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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 23h

Early 19th century grapeshot, found at Barrack Park #Bexhill and very kindly donated by the Smyth family. Grapeshot was essentially small canon balls fired together to create a shotgun-like effect.

The grapeshot is a corroded brown coloured globe. It is displayed on a white label which says what I said in the main body of the post. It is against a black background. In the bottom right corner of the photograph are examples of musket shot from the Battle of Waterloo. On the left is the British one and on the right the French.

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 1m

This is what #Bexhill Museum staff get up to in their down time….. ! How about your staff??

The photograph shows a person inside a various shades of brown dinosaur costume. He is standing in some foliage in front of the boating lake in Egerton Park, #Bexhill

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 31m

In most mammals, females live longer than males, but in birds the trend goes the other way . A study of over 1000 species points to possible reasons for these differences.

Evolution may explain why women live longer than men

In most mammals, females live longer than males, but in birds the trend goes the other way – a study of over 1000 species points to possible reasons for these differences

www.newscientist.com

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 2h

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 10h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 1h

You are now entering the twilight zone…

…not really…or really? No it’s in fact the topper most part of the Great Hall.

It’s not often these timbers get seen so we’re giving them some well deserved attention today. 👏

We are looking at a black and white photo of the very top of the Great Hall roof. It is a series of triangles heading off into the distance creating a puzzling pattern.

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 22h

Congratulations to all those shortlisted in this year's Images of Research - including PGRs @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social & @louisekenward.bsky.social and staff researchers.
@dcahf-met.bsky.social
Take a look at the images on the link below and vote for your favourite:
www.mmu.ac.uk/research/res...

Images of Research: 2025 entries

View the images in the online gallery

www.mmu.ac.uk

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 28m

Behind the scenes at National Museum Cardiff with Karen Harris, who installed the original mammoth at the discovery in Shropshire 📍

#Museums2025

Karen Harris sits in a wheelchair and gestures towards a woolly mammoth statue at National Museum Cardiff

A crowd of conference delegates assembles outside the entrance pillars at National Museum Cardiff

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LBV Magazine @labrujulaverde.bsky.social · 24m

The Iron and Steel Technology That Made the Scythians Fearsome Warriors, Discovered in the Altai Mountains www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/t...

The Iron and Steel Technology That Made the Scythians Fearsome Warriors, Discovered in the Altai Mountains

High in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia, where the borders of Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and China meet, the frozen ground has preserved for millennia the secrets of the nomadic Scythian warriors. ...

www.labrujulaverde.com

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1h

An archer on the Mary Rose had to be able to shoot 12 arrows a minute!

maryrose.org/meet-the-cre...

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 10m

Get well soon. 💐

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Ipswich Museums @ipswichmuseums.bsky.social · 1h

The scales cover their body and form living armour that can withstand a lion’s bite. When threatened, it'll roll into a tight ball and release a foul spray from a gland near the tail.

If you could adopt one pangolin feature, would you choose the armour, the tongue, or the roll into a ball defence?

Side view of the full pangolin mount on an oval wooden base with an enlarged background detail of the engraved plaque behind it. The specimen’s scaled body and long snout are visible, with yellowed claws resting on the base. The engraved text on the wood reads: “THE SHORT TAILED PANGOLIN. MANIS PINTADAC YLA. (CUVIER.) CENTRAL INDIA.”

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 2h

NEW Handaxes and Levallois cores from Shbicha, Iraq. Lying at the crossroads of Pleistocene hominin dispersals, these lithics show repeated episodes of raw material exploitation, indicating well-developed knowledge of the local environment.

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Six brown-coloured lithics and sketches depicting them.

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 1h

"1916 At the baths." St. John's School at the Egerton Park swimming pool. That is the Museum in the background and all of this area is now inside our extended site - without the swimming pool! #Bexhill #Sussex #Museum #Park #School #SwimmingPool #History #1910s #ThrowbackThursday

Black and white photograph from an album. "1916 At the baths." Students from St. John's School at the Egerton Park swimming pool.

