Glyn Morgan

Tove Jansson on an elephant, London Zoo, 1957.

On the occasion of her birthday, Tove Jansson on an elephant, London Zoo, 1957. Good morning.

Space | Science Museum See iconic spacecraft and out-of-this-world objects in our exciting new free gallery.

Apollo 10 is not currently on display as it's being moved to a new position as part of the new Space gallery at the back of the museum which opens on 20 September, it's going to look fantastic in its new home though!:

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RIP Jim Lovell, photographed here in front of Apollo 10 on his visit to the Science Museum @sciencemuseum.org.uk in 2013.

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Loved this book, treat yourself to a copy!

Illustrations of various strains of pollen in extreme magnification, as featured in Ueber den Pollen (1837), a book by St. Petersburg based German pharmacist and chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pollen-up-close-1837

Selfie on a pedalo on the River Usk, wooded on either side as the river stretches behind me

View of the riverbank, reeds and trees rise up from the water

Looking ahead on the river

Looking back down the Usk towards the weir at Brecon

Went for a lovely meal with the family in Brecon and then somehow got myself roped into being on a pedalo on the Usk! Beautiful but was not at all dressed appropriately 😅

Sign reads "Dogs are very welcome inside the Cathedral. Dogs are angels without wings. God sent them so no-one suspects." Below this is an overexposed photo of some very happy looking dogs

Love this in Brecon Cathedral! 🐶

Y Gaer Museum Art Gallery & Library, a neoclassical front. Above the pillars it says "Victoria Regina MDCCCXLII"

A collection of early-Christian standing stones brought into the museum.

Oil painting by Augustus John "Welsh Mountains" c.1911

One of the displays in the museum: a carriage, a penny farthing bike, a railway signal, an artwork of some sheep, a display case of rail paraphernalia

Before heading to the house I of course stopped in at Y Gaer, Brecon's museum, gallery and library. It's great: a lovely range of objects from throughout local history and some beautiful artworks.

A big converted barn near Brecon

A double bed with book cases

A big living room with beams crossing the ceiling

Another big bed room with wooden floors and furniture, beams over the ceiling

I'm in mid-Wales, near Brecon, for a family gathering to celebrate my mum's big birthday. I sourced and booked the house, I think I did pretty well! 😍

Cartoon drawing of Nietzsche hoovering and thinking "God I hate this thing". Caption reads Nietzsche abhors a vacuum.

Nietzsche abhors a vacuum

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The Hidden Climate Crisis In Pop Culture (w/ Mark Bould) Podcast Episode · The Climate Pod · 07/29/2025 · 53m

Such a fascinating conversation with @markbould.bsky.social and the @climatepod.bsky.social
Highly recommend ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hadn’t thought about film and it’s relationship to climate crisis in these ways, truly eye opening
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Bugs, biotech and bread: Science Museum serves up the Future of Food The history of food is the history of humanity, and now the Science Museum is taking a look at that history and what the future of food looks like.

The history of food is the history of humanity, and now the Science Museum is taking a look at that history and what the future of food looks like.

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UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.

Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.

If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Holyrood 🤗

ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩‍🔬🔭🧪

A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

A shipping container painted with a depiction of a train passing over a viaduct, the fields below say "Walthamstow", the open doors say "Come In"

A retired tube carriage from the Victoria Line

A view of the pumphouse interior

The non-electric workshop. The sign says "all tools in this workshop are other hand operated, foot operated, or belt driven from the overhead line-shaft as would have been the case in Victorian times."

It's Sunday, which means the Walthamstow Pumphouse museum is open, so I decided to pop in.

Print featuring a woodland scene with dappled sunlight

Linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle who is inspired by her local countryside #womensart
#summer #sunday

Got there in time for the twice daily running of the engine. One of the two Marshall steam engines from 1896, albeit now running on compressed air.

A shipping container painted with a depiction of a train passing over a viaduct, the fields below say "Walthamstow", the open doors say "Come In"

A retired tube carriage from the Victoria Line

A view of the pumphouse interior

The non-electric workshop. The sign says "all tools in this workshop are other hand operated, foot operated, or belt driven from the overhead line-shaft as would have been the case in Victorian times."

It's Sunday, which means the Walthamstow Pumphouse museum is open, so I decided to pop in.

I'm only two thirds in, but it's been a while since I've watched a series that has been such a visual and intellectual feast!

Levi the robot in a forest of strange growths

One of the characters watched the pollination sequence of a strange flower, glowing balls rise towards her face from and orange and yellow plant with short tendrils surrounding it

Title card for MAX Original Scavengers Reign, a character is shown engulfed by strange plant or fungal life as she reaches for hell

One of the characters kneels, next to a bike whose wheels are made of two big yellow spheres. Levi, a robot with a similar sphere-based design, is trimming her hair. They stand in front of a tree stump from which a single flower sprouts, huge roots tower around them, spores float through the air.

