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Claire Boardman
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People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
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The @infolitgroup.bsky.social & @ucl.ac.uk Department of Information Studies are proud to announce the return of the Information Literacy Award at #LILAC26 The award is open to all practitioners, researchers & academics working in #infolit in the UK. Nominations close 6 Feb (17:00 GMT).
LILAC
LILAC is an annual conference covering all aspects of information literacy and is a firm favourite in the calendar of information professionals. The conference is brimming with new ideas, innovative…
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January 6, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Now on the blog: Claire Kennan introduces a new resource, 'Interpreting Ruins in the Country Estate: A Toolkit' bit.ly/4512wh0

The toolkit offers a guide to conserving and interpreting ruins and is intended for heritage professionals, academics and those interested in local / landscape history 1/2
Image of the blog post: 'Interpreting Ruins in the Country Estate: A Toolkit' with abstract: "In this post Claire Kennan introduces ‘Interpreting Ruins in the Country Estate’ , a new toolkit for those concerned with the preservation, study and promotion of ruins. This new resource develops from a workshop, funded by the Royal Historical Society, and held at Scotney Castle, Kent, in late 2024. The toolkit is intended for heritage professionals, academics, and those interested in local history and the landscape. It is designed to act as a springboard for anyone concerned or involved with the preservation, care, and interpretation of ruins. The toolkit considers the interpretation of ruins in country estates and beyond, how we preserve these ruins, and how ruins have been interpreted historically. Each theme is explored with thought-provoking questions and statements, accompanied by relevant examples and resources and seeks to inspire and inform decisions about the care and interpretation of the ruins in our landscapes."
January 10, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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romanscotland.bsky.social
The remains of the bathhouse at Bearsden by Glasgow.
January 19, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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antiquaries.bsky.social
This Thursday, from the comfort of your own home, you can join us and @socantscot.bsky.social with speaker Prof. Hannah Cobb FSA FSAScot for an online lecture on how care in archaeology has the potential to be an act of radical and transformative resistance. www.sal.org.uk/event/care-f...
Care-full: An Examination of Care in Archaeology and Heritage - Society of Antiquaries of London
Join our two Societies – the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland – for a joint lecture given by Professor Hannah Cobb (University of Manchester). She explores h...
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January 19, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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lsangha.bsky.social
📢Job: postdoctoral research officer📢

For 'Witchcraft politics (Hexenpolitik) across the sea. A new entangled history of #EarlyModern England and the Holy Roman Empire', led by Profs Alison Rowlands & Rita Voltmer. 🗃️

- 33 months
- 0.8 FTE
- Deadline 1 Feb

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...
Senior Research Officer at University of Essex
Explore an exciting academic career as a Senior Research Officer. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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January 19, 2026 at 9:35 AM
claireboardman.bsky.social
Wonderful new work but is it a smile or a grimace?
pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 9h
The inkless doodles of Eadburg, an 8th-c. nun, discovered by new technology: now published by Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson in EME doi.org/10.1111/emed... (Open access)
Sketch of a person (?)
January 19, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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cathyclarke77.bsky.social
The #OnePlaceStudies blogging and social media prompt for this month, #OnePlaceAdverts has prompted me to post an article 'Advertising New Zealand in the 1870s' used to encourage emigrants on the Woodlark in 1874. app.weare.xyz/public/the-w...
Advertising New Zealand in the 1870s
The Immigration and Public Works Act of 1870, introduced by Julius Vogel, transferred control of immigration from provincial governments to the central government. To manage this, Isaac Featherston wa...
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January 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
claireboardman.bsky.social
Continued good news re: renewable energy, but only £7M? It seems a tiny amount compared to what is being invested on the demand side in data centres, etc.

www.renewableenergymagazine.com/ocean_energy...

