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A rare opportunity to work on natural history collections with a great team at National Museums Northern Ireland. Curator for vertebrates, closing 27 October, £37,694 to £38,990 per annum ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...

Funded PhD Opportunity!

So, PA gets proscribed tout suite, and a balaclava clad, uniformly dressed group openly calling for a mob to go to a police station to "free" a knife-using criminal suspect, after blockading ports and terrorising members of the RNLI, are still acting openly on social media. Mahmood, where are you?

TONIGHT IS THE MAIN EVENT! The peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower! Look in any direction any time after dark, fill your gaze with sky. And wait… YOU ONLY NEED YOUR EYES! #meteorwatch www.nightskyshow.co.uk

#Eclipse through a colander in Oxfordshire

#ICYMI: Join us on 3rd October for a one-day conference exploring the maritime and local history of Watchet and West Somerset. This conference is in partnership with the South West Maritime History Society and the Somerset Industrial Archaeology Society; read more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-m...

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Developed vetting is tough but not really difficult to pass successfully. The key questions should be why Mandelson had his failure ignored and, possibly more importantly, how many other people in government now and in recent years also failed as potential security risks but were waived through.

Four PhD studentships are now open for applications. As part of AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme, these studentships are co-supervised by Library staff and academics based at UK universities. Find out more about the projects 😃

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

The Lemmermann Foundation is pleased to announce scholarships for students enrolled in Master’s or PhD programs. The research topic must focus on Rome and the Roman culture, from the Pre-Roman period to the present day. Deadline 31 March Full details here: lemmermann-foundation.org/apply/

New Year walk to Wayland’s Smithy

Saving a museum would be a pretty cool thing to do for Christmas, wouldn't it? You know what to do, you awesome bunch....

2-year position for a woman - could be a medievalist!

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Join the #BigButterflyCount today! 🦋 You dont have to be an expert to have a positive impact ✨️ @savebutterflies.bsky.social Find out more - share.google/GnglkRZRu6oA... #Butterfly #Nature #Wildlife #Moth #LoveNature #SaveButterflies #Wild #Conservation #CitizenScience

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

We were going to post our favorite bee mosaic for International Bee Day, but then we found these little cuties. justhistoryposts.com/2023/09/05/h...

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🧵I've posted previously about how institutional capture by disordered discourse works, and I want to highlight this post from DOD Rapid Response to show what it looks like in action, and what it tells us. It’s a textbook example of Stage 5: Entrenchment & Epistemic Closure. bsky.app/profile/elio...

Don’t forget our CfP for our long 18thc @bsecs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference in Bath 30-31st July on the theme of facades! Closes on 21st March. We can’t wait to welcome you to Bath Spa and the city! #skystorians #18c #19c #17c Please share with anyone interested!

Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268... #dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky

Call for abstracts: I’m putting together an edited book on archaeology and horror. Details below. Contact me for full CFP or to discuss potential submissions. 🏺👻🧟🏛️

One grotty truth of real world cybersecurity is that once a network has been breached by a hostile actor, you need to rebuild, test, and re-commission it from a known-good foundation, which always turns out to be way lower level than anybody wants to think. 1/?

I know how tough it is out there, but we do have a fully funded PhD scholarship available here at CCCU, with a UKRI-linked stipend and great staff to support you. If you want to pursue a PhD in History, Archaeology, or Heritage; consider applying. We're a friendly bunch and Canterbury is lovely. 🗃️

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Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