A PokΓ©mon Go loading screen featuring a Trainer and various PokΓ©mon standing in front of a waterfall
PSA: thereβs a new loading screen in PokΓ©mon Go today π
Just got an email I have been dreading. The 10 Dahlias and other assorted bulbs I bought in the depths of winter just to feel something have been dispatched today.
I now need to find time to plant up a small flower farm.
Aaaaargh.
Dydd GΕ΅yl Dewi Hapus!
A piece I wrote exploring some of the Welsh-made wonders in the Science Museum Group collections. Enjoy!
Ysgrifennais i am rhai o'r pethau gwneud yng Nghymru yn y casgliadau y GrΕ΅p Amgueddfa Gwyddoniaeth. Mwynhewch!
#StDavidsDay #DyddGwylDewi
bit.ly/4cmhv9A
A phone on a desk with the website One More Catch displayed.
One More Catch isn't just a site - it's also a newsletter! Get a free guide to the week ahead in PokΓ©mon Go every Monday, plus features on the world of PokΓ©mon, direct to your inbox by joining our mailing list: www.onemorecatch.site/newsletter/
To celebrate One More Catch's launch, we asked the biggest PokΓ©mon fans we know what they want to see from Gen 10, which is almost guaranteed to be revealed on Friday:
Some news - today Iβm launching One More Catch, an independent publication covering PokΓ©mon Go and the next generation of PokΓ©mon games: @onemorecatch.site
#HistoryEducation
*Finally* able to talk about the Star Trek @sciencemuseum.org.uk team-up we are organising for the 60th anniversary! Special events, world first film season, exclusive merch, props and costumes from the Paramount archives, and more! www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/star-trek-60
Copy of Globalising Welsh Studies: Decolonising history, heritage, society, and culture.
My new book treat arrived! Very excited by this one.
π’ Ri Freer Prize Fellowshipπ’
- 12-month fellowship for research on the history of science & technology, including heritage science.
- Aimed at doctoral candidates in an unfunded writing-up year.
- Get an Β£18,000 stipend & support to promote your research.
Apply by 31st March 2026:
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistβbecause the person felt she did didnβt deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Oral history is a history built around people. It thrusts life into history itself and it widens its scope. It allows heroes not just from the leaders, but also from the unknown majority of the people. It encourages teachers and students to become fellow-workers. It brings history into, and out of, the community. It helps the less privileged, and especially the old, towards dignity and self-confidence. It makes for contact - and thence understanding - between social classes, and between generations, And to individual historians and others, with shared meanings, it can give asense of belonging to a place or in time. In short it makes for fuller human beings.
I've been reading about oral history today and as something I've built a lot of my work around, and something I'm intending to bring into my research, I just loved this paragraph by Paul Thompson that articulates some of how I feel about it.
'It makes for fuller human beings.' Lovely.
A vital piece of Cardiff History preserved at my Mum's house. RIP Capitol Centre food court, you were the best.
#CardiffHistory #WelshHistory
May I offer this special space duck? collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co84...
Super proud of this one - sometimes in museums we get to do the right thing & correct a historical wrong.
Honoured to have played a part in returning Preben Holger Larsen's remains to Denmark, and I hope sharing our methods helps other museums follow difficult research threads.
bit.ly/4iZXCpX
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
Excellent news: from January 2027, British students will once again be able to take part in the EUβs Erasmus student exchange programme.
This is something I have long campaigned for and is a huge win for London and our young people.
What do McLaren and the Concorde have in common? ποΈβοΈ
The 2025 double-winning F1 team was also the first to put carbon fibre into race-car structures back in the β60s, thanks to engineers who came straight from working on the supersonic plane.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/48pTlbR
Well this has spread quite far, which is wonderful.
Oprigtig tak/ Sincere thanks to colleagues @sciencemuseum.org.uk, @wellcomecollection.bsky.social and at #Mindelunden for their work on this repatriation and the article to share how we managed this.
Super proud of this one - sometimes in museums we get to do the right thing & correct a historical wrong.
Honoured to have played a part in returning Preben Holger Larsen's remains to Denmark, and I hope sharing our methods helps other museums follow difficult research threads.
bit.ly/4iZXCpX
In a brilliant alignment of work & fun, I've been doing a lot of research about McLaren & F1 recently. V. convenient they've now won the double world championship!
Have some fun facts about #McLaren, #F1 and the history of Carbon Fibre as a treat.
blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/papaya-rules...
This is some depressing, but entirely believable, reading. Over 500 museums closed since 2000 - particularly grim reading about local authority museums.
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
π’CfP: DIFFICULT COLLECTIONSπ’
What can practitioners & researchers do with difficult heritage preserved in galleries, libraries, archives and museums?
- Paper Trails (a Book as Online Open Content) Special Issue
- Proposal deadline: 31/01/2026
- Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
ποΈ #GLAM
The Atlanticβs holiday gift guide is out and my contribution is hot dog.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
βBefore the kits, almost a third of the evidence collected from sexual assault victims in Cook County, Illinois had been inadmissible; after they were introduced, that figure fell to 2 per cent.β
Tess Little on how the βrape kitβ transformed sexual assault prosecutions
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Why yes, of course I am well-versed in project management methodologies in museums...
Drop me a DM - we should chat!?
This is brilliant, thank you so much!
Aaaaand now I'm mad you're phone's out of action because I need to see this!
I've just been in meetings. This sounds amazing!
