A really important article by friend&colleague @drmorgan.bsky.social continuing to make waves in the world of museum studies and practice!

Come join me and the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social team! Teaching replacement post in Museum Studies, 1 year contract: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

This Thursday, at 4pm, I will be talking about Machine Heritage: Controversies in GenAI-generated meanings and values of the past, at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social and on Zoom 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

AI tutors to be rolled out to UK schools in just two years in bid to help needy pupils | LBC Artificial intelligence (AI) tutors will be made available to schools in just two years, the Government has confirmed.

What will this mean when this cohort enters universities, down the line?
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ai-t...

🚨 Still time to apply to our post-doc - Deadline 3rd February 📜

You will be working with Zachary Horne, @acerbialberto.com, @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social, @johnmartindale.bsky.social
on the @leverhulme.ac.uk -funded project Weaponised Pasts.

Title section of a journal article: The Legend of Ea-Nasir: How a Babylonian Businessman Became an Internet Meme. By Gabriel Moshenska, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK, g.moshenska@ucl.ac.uk https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JCA/article/view/30204 https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.30204

Just published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. 🏺

Still one week to apply! Come work with us!

2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - 2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling, listed on FindAPhD.com

Funded PhD opp. Uni of Stirling “situated at the intersection of built heritage, housing, and climate justice, focusing on tenants in historic tenements in Stirling”www.findaphd.com/phds/project/2026-ahrc-d...

100 per cent!

V interesting research including this - people with authoritarian views less likely to go to museums

Findings: (2/2)
✔️ museums have limited capacity to attract adults with authoritarian views and to alter their beliefs

Article: doi.org/10.1057/s415...

Findings: (1/2)
✔️ visitors’ views do not align with the positions implied by the historical analogies used in exclusive nationalist discourse
✔️ most participants hold critical and non-binary understandings of the Iron Age and Roman past, as well as liberal values

📈 We quantitatively examined correlations between visitors’ political values and their beliefs about aspects of the deep past that are frequently weaponised by parties and politicians, to assess the capacity of heritage sites to influence visitors’ historical consciousness and foster tolerance.

The data collection was part of our @ukri.org FoF project Co-Producing Tolerant Futures through Ancient Identities. Thanks to additional support through my Philip @leverhulme.ac.uk Prize, we could approach this data in a new interdisciplinary way, involving @zachhorne.bsky.social & Marta Krzyzanska

⁉️What are the political attitudes of archaeological museum visitors?
⁉️What potential do these museums have to engage visitors with authoritarian views and foster tolerance?
To answer these questions, we collected data from 803 visitors at three archaeological museums in the UK.

Really excited that our *new paper* is finally out 🔥 This study is the first to quantitatively investigate museum visitors’ perceptions of historical analogies that compare concepts from the deep past to modern political ideas.
doi.org/10.1057/s415...

Scottish HE funding review to start in January despite election Scottish National Party minister says financial challenges go ‘beyond party political boundaries’ as official talks set to begin

The Scottish government has confirmed that a cross-party review of the financial sustainability of Scotland’s universities will go ahead after months of initial talks between university leaders and politicians, reports Helen Packer #EduSky
https://ow.ly/ZJb050XMbHs

Work (also) with me!

Two years postdoc in the @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, based in Edinburgh. Will do transmission chain experiments to understand the spread of heritage-based hostility, online and elsewhere.

More info
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🗓️ Apply by 28 Jan 2026: shorturl.at/NOMxU

💻 The PDRA will be supervised by @zachhorne.bsky.social & @acerbialberto.com, working closely with myself and @johnmartindale.bsky.social. They will undertake research focused on the cultural evolution of archaeological information using transmission chain experiments and natural language processing

📣 PDRA JOB (2 Years, full-time) based in Psychology, @schoolofppls.bsky.social: We are hiring a Post-doctoral Research Associate, to work on Strand B (experimental) of our @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, generously funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk.

Greatly enjoyed reading student work reflecting on editing Wikipedia pages, including Caroline minuscule, Charlemagne's daughters, Paul the Deacon, the Carolingian Empire in Portuguese, Vegetius...

A glance back!

“The usefulness of useless knowledge” was the topic of a thought-provoking session at #NobelWeek Dialogue 2025 with laureates - hear Sir Paul Nurse and Frances Arnold from 1’19’:
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=urLM...

ERC grantee Jean Tirole took part in other interesting sessions.

Thank you @edsrlee.bsky.social! I am so happy we have it out! Great work team!

The pilot project was funded by the Historic England Digital Strategy Board Innovation Fund. It aimed to develop HAZEL, a GenAI chatbot fine-tuned to assist with revising written guidance relating to heritage conservation and interpretation.

The article stems from an R&D pilot project conducted in collaboration with #HistoricEngland @edsrlee.bsky.social Lisa Brausem & Verity Shillabeer. Very grateful to my friend @museologi.st for facilitating this collaboration.

Congratulations to @jesswitte.bsky.social for leading our new collaborative paper on 'Generative #AI in Heritage Practice: Improving the Accessibility of Heritage Guidance'!
www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/8/...

He likes his fabrics 🧡 good taste

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Short term job in critical cultural heritage studies at Linnaeus in Kalmar - a lovely place with great colleagues. lnu.se/mot-linneuni...