Barnacle geese #migrate between the Arctic and Britain, at one time it was thought they hatched from goose barnacles. This illustration from Aldrovandi, publ. 1646, depicts the suggested life cycle. More in our blog: zsl.org/news-and-event… #WorldMigratoryBirdDay

We're trying something out at Museum of Zoology, Cambridge - what happens if we use AI to allow visitors to talk to our specimens? We've worked with Nature Perspectives to test whether giving animals a "voice" helps people engage with nature. #ArtificialIntelligence theguardian.com/science/2024/o…

Check it out! 👀 Our shiny new Clore Natural History Centre 🦕🌿🦋 Make sure to pop in and explore the next time you visit us! (📸 ©Chris Wardle)

What a fascinating person, I love the 1947 picture of her with her colleagues outside the labs ⁦RHS Garden Wisley⁩. "Janaki was…a cytogeneticist…field biologist,…plant geographer, palaeobotanist,…experimental breeder…ethno-botanist & an explorer” bbc.com/news/world-asi…

Toothbrushes picked up from Cornish beaches. Since this picture was taken we’ve found hundreds more.

A #newspecies of marine benthic #diatom has been discovered in the tidal mudflat of Hampyeong Bay, South Korea. 🇰🇷 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phytok… #taxonomy

Nice day World Museum 🌎 with the BPS. Some interesting talks. It was also nice to be able to present an update on our fern work in Honduras. David Edge Hill University Edge Hill Research Office @Dalli_SciNat GeraldineR

Ever wondered what REALLY goes on behind the museum walls? 🤔🔍 On Saturday November 9th, our expert curators are pulling back the curtain to share how they care for everything from fossils to feathers 🦖🦋 Drop in anytime between 10.30 - 4pm 🔎👀

This infographic highlights the other side of #deforestation as a major driver of 🌡 climate change—our relentless carbon dioxide emissions. It illustrates the combined impact of per capita emissions and the multiplying effects of our growing population. Via Saving Nature

A day putting ferns away after British Pteridological Society World Museum 🌎 herbarium

Born #OnThisDay in 1914 was actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. As well as acting in 30 films, during the Second World War she co-developed a frequency-hopping guidance system for American torpedoes, the principles of which are used in Bluetooth and WiFi technologies today.

Helen Porter FRS, the groundbreaking British botanist, was born #OnThisDay in 1893. Porter was also the first female professor at Imperial College and an early adopter of chromatography and radioactive tracers. bit.ly/2AOT967 #WomeninSTEM

Did you ever see such an enormous fern leaf? This is Hercules' fern (Drynaria heracleum) from the rainforests of Southeast Asia, with trail-running fern specialist John Rey Callado for scale 💚

Want to do a PhD in archaeobotany, using stable isotopes on material from the First Millennium CE in the Anglo-Scottish borders Durham Archaeology Durham Earth Science British Geological Survey iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/l…

Job opportunities! We are currently recruiting for the following roles: * Collections & Digitisation Assistant * Herbarium Collections Manager * Research Assistant / Research Associate * Research Laboratory Technician Find out more and apply: tinyurl.com/3smk68t5

🎉Early Career Researcher Symposium🎉 We're looking for papers from across the field that speak to any aspects of the history of natural history by doctoral and early-career researchers across the globe. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 December (soon!)

Planothidium minuanum sp. nov., a new #diatom (Bacillariophyta) species fromsouthern Brazilian coastal lakes phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/vie…

From IRTA we are hiring a project technician for morphological and metabarcoding identification of coastal diatoms. We offer: 15 month contract. Start: beginning 2025. Full details: tinyurl.com/bdfzs759. Register & send CV: irta.cat/en/work-at-irt…. Deadline: 15/01/2025

Look at this massive kelp my PhD student @freyaalldred has collected and sampled for analysis in Antarctica Pippa Moore Dan Smale @Juliet_seaweeds GeraldineR British Antarctic Survey 🐧 Rodney Forster Durham Earth Science The British Phycological Society

#OnThisDay in 1954, the first ever in-vision weather forecast was broadcast in the UK, with meteorologist George Cowling delivering the report with two hand-drawn charts (it was a dry morning with rain later in the afternoon). For more on the history of weather science see our