Danielle Czerkaszyn

The Torus of Time by Angela Palmer has been installed in our main court as part of our new temporary exhibition Breaking Ground, opening Friday 18 October.

Sneak peek of Buckland Project Archivist Marina and I installing the first archive items going into @morethanadodo's new exhibition 'Breaking Ground,' which opens this Friday 18th October. Very exciting! #librarylife

@morethanadodo first Hope Professor of Zoology, John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893) was known for being particularly thrifty and reusing pieces of paper, including this advertisement for dinner pale ale in bottle which was ‘especially intended to meet the requirements of Families’

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NEW COMPETITION ALERT! I'm giving away 3 pairs of tickets to see @KathyStellaMP at @Ambtheatre with 1 winner also receiving a goodie bag. To enter, like or repost. For a bonus entry, comment who you'll bring if you win. You must be following me to enter. Winners picked on 18/5

Lovely morning at the GLAM staff viewing of the Bruegel to Ruben’s exhibition @AshmoleanMuseum. I was blown away by the remarkable Flemish drawings, paintings and prints- including the fantastic earthworm! Definitely a highlight 🪱

On Saturday I helped with the @BritishSpiders BENHS Members Day @morethanadodo. I only managed to attend one talk by Pete Eeles on British and Irish Rarities. Thanks @ukbutterflies for the shout out!

Thanks to sleuthing by @morethanadodo researcher Sue Newell, we now know our Dapedium fossil is a Mary Anning specimen 😎🐟 AND! We recently collaborated with @RoyalMail to put it on a stamp, modelled here by me & Librarian + Archivist extraordinaire @dczerkaszyn #FossilFriday

Thanks to @lucy_ella_ for spending the afternoon with me and lending her geological knowledge, and to @djemurdock for providing a bit of the Moon!

It was Super Science Saturday on the weekend and the theme was Our World From Space. Lucy and I took out some archive material related to @morethanadodo’s first Keeper, John Phillips, a geologist who used his telescope next to the museum in the 1860s to map craters on the Moon

Elizabeth Philpot (1780-1857) was a palaeontologist who collected fossils with her sisters and was knowledgeable about fossil fish. She is best known for her friendship with Mary Anning and her extensive collection of specimens, over 400 of which can be found @morethanadodo today

Mary Anning (1799-1847) was a palaeontologist, fossil collector and dealer, who discovered the first complete skeleton of a Plesiosaurus. It was described in 1824 at the same time as the Megalosaurus at @GeolSoc, but not by Mary as woman were not admitted as members until 1919

For #InternationalWomensDay , and to tie in with the #Megalosaurus200 anniversary year, I took out some items from @morethanadodo Archive related to Mary Moreland (nee Buckland), 1797-1857

The Museum hosted a birthday party last night for the 200th anniversary of the naming of Megalosaurus 🦖 Type specimen fossils, gorgeous archive material, dinosaur decorations, selfie-stand, great atmosphere, and of course - a bar! 🦖🥂🍾🥳 #Megalosaurus200 @morethanadodo

#Megalosaurus200 @morethanadodo

Ready for #Megalosaurus200 @morethanadodo

Things that Darwin hated, a 🧵 To Charles Lyell, 1st Oct 1861 But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything

@LaceyBonarHull @MattLewisAuthor @bodleianlibs There is a direct bus through @OxfordBusCo that is super easy and runs pretty frequently: theairlineoxford.co.uk/oxford-to-heat…

Friends - have any of you gone straight from Heathrow to Oxford? I've done the reverse, but never gone straight FROM the airport to anywhere but London But @MattLewisAuthor recent GM episode convinced me to move my flight up so I can catch the Chaucer exhibit at @bodleianlibs 😬