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Associate Director of Collections Services at Science Museum Group, walker, fan: maps, culture, heritage, local distinctiveness. Gay, use hearing aids. Views own
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As climate scientists worry that the Earth may tip beyond a point of irreversible climate change, Science Director @rogerhighfield.bsky.social explores new research that suggests that even the simplest computer model is vulnerable to such tipping points: bit.ly/4gNufo8

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It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week a simple reflection. Data has never mattered more, and never more fragile. #DPC and the #digipres community have expertise and contacts that will help with that. Spread the word and save the bits.

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Absolutely wonderful report from @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social on the movement of the collection stores from Blythe House in London to custom facility in Wiltshire, including digitisation and barcoding of 300,000 objects. Phenomenal work over years, and great investment in collections access.

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@doublearrow64.bsky.social Oh dear, oh dear. (Hope station bus shelter, Derbyshire)

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"I realised that what is so ghastly is not so much the individual acts of barbarism that take place in SS camps but the gradual breakdown of civilisation that happens when human beings are herded like animals behind barbed wire." -Richard Dimbleby, 15 April 1945 #HolocaustMemorialDay

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News | Science and Industry Museum (@sim-manchester.bsky.social) partners with @theguardian.com newspaper on slavery exhibition – project aims to increase public understanding of Manchester’s historic connections to enslavement

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1.5°C target RIP. Record global temperatures, record ocean temperatures, extreme weather, fires and more - is the the Earth getting hotter, faster than thought? blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/is-the-earth...

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@rooneyvision.bsky.social Shame it wasn't sunny.

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Transatlantic slavery’s role in shaping Manchester to be explored in exhibition

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@jackshoulder.bsky.social A bit of queer history in this blog post.

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@lccmunicipal.bsky.social On display at Leeds Art Gallery @leedsmuseums.bsky.social. The photo shows The Lesson by Franta Belsky, 1957-61, at the Avebury estate in Bethnal Green.

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Sunset at @yspsculpture.bsky.social.

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Tickets for our new exhibition, David Hockney: Pieced Together, are on sale now 📸 Explore world-renowned Bradford-born artist David Hockney's pioneering use of film and photography in our new exhibition, opening Wednesday 15 January. Book your tickets now 🎟 https://buff.ly/4aaZXdB

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Culture, Media & Sport Committee have launched their 'State of Play' inquiry. What themes or sectors we should the committee be looking into in 2025? Get in touch via the link. Deadline for initial ideas is Friday 21 February committees.parliament.uk/work/8784/st...

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Flooding at Stretford Ees, and the River Mersey, both taken from a tram towards Altrincham.

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Happy new year! Especially to folks up here in Bradford as we kick off our year as City of Culture. It's going to be ace! #BD25

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

A key point here about libraries. One of the investment cases for libraries/archives/museums is that forms of knowledge are changing - the special collections we should be collecting now for humanities & social science research are digital: web/social media/personal digital collns, highly ephemeral.

submitted 62 days ago • 9 comments

Greatly impressed by London's largest nature restoration project at Enfield Chase, by Enfield Council and @thames21.bsky.social. 60 hectares of new woodland along the valley of Salmon's Brook, helping biodiversity and natural flood management, and a massively improved stretch of the London Loop.

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What awaits us in 2025? I mention some of the cool science and technology that will make headlines in the coming year blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/what-awaits-...

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This is good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Greetings for Christmas and the new year from the Hotels Executive, 1951. Railway station hotels were nationalised under the British Transport Commission and later British Rail between 1948 and 1984. From the Science Museum Group Collection @railwaymuseum.bsky.social.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

big news: from 8 Jan 2025, the absolute unit tweet will be on show in an actual museum (the National Science and Media Museum).

submitted 72 days ago • 26 comments