Rebekah Higgitt

@astrolabe-science.fr Here you go

@astrolabe-science.fr Did you delete the post on the Luminarium? I can't reply to it. Anyway, the NMS one is accessioned as T.1962.110. Looks similar at first glance. I'll see if I can find pictures.

Alert!⚠️🚨There are lambs to be seen! (Taking my first spring trip of the year down the east coast rail line.)

Hoping this is still open in July, flagging for #ESHS-HSS delegates #histSTM

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting.

Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

This is the building we're currently losing

Awful! Started in a vape shop and the 1850s buildings are gone. I can only hope that starts to allow firefighters to get it under control.

I think we could add some history of technology #histSTM Bluesky to the early modernists to make this happen

“The whole Solar System is here represented, the comparitive Distances and Magnitude of every Planet & their Satellites, and all their true Motions made by turning a small crank in the manner a Man turns a Grind stone..."

More info: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/rittenh...

#histSTM #histsci #astronomy

Ha! Well deserved 😊

That must have been a great day in the archives!

8 women in Scotland who shaped the history of science | National Museums Scotland Many of the scientific endeavours featured in our collections are the work of women with a connection to Scotland. Below, we've highlighted key contributio

Here's one we made earlier for #IWD - 8 women in Scotland who shaped #histSTM
www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

A great archival discovery, shedding light on translation as women's (or girl's) work

Stunning, indeed, from today's perspective that Woolf wrote "The Victorian age killed the art of letter writing..."

I'm not sure what happened - I got access back, either because someone in IT sorted it or because the system just decided to pull itself together!

Entanglement and experiment, part 2: Oral history of the first Bell tests AIP History Weekly Edition: March 6, 2026

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, we draw on oral histories conducted by the late Joan Bromberg to revisit the 1960s-era quest to do an experimental test of Bell's theorem.

At stake was whether quantum randomness and what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance" are real phenomena. #HPS

Today is the 150th anniversary of the patenting of the Telephone in 1876 — so, here is our very funny 150th episode of You’re Dead To Me about the telephone’s origins

With comedian Catherine Bohart and historian of science Professor @irmorus.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Well spotted! Before health 'n safety.

View of a museum gallery with someone dusting a suspended aircraft from a VERY high but tiny cherry picker.

Closer view of the person in the previous picture.

Before @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social opened this morning - hardcore dusting. You would not catch me up there!

“Build me a cathedral!,” somebody must have said -

Looks interesting! #histSTM

It does!

Mrs Lovi’s beads This is a short piece I wrote for a feature in The Scotsman to mark Women’s History Month 2023. Five female curators at National Museums Scotland were asked to share a story about woman repre…

Mrs Lovi's beads - sharing a short piece I wrote for a newspaper feature for #WomensHistoryMonth on Isabella Lovi, a female scientific instrument maker in Edinburgh
teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/m... #histSTM

Looking forward to talking about black holes at the Edinburgh Science Festival on 10 April at 2pm www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/a-crac... Lots of developments since I last spoke: black holes in the “forbidden mass” range, the mysterious Little Red Dots…

#Edinburgh #space #nature #astronomy

Mrs Lovi’s beads This is a short piece I wrote for a feature in The Scotsman to mark Women’s History Month 2023. Five female curators at National Museums Scotland were asked to share a story about woman repre…

Mrs Lovi's beads - sharing a short piece I wrote for a newspaper feature for #WomensHistoryMonth on Isabella Lovi, a female scientific instrument maker in Edinburgh
teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/m... #histSTM

12-month post for a Project Conservator (Science and Technology) @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social National Museum of Flight, focused on our outdoor aircraft ✈️🛩️ #museumjobs 📜 The de Havilland Comet and Vulcan need you!
careers.nms.ac.uk/job/841751

I was quite shocked to learn, via @mercoglianos.bsky.social, that UKMTO is advising no use of satellite navigation there because of this: ships should only be using radar and conventional terrestrial or celestial nav. If they can remember how to do the latter.

Article here the-past.com/feature/expa... (footnote ref to @trowelblazers.bsky.social)

I need a sabbatical in order to sort out my discs, notebooks, paper and (especially) cloud-based files.

I'm not ready to let mine go. Who knows, they might yet be useful (if I could get the laptop with the disk drive to function)!