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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities
@camglamresearch.bsky.social
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Collections Connections Communities (CCC),
strategic research initiative supporting projects across @camunivmuseums.bsky.social, @theul.bsky.social, Cambridge Botanic Garden & other collections
Website: https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/
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Want to know & work with NatHist Collections from entire world? Use data for humanities disciplines?
Join us for the CCC Michaelmas Keynote Lecture
Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges delivered by Pam Soltis
Register here:
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Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections
CCC Michaelmas Keynote Lecture 2025 delivered by Pamela S. Soltis, Distinguished Professor, Curator, Director, UF Biodiversity Institute
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October 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
camglamresearch.bsky.social
Archaeology can often struggle to attract younger audiences and engaging local communities. New participatory research: 'Fen to Fire – Building a Living Portrait of a Bronze Age Homestead' addressed these challenges.

Check their blog on our website!
#GLAM
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Fen to Fire – Building a Living Portrait of a Bronze Age Homestead - Collections Connections Communities
Fen to Fire – Building a Living Portrait of a Bronze Age Homestead Dr Christopher Wakefield, Engagement and Communication Officer, Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Dept. of Archaeology Work in progress ...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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jillwhitelock.bsky.social
Interesting to find some nature printed butterflies @theul.bsky.social yesterday (‘lepidochromes’). The butterflies were pressed on prepared paper, which was folded, allowing the scales to transfer to create mirror images of both sides of the insects’ wings. 1/2 #enthist @camglamresearch.bsky.social
Montage showing nature printed butterflies in a 1920s notebook: a Peacock, Red admiral and Small tortoiseshell.
October 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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emgeekay.bsky.social
This is such a fabulous program. I feel saddened to think how many ancient buildings and how many artifacts, libraries, and archives have been destroyed by wars in Syria, Yemen, and Palestine. These are rich cultures that have endured through milennia.
October 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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curatorgeoff.bsky.social
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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September 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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🎺 The 2025 Participatory Research Projects we funded via @ukri.org #ResearchEngland have come to a close.
First up: Botanical Wisdom: art, medicine and nature in Muslim societies

Read the blog ⤵️

#participation#research#GLAM#botanicalart #muslimmedicine

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Botanical Wisdom: Art, Medicine, and Nature in Muslim Societies - Collections Connections Communities
Botanical Wisdom: Art, Medicine, and Nature in Muslim Societies Dr Zahra Kazani, Research and Outreach Associate - Islamic art and material culture Centre of Islamic Studies This participatory researc...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
camglamresearch.bsky.social
Can't wait to welcome you in the team!
To find out more of the Natural History Humanities initiative click the link below ⤵️
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
September 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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ojgarling.bsky.social
Fascinating write up of how a @camglamresearch.bsky.social supported project, including @angelcakepie2.bsky.social and @enamusoke.bsky.social, explored how the folk scene has been informed by Afro-indigenous stringed instruments

Reminds me of @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social work in the US.
CROSSING CONTINENTS – Fitz Future Legacies
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September 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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maacambridge.bsky.social
Is there anything more satisfying than watching Lily, our Senior Teaching and Collections Assistant in Archaeology, create a new storage solution for some stunning shabtis?
September 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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🚨Join our team!
we are looking for a Research Grants Facilitator to support the Natural History Humanities Initiative!

To know more and apply follow the link ⤵️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

@uniofcam.bsky.social
Research Grants Facilitator (Fixed Term)
Working for the Collections-Connections-Communities (CCC) initiative the Research Grants Facilitator will provide comprehensive support throughout the research funding lifecycle, from identifying
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September 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
camglamresearch.bsky.social
🚨Blog edition from the Bound Together exhibition!
Want to know more of about the leather handbag from British-Nigerian luxury leather brand, Zashadu, Lagos?

Read the blog by the curator of the exhibition @enamusoke.bsky.social
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social
#AFRICA
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Bound Together: Nigerian Leather and Luxury Fashion - Collections Connections Communities
Dr Eva Namusoke, Senior Curator, African Collections Futures In Bound Together, Nigerian leather is the star, worked and remade by people on two continents, Africa and Europe, that were connected by e...
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September 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
sculptural embroidery and textile art based on natural forms by contemporary Australian artist Meredith Woolnough #WomensArt
Four textile artworks resembling organic forms from nature
August 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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ojgarling.bsky.social
One for Cambridge people interested in shaping @cam.ac.uk's approach to community engagement.

Good to see that board members get reimbursed for their time.

