#SciFri: A herpetologist visits the Aquarium de Paris
During my visit to Paris this summer, one of the places I was able to visit (apart from the millions of museums and galleries) was the Aquarium de Paris, which is situated in the Jardins du Trocadéro overlooking the Eiffel…
#MuseumMonday: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
If you love museums that feel like friendly encyclopaedias of a place where local history, natural history, art and a surprisingly global collection rub shoulders in a handsome old building, then the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is a quietly…
#MuseumMonday: Braintree District Museum
Despite the fact my mum lived in Braintree for over a decade, I never actually visited the local museum. At the time I wasn’t the biggest fan of local museums and was unaware of their significance. So, I decided to…
#MuseumMonday: Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée
One of the museums I have wanted to visit for a very long time now, is the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée. This is for a number of reasons, with the name one quite clearly discernible from the name…
#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…
#SciFri: Fossil Hunting at Abbey Wood for Shark’s Teeth
I’m no stranger to going fossil hunting on the coast, I know many of you have read my posts about the Essex and Kent coats. However, what about in the middle of London? I was fortunate enough to be invited…
#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…
#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…
