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 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
10.02.2026 20:51
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🚨 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.
27.01.2026 10:53
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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. 🏺
15.01.2026 09:59
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Still one week to apply! Come work with us!
19.01.2026 13:11
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100 per cent!
13.01.2026 07:35
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V interesting research including this - people with authoritarian views less likely to go to museums
07.01.2026 13:31
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Findings: (2/2)
✔️ museums have limited capacity to attract adults with authoritarian views and to alter their beliefs
Article: doi.org/10.1057/s415...
07.01.2026 10:33
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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
07.01.2026 10:33
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📈 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.
07.01.2026 10:33
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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
07.01.2026 10:33
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LinkedIn
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⁉️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.
07.01.2026 10:33
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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...
07.01.2026 10:33
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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
19.12.2025 12:21
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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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16.12.2025 10:44
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🗓️ Apply by 28 Jan 2026: shorturl.at/NOMxU
16.12.2025 09:05
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💻 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
16.12.2025 09:05
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📣 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.
16.12.2025 09:05
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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...
15.12.2025 13:40
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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.
14.12.2025 10:36
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Thank you @edsrlee.bsky.social! I am so happy we have it out! Great work team!
09.12.2025 20:37
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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.
09.12.2025 16:37
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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.
09.12.2025 16:37
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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/...
09.12.2025 16:37
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He likes his fabrics 🧡 good taste
07.12.2025 09:37
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🙋♀️
19.11.2025 20:35
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☹️..but in a lovely setting ❤️😘
30.10.2025 20:20
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