#SciFri: Vanishing Viper Conference 2025
The adder (Vipera berus) is Britain’s only native venomous snake, which is having a bit of a tough time and suffers from a major image problem in the public media. Populations are patchy and concentrated in a mosaic of heathlands,…
#MuseumMonday: The Crab Museum
Regular readers of this blog and my #MuseumMonday feature will know that I love natural history. When visiting all the museums that I do, you tend to see the same information being presented in a very similar way. This can…
#StevesLibrary: Top 10 Illegal Wildlife Trade Books
After a few conservations with some friends, I thought I’d do something a little different and put together a list of my Top 10 popular science books on the illegal wildlife trade. As a reminder, the illegal wildlife trade (IWT)…
#StevesLibrary: Entangled Life
To try to reduce my fungi-blindness from a conservation perspective, I recently read Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake. As someone that has studied pathogenic fungi for a number…
#SciFri: A herpetologist’s visit to SEA LIFE London Aquarium
I recently visited an attraction that I haven’t been to as a child, it has been so long that I don’t have memories of the experience. If I do, they have blended in with all of the other aquariums I…
#MuseumMonday: Recollections of the Olduvai Gorge Museum
I was lucky enough to visit Tanzania in 2014 as part of my undergraduate studies. One of the many places I was fortunate enough to visit was the Olduvai Gorge Museum. A quick geography lesson: Olduvai Gorge (often spelled ‘Oldupai’)…
#MuseumMonday: Visiting Prittlewell Priory
One place a remember going to regularly as a child was to Priory Park in Southend-on-Sea. As the name suggests, this is home to Prittlewell Priory, which is a remarkable Grade I listed medieval site, with origins dating back to around…
#MuseumMonday: The River at the Natural History Museum
I was fortunate enough last summer to visit the Natural History Museum, while a temporary exhibition by Jana Winderen and Tony Myatt titled the The River was installed in the Jerwood Gallery. It was billed as being a mesmerising journey…
#SciFri: Natural History Museum at Tring
If you have been keeping a watchful eye on my social media accounts, you may be aware that a couple of weeks ago I visited the Natural History Museum at Tring. I have spent a lot of time at the…
#SciFri: The Secret Life of Reptiles and Amphibians – A year on
It has been a year since the The Secret Life of Reptiles and Amphibians at ZSL London Zoo opened, replacing the older and more dated Reptile House that was closer to the zoo’s entrance. As someone that visits London Zoo…
