Chiara Bonacchi
Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Director Heritage Minds Lab. Philip Leverhulme Prize 2022. PI @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social. Researching the intersections between Heritage, Data, and the Politics of the Past
- Reposted by Chiara BonacchiWhat will this mean when this cohort enters universities, down the line? www.lbc.co.uk/article/ai-t...
- Reposted by Chiara Bonacchi🚨 Still time to apply to our post-doc - Deadline 3rd February 📜 You will be working with Zachary Horne, @acerbialberto.com, @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social, @johnmartindale.bsky.social on the @leverhulme.ac.uk -funded project Weaponised Pasts.
- Reposted by Chiara BonacchiJust published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. 🏺
- Still one week to apply! Come work with us!
- Reposted by Chiara BonacchiFunded PhD opp. Uni of Stirling “situated at the intersection of built heritage, housing, and climate justice, focusing on tenants in historic tenements in Stirling”https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/2026-ahrc-doctoral-landscape-award-collaborative-doctoral-award-cda-phd-studentship/?p193000
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- Really excited that our *new paper* is finally out 🔥 This study is the first to quantitatively investigate museum visitors’ perceptions of historical analogies that compare concepts from the deep past to modern political ideas. doi.org/10.1057/s415...
- ⁉️What are the political attitudes of archaeological museum visitors? ⁉️What potential do these museums have to engage visitors with authoritarian views and foster tolerance? To answer these questions, we collected data from 803 visitors at three archaeological museums in the UK.
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- Reposted by Chiara BonacchiWork (also) with me! Two years postdoc in the @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, based in Edinburgh. Will do transmission chain experiments to understand the spread of heritage-based hostility, online and elsewhere. More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️
- 📣 PDRA JOB (2 Years, full-time) based in Psychology, @schoolofppls.bsky.social: We are hiring a Post-doctoral Research Associate, to work on Strand B (experimental) of our @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, generously funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk.
- 📣 PDRA JOB (2 Years, full-time) based in Psychology, @schoolofppls.bsky.social: We are hiring a Post-doctoral Research Associate, to work on Strand B (experimental) of our @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, generously funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk.
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- Reposted by Chiara BonacchiA glance back! “The usefulness of useless knowledge” was the topic of a thought-provoking session at #NobelWeek Dialogue 2025 with laureates - hear Sir Paul Nurse and Frances Arnold from 1’19’: 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=urLM... ERC grantee Jean Tirole took part in other interesting sessions.
- Congratulations to @jesswitte.bsky.social for leading our new collaborative paper on 'Generative #AI in Heritage Practice: Improving the Accessibility of Heritage Guidance'! www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/8/...
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- Just back from beautiful Zagreb! Had the pleasure to give a keynote on 'Bias, injustice and repairs in the digital heritage landscape' at the Digital Art History: Methods Practice and Epistemology conference, organised by Sanja Horvatincic and Sanja Sekelj from the University of Zagreb
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- Really enjoyed celebrating 100 years of the @leverhulme.ac.uk yesterday evening and listening to an inspiring lecture by Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on 100 years of research on adolescence. Very relevant to new collaborative work we are developing at Edinburgh.
- The National Trust for Scotland has a new Curator position open! Deadline: 26 October 2025 and more info👇 www.asva.co.uk/jobs/curator... cc @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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- 📢📣Both the website and social media accounts for our new @leverhulme.ac.uk project @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social are now live! Give it a follow! 👆
- 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.
- 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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- '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...
- 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).
- Reposted by Chiara BonacchiThe 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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- 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. 👏🏻
- 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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- 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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- 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...
- About to start reading @acerbialberto.com's new book on Techno-panic and looking forward to seeing it in English too very soon!
- It was a pleasure to give a seminar on Heritage-based hostility on social media at the University of Trento, today. Thank you for inviting me @acerbialberto.com!
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- Day #1 of our high-performance computing training course, led by Mike Wallis @uoe-cahss.bsky.social and organised in collaboration with @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social in our lab!
