You can move less than 100 miles and be in a completely diff jobs and skills environment.'The idea that a young person's interests, aptitudes and talents need to be moulded to fit their locality is A grade provincialism. I mean, sure, some people don't ever move but esp given limited immigration

🌸 This Spring, I had the pleasure to participate in the making of this exciting podcast on the 'Archaeology we Live', masterfully produced by Ilaria Gadenz for Pistoia Musei. 🎙️ I talked about the meaning of #publicarchaeology, the politics of the past, #heritage-based #hostility, and #placemaking.

⚡ OUR NEW DIGITAL HOME IS FINALLY LIVE! Discover the Heritage Minds Research Lab @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, at our brand-new website. 🌐 Enter Heritage Minds 👇 www.heritageminds.org 🙏 Thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for supporting us through the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology 2022!

“What is clear is that the UK has amazing talent, and the opportunity to export that talent has diminished considerably post Brexit.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Catastrophic for creative industries’: Brexit barriers shut UK actors out of EU jobs

Casting shifts to EU talent as paperwork delays and visa limits make hiring British crews less viable

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📣 @antiquity.ac.uk is flipping to #openaccess for research content! ✅ All research content published in the journal from January 2027 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌍. Find out more! 🔗 https://cup.org/4cvNjZj #archaeology #SAA2026SFO

A really important article by friend&colleague @drmorgan.bsky.social continuing to make waves in the world of museum studies and practice!

Jennie Morgan@drmorgan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How lovely to see mine & Sharon Macdonald’s article on “degrowing museum collections” in the top 10 most read of all time articles in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. No. 8! www.tandfonline.com/action/showM...

Come join me and the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social team! Teaching replacement post in Museum Studies, 1 year contract: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

This Thursday, at 4pm, I will be talking about Machine Heritage: Controversies in GenAI-generated meanings and values of the past, at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social and on Zoom 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Enrico R. Crema@ercrema.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Very much looking forward to the upcoming Garrod Seminar Series themed 'Artificial Intelligence & the Past's Future' with some fantastic speakers (see below!). You can attend the seminar series online via Zoom (registration link: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...) - starting this Thursday!

What will this mean when this cohort enters universities, down the line? www.lbc.co.uk/article/ai-t...

AI tutors to be rolled out to UK schools in just two years in bid to help needy pupils | LBC

Artificial intelligence (AI) tutors will be made available to schools in just two years, the Government has confirmed.

lbc.co.uk

🚨 Still time to apply to our post-doc - Deadline 3rd February 📜 You will be working with Zachary Horne, @acerbialberto.com, @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social, @johnmartindale.bsky.social on the @leverhulme.ac.uk -funded project Weaponised Pasts.

Just published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. 🏺

Still one week to apply! Come work with us!

Weaponised Pasts@weaponisedpasts.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 We're hiring 🚨 Still a week left to apply for the advertised post-doc position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded project Weaponised Pasts! We are looking for an early career researcher with experience in experimental design, programming and statistical analysis.

Funded PhD opp. Uni of Stirling “situated at the intersection of built heritage, housing, and climate justice, focusing on tenants in historic tenements in Stirling”https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/2026-ahrc-doctoral-landscape-award-collaborative-doctoral-award-cda-phd-studentship/?p193000

2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - 2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling, listed on FindAPhD.com

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V interesting research including this - people with authoritarian views less likely to go to museums

Chiara Bonacchi@chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Really excited that our *new paper* is finally out 🔥 This study is the first to quantitatively investigate museum visitors’ perceptions of historical analogies that compare concepts from the deep past to modern political ideas. doi.org/10.1057/s415...

Really excited that our *new paper* is finally out 🔥 This study is the first to quantitatively investigate museum visitors’ perceptions of historical analogies that compare concepts from the deep past to modern political ideas. doi.org/10.1057/s415...

The Scottish government has confirmed that a cross-party review of the financial sustainability of Scotland’s universities will go ahead after months of initial talks between university leaders and politicians, reports Helen Packer #EduSky https://ow.ly/ZJb050XMbHs

Scottish HE funding review to start in January despite election

Scottish National Party minister says financial challenges go ‘beyond party political boundaries’ as official talks set to begin

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Work (also) with me! Two years postdoc in the @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, based in Edinburgh. Will do transmission chain experiments to understand the spread of heritage-based hostility, online and elsewhere. More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Chiara Bonacchi@chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 PDRA JOB (2 Years, full-time) based in Psychology, @schoolofppls.bsky.social: We are hiring a Post-doctoral Research Associate, to work on Strand B (experimental) of our @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, generously funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk.

📣 PDRA JOB (2 Years, full-time) based in Psychology, @schoolofppls.bsky.social: We are hiring a Post-doctoral Research Associate, to work on Strand B (experimental) of our @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, generously funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk.

Greatly enjoyed reading student work reflecting on editing Wikipedia pages, including Caroline minuscule, Charlemagne's daughters, Paul the Deacon, the Carolingian Empire in Portuguese, Vegetius...

A glance back! “The usefulness of useless knowledge” was the topic of a thought-provoking session at #NobelWeek Dialogue 2025 with laureates - hear Sir Paul Nurse and Frances Arnold from 1’19’: 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=urLM... ERC grantee Jean Tirole took part in other interesting sessions.

Congratulations to @jesswitte.bsky.social for leading our new collaborative paper on 'Generative #AI in Heritage Practice: Improving the Accessibility of Heritage Guidance'! www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/8/...

Short term job in critical cultural heritage studies at Linnaeus in Kalmar - a lovely place with great colleagues. lnu.se/mot-linneuni...

Lediga jobb på Linnéuniversitetet i Kalmar och Växjö

Här hittar du våra lediga jobb. Linnéuniversitetet ger dig en arbetsplats med många möjligheter. Välkommen att söka ditt drömjobb hos oss idag!

lnu.se

New podcast, in which I explain why the Battle of Hastings doesn't feature in my new book on eleventh-century Europe 💅 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

11th-century Europe: not just the Norman Conquest

Podcast Episode · History Extra podcast · 21/10/2025 · 32m

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Enjoyed discussing with students this morning the perils of online historical databases, with this case as a key example: historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive...

History Matters - Why Naomi Wolf Misinterpreted Evidence From The Old Bailey Online

Bob Shoemaker | 29 May 2019 ◇ British History | Media History | Modern History

historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk

Just back from beautiful Zagreb! Had the pleasure to give a keynote on 'Bias, injustice and repairs in the digital heritage landscape' at the Digital Art History: Methods Practice and Epistemology conference, organised by Sanja Horvatincic and Sanja Sekelj from the University of Zagreb

www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/value-k... Do come along on 17 November to hear some of our Philip Leverhulme Prize winners speak about the importance of knowledge particularly at the moment! With our partners @expeditions.bsky.social and 5x15

Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Really enjoyed celebrating 100 years of the @leverhulme.ac.uk yesterday evening and listening to an inspiring lecture by Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on 100 years of research on adolescence. Very relevant to new collaborative work we are developing at Edinburgh.

The National Trust for Scotland has a new Curator position open! Deadline: 26 October 2025 and more info👇 www.asva.co.uk/jobs/curator... cc @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Here the bsky of the new project I’ve just started working on with @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social, @zachhorne.bsky.social, and @johnmartindale.bsky.social at the University of Edinburgh! We will investigate, from a cultural evolution perspective, the spread of heritage-based hostility on social media.

Weaponised Pasts@weaponisedpasts.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Welcome to Weaponised Pasts! The website for our investigation into heritage-based hostility is now live at weaponisedpasts.org. Find out more about the project there.