A few of the #thylacine skins behind the scenes of Natural History Museum. The adults have clearly never been on display - their coats are much darker than the taxidermy #thylacines we usually find in museum galleries, which have faded in the light; & the smallest known #taxidermy thylacine

Mammoths are not common from the Ice Age of Yorkshire. This spectacular fossil was found at an opencast mine near Leeds (not from the coal layers but the layers of gravel on top). Great to see it getting so much attention in the press today, with our very own Dr Jed for scale!

“The thing that’s kept me going on this path has been the fact that I really want children... I want a family. I want a home with a garden and children and pets. I want that life. And I’m never going to have that unless we win this fight.” #juststopoil politico.eu/article/van-go…

This is an extraordinary read.

What on earth is happening in health tech funding? After decades of the sector ignoring women's health, at who knows what cost to women, women's health tech startups are more likely to be funded if led by... men. 🤦🏽

On this week’s Inside Science with marnie chesterton how to win a #Nobel Prize, what will #NASA’s Europa Clipper mission find, and the US company that says it will bring back a woolly mammoth by 2028. We ask how, why - and should we? On BBC Radio 4 at 4.30pm bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Oof, check out this mammoth conversation on Inside Science with marnie chesterton & Tori Herridge 🔥 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Arctic animals are uniquely adapted to tolerate the cold. Which are the genes behind these adaptations? And, crucially, when did selectively important mutations in these genes occur? Come join my group for an ancient DNA journey through evolutionary time!

SO MUCH hype (colossal amounts?) around mammoth de-extinction. Reality is experimenting on sensitive creatures to make "arctic-adapted elephants" that will face habitat breakdown as soon they get shipped to Siberia. Here's brilliant Tori Herridge on 🔥 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Harriet Boyd Hawes was born on this date 153 years ago - she organized nursing services for soldiers during the Cretan Rebellion, then turned around and made a major archaeological discovery at Gournia in 1901, and THEN retrained herself as an economist! tinyurl.com/348rkskf

Epic story. Epic thread.

Could you be our new Social Media and Digital Assistant? Find out more and apply: rewildingbritain.org.uk/about-us/who-w… Image: James Jeffries / Rewilding Britain #hiring #commsjobs #rewildingjobs #socialmediajobs

The sight of a patient on an IV drip burning to death in the flames of an airstrike on the tents of refugees. This will be the abiding image of this genocide. Today in the Commons, I urged the government to take further action to end Israel's attacks on civilians.

"And now you can't even block me on Twitter..."

Tori Herridge Ha. The Melbourne Museum keeps much of its fluid-preserved specimens in plastic containers, which I suppose techinically are bucket-shaped. Obviously heads that have been skinned aren't too attractive, but that doesn't mean they're "putrifying". It's a well cared-for specimen!

The (tasmanian) devil is always in the details… When you only have PR to go on, it really is important you can trust what people are saying.

If you can, please donate to help excellent student Ife Oyelade complete her PhD researching Pancreatic Cancer. A drop in currency in her home country means that she is struggling to fund her studies. She has exhausted all other options. gofundme.com/f/help-me-stay…

featuring lovely words from Tori Herridge and a visit to Forest Research's Alice Holt labs to chat to Dr Sarah Facey