Jonathan Ablett
@jonathanablett
Senior Curator of Mollusca at the Natural History Museum, London. Especially interested in all things snail and squid (and music, always music... )
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01-02-2018 11:24:13
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Looking forward to playing some wonky disco and electronic pop goodness at EXALE TAP E17 this Friday 9 - 2. Join us for a delicious beer and a boogie!
Preserving pieces of history in eggshells and birds’ nests nature.com/articles/d4158… Read about NHM Oology Douglas Russell - The Curator 🤓👊 Natural History Museum nature NHM at Tring
Awful news: St Helena is one of the most damaged environments, in studying its extinct snails I've been impressed that 2 remain on the last cabbage trees. They survived forest clearance & goats but may finally go due to an invasive fungus! hakaimagazine.com/news/something… Hakai Magazine
AI-assisted ID of obscure animals is growing. What better objects to use for training than well-authenticated museum specimens? As part of an #ArtificialIntelligenceMW project, @Liebniz_LIB have borrowed some of Vertigo snails, including rare ones being conserved by Natur am Byth!
We’ll be spinning some electronic pop gems and spangly disco belters after the football at EXALE TAP E17 this Friday - join us for a booze and a boogie!
NEW 🙊NATURE TABLE🐸 Sunday 4.30 & BBC Sounds. Join Sue Perkins 💙 Jessica Fostekew Dr. Tanesha Allen FLS 🦡 Jonathan Ablett Natural History Museum for amazing facts and giggles on 🦑, 🐝, 🐦, 🪲 & 🐌. This is a really fun one. Check out the clip👇
I had so much fun recording #Naturetable with Sue Perkins 💙, Jessica Fostekew and Dr. Tanesha Allen FLS 🦡 - listen in today at 4.30 on BBC Radio 4 to hear why we should love pigeons, wasps and snails and as ever I’ll be chatting about giant squid!
🚨Job Alert 🚨 We're recruiting a Botany Curator Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales to join our Natural Sciences team and use our collections to examine the impact of invasive species on ecosystems 🌳🌿🍄🌸🌾 nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/vac…
It gives me great joy to announce that Beautiful Shells is available to preorder via Bodleian Libraries bringing George Perry's (overlooked & maligned) 1811 Conchology to the 21st Century. Introduction & plate comments by me! Out 26th September Bodleian Publishing bodleianshop.co.uk/products/beaut…
📢 Only 3 days left to register for the FREE #MolluscanForum on Nov 20th at Science at the Natural History Museum ! ⭐️ Join us for a full day of exciting #molluscan talks - hosted by the Malacological Society of London Please share! 🌏🐌🐚🦑 Details here ☞ malacsoc.org.uk/molluscan-foru…