I can do it in three ... "Found in store"

I've written about the life and just some of the achievements of my former classmate Andy West aka 魏安, Ando, and BabelStone @babelstone.co.uk www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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"As Shuar, we don't have anything against the world knowing our world and for museums to have our souvenirs... What we ask is that museums involve us Shuar, so that it can be us who tell the stories." The Future of the Shrunken Heads, Saturday 11 October, 2-4pm. Free, all welcome. bit.ly/4gU52dz

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

Exactly. "We are not sure why the older bison mount was never returned to DMNS, but it is likely due to the lack of formal documentation created for the arrangement and a loss of communication over time." #MuseumDocumentation

Now this is interesting: lawcom.gov.uk/project/muse... #MuseumDocumentation #RegistrarLife

For those of you here on Bluesky, the Collections Trust conference hashtag is #CTConf2025

And then on Tuesday (7 October) I'll be introducing the UK Registrars Group's AGM to the Exhibition Object Data Exchange Model #MuseumDocumentation #RegistrarLife - if you haven't come across it yet, all you might want to know about #EODEM is at cidoc.mini.icom.museum/working-grou...

Excuse me while I blow my own 🎺. On Thursday morning, I'm discussing "What next for collections management?" with Aruna Bhuageerutty, @davidgelsthorpe.bsky.social & @horusofnekhen.bsky.social on for the annual Collections Trust conference #MuseumDocumentation collectionstrust.org.uk/events/confe...

The University of Oxford has awarded pioneering Māori scholar, Mākereti Papakura with a degree nearly 100 years after she began her studies. Her groundbreaking research explored the customs of Te Arawa from a female perspective. She died three weeks before she was due to present her thesis.

Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved your life when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_So...

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An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953 [via @oxblueplaques.bsky.social ] www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...

"hallucinations represent not a temporary engineering challenge, but a mathematical reality" says study from Open AI. This seems like a pretty major problem.

We're rethinking on-site digital for SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst. The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven. We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!) #musetech

And on the day of a major announcement by the National Gallery (still hanging out in The Other Place), here's Jim Bob to remind you why it's important. "Filled it with sadness with joy and with beauty / That's just art there doing its duty" youtu.be/KtNXEZHC0q4

@twirlynoodle.com , have you seen this? Further discussion coming up on Today programme at unspecified time

And now they've found and filmed the Terra Nova, too www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

💯 Check out BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art), a new #openaccess online database of representations of books & other textual documents in the figurative arts between 1300- 1600 CE! Visit here: basiraproject.org #books 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #academicsky 💙 📚 #PhDsky #medievalsky

One for the 'personal names are more complicated than programmers realise' file www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Puts my old ambition to have s permanent job before I was 40 into perspective (Missed it by 2 years, btw)

3:35 in #MuseumEngagement Just saying... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I've been thinking about AI - because I actually have a mind - on the back of @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social essay. Here on my blog astickadogandaboxwithsomethinginit.com/is-it-time-t... and here on LI www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-s...

Here's a handy reading list! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... (So it goes)

Good morning, university typefaces

Is there such a thing as slow architecture? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

RIP Ronnie Rondell Jr., the Burning Man

'The Ace Cafe', an inevitable reminder for me of one of the great museum PR brouhaha of the 1980s (which the V&A has now incorporated into its collections) collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O92603/...

Interesting - the National Gallery are going to set up a Citizens' Assembly of 50 participants, selected by lottery, with invitations sent out to 15,000 households across the UK. They will ‘reflect on the Gallery’s purpose, priorities and public value’ www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/pre...

Paolo Viscardi, Keeper of Natural History at the National Museum of Ireland @paoloviscardi.bsky.social stares death in the face every day! Front page of Irish Independent magazine Saturday 2 August 2025

Early career, fixed-term curatorial fellowship focusing on European paintings 1600-1800 at the National Gallery, London. #earlymodern #arthistory jobs.theguardian.com/job/9693493/...

London GLAM peeps! Would you be interested in a regular, informal meet up? Let's say, once a month after work at a venue in central London. No agenda, just a get together.

OMG LET'S GO 🥰

Question for all you #MuseumDocumentation people out there ⬇️

RIP Tom Lehrer, who a couple of years ago donated all of his songs and recordings to the public domain

OK, I'm assuming you're all aware now of @londonmuseum.bsky.social's #AI conversational search #chatbot, Clio: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/introdu... ...

Anyone else been getting this on the Royal Mail website?

Visited the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, new home of Oxford Internet institute @oiioxford. Spotted the fire escape: it seems the emergency escape from internet research is ‘through Philosophy’. Couldn’t agree more. (Image is a fire door in a corridor) www.schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk

Here's a great #MuseumJobs for anyone interested in promoting and working with #MuseumDocumentation data, #DigitalHumanities etc.: Research Manager at Collections Trust collectionstrust.org.uk/news/were-lo...

One advantage to not sleeping well - I discovered Sarah Dunant going through Isabella d'Este's letters: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

Cracking #MuseumDocumentation #MuseumJobs coming up at Manx National Heritage: Collection Information Manager www.jobtrain.co.uk/iomgovjobs/J...

*re: the modern preoccupation with Winners and what our historical narrative interests say about where society is: worstjourney.com/2023/11/23/t...

News | AI scraper bots are disrupting online collections, report finds – concern that bot ‘swarms’ could result in escalating costs for institutions

If you wish to buy a picture of the toilet in my student flat on a T-shirt, you may do so here: www.carterusmstore.com/shop/sheriff...

Job! The @provenancelab.bsky.social is seeking research associates with computational experience and/or experience working with collections from colonial contexts (3 years, full-time.) If you know anyone who might be interested, please share. And distribute wherever you deem appropriate. Thx!