Dr Amy Jane Barnes
@amyjanebarnes.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer & Staff Tutor in Art History, Open University. Museums, heritage, visual culture, Chinese things. 'Collector' of chronic illnesses. Passionate about Ipswich (football and town)! Thoughts are my own. She/her open.ac.uk/people/ajb2863
My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
Reuters@reuters.com · 3d agoSpain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages reut.rs/4zAAN4r
Essex police have advised me it's unsafe to work from home today and that for my own safety I must go down the pub this afternoon instead.
Total eclipse in some art 🌑☀️ How have artists depicted the astronomical phenomena known as eclipses? Here are a few examples 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/total-eclipse-in-some-art 'Colour lithograph of solar eclipse' by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot (1827–1895) 📷 Science Museum
This is too good. Read to the end.
Orkney Library & Archive@orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12mo agoIt's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.
I think I’m being radicalised by this book. 🤣 I’m nodding in agreement, getting angry and exasperated at the status quo and LOLing at some of the ridiculous ‘advice’ noted by the authors that is given in the supposed self help books written by others. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
The Slow Professor - University of Toronto Press
Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy
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Live in 🏴 Born in 🏴 Parents 🏴🏴 Grandparents 🏴🏴🏴🏴 Been to (as far as i can remember) 🏴🇮🇪🇫🇷🇧🇪🇩🇪🇫🇮🇪🇪🇪🇸🇵🇹🇦🇹🇺🇸 (I’m not very well travelled, but I have left Europe, at least.)
Rob 🏳️🌈@rotster.net · last wk.Live in: 🏴 Born in: 🏴 Patents: 🏴🏴 Grandparents: 🏴🏴🏴(🏴*) Been to: 🇦🇹🇨🇿🇧🇪🇩🇰🏴🇫🇷🇩🇪🇭🇰🇭🇺🇮🇹🇱🇺🇳🇱🇵🇹🇷🇴🏴🇸🇰🇸🇮🇸🇪🇨🇭🇺🇸🏴 *as far as I know
My friend @liedra.net was on BBC News last night and she was excellent! I recorded the whole thing and the file is so large it's crashed my phone. Time to start deleting things (other things!).
Bella’s favourite thing is when I do work while slumped on the sofa (don’t let the DSE team see this!).
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Our autumn exhibition Witches: Suffolk’s Dark Legacy explores the brutal Suffolk witch trials of the 1640s. Made possible with a grant from the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund. Find out more https://orlo.uk/Y0b5N Image: Witches give babies to the devil woodcut, 1720. Credit: Wellcome Collection
Ah, the perpetual frustration of trying to make a certain national museum understand that I need to publish images of objects on display in context (i.e. in galleries, cases, storage, etc.). Studio photography of individual objects will not do. ARGH. Send thoughts and prayers.
It's 10 years since my brilliant friend, Elee Kirk, died way too soon. If you're interested in museum education research (and dinosaurs!) please have a look at her thesis, which was adapted for publication as a monograph by @willbuckingham.com after her death. www.routledge.com/Snapshots-of...
Snapshots of Museum Experience: Understanding Child Visitors Through Photography
Children are one of the major audiences for museums, but their visits are often seen solely from the point of view of museum learning. In Snapshots of Museum Experience, Will Buckingham draws upon Ele...
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If you can, please support our appeal to help the recovery of Dunwich Heath. Your donation will help restore habitats, protect wildlife and build resilience for the future. Donate here: nationaltrust.org.uk/dunwich-heath-appeal
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This week, a wildfire has torn through Dunwich Heath in Suffolk, leaving the entire nature reserve devastated. An area of around 210 football pitches has been affected with rare habitats and wildlife lost in a matter of hours.
This afternoon's listening, getting me through some tedious emails. Best Muse album in LIGHTYEARS! open.spotify.com/album/6TObgE...
The Wow! Signal - Album by Muse | Spotify
Muse · album · 2026 · 10 songs
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Working in partnership with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, the Food Museum, the Glasgow Life Museum, the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum of Free Derry, the Migration Museum (London) is seeking 10 Community Curators. Might this be you?
Migration Museum partners with museums and galleries to launch new UK-wide Community Curators programme
The Migration Museum is partnering with five museums and galleries across the UK to launch a new programme bringing diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives into the creation of a series of...
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We're committed to making a difference to young people from care backgrounds. That's why we're proud to offer the Care Experienced Scholarship 🎓 If you've experienced time in the care system, this scholarship can be your stepping stone into higher education. Learn more 👉 https://ow.ly/zfjH50Z9iGy
You did it! 🎓✨ Congratulations to every OU student getting their results this week. Whatever your journey looked like, you should be incredibly proud of how far you've come 💙 #OUfamily
Woohoo! Got a distinction for Beginner's Chinese!
Happy Dance Woohoo
ALT: Happy Dance Woohoo
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Having a reading afternoon at the beach hut. No, seriously, I know how it sounds, but I’ve managed to read more in the last couple of hours than in weeks and weeks! Sea air is good for all that ails you!
Really enjoying @lewisryder.bsky.social’s book, ‘Connoisseurs and Conmen’. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177391/. Recommended!
Manchester University Press - Connoisseurs and conmen
Connoisseurs and conmen - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Connoisseurs and conmen by Lewis Ryder
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So proud of my PhD student @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social for passing her viva yesterday! Go Kerry!!!! 👏👏👏💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
How can I be expected to concentrate on work today? i) the football; ii) my first PhD student has her viva tomorrow!