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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 2h

We're getting glamorous for the #OnlineArtExchange this week 💃

🎨 Julia Neilson-Terry (1868–1957), FRAM, as Drusilla Ives in 'The Dancing Girl' by John Collier from Royal Academy of Music

@artukdotorg.bsky.social #Art #BlueskyArt

Julia Neilson-Terry (1868–1957) is depicted full-length as Drusilla Ives in 'The Dancing Girl', shown in a private moment peering out from behind the grand red velvet theatre curtain before going onstage. She wears a long pink dress and her head is held high

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 17h

Congratulations!

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History Today @historytoday.com · 20h

Former British Prime Minister #AlecDouglasHome died 30 years ago #OnThisDay

Douglas-Home’s unusual route to Number 10 involved renouncing his hereditary peerage and his seat in the House of Lords.

🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days

www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...

How to Leave the House of Lords

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🦎 Fossils rewriting snake and lizard evolution

Two new @nature.com studies reveal mosaic fossils showing how early lizards and snakes evolved. The findings uncover a Jurassic reptile mixing ancient and snake-like traits.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/d415...

#SciComm #Paleontology 🧪

Mix-and-match fossils tell the tale of snake and lizard evolution

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex evolutionary journey.

doi.org

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 22h

For those within traveling distance of #Dartmoor, this #nature & #folklore event is coming up in Chagford soon: a talk with Dartmoor historian & guide Emma Cunis, with art by Gina Hemery. Emma's people have lived on the moor for generations; her knowledge of this land is deep and wise.

Image: The poster for "Magical Myths & Moorland Legends" at Endecott House, Chagford, TQ13 8AJ, on 17 October, 7PM: an evening of Dartmoor tales and enchantment with local historian Emma Cunis, folklorist Terri Windling, and art by Gina Hemery. The evening celebrates the publication of Emma's new book, Dartmoor Myths & Legends. For tickets, visit Emma's Dartmoor's Daughter website: www.dartmoorsdaughter.com. The art on the poster is a Dartmoor landscape by Gina Hemery.

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Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social · 20h

What do you get when you combine traditional Mi’kmaw quill work with furniture-making techniques of the 1800s? A triumph in design that became all the rage in Victorian Nova Scotia.

The chair has a dark, reddish-brown stained wood frame with turned legs and a carved, scalloped crest rail supported by small spindles. The key feature is the decorative splint-woven back panel and woven seat.

The tall, rectangular back panel is filled with woven materials decorated with porcupine quills, dyed fibers, or fabric appliques in a vibrant, complex geometric design. The pattern features a large central eight-pointed star or rosette in light brown, red, blue, and black, surrounded by bold wedges and checkerboard patterns in white, red, black, and gold/tan.

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 1d

"7 Sussex 'disciples' will fly to 'Lord of Universe'".
Bexhill Observer 28.10.1972.
#WyrdWednesday #1970s

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 19h

'The fleeting expression of the moment' ✍️

Read about John Singer Sargent's charcoal portraits 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/john-singer-sargents-charcoal-portraits-the-fleeting-expression-of-the-moment

'Girl Reading' by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) 📷 Manchester Art Gallery

A woman in a flowing dress reclines on a cushioned chair, engrossed in reading a book by a softly lit window.

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 19h

Sunbeam #TierradelFuego #Chile 8.10.1876. "Our carpenter had prepared a board, on which the name of the #yacht and the date had been painted, to be fixed on shore, as a record of our visit...filled our baskets with a varied collection of mosses and ferns...shells..." #Brassey #Travel #History #1870s

Pages from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. Tierra del Fuego, Chile 8.10.1876.

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 19h

Hard to imagine now but the #Brighton Grand Hotel must have looked like a skyscraper when it was first built in 1864. Designed by John Whichcord Jr. it towered over the rest of the seafront

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 20h

News | New digital image library for Amgueddfa Cymru – more than 2,000 images newly available in public domain

New digital image library for Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales - Museums Association

More than 2,000 images newly available in public domain

www.museumsassociation.org

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