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chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social
Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Director Heritage Minds Lab. Philip Leverhulme Prize 2022. Researching the intersections between Heritage, Data, and the Politics of the Past
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📣 WE ARE RECRUITING A 3-YEAR POST-DOC RESEARCHER 📣 to work on the new @leverhulme.bsky.social project 'Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based hostility on social media', with myself and @acerbialberto.com, based at @uoe-sps.bsky.social. Apply by 24/03/25: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

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Five Philip Leverhulme Prizes are available for extraordinary researchers in Archaeology. Deadline 14 May 2025 https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-leverhulme-prizes

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🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Work with us! Fixed-term (12 months FTE) Lecturer in Heritage with research time! 🔗 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... ⏰ 26th Feb 2025 #heritage #job #EdinArch #archaeology #Edinburgh #academicjob #lecturer @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 LECTURER IN HERITAGE 🚨 DEADLINE 26 FEB 2025🚨 We are hiring a *Lecturer in Heritage* (1 year, FT), on a 40(research)-40(teaching)-20(admin) contract. The post holder will work in @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social & @uoe-sps.bsky.social! Info: shorturl.at/PjRRs

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Book recommendation: Cory Brennan's superb account of the fasces "The fasces are one of the most potent symbols of terrifying power and are ineradicably associated with contemporary political extremism." global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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The Puy du Fou has been called 'the most political theme park in France'...

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Congrats Chiara and everyone on a fantastic article with some good news for once. And DON'T MISS the chart showing which topics are more likely to get shares, with medieval #archaeology almost at the top. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED #MedievalSky

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New paper co-authored with @acerbialberto.com and Marta Krzyzanska! What makes archaeological content spread on social media? Positive sentiment and expertise can win! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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🎉 Congratulations @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social & team! Fantastic News!!! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

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📣💥 Grant news! We are delighted to share that the research project *Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based Hostility on Social media*, was funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social! The project is co-led by myself as PI (@edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social), by CI @acerbialberto.com & CI Zach Horne 📣💥

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Super cool paper by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social & colleagues showcasing the power of using #DataScience methods (incl. #machinelearning) in #archaeology & #heritage 📊 🏺

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Applications are open for our MSc in Cultural Heritage Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, led by @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social. Join us for a unique degree that combines critical #heritage studies, #computational skills, and a #challenge-led approach! Info: efi.ed.ac.uk/programmes/c...

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📣PUBLISHED OA📣 In this study @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social @jesswitte.bsky.social @maltaweel.bsky.social assessed if refs to the ancient past in political debates on social media over-represent extreme views 🔗https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308919 #Heritage #DataScience #EdinArch #Politics

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New blog by Tania Gonzalez & Haley Schwartz from #UniBarcelona (DIPATRI, PI:Xavier Rubio-Campillo) on visiting #HeritageMindsLab here @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to research #genAI & #heritage interpretation: tinyurl.com/czyrr2x7 @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social #EdinArch

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Looking forward to participating in the 2nd International Conference on Advancing Sustainable Futures this week: www.adu.ac.ae/conferences-...

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Amongst everything else that's going on in UK universities, this hasn't had as much coverage as it might have done in other years. In many institutions, it'll lead to changes in how undergraduates are taught, too.

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🏛️ Our own @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social gave the keynote for the MuseumDigit 2024 Conference in #Budapest 🇭🇺 entitled "Cultural democracy through digital museology" museumdigit.hu/index-en #heritage #museums #Hungary #EdinArch #digitalhumanities #museology 💻🖼️🏺

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Colin Renfrew - the passing of a giant in archaeology.

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In an era of misinformation and disinformation, you may find this of interest. In #PLOSONE Political uses of the ancient past on social media are predominantly negative and extreme (Chiara Bonacchi, Jessica Witte, Mark Altaweel, 2024) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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