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Community Engagement Advisory Board
Join us Community engagement at the University of Cambridge is working in new ways - and we want you to be a part of it. We are setting up a Community Engagement Advisory Board to shape how we
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August 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
camglamresearch.bsky.social
TONIGHT! Bound together: Leather from Northern Nigeria opens #FitzwilliamMuseum @camunivmuseums.bsky.social
This display stems out of the research from the African Collections Futures by the amazing #DrEvaNamusoke
#Africaresearch #Africacollections

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Bound Together: Leather from Northern Nigeria
Bound Together Leather from Northern Nigeria display exhibition Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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August 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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theul.bsky.social
Cambridge University Library, seen from the Old Schools. A view we all love!
A view of Cambridge University Library taken from Old Schools.
July 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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🚨Check one of the CCC and @ukri.org 2025 Participatory Research projects as it comes to an end.

This community-led research project explores how the folk scene has been informed by Afro-indigenous stringed instruments. 🪕 🌍 #GLAM @camunivmuseums.bsky.social

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‘Crossing Continents: Collections Research as Resistance’: how the folk scene has been informed by Afro-indigenous stringed instruments - Collections Connections Communities
Convened and sponsored by Carey Robinson, Deputy Director, Learning & Public Programmes at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and funded by the Collections, Connections, Communities research initiative, over thr...
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July 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
camglamresearch.bsky.social
Fantastic thread showing how specimen collections and archival sources work together to show a bigger picture … 💚
trichocolea.bsky.social Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · Jul 11
Yesterday I was @cuherb.bsky.social checking out its collection of Sussex #bryophytes, most of which were collected by William Nicholson (1866-1945), though there are also some from Thomas Laflin (1914-1972), and even William Mitten (1819-1906)

1/5 #bryology
Some of the drawers at the Cambridge Herbarium containing mosses One of Nicholson's moss packets, opened to show its contents, the pleurocarp Anomodon viticulosus, which was in fact from the collection of William Mitten, and had been supplied by the New York Botanical Garden
July 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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What a great roundtable! @collecol.bsky.social!
July 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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dominikhhh.bsky.social
Had a fabulous time at #BSHS2025 @bshsnews.bsky.social . #HistSTM

So much on #museums , #collections , #envhist #HistNatHist . 😍

Great seeing friends & meeting new people. Esp. @camglamresearch.bsky.social

Thanks everyone for attending our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable. Join please:
Collection Ecologies | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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July 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
camglamresearch.bsky.social
Can't wait for Grace Exley and her research as Munby Fellow @theul.bsky.social and the Natural History Humanities initiative with us! #GLAM
jillwhitelock.bsky.social Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · Jul 8
Great talk in the #BSHS2025 Women in Natural History session today by Grace Exley on ‘How Women Shaped Geological Collections: The Case of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, 1813-1914’ - incoming Munby Fellow @theul.bsky.social / @camglamresearch.bsky.social Natural History Humanities.
Photograph of the audience and presentation for the talk.
July 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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jillwhitelock.bsky.social
Some nice entomologists’ bookplates in the Insect Room at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, David Sharp’s on a copy of Verrall’s ‘List of British Diptera’ (1888) given to his fellow entomologist and @theul.bsky.social Librarian Francis Jenkinson (a lovely gift 💕). @camglamresearch.bsky.social
Bookplates of David Sharp (1840-1923) and Charles G. Lamb (1867-1941).
June 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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historianmemory.bsky.social
Yesterday, I attended magnificent Prof @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social 's book launch with journalist and author Prof. Gary Younge @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Illuminating conversation about a superb book on extinction. www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1352...
June 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
camglamresearch.bsky.social
🧪🔬The Science of art: a family day at the #Fiztwiiliam museum @camunivmuseums.bsky.social
Through a day of fun, friendly and accessible activities all who came explored the science of
🎨painting
🪖armour
☁️clouds and conservation

#GLAM #access #scienceandart

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The Science of Art: A Family Day at the Fitzwilliam Museum - Collections Connections Communities
The Science of Art: A Family Day at the Fitzwilliam Museum David Farrell-Banks is Practitioner Research Associate: Collections & Participation at Fitzwilliam Museum Jade Pollard-Crowe and Tim Lister, ...
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June 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
camglamresearch.bsky.social
📮Last postcards #takeawalkinmyshoes how museums are lived by those affected by visible and non-visible disabilities
@erbradfield.bsky.social
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social #fitzmuseum

Last series: top tips for first time visitors

#Postcards #GLAM #access #tips
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Take a walk in my shoes: top tips for first time visitors - Collections Connections Communities
Take a walk in my shoes: top tips for first time visitors Emily Bradfield: Practitioner Research Associate: Collections & Wellbeing (older adults), The Fitzwilliam Museum with participants Georgie, Jo...
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June 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM