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This might be the most depressing Valentine's card ❤️ you'll see today. But the UK's paternity leave is crap. So today I'm joining hundreds of people across the country putting these cards in shops to send a message to the government: we need longer, better paid paternity leave now.

A valentine's card with a broken heart balloon and the words "two weeks is not enough". The card is hidden in plain sight in a shop amongst other normal valentine's cards

Had a lovely chilly day in Hamburg. So many bridges and therefore so many lovelocks! A modern folklore custom where Couples lock their relationship onto structures, Usually bridges, and then cast the key into the river to seal it forever. 🏺

An iron bridge railing with hundreds of differently coloured and sized padlocks locked into it.

A tightly bunched group of padlocks locked into a steel railing next to the river elbe

A large metal sign structure above a river with padlocks locked onto the accessible lower railing above the river.

Hundreds of padlocks in tightly packed toruos on every available part of a ln openwork steel railing on a footbridge over the elbe.

#BlueskyClassics Check out this nuts bit of Classical reception: The Dying Gladiator pub in Brigg, North Lincs. Opened in the 1860s it is, allegedly and unsurprisingly, the only pub named this in the world. With it's weathered copy of the Dying Gaul sculpture. Wild.

A closed pub with a weathered sandstone carving of the dying Gaul from the Capitoline museum in Rome.

@archadam.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hey, come for a look around the lovely #YorkshireMuseum 👀 We're nearly 200 years old and have a really important collection of archaeology and natural sciences. Dead things and broken old stuff? Loads of that! 1/

The Yorkshire Museum. It's a neoclassical building made to look a bit like a temple - there is a central portico with four Doric columns and a triangular pediment, all in a pale limestone. The central portico, where the entrance is, is flanked by four broad windows. An additional extension is off to the left. It's all set in a botanical garden. This image shows the grass and rose garden in front of the museum on a bright day. The sky is blue and there are white clouds above.

Was working in @uoylibrary.bsky.social before #TAG2025 and nipped to the shop where I found this sign. What happened with the Party Cannons folks? What happened?

The #YorkshireMuseum just repatriated bits of an archaeological archive in York dug by Dudley Waterman, who took it all to Ireland. It includes this rather excellent Medieval vessel handle decoration depicting a fancy lady. It's made of Hambleton Ware, so 14th-15th century stuff. 🏺🏛️

A fragment of a medieval jar rim with a large boss on the handle. A low relief applique figure of a woman is depicted there in ceramic she appears to be wearing a headdress (with straight sides framing her face) and has one hand held at her bust and the other at her waist. The ceramic has a dark, glossy green colored glaze. It is abraded in the surface to reveal a paler, white colour, beneath at the woman's face and hips.

4 days into my toddler waking up at or before 5am I am becoming increasingly radicalized to abolish daylight savings time.

Found the Yorkshire 3 peaks! 🏺🏛️🪨 #YorkshireMuseum

Three neolithic barbed and tanged, each arrowheads labelled with a location label reading 'Peak' and an accession number. The edges of some other flint arrowheads are at each side.

Ah, this must be the official best flint arrowhead in the collection then 👀 #YorkshireMuseum 🏺🏛️🪨

A barbed and tangled flint arrowhead bearing the location name 'Peak' and an accession number.

@archadam.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ah, this must be the official best flint arrowhead in the collection then 👀 #YorkshireMuseum 🏺🏛️🪨

Check out this latest research blog from the very excellent Seeing The Dead project in York. It's an account of what we found when removing the upper part of a Roman gypsum cast which hadnt been moved in 150years. seeingthedead.ac.uk/blog/excavat...

Excavating a Roman gypsum burial

We've begun work on one of the project's most intriguing burials - a surviving gypsum casing inside a Roman sarcophagus. Find out what we discovered during our initial investigations!

seeingthedead.ac.uk

Had a little furtle through the finds archive from Heslington East excavations in #York in a #YorkshireMuseum store. Tasty little small finds from a mostly Roman site. A tiny selection of the 157 boxes of finds from this site.

A box of archaeological finds in bags and small boxes. Most are not visible but a Roman copper alloy brooch and a medieval buckly fragment are visible.

