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When ROM Ichthyologist Dr. Hernan Lopez-Fernandez was unable to attend a 2011 expedition to the Cuyuni River in Guyana, he found other creative ways to collaborate with fellow scientists. Dr. Lopez-Fernandez enabled Devin Bloom, a U of T graduate student with extensive experience in Guyana

#instaROM

On November 6th, we held our very first Instagram tour. If you are on Instagram you may have seen this type of tour called an #instawalk, well this was a ROM-ified version and we had lots of fun seeing the work of our visitors. We invited people to tour the galleries, take photos using Instagram

#instaROM at #FNLROM

If you remember from our last #instaROM event (http://www.rom.on.ca/en/blog/instarom) it lasted the entire day and was self guided. Well, I can say that our first try was somewhat of a success. We only had two days to promote the tour but four people came out to take part. Our motivation for these

Sharypic photo wall at Friday Night Live

After our Friday Night Live pilot series in the spring of 2012, the senior management team was looking for a way to visually engage visitors throughout the museum via social media. We had used traditional text-based twitter walls during the initial spring series but we wanted something that was

ROM Research Colloquium: Ryan Dodge

Name: Ryan Dodge Title: Social Media Coordinator On February 8th from 9:15am to 6:30pm ROM experts deliver fascinating 15-minute presentations on the latest research in the arts, archaeology and pure and applied sciences. Free (Museum admission not included). Signy & Cléophée Eaton

We're up for a Shorty Award!

Nominate Royal Ontario Museum for a social media award in the Shorty Awards The ROM's main twitter account, @ROMToronto, has been nominated for a Shorty Award as Best Museum in Social Media . We're currently in third place and need your help to win! Love what we do in social

DNA reveals possible presence of Sasquatch in Northern Ontario

ROM Biodiversity geneticists have identified primate DNA that can not be linked to any living or extinct animal within the ROM, or any other natural history museum's, collections. The fragment was found during a Black Bear study in Northern Ontario over the weekend. Biologists place hair

Our first Google+ Hangout on Air

Yesterday, we hosted our first Google+ Hangout on Air at Crestwood School here in Toronto. We tagged along with Burton Lim , Assistant Curator of Mammalogy, and Dave Ireland Managing Director of ROM Biodiversity, as they visited the school to talk about bats and to supervise a school program

Into the Heart of Borneo

by Chris Darling, Senior Curator of Entomology Borneo – few places on this planet are as mysterious and alluring, both to scientists and to the public. The world’s third largest island, nestled between Southeast Asia and Australia, contains some of the oldest and most diverse tropical

Mineral of the month: serandite

World's largest twinned serandite crystal. This is the first entry in a new series the Earth Sciences section will be running, Mineral of the Month. These blogs will feature remarkable (and perhaps some not quite so remarkable but interesting none the less) specimens from the