Dr. Bronwyn W. Williams @BWWilliamsLab@qoto.org

Every so often we stumble across a specimen record that makes us laugh for days. This is one of them. We recently acquired the South Carolina DNR’s Southeast Regional Taxonomic Center marine collection, and are working to integrate the metadata into our database. #crabs #crustacea #crustaceans #MuseumCollections #museum #CollectionsCare #curation #crustmas #25daysofcrustmas #malacostraca

My lab is interested in sharing what we do behind the scenes, research and collections. We are stewards of a wonderful biological resource and are looking for ways to make it accessible. Here are some of the things we are doing - some far more slowly than others - to this end: #photography #3dmodeling #3dprinting #animation (and ultimately #gamedesign ) all in addition to digitizing data, and finding ways to tell the stories that underlie each and every specimen. #museum

I am Research Curator of Non-molluscan Invertebrates at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. That’s a mouthful, I know, but by way of explanation, I oversee a large hyper-diverse (>25 phyla) natural history/research collection AND have my own research program, focusing mainly on crayfishes and two groups of obligate crayfish symbionts (branchiobdellidans aka crayfish worms and entocytherid ostracods).