Library & Archives Open Day (free)
19 September 2025
When: 10.00 - 16.00
Where: Lasting Impressions Gallery (red zone)
Our team have developed four themed displays:
🐋 Whales, science and conservation
🌱 Ordering and naming nature
✏️ Writing from the field
❄️ Polar expeditions
#NaturalHistoryMuseum
Eileen Cox NHM on symmetry and structure in taxonomy for naviculoid diatoms – microscopic plant plankton of huge importance in marine and freshwater systems.
Systematic relationships are revealed through wall structure and should be the basis for diatom systematics. doi.org/10.5091/plec...
‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth - looking forward to the new NHM Space exhibition
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
NHM London is looking for a Director of Research as part of our leadership team. Guide a world-class research community, set a strong vision for collections-based research, and ensure research excellence across NHM activities.
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106 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Mimetite:
- A lead arsenate chloride mineral
- Forms in arsenic-bearing lead deposits
- Part of a mineral series with pyromorphite and vanadinite
- Its name comes from the Greek word "μϊμητής/mimetes" (imitator) since it looks like pyromorphite #minerals
#GlobalSeaweed-Protect researches biodiversity, aquaculture & sustainable livelihoods with Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines: led by Juliet Brodie #NHMLondon plus @samsocean.bsky.social - @ukri.org funded
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/natural...
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Naturally curious? The team at @nhm-london.bsky.social developed our new on-demand, online learning platform naturallycurious.nhm.ac.uk
And we've been shortlisted for a Webby! Please do sign up and vote for us! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
Whaling and natural history collections - @sophianicolov.bsky.social explores skeletal evidence and tales of whales in her historical research in this #NHMScience blog, part of Natural History Museum's development of a Culture and Collections Theme www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
Apply now! Sillitoe Distinguished Research Leader in economic geology, Natural History Museum - working with the Resourcing the Green Economy Research Theme. Deadline 17 October 2025
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We're not just 🐋 and 🦕 at the Natural History Museum.
Looking forward to this Generation Hope event @ NHM on reproductive health & colonial history with an environmental lens. 3rd May. Speakers: me, Akosua Paries-Osei, Annabel Sowemimo, & Mitzi Jonelle Tan. www.nhm.ac.uk/events/from-...
#HistMed
Background and aims – Over 40 years ago, I explored the use of symmetry and structure as taxonomic criteria for naviculoid diatoms, arguing that structure was the more informative character. This pape...
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Extraterrestrial rocks, recently delivered by a space probe, could answer the big questions about alien lifeforms and human existence
