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National Marine Biological Library, based @thembauk.bsky.social. A place to access our electronic and printed collections, to ask for help, or just to work in peace
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· Dec 4
Hello Everyone! We're super excited to be here. @thembauk.bsky.social was established 140 years ago, and there has been a library on site at the Citadel Hill laboratory ever since it opened in 1888! We're looking forward to sharing our stories with you #library #books
😮and we thought it was choppy by #PlymouthHoe yesterday 🌊
Think the weather has been pretty rough in the #UK lately? Spare a thought for our L4 #AutonomousBuoy, situated about 6 nautical miles south of #Plymouth, which faced some pretty hefty waves from #StormBram yesterday.
#autonomy #MarineAutonomy #DataBuoy
#autonomy #MarineAutonomy #DataBuoy
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
😮and we thought it was choppy by #PlymouthHoe yesterday 🌊
A little festive #EYASparkle. These beautiful illustrations of the odd bobtail squid, Heteroteuthis dispar, can be found in the reports from the expeditions of Albert I Monaco. This volume, 66, was published in 1923
📖 E.I:Mn.1
📖 E.I:Mn.1
December 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
A little festive #EYASparkle. These beautiful illustrations of the odd bobtail squid, Heteroteuthis dispar, can be found in the reports from the expeditions of Albert I Monaco. This volume, 66, was published in 1923
📖 E.I:Mn.1
📖 E.I:Mn.1
Today’s forecast - it’s a bit fresh. But, seriously, stay safe if you’re out in #StormBram today 💨 ☔️ #PlymouthSound
December 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Today’s forecast - it’s a bit fresh. But, seriously, stay safe if you’re out in #StormBram today 💨 ☔️ #PlymouthSound
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Marine Biologists Must Reads…
1️⃣ Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness – David Attenborough
2️⃣ Shark: The Illustrated Biography – Daniel C. Abel & Sophie A. Maycock
3️⃣ The Seaweed Revolution – Vincent Doumeizel
✨ Members get discounts with affiliate publishers. #MustReads #MarineScience #OceanLovers
1️⃣ Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness – David Attenborough
2️⃣ Shark: The Illustrated Biography – Daniel C. Abel & Sophie A. Maycock
3️⃣ The Seaweed Revolution – Vincent Doumeizel
✨ Members get discounts with affiliate publishers. #MustReads #MarineScience #OceanLovers
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Marine Biologists Must Reads…
1️⃣ Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness – David Attenborough
2️⃣ Shark: The Illustrated Biography – Daniel C. Abel & Sophie A. Maycock
3️⃣ The Seaweed Revolution – Vincent Doumeizel
✨ Members get discounts with affiliate publishers. #MustReads #MarineScience #OceanLovers
1️⃣ Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness – David Attenborough
2️⃣ Shark: The Illustrated Biography – Daniel C. Abel & Sophie A. Maycock
3️⃣ The Seaweed Revolution – Vincent Doumeizel
✨ Members get discounts with affiliate publishers. #MustReads #MarineScience #OceanLovers
#otd in 1866 Maude Delap was born. Self taught, Maude was the first person to successfully rear jellyfish in home aquaria. Her research was highly regarded and scientists such as E.T. Browne, who was based @thembauk.bsky.social, often sought her advice, as can be seen from these letters 📷 PBR133
December 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#otd in 1866 Maude Delap was born. Self taught, Maude was the first person to successfully rear jellyfish in home aquaria. Her research was highly regarded and scientists such as E.T. Browne, who was based @thembauk.bsky.social, often sought her advice, as can be seen from these letters 📷 PBR133
We've really enjoyed participating in the EYA Focus Week. We're finishing up with a montage of images from and about our archive and we hope you've enjoyed learning about us #EYAYourArchive
December 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
We've really enjoyed participating in the EYA Focus Week. We're finishing up with a montage of images from and about our archive and we hope you've enjoyed learning about us #EYAYourArchive
Last year we celebrated the 140th anniversary of the establishment of @thembauk.bsky.social. This document is from the first minute book of the MBA's council and details the founding of the Association. You can find out more about our work at buff.ly/mAZcYD4 #EYAAnniversaries
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Last year we celebrated the 140th anniversary of the establishment of @thembauk.bsky.social. This document is from the first minute book of the MBA's council and details the founding of the Association. You can find out more about our work at buff.ly/mAZcYD4 #EYAAnniversaries
Today we've selected this photograph of women students participating in the first experimental zoology class held @thembauk.bsky.social in 1911 #EYAInclusion
📷 U.M.17
📷 U.M.17
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Today we've selected this photograph of women students participating in the first experimental zoology class held @thembauk.bsky.social in 1911 #EYAInclusion
📷 U.M.17
📷 U.M.17
It's also #InternationalCheetahDay! Who knew. Well @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social obvs
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the cheetahs, for today is their special day!
