New paper alert! Findings from Communities & Crowds, which explored how co-creation & action research can be combined w online crowdsourcing to enrich volunteer experiences & institutional knowledge about GLAM collections. doi.org/10.29311/mas... cc @curatorgeoff.bsky.social @animalarchaeology.com

Belated but happy to finally share: I began a professorship in Critical Heritage & Memory Studies at Uni Cologne earlier this year. Please stay tuned for future announcements — exciting things are in the works. Meanwhile, I’m very happy to say that I’m hiring: www.stellenwerk.de/koeln/resear...

News | Brighton & Hove Museums to repatriate 45 artefacts to Botswana Return of collection was requested by Khama III Memorial Museum in 2022

Amazing achievement! Well done to the volunteers, team and researchers involved in so much of Zooniverse's success

News | Five museums in England shortlisted for Art Fund’s #MuseumOfTheYear 🏆 The winner will be announced on 25 June – congratulations to the shortlisted museums: • Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery • The Box, Plymouth • The Fitzwilliam Museum • The National Gallery • V&A East Storehouse

Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea University in conjunction with Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, examining the imperial and colonial associations of their natural sciences collections. Please share widely, and get in touch if you want to know more. Closing date 22 May.

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)

Come help us shape the future of video game heritage in Scotland! New AHRC PhD opportunity for anyone interested in video game heritage and want to work with National Museums Scotland, Abertay Uni and Uni of Glasgow, apply! Applications due 11/05/2026 ce0173li.webitrent.com/ce0173li_web...

For those interested in photo history, attached is a CFP for a study day on the history photomechanical images in Italy. Proposals are due by the May 22 to [email protected] & [email protected] The study day will be held at the University of Urbino on October 1st.

Very pleased to announce that BT Group Archives and UCL Department of Information Studies have a fully-funded PhD on offer. It's a really exciting one: to investigate how new computational methods can be used to get the most out of a digitised audiovisual collection. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

JOB KLAXON - National Museums Scotland is looking for a Keeper of Global Arts, Cultures & Design. Amazing team & collections. If you have senior management experience and expertise in one of these areas, apply! Salary - £76,093 – 86,275 FT 35 hpw Deadline - 30/04/2026 careers.nms.ac.uk/job/856993

There are PhD studentships available for some lucky people: Collecting Space Heritage (Museum Studies) - le.ac.uk/study/resear... Humanity and space, open theme - le.ac.uk/study/resear... #STS #histSTM 📜

Contact your local candidates ahead of the Scottish Parliament election 📩 The election will be held on 7 May, and we’re encouraging all our members in Scotland to contact their local candidates to ask: what commitments are you making to support museums? Find out how in our quick guide 👇

A week left to reply for this fantastic role. Closes 15 March

🔔JOB ALERT🔔 12 month Project Conservator, Aviation @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social. If you have experience in engineering conservation, this job could be for you. Salary - £39,754 to £43,188 Full time - Fixed Term 12 months Location - NMoF Deadline - 15.3.26 careers.nms.ac.uk/job/841751

Donning my purple gloves to say happy birthday to our 1000-year-old astrolabe #histsci 📜 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Come join the team at @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social! Great role helping us take care of the Library and Archive! Closing date - 16/02/26 Salary - £42,765-£46,051 Hours - 35 pw

We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist

Great job in a great department

Want to level up your library career this year? We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme. Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026

The Science Museum Group is looking for a Systems and E-Resources Librarian, FT permanent post based at one of our sites in #Bradford #London #Manchester #Wroughton (nr Swindon) or #York #LISjobs #LibraryJobs #MuseumJobs ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

Special issue (OA) of British Art Studies on James VI & I, including a multi-authored section on the Ramsay-Kerr watch @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social main--britishartstudies-29.netlify.app/issues/29/ (see also www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...)

What if there was a way to link museum collections based on the way an object looks? Kaspar Beelen and I have a paper out now talking about 'Heritage Weaver,' a project that used multimodal AI to link and explore museum data across collections: doi.org/10.63744/txx...

This is the best kind of use of the Internet.

