Zygoma

Adventures in natural history collections

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Welcome to Zygoma. This is my personal blog and the views expressed here are not those of my employer (the National Museum of Ireland), they are mine and solely mine.

The disclaimer out of the way, I hope you enjoy my mystery object on Fridays and my occasional thoughts on a variety of scientific, sceptical and museological subjects.

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Atacama ‘alien’ mystery is no mystery

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May 4, 2013 by PaoloViscardi Categories: society | Tags: abortion, alien, Atacama, bad reporting, foetus, identification, irresponsible, media, misidentification | 246 Comments

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Bone Girl Things I find interesting as a physical anthropologist, archaeologist, and classicist
Jake's Bones A talented young bone collector from Scotland
March of the Fossil Penguins Fossil penguin discoveries and research
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week SV-POW! … All sauropod vertebrae, all the time! (except when it’s not..)
What's in John's Freezer? All sorts of awesome anatomical insights from John Hutchinson

Environment

Under the Banyan Communicating about the environment, climate change and biodiversity

Museums

Diptera blog Excellent blog by Erica McAlister, Curator of Diptera in the NHM Entomology Department
Herbology Manchester Stories from the Manchester Museum Herbarium
Museological Meanderings Excursions into the World of Museums (and Natural History)
Museum Minute Weekly news and a variety of voices from the museum sector
Nature Manchester The Manchester Museum’s natural history collections blog
Prerogative of Harlots A blog about museums and museum collections, with an occasional seasoning of paleontology and a lot of really ill-informed musings
The Grant Museum of Zoology blog The Grant Museum of Zoology blog
Wunderkammer A blog about natural history collections and the skills needed to curate them

Rationalism

Crispian Jago Science, reason and critical thinking
Skepticat UK Resisting the age of endarkenment
SomeBeans The slightly unconnected thoughts of a scientist
The Nightingale Collaboration Misleading information won’t disappear by itself: it needs to be challenged. It’s challenged here.
The Quackometer Experiments and Thoughts on Quackery, Health Beliefs and Pseudoscience
Zeno's Blog The random thoughts of a sceptical activist

Science

15 Evolutionary Gems (pdf) 15 gems of referenced research into evolution prepared by Nature (pdf)
Archosaur musings Dave Hone’s musings on archosaurs
Catalogue of organisms An inordinate fondness for systematics
Laelaps Awesome palaeontological writing
Raptor's Nest Predators mauled by science
Rated Awww Science and Nature and other things
Sciencebase Science news, views and interviews
Talk Origins A newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins
Tetrapod Zoology A most powerful font of the best bestial geekery
The Panda's Thumb A voice for the defenders of the integrity of science
The Prancing Papio Primatology for the people
The Thought Stash Science, skepticism and astronomy

Sundry

Think Humanism An independent forum for those interested in humanism, secularism and freethought

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