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Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social · 15d

Job Klaxon!

Science Museum is looking for a Curator of Chemistry.

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Salary - £41,177.63
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Deadline - 29/09/2025
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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · 19d

🎺 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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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · 22d

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/...

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Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social · 28d

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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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology @maacambridge.bsky.social · Sep 1

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?

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Sep 1

You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)

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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨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...

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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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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨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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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 22

sculptural embroidery and textile art based on natural forms by contemporary Australian artist Meredith Woolnough #WomensArt

Four textile artworks resembling organic forms from nature

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Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · Aug 19

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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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · Jul 15

Cambridge University Library, seen from the Old Schools. A view we all love!

A view of Cambridge University Library taken from Old Schools.

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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨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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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · Jul 11

Fantastic thread showing how specimen collections and archival sources work together to show a bigger picture … 💚

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)

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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

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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thank you to all those who attended our roundtable.
Using #nathist #collections to answer the big questions of our time: environment, race, gender and more questions were discussed today! #GLAM #BSHS2025

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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · Jul 10

What a great roundtable! @collecol.bsky.social!

Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · Jul 10

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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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · Jul 10

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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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · Jul 8

Can't wait for Grace Exley and her research as Munby Fellow @theul.bsky.social and the Natural History Humanities initiative with us! #GLAM

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.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · Jun 24

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).

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · Jun 19

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...

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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · Jun 19

🧪🔬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 David Farrell-Banks is Practitioner Research Associate: Collections & Participation at Fitzwilliam Museum Jade Pollard-Crowe and Tim Lister, ...

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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · Jun 19

📮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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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · Jun 11

The best @camglamresearch.bsky.social meetings are at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social and end with entomology. 💚 📷 #photography

Male Syrphus hoverfly on Thalictrum, against a blurred green background.

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · Jun 4

MUSEUM JOB KLAXON!
Very excited about bringing this new post in to the team. If you've got good natural history collections management skills and solid leadership experience, we'd love to hear from you! #MuseumJobs

University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge @zoologymuseum.bsky.social · Jun 4

📢WE'RE HIRING📢Could you be our new Senior Collections Lead? Would you enjoy working with one of the UK's most important natural history collections? Apply by 22 June to look after our amazing Collections Management, Care & Conservation team. @camunivmuseums.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/

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Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social · Jun 6

Eid Mubarak to all those marking Eid al-Adha today ✨

This beautiful Qur’an manuscript is held in a bespoke satchel. It was made in Nigeria in the 19th century, and is now part of the Royal Commonwealth Society collections @theul.bsky.social

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#EidMubarak #QuranManuscript

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