A Roman plate brooch. It is pear shaped and decorated with a background of blue enamel with a series of eight red circles surrounding it. It's still in a box lined with white foam.

A Roman copper alloy knee type brooch in a plastic box lined with black foam.

A Roman copper alloy bell, upside down, shown through the plastic bag it is still in.

#spellingbee falling foul of poor image metadata here. That is a hoverfly, Eristalis tenax, not a bee (spelling or otherwise) It's a honeybee mimic so would surely be delighted at succeeding in this deception! #hoverfly #entomology 🐝🐞

Screenshot of a mobile webpage of the Spelling Bee Forum. There is a central image of a hoverfly on a yellow flower.

If I wanted to host a free public online talk as part of a local natural history society, what platforms are folks using for this sort of thing now? Still Business zoom, Restream etc.?

@archadam.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Thoroughly wholesome Sunday morning taking the 3yo to marshall at the local Junior #Parkrun. She's too young to run but a rockstar at helping. Shout-out for Parkrun volunteering - it's easy, quick, has no long term obligations, and great outcomes for communities. 🫶

Toddler stood in a tree lined path wearing a high-vis jacket and holding a large, red, foam hand

In the world post-PhD I've been doing various writing projects, some of which are about to see the light of day. Top of the list is Magic in Roman Britain, with Amberley. www.amberley-books.com/current-mont...

Magic in Roman Britain

Lavishly illustrated throughout, this fascinating book reveals the true story of magic in Roman Britain.

amberley-books.com

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Oh wow, this looks terrific! I think I hit the order button so hard I broke my phone

Roman Scotland @romanscotland.bsky.social · 12mo ago

My lovely friend is just about to have his latest book published. This one's on Roman Magic and looks like a great read. www.amberley-books.com/current-mont...

Hey, Natural Science folks - come work with us in the #YorkshireMuseum Associate Collections Curator- Biology £26.7-£28.5k, FT, 6months www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/about-us/our... 🦆🦌🐒🍄🌿🌴🌷

Job Vacancies with York Museums Trust

Latest Job Vacancies with York Museums Trust

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺@clairemillington.bsky.social · last yr.

At Far Ings NNR moth club this morning. Good result of 6 species. 1 knot grass, 1 ruby tiger, 1 Muslin, 2 clouded drab, 2 Hebrew character, and 14 Common Quaker. With the warm patch we are about a month ahead of last year's cold damp spring. @lincswildlife.bsky.social 🦋🐝🐛🦗🪲🪳

Still thinking about the #RomanEmpire umpteen times a day, and writing about it too. Exhibition review: Legion: Life in the Roman Army, British Museum and Women Doing Everything, Everywhere, all at Once, Verulamium Museum. doi.org/10.1017/eaa.... 🏺 #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky

Exhibition review: Legion: Life in the Roman Army, British Museum (1 February – 23 June 2024), and Women Doing Everything, Everywhere, all at Once, Verulamium Museum (8 March – 4 July 2024) | European...

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Sincere and heartfelt thanks to all who have donated to our cause already, via the crowfunder or in the museum, shared or liked the post ❤️ Momentum is on our side here!

It's been so great to finally talk about the Melsonby Hoard. The important message missing from some of the press is the #YorkshireMuseum needs support to secure and conserve it! 1/ www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...

A decorative strap junction from the iron age Melsonby hoard. It's a 20cm long figure of eight shape with openwork decorations and fragmentary coral beads all across its surface.

Rebecca Griffiths @yorym-flo.bsky.social · last yr.

The Melsonby Hoard was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021 & subsequently declared Treasure. The Yorkshire Museum aim to raise £500,000 to acquire & conserve the hoard, keeping it in a public collection. Help keep the hoard in Yorkshire & donate today at: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...

Save The Melsonby Hoard - Yorkshire Museum

Help us save, conserve and share the Melsonby Hoard – an incredible treasure of 900 Iron Age objects recently unearthed in North Yorkshire

crowdfunder.co.uk

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · last yr.

The heart of the Hall will always belong to @romanpalace.bsky.social ❤️ ❤️