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

EXCITING OPPORTUNITY to come and spend up to three weeks in our natural history collections at @camunivmuseums.bsky.social to undertake humanities research on a visiting fellowship! #museums

Two Collaborative PhD Studentships in History of Science The Centre for History & Philosophy of Science is offering two fully-funded PhD scholarships to support research in the history of science and gender, and the history of trust in meteorology. The two projects – supported by Collaborative…

This is terrifying (among many other terrifying attacks on the arts and culture sector in the US under Trump).

Job Alert - Part Time 12 month contract at NMS to be the project curator, south Africa collections on the Reveal and Connect Project. Great team and project to be part of. Details: PT - 17.5 HPW Salary - £36,932 to £40,123 (Pro Rata) Apply: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/686345

I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums: "'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War" Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Three-year postdoc at Cambridge on 'Ireland and the "ends" of the British Empire'. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/

Fantastic Maternity cover role as Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology at National Science and Media Museum in Bradford! Photohistorians and curators - apply! ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

The National Museum of Colombia is set within Bogotá’s Panopticon penitentiary.

Darwin adoration is alive and well in the Galapagos

So glad to see this out!

Travelling as a tall white man in rural Java, I have lost count of how many people have asked to have a photograph with us. It seems appropriate to be the focus of an occidental gaze after centuries of orientalism.

According to our guide at Borobudur Temple, the reason the reliefs on the left are yellow (compared those on the right) was because the 19th C Dutch photographer Isidore van Kinsbergen needed more contrast for his photos. So he painted them all yellow. Gotta love colonial mindsets.

The Swakopmund Museum is really excellent. Lots of great Sci and Tech objects and great displays about the local communities, archaeological, geology and history. If you are ever here, well worth the visit

Staying in a little cottage in Prince Albert, South Africa- and they have box brownies and an NPG poster. They must have known I was coming. Oh, and also a lovely back garden

So long UK - at least for the winter

The Whipple Museum are recruiting for a Collections Assistant - offered for 5 years, fixed term due to funding. Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone! #museumjobs 📜 #histsci www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/

Today is the start of a big adventure. Down to London for a couple days of work, then Saturday we are off on a round the world trip for three months. If you want to follow along and see scenic pics of the southern hemisphere, follow me on instagram @curatorgeoff