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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just back from brilliant Snake Summer event at Hunterian Museum of Zoology, big thanks to @tattersdill.bsky.social and @jordankistler.bsky.social. Bothrodon pridii, lost worlds, cryptid snakes and snake diversity and biology. Thanks to those who bought my tsuchinoko stickers :)

Giant model snake skull up high on a cabinet.

Giant Retic python (over 7m long .. but this not necessarily original length) on show at Hunterian Museum of Zoology.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hugely bittersweet to see all the wonderful doctoral projects that have received AHRC funding this year in Scotland - 50 in total! - and to know that the introduction of the Landscape Awards for 2026 will mean a 58% reduction in funding for Scottish institutions.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · Jul 23

I always knew he was no good

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · Jun 3

I just feel like I'd have trouble taking news from this source seriously.

Masthead for the newspaper Boon's Lick Times, from 1845.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · May 22

Want to know how baseless the claim that em dashes indicate GenAI use is? I just had to change all my book's em dashes to en dashes to fit house style (SOB), which means I now know that I used 275 em dashes in this book.

Of course, I also named my rabbit Em Dash, so perhaps this isn't a surprise.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · May 6

Funded PhD in heritage! Collecting Australia: colonial consumption and the display of Australia in Scotland during the long nineteenth century.

Closing date: 25 May

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Collecting Australia: colonial consumption and the display of Australia in Scotland during the long nineteenth century at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Collecting Australia: colonial consumption and the display of Australia in Scotland during the long nineteenth century at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · May 2

Very pleased that my article 'Facts and Fictions: Emotional Authenticity and Narrative in Natural History Exhibitions', which close reads the displays of the NHM and the Loch Ness Centre, has been published today!

journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/mas

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · Mar 28

Absolutely lovely feeling of Friday 5 o'clock (nearly) coinciding with the completion of the last chapter of my book! There's still a conclusion to be written and the notes and the index (shudder) to sort out, but that's still 90,000 words drafted!

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David Wilson @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social · Mar 13

Come join @tanjabueltmann.net and I at Strathclyde for a funded PhD on built heritage and Glasgow’s slaving links, centred around Tobacco Merchant’s House.

Excellent ops to engage with heritage industry via co-supervision by Scottish Civic Trust!

Details below!

Any questions - get in touch!

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · Mar 13

My colleague @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social and I are delighted to invite applications for a PhD studentship funded by ESRC @sgsss.bsky.social, collaborating partner Scottish Civic Trust. #history #slavery #Glasgow

Full details below.

#skystorians #PhDsky #academicsky www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...

Spatialising Glasgow’s Involvement in Transatlantic Slaving Economies: A Study of the Historical and Postcolonial Roles and Impacts of the Tobacco Merchant’s House since the 1780s - Scottish Graduate ...

Focusing on Glasgow’s Tobacco Merchant’s House (TMH) at 42 Miller Street, the overarching aim of the project is to offer the first focused and full-length study of Glasgow’s involvement in transatlant...

www.sgsss.ac.uk

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · Mar 26

The problem with comical nicknames for your pets is that you call for "stinky baby" and "darling horror", and that's at least several of them, if not all of them.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · Mar 17

The historic models of dinosaurs in the Nature or Culture? exhibition were also well worth a look.

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · Mar 17

I visited the Museu Martorell in Barcelona last week and can't get over the spectacular taxidermy they currently have on display, by Antonio Perez Rodriguez. A genuine feat of engineering, I can't quite work out how he did it!