Documentation Officer @MuseumFolly 🏛️ Outreach Coordinator @FossilsH 🐚 Palaeontologist @universiteliege 🐬 Heritage, collections & community engagement
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#FossilFriday the skull of the ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus at Banz Abbey 🇩🇪 @yorksgeolsoc
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Our rebuttal to “Xenodens” is now published open-access in The Anatomical Record: this bizarre “shark-toothed” mosasaur is likely both a forgery and nondiagnostic (🧵)
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We've just opened our Fearnsides Award AND our Geoscience Communications Fund!
If you're an early career researcher or someone seeking to set up a sci-comm initiative, you'll want to see what we can offer!
Deadline 20th Oct
yorksgeolsoc.org.uk/awards-g…
📷@foradamifera @fossiliam
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The latest Heritage and the Economy report by @HistoricEngland reveals the significant impact of the heritage sector:
- Contributed £44.9 billion in GVA in 2022. 📊
- Employed over 523,000 people. 👷♀️
Read more here 👉 bit.ly/HeritageEconomicValue
#Archaeology #Heritage
ALT A towering castle on a hill with the text 'The heritage sector contributes £44.9 billion to the UK economy'.
ALT A person smiling and waving with the text 'The sector also employs over 523,000 people across England'.
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Public art collections are not an asset, they are a living legacy owned in common for current and future generations.
Birmingham City Council owns an artwork collection valued at almost half a billion pounds, a BBC investigation has discovered.
The scale of the council-owned art collection has also revealed.
Full story - bbc.in/3ZdRhzl
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Precious #fossils in museum collections are often protected by glass, which poses a challenge for 3D modelling methods involving photography and laser scanning. a new study shows that accurate models can still be generated through glass, especially with longer post-processing!
We are pleased to share our paper testing the accuracy of 3D models scanned through glass!
palaeo-electronica.org/conte…
@Val_Fisch @palaeotheoryum @Jestle @CottereauRomai1
This was the 1st specimen I processed. When the finished model appeared on my screen I nearly cried. It was a true eureka moment!
This is Temnodontosaurus eurycephalus, one of the most important specimens for my PhD.
Our paper testing these 3D models and others was a huge team effort! Thank you to all the coauthors, especially @Jestle whose laser scale set up in 2016 formed the groundwork for this entire project!
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It has happened! Thank you so much to @CalymeneBlue for including me on this. So happy you could take the work forward and make it awesome! Thank you to @Val_Fisch and @palaeotheoryum for everything !palaeo-electronica.org/conte…
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New #OA paper out ! We examined the impact of glass surfaces (such as in the marine reptile gallery at the @NHM_London) on the accuracy of 3D surface modelling. Turns out we can generate accurate models, see the paper for tests and protocols (1/2)
palaeo-electronica.org/conte…
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The Yoredales Series of rocks is rich in brachiopods, bivalves and even trilobites!
During last Friday's trip with @FossilYorkshire we found a number of disarticulated trilobite head shields and tails, likely to have been shed carapaces.
#TrilobiteTuesday
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The excavations of Victoria Cave in the 1870s were photographed by the Settle based Horner Photographic Studios.
This photograph of the Victoria Cave bear fossils was digitised from an original glass plate negative in the Horner Collection at the @MuseumFolly.
#FossilFriday
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This sign outside a shop in Settle is perhaps more true than they imagined!
Bears once roamed the hills and valleys of Yorkshire, that arrow is (roughly) pointing in the direction of Victoria Cave, where fossil brown bear skulls have previously been found!
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Watching the far right set fire to the newly reopened Spellow Hub library in Liverpool should be lesson enough on how much these thugs really care about “communities” and “young children.” Let none of these thugs pretend they are motivated by anything other than racism and hate.
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1. Yorkshire's very own Megalosaurus, found in Upper Jurassic rocks of Slingsby near Malton.
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'appy #YorkshireDay!
The Yorkshire Coast is often referred to as the Dinosaur coast, due to all the dinosaur footprints that can be seen around Scarborough.
But we've got more than just footprints!
Here are three of our favourite Yorkshire dinosaurs!
