I helped write up this month’s @wikipedia.org @wikimediauk.bsky.social GLAM UK newsletter entry featuring Wiki relevant bits of @cilipmdg.bsky.social #Metafutures conference & more! See outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Ne...

Last few places remaining for our World Cafe event in Cardiff on Subject Analysis & LCSH 🌍☕️ 📍Cardiff University 📆21/04/26 🕙10:30-16;00 🌐 tinyurl.com/World-Cafe-C... #metadata #cataloguing #subjectheadings #EDI #critcat 🐈 #libraries 📚

Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! A tiny horse figurine carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago! Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse! 📷 by me #Archaeology

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #manosphere

Portfolio due on Friday. Working on final few sketches of my houseplants. Euphorbia trigona in the wild (graphite) and on my windowsill (ink). Succulents module, Natural History Studies at Aber (online) 💚

Ruskin Spear (British, 1911-1990). Cat in a cardboard box (oil on board).

Rabbits on Bicycles Artist Unknown 1904, Japan Color lithograph; ink on card stock Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards

195 years ago, on the 11th of April 1831, the Lewis chessmen were first exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland shortly after being rediscovered. The pieces wee made between 1150 and 1200 and commonly believed to have been made in Norway. #otd #history 🗃️

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

Fancy a visit to Drawing Room, London? drawingroom.org.uk @cilip.bsky.social Members can join a @cilipmdg.bsky.social visit on Wed 20th May 2026 hosted by Drawing Room Librarian Yamuna Ravindran - full details at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event... #libraries #visits

The 2,000-year-old marble head of the Greek goddess Aphrodite discovered in the ancient city of Aizanoi in western Turkey.

Italian artist Paola Pivi, known for her life-size sculptures of polar bears in vivid colours #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Happy #UnicornDay! A fine time to delve into @the_manticore_'s essay "Greenland Unicorns and the Magical Alicorn", which explores a fascinating convergence of established folklore, nascent science, and pharmaceutical economy.... publicdomainreview.org/essay/g... #NationalUnicornDay

@iammilliam.bsky.social Some splendid news. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

It's migration season! Monarch butterflies travel over 4,000 km to winter in Mexico's stunning oyamel forests. Witness the beauty of nature's incredible journey.

“I could never fathom how a man dares to lift up his voice to preach in a cathedral. What is he to say that will not be an anti-climax?” —Robert Louis Stevenson, AN INLAND VOYAGE (1878) Available free online via @gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/534

Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. Learn more about his life and see a collection of his stunning astronomical art here: https://buff.ly/2ENtY5g #eclipse #solareclipse

Nest Builder - digital painting wood pigeons are so unbelievably *round* ! I had to triple check every shape I drew against the reference because it just didn't make sense

Minoan amphora with floral design. 3,800 years old and still blooming gorgeous! 🌸 From Phaistos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

@cilip.bsky.social shared the recording of the @cilipmdg.bsky.social contribution to Members Fest 2026: presentations by MDG colleagues Will Peaden, Ceilan Hunter-Green and Fran Frenzel. Free and worth a listen: www.cilip.org.uk/page/Members... #metadata

"Here I painted myself, Frida Kahlo, with my reflection in the mirror. I am 37 years old and this is July, 1947. In Coyoacan, Mexico, the place where I was born". The inscription on Frida's Self Portrait with Loose Hair, 1947 #WomensArt

Murder, murder everywhere, even at the windmill museum.

“At a time when the rights and freedoms of women are under attack in many countries, the Women’s Library remains a symbol of struggle as well as strength.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So much love in our woodland right now

All done, and it will be going to Bude next week.

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Happy Easter to all who celebrate!

Elizabeth Blackadder, Tulips, 1998 #WomensArt #April.

Awe inspiring new view of our single island planet home captured by Artemis II astronauts travelling around the far side of the moon. We have no planet B.

The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?

The March 2026 issue of our OA journal #Catalogue&Index #C&I is available at: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... This issue focuses on the topics of subject indexing and classification #changethesubject #LCSH #subjectanalysis #indexing #metadata #cataloguing #libraries 📚🐈

Jessie Marion King (1875-1949), Scottish illustrator, jewellery/fabric designer, one of the artists known as the 'Glasgow Girls' #womensart

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Loving revisiting #ThisLife. It was essential all-flat viewing when I was an undergraduate - they all seemed so grown up and glamorous (and rich!) Quintessentially 1990s. Now they all seem so young and lost…! Still great #BBC drama. And Anna is still an absolute Scottish icon.

This week over 100,000 ALCS members will receive their share of £34m. Let's celebrate the value of human creativity, something that isn't going anywhere 💡📖🌳

Happy ALCS day to all those in the writing community who gratefully celebrate this annual dump of a seemingly randomly allocated pile of cash, the origins of which remain opaque (something to do with photocopying) 🙏

Many thanks for the new gecko.

Does each species have an optimal form? An ideal beauty that existed prior to the Fall? @margocsy on the search for a menagerie of perfect prelapsarian geometry: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/elephants-horses-and-the-proportions-of-paradise

For those signed up for Thursday's RDA training with Anne Welsh, of BeginningCataloguing, the LAI have awarded LAI CPD accreditation for all attendees. @laibluesky.bsky.social @annewelsh.bsky.social

Not long to wait for our one-day online training with Anne Welsh, of BeginningCataloguing and hosted by the LAICMG, that demystifies Resource Description and Access (RDA). Thursday, March 26th 10 am - 4 pm www.eventbrite.ie/e/introducti... @annewelsh.bsky.social @laibluesky.bsky.social

A spring cartoon for @newscientist.com

For the first day of spring ... the glorious print of tulips from Robert John Thornton's stunning “Temple of Flora” (1807): publicdomainreview.org/shop/search/?... Read more about the Thornton's work here in Martin Kemp's essay here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/s...

Thanks to @sophieherx.bsky.social for a fab shout out to 'dance as if' (published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social) in the current issue of @mslexia.bsky.social I'm delighted to be described as 'a champion of collaboration and cross pollination across artforms'. #danceasif #collaboration #poetry

“Glasgow’s cityscapes become both newly-colonised sci fi planets & Escher-esque lithographs… the impassive wit of the city & its surroundings is often on display” —Heather Parry in residence at the @agrayarchive.bsky.social & the @aowensarchive.bsky.social heatherparry.substack.com/p/in-the-mar...

Winifred Nicholson (1893 – 1981), Modernist British painter known for her still life work especially #WomensArt #Spring

‘The famed ballerina said that it's "often mistaken when something is popular that it's meaningful or more impactful," but made clear, "There's a reason that the opera and ballet have been around for over 400 years."’ people.com/misty-copela...

Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the #Oscars.

UK sculptor Heather Jansch (1948-2021), known especially for life-size driftwood horse sculptures, #WomensArt

It's #RDAday! And our final day of the MDG #Conference in Bristol #MetaFutures. The programme is available at tinyurl.com/Cilip-MDG #metadata #discovery #standards #cataloguing