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

Leclerc is fighting for his life with constant fastest laps and still only in 12th. This race is madness. #f1

An amazing job in an Amazing city - if the commute from Wales wasn't a bit impractical I'd bite their hand off. The brilliant Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery are looking for a Curator (Science & Industry). careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk/job/333d2a38...

I am off to the @museumsassociation.org Collections Management day in Manchester tomorrow - anyone else joining?

What could winning a Museums Change Lives Award do for your organisation? 💭 Culture Perth and Kinross won the Championing Social Justice Award last year 🦄 Their Head of Audiences and Learning told us about the positive impact of their win 👇 Enter the 2025 awards by 14 July: mus.ms/awards2025

The government response to this petition is infuriating. “Maternity and other types of Parental Pay are intended to provide a measure of financial security to support parents whilst they are away from the workplace; they are not a replacement of earnings” except they literally are??? Please sign:

Butetown back in the day.... "Fancy a couple of pints?" "Aye go on then. Where'd you fancy heading?" "Start at The Tredegar Arms and see what happens?"

Have you taken part in the Royal Society's public engagement survey yet? Submissions are open until Monday 30 June 📅

Still open for a couple days if you'd like to join the team! 👇👇👇 #HistMed

Welcome the Welsh Museums Fed to Bluesky and give them a follow!

We're hiring 📣 Do you want to help people discover the art and objects in Welsh museums? We're looking for a skilled and organised Senior Digitisation Coordinator based in Wales 👉 buff.ly/m0km3dH #ArtJobs #Digitisation #Wales #MuseumJobs

Are you a PhD student using the Library for your research, or interested in doing so? Join one of our Doctoral Open Days for a deep dive into the areas of our collection which might be relevant to your research, as well as top tips on using the Library 👇 bit.ly/BLPhDOpenDays

Brilliant freelance curator project for @rcn.org.uk in Wales. Develop an exhibition celebrating the history of Ty Maeth, the RCN's HQ. £3k, til September, freelance. The history of nursing in Wales is fascinating - can't wait to see the eventual show! museum-services-jobs.le.ac.uk/job/exhibiti...

Solidarity with all my colleagues working in DCMS-funded museums and projects, anxiously awaiting the Spending Review this afternoon. It has been a very rough few years in the culture sector, and I have a feeling that won't change today.

Job researching plants and enslavement www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...

Well wouldn't ya know it, we're throwing a conference! Check it out and sign up for either in person or online tickets below #academia #academicchatter #phd #conference #research #literature #transatlantic #literary www.eventbrite.com/e/transatlan...

Deadline is today! If you’re mulling a paper, act soon! Session 134: imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/lat...

Just signed off an email All best, Blaura. Think I prefer it.

If you look after a public toilet (or just want to spread the word) you can order red cord cards from the Euan's Guide site that explain that the red cord must hang freely to the floor. www.euansguide.com/get-involved...

I'm using accessible toilets more often of late, as they are often also the baby change. Please spread the message: 🚨THE RED PULL CORD ALARM NEEDS TO BE ACCESSIBLE FROM THE FUCKING FLOOR 🚨 I've untied/ untucked 4 of them this weekend alone which were way too high off the ground. So, so dangerous.

To give you an idea of the toddler I am raising, he just had a massive tantrum that we were watching a bit of Gardeners' World that did not feature Monty Don. "WHERE'S MONTY IN THE GARDEN?!"

Here’s the Shoreditch Public Library in East London. It’s 1895. The chief librarian William Plant is the self-educated son of a silk twister. Plant lives in a flat ‘over the shop’. Among his regular borrowers are rope makers, metal workers, ivory turners, tie makers, and stone masons. #PubLibs 💙📚

Submit an article to the Society's journal, Transactions. We welcome research articles and commentaries on historical debate / practice. Our journal covers all historical subjects, chronologies & geographies bit.ly/3OujmeL Articles appear Open Access to ensure wide circulation #Skystorians 1/2

🎉 Delighted to be a judge for this year's @museumsassociation.org Museums Change Lives awards. Nominations are now open - please spread the word and tell us about the people in your organisation who are doing good work: www.museumsassociation.org/campaigns/mu...

Haven't been this relieved to see rain in South Wales for a while. The allotment might yet live!

The Society of Architectural Historians welcomes paper submissions for its 79th Annual International Conference in Mexico City April 15-19, 2026. 50+ sessions target diverse topics across the length and breadth of history. Submit by June 5, 2025. www.sah.org/docs/default...

Call for papers: VI Conference on the History of Publishing: Circuits and Networks in the Book Trade in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds, December 3–5, 2025 (Barcelona) #bookhistory

📣Call for Papers📣 ‘Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History’. The Ninth ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ joint seminar of The Royal Anthropological Institute & The Folklore Society, Thurs 23 Oct 2025. Proposal deadline 30 Jun 2025. folklore-society.com/blog-post/ca...

'Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire'. Call for papers: deadline extended to Friday 16 May 2025