November 1, 2026 at 6:13 PM
October 29, 2026 at 10:14 PM
#Museum30 is turning 10 this year!
To celebrate ten years of building connection and sharing what makes museums wonderful, I have brought back ten of my favourite prompts from the list that started it all ✨
I can't wait to see what you all share this year, starting as always on November 1st!
To celebrate ten years of building connection and sharing what makes museums wonderful, I have brought back ten of my favourite prompts from the list that started it all ✨
I can't wait to see what you all share this year, starting as always on November 1st!
October 31, 2026 at 10:32 PM
The nights are getting colder but things are heating up here in Philadelphia... #SaveTheAcademy
October 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The nights are getting colder but things are heating up here in Philadelphia... #SaveTheAcademy
October 31, 2026 at 11:53 PM
October 31, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Are you in Philly and able to help get #savetheacademy posters up in home and shop windows?
Sign up to join the street team!
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Sign up to join the street team!
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October 29, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Are you in Philly and able to help get #savetheacademy posters up in home and shop windows?
Sign up to join the street team!
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Sign up to join the street team!
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🕯️CANDLE VIGIL TONIGHT🕯️
Yesterday’s City Hall hearing went well. Now let’s gather together to remind Drexel that we aren’t going away.
Open the doors.
#savetheacademy
Yesterday’s City Hall hearing went well. Now let’s gather together to remind Drexel that we aren’t going away.
Open the doors.
#savetheacademy
October 27, 2026 at 2:01 PM
🕯️CANDLE VIGIL TONIGHT🕯️
Yesterday’s City Hall hearing went well. Now let’s gather together to remind Drexel that we aren’t going away.
Open the doors.
#savetheacademy
Yesterday’s City Hall hearing went well. Now let’s gather together to remind Drexel that we aren’t going away.
Open the doors.
#savetheacademy
November 1, 2026 at 2:19 AM
If you watch only one clip from the Philadelphia City Council hearing about the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences, let it be this one. It — and I don't say this lightly — must be seen to be believed. #savetheacademy
October 27, 2026 at 12:53 PM
If you watch only one clip from the Philadelphia City Council hearing about the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences, let it be this one. It — and I don't say this lightly — must be seen to be believed. #savetheacademy
youtu.be/3gip47N5Rio Talk on dinosaurs on September 12, 2026. #SaveTheAcademy
20260912 Dinosaur talk at Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia pt1 MVI 2188
YouTube video by Dr SJ Dodgson
youtu.be
October 28, 2026 at 4:02 PM
youtu.be/3gip47N5Rio Talk on dinosaurs on September 12, 2026. #SaveTheAcademy
Can you borrow our professionals until Drexel University is forced to rehire them, pay back wages and damages, after a divorce when Academy of Natural Sciences gets the house, the kids and the mortgage? #SaveTheAcademy #OxfordUniversity
We are currently seeking a Geology Collections Assistant! In this job you will support the care, documentation and development of geological collections, including rocks, minerals and fossils.
Learn more and apply now:
go.glam.ox.ac.uk/GWrwiiFC5
Learn more and apply now:
go.glam.ox.ac.uk/GWrwiiFC5
October 29, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Can you borrow our professionals until Drexel University is forced to rehire them, pay back wages and damages, after a divorce when Academy of Natural Sciences gets the house, the kids and the mortgage? #SaveTheAcademy #OxfordUniversity
Don't take nutrition advice from videos unless they are from registered dieticians. Vitamins are not all the same, they come in water soluble and fat soluble. I once taught a course in vitamins and minerals to Drexel Univ nutrition students, before Drexel turned into an apex predator #SaveTheAcademy
November 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Don't take nutrition advice from videos unless they are from registered dieticians. Vitamins are not all the same, they come in water soluble and fat soluble. I once taught a course in vitamins and minerals to Drexel Univ nutrition students, before Drexel turned into an apex predator #SaveTheAcademy
#Museum30 Day 2: Paint
Many of the Academy's diorama backgrounds were painted by artist Clarence C. Rozenkranz (who also contributed to many of the dioramas at the AMNH). Others include Francis Lee Jaques, Stephen T. Harty, and Jonathan Fairbanks Jr.
#SaveTheAcademy
Many of the Academy's diorama backgrounds were painted by artist Clarence C. Rozenkranz (who also contributed to many of the dioramas at the AMNH). Others include Francis Lee Jaques, Stephen T. Harty, and Jonathan Fairbanks Jr.
#SaveTheAcademy
November 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM
#Museum30 Day 2: Paint
Many of the Academy's diorama backgrounds were painted by artist Clarence C. Rozenkranz (who also contributed to many of the dioramas at the AMNH). Others include Francis Lee Jaques, Stephen T. Harty, and Jonathan Fairbanks Jr.
#SaveTheAcademy
Many of the Academy's diorama backgrounds were painted by artist Clarence C. Rozenkranz (who also contributed to many of the dioramas at the AMNH). Others include Francis Lee Jaques, Stephen T. Harty, and Jonathan Fairbanks Jr.
#SaveTheAcademy
#SaveTheAcademy The museum is closed. We heard last night that Drexel is "honoring contracts" but only for rich people having functions in the museum, not contracts with school groups. Meanwhile they have boxed Botany of Nations exhibits; they lied that they have changed nothing.
If I was there rather than on the west coast, I would help you by arranging for school children's tours if possible. Put kids at the center. I've won heated political battles by making kids the central issue. "The Children's Crusade" before it is gone forever.
