Yeah. Not floating my very well-suited to librarianship boat either, to be frank!

Cataloguing sounds better.

But then, I would say that 🤣

Ink drawing on cream background of a cat head peeping around a wall with the typed text 'Curious French Cat' below

Curious French Cat, 1956 by
Sylvia Plath, US poet #Womensart

GLAM/Newsletter/March 2026/Contents/UK report - Outreach Wiki

I helped write up this month’s @wikipedia.org @wikimediauk.bsky.social GLAM UK newsletter entry featuring Wiki relevant bits of @cilipmdg.bsky.social #Metafutures conference & more! See outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Ne...

World Cafe on Subject Analysis Tuesday 21st April Cardiff University

Last few places remaining for our World Cafe event in Cardiff on Subject Analysis & LCSH 🌍☕️

📍Cardiff University
📆21/04/26
🕙10:30-16;00
🌐 tinyurl.com/World-Cafe-C...

#metadata #cataloguing #subjectheadings #EDI #critcat 🐈 #libraries 📚

Looking forward to your updates on this! 🐝

My photo shows a profile view of a small horse figurine with head to the left, displayed against a dark background. Sculpted from mammoth ivory, the surface is a mottled greyish-earthy-brown colour with a shiny patina. It was once likely pale white in colour. It measures 2.5 cm height, 4.8 cm width, and 0.7 cm depth. The head is gracefully lowered with a long and elegant curving neck, and a convex curved back. The four legs are incomplete. The top of the tail remains. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth are carved as indents. The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. It is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. On display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, at Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany.

Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend!

A tiny horse figurine carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago!

Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse!

📷 by me

#Archaeology

Image: A small, angry boy stands in front of his parents. They are in modern clothes, but he is dressed as a regency gentleman with top hat, breeches, cane etc. He says "No title, no estates, and less than a thousand a year! How am I ever to find a wife!" Caption: Noah's parents realise that he has been drawn into the manorsphere.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #manosphere

Sketchbook, plant and fine liner on my desk.

Portfolio due on Friday. Working on final few sketches of my houseplants.

Euphorbia trigona in the wild (graphite) and on my windowsill (ink).

Succulents module, Natural History Studies at Aber (online) 💚

Ruskin Spear (British, 1911-1990). Cat in a cardboard box (oil on board).

The Kinetic Playfulness of Rabbits on Bicycles This 1904 color lithograph depicts three anthropomorphized white rabbits riding bicycles, a charming example of Meiji-period graphic design from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. The lead rabbit, wearing a bold red-and-blue striped shirt, is hunched over the handlebars in a focused racing tuck, while two smaller rabbits follow behind, creating a sense of forward momentum against a background of hand-written Japanese text. The use of primary colors and whimsical subject matter reflects the rapid modernization of Japanese leisure culture and the burgeoning popularity of postcards as a medium for artistic expression.

Rabbits on Bicycles
Artist Unknown
1904, Japan
Color lithograph; ink on card stock
Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards

Chessmen at NMS National Museums Scotland - National Museums Scotland

195 years ago, on the 11th of April 1831, the Lewis chessmen were first exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland shortly after being rediscovered. The pieces wee made between 1150 and 1200 and commonly believed to have been made in Norway. #otd #history 🗃️

Painting of a woodland carpeted with light purple blossoms

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

CILIP MDG invite you to visit Drawing Room Wednesday 20th May 12:30- New TAnnery Way, London SE1 5WS www.drawingroom.org.uk

Fancy a visit to Drawing Room, London? drawingroom.org.uk
@cilip.bsky.social Members can join a @cilipmdg.bsky.social visit on Wed 20th May 2026 hosted by Drawing Room Librarian Yamuna Ravindran - full details at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#libraries #visits

This image features a 2,000-year-old marble head of the Greek goddess Aphrodite discovered in the ancient city of Aizanoi in western Turkey. The head was unearthed in the bed of a creek, separated from the rest of the body. Archaeologists also discovered the head of Dionysus, the god of wine, in the same area.

The 2,000-year-old marble head of the Greek goddess Aphrodite discovered in the ancient city of Aizanoi in western Turkey.

Photo of a sculpture of an upright dancing pink polar bear with soft fur in a white room

Italian artist Paola Pivi, known for her life-size sculptures of polar bears in vivid colours #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

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Happy #UnicornDay! A fine time to delve into @the_manticore_'s essay "Greenland Unicorns and the Magical Alicorn", which explores a fascinating convergence of established folklore, nascent science, and pharmaceutical economy.... publicdomainreview.org/essay/g... #NationalUnicornDay

British novelist Gwendoline Riley wins a $175k Windham-Campbell prize Awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, other recipients include S Shakthidharan, Adam Ehrlich Sachs and Kei Miller

@iammilliam.bsky.social Some splendid news. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

It's migration season! Monarch butterflies travel over 4,000 km to winter in Mexico's stunning oyamel forests. Witness the beauty of nature's incredible journey.

“I could never fathom how a man dares to lift up his voice to preach in a cathedral. What is he to say that will not be an anti-climax?”

—Robert Louis Stevenson, AN INLAND VOYAGE (1878)
Available free online via @gutenberg.org
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/534

a cartoon of a cat with the words `` you can do it '' written on it . ALT: a cartoon of a cat with the words `` you can do it '' written on it .

Keep fighting the good fight, Emma! You are so good that of course you are in (too much) demand!

Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.

Learn more about his life and see a collection of his stunning astronomical art here: https://buff.ly/2ENtY5g #eclipse #solareclipse

digital painting of a wood pigeon holding a long stick in it's beak

Nest Builder - digital painting

wood pigeons are so unbelievably *round* ! I had to triple check every shape I drew against the reference because it just didn't make sense

My photo shows a ceramic storage jar, with a narrow base and a broad rounded body. It has two thick loop handles attached high on the shoulders to the neck. The surface is mostly pale cream, with dark brown neck/spout. On the front is a large circular dark brown panel painted with a large white daisy-like flower motif. It has many long narrow petals radiating outwards from a round orange center. The jar is visibly reconstructed from fragments, with fine crack lines running across the surface.

Minoan amphora with floral design.

3,800 years old and still blooming gorgeous! 🌸

From Phaistos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

@cilip.bsky.social shared the recording of the @cilipmdg.bsky.social contribution to Members Fest 2026: presentations by MDG colleagues Will Peaden, Ceilan Hunter-Green and Fran Frenzel.

Free and worth a listen: www.cilip.org.uk/page/Members...

#metadata

Head and shoulders painted portrait of a woman with long dark hair in a red and gold top with a scroll in front of her with writing

"Here I painted myself, Frida Kahlo, with my reflection in the mirror. I am 37 years old and this is July, 1947. In Coyoacan, Mexico, the place where I was born".
The inscription on Frida's Self Portrait with Loose Hair, 1947
#WomensArt

A model windmill (which moved!) with a small figure of a ?dead man lying at the foot of a ladder. (No other figures featured in the whole display.) Fatal fall? Poison? Hit in the head with a sail and staggered away to die? WHO CAN SAY. The windmill museum was quite detailed about windmills which I am only medium-interested in so this held my attention for a while.

Murder, murder everywhere, even at the windmill museum.

The Guardian view on the Women’s Library at 100: a cause for celebration but not complacency | Editorial Editorial: The ups and downs of the collection launched by Millicent Fawcett make it an apt symbol of an ongoing struggle

“At a time when the rights and freedoms of women are under attack in many countries, the Women’s Library remains a symbol of struggle as well as strength.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Eagle Fern unfurling

So much love in our woodland right now