#ct museums

[westernconnecticut]

Wine, Cheese & Art Please @ the Glebe House in Woodbury

It is hard to resist a glass of fine wine in a beautiful garden on a perfect summer evening, but when you add the unique visions of local artists Cynthia M. Gillette and Viktoria Stockmal it becomes an event to delight all of the senses. The Glebe House Museum’s festive new fundraiser “Wine, Cheese & Art Please” in the Gertrude Jekyll Garden on Hollow Road in Woodbury on Saturday, June 3rd (Rain…

[nuadox]

oVert: Thousands of natural history specimens have undergone CT scanning by scientists, and these scans are available for free

- By Nuadox Crew -

The openVertebrate (oVert) project, a six-year collaboration among 18 institutions, has completed the CT scanning of over 13,000 vertebrate specimens, making 3D reconstructions freely accessible online.

Video: "Scientists CT scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free" by Florida Museum, YouTube.

These scans offer unprecedented access to natural history specimens, enabling researchers, educators, artists, and the public to explore biodiversity and conduct scientific inquiries remotely.

The project, funded primarily by the National Science Foundation, aims to democratize access to museum collections, reducing wear on physical specimens while increasing their utility.

Through such CT scans, surprising discoveries have been made, such as the presence of bony plates on the tails of spiny mice, previously thought to be unique to armadillos. The data has also revealed insights into evolutionary history and the biology of various species, including the discovery of dental patterns in frogs and insights into the behavior of Spinosaurus dinosaurs.

Additionally, the project has educational and artistic applications, with teachers using the data in classrooms and artists creating replicas based on the 3D models.

Moving forward, the challenge lies in developing sophisticated tools to analyze the vast amount of data generated by the project, with initiatives like NoCTURN aimed at maximizing the use of CT scan data for research, education, and industry.

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Header image: The openVertebrate project, a five-year initiative supported by the National Science Foundation, aimed to provide scientists, students, teachers, and the public with free access to 3D models of museum specimens. Credit: openVertebrate.

Source: Florida Museum of Natural History

Full study: David Blackburn et al, Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D-imaging: the openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network, BioScience (2023). DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad120

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[coyotydave]

Gillette's Conservatory by Coyoty Via Flickr: In Gillette's Castle in East Haddam, CT.

[redglittercoffin]

Early Reptiles and Amphibians. Part of the Great Mural in the Hall of Reptiles showing land life in the Paleozoic Era.

PEABODY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CONN.

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[hellsitegenetics]

can you please do "two headed calf" by laura gilpin?

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

String identified: T t a t a at, t a a a ca t t .

t tgt a a t t t t. t a ct g: t g t ca, t t ga. A a ta t t , t a tc a a ta a a.

Closest match: Clivina fossor genome assembly, chromosome: 7 Common name: Ground beetle

[freshstitches]

A rainbow of minerals from the Robert R. Wiener Mineral Gallery at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich CT.

[herpsandbirds]

Images from the herpetology section of the university of Michigan zoological collections museum.

I have mixed feelings about voucher specimens, I didn't love being around all of these dead things, but this was really cool.

The University of Michigan, supposedly, has the largest voucher collection of caecilians institution in the United States (and possibly the world?).

They have a CT scanner and 3-D printer on site, and produced this model of a caecilian skull right there.

This facility is not open to the general public, but there was a tour for the SSAR herpetology conference. 

* some highlights for me were this Sicilian collection, a thorny devil, the skull model, and the huge paradoxical frog tadpole (which is bigger than the adult frog).

- Paxon

[fossilprep]

Sisyphus, holotype of Daspletosaurus wilsoni is now on display at Badlands Dinosaur Museum! The cranial elements will be added after they undergo CT scanning.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Caturday:

Walter von Nessen (American, born Germany, 1889-1943)

Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc., Waterbury, CT

Cat Bookends, 1930-5

Copper-plated alloy, 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (18.8 x 11.5 x 6.4 cm)

Brooklyn Museum 1994.156.4,5:

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2265

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2285

[garadinervi]

Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer, (with additional contributors), Copy Machine Manifestos. Artists Who Make Zines, Phaidon, 2023, in association with the Brooklyn Museum [reprint 2024] [Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Stores, Pittsburgh, PA. Draw Down, New Haven, CT, and Boston, MA. SpazioB**K, Milano]

Exhibitions: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, November 17, 2023 – March 31, 2024 (plus exhibition views via Laura Splan); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, May 12 – September 22, 2024

[joearf]

2024.03.19: Last Knight in Detail (15th Century Italian Armour <reproduction>) - Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

[coyotydave]

Gillette Castle's Great Room by Coyoty Via Flickr: At Gillette Castle State Park in East Haddam, CT.

[dear-ao3]

Good things about Connecticut:

We killed Henry Kissinger

Our state health insurance is pretty good (and you can be on it just for being broke you don’t have to be broke and a child, broke and disabled, broke and old, etc)

Beaches are not super touristy

We got cool museums and shit

Our state bug is a praying mantis and it’s illegal to kill them (some people will disagree that this is good but I think it’s pretty sweet)

Bad things about Connecticut:

Surprising amount of Tr*mp supporters

New England Weather™️

Pretends to be better drivers than the Mid-Atlantic states but isn’t actually

Still subject to most American Nonsense

more good things about ct:

commission on human rights and activities

our pizza. specifically my local place (will not say bc i will then be doxxing myself)

big y

the ct science center

my history teachers from 11 and 12th grade

the weather!!!

how pretty fall is

state mammal is a sperm whale

we killed henry kissinger

NATHAN HALE

more bad things about ct:

darien

the entireity of fairfield county

putnam.

the strange and confusing amount of confederate flags in the new london area

anyone with a summer house in cape cod

driving

the weird nazi problem?????????

vineyard vines enjoyers

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[amnhnyc]

🚨 New research alert! Carnivores typically have forward-facing eye sockets to ensure stereoscopic (3D) vision—an important trait for judging the position of prey during hunting. But the “marsupial sabertooth” Thylacosmilus had wide-set eyes and laterally facing sockets, adaptations seen more often in herbivores than meat-eaters. So how could it maintain an estimated diet of 70 percent meat? A team of researchers, including Museum scientist Ross MacPhee, think special adaptations allowed Thylacosmilus to see in 3D despite its unusual anatomy. Using CT scanning and 3D virtual reconstructions, they’ve compared this predator’s visual system to those of modern and extinct carnivores. Learn more about their findings! Link in our bio. Image: © Jorge Blanco #paleontology #paleoart #science #amnh #museum https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDdE3pNEa_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=