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Curator @OxyMLZ world’s largest Mexican bird collection • Evolution • Conservation • Genomics • Museum Collections • Speciation
Sep 9, 2018 13 tweets 5 min read
Here’s my Op-Ed in the @LATimes and ✨thread on the need to reinvest in US public museum infrastructure and staffing in the wake of the fire at Brazil’s National Museum 1/ latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/… 2/ As we mourn the loss with our Brazilian colleagues, I make the case that despite what we might think, our US public museum infrastructure is crumbling too — and disaster lies in wait, just biding its time theatlantic.com/science/archiv…