2026 photo research fellowships now open. Come to Toronto to work with the amazing collections at TMU’s Image Centre! theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/

Are you a scholar in Games Studies, Museum Studies and/or Digital Humanities and want to help NMS develop research in Collecting Video Game Heritage? Come and apply to be an IASH Fellow at the University of Edinburgh! Applications Opens - Dec 25 Closes - April 26 www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...

I know it often feels like yelling into the void, but at least you can yell loudly here and with occasional free text boxes if you are horrified by the proposed immigration changes.

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Why treadmills soothe our minds and joysticks sharpen our wits: fab to see the peer-reviewed results of our online mass experiment for the Manchester Science Festival with @comadork.bsky.social and his team from @westernu.ca in @plosone.org! blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/why-treadmil...

Really interesting read on AL and cultural heritage

🔔🔔JOB KLAXON🔔🔔🔔 Come and join the team at NMS - we're looking for a new Head of Collections Services. It's a brilliant role and a great team. Details Salary - £70.692-80,152 Hours - FT 35 Hours per week Deadline - Nov 9th, 2025 careers.nms.ac.uk/job/780754

Are you doing #19thC attribution research? Do you have DH skills and nowhere to use them? YOU could be the next editor of the Curran Index! We're still accepting applications thru next week on 15 Oct. Lead this ongoing + fully supported DH project into its next iteration! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

Join us as Chair of The National Videogame Museum!⁠ ⁠ Are you passionate about videogames, culture, and education? Do you have the strategic vision and experience to lead a growing national charity? Join us and help shape the future of our work.⁠ ⁠ thenvm.org/about/work-w...

Job at UC-Berkeley: Asst. Prof. in Global History of Technology, apps due 10/10 (so soon). #history #histSTM #histsci #histphilsci aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065

Job Klaxon! Science Museum is looking for a Curator of Chemistry. Job Details Salary - £41,177.63 Full Time London Deadline - 29/09/2025 ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

#JobFairy University of Birmingham is looking for a Director of Culture, Collections and Public Engagement - senior hire at Grade 10 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

What do all of these things have in common? Each has been embroiled in debates over censorship and moral panic in the USA. I'm going to be talking about these themes on Wednesday as part of the "Otherworldly Entertainment" workshop @ucph.bsky.social!

In-person tix for this #photography talk @nationalgalleries.bsky.social are nearly gone - but a livestream is available to hear Pam Isherwood and Maggie Murray discuss Format, the agency est in 1983 (closed 2003) to represent women photographers. 🗃️📜📷📸🔥 Tuesday, Aug. 12th, 12.45-1.30 pm in Edinburgh

I just noticed that Metropolitan Science will be out in paperback - exciting news! Not available until next year, but can be pre-ordered for a relatively affordable £26.09 @jasminekt.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM 🗃️

If you are interested in Transport collections (trains, planes, automobiles etc..) or the ethics and implications of AI in museums - this conference is for you: www.iatm.museum/conferences/...

Two #photography jobs at the V&A London, 3-yr full-time posts to work on the Royal Photographic Society collection. Deadline July 18th. Project Archivist in link below, Project Cataloguer in the next post. 📜🗃️📷📸 Not great pay for London - but fantastic opportunities otherwise!

An amazing job in an Amazing city - if the commute from Wales wasn't a bit impractical I'd bite their hand off. The brilliant Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery are looking for a Curator (Science & Industry). careers.birminghammuseums.org.uk/job/333d2a38...

The birthday present that will keep on giving! Thanks @dreframss.bsky.social and @nannaklk.bsky.social!

The Royal Historical Society is a fellowship of professional historians. We welcome applications from historians working in education and many other sectors. Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

With help from a lot of people, I've created a #YouTube playlist of 30 clips/promos/teasers of European #CitizenScience projects - covering more or less the last decade, including the one with @colombewarin.bsky.social & the science bus, and many more... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRt... 1/2

News | Museums must support diversity amid Trump attacks, says V&A East director – Gus Casely-Hayford expresses solidarity with US colleagues after Smithsonian gallery director is ‘fired’

Really useful thread on why new technology doesn't have to take over our lives

Still time to apply for the Head of Collections (Library, Archives & Museum) job at @antiquaries.bsky.social. Closes this Sunday night! www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac... #lisjobs #museumjobs #archivejobs #heritagejobs #library #archive #museum #collections #heritage #rarebooks #specialcollections