Very fun little #museum in Ramsgate - lots of retro electronic projects to play on. Highly recommended this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com

This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete

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Pseudo-museum section in new kids’ waiting/play area in York station Kind of feel like we could make this a real exhibit! #vikingsky

Pseudo-museum section in new kids’ waiting/play area in York station Kind of feel like we could make this a real exhibit! #vikingsky

Still 3 weeks left to apply for a PhD position in runic & Latin epigraphy and for two postdocs, one in Latin and one in Old Norse on Alessandro Palumbo’s ERC project in Oslo www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...

Vacancies - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies

Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

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JOB: Head of Information, Research & Culturally Sensitive Collections at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social London wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Wellcome/job... #archives #museum #HistMed #HistSci via @ncph.bsky.social

Head of Information, Research & Culturally Sensitive Collections

Salary: pay range £65,600-£82,000 Closing date: 18th August 2026 Contract type: Permanent Interview dates: W/C 7th September Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library. We believe everyone’s exp...

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July 29: Feast of Óláfr (995-1030), king of Norway 1016-29, and its patron saint. Also venerated in Britain. St Olave's Church, York, probably occupies the site of Earl Siward (†1055) of Northumbria's minster church, also dedicated to Olaf, where Siward was buried. 📸Tim Green

Proofs time! This was fun to write - making a case for the value of (early medieval) history in a collection for early childhood studies 😊

Short courses in #History and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Open Learning: col.ed.ac.uk/lifelong-lea... Booking is open to anyone with an interest aged 16+ #LifelongLearning #Edinburgh

History and Archaeology | Lifelong Learning | Centre for open learning

History and Archaeology short courses.

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‘Economists at Claremont Graduate University, in California, and Wuhan University, in Hubei, China, explored people’s conscious thoughts after finding a surprising dearth of work on the topic.’ Is that so. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you?

Investigation finds evidence of distinct groups, from big-picture thinkers to those who sweat the small stuff

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I did this years ago on Twitter, but, here's a list of tools/utilities that every medievalist show know about and have bookmarked: #medievalsky

Have you noticed an opaqueness to the blue sky this morning? Wildfire smoke from North America is drifting south across the UK, meaning the clear skies may not be as blue as you might expect 🌤️

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

*** Lectureship in Creative Writing *** School of English, University of Leeds Salary £41,064 to £59,966 p.a. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Microsoft is planning to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire & be the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

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I'm organising a @haskinssociety.bsky.social sponsored panel for @kzooicms.bsky.social 2027! This is a session that broadly focuses on all research concerning early medieval women (c.400–1100). If you know of anyone working in this area, please share!

Hey guess what? The company making this teacher robot is a sex doll company. Who would have thought.

Julie Carpenter, PhD@jgcarpenter.com · 3w ago

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

another Postdoc opportunity! 🦴🔬 Join Steve Ashby and @york-bioarch.bsky.social to study Northern European combs & combmaking using #ZooMS #proteomics. Seeking someone with proteomics/chemistry experience #viking and or #archaeology knowledge a plus. Apply: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

A very exciting museum job - working with the BM’s amazing early medieval collections. You’ll be working with an excellent and supportive curator too (which we know matters!!) Fixed term till Dec 28. bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

Project Curator: Early Medieval European Collection (Documentation)

About the Documentation & Digitisation Programme

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'Early career opportunities have rapidly declined in the fields of arts and humanities amid UK job cuts, with teaching-only roles increasingly the only positions available for those just starting out, an analysis by the British Academy has found.' 1/3

Humanities hardest hit as early career opportunities disappear

Analysis of staff data finds skew to teaching-only roles in entry-level positions, with scale of cuts not reflected at more senior levels

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We are super excited to announce that NorseMap will be officially launched with a performance from the legendary Einar Selvik on 05 Sept in the heart of Hiberno-Norse Cork. We have a small number of public tickets available: send us a DM to claim one! #ERC #Vikings #NorseMap #Performance #LaunchDay

Happy to have received these chonky bois in the post. Congratulations to @downham.bsky.social and the editorial team for seeing this work to publication. Thanks to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social and @makingawarrior.bsky.social for supporting the exploration and development of the ideas in my chapter.

The Trustees of the British Museum declined to buy the panels of the Franks Casket #OTD in 1858. ‘They had never committed a greater act of folly,’ said the Keeper of Manuscripts. The museum’s Augustus Wollaston Franks – it is named after him – bought it instead. 📸British Museum

IMC was wonderful… so wonderful that Sam Masters and I are excited to do it all again next year! Here is the CfP for next year on the theme of Communities. @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...

Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) on jobs.ac.uk!

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The new academic year starts in 2 months. The modules to run are set in stone even if the all-new first year ones haven’t yet been designed. All that remains is to decide which 3 of the 23 of us will still be here to teach them. The redundancy selection criteria has not yet been announced…

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4w ago

'Academics fear they are being “set up to fail” after several institutions finished the academic year by announcing fresh job cuts, casting doubt over who will return after the summer break, and what courses they will be teaching.' 1/3

CFP: IMC Leeds (5–8 July 2027) Conquest, Invasion, Colonisation: Experience and Memory in Early Medieval Britain. Papers are invited for panels on the experiences and legacies of conquest in early medieval Britain and Ireland. Abstracts to matthew.firth@flinders.edu.au by 31 August 2026.

Any #MedievalSky or #SkyStorian pals care to cast an eye at these binding fragments and suggest a date/location? I've narrowed it down to caroline minuscule but that's the extent of my expertise.

📣 #jobalert #medievalsky #OldEnglish 📜 Lecturer in Medieval Literature 🏛️ Newcastle University ⏳ Full Time, Fixed Term, 10 months Sept 2026 - June 2027. 💷 Salary: £36,636 - £38,784 per annum ⏰ Deadline: 9 July 2026 📲 Application details: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...