October 28, 2026 at 5:29 PM
#SaveTheAcademy The museum is closed. We heard last night that Drexel is "honoring contracts" but only for rich people having functions in the museum, not contracts with school groups. Meanwhile they have boxed Botany of Nations exhibits; they lied that they have changed nothing.
Wiipedia: "The first Tiktaalik fossils were found in 2004 on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The discovery, made by Edward B. Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Neil H. Shubin from the University of Chicago, and Harvard University Professor Farish A. Jenkins Jr." #SaveTheAcademy
Caught up with my old friend Tiktaalik at the Canadian Museum of Nature today
October 30, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Wiipedia: "The first Tiktaalik fossils were found in 2004 on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The discovery, made by Edward B. Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Neil H. Shubin from the University of Chicago, and Harvard University Professor Farish A. Jenkins Jr." #SaveTheAcademy
Fabulous! Wikipedia meetups are fun; no-one hosts, everyone logs into Wikipedia and makes changes as long as there is a decent reference for the change. It can be done virtually, on Zoom, or one afternoon at the Free Library. I wonder if friends of the Museum are interested? #SaveTheAcademy
November 2, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Fabulous! Wikipedia meetups are fun; no-one hosts, everyone logs into Wikipedia and makes changes as long as there is a decent reference for the change. It can be done virtually, on Zoom, or one afternoon at the Free Library. I wonder if friends of the Museum are interested? #SaveTheAcademy
Likely Drexel bean counters have been salivating at putting the Academy's 19 million specimens up for auction. #SaveTheAcademy #EducateChildren #CapitalismSucks #NationalizeDinosaurs
Short article in which @stevebrusatte.bsky.social and I are quoted about the recent sale of a Nanotyrannus: edition.cnn.com/2026/10/27/s...
Rare Nanotyrannus sells at auction for $47.3 million, becoming second most valuable fossil ever | CNN
After a 12-minute bidding war among six contenders, a rare specimen named Jodi — one of only three relatively complete Nanotyrannus skeletons known to science — just narrowly missed the auction record...
edition.cnn.com
October 28, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Likely Drexel bean counters have been salivating at putting the Academy's 19 million specimens up for auction. #SaveTheAcademy #EducateChildren #CapitalismSucks #NationalizeDinosaurs
Mischief Day and I am in Haddonfield where dinosaurs roamed and Steven Spielberg's imagination went wild. Cat is sleeping peacefully after being out all night. Tomatoes continue ripening on vine next to an elderberry tree. @haddonfieldhistory.bsky.social #SaveTheAcademy @haddonfieldsun.bsky.social
October 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Mischief Day and I am in Haddonfield where dinosaurs roamed and Steven Spielberg's imagination went wild. Cat is sleeping peacefully after being out all night. Tomatoes continue ripening on vine next to an elderberry tree. @haddonfieldhistory.bsky.social #SaveTheAcademy @haddonfieldsun.bsky.social
Don't move them, obviously. #savetheacademy
Unlike other parts of the museum’s collection, the dioramas are near-immovable historic artifacts. Preserving them would require significant time, labor, and money, perhaps millions of dollars.
‘Once we lose these, they’re gone forever’: What will become of the dioramas at the Academy of Natural Sciences?
www.inquirer.com
October 25, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Don't move them, obviously. #savetheacademy
Such great questions #savetheacademy
October 26, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Such great questions #savetheacademy
#SaveTheAcademy. We heard at the hearing, and again at the vigil, that rich folks were allowed into the museum but not kids from schools in North Philly.
Omg. Letting the rich in but not children could be something to hang your hat on. Do you have local alternative journalism? A letter writing effort by parents who went there as kids?
October 28, 2026 at 5:58 PM
#SaveTheAcademy. We heard at the hearing, and again at the vigil, that rich folks were allowed into the museum but not kids from schools in North Philly.
🚨📰 BREAKING NEWS 📰🚨
There will be a PRESS CONFERENCE at CITY HALL in Philly before the hearing about The Academy of Natural Sciences!!
Be outside on the NORTH side of City Hall at 1PM!!!
#savetheacademy #academyofnaturalsciences #philadelphia
There will be a PRESS CONFERENCE at CITY HALL in Philly before the hearing about The Academy of Natural Sciences!!
Be outside on the NORTH side of City Hall at 1PM!!!
#savetheacademy #academyofnaturalsciences #philadelphia
October 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
🚨📰 BREAKING NEWS 📰🚨
There will be a PRESS CONFERENCE at CITY HALL in Philly before the hearing about The Academy of Natural Sciences!!
Be outside on the NORTH side of City Hall at 1PM!!!
#savetheacademy #academyofnaturalsciences #philadelphia
There will be a PRESS CONFERENCE at CITY HALL in Philly before the hearing about The Academy of Natural Sciences!!
Be outside on the NORTH side of City Hall at 1PM!!!
#savetheacademy #academyofnaturalsciences #philadelphia
By late October I have trouble remembering June. But my gosh, the Academy was the jewel in the crown of Logan Square. #SaveTheAcademy youtu.be/eDGfVq0QAyo
20260605 Logan Square on Ben Franklin Parkway showing ANSP S5140003
YouTube video by Dr SJ Dodgson
youtu.be
October 29, 2026 at 6:41 PM
By late October I have trouble remembering June. But my gosh, the Academy was the jewel in the crown of Logan Square. #SaveTheAcademy youtu.be/eDGfVq0QAyo