The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum have [returned] LOANED Ghana 32 royal artefacts that were looted from the Asante Kingdom in the 19th Century. For up to six years. Max.

Fixed it for you, Auntie.

Job Klaxon The University of Edinburgh! Lecturer in Computational Sociology. Particularly, expertise in computational text analysis methods applied to social scientific research questions and in digital data sources and the analysis of ‘big data’. Please share! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Contributors are being solicited for the newly commissioned Cambridge History of Black Women in the United States. I’m excited to be a part of this project! Please check it out and submit your abstract ❤️ aaihs.org/the-cambridge-…

Quite apart from how deeply infantilising this is to people who can get married, have kids, join the armed services, take on thousands in student debt, work as lawyers, doctors, teachers, but still not understand their own gender identity: Shamima Begum isn't yet 25 years old.

This week: Anti-racist Museums Programme drop-in session 👋

If you're thinking of applying to join our new cohort of anti-racist museums, join us for an informal drop-in between 2.30pm and 3.30pm on Weds 10 April to find out more about the programme 👉 ow.ly/EfG850Razv5

We are hiring! Apply to join the Smithsonian 3D team as a 3D scanning/processing technician: usajobs.gov/job/785493200

In your application, please be specific about your experience using techniques, tools, and software. This posting closes on 04/22/2024 or after 150 applicants.🚀

The higher education sector silence on the destruction of all twelve universities in Gaza is grim & will forever stain academia.

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For my newsletter this week I wrote about how an industrial chemical manufacturer became a TikTok meme, and what Chinese influence actually looks like on TikTok youmayalsolike.beehiiv.com/p/donghua-jing…

How Indigenous communities in New Zealand are protecting their data | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Google Photos' terms of service says you can't use it to 'harm' other people. Israel is reportedly using Google Photos facial recognition to round up Palestinians to interrogate, sometimes via brutal beatings and torture. Is this allowed? Google won't say. theintercept.com/2024/04/05/goo…

25 scholarships under the Ireland-Palestine Scholarship Programme (IPSP) for the 2024-2025 academic year from applicants living in the occupied Palestinian territory are currently available. Further details in the link below! dfa.ie/prep/ramallah/…

The artist Mary Miss is suing the Des Moines Art Center to block the demolition of her Land art environment 'Greenwood Pond: Double Site' (1996), which the art centre commissioned; demolition work was scheduled to begin next week ow.ly/8YLB50R8I7b

In memory of the wonderful Effie Kapsalis.
Pleased to be able to support this: Announcing the “Outstanding Professional Advancing Open Access to Cultural Heritage” Award, in Memory of Effie Kapsalis

More than 600 judges, lawyers and legal academics - some of the most senior in the country - have signed a 17 page legal argument that the government is breaking international law in continuing to arm Israel

need to teach this Mary Oliver poem more often

#LandBack IS PIVOTAL TO DATA/AI GOVERNANCE AND IN EUROPE
New agenda-setting paper explores why we need to take Indigenous theories of knowledge and land seriously in order to reframe 'data' in legal+governance discourses and make 'decolonisation' make sense.

Give the intern a raise

New! The National Lottery Heritage Fund Digital Leadership Briefing, providing leaders & advisors with a snapshot of #open licensing practices, benefits & risks heritagefund.org.uk/about/insight/…
Join authors Dr. Andrea Wallace & Michael Weinberg at 2pm today to discuss open heritage!
ticketsource.co.uk/national-lotte…

🚨🗺️📊Calling all UK local data nerds… After more than a year of development, we’ve just launched #ExploreLocalStatistics , a brand new way to explore 57 datasets from across government right down to a local authority level!
…lore-local-statistics.beta.ons.gov.uk
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