passim in passing

For those of you who have somehow found this blog without either being personally shown it with my hand on the mouse, or through my highly serious and infromative twitter feed ( @brennawalks  -- or even @trowelblazers , which is my identity 1/4 of the time), welcome. I always enjoy meeting new spambots. For the rest of you, I'll assume you have an interest in either a) museums b) outreach or c) the life and times of our Human Origins research group. In which case, hurrah! Because that's what I'd like to talk about. Prof Stringer lays down some knowledge Every year, under auspices of the EU 's Framework Programme 7  , museums across europe recieve funds in order to hold a giant Open house. And it is giant, especially for us at the Natural History Museum London - we have hundreds of researchers here, normally safely hidden behind locked doors in the labryinth of cabinetry and slightly past sell-by-date skeletal models of obscure animals that is the 'working...

Well as you may have guessed from the slightly OTT twitter/facebookage, we at @TrowelBlazers Towers (shout out to Drs Wragg-Sykes , Birch , and Herridge !) are so excited to have a chapter in the excellent new book ' A Passion for Science: Stories of Discovery and Invention '. Suw Charman-Anderson ( @Suw ) is the driving force behind the truly inspirational Finding Ada project. It's all about recognizing the contributions of women scientists, and hopefully demonstrating that sisters are not only capable of doing it for themselves, but they've been doing it for a lot longer than you thought. I mean, Georgian-countess-computer-programmer longer than you thought. you can read some of Suw's thoughts on the project in today's Guardian  or you can just read the book! And if you like what Team TrowelBlazers has put together, you will love the awesome network diagram of our women in the #trowelblazing sciences (mad props to @ToriHerridge ) ! By Tori Her...