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Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I dropped by to see the patch of Lathraea clandestina Purple Toothwort introduced 17 years ago to Crack Willows in a pit near Norwich. It’s doing well there but I didn’t expect to find it growing directly from the bark a meter above ground! The weirdest epiphyte? #wildflowerhour

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Jane Henderson @jane-henderson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Its all goodnews at the Grimwade. The Cripps Foundation have added another 15 million dollars to support the inspirational work at The Grimwade Centre who deliver people first heritage conservation education and research. www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...

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Cultural conservation centre to become part of world-leading research institute

Transforming the cultural health of the nation and our region and responding to emerging threats to cultural legacies will be the core focuses of a new institute in the Faculty of Arts at the Universi...

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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A multicoloured fish 🐠 which we think some of our followers might recognise from back in the day #WeekMForMulticoloured #AlphabetChallenge

A hollow, glass model of a fish of elongated form. The main body has been coloured with yellow, red, blue and black glass. It has applied fins, tail and eyes in clear glass

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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

For the colour purple we have gone for some tin designs. Until the 1990s Barnsley was home to the Barnsley Canister Company who made beautiful tins which were distributed all over the world.

Purple tin designers with a baseball player

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Our museum is hiring a new Director of Collections if you or someone you know is interested! aam-us-jobs.careerwebsite.com/job/beatrice...

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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Cool for cats! 🐈 Figurine by C H Brannam from the ceramic collections at Cannon Hall Museum.

A blue ceramic cat that looks slightly petrified

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Polar plunge Polar bear Nora loves to dive, so care staff came up with a way to safely place a camera at the bottom of her pool to watch her underwater. Beary cool!

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YHR @yahiro-photograph.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Blending in, yet standing out. A quiet moment at the zoo. #birds

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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If you had 6days and nights in #Athens with family (including 3 very active children age 5-10) followed by 3 days and nights in Athens alone with your partner to relax what would you do? Where would you go? Where would you eat? This is for October 2025 I’ve never been before

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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Does your organisation have an archive? 📚 Join the annual UK archive survey by March 31! Your input will help ensure museums, galleries, and arts organisations are represented. Find out more 👉 buff.ly/PXiKhdl 📷 Pexels

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Introducing New Zealand's latest Bug of the Year- the magnificent Ngāokeoke / Velvet Worm! NZ has two genera: one lays eggs (Ooperipatellus, 1st photo) and another gives live birth (Peripatoides, 2nd). They also deposit sperm which burrow through their partner's skin, but that's another story! 🧪

A photograph of a velvet worm - an orange and purple-patterned invertebrate composed of many soft segments and tiny spined legs. The velvet worm has long, segmented antenna and a pair of organs on its head which squirt glue for prey capture.

A photograph of a velvet worm - an Blue and yellow-patterned invertebrate composed of many soft segments and tiny spined legs. The velvet worm has long, segmented antenna and a pair of organs on its head which squirt glue for prey capture.

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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Milo was unimpressed at being woken up to a camera shoved in his face again #Cat

Black and white cats face looking annoyed with eyes squinted and one ear back

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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Amidst a very busy weekend I found time to Swim and to Read, I’m loving this collection of short stories don’t be misled by the cute pink cover it’s full of dark fables not for the feint hearted.

Cover of book “She’s always hungry” by Eliza Clark.

Hard back book in pale pink with iridescent print Venus fly catcher vine trailing round outside dripping with blood surrounding the title and author

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Throughout our #MuseumOfMankind exhibition, we've been asking visitors what they cherish enough to be buried with. Contemporary grave goods researcher @jen-studies-death.bsky.social has analysed these, and put together this incredible summary - Grave Goods Wrapped drive.google.com/file/d/1Kc_Q...

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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Our new exhibition celebrating the past, present and future of Reading’s tech industry opens tomorrow 👾💻 BBC News - Exhibition celebrates the birth of 'Tech Town' www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Reading exhibition celebrates the birth of 'Tech Town'

An exhibition marking the the birth of Britain's own Silicon Valley is taking place in Reading.

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F. @memoryhouse.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

youtube.com/watch?v=LV15... Vera Farmiga in a goth metal band wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card.

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The Yagas - She's Walking Down (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by The Yagas

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🪦𝕮𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕮𝖑𝖚𝖇🪦 @cemeteryclub.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We all love a good podcast! Have a listen to my chat with Vivian Gabor about all things cemetery: from Pére Lachaise, Highgate and LGBTQ histories in cemeteries! open.spotify.com/episode/19GA...

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Sandy Knapp @sandyknapp.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Help your local British herbarium to join in the digitisation journey! My blog post in BSBi News bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/help... with a plea to express interest in the DiSSCo UK programme engagementhub.ukri.org/ahrc-infrast...

