Bird bits on the beach
April seemed to have been a good month for finding bird skeletons on Orkney beaches. I started the week with a casual "oh, that'll be a...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 10, 20225 min read
The Other Human Tissue Act.
Informed consent, organ donation and ethical skeletons from 1961. I have recently been persuaded to restart Dying for Life activities,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 24, 20211 min read
Who got to keep the hand?
I won't even try to describe what events lead me to this little archive treasure. But it is one of those museum catalogue entries that...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Aug 19, 20214 min read
Further adventures in the archives
It has been a crazy week of adventure, triggered by the deep dive into old museum inventories in the Cambridge University Library. Masked...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 30, 202111 min read
Tracing a thylacine stomach
WHAT IS IT? Among a fairly random assemblage of dried bits and plaster casts of hearts, a crumpled brown leathery sack, stiff with age,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jun 12, 20212 min read
One for sorrow, two for joy...
DAMN YOU, FINNEMORE! That evil Genius, John Finnemore, has done it again. You may have thought that he was "quite funny" on Cabin...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Apr 10, 20213 min read
Consenting Dissections
It should not be assumed that, even in 1832, dissection was always an abuse. Wealthy, empowered members of society volunteered their bodies
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Susan Elaine Jones
Feb 12, 20213 min read
Wombwell's travelling menagerie
Wombwell's travelling menagerie supplied unique animal specimens to various Zoology Museums including Cambridge, Norwich and Aberdeen
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jan 15, 20212 min read
New Year, New Face
Happy new year! Happy new lockdown (I think we're on lockdown mark iii, but it is honestly getting hard to tell). What have you done so...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 24, 20204 min read
Put your name on everything
I wouldn't normally have any interest in a collection of tobacco and snuff tins going up for auction. One person's collection can be...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 31, 20201 min read
Beauty is skin deep
Just a quick blog post to share for Halloween. I've been learning how faces build on top of skulls, and as a quick exercise, tried it on...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 16, 20205 min read
Cataloging a hole, a cuckoo nest and a bunch of pebbles
Using photos of a collection, and a little negotiation with the photographer physically in the building, could remote volunteers usefully
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Susan Elaine Jones
Sep 21, 20203 min read
Memento mori, Carpe Diem in the time of Covid
Memento mori game. Any coin not found after 500 years is classed as lost - you lose points. There are other players, this is a competition
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 21, 20205 min read
To the memory of Ben Huggins of the Lovely Matilda
A tale of the memento mori coffins for the memory of Ben Huggins, and how often they seem to appear at auction!
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 9, 20203 min read
Why do scorpions fluoresce under UV light?
Having had a couple of Emperor Scorpions as pets (“Grabbit” & “Scarper”), I was familiar that they glow eerily under ultraviolet (UV) light
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jun 17, 20202 min read
Bird Skeletons of the world
Skeletons. So often a labour of love. But two years of work at the University of Cambridge Zoology Museum is finally ready to share
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Susan Elaine Jones
May 22, 20202 min read
What to do when you're housebound with a camera
60 days of lockdown for most people in the UK. 69 days for me as a I started early. And just 6108 days into life with ME/cfs.
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Susan Elaine Jones
May 7, 20202 min read
Are the cows okay?
Lockdown week Twelvty. Just as there start to be discussions about easing restrictions, as I need to shield I realise that that doesn't...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Apr 8, 20202 min read
Lockdown week 3 no, sorry week 4 - 3D modelling
3D modelling. It's like all the frustration with photography, multiplied by 200! Shown by it taking over a week to fix the gremlins to...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 25, 20202 min read
Trying a new hobby
Corona Virus Isolation Week 2 - or day 2 for some of you. You're probably wondering what to do with all your new free time, and planning...
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