Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

UCLDH at 15: Highlights, Milestones & What’s Next Thoughts from our new Co-Directors, Adam Crymble and Jin Gao. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dh/2025/09/3...

Mark your diaries! 🗓️ Our next APAC members meeting will be on the 18 September 2025, 3-5pm. Check your emails for info on how to attend.

Calling all Student & Academic APAC members! Our Your Voice Matters Survey closes today - check your emails and have your say on how APAC works for you!

Conferences season hits different as an #ECR. #FOMO is brutal, when you’re not affiliated, you’re stuck watching it all unfold on socials—knowing you’re missing key opportunities. There has to be more support for indep researchers and ECRs outside institutions. They deserve a seat at the table too!

🎭 Students & Academics of Performing Arts — why not connect with the UK & Ireland GLAM community! Join @apac-ssn.bsky.social (Association for Performing Arts Collections) for access to great resources, research & events. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ycb2kdvp #PerformingArtsArchives #APAC

Just wrapped up an inspiring time at the #DanceResearchMatters Festival— celebrating the past, present & future of dance research. So many powerful conversations, performances & connections. Feeling energized by the work being done across the field. Dance is knowledge. Let’s keep moving. 💃📚✨

❓Anyone using AI tools for scholarly work? 🤖 📚 If so, which ones—and how are they helping (or not)? Curious for research reasons - what’s out there, what people are using and what’s actually useful! #AIinAcademic #ResearchTools

@DDecolonisation is excited to announce their Online Conference for 2025 over the 18-19 July. The conference is free & features a range of talks and workshops. More info here: globaldanceconfere.wixsite.com/d-w-d

The summer edition of the Choreographic Forum organised by @sdanceresearch.bsky.social in collaboration with Kauma Arts will be hosted online TODAY, 24th of June, from 6 to 7.30 pm (BTS). 🎟️ To register for this event please follow this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reminder! Tickets for Tyne Theatre & Opera House's 3-day conference 'Opera Unplugged: Learning from the Past & Planning for the Future' are now available. Early bird tickets & further details are available here: www.tynetheatreandoperahouse.uk/whatson/oper...

🎉 Register now for UCL Festival of Digital Research on 15 July. Open to all! 🔗 buff.ly/3qkE98A #UCL #ARC

Still time to nominate someone at your institutions @apac-ssn.bsky.social members! 👇🏻

Resilience Grant applications are now open from @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy. This programme offers grants, worth up to £20,000. More info here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...

Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!

@sdanceresearch.bsky.social is raising £500 to help us keep the Ivor Guest Dance Research Grants alive. Check out their @justgiving.bsky.social page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving From justgiving.com

It’s almost time for … our next Choreographic Forum! Join us online on 🗓️ Tuesday 24 June, 6–7pm for a discussion on 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥 by choreographer Bawren Tavaziva. Register here: tinyurl.com/greed-sdr 📷 Raluca Maria Polodeanu

Are you a student or academic working or interested in Performing arts Collections? Why not become a member of @apac-ssn.bsky.social For more details on who we are and how to become a member see @apac-ssn.bsky.social _ssn post 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

📣 @apac-ssn.bsky.social Student, Independent researcher and Academic Members 👀check your inbox for our Your Voice Matters Survey - Help us shape the APAC Student & Academic Events for 2026/27! If you have not received the link, please DM myself or @apac-ssn.bsky.social for more details.

Join us out and about for performances by our National and London Youth Folk Ensembles, Bhangra Ceilidh, our Choir and Ceilidh Workshop Band. King’s Cross Summer Sounds, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Greenwich Park Family Folk Day, Folk by the Oak or Sidmouth Folk Festival bit.ly/4mTYTjZ

Our member, Showtown Blackpool's new exhibition, 'Wartime Blackpool', is now open. The exhibition delves deeper into the untold story of a town brought to life by wartime entertainment & performance in the 1940s. www.showtownblackpool.co.uk/be-a-part-of...

Join @ucldh.bsky.social Information Studies Book Forum Event exploring their unique coalition of scholars' recent achievements, projects & potential collaborations in common areas of interest. 🗓 5 June 2025 | 🕙 09:30–16:00 📍 UCL IOE – Jeffery Hall 🎟️ Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/informatio...

There is still time to book for @apac-ssn.bsky.social's 2025 Study day with Live Art Development Agency (LADA) 🗓️ 22 May 2025, 11am - 3pm 📍Live Art Development Agency - LADA, E2 6LX Book via the Eventbrite page 👇👇👇👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/apac-study...

Booking is still open for @apac-ssn.bsky.social's 2025 Study day with Live Art Development Agency (LADA) 🗓️ 22 May 2025, 11am - 3pm 📍Live Art Development Agency - LADA, E2 6LX Book via the Eventbrite page 👇👇👇👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/apac-study...

Job klaxon! Senior Archivist at Cameron Mackintosh Ltd: careers.cameronmackintosh.com/en/postings/...

