Dr Laura Humphreys
@bogarty.bsky.social
Historian & Researcher 🏚️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Plant Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Plant Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
Why yes, of course I am well-versed in project management methodologies in museums...
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Why yes, of course I am well-versed in project management methodologies in museums...
A weird question for my museum collections nerds on a Monday:
Human Hair in collections. Who's thinking about/ writing about/ discussing this? What hair have you got? How do you approach potential sensitivities?
Please share far and wide! #Museums #Collections #CulturalHeritage
Human Hair in collections. Who's thinking about/ writing about/ discussing this? What hair have you got? How do you approach potential sensitivities?
Please share far and wide! #Museums #Collections #CulturalHeritage
October 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
A weird question for my museum collections nerds on a Monday:
Human Hair in collections. Who's thinking about/ writing about/ discussing this? What hair have you got? How do you approach potential sensitivities?
Please share far and wide! #Museums #Collections #CulturalHeritage
Human Hair in collections. Who's thinking about/ writing about/ discussing this? What hair have you got? How do you approach potential sensitivities?
Please share far and wide! #Museums #Collections #CulturalHeritage
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We used to be a country
October 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
We used to be a country
I feel like you lot will appreciate this Cardiff postbox...
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I feel like you lot will appreciate this Cardiff postbox...
September 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Self portrait in the heat shield of a 1992 McLaren F1 car.
Some days, museum collections are very cool indeed.
Some days, museum collections are very cool indeed.
September 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Self portrait in the heat shield of a 1992 McLaren F1 car.
Some days, museum collections are very cool indeed.
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.
September 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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.
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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
Bluesky: help a museum out
August 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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
Bluesky: help a museum out
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
#NIMuseums #ScottishMuseums #WelshMuseums #EnglishMuseums
Opportunity | Become a member of our Nation Committees 👤
We're looking for 12 members to join our committees to support our work in the four nations of the UK, with places available for 3 members to join each of our England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales committees.
Apply by 14 September 👇
We're looking for 12 members to join our committees to support our work in the four nations of the UK, with places available for 3 members to join each of our England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales committees.
Apply by 14 September 👇
Opportunity | Become a member of our Nation Committees - Museums Association
We're looking for 12 members to join our committees to support our work in the four nations of the UK
www.museumsassociation.org
August 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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
#NIMuseums #ScottishMuseums #WelshMuseums #EnglishMuseums
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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
🖼️A Sketch in Wales
👨🎨William James Müller (1812–1845)
📸Sheffield Museums
August 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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
🖼️A Sketch in Wales
👨🎨William James Müller (1812–1845)
📸Sheffield Museums
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?
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?
August 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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?
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?
Reposted by Dr Laura Humphreys
Still stumped by this one… #palaeography
#palaeography help please! What is thus contraction mark? It looks like a capital I like on Item or It. Ibidem? It’s from 1551 from the Edinburgh Hammermen: ‘…be our soverane and proveist and baillies of I[ ] this burght’ Ibid would fit?
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Still stumped by this one… #palaeography
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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.
July 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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
⚗️Part of the excellent Team Science in London Curatorial
⌛ Permanent, Full-Time
💲 £41k p/a
bit.ly/4m3uQFp
🌍Curator of Climate & Earth Sciences
⚗️Part of the excellent Team Science in London Curatorial
⌛ Permanent, Full-Time
💲 £41k p/a
bit.ly/4m3uQFp
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July 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
An excellent opportunity to join the curatorial team at the Science Museum has come up! Please spread the word.
🌍Curator of Climate & Earth Sciences
⚗️Part of the excellent Team Science in London Curatorial
⌛ Permanent, Full-Time
💲 £41k p/a
bit.ly/4m3uQFp
🌍Curator of Climate & Earth Sciences
⚗️Part of the excellent Team Science in London Curatorial
⌛ Permanent, Full-Time
💲 £41k p/a
bit.ly/4m3uQFp
Some good news for Welsh heritage and museums here. Much needed.
