https://diler.tube/videos/watch/ed78c731-ade4-42b6-8bd0-d641325d6ed5 Many think of natural history museum collections as relics from the past – the bones and stones of our planet, specimens whose value diminishes once they have been identified and deposited in these biological vaults but this is very far from the truth. Dr Erica McAlister, entomologist and Principal Curator for Diptera and Siphonaptera at the Natural History Museum, London joins us to share the value of museum collections, focusing on the most important animals, the flies, and how we are not only opening the collections for wider research opportunities but also utilising new and novel methods to ask more from the specimens themselves. These specimens are helping us not only understand the past but also our future, from understanding important vector species to UK nature recovery to climate change, this talk will highlight the value of collections and those much-maligned species, the flies. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:09:07 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://diler.tube https://diler.tube/lazy-static/avatars/f58b270a-6076-478a-ad43-3888a532ecb4.png https://diler.tube/videos/watch/ed78c731-ade4-42b6-8bd0-d641325d6ed5 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://diler.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.