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Natural History Museum

For the Natural History Museum in London I was a science web editor digital content producer. I created and managed scientific research and collections pages, wrote news for the homepage and produced written and multimedia features for the new version of the website (launched January 2015).

I also created five-minute profiles of scientists called Meet our scientists, managed and produced content for the News in Brief blog and wrote for the Museum’s member’s magazine evolve.
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Since leaving the Museum I have also undertaken freelance work to produce features and content for the Google Cultural Institute.
Features
  • Coral reefs: lessons from the past
  • Finding love on the web
  • Breaking the taxonomic barrier
  • Future food
  • Coral reefs exhibition: creating the aquarium
  • Charles Darwin’s coral conundrum
Freelance:
  • The fight to save the world’s ecosystems
  • Can you spot the hidden animals that use cunning camouflage?
  • Rainbow nature: life in flaming orange
  • Rainbow nature: life in majestic purple
  • Rainbow nature: life in bold black and white
  • Rainbow nature: life in proud pink
  • Google Cultural Institute: Unearthed: life recorded in fossils
  • Google Cultural Institute: Revealing the lives of ancient Britons
  • Google Cultural Institute: Earthly and ethereal: minerals, rocks and gems
  • Life in the bones of Londoners (interactive map)
  • A history of burial in London
  • Analysing the bones: what can a skeleton tell you?
  • Climate change: 10 quick questions (middle of page)
  • Beluga whales: Social, smart and wizards with sound
Animals and plants
  • Mutant skate named Elvis caught by Portsmouth fishermen
  • 3D scans reveal deep-sea anglerfish’s huge final meal
  • First venomous crustacean confirmed
  • Is it or isn’t it? False widow spider update
  • ‘Whopper’ wasp genus named after Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Ship strike kills two whales in Norfolk waters
  • New lobster species named for Nelson Mandela
  • Found: one beaver
  • Size matters as fish species splits in two
  • Museum research defames celebrity amphibian
  • Secretive species: Museum hits amphibian milestone
  • ‘Extinct’ creature discovered alive and well
  • Help stem the Asian shore crab invasion
  • Nature’s genius: Dive deep, stay dry
  • New miniature fish discovered
  • Proof of the yeti? Not quite yet
  • Different on the inside
  • Flowering plants revolutionised life on Earth
  • Fishing-bait bloodworms have bee-sting bites
  • Insect cells could create everlasting paints
  • Intricacies of insect evolution revealed
  • Invasion of the giant spiders? Not quite
  • 40,000-year-old flesh brings mammoth cloning closer
  • Abominable snowmen of the sea make their way to the Museum
  • Cave centipede from hell is the deepest-dwelling ever discovered
  • Shining seaweeds reveal the secret to their iridescence
  • Long-distance spiders can sail across the high seas
  • Modelling finds new range for rare plant
  • Egg arms race
  • School playground species discovery
  • Mystery pigeon is dodo relative
  • New bird checklist sets the record straight on species
  • Discover the beauty of pollinators with 1000 Bees
  • New wasp genus found on remote St Helena
​PALAEONTOLOGY and geology
  • Complete 520-million-year-old nervous system discovered
  • Inside the mind of a volcano
  • Earliest heart and blood discovered
  • Museum opens wide for giant crocodile tooth
  • Dinosaurs doing well before asteroid impact
  • A History of Life in 100 Fossils (including audio slideshow)
  • Jurassic sea crocs lived similar lives to their modern relatives
  • The fishy origins of sex
  • Fossils used to predict impact of global warming on marine life
  • Weight of the world’s most complete Stegosaurus revealed
  • Fossil foragers
  • Jurassic mammals were picky eaters
  • Ancient fish was a shell crusher
  • Urchins reveal new complexity to evolution
space
  • Huge meteorite chunk pulled from Russian lake
  • Mars meteorite study hints at global warming solution
  • Life may have arrived from space
  • Curiosity ups the ante in extraterrestrial life debate
  • Comet-chaser prepares to probe the early solar system
  • NASA suggests humans could be on Mars by 2035
  • Meteorites expose Moon surface formation
  • First samples of dust from outside the solar system
  • Opals on Mars could hold a record of ancient life
  • Pluto flyby data will be used to create art for Museum exhibition
  • Philae landing on Comet 67P a success
Human origins and anthropology
  • Neanderthals may have made a meal of animal stomachs
  • Ancient skull could change the story of human evolution
  • Oldest human DNA uncovered
  • Love thy neighbour: Neanderthal inbreeding could be a factor in their demise
  • The pros and cons of dating a Neanderthal
  • Missing human fossils rediscovered
  • Neanderthals and humans had ample time for interbreeding
  • Blow-by-blow account of Richard III’s final moments
  • Gum disease worse now than in Roman Britain
  • Did the ‘hobbit’ human have Down syndrome?
  • Prehistoric Indonesian cave paintings suggest earlier origin for artistic expression
  • Oldest modern human genome pinpoints interbreeding with Neanderthals
  • Two new tantalising early human fossils
Environment and health
  • Deep sea littered with plastic debris
  • Blood test could help detect early breast cancer
  • Litter found in the remotest parts of the deep sea
  • Scientific garden to show at Malvern Spring Festival
  • Badly written bill could threaten UK wildlife
  • Natural enemy released to control invasive plant pest
  • Ocean acidification damages the growth of colonial marine life
Museum
  • Spotlight on women scientists on Ada Lovelace Day
  • Spring arrives on the wings of Sensational Butterflies (including audio slideshow)
  • Sink your teeth into our bat festival
  • Rare Greenland shark specimen preserved at the Museum
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 winners announced
  • Rare Stegosaurus skeleton to be unveiled at the Museum
  • Evolution pioneer’s illegible notebook brought back to life
  • Come and meet the world’s most complete Stegosaurus
  • Top 10 Museum news stories 2014
  • Blue whale to take centre stage at the Museum
  • Photo competition asks what climate change means to you
  • Sending moths confusing sex signals is saving Museum specimens
  • Have a merry microfossil Christmas and an ore-some new year!
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