On #InternationalDayForBiodiversity, let's hear it for all the museums working hard to curate & preserve these libraries of #biodiversity! 👏. Collections are ESSENTIAL for understanding our biodiversity & supporting conservation 🪲🔬🧬. #IDB2024 #BiodiversityDay #MuseumsMatter

Do you work for or volunteer with a museum? Are you interested in supporting #biodiversity on the site? 🐞🌱 . We'll be sharing our experience of doing just that! .Join us Thursday 23 January (2:30 - 3:30pm): #NMCCbiodiversity

RT @SaveOurWildcats: A new two-part documentary about Saving Wildcats will be broadcast on @bbcalba tomorrow at 9:00pm 🎉. 'Wildcats: Cait a….

RT @ScottishAgates: If you want DOUBLE THE AGATES we’re also sharing agates over on bsky (same handle as here) and insta (scottishagates365….

RT @wildlife_info: Join us for a Carrion beetles workshop on Fri 31 January, 13:30 – 17:00 at the National Museum’s Collections in Granton,….

RT @ScottishAgates: 6th January 2025 — Fife

RT @eurotaxonomy: “To make an impact on the global stage, our voice must be unified" 📢 That was the highlight made by Edwin Van Huis, CETAF….

Huge congratulations to our volunteer @kattyponder on receiving this @NBNTrust award! Much deserved recognition! 👏👏👏 #MothsMatter.

Museum folks, are you interested in boosting #biodiversity on your sites? 🌱🍄🐝. Of course you are, and we have just the event for you!. 🗓️ Thursday, January 23, 2025 (2:30 - 3:30pm). #NMCCbiodiversity @NMSPartnerships .

RT @savebutterflies: Celebrating the start of a new month with the aptly-named November moth (Epirrita dilutata)! 🍂. Find out how you can g….

#FlyFriday: Taxonomists have to do a great deal of detective work, as demonstrated by this new publication from Dr Andrew Ross, @flygirlNHM & team! . 📄 "A fly in the ointment: the re-discovered holotype of ‘Trypeta’ cylindrica. " 📷 Trustees of the NHM

RT @flygirlNHM: Happy #Halloween . Once more it’s time for the Dracula Bug :) (sampled from #wildlifegarden 10ish years ago) @NHM_London -….

RT @iDigBio: Applications are now open for the free, online course Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections offered….

Visiting our Palaeo collection today is Dr Sandy Hetherington from @EdinburghUni, with PhD students - Rosa Parkin and Diego Sanchez Ganfornina. They're examining some of our important Rhynie Chert material as part of their research. #Fossils #Palaeobiology #NaturalHistory

RT @Buzz_dont_tweet: The gauntlet's been laid down for a return match between @_BCT_ & Buglife; vote for who's best in #BatsVsBeetles!. 🪲#T….

RT @iDigBio: Museum collections are invaluable for many reasons. But if nobody knows they exist, their utility is diminished. This is why d….

RT @NtlMuseumsScot: It's #ScottishMuseumsDay and so we'd like to share some #TinyTreasures from our collections ✨. Here's ‘The Highland Mid….

RT @NSCAlliance: Join @NSCAlliance @AIBSbiology & @SPNHC for a webinar about #repatriation, #NAGPRA, and how it relates to natural history….

RT @jgilchrist13: All fossils are special. But some #fossils are more special. Granton Shrimp Bed, much researched by late great Professor….

Thank you @jgilchrist13 for capturing our vertebrate preparators in action 📸 . Last week they were conducting vital post-mortem sampling of a Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), that unfortunately washed up in Edinburgh, following entanglement.

RT @ThePalAss: Brachiopods from the Ordovician Fezouata Shale (Morocco) - a biodiversity hub in Gondwana @datadryad….