Matt Rule-Jones

Awh shucks! 😉

How am I supposed to focus on writing grant applications when Florence has a new album out on Friday?

Oh look - it’s me popping up on Ayesha’s marvellous science fiction cinema podcast again! This time featuring triffids! Come have a listen - I had a proper giggle recording this.

‘A monument to kindness’: the rise of Britain’s community cinemas With more than 1,600 screens, people share how local-run venues are taking them on a film-worthy adventure

Community cinema and its 100th anniversary being celebrated in the Guardian today!!

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We have lots coming up for #halfterm / #readingweek next week! Don't miss our #halloween trail, kids' shadow puppet workshop or our lunchtime talk about our 'Dinosaurs, Dragons & #Monsters' display - all free, all welcome! 🎃🍁 #museumsky #filmsky @exeterlibrary.bsky.social @exeterunilib.bsky.social

Impromptu weekend on Guernsey it is!

There's still time to apply for a Research Stipend 2025-6 - for #international & #UK-based #scholars, researchers & #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema & moving image #history. For more information & to apply, visit: tinyurl.com/54wvy2du
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YouTube video by Matthew Rule-Jones 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition tour

Couldn’t make it to Sheffield for the 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition I curated with the wonderful @cinemaforall.bsky.social a few weeks ago? Well today is your lucky day - a special guided tour just for you!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyPj...

Episode 42 is detour and a lighthearted chat about one of those stories that connects people through shared refrences and humour.

Don’t Panic: The Hitchhiker’s Guide Phenomenon is out.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧 If you want, that is.

📣 Exciting news!

We're offering stipends for 2025-6 for #international and #UK-based #scholars, researchers and #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema and moving image #history.

For more information and to apply, visit:
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#researchsky #filmsky #musueumsky

#SheffEvents #Today

Today’s the day - the @cinemaforall.bsky.social gala event and 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition showcase at Bloc Projects gallery in Sheffield. I’m giving a guided exhibition tour at 3pm if anyone is nearby. Marking a century of community-led film exhibition in style!

Oh no. How dreadful. Having to discuss interesting things with lovely people! Such punishments you administer. I may die.

P.S. Can’t wait

Oh bless you, Ayesha! Thank you!! I’m so delighted with how it has turned out.

It kept me insanely busy for the last few weeks (I’m so sorry - I know I owe you 40,522 emails) but the coming weeks are easier. I’m emailing you later today, but spoilers: it’s a yes to triffids if you’ll still have me!

Opening tomorrow at Bloc Projects gallery in Sheffield - 100 Years of Community Cinema: The Exhibition. I’ve been working hard curating this with @cinemaforall.bsky.social and can’t wait to finally show it off! Giving a guided tour and talk about the history of the movement on Saturday at 3 too!

Disappointed not get the job at Salford Uni I was interviewed for back in July but even more disappointed they're still refusing to reimburse my travel expenses to attend interview, and now appear to be ghosting me, forcing me to go public with my dissatisfaction to try to elicit a response...

Can we talk about the fact that the AHRC Catalyst and Curiosity funding schemes, 2 of the 3 major arts and humanities research grant schemes available through our national funding councils, currently have success rates of 5.1% and 6.9% respectively? I knew they were low, but WOW.

Now Hiring: Research Associate (Fixed Term) - CDH Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher in Digital Humanities. The post will run for three years from Spring 2026. The successful candidate will work with Profess...

FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

Brill. Will do! Got a couple of funding bids in the offing at the mo to support network formation etc so hold with me and I’ll add you to the email list as we get there.

I’ll absolutely send you a copy the moment I have a finalised, accepted version! I’d love to see what you make of it. I’m the meantime I’m pulling together a group of folks interested in film societies, their history and their cultural/social/economic/wellbeing/other value/s. Want me to loop you in?

No way - I just submitted an article that is partly about the activities of the London Australian Film Society in the 1990s! Didn’t know you were connected (though perhaps should have guessed).

Cambodian spiced mac and cheese.

That’s it. That’s the whole message.

Cambodian spiced mac and cheese.

Research Associate at University of Glasgow An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Great postgrad job in Glasgow researching horror and 'psy' sciences🚨 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM520/r...

Book contract secured! If any of the phenomenally generous reviewers are on here, THANK YOU!!! ‘A Century of Community Cinema: The First 100 Years of Non-commercial Film Exhibition in Britain’ will be coming to your nearest library in a couple of years. Woohoo!

Search UCL Jobs Find the latest UCL job opportunities here.

We are hiring 4 lecturers in our dept!

🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods
🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science
🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Our #Dinosaurs, #Dragons and #Monsters display is now open! 🦖
From #JurassicPark to #Frankenstein, don't miss your chance to catch merchandise and memorabilia from some of cinema's most memorable and monstrous #MovieMoments! 🎥🎞🎬

We're open every day, 10am-5pm.
#filmsky #cinemasky #museumsky

Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025 Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here:

tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

This little munchkin. Wait for it…

📣JOB ALERT 📣 The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has a vacancy for a Project Records Assistant, which will give experience of both Archives & Records Management. Closing date 5 pm on 22 Aug. Come join the Heritage team! cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/p...

A funding panel apparently liked my application so much they want to use it as an example for future applicants. A wee bit flabbergasted and more than a little proud of myself.