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Nicola Kelly
@nicolakelly.bsky.social
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Museum person, working for two brilliant museums 😀
Inclusion, collections, outreach, community. #DylanThomas #PASCymru #PortableAntiquitiesScheme
💚 Wildlife, plants, cats 😺
Dyslexic, Dysgwr Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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nicolakelly.bsky.social
👻👻👻 Spotted in my garden in Swansea yesterday, what I think is Selenochlamys ysbryda 👻👻👻 Aka the ghost slug 😀
#SelenochlamysYsbryda #GhostSlug #Ysbrydwlithen #SpookySpecies #SwanseaWildlife #BywydGwylltAbertawe #Slug
A ghost slug, Selenochlamys ysbryda, burrowed between two paving slabs in a Swansea back garden. A ghost slug, Selenochlamys ysbryda, burrowed between two paving slabs in a Swansea back garden. A ghost slug, Selenochlamys ysbryda, burrowed between two paving slabs in a Swansea back garden.
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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merchantshallyork.org
It’s World Lion Day.

Any excuse to share this derpy dude again.

🦁
We are looking at a close up of a carved wooden lion on top of a tankard.
August 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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kidsinmuseums.bsky.social
Want to learn how a simple backpack filled with affordable objects can transform museum visits for families with additional needs?

A recording of our webinar with the brilliant Sam Bowen of SEND in Museums, unpacking how to create bespoke sensory backpacks for your museum, is now available 👉
RECORDING: Creating sensory backpacks for families with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) by Kids in Museums on cademy.io
Creating sensory backpacks for families with Special Educational Needs (SEND) Webinar recording Do you want to create sensory backpacks for families with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities…
kids-in-museums.cademy.io
August 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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kidsinmuseums.bsky.social
How is your museum supporting the wellbeing of your young visitors?

Kids in Museums believes that museums can play a valuable role in supporting young people’s mental health. Explore our free resource, packed with real world examples of programmes and practice ➡️ kidsinmuseums.org.uk/resources/yo...
August 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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sarahfaulkner.bsky.social
Ragwort flowers are so pretty, and I saw many #pollinatorpals visiting including Gatekeeper, Chalkhill Blue, Mason Bee and hoverflies. However, peril awaits some......one unfortunate Gatekeeper had been caught by a Crab Spider hiding amongst the petals.
#wildflowerhour
August 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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jillwhitelock.bsky.social
Male Eristalis pertinax hoverfly on Ragwort. #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour
A Hoverfly with a tapered abdomen on a yellow flower against a blurred green background.
August 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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penrhynbirder.bsky.social
A cluster of Harebells nodding in the breeze yesterday on the embankment of the old railway from Caernarfon to Bryncir, now Lôn Eifion, overlooking Cors Gyfelog NNR @natreswales.bsky.social, the largest quaking bog in Cymru. #WildFlowerHour
August 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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botanybeck.bsky.social
There’s a huge patch of Common Fleabane in my local park which is looking glorious! I spent a bit of time staking it out but as it was warm everything was a bit too speedy! I did manage to catch up on this beautiful Painted Lady though 😍 #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour
A huge hit with a wide variety of insect visitors is the Common Fleabane. Its beautiful golden flowers are reminiscent of tiny suns and the butterflies can’t seem to get enough of them! I was only able to snap a Painted Lady though.
August 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
A drone-fly on creeping thistle, for #WildflowerHour #PollinatorPals 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #Pollinators #BugSky #UKWildflowers
A bee mimic fly on purple thistle
August 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
nicolakelly.bsky.social
For #WildflowerHour here are some #PollinatorPals on a Ragwort plant in my garden 💛Spotted the scorpion fly a few weeks back and the hoverfly was a hour or so ago 😀
August 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social
For #PollinatorPals for #wildflowerhour here are Honeybee and Marmalade Hoverfly utilising Rosebay Willowherb
August 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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wildflowerhour.bsky.social
What can you find blooming along the coast? That’s the challenge this week for #WildflowerHour! Share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #ByTheSea! Happy flower hunting! 🌿🌸🌊
The stunning spiky Sea Holly just one of the many fascinating wild plants that can be found growing near the coast. The challenge this week is #ByTheSea, why not see what you can find, share your pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm.
July 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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wildflowerhour.bsky.social
The image for this week’s #wildflowerhour challenge post is one from W. Keble Martin’s classic wildflower guide, The Concise British Flora in Colour. Isn’t it a beauty? There’s some very lovely members of the Lamiaceae or #DeadNettlefamily can you find one for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm?
Beautiful botanical painting by Keble Martin illustrating some members of the Deadnettle Family. Can you find a member of this lovely family for #WildflowerHour this week? If you can, share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #DeadNettleFamily
July 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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angiembolton.bsky.social
I've just launched by first Crowdfunder campaign to acquire an Iron Age Hoard for Oxfordshire Museums Service. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-.... Please support us by donating and/or sharing the link. Thank you @justrena.bsky.social for all your help thus far.
July 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Today's the day ! It's launch day for the #BigButterflyCount . . .

