Natural History Museums
A collection of natural history museums (& galleries) and the folk who work at them.
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@joshlukedavis.com
@uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social
@ucl.ac.uk’s Grant Museum of Zoology is one of the UK’s oldest natural history collections and home to some of the world’s rarest specimens. Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/ucl-grant-museum-zoology
@dkbotany.bsky.social
Botaniker med en svaghed for plantecellevægge og sukkerstoffer @nhmdk.bsky.social 🌿 Forsker og formidler 👩🔬 Planteklummeskribent i Kristeligt Dagblad 📰 https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/bagsiden/sortbaer-kragebaer-eller-revling-kaert-barn-har-mange-navne
@davidmarques.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist | Genomics of Speciation + Adaptation 🧬🦅🐟 | Curator Vertebrates @Natural History Museum Basel & PI @Uni Basel🇨🇭| Views my own | He/him.
@madg.bsky.social
Biologist, interested in anything with 0 - 1306 legs, living and otherwise 🦜| research: ecology & evolution of human-animal interactions 🐈⬛ | curator @ Natural History Museum St.Gallen | researcher @ SWILD orcid.org/0000-0002-8405-6663
@brandonswhitley.bsky.social
PhD Fellow in Arctic plant diversity 🌿🌼 & pollination networks 🪰🐝, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰. APECS❄️. Graduate of Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology (🇸🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇴). 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 Born @360ppm. Fieldwork in Greenland 🇬🇱.
@sochistnathist.bsky.social
The Society for the History of Natural History | https://shnh.org.uk/ Archives of Natural History published by Edinburgh University Press | https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ANH
@jackdashby.bsky.social
Award-winning author #PlatypusMatters & #NaturesMemory. Assistant Director of @ZoologyMuseum.bsky.social at Cambridge Uni. President of the Society for the History of Natural History. Australian mammal nerd. He/him. Own views.
@drgentian.bsky.social
Scientist, botanist, artmaker, microscopist, photographer, nature nerd, knitter & writer, iNatter, cares about Earth's human and non-human inhabitants. (Views my own) [Sweden/USA] [as professor @RutgersUniv = lenastruwe.bsky.social]
@anshumans.bsky.social
Loves networks, ecology & fossils || Asst. Prof. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Asst. Curator of Paleontology at University of Michigan || Else can be found cooking or reading || Alum: IISc-UMD-Harvard|| Odia 🇮🇳
@waynemaddison.bsky.social
Raw pu-erh in the morning; oolong in the afternoon. Chocolate: dark milk. Would rather be drawing spider genitalia, usually. Looking forward to the next field trip. Thinking about getting a pottery wheel. Father of two amazing adults. Emeritus Prof @ UBC
@prosanta.bsky.social
Hunter #SciComm Chair, Curator of Fishes, Prof LSU, TED Fellow, F@AAAS, Fulbrighter, #Evolution #TeamFish, ASIH Past President, he/him #BLM ✊🏿 #ProtectTransKids
@museumguy-cl.bsky.social
"Happy mid-level bureaucrat" who works in a #museum. #museums #heritage #science #museos #patrimonio #ciencia #scifi🖖🏻 #photography #movies #architecture Cuenta/personal/account
@theskullindex.bsky.social
Registered non-profit CIC Educational Collaborative Database & Free in-person Educational Talks 🦴 Run by volunteers, working with museums & the public! Do you collect or work with vertebrate specimens? Check us out! https://linktr.ee/theskullindex
@prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social
The Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern is your gateway to the archaeology and paleontology of Utah! AAM accredited museum in Price, UT.
@deepakveerappan.bsky.social
Herpetology, systematics, evolution, conservation NatGeoExplorer, Marie Curie Alumni, Humboldtian Scientific Associate @NHM_London, Researcher @Newcastle Uni SectionEditor @Zootaxa Asian & Australiasian🐍 🐍 AE: Herpetological Journal & Vertebrate Zoology 🐸
@gavinbroad.bsky.social
Wasps. Curator at the Natural History Museum. Opinions my own, unless they’re wrong.
