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We're currently advertising for a number of vacancies
- Executive Assistant, permanent, FTE, £25,941 - £30,942, deadline Mon 14 Nov
- Project Assistant - GLAM Collections Move Project, 18 months, FTE, £22,417 - £25,941, deadline Fri 25 Oct
- Survey Fieldworker (10 posts), 2 years, variable hours, £19,202 - £24,029, deadline Thurs 31 Oct
- Apprentice (HOPE Collection) Entomological Collections (2 posts), 2 year, FTE, £17,682, deadline Mon 11th Nov
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Steve Backshall and Professor Alice Roberts discuss evolution using Museum of Natural History specimens
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"Peahens prefer peacocks with flamboyant tails... over time the peacock's tail has become more and more extravagant"
Watch Professor Alice Roberts in the Museum discussing how sexual selection plays into evolution.
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Discover some of the most important ideas in the theory of evolution with TV’s Steve Backshall and Professor Alice Roberts around Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
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Ever wanted to ask a palaeontologist anything?
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"I know it sounds like delusions of grandeur but the ultimate goal of a palaeontologist is to understand the past. I try to reconstruct the resin-producing forests from 100 million years ago, in the Cretaceous."
Earlier this month we asked a number of our staff to answer all your questions about what it's like to work here, how they developed an interest in their field and their advice to anyone wishing to follow in their footsteps.
Here we've collected the Q&A put to researcher Dr Ricardo Pérez-de-la Fuente, whose work looks at the palaeobiology of fossil arthropods.
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Ask Me Anything with Collections Manager Eileen Westwig
"I've always been fascinated by animals & nature; I studied biology at Humboldt University where I specialized in animal physiology & zoology. My first job after graduating was at the American Museum of Natural History"
Meet Eileen.
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Ask Me Anything with Researcher Dr Frankie Dunn
Frankie's work looks at the origin and early evolution of animals and how the fossil record informs our view of those events.
See her Q&A
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When Life Got Hard
In this podcast episode Museum researcher Dr Duncan Murdock talks about the first animals to build skeletons, and what they did with them. Half a billion years ago a bewildering array of animals evolved, bristling with shells, teeth and spines during a Cambrian explosion of skeletons.
Listen now
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