Nadine, Hunter of Rocks 💎

Lots of them were pretty close!

Photo of a table with 12 mineral specimens and some information cards. There's a display screen next to the table showing a PowerPoint presentation. The text on the screen summarises science at the NHM, with a photo of the blue mineral kernowite: Over 300 scientists work at the Museum; many different projects across nine Research Themes; the Graduate Centre hosts Masters courses and PhD projects; cutting edge science facilities and an extensive library and archives collection; hundreds of new species discovered every year. The NHM gardens can be seen outside the large window behind the table.

Closer view of the table with the 12 minerals and a card that says "Who's that mineral?! Can you match the labels with the specimens?". The minerals featured are graphite, gold in quartz, quartz prism, malachite, labradorite, petalite, copper, cassiterite, opal, calcite, agate and talc.

Last night was the first time I've ever done an after hours event at the NHM (teenagers got to learn about a wide range of museum careers). I made a mineral matching game and the only person who managed to get all 12 right was a Minecraft player. Love that!

Black and white photo of Martin Scorsese with his hands up. The caption says "absolute cinema" in all caps.

I watched Cocaine Bear for the first time and it's actually an amazing film 💯

I was thinking of your pomeranian when I saw the reveal 😂

Forbidden Viennetta

It is now February 27th in Japan

On this day, 30 years ago, Pokémon Red & Green were released in Japan and the franchise began.

Happy Birthday Pokémon!

#PokemonDay #Pokemon30

Women 🤝 werewolves
#WerewolfWednesday

Women 🤝 werewolves
#WerewolfWednesday

#minermag The 150 collection has started. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Submissions by 31st August to join the full collection. Celebrate 🎉with us here in June minsoc-150.org

Werewolf eating a star with their claws reaching over the phases of the moon and their feet dancing over the phases of an eclipse. The entire image is framed with a metallic copper frame detailing various phases of a werewolf transformation.

Close up of the previous image.

This werewolf commands astral bodies and the alchemic dualities of human-hood, beast-hood, and transgender expression. 🌕 🌟 ☀️

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AND oh my GOSH did everyone here like the preview for this one. Well, now it's available as a print that you can buy (if you live in the US).

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Oh wait, there’s more. BBC chose not to bleep out the slur even as they did bleep out a reference to Palestine 🤬🤬🤬

A collage of pin photos. The pins are variously nature themed, including frogs, flowers, trees ans ferns. Others are flags or pronoun pins. Some are gamechanger loopdeloops and some are circular, saying "It's Dr actually"

50 days into the new year and I've officially broken my streak of at least one pin sale every day in 2026. It was actually 130 days in total! 🎉

The response to my pins has been absolutely incredible and I've been blown away by all the amazing reviews, especially over the last four months or so 🩷

We're live now!

Come get yourself some kobolds and, if you so desire, a perfectly normal gentleman!

Yes, completely natural!

Haha, I saw that and assumed there would be a set of pins included like with all the similar priced lanyards 🙃 The 30th anniversary stuff so far is underwhelming

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A mass of platy crystals of black metallic hematite, resembling a rose. There's a sprinkling of small thin crystals of red rutile on each hematite "petal", and at the centre of the "rose" is a quartz crystal. From Cavradi Gorge, Switzerland. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

A Swiss hematite rose for all you mineral lovers #MineralMonday #minerals

Rhodochrosite with Galena, Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite which present white, amber, lead and pinkish colours across the specimen.

Happy Galena-tines!

Rhodochrosite with Galena, Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite.

When hit, Galena will break along three directions of weakness that meet at right angles, creating smaller cubes. Galena’s hardness is similar to that of a fingernail.

White to colorless sprays of prismatic monoclinic natrolemoynite on a matrix of gray quartz and dark brown to yellow lepidocrocite. This is they type locality for natrolemoynite.

Natrolemoynite Na₄Zr₂Si₁₀O₂₆·9H₂O
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 3.51 mm
#4015
NFS

The second one

Werewolf child is getting warmed up in the fluff of the werewolf mother

It's cold in winter, but there is a solution

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pick up the ash and berries

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Dark gray stacked hexagonal molybdenite crystals on white calcite. In the upper left the calcite is stained light yellow.

Molybdenite MoS₂
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
FOV = 1.38 mm
#4013
NFS
#MineralMonday

This has a good explainer about why sugar plantations were so deadly.

runaways.gla.ac.uk/minecraft/in...

a cartoon drawing of a kangaroo holding a black object Alt: Gif of a cartoon deer taking off a pair of black gloves (which look like its hooves) to reveal hands with wiggling fingers.

She looks like she's wearing gloves 😂

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Roaring Game: Scotland's curling stone island | National Museums Scotland Curling is a sport native to Scotland, that can be traced back to medieval times. Today, the game involves two teams taking turns to slide heavy, polished

My blog post on Ailsa Craig, curling stones, and the weird minerals that make this rock unique. 🥌

The first attempt to reconstruct Tyrannosaurus rex, in the 1905 paper in which Osborn named it and a panel mount of the skeleton (middle), from the 1916 paper in which Osborn described and named it.

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)

Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.