It’s a wrap! Thank you all so much!!

Esther Richards died on July 23, 1972. In 1921, she & Alva Ellisor suggested that microfossils could be used in stratigraphy. Her study was ridiculed by Professor J.J. Galloway: “Gentlemen, you know that it can’t be done.” wp.me/p3ihHu-4DF #WomenInSTEM #histsci

#OnThisDay 200 years ago, Anne Lister from Shibden Hall, Halifax visited Settle and recorded it in her diary: “Settle is a romantic and rather foreign looking town. The market place has something of the air of a grand place abroad. This morning was the fortnight fair.”

It's #YorkshireDay and we're celebrating with something from our collection... This is a modern digital image of Gordale Scar created from a glass plate negative from the Horner Collection. It was most likely taken by Anthony Horner, and is almost certainly over 100 years old.

'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!

1. Yorkshire's very own Megalosaurus, found in Upper Jurassic rocks of Slingsby near Malton.

Taking advantage of the weather for #fossilfriday to do some field work! One of the best places to find fossils inland are dried up river beds like this one near Kirkbymoorside. The rocks here formed in a shallow Jurassic sea - quite the contrast to the woods & meadows today!

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.

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!

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 Museum of North Craven Life at The Folly. #FossilFriday

The Yoredales Series of rocks is rich in brachiopods, bivalves and even trilobites! During last Friday's trip with The Yorkshire Fossil Hunter we found a number of disarticulated trilobite head shields and tails, likely to have been shed carapaces. #TrilobiteTuesday

New #OA paper out ! We examined the impact of glass surfaces (such as in the marine reptile gallery at the Natural History Museum) 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/content/2024/5…

It has happened! Thank you so much to Dr Rebecca Bennion for including me on this. So happy you could take the work forward and make it awesome! Thank you to Prof. Valentin Fischer and dr. Jamie MacLaren for everything !palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5…

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!