This engraving of a cheetah is from 'The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature' by Charles Knight, published in 1844.
📷 Reserve 590.2 KNI/X
#InternationalCheetahDay #CheetahDay #RareBooks
This engraving of a cheetah is from 'The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature' by Charles Knight, published in 1844.
📷 Reserve 590.2 KNI/X
#InternationalCheetahDay #CheetahDay #RareBooks
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
It's also #InternationalCheetahDay! Who knew. Well @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social obvs
Most of our archive material is physical rather than #EYADigital but we searched our collection and found this image of a library team member c 1981, using an Apple IIe computer. Today almost all our research output could be classed as born digital archival material
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Most of our archive material is physical rather than #EYADigital but we searched our collection and found this image of a library team member c 1981, using an Apple IIe computer. Today almost all our research output could be classed as born digital archival material
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The Cornish poets and writers Charles Causley and Jack Clemo were close friends - and they also loved their pets!
Two of the most documented pets in our archives are Causley's cat, Rupert, and Clemo's Pomeranian, Spark!
#EYAPets #Archives #ExploreYourArchive
Two of the most documented pets in our archives are Causley's cat, Rupert, and Clemo's Pomeranian, Spark!
#EYAPets #Archives #ExploreYourArchive
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The Cornish poets and writers Charles Causley and Jack Clemo were close friends - and they also loved their pets!
Two of the most documented pets in our archives are Causley's cat, Rupert, and Clemo's Pomeranian, Spark!
#EYAPets #Archives #ExploreYourArchive
Two of the most documented pets in our archives are Causley's cat, Rupert, and Clemo's Pomeranian, Spark!
#EYAPets #Archives #ExploreYourArchive
For #EYAPets we have - cat paw prints on a dusty shelf! Not sure if this is what @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social had in mind but we think they're cute. And that is absolutely the reason we haven't dusted the shelf....
PS - no, we unfortunately don't have a library cat in residence 🐈
PS - no, we unfortunately don't have a library cat in residence 🐈
December 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
For #EYAPets we have - cat paw prints on a dusty shelf! Not sure if this is what @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social had in mind but we think they're cute. And that is absolutely the reason we haven't dusted the shelf....
PS - no, we unfortunately don't have a library cat in residence 🐈
PS - no, we unfortunately don't have a library cat in residence 🐈
Our #Christmas decorations are up in the library🎄We think the artificial tree must be at least 40 years old, so surely it counts as archive material?........
December 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Our #Christmas decorations are up in the library🎄We think the artificial tree must be at least 40 years old, so surely it counts as archive material?........
We've selected this page of verse for #EYASilence. Written, most likely, by GM Spooner, there are a few mentions of the need for quiet in the library. We can tell you that times have changed since 1953!
📷 Archive references ML1 and PSP3
📷 Archive references ML1 and PSP3
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We've selected this page of verse for #EYASilence. Written, most likely, by GM Spooner, there are a few mentions of the need for quiet in the library. We can tell you that times have changed since 1953!
📷 Archive references ML1 and PSP3
📷 Archive references ML1 and PSP3
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Webinar alert!
Join us for a project introduction, some early findings & find out how you can get involved.
When: Fri 5th Dec, 10am (GMT)
Where: Online (Teams)
Schedule: 20-30 minute presentation + Q&A
Interested? DM for a link to join!
Join us for a project introduction, some early findings & find out how you can get involved.
When: Fri 5th Dec, 10am (GMT)
Where: Online (Teams)
Schedule: 20-30 minute presentation + Q&A
Interested? DM for a link to join!
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Webinar alert!
Join us for a project introduction, some early findings & find out how you can get involved.
When: Fri 5th Dec, 10am (GMT)
Where: Online (Teams)
Schedule: 20-30 minute presentation + Q&A
Interested? DM for a link to join!
Join us for a project introduction, some early findings & find out how you can get involved.
When: Fri 5th Dec, 10am (GMT)
Where: Online (Teams)
Schedule: 20-30 minute presentation + Q&A
Interested? DM for a link to join!
@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social has something actually #EYAMedieval 📖
Did you know the Syon Abbey Collection has the longest date range of any of our collections? Items date from the early 15th century to the 21st century!
This book of hours dates to c 1430s and includes a prayer for Syon Abbey's founder, Henry V.
📷 EUL MS 262/2
#ExploreYourArchive #EYAMedieval
This book of hours dates to c 1430s and includes a prayer for Syon Abbey's founder, Henry V.
📷 EUL MS 262/2
#ExploreYourArchive #EYAMedieval
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social has something actually #EYAMedieval 📖
OK, so we've had to take a bit of creative license for #EYAMedieval as 1 - this book is in our rare book collection not main archive, and 2 - it's not technically medieval (it was printed in 1554) but it's the closest we could get! It is one of the first systematic studies of marine fish though.
