If you are attending SPNHC and missed my talk on using lessons from the past to curate the Anthropocene and the panel for the session, check out the recording, the discussion was great!! #GeoscienceBluesky #SPNHC2026 ⚒️🧪

I'm at Iziko South African Museum to talk about the entwined human and environmental costs of #colonialism, so it's rather fitting that the museum's gardens are teeming with highly invasive American grey #squirrels, which were introduced to #SouthAfrica by none other than #CecilRhodes. #SPNHC2026

It's Day One of the big international conference for natural history collections professionals. I was asked to contribute to the opening session, which focussed heavily on issues of social justice in natural science #museums. It just goes to show how mainstream this work is becoming. #SPNHC2026

And @nhcm.pensoft.net Editors-in-Chief Shelley James and me — also excited to be at #SPNHC2026 and our symposium here focuses on conversations about #publication #communications and #naturalhistory #collections and #museomics

First 8 hours in #CapeTown: what's not to love about a city where you can land at 10am, explore the National Gallery before a boozy lunch, climb Lion's Head for sunset, then find some fur #seals frolicking around the Waterfront restaurants for dinner. #SPNHC2026