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Chiara Bonacchi

@chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social
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Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Director Heritage Minds Lab. Philip Leverhulme Prize 2022. PI @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social. Researching the intersections between Heritage, Data, and the Politics of the Past

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
You can move less than 100 miles and be in a completely diff jobs and skills environment.'The idea that a young person's interests, aptitudes and talents need to be moulded to fit their locality is A grade provincialism. I mean, sure, some people don't ever move but esp given limited immigration
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🌸 This Spring, I had the pleasure to participate in the making of this exciting podcast on the 'Archaeology we Live', masterfully produced by Ilaria Gadenz for Pistoia Musei. 🎙️ I talked about the meaning of #publicarchaeology, the politics of the past, #heritage-based #hostility, and #placemaking.
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Il Sopra e il Sotto - Pistoia Musei
IL SOPRA E IL SOTTO Un viaggio nell’archeologia che viviamo L’archeologia è un modo di guardare le tracce materiali del passato e di interrogarle. Questa serie parte da Pistoia, negli anni…
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
⚡ OUR NEW DIGITAL HOME IS FINALLY LIVE! Discover the Heritage Minds Research Lab @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, at our brand-new website. 🌐 Enter Heritage Minds 👇 www.heritageminds.org 🙏 Thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for supporting us through the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology 2022!
#digitalheritage #heritage #policy #digitalhumanities #publicarchaeology
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
“What is clear is that the UK has amazing talent, and the opportunity to export that talent has diminished considerably post Brexit.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Catastrophic for creative industries’: Brexit barriers shut UK actors out of EU jobs
Casting shifts to EU talent as paperwork delays and visa limits make hiring British crews less viable
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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 02/05/2026
📣 @antiquity.ac.uk is flipping to #openaccess for research content! ✅ All research content published in the journal from January 2027 will be permanently and freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌍. Find out more! 🔗 cup.org/4cvNjZj #archaeology #SAA2026SFO
The image announces that starting January 2027, the publication "Antiquity" will be open access for research. It features an open access symbol and abstract red design in the top right corner.
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A really important article by friend&colleague @drmorgan.bsky.social continuing to make waves in the world of museum studies and practice!
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Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
What will this mean when this cohort enters universities, down the line? www.lbc.co.uk/article/ai-t...
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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.
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Weaponised Pasts @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🚨 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.
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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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. 🏺
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
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Still one week to apply! Come work with us!
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Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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”https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/2026-ahrc-doctoral-landscape-award-collaborative-doctoral-award-cda-phd-studentship/?p193000
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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
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
V interesting research including this - people with authoritarian views less likely to go to museums
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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 ow.ly/ZJb050XMbHs
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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
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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 16/12/2025
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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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📣 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.
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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...
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 14/12/2025
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.
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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/...
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Short term job in critical cultural heritage studies at Linnaeus in Kalmar - a lovely place with great colleagues. lnu.se/mot-linneuni...
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Lediga jobb på Linnéuniversitetet i Kalmar och Växjö
Här hittar du våra lediga jobb. Linnéuniversitetet ger dig en arbetsplats med många möjligheter. Välkommen att söka ditt drömjobb hos oss idag!
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
New podcast, in which I explain why the Battle of Hastings doesn't feature in my new book on eleventh-century Europe 💅 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
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11th-century Europe: not just the Norman Conquest
Podcast Episode · History Extra podcast · 21/10/2025 · 32m
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Enjoyed discussing with students this morning the perils of online historical databases, with this case as a key example: historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive...
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History Matters - Why Naomi Wolf Misinterpreted Evidence From The Old Bailey Online
Bob Shoemaker | 29 May 2019 ◇ British History | Media History | Modern History
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Just back from beautiful Zagreb! Had the pleasure to give a keynote on 'Bias, injustice and repairs in the digital heritage landscape' at the Digital Art History: Methods Practice and Epistemology conference, organised by Sanja Horvatincic and Sanja Sekelj from the University of Zagreb
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Professor Anna Vignoles @annavignoles.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/value-k... Do come along on 17 November to hear some of our Philip Leverhulme Prize winners speak about the importance of knowledge particularly at the moment! With our partners @expeditions.bsky.social and 5x15
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Really enjoyed celebrating 100 years of the @leverhulme.ac.uk yesterday evening and listening to an inspiring lecture by Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on 100 years of research on adolescence. Very relevant to new collaborative work we are developing at Edinburgh.