December 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
OK, so we've had to take a bit of creative license for #EYAMedieval as 1 - this book is in our rare book collection not main archive, and 2 - it's not technically medieval (it was printed in 1554) but it's the closest we could get! It is one of the first systematic studies of marine fish though.
Today it's #EYABeauty and our Library Assistant has picked one of her favourite images - an illustration of the polychaete worm Epigamia alexandri, by Elsie Sexton. Elsie was based @thembauk.bsky.social and was highly regarded for her research and scientific illustrations
November 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Today it's #EYABeauty and our Library Assistant has picked one of her favourite images - an illustration of the polychaete worm Epigamia alexandri, by Elsie Sexton. Elsie was based @thembauk.bsky.social and was highly regarded for her research and scientific illustrations
It's the start of @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social Focus Week! We'll be doing our best to show you treasures from our archive that match the daily themes. Today it's #EYAConservation so we have a photograph of our archive material being repackaged as part of our recent relocation project
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
It's the start of @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social Focus Week! We'll be doing our best to show you treasures from our archive that match the daily themes. Today it's #EYAConservation so we have a photograph of our archive material being repackaged as part of our recent relocation project
We’re back finding another tricky taxon in the library. We have this lovely illustration of the grey triggerfish (aka filefish) from Couch’s ‘A History of the Fishes of the British Islands’, 1865. The first recording of this species in the UK was August 1827
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We’re back finding another tricky taxon in the library. We have this lovely illustration of the grey triggerfish (aka filefish) from Couch’s ‘A History of the Fishes of the British Islands’, 1865. The first recording of this species in the UK was August 1827
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Back from a very successful trip to the IOM speaking with locals and visiting archives to piece together historical accounts of the herring fishery. We stumbled across these beautiful title page illustrations of marine biological station reports based on Puffin island in the late 1800s
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Back from a very successful trip to the IOM speaking with locals and visiting archives to piece together historical accounts of the herring fishery. We stumbled across these beautiful title page illustrations of marine biological station reports based on Puffin island in the late 1800s
More of the @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social birthday bash - featuring, our Head of Data and IT, the library and a floppy disk (aka the save icon) 💾
DASSH has been running for 20 years. In 2005 people sometimes sent us their data on floppy disks… we've come a long way since then.
Find out more about DASSH here - www.dassh.ac.uk
Find out more about DASSH here - www.dassh.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
More of the @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social birthday bash - featuring, our Head of Data and IT, the library and a floppy disk (aka the save icon) 💾
Happy Birthday to @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social 🥳 Congratulations to our colleagues (and library mates) for 20 years of data excellence!
DASSH @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social is 20 years old! But what is DASSH?
DASSH is the UK Archive for Marine Species and Habitats data. It curates, manages and shares biodiversity records to make them accessible and maximise their reuse.
DASSH is the UK Archive for Marine Species and Habitats data. It curates, manages and shares biodiversity records to make them accessible and maximise their reuse.
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Happy Birthday to @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social 🥳 Congratulations to our colleagues (and library mates) for 20 years of data excellence!
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Why sequence every genome?
Annual Science Talk – Tuesday 2nd December 11:00-12:00 online or in person
This year's eminent marine expert is Professor Peter W H Holland FMBA FRS. A Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford.
mymba.mba.ac.uk/member-homep...
Annual Science Talk – Tuesday 2nd December 11:00-12:00 online or in person
This year's eminent marine expert is Professor Peter W H Holland FMBA FRS. A Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford.
mymba.mba.ac.uk/member-homep...
Annual Science Talk - Why sequence every genome?
Professor Peter Holland FMBA is Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford. Join us online or in person for his annual science talk.
mymba.mba.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Why sequence every genome?
Annual Science Talk – Tuesday 2nd December 11:00-12:00 online or in person
This year's eminent marine expert is Professor Peter W H Holland FMBA FRS. A Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford.
mymba.mba.ac.uk/member-homep...
Annual Science Talk – Tuesday 2nd December 11:00-12:00 online or in person
This year's eminent marine expert is Professor Peter W H Holland FMBA FRS. A Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford.
mymba.mba.ac.uk/member-homep...
Thanks to @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social we have discovered today is #WorldWalrusDay!
Our illustration from Millais' 'The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland' 1904 might not be as expressive but we think it's just as majestic
📖BL.95/M
Our illustration from Millais' 'The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland' 1904 might not be as expressive but we think it's just as majestic
📖BL.95/M
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Thanks to @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social we have discovered today is #WorldWalrusDay!
Our illustration from Millais' 'The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland' 1904 might not be as expressive but we think it's just as majestic
📖BL.95/M
Our illustration from Millais' 'The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland' 1904 might not be as expressive but we think it's just as majestic
📖BL.95/M