Nick Cave on Hopefulness 🎯

Extremely predictable bank holiday DIY nightmare: the task is absolutely bigger than I thought, I don’t have enough filler, I’m definitely not going to finish this weekend yet I cannot go back because half the paint is stripped from my bathroom ceiling

So honoured to attend the opening of Culture House in Shepherd’s Bush this evening. Inspiring venue and community project ! Worth getting a late train home culturehouse.org.uk

UK potential drought this summer - Talking about household water saving is fine and good, but there is a pipe on my street that has been leaking for the last three years that Thames Water can’t or won’t fix.

Absolutely exhausted after a long weekend with small children.

Vision of the tomb - El-Salahi, 1965.

Very much here for this kind of content:

In Liverpool for Museum Ethnographers Group conference. Great to be here and hear about new work and projects

I’m late to the party, but I’ve picked up Edward Wilson-Lee’s book ‘A History of Water’ which is brilliant and engrossing. Now thinking about parallels between archives, museums and history…

Really interesting job going for an anthropologist in my department bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...

Do you have the vision and leadership skills to shape the future of public engagement in one of the most exciting museums in the UK? We are seeking a new Head of Public Engagement & Programming. Full-time permanent role. Grade 8: Starting from £48,235 p.a. Closing date: 13 May 2025. bit.ly/4lo27vk

My inspirational friend Naomi Pendle is looking for a PhD researcher on a major new project on the everyday politics on famine (in Sudan). Could it be you? It’s an experienced and international team www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We need to talk about this more www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

OMG someone has written a BOOK about how to do the Cambridge-London commute well. I have no words, except maybe… anyone done this for Oxford? www.amazon.co.uk/Cambridge-Co...

An afternoon off work and took my kids swimming - feeling so wholesome. Also my cat killed and presented us with a (small) rat. And the ants are back.

As development agencies have become increasingly entangled with heritage projects, the dismantling of USAID raises the question of who will fill the funding gap – by @williamcarruthers.bsky.social www.apollo-magazine.com/usaid-abolit...

“Khartoum airport’s rapid destruction speaks to the most remarkable feature of this war-how precipitous it was. How quickly Sudan was snatched from normality and plunged into a war that didn’t escalate over time, but exploded overnight.” @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Model aeroplane, made out of USAID cooking oil tins www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

South Sudan is slipping toward renewed conflict & political upheaval. Risks merging with war in Sudan. African heads of state with influence, esp Kenya, Ethiopia & South Africa should step in & calm alarming situation before hostilities escalate.  www.crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-...

This looks like a fascinating new book from Nicki Kindersley, just published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social. New Sudans: Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum doi.org/10.1017/9781... (on Cambridge Core, if you have library access)

View of where I spent the weekend - would you believe me if I sent it was work? Really it was

Am I losing my grip. Every time I see the word ‘museum’ I panic it’s spelled wrong. Musuem.

🚨 JOBS KLAXON Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept: Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas. Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25. Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...

Just published: preliminary survey of "A colonial-era ‘Strategic Village’ in Kiambicho Forest, Kenya". Traces of British colonial human rights abuses during the Mau Mau Rebellion (1952-60) journals.uclpress.co.uk/ai/article/i... 🏺🇰🇪

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Another lootplunder review in four posts Anyone interested in loot, plunder, museums, Ethiopia, empire - anyone following this feed in other words - should read @zoecormack.bsky.social's article "The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... 1/4

I'm actively looking for work! I would like to stay in the UK museums & heritage sector, or adjacent. I am open to employment or freelance work, suited to my experience in curation, archaeology & public engagement. For a summary of my experience so far: www.linkedin.com/in/horusofne...

‘Can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?’ www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Back on my bike and cycled to the station today, for the first time since my emergency surgery in May. Weirdly big step forward. I felt physically well enough but couldn’t face any risk

I’m incomprehensible after a day of scanning. May have to delete and repost.

#SudanArmedForces issues rare condemnation of 'excesses' committed 'individually' in Al Gezira state, after a spate of lynchings, targeting people from Kanabi - villages where Darfurian farmworkers live. What lies behind this horror? / x.com/hash_sudan/s...

Thank you @hisjournalha.bsky.social - it’s been wonderful to work with you on this publications. Its been several years of research and writing to bring this together. I hope to continue many conversations…

New year, new social media.