Tannis Davidson
@tannisdavidson.bsky.social
Head of Zoology and Science Collections at UCL based at the Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social. Nature, science, art, music.
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Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids
Today’s @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social we packed our very special gorilla skeleton who is away for specialist conservation and re-mounting. He will be back in the new year and will play a central role in forthcoming @ucl.ac.uk bicentenary celebrations! #ucl200
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Today’s @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social we packed our very special gorilla skeleton who is away for specialist conservation and re-mounting. He will be back in the new year and will play a central role in forthcoming @ucl.ac.uk bicentenary celebrations! #ucl200
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New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
Confirmed (again) today at Birmingham #museum stores that every natural history collection (as least in the UK) has one (but likely two) overstuffed Bosc monitors.
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Confirmed (again) today at Birmingham #museum stores that every natural history collection (as least in the UK) has one (but likely two) overstuffed Bosc monitors.
Extensive #taxidermy bird collection at Birmingham #museum stores including nestlings. Thank you @lukaslarge.bsky.social for hosting @natsca.bsky.social committee!
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Extensive #taxidermy bird collection at Birmingham #museum stores including nestlings. Thank you @lukaslarge.bsky.social for hosting @natsca.bsky.social committee!
Fabulous talk today by @idrisadams.bsky.social in @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social all about why we should all love wasps - especially solitary wasps 🐝! #WaspLove #WorldOfWasps
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Fabulous talk today by @idrisadams.bsky.social in @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social all about why we should all love wasps - especially solitary wasps 🐝! #WaspLove #WorldOfWasps
Join us tomorrow for a very special night @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social as a part of @ucl.ac.uk MultiCOP supporting COP30. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
Decolonising the Zoology Museum: A Conservation Ritual
Join the Grant Museum of Zoology for a very special after hours event celebrating our continued collaboration with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous elders.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Join us tomorrow for a very special night @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social as a part of @ucl.ac.uk MultiCOP supporting COP30. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
Saltwater crocodile mirror
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Saltwater crocodile mirror
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My first wasp publication is out! @waspwoman.bsky.social and I have written a piece highlighting why wasps are so cool in Frontiers for Young Minds... perfect for children but equally as fascinating for all ages!
The Wonderful World of Wasps
When you hear the word “wasp”, you probably imagine a stripey yellow-and-black insect that you see flying about at your summer picnic. You would be right! But there is much more to wasps than you thin...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My first wasp publication is out! @waspwoman.bsky.social and I have written a piece highlighting why wasps are so cool in Frontiers for Young Minds... perfect for children but equally as fascinating for all ages!
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@idrisadams.bsky.social's 1st wasp paper! Although written for & reviewed by kids, it's good for wasp-wary adults too!
And a perfect companion for a visit to the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social #WorldOfWasps free exhibition www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
@uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
And a perfect companion for a visit to the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social #WorldOfWasps free exhibition www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
@uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@idrisadams.bsky.social's 1st wasp paper! Although written for & reviewed by kids, it's good for wasp-wary adults too!
And a perfect companion for a visit to the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social #WorldOfWasps free exhibition www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
@uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
And a perfect companion for a visit to the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social #WorldOfWasps free exhibition www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
@uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
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An installation at Lochmaddy explores the catastrophic impact of our relationship with nature and its long-term effects. The work provokes a dialogue on how the rising sea levels will affect coastal areas, its inhabitants and land usage in the future....
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A Light Installation in a Scottish Coastal Town Vividly Shows Future Sea Level Rise
Lines (57° 59´N, 7° 16´W) is a light installation in Lochmaddy, Scotland that visualizes how much the sea level will rise if o
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October 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
An installation at Lochmaddy explores the catastrophic impact of our relationship with nature and its long-term effects. The work provokes a dialogue on how the rising sea levels will affect coastal areas, its inhabitants and land usage in the future....
kottke.org/19/03/a-ligh...
kottke.org/19/03/a-ligh...
Join us for today’s lunchtime @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social Research in Focus talk with @knapprew.bsky.social from @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social discussing how museum specimens can be used to study brain evolution.
October 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Join us for today’s lunchtime @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social Research in Focus talk with @knapprew.bsky.social from @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social discussing how museum specimens can be used to study brain evolution.
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love everything about this
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Sumo wrestling at the Royal Albert Hall – picture essay
Our award-winning photographer went behind the scenes of the Grand Sumo tournament in London as it returned to the capital for the first time since 1991
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October 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
love everything about this
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There are a lot of reeeeaaaallly cool things going on @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social World Anatomy Day this Saturday - don’t miss it! 11am - 2pm Oct 18. 🩻🐊🦴
Take part in activities celebrating World Anatomy Day! Join us on 18 October and find out how our museum is used for cutting-edge approaches to study ecology, evolution and skeletal anatomy.
Family Event: Amazing Anatomy
The Grant Museum has a takeover day in partnership with UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy. Pre-book for 11:00, drop-in 12:00 - 14:00
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October 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
There are a lot of reeeeaaaallly cool things going on @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social World Anatomy Day this Saturday - don’t miss it! 11am - 2pm Oct 18. 🩻🐊🦴
It has been an enormous pleasure to work with @uclcber.bsky.social wasp dream team @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social and @idrisadams.bsky.social to highlight their amazing research in this world first exhibition on #wasps!
Researchers from the Sumner Lab talk about how their research informed our latest virtual reality exhibition, World of Wasps. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
October 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It has been an enormous pleasure to work with @uclcber.bsky.social wasp dream team @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social and @idrisadams.bsky.social to highlight their amazing research in this world first exhibition on #wasps!
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Researchers from the Sumner Lab talk about how their research informed our latest virtual reality exhibition, World of Wasps. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
October 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Researchers from the Sumner Lab talk about how their research informed our latest virtual reality exhibition, World of Wasps. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
WOW!
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...
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Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
WOW!
If you ever wondered how to photograph a gorilla skeleton without a studio …
October 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If you ever wondered how to photograph a gorilla skeleton without a studio …
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And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Nirvana fans of the MTV Unplugged in New York album should check out the @rcmlondon.bsky.social exhibition about the recording. The guitar, the jumper and rare memorabilia are on display until November 18 in London.
September 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Nirvana fans of the MTV Unplugged in New York album should check out the @rcmlondon.bsky.social exhibition about the recording. The guitar, the jumper and rare memorabilia are on display until November 18 in London.
So the answer to the question ‘how many people does it take to hang a python skeleton’ is five.
September 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So the answer to the question ‘how many people does it take to hang a python skeleton’ is five.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
One of the benefits of decanting thousands of specimens for casework and redisplay is that you have the opportunity to deep dive into their histories and records. Just connected the archival dots of this pink fairy armadillo and it is an original @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social specimen from 1828!
September 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
One of the benefits of decanting thousands of specimens for casework and redisplay is that you have the opportunity to deep dive into their histories and records. Just connected the archival dots of this pink fairy armadillo and it is an original @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social specimen from 1828!