julieh80.bsky.social
Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary History, National Museums Scotland. Posts about history, museums, heritage, disability & my pets Lightning & Puggo. Discworld fan & disabled mum to 2 fabulous neurospicy kids (own opinions she/her)
👤 Joined on 13 November 2024
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@julieh80.bsky.socialEdinburgh Castle peeping over the tenement roofs, as seen from Bruntsfield Links today.
Show Post#FossilFriday & ahead of next week's fossil marine reptile conference @morethanadodo.bsky.social, here are some of Mary Anning's most impressive ichthyosaur finds @nhm-london.bsky.social, including the 'first' ichthyosaur of 1811–12, the large 1832 Temnodontosaurus, & big vertebrae of the mid-1830s.
Show PostYou gotta luv a dug. 😍
Show Post20 September 1820: on a visit to Lyme Regis, Cambridge geologist Adam Sedgwick notes in his journal 'After breakfast purchase fossils of Miss Anning', perhaps the earliest mention of Mary Anning junior running the family fossil shop. He spent £3 2s on 'various fossils' and 'part of Ichthyosaurus'.
Show PostAnd if you have any form of executive dysfunction then heaven help you with the bureaucracy involved. And delays are long and very common.
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