Are you an early career researcher who wants to gain experience in the cultural and heritage sector? @ahrcpress have a funding call open until 10 December - find out more. ukri.org/opportunity/early-c…

Are you attending the #FTWeekendFestival? Our Director of Science, Tim Littlewood will be speaking about digitising the entire collection and using technology to find solutions to some of the biggest challenges to our planet @financialtimeslive

Our @NHM_tring site opened to the public on this day in 1892. It was originally a private museum owned by Walter Rothschild who financed many expeditions. This is Rothschild's birdwing (Ornithoptera rothschildi), named after Rothschild by Charles Edgar Pratt.

It's #InternationalBatNight this weekend - here are a couple of bat skins from the collection. The label on the top one reads "Caught in a house after dark. This species appears to be fairly plentiful"

The Anopheles funestus mosquito is a vector for malaria. Erica McAlister has been involved in research sequenced historic specimens from our collection in addition to modern specimens to understand how the species is evolving. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Juliana Anicia Codex is an illustrated volume from 512 CE. The names of the plants are given in Greek, but the text has been further annotated with Arabic and Persian names which have been translated for the first time. dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2025.…

Our scientists have been publishing new insights on the scientists that came before them Two new Darwin’s manuscripts have been published for the first time. Written at a formative time between the voyage and the full development of his evolutionary ideas dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2025.…

🐘 Elephants are the only remaining species of the family Elephantidae, which belongs to the order of Proboscidea. This #WorldElephantDay find out more about this ancient order nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021…

Soil-transmitted helminths are parasitic worms transmitted through contaminated soil. The cycle of transmission is particularly difficult to break. A new study in @TheLancet looks at whether community-wide mass drug administration can disrupt transmission doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(2…

The research team discovered that the first ancestors of the staple root vegetable likely appeared some time around nine million years ago. doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.…

Where did the potato come from? 🥔 New research has found that potatoes are the result of an ancient hybridisation event. nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025…

The Community Science team held a BioBlitz to celebrate the first anniversary of our new gardens.   285 observations were recorded on iNaturalist and a further 81 records submitted to iRecord. Take part in future community science opportunities at nhm.ac.uk/take-part.html

The oldest signs of a spider-like brain have been found in an ancient marine fossil. nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025…

Research using butterfly records dating back to the 1900s investigated the impact of climate change on the size of British butterfly species. They found that male body size increased with temperature. nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022…

Data from Museum collections are a vital part of the puzzle to add to observation records gathered by places like @savebutterflies and @inaturalist. The collection can provide data from before these schemes started and tell us about population changed over the past two centuries

The #BigButterflyCount starts today - 2024 saw the lowest numbers in the scheme's history, with an average of seven butterflies seen per count compared to twelve in previous years.  Visit bigbutterflycount.butterfly-… to find out how you can contribute your sightings this year.