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The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 16d

📣 Exciting news!

We're offering stipends for 2025-6 for #international and #UK-based #scholars, researchers and #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema and moving image #history.

For more information and to apply, visit:
tinyurl.com/54wvy2du

#researchsky #filmsky #musueumsky

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HelpSheffield @helpsheffield.co.uk · 19d

#SheffEvents #Today

Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 19d

Today’s the day - the @cinemaforall.bsky.social gala event and 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition showcase at Bloc Projects gallery in Sheffield. I’m giving a guided exhibition tour at 3pm if anyone is nearby. Marking a century of community-led film exhibition in style!

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 19d

Today’s the day - the @cinemaforall.bsky.social gala event and 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition showcase at Bloc Projects gallery in Sheffield. I’m giving a guided exhibition tour at 3pm if anyone is nearby. Marking a century of community-led film exhibition in style!

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 22d

Oh no. How dreadful. Having to discuss interesting things with lovely people! Such punishments you administer. I may die.

P.S. Can’t wait

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 22d

Oh bless you, Ayesha! Thank you!! I’m so delighted with how it has turned out.

It kept me insanely busy for the last few weeks (I’m so sorry - I know I owe you 40,522 emails) but the coming weeks are easier. I’m emailing you later today, but spoilers: it’s a yes to triffids if you’ll still have me!

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 22d

Opening tomorrow at Bloc Projects gallery in Sheffield - 100 Years of Community Cinema: The Exhibition. I’ve been working hard curating this with @cinemaforall.bsky.social and can’t wait to finally show it off! Giving a guided tour and talk about the history of the movement on Saturday at 3 too!

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · Sep 9

Disappointed not get the job at Salford Uni I was interviewed for back in July but even more disappointed they're still refusing to reimburse my travel expenses to attend interview, and now appear to be ghosting me, forcing me to go public with my dissatisfaction to try to elicit a response...

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · Sep 8

Can we talk about the fact that the AHRC Catalyst and Curiosity funding schemes, 2 of the 3 major arts and humanities research grant schemes available through our national funding councils, currently have success rates of 5.1% and 6.9% respectively? I knew they were low, but WOW.

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Ryan Heuser @heuser.bsky.social · Sep 6

FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

Now Hiring: Research Associate (Fixed Term) - CDH

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher in Digital Humanities. The post will run for three years from Spring 2026. The successful candidate will work with Profess...

www.cdh.cam.ac.uk

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · Sep 4

Brill. Will do! Got a couple of funding bids in the offing at the mo to support network formation etc so hold with me and I’ll add you to the email list as we get there.

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’ll absolutely send you a copy the moment I have a finalised, accepted version! I’d love to see what you make of it. I’m the meantime I’m pulling together a group of folks interested in film societies, their history and their cultural/social/economic/wellbeing/other value/s. Want me to loop you in?

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · Sep 4

No way - I just submitted an article that is partly about the activities of the London Australian Film Society in the 1990s! Didn’t know you were connected (though perhaps should have guessed).

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · Sep 4

Cambodian spiced mac and cheese.

That’s it. That’s the whole message.

Cambodian spiced mac and cheese.

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Tim Snelson @timsnelson.bsky.social · Sep 2

Great postgrad job in Glasgow researching horror and 'psy' sciences🚨 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM520/r...

Research Associate at University of Glasgow

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · Sep 2

Book contract secured! If any of the phenomenally generous reviewers are on here, THANK YOU!!! ‘A Century of Community Cinema: The First 100 Years of Non-commercial Film Exhibition in Britain’ will be coming to your nearest library in a couple of years. Woohoo!

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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are hiring 4 lecturers in our dept!

🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods
🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science
🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Search UCL Jobs

Find the latest UCL job opportunities here.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our #Dinosaurs, #Dragons and #Monsters display is now open! 🦖
From #JurassicPark to #Frankenstein, don't miss your chance to catch merchandise and memorabilia from some of cinema's most memorable and monstrous #MovieMoments! 🎥🎞🎬

We're open every day, 10am-5pm.
#filmsky #cinemasky #museumsky

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · Aug 18

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here:

tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025

Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

tinyurl.com

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · Jul 25

This little munchkin. Wait for it…

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RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social · Jul 24

📣JOB ALERT 📣 The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has a vacancy for a Project Records Assistant, which will give experience of both Archives & Records Management. Closing date 5 pm on 22 Aug. Come join the Heritage team! cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/p...

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · Jul 22

A funding panel apparently liked my application so much they want to use it as an example for future applicants. A wee bit flabbergasted and more than a little proud of myself.

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The HoMER Network @homer-network.bsky.social · Jul 19

HoMER's recent AGM set up three working groups on:
1) A new hosting platform for the HoMER website;
2) A mapping project;
3) New administrative models for the HoMER Network.
Interested in one or more? Fill out this form by 4 August 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Call for participation in HoMER Working Groups

As defined at the last AGM, held in Istanbul on 11 July 2025, over the coming 12 months (until the next edition of the HoMER Conference in 2026), we will have three working groups collaborating with t...

docs.google.com

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The HoMER Network @homer-network.bsky.social · Jul 18

After a wonderfully hospitable, engaged and thought-provoking conference in İstanbul, we look forward to continuing our conversations in Exeter next year!

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · Jul 17

3 glasses of wine?

Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · Jul 17

Book proposal submitted! What’s next?

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