#OnThisDay in 1954, the first ever in-vision weather forecast was broadcast in the UK, with meteorologist George Cowling delivering the report with two hand-drawn charts (it was a dry morning with rain later in the afternoon). For more on the history of weather science see our Google Arts collection: https://t.co/HMPwti0tsz
Job opportunities!
We are currently recruiting for the following roles:
* Collections & Digitisation Assistant
* Herbarium Collections Manager
* Research Assistant / Research Associate
* Research Laboratory Technician
Find out more and apply:
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From IRTA we are hiring a project technician for morphological and metabarcoding identification of coastal diatoms. We offer: 15 month contract. Start: beginning 2025.
Full details: https://t.co/kmd46cOLNV.
Register & send CV: https://t.co/n8ObMZfDJq.
Deadline: 15/01/2025
🎉Early Career Researcher Symposium🎉
We're looking for papers from across the field that speak to any aspects of the history of natural history by doctoral and early-career researchers across the globe.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 December (soon!)
Want to do a PhD in archaeobotany, using stable isotopes on material from the First Millennium CE in the Anglo-Scottish borders
@ArcDurham@DurUniEarthSci@BritGeoSurvey
https://t.co/WzjvPovR7l
Did you ever see such an enormous fern leaf? This is Hercules' fern (Drynaria heracleum) from the rainforests of Southeast Asia, with trail-running fern specialist @JRCallado for scale 💚
Helen Porter FRS, the groundbreaking British botanist, was born #OnThisDay in 1893. Porter was also the first female professor at Imperial College and an early adopter of chromatography and radioactive tracers. https://t.co/ym9KgyiyHo #WomeninSTEM
Born #OnThisDay in 1914 was actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. As well as acting in 30 films, during the Second World War she co-developed a frequency-hopping guidance system for American torpedoes, the principles of which are used in Bluetooth and WiFi technologies today.
This infographic highlights the other side of #deforestation as a major driver of 🌡 climate change—our relentless carbon dioxide emissions.
It illustrates the combined impact of per capita emissions and the multiplying effects of our growing population.
Via @SavingNature1
Ever wondered what REALLY goes on behind the museum walls? 🤔🔍
On Saturday November 9th, our expert curators are pulling back the curtain to share how they care for everything from fossils to feathers 🦖🦋
Drop in anytime between 10.30 - 4pm 🔎👀
What a fascinating person, I love the 1947 picture of her with her colleagues outside the labs @RHSWisley. "Janaki was…a cytogeneticist…field biologist,…plant geographer, palaeobotanist,…experimental breeder…ethno-botanist & an explorer” https://t.co/LeJ9nx5dRw
We're trying something out at @ZoologyMuseum - what happens if we use AI to allow visitors to talk to our specimens? We've worked with Nature Perspectives to test whether giving animals a "voice" helps people engage with nature. #ArtificialIntelligence
https://t.co/B74kAhg7ux
Barnacle geese #migrate between the Arctic and Britain, at one time it was thought they hatched from goose barnacles. This illustration from Aldrovandi, publ. 1646, depicts the suggested life cycle. More in our blog: https://t.co/hyzEnXJfF5
#WorldMigratoryBirdDay