Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱
@mattsalusbury.bsky.social
English language teacher, journalist, (@forteantimes, @MysteryAnimals,) Chair @DunwichMuseum. https://bigcatsofsuffolk.com Currently writing ✍️ "Armies of the Belgian Revolution" for Partizan Press.
it's roughly 8 years ago this week since I skived off work at the deli in Southwold and went to give a lecture in Brussels - in French! - on "Les éléphants nains" (Pygmy elephants). Here are my last-minute desperate notes on hotel notepaper on Kerala missing one of the two annual monsoons.
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
it's roughly 8 years ago this week since I skived off work at the deli in Southwold and went to give a lecture in Brussels - in French! - on "Les éléphants nains" (Pygmy elephants). Here are my last-minute desperate notes on hotel notepaper on Kerala missing one of the two annual monsoons.
Witchcraft sceptics! My article in "@forteantimes presents Witches & Witchcraft" , on sale now.
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Witchcraft sceptics! My article in "@forteantimes presents Witches & Witchcraft" , on sale now.
Harvest of tiny purple carrots!
October 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Harvest of tiny purple carrots!
The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk - a Dunwich Museum
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Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30 online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
@discoverdunwich.bsky.social
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Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30 online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
@discoverdunwich.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk - a Dunwich Museum
talk -
Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30 online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
@discoverdunwich.bsky.social
talk -
Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30 online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
@discoverdunwich.bsky.social
Faux fossil sauropod bones and a pterosaur, Jurassic Bay Adventure Golf, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday
September 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Faux fossil sauropod bones and a pterosaur, Jurassic Bay Adventure Golf, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday
"The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook" - my illustrated article on probably one of the first cryptozoological clippings libraries, kept by Sir Richard Owen, a Natural History Museum co-founder who coined the term "dinosaur". In this month's @forteantimes.bsky.social (FT 462. October 2025).
September 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook" - my illustrated article on probably one of the first cryptozoological clippings libraries, kept by Sir Richard Owen, a Natural History Museum co-founder who coined the term "dinosaur". In this month's @forteantimes.bsky.social (FT 462. October 2025).
Fragments of Jurassic oyster 🦪 shells in Portland Stone(?) in the facade of the Mashall Building at the LSE @lseblogs.bsky.social - my current place of work. #FossilFriday @pavementgeology.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Fragments of Jurassic oyster 🦪 shells in Portland Stone(?) in the facade of the Mashall Building at the LSE @lseblogs.bsky.social - my current place of work. #FossilFriday @pavementgeology.bsky.social
Flowering artichoke in the front garden!
August 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Flowering artichoke in the front garden!
Fossil sponge which I found among gravel on a path at Kenwood House. Thanks to @timholtwilson.bsky.social for identification. #FossilFriday
August 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Fossil sponge which I found among gravel on a path at Kenwood House. Thanks to @timholtwilson.bsky.social for identification. #FossilFriday
Megalania (giant Australian Pleistocene monitor lizard) 🦎, life size reconstruction, Jurassic Bay Adventure Golf, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday
August 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Megalania (giant Australian Pleistocene monitor lizard) 🦎, life size reconstruction, Jurassic Bay Adventure Golf, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday
After many years of trying I have finally managed to grow artichokes.
August 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
After many years of trying I have finally managed to grow artichokes.
Handy "genuine mammoth 🦣 fossils" dispenser, choice of tusk or bone fragments for £1, with "choking hazard" warning. The Needles, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday
July 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Handy "genuine mammoth 🦣 fossils" dispenser, choice of tusk or bone fragments for £1, with "choking hazard" warning. The Needles, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday
Petrified wood, Alexander Pope's Grotto #FossilFriday
July 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Petrified wood, Alexander Pope's Grotto #FossilFriday
Ammonite, Alexander Pope's Grotto, Twickenham #FossilFriday
July 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ammonite, Alexander Pope's Grotto, Twickenham #FossilFriday
Fossil oyster 🦪 shell, Alexander Pope's Grotto, Twickenham #FossilFriday
July 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Fossil oyster 🦪 shell, Alexander Pope's Grotto, Twickenham #FossilFriday
Could Smith have had a connection to the Worshipful Company of Cutlers? It has a very similar coat of arms, probably because of ivory cutlery handles.
July 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Could Smith have had a connection to the Worshipful Company of Cutlers? It has a very similar coat of arms, probably because of ivory cutlery handles.
Elephant's head on the coat of arms of Hugh Colin Smith, died 1918, St Andrew's Church, Ham.
July 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Elephant's head on the coat of arms of Hugh Colin Smith, died 1918, St Andrew's Church, Ham.
Whoops! Fox News inadvertently reveals how much better socialism would be for most New Yorkers than the current capitalist hellscape and its "market-based housing affordability solutions." 😂 With thanks to @DarrigoMelanie
July 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Whoops! Fox News inadvertently reveals how much better socialism would be for most New Yorkers than the current capitalist hellscape and its "market-based housing affordability solutions." 😂 With thanks to @DarrigoMelanie
Ghost sign by Bayswater Underground, London W2. I can make out the word "shaver" in the bottom left and the painting appears to show a men wet shaving 🪒 while holding a child.
June 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Ghost sign by Bayswater Underground, London W2. I can make out the word "shaver" in the bottom left and the painting appears to show a men wet shaving 🪒 while holding a child.
Foxgloves in the garden, grown from seed 🌱
June 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Foxgloves in the garden, grown from seed 🌱
Cornflower, Red velerium, clover,🍀 mustard in the garden, all grown from seed. 🌱
June 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Cornflower, Red velerium, clover,🍀 mustard in the garden, all grown from seed. 🌱
"No 🍴 cutlery or crockery 🍽️ allowed beyond this point" sign, Ravenscourt Park, London W8.
June 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"No 🍴 cutlery or crockery 🍽️ allowed beyond this point" sign, Ravenscourt Park, London W8.
Just visible "Momento Mori" 💀 skull on a decommissioned tombstone in the former burial ground in Dovehouse Green, Kings Road, Chelsea. #MomentoMoriMonday
May 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Just visible "Momento Mori" 💀 skull on a decommissioned tombstone in the former burial ground in Dovehouse Green, Kings Road, Chelsea. #MomentoMoriMonday
Monument to neighbourhood demolished to make way for Brussels Central Station.
April 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Monument to neighbourhood demolished to make way for Brussels Central Station.