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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 6d

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.

Weaponised Pasts @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to Weaponised Pasts! The website for our investigation into heritage-based hostility is now live at weaponisedpasts.org. Find out more about the project there.

Weaponised Pasts

weaponisedpasts.org

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 6d

📢📣Both the website and social media accounts for our new @leverhulme.ac.uk project @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social are now live! Give it a follow! 👆

Weaponised Pasts @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to Weaponised Pasts! The website for our investigation into heritage-based hostility is now live at weaponisedpasts.org. Find out more about the project there.

Weaponised Pasts

weaponisedpasts.org

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations to the team!

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 19d

We are thankful to our Advisory Group and Edinburgh colleagues for the really interesting discussion and, especially, to Richard Hingley, @alexmesoudi.com,
@lorenzspreen.bsky.social,
@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy,
@ahbailey.bsky.social and
@r-c-jackson.bsky.social

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 19d

To tackle this research problem, we will use an approach that brings together public archaeology and heritage (myself), cultural evolution theory (@acerbialberto.com) and psychological theories (@zachhorne.bsky.social
and @johnmartindale.bsky.social).

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 19d

Over the next three years, the project will examine the evolution of heritage-based hostility on social media to understand how and why content-related and context-related features of archaeological communication lead to the antagonisation of others online.

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 19d

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 · Sep 4

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!

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you, Sarah!

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Sep 1

Findings show a preference for dominant, capitalist, and government-aligned perspectives, often reinforced by far-right rhetoric, particularly in Spanish language.

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Sep 1

Using a least-to-most prompting model and a Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA), we analysed responses in both Spanish and English about three key memorial sites: the Valley of the Fallen (Spain), the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory (Argentina), and the Monument to Salvador Allende (Chile).

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Sep 1

'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...

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...

doi.org

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · Aug 6

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 · Aug 5

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...

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

www.the-tls.com

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Jul 17

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 · Jul 14

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 · Jul 7

Leverhulme Trust invests £100m in ‘challenged’ research sector.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

Leverhulme Trust invests £100m in ‘challenged’ research sector - Research Professional News

Trust to fund blue skies and interdisciplinary research, career development and inclusion initiatives

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Jun 28

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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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Jun 27

The tennis ball 🎾 is back!

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Jun 21

For historians of Eurasia, a useful book review by Roy Flechner (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Jun 19

After a session on the politics of the past, we are now hearing from the @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #history and #games lab team!

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Jun 19

Featuring several colleagues from @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #history and @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social !❤️

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Jun 19

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 · Jun 15

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Jun 14

A bit Henri Rousseau of the north… the storm isn’t tropical here!

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