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Worst Journey @worstjourney.bsky.social · 2d

🔥🔥🔥https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/why-did-endurance-sink/6CC2C2D56087035A94DEB50930B81980🔥🔥🔥

A screenshot from the conclusion of the linked article: Finally, there is clear evidence that, before sailing towards the Weddell Sea, Shackleton knew that compressive ice loading should be expected, he knew how a ship should be designed for compressive ice, and he knew that Endurance was not that kind of a ship. Shackleton was well aware of the risks related to the strength of Endurance, but chose to use it anyway.

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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

"As Shuar, we don't have anything against the world knowing our world and for museums to have our souvenirs... What we ask is that museums involve us Shuar, so that it can be us who tell the stories."

The Future of the Shrunken Heads, Saturday 11 October, 2-4pm. Free, all welcome.

bit.ly/4gU52dz

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · 4d

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 6d

Exactly. "We are not sure why the older bison mount was never returned to DMNS, but it is likely due to the lack of formal documentation created for the arrangement and a loss of communication over time." #MuseumDocumentation

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 6d

This is why museum documentation matters! Without, it's very easy to misplaced an entire buffalo for decades

Denver Museum of Nature & Science @denvermuseumns.bsky.social · 7d

🕵️‍♀️🦬 Mystery solved! Our missing 650-pound Museum bison has returned after 50 years. Learn about its journey back to the Museum in #Catalyst. https://dmns.mobi/47bCc43

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 6d

Still - if it came in in the 1910s and there wasn't any proper paperwork, I'm not entirely surprised.

I mean, it's not good - but it's not surprising.

rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 6d

Ever been in a museum store?

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 6d

Now this is interesting: lawcom.gov.uk/project/muse... #MuseumDocumentation #RegistrarLife

Museum collections – Law Commission

Reforming the law

lawcom.gov.uk

rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 7d

For those of you here on Bluesky, the Collections Trust conference hashtag is #CTConf2025

rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 8d

Likewise!

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 8d

And then on Tuesday (7 October) I'll be introducing the UK Registrars Group's AGM to the Exhibition Object Data Exchange Model #MuseumDocumentation #RegistrarLife - if you haven't come across it yet, all you might want to know about #EODEM is at cidoc.mini.icom.museum/working-grou...

EODEM - ICOM DOCUMENTATION

An introduction to the Exhibition Object Data Exchange Model (EODEM), which makes it easier to share information about lent and borrowed objects between different museum collections management systems...

cidoc.mini.icom.museum

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 8d

We'll be using rupertshepherd.info/documentatio..., presented at the same conference 10 years ago, as a jumping-off point for our discussion #MuseumDocumentation #RegistrarLife

What should we be doing next?

I was flattered to receive an email a few months ago from Nick Poole, at that point still the Chief Executive of Collections Trust, asking me to speak at the Trust’s forthcoming annual confer…

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 8d

Excuse me while I blow my own 🎺. On Thursday morning, I'm discussing "What next for collections management?" with Aruna Bhuageerutty, @davidgelsthorpe.bsky.social & @horusofnekhen.bsky.social on for the annual Collections Trust conference #MuseumDocumentation collectionstrust.org.uk/events/confe...

Conference 2025 programme - Collections Trust

Read details of the conference programme here.

collectionstrust.org.uk

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 11d

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

www.theguardian.com

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 11d

The University of Oxford has awarded pioneering Māori scholar, Mākereti Papakura with a degree nearly 100 years after she began her studies. Her groundbreaking research explored the customs of Te Arawa from a female perspective. She died three weeks before she was due to present her thesis.

Oxford honours Mākereti Papakura

waateanews.com

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · Sep 26

Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved your life when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_So...

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 14d

I enjoyed the spam call claiming my router was telling BT Internet (not my ISP) there were problems with my broadband and asking me to do a speed test. Truthfully reported 500Mbps down and 495 up (full fibre), to be told I was lying. He hung up on me. The nerve!

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 16d

RAPTCHA

A CAPTCHA layout with the central Bosch triptych from The Last Judgement:

Select all squares with
THE DAMNED
If there are none, click skip

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 18d

An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953
[via @oxblueplaques.bsky.social ]
www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...

Blue plaque Sir Muirhead Bone 1876-1953/ Artist/lived here 1931-1953 Image via Oxon Blue Plaques

three storey red brick house with white cladding on the upper floors. A blue plaque is affixed to the brick. Image via Oxon Blue Plaques

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 18d

"hallucinations represent not a temporary engineering challenge, but a mathematical reality" says study from Open AI. This seems like a pretty major problem.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Jonas Heide Smith @jonassmith.dk · 20d

We're rethinking on-site digital for SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst.
The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven.
We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!)
#musetech

Building a digital museum guide that guests may actually want

We believe that our upcoming digital service will create an inclusive, personal and altogether useful companion for the SMK guest. But on...

write.as

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 22d

Date back to the days (which I can remember 😱) when it actually was the Forest Hill Post Office

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · 22d

Enjoy the safes!

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · Sep 9

www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/pre...

A new tomorrow for the National Gallery | Press releases | National Gallery, London

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · Sep 9

www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hi...

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas | Combing the Hair ('La Coiffure') | NG4865 | National Gallery, London

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Combing the Hair ('La Coiffure'), about 1896. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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rupertshepherd.info @rupertshepherd.info · Sep 9

And on the day of a major announcement by the National Gallery (still hanging out in The Other Place), here's Jim Bob to remind you why it's important.

"Filled it with sadness with joy and with beauty / That's just art there doing its duty"

youtu.be/KtNXEZHC0q4

Jim Bob - Art

YouTube video by HappyToast

youtu.be

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