News | Caerphilly Castle to reopen following two-year restoration – elsewhere, Cyfarthfa Castle and Shire Hall Museum receive funding for transformative projects
Caerphilly Castle to reopen following two-year restoration - Museums Association
Elsewhere, Cyfarthfa Castle and Shire Hall Museum receive funding for transformative projects
www.museumsassociation.org
July 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Some good news for Welsh heritage and museums here. Much needed.
Reposted by Dr Laura Humphreys
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…
July 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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…
Reposted by Dr Laura Humphreys
Please share your best spoon.
Our nephew, Arlo, has asked to see "our coolest spoon" and this is the best we can manage. 🥄😳
Our nephew, Arlo, has asked to see "our coolest spoon" and this is the best we can manage. 🥄😳
July 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Please share your best spoon.
Our nephew, Arlo, has asked to see "our coolest spoon" and this is the best we can manage. 🥄😳
Our nephew, Arlo, has asked to see "our coolest spoon" and this is the best we can manage. 🥄😳
Reposted by Dr Laura Humphreys
We’re hiring: Membership Administrator
Join the HA team in our London office as a full-time Membership Administrator
Check out the full job description and application details: www.history.org.uk/membership/news/4310/membership-administrator-job-opportunity
Join the HA team in our London office as a full-time Membership Administrator
Check out the full job description and application details: www.history.org.uk/membership/news/4310/membership-administrator-job-opportunity
July 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
We’re hiring: Membership Administrator
Join the HA team in our London office as a full-time Membership Administrator
Check out the full job description and application details: www.history.org.uk/membership/news/4310/membership-administrator-job-opportunity
Join the HA team in our London office as a full-time Membership Administrator
Check out the full job description and application details: www.history.org.uk/membership/news/4310/membership-administrator-job-opportunity
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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)
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)
January 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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)
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)
Reposted by Dr Laura Humphreys
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
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Coming soon to Cardiff (or a computer near you) ✨
Less than three months to go until we take over the fabulous St Fagans National Museum of History. From talks to tours and practical guidance to parties, we’ve got lots in store when you join us at MA Conference 2025 this October.
Less than three months to go until we take over the fabulous St Fagans National Museum of History. From talks to tours and practical guidance to parties, we’ve got lots in store when you join us at MA Conference 2025 this October.
Conference 2025: Perthyn - Belonging - Museums Association
Join us in Cardiff this October
www.museumsassociation.org
July 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Coming soon to Cardiff (or a computer near you) ✨
Less than three months to go until we take over the fabulous St Fagans National Museum of History. From talks to tours and practical guidance to parties, we’ve got lots in store when you join us at MA Conference 2025 this October.
Less than three months to go until we take over the fabulous St Fagans National Museum of History. From talks to tours and practical guidance to parties, we’ve got lots in store when you join us at MA Conference 2025 this October.
Were it not for Hulkenberg going p19-p3 for his first ever podium, I think driver of the day probably should have gone to the safety car #f1 #britishGP #Silverstone
July 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Were it not for Hulkenberg going p19-p3 for his first ever podium, I think driver of the day probably should have gone to the safety car #f1 #britishGP #Silverstone
An amazing job in an Amazing city - if the commute from Wales wasn't a bit impractical I'd bite their hand off.
The brilliant Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery are looking for a Curator (Science & Industry).
careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk/job/333d2a38...
The brilliant Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery are looking for a Curator (Science & Industry).
careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk/job/333d2a38...
Curator (Science & Industry) - Job page - Birmingham Museums Careers
careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk
July 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
An amazing job in an Amazing city - if the commute from Wales wasn't a bit impractical I'd bite their hand off.
The brilliant Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery are looking for a Curator (Science & Industry).
careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk/job/333d2a38...
The brilliant Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery are looking for a Curator (Science & Industry).
careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk/job/333d2a38...
I am off to the @museumsassociation.org Collections Management day in Manchester tomorrow - anyone else joining?
July 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I am off to the @museumsassociation.org Collections Management day in Manchester tomorrow - anyone else joining?