@adsalbert.bsky.social
Biologist and Ms in Zoology + Applied Ethology 🎓 | Curator assistant in the Entomoly Coll. at MNCN-CSIC 🏛️ Etho-eco-evo 🍃, digitalisation 🖥️, bio-art 🎨 & biodiversity conservation 🤲🏻 Co-comm leader of @incstep.bsky.social. He/him
@zoomunetwork.bsky.social
The Zoo Museum Network (ZooMu) seeks to build a lasting network of biological collections staff who are equipped to work across living collections in zoos and aquariums and preserved biological collections in natural history museums. www.zoomunetwork.org
@ndevere.bsky.social
Biodiversity scientist focusing on plant-pollinator interactions & plant diversity 🌿🌸🐝 especially using eDNA, metabarcoding & museomics 🧬 Full Professor & Curator of Botany, NHM Denmark, University of Copenhagen.
@caroaceae.bsky.social
Gardener, pickle fanatic, ecologist. Lover of plants, data & pastry. Community + functional ecology, biogeography of grassy ecosystems. https://globalgrassygroup.github.io/
@andreahart.bsky.social
Head of Library Special Collections @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social. Love all things paper & vellum, the natural world & its history, mudskippers, running and drinking tea. Previously @drewyhart on Twitter/X
@chrisbstringer.bsky.social
Palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum London. Posts are my own, and when I repost or like, it does not signify I necessarily agree with all content https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html
@padmag.bsky.social
Events and Comms @ Linnean Society of London. Lurks here, posts on Instagram as @Girl_On_A_Hill. Alum @TrinityCollegeDublin, School of Natural Sciences. Natural history | Conservation | Art Stories | Textiles and Embroidery
@realfishdoc.bsky.social
Collections Manager of Ichthyology and CT Scanner Technical Lead for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County by day, Twitch streamer by night. https://www.twitch.tv/realfishdoc https://www.toddclardy.com/
@beetlequeen.bsky.social
Entomologist. Currently curating at The Natural History Museum, London. Ground beetle evolution and taxonomy is my passion. Also chair at colsoc.org and other charitable commitments.
@paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social
Bumblebee taxonomy / evolution / biogeography - at NHM London: guides to the species of the Himalaya, Sichuan, North China, & North America working with genes & morphology pic: Yuzhu Mt, Kunlun range
@oajaram.bsky.social
Profesor Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, curador sección "Dicotiledoneas" en el Herbario Nacional Colombiano (COL) | Botánica taxonómica |biogeografía |flora de Colombia |
@sandyknapp.bsky.social
Botanist… taxonomist of potatoes, tomatoes etc. and passionate advocate for nature everywhere 🌱
@tropicalbotany.bsky.social
Botanist. Evolutionary biologist. Associate Professor and Herbarium Director, LSU. Passionate about plants, inclusive mentoring, and puzzles. I don't know what I'm doing here. https://www.lagolab.net
@msundue.bsky.social
Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes - Tropical Botany - Herbarium Curator
@ehroalson.bsky.social
Director, Marion Ownbey Herbarium and Professor @ WSU, plants & museums! D&D and MTG aficionado.
@botanistbriggs.bsky.social
Curator of natural history science collections, with a particular interest in tropical botany & herbarium specimen curation. I also curate spirit, slide, carpological & diatom (p.p.) collections. Tangy Twiglet, tea & football lover.
