Nicola
Engineer turned museum person. Conservation, energy efficiency & decarbonisation at SS Great Britain. STEM stuff. Childless plant lady. Bristol 🇬🇧
- Just finished re-reading this, it was the best book I read last year and is also the best book I’ve read this year. Highly recommend!
- 📢 The deadline has just been extended to submit a poster abstract for @nhsf.bsky.social ‘s first conference taking place on 10th July. You’ve now got another week to submit your abstract. Go go go!
- Reminder that our call for poster abstracts is now open until 30 April! We welcome submissions about novel and interesting heritage science research at all stages of development. Find out more: buff.ly/18ERutq
- Reposted by Nicola🏁🏃Ready ... set ... GO! Registrations for the first ever NHSF Conference, Trends in #HeritageScience, are now open! Register by 20 June 2025. 📅: 10 July 2025 📍: UCL, London buff.ly/2yg34B3
- My happy place. Doesn’t look quite like this in February, mind 😅
- This slightly cluttered desk is my comfort zone. I'm a lot better at processing my thoughts when I get them onto paper/screen, and this is where it happens. Whatever your comfort zone, start a conversation about mental health today #TimeToTalk @mindcharity.bsky.social
- “There are always flowers for those who want to see them” - Henri Matisse 🌱
- Hello! Happy New Year! I had a little break from socials over the festive period but seem to have gained another little flurry of new followers. If you’d like a follow back, say hi below! 👇
- The place I had brunch yesterday pulled off the ultimate in Christmas trolling: tucked in amongst their festive playlist of mostly cover versions was the original of - you guessed it… #Whamageddon
- Unplugging for a bit over the holidays but popping back with my visitor attraction hat on to request that if you have a great experience somewhere this Christmas, don’t forget to leave a nice review. If it’s not so great but easily fixable, constructive feedback in private is very helpful.
- Reposted by NicolaMy starter pack on U.K. engineers is still growing- 100 people and organisations up there, now including my own employer @raeng.org.uk and lots more of its awardees and Fellows. Let me know if I’ve missed anyone! go.bsky.app/HZ9n48gat://did:plc:h3ulcnpnezle5ikfi7pklkn3/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l6qbul4pd724
- Still writing, still procrastinating, still panicking 🥲
- Reposted by NicolaToday, we're holding space for the sphinxes that were meant to sit atop both towers of the #CliftonSuspensionBridge. Because how cool would that have been? 💚
- Ginkgo 🌱🍂
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- Unpopular opinion: wearing excessive amounts of fragrance in enclosed public spaces is every bit as antisocial as playing audible music/phone sounds 🚌🤧🤢
- The snow has finally made it to Bristol ❄️⛄️
- This post seems to be getting lots of attention now that it’s 24h out of date… no snow today!
- Reposted by Nicolaa starter pack of conservators from various disciplines - please let me know if you'd like to be added, and who I've missed... go.bsky.app/4HjAJJXat://did:plc:tedcpvykdmglg72w2hxfdt4m/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3layhg4htq72u
- Am writing a thing about enthalpy, and reminded of a favourite quote about thermodynamics: "Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points...(1/2)
- (2/2) The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you any more." Arnold Sommerfeld I'm hoping my little explanation of enthalpy is going to be understandable to those who need it!
- 🌱 I grew a 5kg squash! (That’s a full size kitchen knife) I don’t have a big freezer so now I have about 4.5kg of squash to use up. Tell me your favourite recipes please! 👇
- The first thing we made with it was this, which was very nice! www.waitrose.com/ecom/recipe/...
- Reposted by Nicolabird sounds
- Hello! Time for a proper intro following my (small) influx of followers this week: I’m Nic, she/her, elder millennial. Engineer, previously nuclear power now museum energy efficiency/decarbonisation. Also: 🌱wildlife & nature ⚙️cool engineering 🔭STEM education 🚴🏼♀️active transport 🫛garden/allotment
- Reposted by NicolaMake it your mission to reach out to someone today, a family member you haven't seen in a while, maybe a old friend, or someone you've fallen out with. Perhaps a stranger that needs support or that person who really went out of their way to help. Reaching out is good for you ❤
- Every week my amazing colleagues host an “archive in five” lunchtime session, allowing visitors to see an object not normally out on display in the #museums. Now these sessions can be enjoyed on our YouTube channel too - check this week’s out! youtu.be/C_rW0p6hpgQ?...
- Thanks to NHSF for inviting me to speak at today’s Strategic Framework for Heritage Science in the UK launch event: www.heritagescienceforum.org.uk/what-we-do/s... Lots of important work in there, particularly interested in the drive to improve access to resources and funding outside of academia 🙌
- Reposted by NicolaHello, we're the Mary Rose Museum! If you're here for the events info, the historical banter or just to look at pretty pictures of Tudor objects recovered from the seabed, we hope you'll stick around! MaryRose.org
- Reposted by NicolaToday’s poem is called ‘Monetisation’.
- I don’t have any pets but my pics of other people’s animals seem to be more popular than anything else I post on here, so here’s the cat who hangs out at my allotment, for your Thursday morning 🌱
