Spotted

My normal routine is to catch a very early off-peak train and spend the first part of the morning in the university library, before lectures start at the museum. The library is currently undergoing some building work. I assumed that a student was behind this nice addition:

...but since the university suffered a rather scathing report into equality and discrimination recently, I'd like to think it was a senior manager turning over a new leaf.

Meanwhile, in a dusty corner of a museum courtyard, I found these:

I imagine some poor grad student spending hours and hours scraping all of the fungus off the world's largest arachnid.