Zoe Cormack
zoecormack.bsky.social
Zoe Cormack
@zoecormack.bsky.social
Curator at a national museum. Recovering academic and sporadic user of this site. Views my own.
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Nick Cave on Hopefulness 🎯
May 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Extremely predictable bank holiday DIY nightmare: the task is absolutely bigger than I thought, I don’t have enough filler, I’m definitely not going to finish this weekend yet I cannot go back because half the paint is stripped from my bathroom ceiling
May 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
So honoured to attend the opening of Culture House in Shepherd’s Bush this evening. Inspiring venue and community project ! Worth getting a late train home culturehouse.org.uk
Culture House - Discover Somali Culture & Heritage - Home
At Culture House we tell the story of the British Somali Community. Discover Somali culture and heritage today by visiting us today.
culturehouse.org.uk
May 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
UK potential drought this summer - Talking about household water saving is fine and good, but there is a pipe on my street that has been leaking for the last three years that Thames Water can’t or won’t fix.
May 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Absolutely exhausted after a long weekend with small children.
May 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Vision of the tomb - El-Salahi, 1965.
May 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Very much here for this kind of content:
I thought my first post on Bluesky should be something positive and motivational
May 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In Liverpool for Museum Ethnographers Group conference. Great to be here and hear about new work and projects
April 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I’m late to the party, but I’ve picked up Edward Wilson-Lee’s book ‘A History of Water’ which is brilliant and engrossing. Now thinking about parallels between archives, museums and history…
April 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Do you have the vision and leadership skills to shape the future of public engagement in one of the most exciting museums in the UK? We are seeking a new Head of Public Engagement & Programming. Full-time permanent role. Grade 8: Starting from £48,235 p.a. Closing date: 13 May 2025.

bit.ly/4lo27vk
April 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
My inspirational friend Naomi Pendle is looking for a PhD researcher on a major new project on the everyday politics on famine (in Sudan). Could it be you? It’s an experienced and international team www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The Everyday Politics of Famine in Sudan at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The Everyday Politics of Famine in Sudan at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
OMG someone has written a BOOK about how to do the Cambridge-London commute well. I have no words, except maybe… anyone done this for Oxford? www.amazon.co.uk/Cambridge-Co...
Cambridge Commuter: Travel to London faster and more efficiently eBook : Oliver, Kayleigh, Hulme, Ian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Cambridge Commuter: Travel to London faster and more efficiently eBook : Oliver, Kayleigh, Hulme, Ian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
April 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
An afternoon off work and took my kids swimming - feeling so wholesome. Also my cat killed and presented us with a (small) rat. And the ants are back.
April 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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As development agencies have become increasingly entangled with heritage projects, the dismantling of USAID raises the question of who will fill the funding gap – by @williamcarruthers.bsky.social www.apollo-magazine.com/usaid-abolit...
What USAID did for world heritage | Apollo Magazine
As development agencies have become increasingly entangled with heritage projects, the end of USAID raises the question of who will fill the funding gap, writes William Carruthers
www.apollo-magazine.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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“Khartoum airport’s rapid destruction speaks to the most remarkable feature of this war-how precipitous it was. How quickly Sudan was snatched from normality and plunged into a war that didn’t escalate over time, but exploded overnight.” @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The siege of Khartoum has lifted. Left behind are scenes of unimaginable horror | Nesrine Malik
Sudan’s capital has been hollowed out and stripped for parts, its people trampled beneath a conflict that is far from over, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Model aeroplane, made out of USAID cooking oil tins www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
March 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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South Sudan is slipping toward renewed conflict & political upheaval. Risks merging with war in Sudan. African heads of state with influence, esp Kenya, Ethiopia & South Africa should step in & calm alarming situation before hostilities escalate. 

www.crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-...
South Sudan on the Precipice of Renewed Full-blown War | Crisis Group
Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press Ki...
www.crisisgroup.org
March 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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This looks like a fascinating new book from Nicki Kindersley, just published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social.

New Sudans: Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum

doi.org/10.1017/9781... (on Cambridge Core, if you have library access)
February 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
View of where I spent the weekend - would you believe me if I sent it was work? Really it was
February 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Am I losing my grip. Every time I see the word ‘museum’ I panic it’s spelled wrong. Musuem.
January 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🚨 JOBS KLAXON

Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept:

Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas.

Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25.

Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music at King's College London
Apply for the Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Just published: preliminary survey of "A colonial-era ‘Strategic Village’ in Kiambicho Forest, Kenya". Traces of British colonial human rights abuses during the Mau Mau Rebellion (1952-60) journals.uclpress.co.uk/ai/article/i... 🏺🇰🇪
A colonial-era ‘Strategic Village’ in Kiambicho Forest, Kenya
Villagisation – the forcible removal of rural populations into internment camp-like settlements – was a policy of counterinsurgency and social engineering employed by the British colonial government i...
journals.uclpress.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for three years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
January 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM