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James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖

@thattalljacobite.bsky.social

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Part-time fossil hunter 🦕 Part-time history buff ⚔️ (Opinions my own) Works at both a battlefield and a fossil museum - forever looking for prehistoric fish 🎣 www.instagram.com/that_tall_jacobite/

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James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · Nov 14

Suppose Bluesky introductions are probably worth doing

I’m James and I work with the National Trust for Scotland in two museums covering history and palaeontology 🦖

I spend my free time dabbling in fossils and being deeply engrossed in Science fiction 👽

Follow for pictures of fossils and more 👋

James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 2d

Is his grave accessible? Everytime I’ve been to Greyfriars the section he’s buried in always seems to be closed off to the public

James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 3d

There’s gotta be a monster in here surely, right?

Right…? 🦕🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A large body of water, Loch Ness in Scotland, with a sloping hill on the horizon and a tree in the bottom Left foreground

A body of water, Loch Ness in Scotland, with a tree in the foreground on the left and mountains on the horizon

A statue of the Loch Ness Monster covered in yellow, red, and blue ribbons sitting in a small grass park

James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 4d

Happy 120th Birthday to the big man 🦖
#TRex #Fossils #NHM #Dinosaur

A museum cabinet displaying a brown dinosaur jaw in front of a green background

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 4d

This is gonna be so good!

@VerseCycle / Caroline Burrows / Poet Performer Writer Teacher @versecycle.bsky.social · 4d

I've got a sonnet 'A Hazel Tree for Hugh Miller' featured in 'New Legends from Old Scenes' to celebrate Hugh Miller's birthday at Hugh Miller's Birthplace NTS
#nationaltrustforscotland #hughmiller #cromarty #carolineburrows #versecycle #poetry #sonnet #spenseriansonnet #newlegendsfromoldscenes

James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 5d

The trail at Knockan Crag has some artwork inspired by geology - the two hands indicate if you place one hand on the limestone and one hand on the Moine rock you’ve got a 500 million year gap between you

Here’s a few more pieces of artwork at the site

A mountainous landscape with a blue and white cloudy sky. To the left of the frame is a stone structure

A mountainous landscape with a large stone sphere in the foreground made up of hundreds of pieces of flat rock

A large stone triangular structure sticking out of a green grass and brown fern covered hill

A grey statue of two me, one sitting and one standing, in front of a drystone dyke fence. Three mountains and a lake are in the background

James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Museum’s #ScottishMuseumsDay submission for #MightyObjects

Our dinosaurs (Brachiosaur tail bone and two Iguanodont bones, all from the Isle of Wight) which are back on display for the Big Birthday Weekend (Sat 11th and Sun 12th Oct!) 🦕

@scottishmuseums.bsky.social

A museum display on a wooden floor featuring three fossils, two toy dinosaurs (one grey and one yellow), and three white number cards

A museum display on a wooden bookcase featuring three fossils, two toy dinosaurs (one grey and one yellow), and three white number cards. To the right of the display is a small white information card about the fossils in the display

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 6d

Get really into dinosaurs. That's my recommendation for a happier life. Each day, I get news like "Look at this big freak that used roam the Earth!" or "Ya know the big freak you already loved? Fossils show it was even more freakish!" and it's a blessing every time.

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James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 6d

Made the pilgrimage to Knockan Crag for the first time

Here 1 billion year old Moine rock has been thrust up and out of the Earth during the collision of Scotland and England over 400 million years ago, forcing it to slide and sit atop younger 500 million year old Durness limestone!

Geology rocks!

A long black coloured cliff sits atop a green-brown grassy hill beneath a white cloudy sky

A photo of me in blue crouched and touching two rock layers - black on top and yellow on bottom

The Moine thrust - a large layer of dark black-grey rock sitting on top of a smaller layer of yellow limestone rock

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 6d

Last night four Scots, along with hundreds of others, were attacked and kidnapped by the Israeli navy as they tried to deliver livesaving aid.

The UK government must act.

The Herald. Four Scots on Gaza aid flotilla ‘kidnapped’ by Israel, Ross Greer says.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 6d

Is it a lizard? Is it a snake? Maybe a 'false snake'?? As that's what its name means in Gaelic!

Hello to Breugnathair, a new fossil from the Jurassic of Skye with a curious mix of snake & lizard features, showing that early squamate evolution was complex

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fossil found on Skye is new species of fanged Jurassic reptile

Experts say the lizard-like creature, which has been given the Gaelic name Breugnathair elgolensis, had lived about 167 million years ago.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Scottish Museums Federation @scottishmuseums.bsky.social · 7d

Scottish Museums Day is tomorrow and we're going BIG! 💥

From giant fossils to towering sculptures and shipyard legends. Visit a museum, find some #MightyObjects, and share them with us by using #ScottishMuseumsDay!

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Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.bsky.social · 9d

A cool way to illustrate #Viking ships? Paint them on a pane of glass and set it up by the sea.

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James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 9d

Garden bliss at Hugh Miller’s Cottage 😌

A bronze and cold coloured metal sculpture of an Ammonite shell

A black and yellow bumblebee sitting on a yellow, fluffy flower

A garden with a pink gravel path on the left, six wooden posts sticking out of the centre, and a stone wall on the right

James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 10d

The only good thing about your elderly dog needing to go to the toilet constantly late at night this time of year is sometimes the stars come out to say hello! 🌌

A photograph of a starry sky taken from a garden

James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 12d

Our big upcoming event at Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Museum is in 2 weeks time - Join us at the biggest birthday party in Cromarty! 🎂

Living History 🎩
Story telling 📖
Science experiments 🧪
Fossils walks 🦖
Oh my! 😱

Hugh Miller’s Big Birthday Weekend
Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th Oct
11:00-15:30

A poster advertising “Hugh Miller’s Big Birthday Weekend” in a Cromarty on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th October

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James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 13d

Proud of the work my volunteer put into research for this exhibit - hope y’all can catch it before it finishes in a couple weeks time! 🦖

Scottish Geology Trust @scottishgeology.bsky.social · 13d

Stories in Stone - a new temporary exhibition at NTS Hugh Miller Birthplace Museum!
🐉🐚🦕🐾🐍
Travel the realms between fact and folklore and discover the superstitious explanations behind some spectacular fossils

📅 31 Aug - 12 Oct, 11:00 - 15:30, Free with museum admission

Promotional poster for the exhibition featuring a fossil ammonite, a flat coiled shell now preserved as stone. Text reads: Stories in Stone. Fossils and their Folklore (31/08/2025 - 12/10/2025). Logos for National Trust for Scotland, Hugh Miller's Birthplace and Scottish Geology Trust are along the bottom.

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Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · 14d

major traffic incident

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James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 14d

New merchandise made by moi dropping at Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Museum very soon - grab these badges while they’re hot! 🦖

A round pink badge with a drawing of a T-Rex in a dressing down sitting on a dark blue fleece. The text on the badge reads “don’t talk to me until I’ve had my tea, Rex”

A selection of badges - one green with a blue fish (left), one blue with a grey fish (middle), and one green with a red and brown fish (right). All the badgers are sitting in a cream coloured wooden surface

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 15d

A megaraptoran skeleton! From the end of the Cretaceous!

Excited about the announcement of Joaquinraptor, the top predator down south when tyrannosaurs ruled the north. The Schwarzengger to T. rex's DeVito (at least in the arms category). My thoughts:

www.livescience.com/animals/dino...

Gigantic dinosaur with 'claws like hedge trimmers' found with croc leg still in its jaws in Argentina

Speedy megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali had big arms and claws like hedge trimmers that would have made T. rex's forelimbs look puny.

www.livescience.com

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Geology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 16d

Tylenol caused the end permian extinction.

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James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 16d

Very impressive fossil fish jaw discovered by an eight year old kid on Cromarty beach on one of our new school educational fossil walks at Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Museum! 🦴

Thinking it belongs to a Glyptolepis - a 385 million year old lobe-finned fish! 🐟

A triangular shaped piece of light grey stone with brown fossils on it. The stone is sitting on a cream coloured wooden surface. To the left of the image is a black and white bar scale

A piece of light grey stone with brown fossils on it. The stone is sitting on a cream coloured wooden surface. To the left of the image is a black and white bar scale

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 16d

Have you ever seen some amber?

You might know it from the start of Jurassic Park, where an ancient mosquito is discovered trapped in it. Now, for the first time, amber containing insects has now been found in South America!

Find out what it reveals 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Ancient insects trapped in amber discovered in South America for the first time | Natural History Museum

Insects that lived alongside the dinosaurs have been discovered in Ecuador.

www.nhm.ac.uk

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James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 17d

They’re planning a redevelopment sometime in the next few years - perfect opportunity to revisit!

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Scottish Museums Federation @scottishmuseums.bsky.social · 17d

We’re going BIG for #ScottishMuseumsDay 2025! 🎉

Following last year’s #TinyTreasures, this year is all about #MightyObjects - the largest, tallest, heaviest, & most surprising items in Scottish collections.

Share your finds with us on 3 October!

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