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The National Trust for Scotland has a new Curator position open! Deadline: 26 October 2025 and more info👇 www.asva.co.uk/jobs/curator... cc @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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Curator
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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 02/10/2025
Here the bsky of the new project I’ve just started working on with @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social, @zachhorne.bsky.social, and @johnmartindale.bsky.social at the University of Edinburgh! We will investigate, from a cultural evolution perspective, the spread of heritage-based hostility on social media.
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
📢📣Both the website and social media accounts for our new @leverhulme.ac.uk project @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social are now live! Give it a follow! 👆
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This week, it was exciting to host @acerbialberto.com at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to launch our @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded *Weaponised Pasts* research project, through three days of teamwork, followed by a kick-off event at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!
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Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
'ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right'. Our new article, led by Tania Gonzáles Cantera, is out. It is an outcome of Tania's visit to the #HeritageMindsLab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social last yr doi.org/10.1080/1352...
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ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right
This study examines political biases in ChatGPT-4o’s interpretations of memoryscapes linked to dictatorial regimes in Spanish-speaking countries. Using a least-to-most prompting model and a Discour...
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The British university mess is so clearly what happens when the incentives of the people administering and consulting on the system bear no relation to those of anyone actually working in it
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I wrote something for the @thetls.bsky.social about the most famous wind in France - the mistral - and an excellent little book that tries to tell a "windswept" history of modern France. www.the-tls.com/world/travel...
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Icy blasts from the north have inspired French artists, writers and scientists
For holidaymakers, the Mediterranean evokes sun, sea and sand. But, for those who live there, these clichés are tempered by a climatic phenomenon rarely
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Pleasure to listen to the great presentation of my brilliant colleague @andreakocsis.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social on the sensationalised representations and limited documentary evidence at Hungary’s WW1 exhibition. 👏🏻
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A very packed room at Karolinum, in Prague, for the opening of the 9th conference of the @memorystudies.bsky.social Association, with Astrid Erll’s talk on collective memory in our world of 2025! #msa
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Leverhulme Trust invests £100m in ‘challenged’ research sector. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
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Leverhulme Trust invests £100m in ‘challenged’ research sector - Research Professional News
Trust to fund blue skies and interdisciplinary research, career development and inclusion initiatives
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Great to be back in my hometown #Pistoia, yesterday, giving a public talk in the beautiful space of Palazzo dei Vescovi on what public archaeology and heritage are and why they are important. I look forward to following up with www.pistoiamusei.it to discuss future collaborations
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
For historians of Eurasia, a useful book review by Roy Flechner (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages. Edited by Erik Hermans. Arc Humanities Press Companions. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2020. x + 563 pp. €189. ISBN 978 1 942 40175 9.
Click on the article title to read more.
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We are off to a great start with our @uoe-cahss.bsky.social #heritage mini-symposium! If you are in Edinburgh, come and join us for a really interesting line up of talks! Info: blogs.ed.ac.uk/heritagesymp...
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
About to start reading @acerbialberto.com's new book on Techno-panic and looking forward to seeing it in English too very soon!
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It was a pleasure to give a seminar on Heritage-based hostility on social media at the University of Trento, today. Thank you for inviting me @acerbialberto.com!
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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
'Prehistoric Policies' research project secures British Academy funding archaeologyorkney.com/2025/05/08/p...
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Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The URL in the screenshot is swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/
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The Unix Shell: Summary and Setup
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Day #1 of our high-performance computing training course, led by Mike Wallis @uoe-cahss.bsky.social and organised in collaboration with @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social in our lab!
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
We have a big conference this week and the weather is going to be gorgeous. The University of London Senate House looks amazing in the sunshine.
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Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory
Conference
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
📣📣 Still 5 days to apply for our 3-year Post-doc position, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social (deadline: 31st March)! 📣📣 Come and work with me & @acerbialberto.com on the 'Weaponised Pasts', funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social. More info and to apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Recruiting now: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It was a pleasure to run the #Heritage Grant Development Day, at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social, on Friday, with an incredible group of researchers from the @uoe-cahss.bsky.social. New grant ideas, grant proposal sections and connections have emerged. We look forward to their further development!
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