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

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...

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

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.

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

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

Want to come and work at York? 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p... #archaeology 🏺🧪

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!

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

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

#Museum #Museums

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

As always we always make our exhibitions available online my.matterport.com/show/?m=cWk9...

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! 🧪

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

#Book #Booksky

This packaging makes me 🤤🤤🤤

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

[PODCAST] Découvrez le nouvel épisode de Secret d'archives intitulé "Amour, arsenic et trahison en 1845 à Ry". De quoi ravir les amateurs de faits divers 🧪 www.podcastics.com/podcast/epis...

Found this when I was mooching photos #Sea

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...

@suedehq.bsky.social have a brilliant gig tonight

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

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-...

Happy Sunny #Caturday

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+!! 🥲🩰🏆

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

Birdman's morning walk

Press Release  for immediate distribution 09/03/25

Meet Matilda #Duck she’s nesting on our boat roof #Canalboat #Spring

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

@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

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

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