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Welcome to Zygoma. This is my personal blog and the views expressed here are not those of my employer (the Horniman Museum), 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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AskABiologist If you have a biological question (that isn’t homework) why not ask a team of professional biologists to help find an answer?
NatSCA The Natural Sciences Collections Association (NatSCA) promotes the interests of natural science collections and the staff that work with them
PubSci Science in the Pub is an informal monthly event for people who like science to find out more about a topic and have a chat over a drink or two
UK and Eire Natural History Bloggers Promoting the work of natural history bloggers across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland

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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

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

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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
UCL Museums & Collections Blog UCL Museums & Collections Blog
Wunderkammer A blog about natural history collections and the skills needed to curate them

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Crispian Jago Science, reason and critical thinking
Jack of Kent A skeptical and liberal look at law
Punctuated Equilibrium Living the scientific life (scientist, interrupted)
Rhys's Blog Rhys Morgan’s skeptical blog
Skepticat UK Resisting the age of endarkenment
SomeBeans The slightly unconnected thoughts of a scientist
Stuff And Nonsense Bad Science: Nutritionism, Remedies, Denialism, maybe some Religion
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
Thinking Is Dangerous Wait, wait, wait. Now stop. Think about what you’ve been told. Now. Does it sound reasonable?
Zeno's Blog The random thoughts of a sceptical activist

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15 Evolutionary Gems (pdf) 15 gems of referenced research into evolution prepared by Nature (pdf)
Archosaur musings Dave Hone’s musings on archosaurs
Bad Science A hearty, healthy slap in the face for our hysterical society
Biozoologica Italian blog about natural sciences
Catalogue of organisms An inordinate fondness for systematics
Laelaps Awesome palaeontological writing
Not Exactly Rocket Science the latest scientific discoveries interesting to everyone by beating jargon, confusion and elitism with the stick of good writing
Raptor's Nest Predators mauled by science
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

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Answers in Genius Confessions of a Science Geek
Deep thoughts and silliness a felinophilic nature network blog by Bob O’Hara
The end of the pier show The thoughts and doings a senior editor for Nature
Think Humanism An independent forum for those interested in humanism, secularism and freethought

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