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A collection that is not growing is declining. There is no stasis. Science doesn't stop, so a collection that doesn't keep up gets left behind, and begins to slide toward irrelevance. Natural history collections should be dynamic, drivers of research and archives of knowledge.

Museum and Beetle Section nominated for a Webby Award in the Education category: Support Natural History Museum Science at the Natural History Museum and vast diversity of beetles! My colleagues have done a great job here and we are in second place: register to vote today - closes tomorrow vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/…

A bit of an Easter Egg in the bathroom tonight- a big male Zoropsis spinimana- I thought it was a mouse! It now lives in the shed, there are limits to my hospitality

This Poster for British Railways beautifully captures my beloved Kent. This is ‘The Garden of England’ by Frank Sherwin, from 1955. So perfectly depicting a Kent village at this time of year with trees in blossom and exactly how I think of the area…

New book finished and out later this year with Laurence King. It's an exploration of the extraordinary diversity of insects in 70 remarkable species. The sublime illustrations are the work of Carim Nahaboo Nahaboo. German translation already in the works.

Unshielded outdoor fixtures allow light to be emitted in multiple directions, contributing to light pollution 💡🦋 Choosing cut-off or fully cut-off shielding can help to redirect artificial light away from our night skies. #DarkSkyWeek #MothsMatter

An amazing way to spend #Earthday, at the NHM with some guest that joined me on my new Podcast Climate Kids Podcast A huge THANKS to Max Barclay for showing us some of the amazing beetle collection behind the scenes, sharing some cool facts, & arranging a fly talk too 🦋🪲🐝

The NHM Data Portal Portal have reached 6⃣ million specimens 🥳 this is a fantastic milestone to celebrate on our journey to digitse the entire collection of 80 million specimens. nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Find out more about the science behind the six millionth specimen to be digitised in this video featuring our beetle curator Max Barclay Max Barclay youtu.be/vckmhXmBg08?si…

Speak to our fantastic Scientists who work with Beetles and Lichen and Moss today between 11.00-14.00 in Hintze Hall as part of Generation Hope, a programme of free events created for young people, by young people.

After 3 years of the media covering my campaign, I slightly lost my patience with the government. I told it like it is to Patrick Barkham. Read the whole article theguardian.com/environment/20…

Today Helen and Louise are giving talks NatSCA Manchester Museum pop along to hear more about how the UKs natural science collections will be digitised DiSSCo UK and delve into some of female collectors of riverflies.

Silvanoprus fagi from Sunday night in Bengeo garden, Herts. Very rare species (RDB1) with few records outside New Forest. Feeds under bark of Beech & coniferous trees. BNA – Herts branch #Silvanidae #saproxylic #attractedtolight

"If a certain department of knowledge specially attracts a man, let him study that, and study it because it attracts him; and let him not fabricate excuses for that which requires no excuse." A.E. Housman's inaugural lecture, University Coll. London, 1892: antigonejournal.com/2024/10/a-e-ho…

Good. Anyone who thinks 'cancel culture' is something new should read the story of Oscar Wilde's arrest and the public responses at the time. So should anyone who still thinks the censors/cancellers are the good guys.

Agree wholeheartedly with this - except doesn’t even need much government funding- just needs gov to stop meddling in schools and let teachers, parents and children decide what’s best?