Puget Sound Museum of Natural History

Your favorite PNW natural history collection, focusing on research & education. Where dead things come alive!
@univpugetsound

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

WE’VE GOT A NEW NAME! The University of Puget Sound recently made the decision to remove the name James R. Slater from the museum and return it to its original name, Puget Sound Natural History Museum.

https://t.co/3gbji8H3mU

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

The Puget Sound Museum presents Night at the Museum: Haunted Forest. Join us Oct 24th 6-7:30pm for a spook-tacular Halloween celebration! Put on your costumes and get up-close and personal with our spooky specimens. This is a free, family-friendly drop-in event.

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

Last week, we attended the @spnhc_ annual conference in San Francisco! Four of our students & our museum director gave talks while our Education & Outreach Director ran a workshop at @calacademy. We even won trivia night!!

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

New research publication alert! Read about plastic particles found in Short-tailed shearwaters using our very own museum specimens.

https://t.co/zrenIBs59o

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

Come visit us and see some specimens up close!

[City of Tacoma @CityofTacoma]

The 15th annual South Sound Sustainability Expo is taking place on #EarthDay🌎, Sat., 4/22/2023, from 10 AM - 3 PM. Check out this #Tacoma Report story to learn more. For more information on this year's event, visit https://t.co/PuX1gw0Y9q. https://t.co/XfNqlMqW4i

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

Join us this Saturday, April 22nd for the 15th Annual South Sound Sustainability Expo!! Meet some of our museum specimens and learn about environmental sustainability from local organizations!

Visit https://t.co/cNOnNCZwPn for more info.

@CityofTacoma #tacomaevents

[Alana Pizarro @alanapiz]

So excited and grateful to share my first-ever publication in @Ecol_Evol with @LAevolving and @Dev_Der! We used museum specimens and @inaturalist photos to assess the Black- and White-throated Magpie-Jay hybrid zone over time: https://t.co/NF35i32dRF

Pic by @DirtbagDarling

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

@MSBherps @sdr_arts You've got some great artists there!

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

Every museum collection needs a drawing night!!!

[MSB Division of Amphibians and Reptiles @MSBherps]

Did you miss Studio Night last Friday? No worries! We'll be having two more Studio Nights on March 24th and April 21st, click the link in our bio to get added to our email list and get notice of when sign up opens for March (spots filled up within an hour last time!)

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

Tacoma peeps: Join us for our first Night at the Museum of 2023...Darwin's Voyage Around the World! Be your own naturalist/adventurer, stamp your passports, & see museum specimens from around the world. Feb 16th (6-7:30PM). This is a free, family-friendly, drop-in event.

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

Just FYI, @BioDivLibrary digitized a BUNCH of natural history illustrations a bit ago and have them all in one place - https://t.co/umLxGTqoTB
There's amazing, high quality scans of everything from old american apple growing catalogues to deep sea marine fish.

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

Some super cool research using Slater Museum specimens just dropped...check it out!! And congrats #TeamSquirrel on an awesome paper!

[Chris Law @Chris_J_Law]

The first #TeamSquirrel paper is published! Led by Tate Linden, we tested scaling patterns of body shape, body size, & limb lengths among squirrel ecotypes and described the underlying morphological components that contribute to body shape evolution 🧵1/x https://t.co/0gDl8gZNex

[Chris Law @Chris_J_Law]

The first #TeamSquirrel paper is published! Led by Tate Linden, we tested scaling patterns of body shape, body size, & limb lengths among squirrel ecotypes and described the underlying morphological components that contribute to body shape evolution 🧵1/x https://t.co/0gDl8gZNex

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

@UMZMuseum @umontana CONGRATS!!!

[Puget Sound Museum of Natural History @PSMatUPS]

New museum newsletter just dropped...read all about what's been happening here at the Slater Museum in our 2023 Winter Newsletter!

https://t.co/SX5bl64c1y

[Dr Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM]

Alfred Russel #Wallace FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1823

Here are 2 of his #notebooks in the @NHM_Library - doodles, scribbles & musings of quite the most amazing naturalist

The @NHM_London data portal includes many of his specimens imaged for all https://t.co/axk5quiIZZ

[Natural History Museum @NHM_London]

#OnThisDay 200 years ago, Alfred Russel Wallace was born.

One of the great naturalists of the 19th century, he is most famous for being the co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection.

[Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo]

Ooh here she comes… she’s an 🐜🐜👩‍🍳

[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service @USFWS]

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