Dr Laura Humphreys

There are a few sneaky cool postboxes around. There's a Victorian one in Roath which has been enveloped by a tree.

I feel like you lot will appreciate this Cardiff postbox...

Turns out that paddock cat might be some kind of vengeful ancient god? #F1 #BakuGP

It's not even the only #F1 car I dealt with today. What a life!

A blurry reflection of me in the gold leaf heat shield behind the driver's seat of an F1 internal monocoque chassis

Self portrait in the heat shield of a 1992 McLaren F1 car.

Some days, museum collections are very cool indeed.

Cardiff has quite possibly the most dense concentration of artisan bakeries in Europe and I for one am *honoured* to live in such a city.

We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000.

Bluesky: help a museum out

I'd jump at this but living in Wales/ working in England means I'm uniquely unqualified. But at a recent MA thing I was surprised how few applications came from Wales and Northern Ireland.

Would love for this to change, your input will make such a difference!

💚Iarratas Anois // Ymgeisiwch Nawr ❤️

Amazing opportunity here to have a say in MA policies and procedures, representing the UK's four nations. Do apply to represent your nation and the devolved issues of culture you're dealing with.

#NIMuseums #ScottishMuseums #WelshMuseums #EnglishMuseums

Like many of you, we’re heading to the Wales for the summer holidays with this beautiful painting for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️

🖼️A Sketch in Wales
👨‍🎨William James Müller (1812–1845)
📸Sheffield Museums

147 at close of play. Would still ban them if that was a viable option. I would dearly love to go back to the snarky physical memos of old that I often find in archives...

Even closer, the London Welsh School also exists in Ealing...

This thought brought to you by the fact I have 590 emails and untold chaos in my inbox and I'm trying to get it cleared today and I am already praying for death pre-9am.

I fucking *hate* email.

When anyone talks about "labour saving" tech I love to tell them that actually it just raises standards, costs money, & doesn't make anyone's life easier.

When they don't believe me: EMAIL. Basically free, instant, and easier than post. But tell me - how much labour has email saved you lately?

Still stumped by this one… #palaeography

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

An excellent opportunity to join the curatorial team at the Science Museum has come up! Please spread the word.

🌍Curator of Climate & Earth Sciences
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Some good news for Welsh heritage and museums here. Much needed.

Oh I would be well up for an annual spoon competition. We have several thousand more!

Proto millennium dome?

10. Raccoon = tábąąh mąʼii (waterside coyote) 9. Dog = łééchąąʼí (shit pet) 8. Spotted hyena = tééh łééchąąʼí łikizhígíí (shit pet of the valley, with spots) 7. Sea lion = tábąąstííntsoh (big otter) 6. Walrus = tábąąstííntsoh bideeʼ hólónígíí (big otter that lies on the shore, with tusks) 5. Turtle = chʼééh digháhii (in vain starts to go along slowly) 4. Alpaca = shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ tłʼízíʼilí (shaggy goat from the south) 3. Caterpillar = wódítłʼooí (insect that is hairy) 2. Shark = łóóʼ hashkéhé (angry fish) 1. Kangaroo = nahatʼeʼiitsoh (big hopping rat)

Navajo (or Diné bizaad, if you favour endonyms) is one of the most inventive of all languages (in my opinion) in that it has often created neologisms for new things, rather than borrowing terms from other languages. Here are ten of my favourite Navajo / Diné words (and their meanings) for animals…

The back of the bowl of a spoon, made from bone. the handle has broken off and is missing. It's pretty cute, but we don't think Arlo will be impressed.

Please share your best spoon.

Our nephew, Arlo, has asked to see "our coolest spoon" and this is the best we can manage. 🥄😳

Spoon, whalebone, mother of pearl inlay | Science Museum Group Collection Whalebone spoon, inlaid with mother of pearl, European 1801-1900

And a beautiful whalebone and mother of pearl spoon collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co15...

Combined medicine spoon and corkscrew | Science Museum Group Collection Combined medicine spoon and corkscrew, advertisement for Burroughs Wellcome, metal, British, 1880-1900

A combined spoon and corkscrew! collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co13...

Bronze spoon | Science Museum Group Collection Bronze spoon, in the shape of a trident with bowl on middle prong

A bronze spoon, which is in the shape of a trident but I would say in modern parlance, is definitely an early iteration of the Spork

collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co82...

Medicine spoon | Science Museum Group Collection Porcelain medicine spoon with polychrome decoration, German(?), 1860-1930

A porcelain medicine spoon

collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co13...

Medicine spoon | Science Museum Group Collection Gibson spoon, silver 1829

A silver Gibson spoon

collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co12...

Temple lustration spoon | Science Museum Group Collection Brass temple lustration spoon, Bengali, 1801-1900

I have found some of our best spoons from @sciencemuseum.org.uk for Arlo! I had no idea how many we had. My personal faves:

Temple Lustration Spoon with a scorpion detail
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co12...

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Tiny blue-green crystals (there's a green coloured arrow stuck on the specimen to point these out) with some leaf-green illite and blue azurite on a matrix. From Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London's collections.

1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Quetzalcoatlite:
- Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour
- Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals
- This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)