Fantastic to see our Professor of the History of Slavery @OlivetteOtele named as one of the world's top 50 thinkers for the COVID-19 age by Prospect prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/the-w… Historians @ Bristol Centre for Black Humanities

Luke Jerram on his new Palm Temple artwork, now on display in the chemistry courtyard at the University of Bristol.

Imagine a 16-metre-shark whose fin is the same size as you 😱 The epic size of the legendary Megalodon has finally been revealed, thanks to new research from graduate Jack Cooper, University of Bristol Earth Sciences and Swansea University: bit.ly/3jORilk 🦈

When you've had it up to here with 2020.

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Did you know that #dinosaurs had an all-purpose hole used for peeing, pooing, mating and laying eggs? 💩🥚 Researchers from University of Bristol Earth Sciences have reconstructed this fascinating 'vent' for the first time, based on the fossil of a Labrador-sized dino 🦕 ow.ly/Dt4S50DcBN9

Massive storms, floods, frozen rivers and months of snow. A newly transcribed first-hand chronicle describes how Bristolians endured years of extreme weather at the turn of the 16th/17th century. Historians @ Bristol Bristol Archives Royal Meteorological Society ow.ly/m7Xi50DnR3K

We've commissioned artist Helen Wilson Roe to create a sculpture of Henrietta Lacks, a Black American woman whose cells led to crucial medical advances. It will be the first public sculpture of a Black woman made by a Black woman in the UK. LacksFamily ow.ly/EmY150DU5ht

Our academics have discovered that snappy evolution was behind the success of ancient crocodiles. Get your teeth around this fascinating research here ⬇️ ow.ly/6x6g50E7sgs University of Bristol Earth Sciences

A GOOD WORD ABOUT STUDENTS ❤️ This was our beautiful bridge #Bristol 2 nights ago...probably 150 students spread out...they were lovely, chattering/laughing and music playing.....and they took all their rubbish away. The green was totally clean by morning ❤️👏🏼 I love students ❤️

ICYMI: Joan Passey from English@Bristol featured in BBC Free Thinking last night on BBC Radio 3 to discuss Cornish #Gothic including how #BramStoker used the county as a setting for his classic Egyptian mummy novel The Jewel of Seven Stars. Listen here ⬇️ ow.ly/KP8g50FlBpl

Our Bristol Uni Theatre Collection is joining forces with Bristol Old Vic & VR specialists @ZubrVR to create a series of activities for local young people which will bring to life the histories & creative processes of Britain's oldest theatre. UK Research and Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council ow.ly/PZUW50FmN7S

A new volume of Cornish horror stories by authors including Bram Stoker, Edgar Allen Poe & Arthur Conan Doyle is out now edited by Joan Passey from English@Bristol On Monday she spoke to BBC Cornwall [listen at 37 mins] ow.ly/enPy50FBpNf #TalesoftheWeird British Library Publishing

Congratulations to Joanne Conaghan Dorothy Price 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 and @RobertJMayhew3 on being elected as Fellows of The British Academy bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/july…

In 2019 a medieval manuscript telling the story of #Merlin was found in Bristol Libraries Now a team of academics from Bristol CMS and Durham University have discovered many more of its mysteries including its age and how it got to Bristol 🧙 Read more here ⬇️ ow.ly/lRdO50G2VSv

The fragments tell a new version of the magician’s encounter with the enchantress Viviane. atlasobscura.com/articles/medie…

☠️Historians @ Bristol has uncovered grisly new details about a 17th century plague hospital in Bristol aptly named the Forlorn Hope Pesthouse. Using local archives, scholars now know who worked there, how it operated and where it was originally located. bit.ly/3AHI4R7

Henrietta Lacks, a black woman whose cells led to critical medical advances, has been memorialised in bronze. Her family attended the unveiling of the sculpture, created by Helen Wilson-Roe, to honour the 'mother' of modern medicine. bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/octo… #HELA100

Congratulations to Bristol-based writer, performer and creative producer Malaika Kegode on winning this year's Kevin Elyot Award from Bristol Uni Theatre Collection 🎭 fal.cn/3qtoG

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to step back in time to Ancient Greece? A new #VirtualReality app designed by a team of academics led by Bristol Classics can let you do just that, as you consult the mystical Oracle of Dodona. fal.cn/3zwMc Arts and Humanities Research Council