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Brilliant opportunity!📢The Museum & @UniversityLeeds have announced a fully-funded #PhD #studentship from October 2021 focused on women in #geology during the 19th century. Find out more: https://t.co/APQ1w4djhy
#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Image: landscape by Mary Morland

Earth is the only planet that we know supports life, and it does so in abundance. Scientists have named around 2 million species so far, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. We still do not know how many there are. #WorldWildlifeDay

We're busy working on our new permanent exhibits here and we want them to capture the astonishing variety and importance of biodiversity. To mark #WorldWildlifeDay today, we’d like to know: what species would you especially like to protect? And can you draw it on a Post-It? :)

English entomologist John Westwood was born #onthisday 1805. We're restoring & opening the Pre-Raphaelite Westwood Room to the public for the first time. https://t.co/qGyZVtYo19
Artistically talented, he’d have loved a gift from our shop https://t.co/cBayZIcLJ9 @HeritageFundUK

3/4 ...and hydrology, and its influence on biostratigraphical theories and the science of geology. STRATA showcases Smith’s 1815 hand-coloured map, A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland, and illustrates the story of his career.

How are you getting on with today’s leg of #SixLegsOfSummer? Don’t forget to tag us in your responses @morethanadodo

The Westwood Room was originally called ‘Mr Hope’s Museum’ after Frederick William Hope, a founding collector of this Museum in the 1840s. Hope’s museum within a museum became a favourite meeting place for naturalists: Charles Darwin called Hope ‘my father in entomology’

1/5 Next for #NIW2020 Beautiful Beetles - Coleoptera!
Beetles are members of the Order Coleoptera, which means ‘covered wings’.This is because their forewings are adapted into hard coverings that usually cover the whole of the abdomen & protect the delicate hind wings underneath

We mark National Insect Week #NIW2020 by saying thanks #NationalLottery players for supporting us to save & share 200+ years' natural heritage of our British Insect Collection 1 million+ specimens including beetles, bees, flies & fleas 🦋https://t.co/qGyZVtYo19 @HeritageFundUK

Plants! They're out there waiting for you.
Inspired by @RobGMacfarlane & @JackieMorrisArt's The Lost Words, @OxPoetryLibrary & @flosoxford bring you the Lost Words Activity Pack... Get outside, soak up spring, scribble your thoughts, create poetry. :)
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