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I did of course also do some holidaying and had an amazing time seeing a lot of the obvious sights as well as wandering through some beautiful hutong districts, meeting lovely people, eating delicious food, and even caught a jazz gig!

At the Temple of Heaven wearing a Star Trek tshirt, lots of crowds as it was a festival day

Performers at the Blue Note Beijing jazz club

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Just back from work trip to Beijing. Taught a workshop to a global selection of museum professionals, gave a paper at the world conference for science literacy, and presented a paper to colleagues at the China Science and Technology Museum, then a 2hr TV recording with some science fiction writers!

Me standing in front of a Science Museum branded slide with the title "Living in the Future: Communicating Technologies of Tomorrow in the UK's Science Museum Group". An audience watches patiently.

Screenshot from a Chinese social media app showing a clip from Chinese news station CCTV1, it is announcing the opening of the world conference on science literacy and shows me sitting in the front row alongside other more important dignitaries and representatives.

Photo after recording a programme for Chinese TV discussing science fiction as a tool for thinking about the future of museums. We all stand around looking cool.

Showing a slide which explains the Science Museum Group as I point to the Science Museum in a workshop of participants at another event.

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Excellent cords for sheep herding!

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 27/09/2026

It's apparently a genre of post, also saw this the other day. The perfectly in focus printed chalk board is the most obvious tell but the reflections are also dodgy, and various other uncanny bits and pieces

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[1963] Snow – Hypnotic British Transport Film showing the efforts of railway workmen to keep trains running in hazardous snowy conditions.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Truly spectacular photo by Jean Marquis of workers clambering on scaffolding inside the parabolic mirror structure of the solar furnace in Mont-Louis in southern France in 1958. The solar furnace in the Pyrenees, built in 1949, was the first facility of its kind in the world 🗃️

B&w photo of workers standing on scaffolding inside a parabolic mirror structure (a solar furnace)

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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Really fortunate to have been invited to a private view of the Bayeux Tapestry this morning. Pictures cannot do it credit, it's an astonishing object displayed beautifully. Feeling very lucky!

Line of people viewing the tapestry in a dark room, a large quote above them: 'In the year of grace 1066, the Lord the ruler carried out what he had long contemplated for the English: he delivered them for destruction to the violent and cunning Normans' (Henry of Huntingdon)

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry showing Edward the Confessor

Gloomy selfie in front of the tapestry, showing some of the accompanying AV

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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Really fortunate to have been invited to a private view of the Bayeux Tapestry this morning. Pictures cannot do it credit, it's an astonishing object displayed beautifully. Feeling very lucky!

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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There is still a few days left to submit an abstract for #scifi #faith #futures #FaithCon in York! We are very excited to welcome @adamroberts.bsky.social and Courttia Newland as plenary speakers - it's going to be an invigorating few days! (Plus #BonfireNight in #GuyFawkes hometown - why not?)

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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

News story about last night's record with some nice photos: www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...

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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tonight nearly 1000 people set a new world record for the most people performing the Vulcan salute in one location. Celebrating Star Trek day on the franchise's 60th anniversary at @sciencemuseum.org.uk

Myself, looking tired, at the front of a crowd of people in the science museum in London performing the Vulcan salute.

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miramanga @miramanga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What’s that Mira? You broke a Guinness World Record this evening as part of the largest Vulcan salute on Star Trek Day? Well done!

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Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

World record holder! This is much easier than running 100m in 9 seconds.

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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy Star Trek Day to all who celebrate. You might catch me on the radio later talking about our Star Trek lates and world record attempt this evening, plus a last chance to visit the Warp Trail of objects dusted throughout the museum, celebrating 60 years: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/s...

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Star Trek Lates | Science Museum

Calling all Star Trek fans—join us to celebrate Star Trek Day and the 60th anniversary of this iconic science fiction franchise with a special Lates to close the season.

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David Bradley @sciencebase.com · 08/09/2026

If you're after a science writer, the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) has a Bluesky starter pack just for you go.bsky.app/F6bdkUY

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Association of British Science Writers members

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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Agreed, I've said the same thing elsewhere. It's a horrendous symptom of AI that it causes us to have to question every remarkable thing we might encounter, like it's sucked a little bit of joy out of everything.

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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think its real, the shots are longer than most AI gen stuff, and the continuity is good. And little details like the fish which jumps to try to get away and the dolphin changing course to chase it, I choose to believe that's real and there is beauty and wonder in this world still.

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"Thank you for bearing with us while we renovate the historic Lovecraft Memorial Eldritch Portal and Arts Centre"

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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Being based just over the road, I often go into Imperial to get some lunch or just for a change of scenery. I am always both hypnotised, amused and horrified by this concept art on the hoarding around some renovation work they're doing.

AI Generated artwork of a fuzzy-faced orchestra, awkwardly holding a range of instruments, all wearing grey in a beige room.

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There are words I mispronounce to this day because I read them in books for so long as a kid without hearing them out loud that I internalized an incorrect pronunciation.

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Isabelle Vella Gregory @ivg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We had the pleasure of working with @sciencemuseum.org.uk on a collection of rare glass slides from Sudan. A huge thank you to the wonderful folks at the Museum who made this possible. #archaeology #Sudan #JebelMoya #photography #museums www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwOd...

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Archaeologists look at RARE lantern slides from Jebel Moya, Sudan | Excavation and Henry Wellcome

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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes! So good. I often find myself reflecting on it, it's definitely the one I push into the most people's hands (not always as appreciated as I might like)

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Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Reactor was kind enough to publish a (far from capacious) deep dive into the late great Tim Curry’s filmography. Read it and comment and share as you see fit. RIP Tim.

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#TodayInQueerHistory August 30 (1984) Octavia Butler is a revered voice in sci-fi. #OTD she won her first Hugo award, for Speech Sounds, which brought her greater prominence. Butler's work often explored queer themes. She described herself as a "hermit", closely guarding her private life.

A black woman in a bright jacket signing a book

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Interestingly, recent multispectral analysis of this painting revealed that the original version of the portrait more prominently highlighted the couple's wealth and status but was later modified to de-emphasize some high fashion and add the scientific equipment: www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...

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Great to see all the #LAconV #Worldcon posts. Hope you're all having a fantastic con, sad to not be there!

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Enjoy the discovery. She's amazing!

Ursula K. Le Guin — Kesh Music

Ha! Yes. Exactly that actually. It's a collection of drawings, songs, poems, myths, maps, etc from a people living in the rewilded ruins of Northern California. There is even a companion record of music : Ursula K. Le Guin — Kesh Music share.google/zTt9mMzQHNDX...

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My favourite is Always Coming Home which is like an anthropological survey of a fictional people in a post apocalyptic future. Given her parents that is of course fascinating. It is NOT everyone's cup of tea though: tapestry of materials, no real plot just a world that wraps around you.

I can see that I have been too slow and the conventional and correct wisdom that The Dispossessed is the right answer has been roundly delivered. See also Earthsea (esp books 2&3) and Omelas. I won't contradict that but I will say for a different approach check out Lathe of Heaven