Join us for our Annual Study Day, ‘Live art collections: activating archives and developing artistic research practice’, hosted by LADA on 22 May. The event is free for members and £5 for non-members. Details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/apac-study...

🎉 Join @sdanceresearch.bsky.social to celebrate the Ivor Guest Award Recipients! 🗓️ Fri 30 May 2025 | 6–7:30pm | 📍Online 🎟️ Register for a Free ticket: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 💖 To Donate & Support future grants, if you can: justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Booking is now open for @apac-ssn.bsky.social ‘s 2025 Study day with Live Art Development Agency (LADA) 🗓️22 May 2025, 11am - 3pm 📍Live Art Development Agency - LADA, E2 6LX Book via the Eventbrite page 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/apac-study...

There will be a Westminster Hall debate on the future of public libraries at 9:30am on 14 May 2025. The debate will be opened by Jonathan Davies MP. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

JOB ALERT! 🚨 Cameron Mackintosh Ltd are looking for a Senior Archivist to join their team. Details of the role and how to apply can be found here: careers.cameronmackintosh.com/en/postings/...

Very pleased to say Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social and I are looking for a PhD student, funded by AHRC @sgsah.bsky.social. Topic: '“Mainlining AI into the Veins”? Library collections as data in the age of Extractive AI Capitalism'. Closing 5pm, Friday 30th May 2025. Please share!

Event today #Kingston today to launch #Kingston2025 #AthelstanAmongUs inc. great street performance 2.30 featuring #TraceworksDance my collaborator! @athelstanmuseum.bsky.social #Heritage #Dance #Families

This seminar will now be online only - register now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/braid-x-id...

Delighted to be included in UCL’s 2025 Student Choice Awards Roll of Honour—I’m honoured to be listed alongside fantastic colleagues Lucy Brownson, @alisonhicks0.bsky.social , @photini.bsky.social, Ahmad Goheer & Daniel Onah! What a way to end year! 🥳

I am working on a little project and wonder if any librarians could take the time to complete this survey on training in libraries - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Oral History as Data? 📜➡️💻 Join us at UCL for the Susan Hockey Lecture 2025, where Prof Julianne Nyhan explores the digital turn in oral history. How does structuring oral narratives as data shape meaning? 📅 22 May 2025 | 🕕 6-8 PM | 📍 UCL, London 🔗 Register now: www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

New Exhibition, Becoming Shakespeare, coming to @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social! Details below!

📚 Just in time for Easter...our #BookOfTheMonth for April is Catherine Hincson’s fantastic 'Theatre in the Chocolate Factory: Performance at Cadbury's Bournville 1900-1935' 🍫🎭 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

A huge thank you to @kent.ac.uk for hosting APAC's Digital Preservation Working Group recently. Here are a few pictures of our tour of the special collections and archives.

In our latest stories post, Elizabeth Gray discusses movement scores & tactile prompts in museums that help visitors experience & understand historical performing arts by exploring the embodied experiences of past performers To read more, head to: performingartscollections.org.uk/stories/p/an...

We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Technologies in Digital Humanities to join the Department of Information Studies at UCL. Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Fancy something to read? Check out @apac-ssn.bsky.social’s latest story! Our Student member Elizabeth Gray explores “An Invitation to ‘Play’: Interpreting Performing Arts History in the Museum.” Read it here: 🔗 performingartscollections.org.uk/stories/p/an…

🎭 Happy #WorldTheatreDay! 🎭 Celebrate the magic of theatre by exploring @apac-ssn.bsky.social’s incredible collections and thought-provoking research. Dive into the stories, artifacts, and creativity that keep the performing arts alive! 👇 Discover more 👇 performingartscollections.org.uk

Text Mining with tf-idf 4 April 2025, 2pm-4pm Tf-idf is an information retrieval method to extract distinctive keywords from documents. In this interactive workshop we will explore the possibilities and limitations of the technique. www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

📣We are recruiting📣 Deadline is Monday We are looking for a new Archivist to join our team at the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS). The role, responsible for the cataloguing, organisation and preservation of the archives. The deadline for applications is 10am on Monday bit.ly/4hxsImw

I'm very excited to announce that I'll be chairing a panel talk at the V&A on Oliver Messel & art of illusion w/ Pablo Bronstein, Mariame Clément & Jane Pritchard on the 26th April. Tickets are FREE! Hope to see you there www.vam.ac.uk/event/1y1XWD...

Did you know we provide travel grants & bursaries? These are available to all APAC members. Read how to apply for a travel grant & how it recently benefited Mandie & Judith from @rwcmd.bsky.social on a recent trip to Hong Kong over on our website: performingartscollections.org.uk/whats-on/tra...

29th March, one day @folkloresociety.bsky.social conference (online), "Folklore and the Digital". folklore-society.com/event/folklo....

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Our members, Mandie Garrigan and Judith Dray, from @rwcmd.bsky.social explore the SIBMAS 2024 conference in Hong Kong. Their trip was enabled by an APAC Travel Grant. Read about their archive, panel & experience here: performingartscollections.org.uk/stories/p/si...