Do birds have kneecaps?
I've spent a lot of time in the Zoology museum this month, both front of house (helping people find things in the museum, including the...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 23, 2018
- 2 min
The dead on display
Summary of the University of Southampton "Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies" conference 2018: Met some old friends, made some new...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jan 19, 2018
- 2 min
Why you should always go back
It isn't long ago that I went to Norwich Museum for the first time. (Okay, it turns out it was over a year ago... not much happens in my...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Dec 1, 2017
- 2 min
Marvels of Ipswich, Part II
Next in the amazing story of a trip to the Ipswich Museum. Part I (in case you missed it) is here. Here, I want to share just one of the...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Nov 25, 2017
- 2 min
Marvels of Ipswich, Part I
I made a long anticipated, long overdue visit to Ipswich Museum. It is one of those regional treasures, crammed with original Victorian...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Sep 29, 2017
- 2 min
Curious beasts before the deluge
A belated write up of a lovely afternoon spent in the company of curious beasts at the Whipple Museum as part of Open Cambridge. These...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Sep 19, 2017
- 2 min
An Atlantis for Octopuses
Blog been slow as I've been ill, and I've still got the wonders of the Open Cambridge display at the Whipple to share. But not today....
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Nov 25, 2016
- 2 min
Dr. Auzoux's House of Horror
Okay, not really. I have spent most of my recent Friday's enjoying the wonderful Robert Lloyd Parry (of Nunkie theatre) performing...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 18, 2016
- 2 min
Uncle Neanderthal and Auntie Denisovan
A friend recently visited the USA, and did me the marvellous favour of going to the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City. She did a fair...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Aug 19, 2016
- 1 min
Getting wet at OUMNH
After many hours scouring the databases and determining what was special about this museum's stores, I spent a wonderful morning...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jul 22, 2016
- 2 min
Art with embryos
"Something entirely unique, something beautiful and charming and grotesque, perhaps a little more esoteric" was how was described to me,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jul 12, 2016
- 1 min
Spin the skull game
D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum in Dundee is one of many museums on my bucket list to visit. It's not the best, or the most comprehensive...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jul 8, 2016
- 1 min
Octopuses for sale
Look at these beauties! I think I'm in love! These gorgeous octopuses? Octopi? Octopodes? Beautiful aren't they? But they're in...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jul 1, 2016
- 1 min
Late for the day of the dead
Finally had the opportunity to spend some time with a camera in the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. I lingered at least...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 17, 2016
- 1 min
Witch balls
Witch balls. Or did you think only wizards had balls? Well, honestly, witches don't have balls (that I know of). These balls are to repel...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Apr 29, 2016
- 1 min
Wellcome to Morbid Anatomy
Yes, Joanne Ebenstein is amongst the guests at the Wellcome Collection next week for an Anatomical Venus and other things morbid...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 18, 2016
- 1 min
Hug a dinosaur
Made it to a little bit of science week. Which is really just an excuse to neb around Cambridge University buildings whilst snack vans...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Nov 20, 2015
- 1 min
Skulls with soul
Some bones just give you a look. It is often the primates, but some skulls seemespecially expressive, and just catch your attention. This...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 2, 2015
- 1 min
Behind the scenes at the Zoology Museum
So sorry for the terrible quality of the photo. But it was on a behind the scenes tour, at night, taken through the door of a freezer....
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Aug 7, 2015
- 1 min
A jar of moles
I love the Grant's Museum. And I love their blog. And this week, I love their specimen of the week. A jar of moles. I looked up the...
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