Hello to everyone on @bsky.app! We are home to one of the world's largest and most important collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology, telling the stories of people who lived in the Nile Valley in the past. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...

Absolutely fantastic research talk today if you can make it!

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re reflecting on the women who opened the Petrie (@uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social) and Grant Museum (@uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social) collections to the public for the first time. Read more here:

A fantastic insight into the importance of preserving videogame magazines by @keefstuart.bsky.social highlighting the important work of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social and ourselves in ensuring this important part of videogame culture remains accessible.

Join Us as Chair or Trustee of @thebgi.bsky.social Are you passionate about videogames, culture and education? Do you have the strategic vision and experience to support a growing national charity? For more information, download our Chair or Trustee Recruitment Pack ⬇ thenvm.org/about/work-w...

The brilliant @nvmuk.bsky.social featured in @theguardian.com yesterday: www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j... 👌

Always look for the helpers. A niche but really beautiful way to help ease a horrible situation.

Returning some objects to permanent display from a short term loan today meant that I got to hold this meteoric iron bead - one of only 8 or so (from Gerzeh in Egypt) and considered to be the earliest worked iron (c.5000 years old) found anywhere in the world. Absolutely incredible.

Kicking off the year with a public "Research in Focus" talk at the Petrie Museum, on archaeological ephemera: 🟠 Friday 17 January, 1.15-2pm 🟠 "Excavating museum drawers: Archaeological ephemera in the Petrie collection" www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/what... #MakingEphemeraHappen

This has been extended to 22 December - bit more time to apply if you're keen! Come work with me 😊

💡 Light up the holidays with a festive fusion of classic gaming and modern technology 🎄⁠ ⁠ Illuminate The Play this Christmas by experiencing a radiant collection of LED games designed by indie developers and enjoy Virtual Reality as it makes its debut with an immersive version of a retro classic.⁠

Loved these Roman roof tegulae at Yorkshire Museum - replete with makers' marks, factory stamps, hobnail boot marks and dog footprints. A delightful category of object because of these marks; such an immediate connection to people and animals in the past. Guildford's even had goat hoofprints :)

Start your day with something that lets a little light in

Pure essence of horse. One of my top ten objects in any museum anywhere in the world (Stanwick horse mount, Yorkshire Museum)

For anyone coming to @tag45.bsky.social next week-end, you can catch my presentation on "Excavating the Museum Drawer" (yes, this very drawer) at Session 17, and see what all this Archaeological Ephemera business is about! tag2024.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/s... #ArchaeologicalEphemera

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi wrote a collection of poems inspired by objects in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in 2012 during his residency there - www.poetrytranslation.org/event-series...

11. Bonus book today! The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections: (ed) @alicestevenson.bsky.social Prof Alice Stevenson uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pet... #LocalAndGlobal

Not one but two job alerts today! Laboratory Technician (Archaeobotany) - bit.ly/3BhIa7m Laboratory Technician (Osteology) - bit.ly/3OI6q5O Closing date for both 1st Jan 2025 #LocalAndGlobal

As someone who has also experienced this kind of loss, these collections always feel particularly powerful. @poisonchallis.bsky.social expresses this so beautifully here. Thank you for sharing it, Debbie.x

Good morning from frosty Cambridgeshire fens

Now that I'm on here, I can start shouting about all the exciting things I've been up to! Like the Archaeological Ephemera project at the Petrie Museum - looking at the bits and bobs left behind by early archaeologists and museum workers, the stories they can tell us, and what to do with them.

Appreciating this dedication in @k8shep.bsky.social's new book #IYKYK 👌

The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise. theconversation.com/we-have-offi...

*Amazing Job Opportunity!* Head of Museums and Cultural Programmes, UCL Permanent, full time £66,711–£72,370 Closes 18 December 2024 Come work with me! www.linkedin.com/posts/catrio...

Ancient Egyptian hedgehogs are my favourite 🦔

Hanging out with some incredible #Conservation colleagues today working on some of our #Cartonnage collection, including UC45924 which has visible layers of woven linen matting. Always a privilege to watch experts at work consolidating these objects for long-term care.

Reposting so I can come back to this for something im working on at work, and also so others see it!

Some personal highlights from the @britishmuseum.bsky.social #HewLocke exhibition - extremely thought provoking & particular curatorial joy to be had from the storage media on display (plus faux MDF??). Locke's voice gave excellent question prompts via speakers and printed post-its #WhatHaveWeHere

The Museo Egizio in Turin is hiring a curator - particular for the predynastic!! #Egyptology #Museology api.museoegizio.it/wp-content/u...

An opportunity to join the board of the British Games Institute (oversees the National Videogame Museum) as Chair - join me! www.linkedin.com/posts/bgi-na...

*funded fellowships* Come research at the Petrie Museum! More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/research-ins...

Hello 👋 add me if you're interested in museums, archaeology and a little bit of gaming. Come see me at the Petrie Museum when you can!