Rocks. Science. Life.

The discovery of Auroralumina qttenboroughii first came to my attention when I was driving home one evening listening to the BBC Inside Science Podcast. Two things about this story caught my attention: 1) it was a really, really old fossil named after Sir David Attenborough who I, alongside much of the British Public, am somewhat of a super fan of, and 2) the paper was written by, and being discussed on the podcast by, Dr Frankie Dunn, from Oxford University, who just so happ

It's been almost a year since I graduated, and it's safe to say I have had my run in with the highs and lows of post grad life. In the past year I've moved to a new city, worked three very different jobs, had a whole career and future crisis, spent a lot of time trying to stay in touch with and see all my friends that are now spread over the country, and had to work out silly adult things like council tax and registering at a new GP, all while still having to call my mum to

A picture I took in the museum showing some of the collection cases. As I think I've mentioned in some previous posts, I've been keen on doing sidequests now i'm living in London. My bucket list does of course include the classic museums - the Tate Modern, the V&A, the Natural History Museum, the National Portrait Gallery etc - but it also has some smaller ones I've heard about, one of them being UCL's Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. I finally got around to