. Find the full CFP for LANDS OF THE LOST here: tinyurl.com/dinoparks #PaleoSky #HistSci #EnvHist #STS
Cool new article investigating two paper mâché models from the Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde, revealing a series of prehistoric animal reconstructions made in the 1890s: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Just look at the Dinoceras!!!!
(thanks to @hydrarchos.bsky.social for sending this over)
Just look at the Dinoceras!!!!
(thanks to @hydrarchos.bsky.social for sending this over)
October 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Cool new article investigating two paper mâché models from the Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde, revealing a series of prehistoric animal reconstructions made in the 1890s: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Just look at the Dinoceras!!!!
(thanks to @hydrarchos.bsky.social for sending this over)
Just look at the Dinoceras!!!!
(thanks to @hydrarchos.bsky.social for sending this over)
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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?
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A sadly never-realized Pleistocene animal park in La Plata, Argentina. Article from from Fray Mocho (9 August 1912)
The animals were designed by Josef Pallenberg, who also did the dinosaur sculptures at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg
(more info in this article: doi.org/10.31048/185... )
#FossilFriday
The animals were designed by Josef Pallenberg, who also did the dinosaur sculptures at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg
(more info in this article: doi.org/10.31048/185... )
#FossilFriday
September 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A sadly never-realized Pleistocene animal park in La Plata, Argentina. Article from from Fray Mocho (9 August 1912)
The animals were designed by Josef Pallenberg, who also did the dinosaur sculptures at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg
(more info in this article: doi.org/10.31048/185... )
#FossilFriday
The animals were designed by Josef Pallenberg, who also did the dinosaur sculptures at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg
(more info in this article: doi.org/10.31048/185... )
#FossilFriday
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The news in English: www.government.nl/latest/news/....
The Netherlands will return Dubois collection to Indonesia
The Netherlands plans to transfer more than 28,000 fossils from the Dubois collection to Indonesia, following a request by Indonesian authorities. Today, Gouke Moes, Minister of Education, Culture and...
www.government.nl
September 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The news in English: www.government.nl/latest/news/....
Breaking news: Netherlands to return the Dubois collection of fossils to Indonesia
Nederland geeft fossielen Dubois-collectie terug aan Indonesië.
Statement en meer informatie te vinden op www.naturalis.nl/persberichte...
Statement en meer informatie te vinden op www.naturalis.nl/persberichte...
September 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Breaking news: Netherlands to return the Dubois collection of fossils to Indonesia
Great thread on the Field Museum's mid-90s palaeontology galleries, which look amazingly bonkers
I was asked yesterday to post a walkthrough of Life Over Time, the shortest-lived and generally weirdest iteration of the Field Museum’s fossil halls. If you visited between 1994 and 2004, this is the version you saw. I’ve got some time, so let’s do this.
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Great thread on the Field Museum's mid-90s palaeontology galleries, which look amazingly bonkers
We have two jobs at KCL History!
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
We have two jobs at KCL History!
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
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Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open!
The Natural History Museum priorities are below.
If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
The Natural History Museum priorities are below.
If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
September 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open!
The Natural History Museum priorities are below.
If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
The Natural History Museum priorities are below.
If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
For #FossilFriday - advert for Kühnscherf Museum Cabinets, for when you need a display case for your indeterminate fossil reptile in early Weimar Germany
From Natur und Museum (1920)
From Natur und Museum (1920)
September 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
For #FossilFriday - advert for Kühnscherf Museum Cabinets, for when you need a display case for your indeterminate fossil reptile in early Weimar Germany
From Natur und Museum (1920)
From Natur und Museum (1920)
Hugely looking forward to this, and enamoured of the sloths already
Prehistoric Planet Ice Age out later this year... such a thrill to put this series together, oh my goodness are you in for a treat :) Hopefully news on events and publicity coming soon! Sloths, cats, rhinos, glyptodonts AND SOOOO MUCH MORE!!
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Hugely looking forward to this, and enamoured of the sloths already
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We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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September 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Cover featuring what is probably my favourite of Bob's many brilliant artworks!
From the vault: my Nature cover art from 2017, featuring #Kulindadromeus, regarding the paper "A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution," from Matthew Baron, David Norman, & @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social.
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #JurassicWorld
#SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #JurassicWorld
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Cover featuring what is probably my favourite of Bob's many brilliant artworks!