At least now we know what Thump's "covfefe" means

Which will you pick?

There's just a couple of days left to get your applications in for this exciting vacancy in our team! Assistant Curator of Fluid Collections 🐟🐙🪰 Full-time | Permanent ⚠️Closing date: Sunday 12th March ➡️ vacancies.nms.ac.uk/VacancyDetails… #MuseumJobs #Biodiversity #FluidCollections

Another great opportunity to join the RECODE team Natural History Museum and help us deliver a next generation Collections Management System. Want to help us ensure the solution is up to scratch as our Test lead careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPH…

Only a few days till early registration deadline #ICDXReno #dipterology #FossilFlies

Beautiful late Inca period pitcher, courtesy of Victor Nunes. Cat and insects in one flagon

Things you’ll learn in our blog on the taxonomy of #DoctorWho species: 🕷️Invertebrates = baddies (unfairly!) 🧪Slitheen would melt in human skin suits due to pH levels 🦎Silurians + humans have a common ancestor Science + Doctor Who rules! blog.nms.ac.uk/2023/04/24/doc… Doctor Who

Some of the team visited the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen today. It’s home to the National Soil Archive, containing more than 60,000 air-dried soil samples. An incredible resource! Thank you to Colin Campbell + colleagues for the tour and discussion. #Geodiversity #Collections

Closing out #PrideMonth, with this celebration of colour from our meadow at the National Museums Collection Centre. #Pride #NationalMeadowsDay #NMCCbiodiversity 🏳️‍🌈🌿

Feeling FLY! Here's our research associate o holding a printed copy of his Catalogue of World Species of Lonchaeidae (Lance Flies). 🌏🪰 An impressive piece of work, covering 611 species 👏 🔗 mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy #FlyFriday

Published faster than I expected. First time Lygistorrhina found in semi-arid climate x.com/Zootaxa/status…

Lots of lovely Dipterists! Great to see so many folks in person but you can still join online - contact either [email protected] and/or [email protected] #DipteristsDay2023

Over a million views #janeygodleyvoiceover

BIG NEWS 🪩 #DiSSCoUK is funded through the UKRI Infrastructure Fund and led by the Natural History Museum and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This will build on our ten years’ experience of #Digitisation, working with over 90 partner organisations around the UK 🌿

Principal Curator of Invertebrates, Dr Vladimir Blagoderov, has recently been on expedition to Northern Peru. This species discovery mission was to document the diversity of Fungus gnats - an ecologically important but understudied group of flies 🪰 #NameItToSaveIt #Taxonomy