@dcrayn.bsky.social
Director Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Editor in Chief Australian Systematic Botany, #systematics #genomics #collections #conservation #ecology #taxonomy #botany #tropics #ozwild #ozflora terrible guitarist...opinions owned
@calymeneblue.bsky.social
Palaeontologist working in a local history museum 🖼️ collections (of all kinds), curation, and community engagement 🐬 PhD on whales and marine reptiles, now also working on sharks and cave archaeology
@themonstrumologist.bsky.social
Digitiser extraordinaire. Based at NHM London. Texan, Tboy, vengeful amateur entomologist. Background in history + digital humanities. Ask me about bug pics. 🦋🏳️⚧️ They/them
@profpaulbarrett.bsky.social
Dinosaur researcher, birder, author, rugby fan and choral singer (he/him) 🦕🦖🐦⬛🏉🏳️🌈
@tweetisaurus.bsky.social
Dinosaur researcher at NHM London; honorary Prof at Birmingham. Medium pace swing bowler. You were thinking it; I just said it out loud.
@calacademy.bsky.social
Natural history museum, research institute, aquarium, planetarium, rainforest, & so much more — all under one living roof.
@nhmsystbiodiv.bsky.social
Systematics research journal based at The Natural History Museum, London. View our publications here: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tsab20
@nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social
One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources. Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment). linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives (Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
@charliegold.bsky.social
Biodiversity policy at the Natural History Museum London 🌅. Learning and sharing about how the world goes round (and makes us go round too). Born at 366 ppm. He/him. 🌍🌳🦋🦅🐋🦡 (Views my own)
@friel.bsky.social
Director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History • He/Him • 🐟Zoologist 🦈 • https://linktr.ee/john.friel
@journalsystpal.bsky.social
Publishing research that uses systematics to significantly advance the field of palaeontology. Based at The Natural History Museum, London. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjsp20
@davidnotton.bsky.social
Mad about diapriid wasps/bees 🐝taxonomy, zoological nomenclature, museums, entomology curation & IPM! Former NHMUK, now freelance. Recording Lauriston Agroecology Farm🌾🥕 🏴🇪🇺 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Notton #Edinburgh
@reptiliferous.bsky.social
Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Paleontologist and proud Cajun. Love fossils, phylogenetics, and reptiles. (she/her). Cooking adventures on instagram @cook_with_kels
@taphovenatrix.bsky.social
Collection Manager Geosciences at the Queensland Museum 🦕 Palaeontologist & video gamer with the Palaeocast Gaming Network. Living on unceded lands of Turrbal/Yuggera Nations. She/her. Views are my own.
@p-hazael.bsky.social
Vertebrates collection manager at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, ex Museums Victoria, PhD Evans EvoMorph. Megafauna, marsupials, morphology, CT & 3D imaging. She/her
@petergrindrod.bsky.social
Research Leader in Meteoritics & Planetary Science @NHM_London. Occasional cricket bat maker. he/him
@museumguyscott.bsky.social
Museum know-it-all. Paleo Lab/Field Guy. Museum Exhibits Director. Former Director of Science & Exhibits @ Burpee Museum. Superhero (Marvel/DC)/Sci-Fi (Star Wars/Star Trek) Guru. Jerk. Opinions are my own, period!
@drpardi.bsky.social
Quaternary Paleoecology🧪, Curator of Geology Illinois State Museum, Bacchante, Museum Nerd
@biogeoverse.bsky.social
Paleontologist --> Educator --> Administrator Director of the @sternbergcamps.bsky.social program. Currently hiring for summer 2025! 👇 https://forms.gle/5EGnpKMhHRj9APtPA Owner of BioGeoVerse.com LLC. Pragmatic progressive. He/Him.
@palaeokatie.bsky.social
Curator of Mineralogy & Petrology at The Hunterian 🏴 Engagement for the Scottish Geology Trust & Director of #ScotGeolFest. Researcher of Scotland’s rocks, industrial heritage, coprolites & graveyard geology.
@naturalselection.bsky.social
Group leader at the Swedish Museum of Natural History Evolutionary biologist interested in island biology, adaptive radiation, genomes and ecological niches. Islandevolution.github.io
@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Paleobiologist. evolution and paleoclimate. Coffee enthusiast. Snail evangelist. Visiting Professor @ Union College. Paleontological Research Institution Research Associate. Dartmouth, KU, Cornell alum. He/him. Opinions my own.
