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Keeper of Science and Technology at National Museums Scotland. Historian of photography, science, museums and visual culture. He/him. Views my own.

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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.⁠

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16.09.2025 09:55 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

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.

01.10.2025 13:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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

30.09.2025 14:23 — 👍 12    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 3

Think you have your next tattoo inspiration sorted....

23.09.2025 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Job Klaxon!

Science Museum is looking for a Curator of Chemistry.

Job Details
Salary - £41,177.63
Full Time
London
Deadline - 29/09/2025
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23.09.2025 15:27 — 👍 2    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations Alex! Gotta celebrate the big things like this

22.08.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good luck! I know it's a super stressful process - hope it goes as smoothly as possible

18.08.2025 10:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Director of Culture, Collections and Public Engagement - External Relations - 81775 - Grade 10 The Director of Culture, Collections and Public Engagement will provide strategic leadership and oversight of the University’s cultural and public engagement initiatives, supporting the University’s S...

#JobFairy University of Birmingham is looking for a Director of Culture, Collections and Public Engagement - senior hire at Grade 10
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15.08.2025 11:18 — 👍 9    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0
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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!

11.08.2025 13:04 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Resistance | Format: the Women’s Photography Agency (in person) | National Galleries of Scotland Join Resistance photographers Pam Isherwood and Maggie Murray for a discussion about Format, the agency founded as a collective to represent women photographers.  Format was established in 1983 and op...

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

04.08.2025 13:45 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

You coming up for this? The show is great - let me know if you are in town on the 12th

04.08.2025 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Metropolitan Science Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development…

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 🗃️

04.08.2025 11:26 — 👍 29    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 1
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The AI shift - IATM REGISTER NOW Register now! We are looking forward to welcoming you in Frankfurt/Main and Mannheim!From 14-17 September 2025, we will gather in Frankfurt am Main and Mannheim for the next IATM Conferen...

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/...

01.08.2025 12:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
RPS Project Archivist - Cromwell Road, London The V&A is a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity. Our mission is to champion art, design and creativity in all its forms, for everyone. We share a 5,000-year-old story of creativity...

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!

07.07.2025 07:35 — 👍 12    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 1
Curator (Science & Industry) - Job page - Birmingham Museums Careers

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...

03.07.2025 09:56 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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The birthday present that will keep on giving! Thanks @dreframss.bsky.social and @nannaklk.bsky.social!

20.06.2025 12:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Image of crowd with text: 'Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship. Fellowship recognizes the scholarly contribution of historians working in all sectors of professional history. Next closing date: Monday 11 August 2025'

Image of crowd with text: 'Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship. Fellowship recognizes the scholarly contribution of historians working in all sectors of professional history. Next closing date: Monday 11 August 2025'

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

19.06.2025 08:41 — 👍 48    🔁 28    💬 1    📌 1
Citizen Science: Opening up science to society
YouTube video by EU Science & Innovation Citizen Science: Opening up science to society

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

13.06.2025 07:18 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Museums must support diversity amid Trump attacks, says V&A East director - Museums Association Gus Casely-Hayford expresses solidarity with US colleagues after Smithsonian gallery director is ‘fired’

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’

09.06.2025 09:08 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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

05.06.2025 11:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)

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

14.05.2025 11:32 — 👍 14    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

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

01.04.2025 09:43 — 👍 15    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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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 Doctoral Awards from the Arts & Humanities Research Council – will offer supervision through project partners including the Royal Society and Cambridge University Library…

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…

03.04.2025 09:54 — 👍 39    🔁 27    💬 0    📌 3

Joe, I'm so sorry. Watching this all unfold from across the Atlantic. Hope you and other colleagues are able to weather the storm as best as possible

04.04.2025 14:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

28.03.2025 13:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Project Curator, South African Collections

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

25.03.2025 09:28 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War

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...

18.03.2025 11:34 — 👍 23    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 1
Research Assistant/Research Associate - Ireland and the - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge Research Assistant/Research Associate - Ireland and the in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.

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

10.03.2025 16:41 — 👍 84    🔁 72    💬 3    📌 4
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Fantastic Maternity cover role as Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology at National Science and Media Museum in Bradford! Photohistorians and curators - apply!

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07.03.2025 10:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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