Pierrette Squires ACR
@museumpierrette.bsky.social
Conservator managing Conservation for Glasgow Museums. Sharing my Cat, Books 📚(often Queer fantasy 🏳️🌈), Museums, Suede 🎶, beautiful & interesting science. I read a lot. Deaf 🧏♀️ with Endometriosis 🩷💜💙 She/Her 🇪🇺
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...
Cultural conservation centre to become part of world-leading research institute
Transforming the cultural health of the nation and our region and responding to emerging threats to cultural legacies will be the core focuses of a new institute in the Faculty of Arts at the Universi...
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A multicoloured fish 🐠 which we think some of our followers might recognise from back in the day #WeekMForMulticoloured #AlphabetChallenge
Dr Vicky Donnellan@vickydonnellan.bsky.social · 2y ago🐠
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.
Pierrette Squires ACR@museumpierrette.bsky.social · 2y ago
Our museum is hiring a new Director of Collections if you or someone you know is interested! aam-us-jobs.careerwebsite.com/job/beatrice...
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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 🏺🧪
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) at University of York
An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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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!
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
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
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! 🧪
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...
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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...
Reading exhibition celebrates the birth of 'Tech Town'
An exhibition marking the the birth of Britain's own Silicon Valley is taking place in Reading.
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youtube.com/watch?v=LV15... Vera Farmiga in a goth metal band wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card.
The Yagas - She's Walking Down (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The Yagas
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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...
Secret d’archives : amour, arsenic et trahison en 1845 à Ry
Dans cet épisode dédié à un double assassinat commis en 1845, nous sommes dans la commune de Saint-Lucien, près de Ry, où des amants sans scrupules fomentent de terribles crimes entre deux rendez-vous...
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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...
Help your local herbarium!
Volunteers mounting specimens at Univ Leicester Image: L. Marsh Regular readers of this blog will know that we have a passion for herbaria ....
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@suedehq.bsky.social have a brilliant gig tonight
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-...
Queer Planet
Join award-winning drag king, Bi-Curious George, London’s most loveable nature boy, on a raucous romp through the animal kingdom.
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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+!! 🥲🩰🏆
