Simon Jackson

Collections and Learning Curator, Colchester and Ipswich Museums. Vertebrate paleontologist and ichnologist. All posts my own.

[Stu Pond @PaleoStu]

Vectipelta barretti: strict skeletal / skeletal reconstruction / life reconstruction

#vectipelta #FossiFriday

[Rebecca Machin @Curator_Rebecca]

❤️ @JackDAshby on telling honest stories about natural history collections ❤️ #NatSCA2023

[Paolo Viscardi @PaoloViscardi]

Collection creation is a biased process. We need to be aware of that, and find ways to address it. Object biographies are one way to do that. They allow information, metadata etc. to be captured in a linkable way. #natsca2023

[Carole Jones 🌍🌹🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @artoflabour]

The ‘designation’ means the #Ipswich post-Cretaceous collection is now recognised as having national importance… great news, and thanks to @drsimonjackson & colleagues at @IpswichMuseums for this success 😊👏💐👏
@Nat_SCA @ace_national

[NatSCA @Nat_SCA]

Great new blog out today by @drsimonjackson talking about the newly designated collections @IpswichMuseums! https://t.co/JM1FyASZ8c https://t.co/4UyRVsOi1A

[Ipswich Museums @IpswichMuseums]

This #MammothMonday we are celebrating that we have been awarded #Designated status by @ace_national for our Post-Cretaceous #Geology Collection, which helps us to understand the evolution of the #mammoths and their ecology. #collections #museums

[Simon Jackson @DrSimonJackson]

@Suffolk_Museums @IpswichMuseums @ace_national On behalf of the Museum thank you!

[Simon Jackson @DrSimonJackson]

@SedgwickMuseum @IpswichMuseums @ace_national On behalf of the Museum thank you!

[Simon Jackson @DrSimonJackson]

We are thrilled that our #Cenozoic collections, incl Plio-#Pleistocene #fossils has been awarded this mark of distinction-it is an international significant resource for studying the #iceage.

[Ipswich Museums @IpswichMuseums]

We are delighted to announce that our Post-Cretaceous #Geology Collection has just been accorded #Designated status by @ace_national which includes our rich #iceage fauna.

Read more – https://t.co/gDJemKbTvJ
#ACEsupported #collections #museums

[RickRaptor105 @RickRaptor105]

And people still feel the need to use tiger roars and elephant trumpets to create dinosaur noises

[Simon Jackson @DrSimonJackson]

@KR_Caspar All good points and variation in neuron counts in phylogenetic framework also needs exploring...

[Simon Jackson @DrSimonJackson]

@TomHoltzPaleo Would be interesting to put these investigations more into a phylogenetic context/framework. Eg why such variation among Ornithischians; eg Protoceratops 28g 499M neurons, Triceratops 72g but only 172 neurons!

[Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) @CUHerb]

Please RT & share to all those who might be interested @WSYherbarium @HerbariumDonna @Aristolochia @CardiffCurator @fungi_flowers @Economicbotany @DrSimonJackson @JackDAshby @TheMuseumOfLiz @BuryingBeetle @Curator_Rebecca @CuratorClare @RNGherb @mark_carine @SandyKnapp @Scaphium

[Fauna & Flora @FaunaFloraInt]

Good news! The number of critically endangered Union Island geckos has nearly doubled in just four years.

📸 Jacob Bock

[XtinctDesign @XtinctDesign]

Yet another dino has been animated. Not sure why I've all of the sudden got the urge to animate but I'm just gonna keep on going.

#tenontosaurus #dinosaur #paleoart #cloverlyformation #blender3d

[Liz Hide @TheMuseumOfLiz]

Picking up the theme of the #Pliocene temperate woodlands, Barry Hall @geosuffolk has led an inspiring project planting living trees in #Suffolk, based on species identified from fossil pollen
📷@geosuffolk
find out more here: https://t.co/iDv8ILEUGu

#PlioPleistocene #Museums

[Liz Hide @TheMuseumOfLiz]

curator @SophiecStevens @CoIMuseums showcases Colchester Museum's fab Pleistocene Mammal collections, including those of Creationist Charles Bree, and fisherman Les Brand's material dredged from the Norfolk Coast
more info here: https://t.co/JEbDHbhbmG
#PlioPleistocene

[Liz Hide @TheMuseumOfLiz]

@SophiecStevens 'by analysing the worn shape of mammalian tooth crowns we get a signal of the type of vegetation they were eating' analysis by Juha Saarinen @geohelsinkiuni demonstrates that 2 million years ago, Red Crag mammals lived in temperate woodlands
#PlioPleistocene

#PlioPleistocene

[Liz Hide @TheMuseumOfLiz]

@GeoSuffolk @DrDWaterhouse @NorfolkMuseums East Anglia may not have spectacular rocky outcrops but today's talks have shown it has a rich and important geology. A huge thank you to all today's speakers. Recordings will be on @IpswichMuseums
website soon.
Let us know if you'd like to see more events like this! 🦣

[Simon Jackson @DrSimonJackson]

At our virtual symposium today we were delighted to welcome Dr Juha Saarinen from @GeoHelsinkiUni using Pliocene to Early Pleistocene teeth to reconstruct ancient diets: https://t.co/CsCIxLoRHQ @SuomenAkatemia #palaeontology @SedgwickMuseum @TheMuseumOfLiz