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Cerys Bradley: My Last Blog Post
In April, I had my last shift at the UCL Art Museum . Last week I had my last shift in the Petrie Museum, next week will be my last shift ever at the Grant Museum. After nearly four and a half years,...
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We’re Finalists for a Science Journalism Award!
We’re absolutely delighted to announce that we’re finalists for the Association of British Science Writers’ (ABSW) Dr Katharine Giles science blog award! The awards celebrate researchers who undertake...
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Question of the Week: How do dogs recognise other dogs?
From Great Danes and Dogue de Bordeauxs to miniature Dachshunds and Chihuahuas, man’s best friend comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, so how can they recognise fellow dogs even when they all look...
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Trippy Taxidermy and Severed Heads: The Best of the Grant Museum
For budgetary reasons, UCL Culture has recently decided to terminate the Student Engager programme, which has brought PhD students into the university’s museums to share their specialist knowledge and...
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Summer Lovin’: Why You Need a Pachyderm Paramour
Here’s a special issue of Jungle-politan by our Senior Relationships Correspondent, Sarah Serengeti. Hey there, Savannah Sisters. I don’t know about you, but when the temperature climbs, the first...
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Question of the Week: Why are sea sponges considered animals?
By Sarah Gibbs In that big comparative anatomy lecture hall in the sky, Robert Grant, founder of UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology, must be smiling. This week’s featured question focuses on Grant’s...
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Question of the Week: Why do box jellyfish have eyes?
If you meet me during one of my shifts as a PhD Student Engager in the Grant Museum, you’ll find me next to the Micrarium, facing a case packed full of jellyfish and their ghostly relatives. I’ve never...
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A Fine Vintage: Grapes and Wine in Ancient Egypt
Some of the best conversations I have with visitors in the UCL museums start with the question ‘what’s that?’. A couple of weeks ago, I was asked about an object by a visitor to the Petrie Museum of...
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Question of the Week: Why Do Wombats Poop Cubes?
A wombat waddling along (Image: © Jack Ashby) With pudgy little legs and a determined waddle, wombats are amongst Australia’s cutest marsupials. I mean, have you ever seen a wombatlet (not the...
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What do Kids ask Scientists?
Science is exciting, science is fascinating, and with science you never get bored — this is what I want to communicate to children when I give talks about my research. As I work with brains, lasers and...
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We’re Hiring Student Engagers!
Are you a UCL student and excited to share your PhD research with the world? Can you find connections between your research and museum collections? Come join our Student Engager team! Citlali Helenes...
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Question of the Week: What’s this Museum For?
By Hannah Wills A couple of weeks ago, whilst engaging in the Grant Museum, I started talking to some secondary school students on a group visit to the museum. During their visit, the students had...
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Materials and Objects: The Secrets behind our Research
Materials and Objects, an afternoon of short talks by UCL’s student engagers, will be taking place on Thursday 18th May 2017, UCL Art Museum 2-4pm Our next event ‘Materials and Objects’ is just a few...
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Question of the Week: Why do brains have wrinkles?
The brains displayed at the entrance of the Grant Museum are mostly mammal’s brains but we can observe differences in sizes and in how smooth or wrinkly they are. The folds of a brain are called gyri...
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Materials & Objects: What do researchers at UCL study?
Materials & Objects, an afternoon of short talks by UCL’s student engagers, will be taking place on Thursday 18 May 2017, UCL Art Museum, 2-4pm. Taking a look at the range of posts we’ve had on...
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Question of the Week: What’s that zigzag on your skull?
Stan hangs out in a corner of the Grant Museum amid cases filled with insect exoskeletons and bisected animal heads. Standing at around two meters, he keeps watch through empty sockets over the animal...
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The Museal and the Museum: Two Case Studies in Death
It will not be lost upon anybody that visits the Grant Museum of Zoology or the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at UCL that these are places of death. Both are a kind of necropolis, containing...
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A Physicist’s Guide to Zoology
As any lover of Attenborough will, I’m sure, understand, the idea that someone is not naturally interested in nature and zoology is something that I, as a researcher of primates (specifically, their...
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The Stories Behind Objects
By Hannah Wills During my most recent engagement session at the Petrie Museum, I got the chance to take a look at their new exhibition ‘Exporting Egypt: Where? Why? Whose?’. This fascinating...
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Question of the Week: What is Egyptian Faience?
Many of the most noticeable objects in the Petrie Museum’s collection are a striking blue. Visitors are often surprised by their brilliance and ask me whether these objects, thousands of years old,...
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