Kim Chandler
@kimchandler.bsky.social
Natural History Collections Assistant at National Museum of Ireland. PhD in Red Squirrel Craniomandibular Morphology and Biomechanics.
Nice to see another paper out using samples from the chalk project I worked on last year @nhm.org. Well done Chloe & team!
🚨New ChaSE paper!🚨 'Slimehead Size Through Time'. Led by Masters student Chloe Griffiths, we used #chalk collections @nhm-london.bsky.social of the 🐟 genus Hoplopteryx & stable isotope analyses @ucl.ac.uk to see how fish body size varied with #Cretaceous climate change. 🌡📏 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Slimehead Size Through Time: Testing the Temperature–Size Relationship in Late Cretaceous Trachichthyidae
In this study, we use the extensive fossil record of the extinct Late Cretaceous Trachichthyid fish genus, Hoplopteryx, from the British Chalk Group to explore how this family responded to past clima...
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Nice to see another paper out using samples from the chalk project I worked on last year @nhm.org. Well done Chloe & team!
Great to see some nice news articles out about the new display we've been working on @dublindeadzoo.bsky.social ! 🦓🐢🐇🦥🦇
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
New lease of life: Dead Zoo Lab brings back beloved Natural History Museum collection
Collins Barracks is displaying about 1,300 objects while original Merrion Street location undergoes refurbishment
www.irishtimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Great to see some nice news articles out about the new display we've been working on @dublindeadzoo.bsky.social ! 🦓🐢🐇🦥🦇
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
Research out that I was involved in at the @nhm.org under the @chalksea.bsky.social project!
I had a great time sampling chalk specimens for this project.
Congrats @plesiosarahs.bsky.social and co.!!
I had a great time sampling chalk specimens for this project.
Congrats @plesiosarahs.bsky.social and co.!!
Happy Birthday #EuniceNewtonFoote! 🎂
She would be 206 years old today!
We recently named the trace fossil #Osspecuseunicefooteae after her in this study led by @plesiosarahs.bsky.social on Cretaceous bone-eating worms:
- journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
- journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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She would be 206 years old today!
We recently named the trace fossil #Osspecuseunicefooteae after her in this study led by @plesiosarahs.bsky.social on Cretaceous bone-eating worms:
- journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
- journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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July 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Research out that I was involved in at the @nhm.org under the @chalksea.bsky.social project!
I had a great time sampling chalk specimens for this project.
Congrats @plesiosarahs.bsky.social and co.!!
I had a great time sampling chalk specimens for this project.
Congrats @plesiosarahs.bsky.social and co.!!
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PhD studentship funded by the Anatomical Society at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social. Studying the functional morphology of sheep, goats and their relatives including the fossil island dwarf Myotragus: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... Contact me for more details.
February 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
PhD studentship funded by the Anatomical Society at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social. Studying the functional morphology of sheep, goats and their relatives including the fossil island dwarf Myotragus: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... Contact me for more details.
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Can’t wait for you all to see this new exhibition at the Ulster Museum. Opening to the public on 21 Feb, Wild Ireland: Past, Present, Future showcases over 60 amazing wildlife paintings by Julian Friers and his collaboration with curator Dr Mike Simms.
February 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Can’t wait for you all to see this new exhibition at the Ulster Museum. Opening to the public on 21 Feb, Wild Ireland: Past, Present, Future showcases over 60 amazing wildlife paintings by Julian Friers and his collaboration with curator Dr Mike Simms.
Great *FREE* training opportunity for anyone interested in working in Natural History Collections! www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/ev...
Workshop: Basic Collections Techniques 2025
Basic Collection Techniques training at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin
February 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Great *FREE* training opportunity for anyone interested in working in Natural History Collections! www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/ev...
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#NHMLondon is recruiting a Head of Conservation - leading the team that prepares, repairs and cares for the collection in research and exhibitions, maintains and monitors collection environments and guides best practice in conservation across the Museum.
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Head of Conservation :South Kensington
jobs.nhm.ac.uk
January 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
#NHMLondon is recruiting a Head of Conservation - leading the team that prepares, repairs and cares for the collection in research and exhibitions, maintains and monitors collection environments and guides best practice in conservation across the Museum.
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Human-fed red squirrels in Britain developed weaker jaws and flatter skulls due to a diet of soft-shelled peanuts, highlighting the potential negative impact of human intervention on wildlife. doi.org/g8zxdx
Human-fed red squirrels in Britain develop weaker jaws and flatter skulls
A large team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. has found evidence that red squirrels fed by humans in a town on England's west coast lost muscle mass and experienced changes to the shape of their skulls.
phys.org
January 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Human-fed red squirrels in Britain developed weaker jaws and flatter skulls due to a diet of soft-shelled peanuts, highlighting the potential negative impact of human intervention on wildlife. doi.org/g8zxdx
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New paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org Open Science: peanut feeding may have altered the morphology of red squirrel skulls and jaws: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
January 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org Open Science: peanut feeding may have altered the morphology of red squirrel skulls and jaws: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Delighted to have the first paper of my PhD out in Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Morphological change in an isolated population of red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in Britain | Royal Society Open Science
The mechanical properties of dietary items are known to influence skull morphology,
either through evolution or by phenotypic plasticity. Here, we investigated the impact
of supplementary feeding of p...
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Delighted to have the first paper of my PhD out in Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Wow! A real honour to be included on this year's list, thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social and of course all the vital collaborators involved in the work youtu.be/p9XHI_26cPE?...
2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology and Neuroscience
YouTube video by Quanta Magazine
youtu.be
December 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Wow! A real honour to be included on this year's list, thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social and of course all the vital collaborators involved in the work youtu.be/p9XHI_26cPE?...