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Help your local herbarium!

Volunteers mounting specimens at Univ Leicester Image: L. Marsh Regular readers of this blog will know that we have a passion for herbaria ....

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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Does anyone else’s #Cat go into kitten mode when they find an unguarded receipt? Milo loves to shred them 😆 #Caturday

Tuxedo cat pushing up off a sofa - if he was doing yoga it would be a sort of upwards facing dog pose, with bright cushions and throws in the background and a playful expression

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 14/03/2025

I hope everyone has a nice weekend!✨ Heads up: join Connor Butler (connorbutler.co.uk), @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social and me at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Sat 3 May for Bi-Curious George's fab show Queer Planet! 🐬🌈🐌🏳️‍⚧️🦋 @morethanadodo.bsky.social oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/queer-...

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Queer Planet

Join award-winning drag king, Bi-Curious George, London’s most loveable nature boy, on a raucous romp through the animal kingdom.

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

every quarter i hope and pray that a student will do an interpretive dance as their final project. this quarter I finally got a dance final! A+!! 🥲🩰🏆

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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This must be someone’s dream job Curator of Living Cultures at Manchester Museum, www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Curator of Living Cultures:Manchester Museum

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Birdman's morning walk

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A pretty grim specimen of a #platypus bill, but looking closely at the flap of the face-shield, there are thousands of tiny pores. #Platypuses' bills contain receptors for detecting movement underwater, but also ⚡️electricity⚡️: they can detect the electric impulses running through their prey's nerves

A preserved platypus bill upside-down in a jar.

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R Moore Building Conservation @rmbconservation.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Currently working on conserving a lovely vernacular building in the heart of Eryri (Snowdonia) in Wales and came across these. Is wondering what they are or represent? #heritage #history #vernaculararchitecture #culture #buildingconservation

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’ve been writing condition reports today ~ yawn ~ I have 130 odd to write, but this Gwen John watercolour cat study has a nice surprise (apart from the delightful technique, not very well captured in my phone snap): a paw-print just around the line of the cat’s back! (NMW A 15597, undated)

A watercolour study of a black cat, sitting down, all tucked in nicely. The study is in various shades of grey with exposed paper along the bottom and traces of graphite pencil underdrawing

Close up of an area of the cat’s back showing a paw print in the watercolour

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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

He does not quite fit but it’s his favourite box #Catsky #Cat

Black and white shorthair cat with dark tabby markings curled up in a tatty cardboard box with one back leg sticking out.

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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

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Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History @smmnh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Oreodonts are extinct mammals that looked similar to pigs and sheep, but were more closely related to camels. They are the most commonly found fossil in the White River Badlands in South Dakota, and this exceptional specimen from our collection shows an oreodont curled up inside its burrow.

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Cory S. Sheffield 🇨🇦🐝🌺📸🎸🎨 @corysheffield.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

For comparison, North America’s smallest #butterfly, Brephidium exilis (also one of smallest in the world) versus the familiar #Monarch, Danaus plexippus.

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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Today felt like spring, have some beautiful Crocuses from our garden

Purple crocuses wide open in the spring sunshine

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

For #InternationalWomen'sDay today we have a special guest post on the #projectEPIC blog from @elangmann.bsky.social on her recent co-authored paper on endometriosis and ageism in healthcare. You can read about it here: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/03/endo...

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Endometriosis in Later Life: A Hidden Healthcare Inequality

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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A new study, involving Renata Peters @ucl.ac.uk & Ignacio de la Torre (CSIC), of prehistoric bone tools has revealed that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning much earlier. 📲 bit.ly/3Xx8Dpf 1/5

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Prehistoric bone tool ‘factory’ of 1.5 million years ago revealed

A new study, involving Renata Peters (UCL Institute of Archaeology) and Ignacio de la Torre (CSIC), of prehistoric bone tools has revealed that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abs...

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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Nb there are at least 40 more drawers full of #Fossils #FossilFriday at Bolton Museum stores

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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@jane-henderson.bsky.social while I was in the #Geology store I couldn’t leave without taking photos of the perfectly purple gems for you

Square cut amethyst in a glass vial inside a card tray in the geology store at bolton museum

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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I got a bit carried away with #FossilFriday I started collecting fossils when I was 8 (I sadly don’t have a well organised or labelled collection but they are well packed! I was clearly a Conservator not a curator from a young age) & I still love any excuse to mooch the stores

Drawer of Fossils from Bolton Museum showing large clam shell

Drawer of fossils from Bolton Museum showing ammonites

Drawer of fossils from Bolton Museum showing ammonites and sea urchins

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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

You all know Bolton Museum has a brilliant little Aquarium in the basement but did you know we also have fossil fish?!! #FossilFriday

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