I always knew he was no good

I just feel like I'd have trouble taking news from this source seriously.

Very pleased that my article 'Facts and Fictions: Emotional Authenticity and Narrative in Natural History Exhibitions', which close reads the displays of the NHM and the Loch Ness Centre, has been published today!

journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/mas

The historic models of dinosaurs in the Nature or Culture? exhibition were also well worth a look.

I visited the Museu Martorell in Barcelona last week and can't get over the spectacular taxidermy they currently have on display, by Antonio Perez Rodriguez. A genuine feat of engineering, I can't quite work out how he did it!

A new obstacle to work has appeared in my life

A great start to a new year's pleasure reading. Sea monsters galore!

My feed offered a direct response to this

Frankly, should I even correct this? It gives all the important information

Incredible Frankenstein cover spotted in the wild today.

Imagine failing to become famous during your lifetime and then more than ten years after your (untimely) death, people are STILL bodying you like this in the press.

A conversation with a former student/current friend today has given me the only teaching statement I will ever need:

This is how I'm working all this week 🥶