@ohreallyhells.bsky.social
Researcher Services Librarian nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social 🏛️ Natural History Museum, London. ❤️ paper, ephemera, pangolins, cats, genealogy, social media & serendipity! Very proud Mum & Auntie. West Sussex. MY VIEWS Previously on Twitter @ohreallyhells
@knapprew.bsky.social
Stop-and-chat avoider. Lido afficionado. Was once world's youngest person, albeit briefly.
@ambrox.bsky.social
She/they. A paleontologist who makes paleoart and overshares on the internet. All opinions are my own. My shop: https://ambroxrocks.etsy.com My kofi: https://ko-fi.com/ambrox
@corinnabechko.bsky.social
Eisner nominated NYT best-selling author (Avatar: Adapt or Die, Green Lantern: Earth One, The Space Between). Fossil preparator. Comics & critters. Horror & weird fiction. She/her
@tm9380.bsky.social
Paleontology volunteer at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Focus on fossil care and outreach
@mathchaos.bsky.social
I'm a Palaeobiologist working on #dinosaur evolution and #phylogenetics (🔴🟣🔵). 🇲🇽 Advocate for #decolonisation in palaeo and STEM (he/him). Exhibition Curator at Senckenbergmuseum Frankfurt (views my own) ORCID: 0000-0002-6247-6181
@agnieszkaanna.bsky.social
🪰🦋🏛️ Museum Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History for Diptera, Lepidoptera, minor Holometabolous orders, amber and other fossil insects. Immigrant, single mom. Also: mountains, books, art, disability justice, long covid, science edu.
@jopabinia.bsky.social
Why things evolve into crabs. Evolutionary biologist (species alive today AND fossils, and how to study them together). Canadian at Harvard (she/her) My science: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CKqoVjEAAAAJ&hl=en
@hmns.bsky.social
Science raditude from the Houston Museum of Natural Science, located in the greatest city on Earth! Visit us at 5555 Hermann Park Dr. 🦖🦕🦋🌺🌸🌎 https://www.hmns.org/
@daveyfwright.bsky.social
Paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and punk rock enthusiast. Assistant Professor & Curator of Fossil Invertebrates @ U. Oklahoma/Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. Macroevolution, phylogenetic methods, echinoderms. https://daveyfwright.wordpress.com
@widga.bsky.social
Director of the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery at Penn State. Here for museums, fossils, not-fossils, and geo-nerdom. Sucker for good jazz. Personal account. #museums #paleontology #geology #scicomm #naturalhistory
@jdwitts.bsky.social
NERC Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeoecology at NHM, London. Fossil-wrangler (mostly in the Cretaceous, dabbling in the Jurassic, Paleogene, and more recent), big fan of (southern) high latitudes. Ferroequinologist. Views are my own.
@ashpoust.bsky.social
Paleontology, Anatomy, Evolutionary Medicine, Travel. Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln Grazing with the dinosaurs and dear old horses. -What I'm about to show you may shock and educate you
@trichocolea.bsky.social
Working with the Sloane Herbarium @QMULsed & @NHM_London • HPS @stsucl (1980s) • Routledge (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex
@mmmmeier.bsky.social
Meteorites, Museums, Mars, Mountains and many more things. Meteoriticist, Noble Gaser, Space Nerd, Family Man. Director of the Natural History Museum of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Private account (en/de). 🇨🇭🇸🇪🇲🇫🇪🇺🇺🇦 orcid.org/0000-0002-7179-4173
@entobiologist.bsky.social
한지실 • 🇰🇷🇺🇲 • any pronouns accessioned and catalogued in a museum near you. dubbed expert bug surgeon by america's top entomologists. makes art sometimes :> 한국말 배우고 있습니다! (personal account! expect unscientific nonsense)
@paleofeathers.bsky.social
she/her | PhD | paleontology | birds | color evolution 🦖🦆🦩 Collection Manager of Vertebrate Paleontology @ Carnegie MNH Paleofeathers on everything sarahndavis.weebly.com
@coralreeffish.bsky.social
Curator of Fishes at CalAcademy and Rolex Laureate inspiring protection of the oceans through science, photography, exploration, and storytelling.