H/t: @leanahosea.bsky.social, @justinmikulka.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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eve.gd
Here are 8 successful *proposals* for academic books/monographs. I am hoping that these help someone who is starting out trying to write one and wants to see what worked for me. They are provided as examples, rather than exemplars. A lot of it was just finding my own way eve.gd/2026/01/16/s...
Some example academic book proposal forms in case they help
A pivotal moment in my academic career, or at least one I remember clearly, was when a very senior professor in the US sent me his book proposal for an acade...
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January 16, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
A call for papers closing Jan 31st! for #medieval #Renaissance #earlymodern folks working on the British Isles and their wider connections.
drdavidrundle.bsky.social Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · Nov 13
Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
MEMS to Host the Fifteenth Century Conference 2026
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January 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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carolinemg.bsky.social
The sun is 93 million miles (150 million kilometres) from the earth, yet it can be captured in a single window on the tiny Rock of Gibraltar! Thanks to Helen Gibbons for this amazing shot. #meteogib
The Old Town of Gibraltar at the ‘Golden Hour’ of the evening with the reflection of the round sun in a single window.
January 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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jmbecologist.bsky.social
On a damp and grey January day, nature can uplift the spirits
January 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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TL cleanse ... and relax.
lakesstiles.bsky.social Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 1d
Ripples in sand, Wester Ross.
January 18, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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judeseal.bsky.social
BBC News - Sizewell princely cemetery reveals more Anglo-Saxon secrets - BBC News
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Sizewell princely cemetery reveals more Anglo-Saxon secrets
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January 18, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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tsakraklides.bsky.social
“The success of any business today is determined by the same criteria as the success of a virus: by how fast it can manage to create more of itself, regardless of the cost to humans or the planet”
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When Profit Grows a Brain: The Diabolical Collision Between Necrocapitalism and AGI
As AI begins to syphon all investment, energy and data it can get its circuits on, I can’t help but think that this was a natural progression for a self-destructive civilisation obsessed with growth.
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January 18, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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antiquity.ac.uk
The Fens, once the UK's largest lowland wetland, are under threat from environmental change. Examining changes in landscape, habitat, and species from the Neolithic to today underscores the need for integrated heritage and environmental management.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Elevation map of the Fens showing present-day topography and major settlements. Insert: map of Britain with the Fens (an area of eastern England) highlighted.
January 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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stuartjeffrey.bsky.social
Brand new from @sit-gsa.bsky.social, a longer format in-depth video exploring our MSc in Heritage Visualisation. It covers a lot of ground, research, experience and destinations.

Applications are open for a Sept 26 start.
#digitalheritage #heritage #visualisation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaZ...
In Depth: MSc Heritage Visualisation
YouTube video by GSA School of Innovation and Technology
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January 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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eve.gd
Yay! The hard copies of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities arrived today. It was a pleasure to write a chapter in this about pirate infrastructures and shadow libraries.
The cover of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities with the top words in yellow and the bottom in red
January 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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jennyedwards.bsky.social
It's that time of year when people plan their annual holidays. Who knows of good packages to #Greenland and Denmark for those of us who'd like to support their economies and show solidarity?
January 17, 2026 at 9:48 PM
claireboardman.bsky.social
A blast from the past by @stuartjeffrey.bsky.social @sit-gsa.bsky.social a.bsky.social. It's easy to forget how revolutionary the 2013 ACCORD project was; not just pioneering heritage 3D modelling but doing so by handing the then emergent technology to local communities. sit.gsa.ac.uk/post/accord
Blog Post | Glasgow School of Art | ACCORD: Archaeology Community Co-production of Research Data
Community-led 3D heritage recording project exploring how digital tools enhance engagement, authenticity and social value. - Dec 11, 2025
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January 17, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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deepseadawn.bsky.social
Great shout out to Rebecca Lindsey and @climate.us !!!

So thankful for ALL of these efforts!
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January 17, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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richardosgood.bsky.social
Hopefully you all know how I love the mixture of archaeology and art. Today I visited the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social & saw the spellbinding collection of Rose Ferraby work. Of so many things precious to me - landscapes, sites, artefacts. One week left - go and see it! #archaeology #art #wiltshire
A collage by Rose Ferraby with prehistoric. Items including stone axe heads (lower left) and the bones and tusks of the Upton Lovell shaman top left An early Bronze Age beaker pot in the Wiltshire museum. Highly decorated with rejoined sherds visible through white line repairs at the top A Rose Ferraby collage of green hills and trees in the background and beaker pots in the foreground A Rose Ferraby collage of Early Bronze Age artefacts with a beaker pots in the centre being the most prominent . Stratigraphy of layers shown either side
January 17, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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I hadn't realised I'd captured this slide from #curatorRob 's online talk this week. Just one of dozens showcasing the amazing @romanpalace.bsky.social archives. 😍
Screenshot of slide from the online presentation given by Dr. Rob Symmons, curator of Fishbourne Roman Palace, for the Sussex Archaeological Society. The slide shows three colour photographs of painted wall plaster fragments, organised into their likely original position (in relation to each other) and held in the Fishbourne Roman Palace. Although found is different parts of the Palace, Dr Rob shared that extensive analysis of the paint pigment and brushstrokes suggests that these were the work of the same painter.
January 17, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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I forgot to share at the time but I made my Mum an advent calendar filled with some of my favourite finds... from cowries to sea glass, pottery pieces to coral, painted topshells to even a tooth! My favourite shell was saved for mum to open last- a pelicans foot 🐚 #OuterHebride
January 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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placesjournal.bsky.social
A journey through an urban park; a visual record of displacement; an architectural fairy tale; and more.

We’re back in your inboxes, in this unsettled start to the new year, to share recent essays that we hope might both inform and hearten. The latest newsletter from Places:
Garden, Impermanence, Buffet, Bookshelf
A journey through an urban park, a visual record of community displacement, an architectural fairy tale, and more of the latest in Places.
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January 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM