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[lukaslussi88]

Bayerisches Nationalmuseum / Bavarian National Museum⁣ ⁣ #münchen #bayerischesnationalmuseum #architecturelovers #igersgermany #roamtheplanet #starttheadventure #neverstoptravelling #welivetotravel #travelmoments #peoplewhoadventure #outdoortones #liveadventurously #travelingaroundtheworld #streetmuseum #museumpiece #itweetmuseums #museumed #stadtmuseum #museumfun #visitmuseum #museumeducation #museumsoftheworld #museumgram #museumofhistory #speedartmuseum (hier: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGNBfJ5lbEe/?igshid=1j9v6wqq9dwya

[phylojennny]

To start my first #DayOfScience I wanted to start by answering what a collection manager actually… manages. This will vary between institution and position but is generally true. Most facilities have many cabinets of fossils, check out some of my awesome compact-able cabinets! The foundations of a collection manager position are with cataloging, imaging, and properly storing fossil specimens.We also share specimens with others, this is often in the form of loans. If a researcher is interested in my fossils but lives pretty far away, I can ship them to that person so they can look at them in their own facility. Loans are commonly for a year long period and then they must be returned. If the interested parties are close they can come visit. Last week I had two researchers interested in using clams to think about seasons in the Pliocene (~5.3-2.58 million years ago). I helped them find formations of interest in our stratigraphic collection and loaned them a few clams to test their ideas.I also spend time sharing my knowledge and interacting with the local community. Later today, I have an aspiring paleontologist coming to show me some fossil brachiopods she found near her home. I also attend the local fossil club meetings, which is where you will find experts on the local rocks and fossils of the area.

[arcticmuseum]

Family Day is one of our favorite days of the year, and 2019 was no exception! Thank you all for coming. It was a delight to watch as you maneuvered through magnetic mazes and persevered packing Peary's sledge!​ 

[romkids]

ROM Reporters: The Buzz about the Bees

After being closed for almost a year, the ROM beehive in the Hands-on Biodiversity exhibit is soon to be reopened! The hive was closed due to accessibility issues. Now that the remodelling has been finished, the bees will be open to the public starting Friday, August 17th.

Renovations to the beehive Remodelling is no easy task. The opening to put the honeycombs into the frame had been installed in an inconvenient position. The opening had been installed on the top of the frame, so when the combs were in need of replacement, it was difficult to replace them. The workers reconstructed the frame so it was more accessible. They put the opening on the side so the bee specialists could easily slide the honeycombs out of the frame. The next step of installation was to add the new bees from Guelph into the hive.

So who lives here now? The western honey bee, or Apis mellifera, has a golden-brown body, with black stripes on the abdomen, and a fuzzy thorax and head. They are common in Toronto and are responsible for pollinating many of the city’s flowers. Once they have collected enough nectar, they return to their hive and place the nectar into the honeycombs which are made out of beeswax. Beeswax is a product they humans use as well. It is made of sugars extracted from the honey. Once the honey is in the comb, it’s sealed off with beeswax so that it will last through the winter. Bees work year round to aide their hive.

Honey for thought Due to pesticides and habitat loss, bees are a highly endangered species. Farmers put pesticides on their crops to kill the insects that try to eat it. In doing so, the bees are also killed. Bees are also losing their habitat due to humans disrupting it.

Honey bees are important for the ROM to have because bee specialists can easily examine them. The ROM also wants to teach people about bees, why they are important, and how hard they work.

Visit the ROM to see the reopening of the beehive!!!!:)

To learn more about our journey discovering the ROM, check out our posts from previous years using the links below:

You can catch all of our blogs right here on Tumblr! Check out stories from our 2015, 2016, and 2017 groups HERE!

ROM Reporters is an introductory journalism camp run at the Royal Ontario Museum for teens. ROM Reporters blogs, snaps, and tweets their way through their adventures in science and history!

By Ellie, Fiona, and Connor of ROM Reporters. Last update: August 20, 2018.

[paleochick]

The amazing Dr. Eugenia Leone Gold's book, She Found Fossils about women in #paleontology, is now available on Amazon in both English and Spanish! I'm in it along with other incredible paleontologists! Get yours now! . #wearestemsquad #womeninpaleontology #woneninpaleo #fossils #womeninscience #stem #womeninstem #stemwomen #holidaygifts #gift #christmas #paleontology #scicomm #scied #museumed #museumlife #inspire ##booksforkids #childrensbooks

[adventuresofchick]

Yesterday, Chick said goodbye to Samuel Morse’s huge painting “Gallery of the Louvre” and the exhibition that closed yesterday at Reynolda.

Now it’s time to look ahead to “Georgia O'Keeffe Living Modern”! (at Reynolda House Museum of American Art)

[paleochick]

Hi everyone and to new followers! Like my #scicomm? Instagram's algorithm is changing. Turn on notifications to never miss a post. Who am I? I’m Ashley Hall: Adult Programs Coordinator at the ‪Cleveland Museum of Natural History‬. I create fun and educational programs for adults at the museum, but also in conjunction with other local institutions like libraries, movie theatres, hiking stores, and more. Like a gem, my job is multi-faceted. Besides planning and conducting adult programs, I also teach classes for grades K-12 at the Museum in the galleries in the mornings, video conferencing classes with schools in different states (and countries!), and I also take our programs on the road (Science-to-Go!). I am a paleontologist and informal educator by training. I hold a B.A in Anthropology and Animal Behavior from Indiana University Bloomington. I studied animal bones at archaeological sites in Kansas and Wyoming to determine diet in Protohistoric plains hunter-gatherer groups. After college, I decided to pursue my lifelong dream of working in a ‪natural history museum‬. I spent 7 years working in the Education Division at the ‪Natural History Museum of Los Angeles‬ (@NHMLA) and the world famous La Brea Tar Pits where I was able to design research-based programming (public tours, school programs) to a wide variety of audiences. During this time, I worked for 5 years as Assistant Curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum (@alfmuseum) of Paleontology under ceratopsian expert Dr. Andrew A. Farke where I excavated, catalogued, identified, and curated fossils from Bureau of Land Management Land from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. While I don't have a PhD or Masters, I’ve published research on Pleistocene birds from the La Brea Tar Pits with Don Prothero and sauropod dinosaurs with my husband, Lee Hall (@paleeoguy). I love sharing my passion of natural history through social media, so feel free to follow my adventures on Instagram and Twitter! #museumed #ohiomuseums #naturalhistory #cleveland #cmnh #cle #wearestemsquad #wearescience #womeninstem #stem #science #jurassicpark #scied #scicomm #ohio #educator #paleontology #dinosaurs (at Cleveland Museum of Natural History)