Your weekly round-up of news and events happening in the wonderful world of natural sciences!
Jobs
Unusually, there are a few natural science jobs out there in the UK at the moment:
Curatorial Assistant (Human Remains and Repatriation) – Natural History Museum. Applications close 29th March.
Curator/Lecturer in Vertebrate Palaeontology – Cambridge University. Applications close 3rd April.
Several interesting posts at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, including an Assistant Curator (applications close 7th April).
And, just in case you haven’t already seen it:
Collections Manager (Life Collections) – Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Applications close 10th April.
Events
Simon Moore’s renowned fluid preservation course will next run on 1st – 4th June at the Horniman Museum & Gardens. The four-day course costs £300 (NatSCA members can apply for a bursary). See here for details and booking.
Learn the skills to care for fluid-preserved specimens (Image: Russell Dornan)
The Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH) has put out a call for speakers for their annual conference, to be held at Wakefield Museum on 31st July – 1st August.
The Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) 2015 conference is entitled Nature and Culture in Museums, and will explore the relationship between natural science and ethnography. It takes place at the Powell-Cotton Museum on 20th – 21st April, and booking is open now!
In the Media
Today is Taxonomist Appreciation Day, a holiday devised by Dr Terry McGlynn, of California State University Dominguez Hills, to highlight the decline in taxonomic skills and the importance of museum collections.
These taxonomists definitely deserve some appreciation: A census of all known marine life by WoRMS (the World Register of Marine Species) has added many new species and removed 190,400 duplicates!
Darwin’s ‘strangest animals ever discovered’ finally find their place in the tree of life.
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There’s also a plant mounting job going at the NHM.
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