What an important perspective shared by Celia Tupinambá this evening as part of the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication and @takingcare_project round table event. A new way to think about “taking care” of biocultural collections in ethnographic museums

✨ 2 x PhD studentships in Museum and Heritage Studies, School of Art History, University of St Andrews✨ These are part of the 'Shared Island Stories between Scotland and the Caribbean: Past, Present, Future' project. Closing date: June 17th, 5pm st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/pr…

Of course you knew it’s #WorldParrotDay These two 🦜🦜 decorate a cabinet by Elias Boscher c.1660 adorned with twenty-five pietre dure panels. See it in our Flowers 💐 gallery arguably the world's loveliest room of flower paintings 🖼

Finally, our exciting launch event: a rap performance ft anticaste rapper, activist & academic SUMIT SAMOS! This will be followed by a q+a with PhD scholar Purnachandra Naik. 11 am | Recital Room, Faculty of Music, 11 West Rd Don't miss this! Register: shorturl.at/bnrvI

On #RainforestDay we remind the global community that the key to protect the most valuable ecosystems is trust in indigenous people and local communities. We need the support and funding of everybody to continue on our century long task of protecting the earth.

One week left to register for this workshop on July 14th discussing people, plants and biocultural collections in museums. The online pre-workshop talks from James, Nancy and Naima will be released online from July 11th to watch at your own pace. eventbrite.co.uk/e/people-and-p…

We are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support following the news that Cornwall Council have decided to remove funding to the museum. We have released a full statement which you can read here - royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk/statement-re-i…

What does colour mean to you? 🌈 COLOUR: Art, Power & Science opens NEXT TUESDAY 26 July! Featuring amazing stories, objects and pigments from across University of Cambridge Museums and beyond. Free entry, no booking required. #MAAColour maa.cam.ac.uk/colour

Two fantastic blogs reflecting on the MEG conference in Edinburgh National Museums Scotland in April by on t'other place: amiekirby.bsky.social and Rhea Blem #readallaboutit 💥

Did you miss the excellent discussions on trans & nonbinary inclusion in #ornithology led by Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) at #WOS2022? If so, you're in luck: Jess has compiled a blog post summarizing the main takeaways. jfmclaughlin.org/blog/supportin…

V excited to announce I’ll be heading to the Smithsonian Smithsonian NMNH this autumn on an Arts and Humanities Research Council IPS fellowship! I’ll be exploring Ecuadorian featherwork, supervised by the wonderful Joshua A. Bell and Dr Carla Dove in collab w/ Recovering Voices and the Feather ID Lab - can’t wait!

Finally on my way to Quito, to meet maria patricia and Rosa Dyer and work with Shuar partners and museums in Ecuador to learn about Shuar featherwork collections and finding ways forward w regards to Shuar ancestral remains / tsantsa Pitt Rivers Museum.

really excited for the 'bibliotheca cornubiensis femina’ (library of cornish women) launch on 2nd sept. the bcf is an extensive free catalogue of notable women in cornwall and their works. we'll talk about the website, its goals, and some of women featured on it! The Hypatia Trust

Day 4 we were lucky to learn more about birds, featherwork and the significance of tsantsa today talking with Shuar experts of the Southern Zamora region…

Great to see the work Tori Adams is doing to open up collections from South and Central Americas held National Museums Scotland to indigenous and non-indigenous researchers.

Really looking forward to exploring Brazilian biocultural collections in the third People and Plants workshop at KewGardens! There are also some great bursaries available, see details below

TODAY Enjoy an atmospheric evening at Pitt Rivers Museum & Oxford University Museum of Natural History, find out loads of fascinating stuff, relax with a drink in the bars and enjoy music, live spoken word performances and more! Find out what's going on at prm.ox.ac.uk/connected-worl…. 7-10pm, FREE.

Loved taking part in the Mevagissey #NewYearPlantHunt again this year (despite the invigorating Cornish weather). Thanks Dan Ryan and Three Bays Wildlife Group - here’s hoping we beat our rank from last year!

My Linn Soc lecture is online now at youtu.be/N2HjVLLTOsc

Latest victim of retrograde higher education cuts: Anthropology at University of Kent - globally renowned for its intersection with Conservation @UniKentSAC and host to my ethnobotanical research for the past four years. Please sign to save! chng.it/LNvyQTdR