I assume I'm late to the party, but just in case: have you seen Scavengers Reign?! HBO Max series, on Netflix in the UK. Gorgeous Moebius art style with the bio-weird of Nausicaa Valley of the Wind, @aptshadow.bsky.social, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, @kameronhurley.com Stars are Legion, etc.

A display about potatoes. A number of exhibits used illustrations from/inspired by the objects to bring a bit more colour to their cases which was a nice touch.

Signs from the British Library's story garden which was adapted from a disused parking lot. It is soon going to be developed to expand the BL, a new garden is apparently opening somewhere else. The signs say "water wisely" "if you did not plant it please do not pick it" "herb garden" and "the fruits and vegetables here are grown by local residents for their homes please do not pick the food."

Edward Budding patented the first mechanical lawnmower, this is one of them from 1832. We have one in the Science Museum Collection but this one is on loan from Ransomes Jacobsen Ltd. Behind it is a colourful poster entitled "Fuck Lawns" which decries the typical garden lawn as an unsustainable monoculture. The art is by Sam Wallman. Weirdly the label didn't carry a date but I think it's from 2022.

Charles Darwin's vasculum, on loan from the Linean Society. The label reads: "Plant hunting fuelled the development of botany and natural history in Europe. Charles Darwin was one of many scientists whose work was influenced by knowledge gained from plant hunting. This vasculum, a container for storing plant cuttings, belonged to Darwin and was used by him on expeditions to South America. He went on to use the data compiled from this voyage to help formulate his theory of evolution by natural selection."

Yesterday I took myself off to see @britishlibrary.bsky.social's exhibition "Unearthed: The Power of Gardening", a lovely cross-section of our changing relationships with gardens and, by extension, nature. On until 10th August, Tickets £15.

When you strip away humanity

A display about potatoes. A number of exhibits used illustrations from/inspired by the objects to bring a bit more colour to their cases which was a nice touch.

Signs from the British Library's story garden which was adapted from a disused parking lot. It is soon going to be developed to expand the BL, a new garden is apparently opening somewhere else. The signs say "water wisely" "if you did not plant it please do not pick it" "herb garden" and "the fruits and vegetables here are grown by local residents for their homes please do not pick the food."

Edward Budding patented the first mechanical lawnmower, this is one of them from 1832. We have one in the Science Museum Collection but this one is on loan from Ransomes Jacobsen Ltd. Behind it is a colourful poster entitled "Fuck Lawns" which decries the typical garden lawn as an unsustainable monoculture. The art is by Sam Wallman. Weirdly the label didn't carry a date but I think it's from 2022.

Charles Darwin's vasculum, on loan from the Linean Society. The label reads: "Plant hunting fuelled the development of botany and natural history in Europe. Charles Darwin was one of many scientists whose work was influenced by knowledge gained from plant hunting. This vasculum, a container for storing plant cuttings, belonged to Darwin and was used by him on expeditions to South America. He went on to use the data compiled from this voyage to help formulate his theory of evolution by natural selection."

Yesterday I took myself off to see @britishlibrary.bsky.social's exhibition "Unearthed: The Power of Gardening", a lovely cross-section of our changing relationships with gardens and, by extension, nature. On until 10th August, Tickets £15.

Oh! I'll have to check this out, just around the corner from work

Future of Food, Science Museum, July 2025 I may have been bribed with Benugo pastries before I entered the Science Museum’s new exhibition on the ‘Future of Food’ but I definitely think this is one of their best exhibitio…

New on the blog - Future of Food @sciencemuseum.org.uk - chicken nugget home grown, lab made or full of cornflower? The choice is yours at the latest free exhibition in South Kensington which I thoroughly enjoyed.
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So glad you enjoyed!

Thank you!

MRI Scanner Built in a Double Decker Bus | Science Museum Group Collection MR (Magnetic Resonance) mobile machine - built into a 1983 modified double deck motorway coach (a MCW Metroliner) as fully working, low cost mobile clinical and research machine, which has been used t...

Apropos of mobile medical equipment, we also have an MRI machine built into a double-decker bus!

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Model of a Red Cross mobile operating theatre, England, 1914-1968 | Science Museum Group Collection Model of a Red Cross travelling operating theatre from Great War, English, 1914-1968

Correct, the OP is a model of a mobile operating theatre used during the First World War.

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That was more chaotic than I expected! But great to have my first experience of live TV 🦗📺