@kaycebell.bsky.social
Parasite enthusiast and chipmunk whisperer. Associate Curator of Terrestrial Mammals at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Views & posts mine. she/her kaycebell.com
@kassthefish.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UMNFWCB & Fish Curator @BellMuseum • The Convergence Lab • Electric fishes • MN fishes • Black Birder • Cat Herder • Wisconsinite • BLM • she/her • 🏳️🌈 ♠️ • www.kassandraford.com • Thoughts are my own
@entcollnet.bsky.social
Nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of entomology collections & taxonomy via preservation, management, use & development. ➡️ https://ecnweb.net/
@americanbeetles.bsky.social
I hope you like pictures of bugs. Curating at CMNH, teaching at CMU, beetling everywhere
@lukaslarge.bsky.social
Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art https://www.flickr.com/photos/lukaslarge/
@tannisdavidson.bsky.social
Head of Zoology and Science Collections at UCL based at the Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social. Art, science, nature, music.
@rockyrockyrocky.bsky.social
Curator of Marine Mammals @ Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC USA. Opinions are my own
@drlumusetti.bsky.social
She/her. Entomologist. Taxonomist. 🐝🦋🐞 Museum Curator. Ally 🏳️🌈 Opinions my own. I post pictures of dead & live insects.
@nph.bsky.social
Raised by wolves and bees and birds, sustained by secondhand books. 🦑 Naturalist. Magpie. Queer! 🌿 Palaeo collections assistant at NHM London. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ He/they.
@drunkennorris.bsky.social
Loves science, birds, books, and records. Regular reader in my gin library. Huge fan of pubs! Brummie - more Jasper Carrot than Peaky Blinders.
@planet-of-fishes.bsky.social
Curator of 🐡🐠🐟🦈 @nhmla.bsky.social Exploring the diversity of fishes by fishing, diving, and searching through museum collections. www.wbludt.com
@ashwhiffin.bsky.social
🪲 Entomologist, bonkers about beetles 🏛 Museum Curator 🏴 Usually found turning over logs/stones or poking in dead stuff. (she/her) 🔗 https://linktr.ee/Ash_Whiffin
@romtoronto.bsky.social
We showcase art, culture, and nature from around the world and across the ages.
@auchmill.bsky.social
Tumu Whakarae | Chief Executive Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She / her.
@archelosaurian.bsky.social
Paleontology student at Cal State University Fullerton working on fossil Archelosauria. Currently studying Miocene sea turtles at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. Enjoys talking about Reptiles (including Birds!), SpecEvo, and general nerd stuff.
@linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected. https://www.linnean.org/
@nhmwien.bsky.social
Das Naturhistorische Museum Wien ist eines der bedeutendsten naturwissenschaftlichen Museen der Welt. Seine frühesten Sammlungen sind über 250 Jahre alt – heute beherbergen sie rund 30 Millionen Sammlungsobjekte.
@nhmlagems.bsky.social
Curator @NHMLA: Aaron Celestian, Ph.D. Writer and host of Pocketful of Xtals on Substack Researching how minerals can be used to solve problems like climate change, pollution, and disease.
@uomnch.bsky.social
Oregon's science and culture museum. Located on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon. State repository for archaeological and paleontological artifacts.
@ummnh.bsky.social
🦣 ummnh.org Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–4pm
@smmnh.bsky.social
Official account of the SMMNH located in Blue Earth, Minnesota. www.smmnh.com
@blackinnhms.bsky.social
Black in Natural History Museums Week is an initiative to share the stories, perspectives & knowledge of Black people in the NHM community. 🔗: wlo.link/@blackinnhm