Get out between now and 10th August for 15 minutes and count the butterflies you see & help the great citizen science of @savebutterflies.bsky.social ! Get involved at bigbutterflycount.org
July 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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futuregencymru.bsky.social
‘Ni ellir gadael dyfodol natur i siawns’ 🌿

Mae Comisiynydd Cenedlaethau'r Dyfodol yn galw ar Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government i gamu ymlaen a chloi targedau cryf ar gyfer adfer natur yn y Bil Amgylchedd newydd — cyn iddi fod yn rhy hwyr.
July 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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futuregencymru.bsky.social
'Don’t leave nature’s future to chance' 🌿
The Future Generations Commissioner is calling on Welsh Gvt to step up and lock in strong targets for nature recovery in the new Environment Bill before it’s too late.

👉 Read more: lnkd.in/eCs8zzPa
July 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
nicolakelly.bsky.social
Today at Llangennith #Gower beautiful convolvulus 😍 Pics 1, 2, & 4 Convolvulus arvensis, Field Bindweed. Pic 3 Calystegia soldanella, Sea Bindweed #WildflowerHour
Two pink and white bindweed flowers surrounded by grass. Three white bindweed flowers surrounded by grass and leaves. A pink and white sea bindweed flower in the sandunes surrounded by tall grass. Two pink and white bindweed flowers surrounded by grass.
July 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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henebtwa.bsky.social
⭐ Our Glamorgan-Gwent field team captured these stunning images during an overnight watching brief in Monmouthshire last month. The work was undertaken throughout the night to minimise traffic impact. 🚗 🚧
July 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Asha has spotted a Late Neolithic flint projectile point in the lower fill of the Iron Age pit she's working on with Alison at #Durotriges25

It's a gorgeous find (despite creating some chronological confusion)
A partially translucent flint arrowhead held between the thumb and forefinger of an archaeologist
July 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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drtobydriver.bsky.social
I'm very excited to be playing a small part in this incredible new 5 year project, representing the @rcahmwales.bsky.social on the Advisory Board 🥳. Huge congratulations to all the project team for winning funding to explore chariots in ancient Wales 🐎
June 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪

Scientists at Kew & QMUL ‪@qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍

Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

#PlantScience #SciNews
June 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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laura-j-kelly.bsky.social
Some good news for ash trees 🌳🌿 congratulations @carey-metheringham.bsky.social on all your amazing work for this study, and to our other co-authors, especially Richard Nichols and Richard Buggs at QMUL and Kew! I am very happy to have been able to play a small part ☺️
carey-metheringham.bsky.social Carey Metheringham @carey-metheringham.bsky.social · Jun 27
After three long years, the last part of my PhD work is now published in Science!

We found that ash trees in the UK are evolving (some) resistance to ash dieback; a rare case where natural selection is happening quickly enough to see within a single generation.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic
Rapid evolution through small shifts in allele frequencies at thousands of loci is a long-standing neo-Darwinian prediction but is hard to characterize in the wild. European ash tree (Fraxinus excelsi...
www.science.org
June 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
nicolakelly.bsky.social
Beautiful flowering grasses and Meadow Plant Bugs, taken in our back garden in Swansea this evening 😀 #WildflowerHour #GrassChallenge #NoMowMay #LetItBloomJune
Flowering grasshead with three Meadow Plant Bugs. Flowering grasshead with a Meadow Plant Bug sitting on top.
June 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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museumsassociation.org
News | New social justice category for #FamilyFriendlyMuseum Award – 18 organisations in the running for the annual award, which will be announced in October

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New social justice category for Family Friendly Museum Award - Museums Association
Eighteen organisations in the running for the annual award, which will be announced in October
www.museumsassociation.org
June 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM