This week, it was exciting to host @acerbialberto.com at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to launch our @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded *Weaponised Pasts* research project, through three days of teamwork, followed by a kick-off event at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

'ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right'. Our new article, led by Tania Gonzáles Cantera, is out. It is an outcome of Tania's visit to the #HeritageMindsLab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social last yr doi.org/10.1080/1352...

The British university mess is so clearly what happens when the incentives of the people administering and consulting on the system bear no relation to those of anyone actually working in it

I wrote something for the @thetls.bsky.social about the most famous wind in France - the mistral - and an excellent little book that tries to tell a "windswept" history of modern France. www.the-tls.com/world/travel...

Pleasure to listen to the great presentation of my brilliant colleague @andreakocsis.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social on the sensationalised representations and limited documentary evidence at Hungary’s WW1 exhibition. 👏🏻

A very packed room at Karolinum, in Prague, for the opening of the 9th conference of the @memorystudies.bsky.social Association, with Astrid Erll’s talk on collective memory in our world of 2025! #msa

Leverhulme Trust invests £100m in ‘challenged’ research sector. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

Great to be back in my hometown #Pistoia, yesterday, giving a public talk in the beautiful space of Palazzo dei Vescovi on what public archaeology and heritage are and why they are important. I look forward to following up with www.pistoiamusei.it to discuss future collaborations

For historians of Eurasia, a useful book review by Roy Flechner (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are off to a great start with our @uoe-cahss.bsky.social #heritage mini-symposium! If you are in Edinburgh, come and join us for a really interesting line up of talks! Info: blogs.ed.ac.uk/heritagesymp...

About to start reading @acerbialberto.com's new book on Techno-panic and looking forward to seeing it in English too very soon!

It was a pleasure to give a seminar on Heritage-based hostility on social media at the University of Trento, today. Thank you for inviting me @acerbialberto.com!

'Prehistoric Policies' research project secures British Academy funding archaeologyorkney.com/2025/05/08/p...

The URL in the screenshot is swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/

Day #1 of our high-performance computing training course, led by Mike Wallis @uoe-cahss.bsky.social and organised in collaboration with @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social in our lab!

We have a big conference this week and the weather is going to be gorgeous. The University of London Senate House looks amazing in the sunshine.

📣📣 Still 5 days to apply for our 3-year Post-doc position, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social (deadline: 31st March)! 📣📣 Come and work with me & @acerbialberto.com on the 'Weaponised Pasts', funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social. More info and to apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

It was a pleasure to run the #Heritage Grant Development Day, at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social, on Friday, with an incredible group of researchers from the @uoe-cahss.bsky.social. New grant ideas, grant proposal sections and connections have emerged. We look forward to their further development!

Wikipedia and the Past - One of our wonderful elective courses, taught by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social and part of the MSc in Cultural Heritage Futures at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Edinburgh Futures institute 👇

Reminder - we are advertising a really good 1FT x 3 years post-doc researcher position for the Weaponised Pasts project. Details below!!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 3yr 1FTE PDRF in cultural evolution of archaeological information using advanced text-mining techniques and statistics START 1 Sep 25 🔗 https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/post-doctoral-research-fellow ⏰24th March #heritage #job #EdinArch #archaeology #Edinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

TOMORROW Thurs 6 March 16:15 Meadows LT 🍷 ‘Cultural heritage, wine & climate change: thinking through South Africa & Sardinia’ Prof Paul Nugent @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social  🍇 #archaeology #heritage #edinarch #edinburgh #seminar #SouthAfrica #Sardinia #wine #climatechange

📣 WE ARE RECRUITING A 3-YEAR POST-DOC RESEARCHER 📣 to work on the new @leverhulme.bsky.social project 'Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based hostility on social media', with myself and @acerbialberto.com, based at @uoe-sps.bsky.social. Apply by 24/03/25: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

Five Philip Leverhulme Prizes are available for extraordinary researchers in Archaeology. Deadline 14 May 2025 https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-leverhulme-prizes

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Work with us! Fixed-term (12 months FTE) Lecturer in Heritage with research time! 🔗 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... ⏰ 26th Feb 2025 #heritage #job #EdinArch #archaeology #Edinburgh #academicjob #lecturer @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 LECTURER IN HERITAGE 🚨 DEADLINE 26 FEB 2025🚨 We are hiring a *Lecturer in Heritage* (1 year, FT), on a 40(research)-40(teaching)-20(admin) contract. The post holder will work in @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social & @uoe-sps.bsky.social! Info: shorturl.at/PjRRs

Book recommendation: Cory Brennan's superb account of the fasces "The fasces are one of the most potent symbols of terrifying power and are ineradicably associated with contemporary political extremism." global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The Puy du Fou has been called 'the most political theme park in France'...

Congrats Chiara and everyone on a fantastic article with some good news for once. And DON'T MISS the chart showing which topics are more likely to get shares, with medieval #archaeology almost at the top. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED #MedievalSky

New paper co-authored with @acerbialberto.com and Marta Krzyzanska! What makes archaeological content spread on social media? Positive sentiment and expertise can win! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

🎉 Congratulations @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social & team! Fantastic News!!! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

📣💥 Grant news! We are delighted to share that the research project *Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based Hostility on Social media*, was funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social! The project is co-led by myself as PI (@edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social), by CI @acerbialberto.com & CI Zach Horne 📣💥

Super cool paper by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social & colleagues showcasing the power of using #DataScience methods (incl. #machinelearning) in #archaeology & #heritage 📊 🏺

Applications are open for our MSc in Cultural Heritage Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, led by @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social. Join us for a unique degree that combines critical #heritage studies, #computational skills, and a #challenge-led approach! Info: efi.ed.ac.uk/programmes/c...

📣PUBLISHED OA📣 In this study @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social @jesswitte.bsky.social @maltaweel.bsky.social assessed if refs to the ancient past in political debates on social media over-represent extreme views 🔗https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308919 #Heritage #DataScience #EdinArch #Politics

New blog by Tania Gonzalez & Haley Schwartz from #UniBarcelona (DIPATRI, PI:Xavier Rubio-Campillo) on visiting #HeritageMindsLab here @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to research #genAI & #heritage interpretation: tinyurl.com/czyrr2x7 @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social #EdinArch

Looking forward to participating in the 2nd International Conference on Advancing Sustainable Futures this week: www.adu.ac.ae/conferences-...

Amongst everything else that's going on in UK universities, this hasn't had as much coverage as it might have done in other years. In many institutions, it'll lead to changes in how undergraduates are taught, too.

🏛️ Our own @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social gave the keynote for the MuseumDigit 2024 Conference in #Budapest 🇭🇺 entitled "Cultural democracy through digital museology" museumdigit.hu/index-en #heritage #museums #Hungary #EdinArch #digitalhumanities #museology 💻🖼️🏺

Colin Renfrew - the passing of a giant in archaeology.

In an era of misinformation and disinformation, you may find this of interest. In #PLOSONE Political uses of the ancient past on social media are predominantly negative and extreme (Chiara Bonacchi, Jessica Witte, Mark Altaweel, 2024) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...