"Don’t be self-congratulatory. You don’t deserve a medal for doing the right thing..." 🚫🏅   Find out how @uoacollections prepared for the potential backlash to a politically-charged news story (University of Aberdeen's Benin Bronze announcement) earlier this year: scottishheritagesocialmediagroup.com/2021/08/12/soc…

We’re recruiting an Assistant Curator, Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain. Please spread the word! workingat.tate.org.uk/pages/job_sear…

#jobfairy Work with us ... we are hiring a Research Associate on the UKRI Museums, Crisis and Covid19 Museums, Crisis, and Covid19 research project. Search vacancy category 'research': ulster.ac.uk/about/jobs NI Museums Council The National Lottery Heritage Fund NI UK Research and Innovation Please share widely

Go take a look - an exploration of the history of #witchcraft and persecution in #Scotland by our amazing students who have worked incredibly hard in a very difficult year.

Just shy of one month until our 'Engaging the Public' papers are due! If you're a PGT/PGR student University of Aberdeen, get writing! Not sure if your research fits our theme? Then send us an abstract (max 200 words) by the 10 September and we'll get back to you ASAP.

In case you missed it last week, an exciting vacancy Aberdeen Uni Library is now open for applications. Deadline 20 September.

BREAKING: young climate activists have formally demanded their placard is removed from Science Museum's Shell-sponsored exhibition and asked the museum to guarantee it will never again display youth strike placards in a fossil-fuel-sponsored space: theguardian.com/culture/2021/s…

JOB! Another great opportunity Aberdeen Uni Library! This one is all about publication metrics, with a focus on implementing DORA for University of Aberdeen abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/schola… Also an excuse to RT my other brilliant vacancy :-)

Three important things for Aberdeen students: 1. The WayWORD Literary Festival is ON NOW, and has something for everyone! waywordfestival.com 2. There are a number of internships listed on the university website, including some library positions: abdnjobs.co.uk/current-vacanc…

A chance to take a moment, to slow down, and reflect together on the emotional skills we are all building - for change with(in) digital, at a time of precarity and turbulence. No better guide than Dr Lauren Vargas, and no better space than #mcn2021

Fancy working with me & my wonderful Abdn_MuseumStudies & @uoacollections colleagues? There's a #job open & waiting for your application! We're looking for someone with an interest in #decolonial #AntiColonial #Museum practice. #MuseumStudies #anthropology abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/lectur…

🎉We're absolutely delighted to announce funding of £950,900 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for Curating for Change, a ground-breaking Fellowship and Traineeship programme for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent museum curators. For more info visit: screensouth.org/events/curatin…

Brilliant news. THIS is important. Superb initiative.

Want to work with the amazing @Yellowfinch10 on the #Canada #Inuit Nunangat UK (CINUK) #Arctic research programme funded project “Inuksiutit: #Food Sovereignty in #Nunavut and the Co-production of Country Food Knowledge”? Apply here: shorturl.at/rBNP9 #anthropology

Excellent to see these recommendations emerge. An honour to be involved.

My book came out this week. It's taken a while, but there it is! #publications #museums #museumstudies #AcademicTwitter

I've been happily sniggering about this exhibition name since I found out what it was to be called. So excited for the opening!

"This might be scandalous, I don't know, but it works for me." youtu.be/lf2K2PuEUv8