I'm so sorry Alex. Can only imagine how horrible it is to lose a pet, and also to have to worry about the cost. Sending love from Scotland.
I'm so sorry Alex. Can only imagine how horrible it is to lose a pet, and also to have to worry about the cost. Sending love from Scotland.
πJOB ALERTπ 12 month Project Conservator, Aviation @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social. If you have experience in engineering conservation, this job could be for you.
Salary - Β£39,754 to Β£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 π
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(Silly to not go, when it's your home town)! If you want any local Edinburgh tips, just ask
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 - Β£42,765-Β£46,051
Hours - 35 pw
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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
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Want to level up your library career this year?
Weβre 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...
Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.
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 TMUβs 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.
Iβve 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-...
Not so surprising Sadiah - you work is always brilliant. Can't wait to read this
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...
Come by NMS and say hi if you have time
Really interesting read on AL and cultural heritage
ππJOB KLAXONπππ
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 - Β£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!β
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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.β
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thenvm.org/about/work-w...
Physics World disappoints - he may indeed have had a waxed mustache, but Gabriel Lippmann and his colour photography process is an icon in the history of photography.
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
Think you have your next tattoo inspiration sorted....
Job Klaxon!
Science Museum is looking for a Curator of Chemistry.
Job Details
Salary - Β£41,177.63
Full Time
London
Deadline - 29/09/2025
ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...
Congratulations Alex! Gotta celebrate the big things like this