There are some tribbles in the Science Museum today. Five minutes later: The Science Museum is being evacuated as it fills up with tribbles. Five hours later: London declares a state of emergency Five days later: Welcome to Planet Tribble

The issue seems to be that if a significant proportion of people adopt AI writing, then an individual’s performance will be measured in terms of efficiency rather than skill, which means that the latter will almost automatically place you behind the curb. Or at least there’s a higher risk of that!

Given that a big chunk of museums' authority comes from the expectation that texts/captions etc are written by experts, there's a real risk if AI undermines that.

A question for #Museum and #Curator Bluesky - who else is thinking a lot about the value/ danger of using AI in writing and editing for museums? In exhibitions, galleries, talks, digital content, etc - I am finding myself staring into the distance worrying about it *a lot*.

PSA: there’s a new loading screen in Pokémon Go today 👇

Just got an email I have been dreading. The 10 Dahlias and other assorted bulbs I bought in the depths of winter just to feel something have been dispatched today. I now need to find time to plant up a small flower farm. Aaaaargh.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! A piece I wrote exploring some of the Welsh-made wonders in the Science Museum Group collections. Enjoy! Ysgrifennais i am rhai o'r pethau gwneud yng Nghymru yn y casgliadau y Grŵp Amgueddfa Gwyddoniaeth. Mwynhewch! #StDavidsDay #DyddGwylDewi bit.ly/4cmhv9A

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To celebrate One More Catch's launch, we asked the biggest Pokémon fans we know what they want to see from Gen 10, which is almost guaranteed to be revealed on Friday:

Some news - today I’m launching One More Catch, an independent publication covering Pokémon Go and the next generation of Pokémon games: @onemorecatch.site

*Finally* able to talk about the Star Trek @sciencemuseum.org.uk team-up we are organising for the 60th anniversary! Special events, world first film season, exclusive merch, props and costumes from the Paramount archives, and more! www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/star-trek-60

My new book treat arrived! Very excited by this one.

📢 Ri Freer Prize Fellowship📢 - 12-month fellowship for research on the history of science & technology, including heritage science. - Aimed at doctoral candidates in an unfunded writing-up year. - Get an £18,000 stipend & support to promote your research. Apply by 31st March 2026:

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I've been reading about oral history today and as something I've built a lot of my work around, and something I'm intending to bring into my research, I just loved this paragraph by Paul Thompson that articulates some of how I feel about it. 'It makes for fuller human beings.' Lovely.

A vital piece of Cardiff History preserved at my Mum's house. RIP Capitol Centre food court, you were the best. #CardiffHistory #WelshHistory

Super proud of this one - sometimes in museums we get to do the right thing & correct a historical wrong. Honoured to have played a part in returning Preben Holger Larsen's remains to Denmark, and I hope sharing our methods helps other museums follow difficult research threads. bit.ly/4iZXCpX

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

Excellent news: from January 2027, British students will once again be able to take part in the EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme. This is something I have long campaigned for and is a huge win for London and our young people.

What do McLaren and the Concorde have in common? 🏎️✈️ The 2025 double-winning F1 team was also the first to put carbon fibre into race-car structures back in the ’60s, thanks to engineers who came straight from working on the supersonic plane. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48pTlbR

Well this has spread quite far, which is wonderful. Oprigtig tak/ Sincere thanks to colleagues @sciencemuseum.org.uk, @wellcomecollection.bsky.social and at #Mindelunden for their work on this repatriation and the article to share how we managed this.

Super proud of this one - sometimes in museums we get to do the right thing & correct a historical wrong. Honoured to have played a part in returning Preben Holger Larsen's remains to Denmark, and I hope sharing our methods helps other museums follow difficult research threads. bit.ly/4iZXCpX

In a brilliant alignment of work & fun, I've been doing a lot of research about McLaren & F1 recently. V. convenient they've now won the double world championship! Have some fun facts about #McLaren, #F1 and the history of Carbon Fibre as a treat. blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/papaya-rules...

This is some depressing, but entirely believable, reading. Over 500 museums closed since 2000 - particularly grim reading about local authority museums. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

📢CfP: DIFFICULT COLLECTIONS📢 What can practitioners & researchers do with difficult heritage preserved in galleries, libraries, archives and museums? - Paper Trails (a Book as Online Open Content) Special Issue - Proposal deadline: 31/01/2026 - Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... 🗃️ #GLAM

The Atlantic’s holiday gift guide is out and my contribution is hot dog. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

‘Before the kits, almost a third of the evidence collected from sexual assault victims in Cook County, Illinois had been inadmissible; after they were introduced, that figure fell to 2 per cent.’ Tess Little on how the ‘rape kit’ transformed sexual assault prosecutions www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Why yes, of course I am well-versed in project management methodologies in museums...

A weird question for my museum collections nerds on a Monday: Human Hair in collections. Who's thinking about/ writing about/ discussing this? What hair have you got? How do you approach potential sensitivities? Please share far and wide! #Museums #Collections #CulturalHeritage

We used to be a country

I feel like you lot will appreciate this Cardiff postbox...

Turns out that paddock cat might be some kind of vengeful ancient god? #F1 #BakuGP

Self portrait in the heat shield of a 1992 McLaren F1 car. Some days, museum collections are very cool indeed.

Cardiff has quite possibly the most dense concentration of artisan bakeries in Europe and I for one am *honoured* to live in such a city.

We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000. Bluesky: help a museum out

Amazing opportunity here to have a say in MA policies and procedures, representing the UK's four nations. Do apply to represent your nation and the devolved issues of culture you're dealing with. #NIMuseums #ScottishMuseums #WelshMuseums #EnglishMuseums

Like many of you, we’re heading to the Wales for the summer holidays with this beautiful painting for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️ 🖼️A Sketch in Wales 👨‍🎨William James Müller (1812–1845) 📸Sheffield Museums

When anyone talks about "labour saving" tech I love to tell them that actually it just raises standards, costs money, & doesn't make anyone's life easier. When they don't believe me: EMAIL. Basically free, instant, and easier than post. But tell me - how much labour has email saved you lately?

Still stumped by this one… #palaeography

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

An excellent opportunity to join the curatorial team at the Science Museum has come up! Please spread the word. 🌍Curator of Climate & Earth Sciences ⚗️Part of the excellent Team Science in London Curatorial ⌛ Permanent, Full-Time 💲 £41k p/a bit.ly/4m3uQFp

Some good news for Welsh heritage and museums here. Much needed.

Navajo (or Diné bizaad, if you favour endonyms) is one of the most inventive of all languages (in my opinion) in that it has often created neologisms for new things, rather than borrowing terms from other languages. Here are ten of my favourite Navajo / Diné words (and their meanings) for animals…

Please share your best spoon. Our nephew, Arlo, has asked to see "our coolest spoon" and this is the best we can manage. 🥄😳

We’re hiring: Membership Administrator Join the HA team in our London office as a full-time Membership Administrator Check out the full job description and application details: www.history.org.uk/membership/news/4310/membership-administrator-job-opportunity

1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Quetzalcoatlite: - Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour - Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals - This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

Coming soon to Cardiff (or a computer near you) ✨ Less than three months to go until we take over the fabulous St Fagans National Museum of History. From talks to tours and practical guidance to parties, we’ve got lots in store when you join us at MA Conference 2025 this October.

Were it not for Hulkenberg going p19-p3 for his first ever podium, I think driver of the day probably should have gone to the safety car #f1 #britishGP #Silverstone