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Undercover museum curator, actual certified doctor of museum stuff, accidental catalyst for change, educator, newt botherer, and spooky idiot. She/Her
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Me flirting

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Today's #bloomscrolling comes from a garden thrumming with grasshoppers and a woodland alive with bees and butterflies (but also a weasel).

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Have you ever thought to yourself 'Wow, I'd love to go to free to access talks by experts from around the world on spooky, supernatural, horror and Gothic subjects' Then Romancing the Gothic has got you covered! www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

If you’ve fancied a trip to Liverpool, then London Northwestern Railway (LNR) has a sale on at the moment with tickets for just £25 return. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/sal...

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'Davy Jones' Locker' by WL Wyllie (1890). A painting of an imagined underwater scene made before underwater photography was fully viable. The object listing at RMG says the artist made his own diving helmet from a biscuit tin, plus studies at Brighton Aquarium. Those fish though. 😍

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Sharing some WIP footage for a new experiment that uses photochromic pigment and a custom UV laser projector. The images fade over time, allowing for an evolving canvas. More info here ablairneal.com/project/forg...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Oof. Planned six weekday evening adventures either side of a full on weekend. Add all that heat on top, and I'm feeling pretty flattened right now. 😬 There are seven different things I wanted to do this weekend. I have had to say no to one of them (expense) but I suspect I will not not do anything.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art hotter than fuck

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Impossible to imagine this cheery guy did not wear a jaunty-angled top hat when he was alive.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

What it's like hanging out with me

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

On this day I won an epic victory and finally wrestled a set of design files from the hands of an organisation who philanthropically created them for us and then ignored every subsequent email I sent about them. (Standing on a pile of skulls holding laptop aloft and roaring rn.)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

omg. this diary. the first line.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Long friend.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Last month, I gave a talk at the Computer Conservation Society on Lore Harp. Founder of Vector, she was a key figure in early computing. It's now online. I explore both her incredible story, and how sexism (then and now) has led to her being almost entirely forgotten www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVc...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

News from home: Hatching season has begun!

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

My late ex was a photographer. Here is a thread of rockstars, only some of which I can name:

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I have assembled my army.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

James II absolutely serving in his Irregular Choice.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Ooh! Unexpected Aurora Borealis in the museum! How lovely to see one irl! #FranklinExpedition #Terror

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Just finished my workplace training on bullying and am proud to report I’m now an effective and improved bully.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments