Tampere - Finland!

@raylaurence1.bsky.social giving a talk at Stockholm. How does a multi-species mobility look like? #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋

@raylaurence1.bsky.social today from Tampere on age #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋

Bleak winter!

Age in antiquity workshop next week! research.tuni.fi/trivium/frid...

Wonderful work being done on Thomas Ashby and the Roman roads of Italy by Macquarie graduates @janetwade.bsky.social and @nic33.bsky.social using the photo archive of @bsrome.bsky.social. @raylaurence1.bsky.social @emlynkd.bsky.social @resaustrales.bsky.social @awaws.org bsr.ac.uk/thomas-ashby...

Roads! Next week in Stockholm!!

We have a blog post up on our new Open Access book "How Republics Die: creeping authoritarianism in ancient Rome and beyond". Find the post here: doi.org/10.58079/13xuq and the book itself (with all the chapters in downloadable PDF) here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Today is World Autism Awareness Day, in Autism Awareness Week, which is in Autism Awareness Month. Spare a thought today for all the autistic people who really hate April! But in the spirit of awareness... I've been quiet on social media lately because I've been working on a Big Autism Project...

This inspires a new approach to the 20 minute academic conference paper! @ascs in Auckland early 2026!

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

🌟Early Release - Gladiator II with Alexandra Sills 🌟 We consider the highs and lows of Gladiator II with @belovedofoizys.bsky.social, whose research focuses on the representation of gladiators. This fantastic interview is out now for our wonderful patreons 🥳 www.patreon.com/posts/122599...

People are taking things into their own hands

We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com

The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials. I worked at the Pentagon. If information like this is not classified, nothing is. If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so.

The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

So, we reach end of week 4 of the academic year and are given an inkling of what Macquarie Uni is about to inflict on its employees. futurecampus.com.au/2025/03/20/a...

US is now a fascist totalitarian country? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

At a glance, it looks like about 75% of my published work, everything from recent publications and a monograph to some obscure academic reviews from 25 years ago. I might not even hate the "fair use" of this material, to be honest. But helping to line the pockets of Mark Zuckerberg?? HELL NO.

We all know what day it is...

very proud to have been involved in the development of this report, for which I also wrote the afterword, being launched by the All Party Parliamentary Group in London today www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

A toxic toy? A #Roman lead figure of a #camel, presumably a kid's toy (height 5.08cm, length 7.62cm). Dating probably 1st century AD,  from Lower #Egypt. On display at the British Museum 📷 me 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

Happy #InternationalWomensDay on #RomanSiteSaturday! Women have always been part of #archaeology. When Roman Verulamium (now St Albans) was excavated by Mortimer and Tessa Wheeler in the 1930s, women made up over half the team! Here are a few photos 1/6 📸 St Albans Museum #IWD #Trowelblazers🏺

Over 150 people rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, March 6, in the second protest against sweeping layoffs at the institution.

I love this photo that @melissabender.bsky.social captured of me at the #standupforscience rally yesterday in NYC. I wonder if I could make this my official faculty photo lol @jackiantonovich.bsky.social @kimberlywheiman.bsky.social @archaeoscape.bsky.social @sarahruncie.bsky.social

40 BOOKS IN ROMAN HISTORY WRITTEN BY WOMEN A killer reading list of great books (and personal favorites!) in Roman History to celebrate #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025. Limited to English (to keep it manageable!) and listed in order of publication. Let's go!

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

Wall painting fragment from Ostia Antica depicting Lares (a household guardian) between two serpents. Dating to the second half of the 2nd century AD, the fragment can be viewed at the Ostia Antica site museum. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #OstiaAntica

Ping @davidrafferty.bsky.social “clusterfuck”?

Week 1 of new academic year ends. Taught 270 students in “tutorials” on campus - luckily for 3 weeks have help with the 160 online students.Manager has allocated an extra 18 hours for convening &consultation and removed 18 hours of marking this pm, I’ll take it! Tomorrow Autumn

BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism. As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽

For clarity/clarification, this is York in Canada, not York in the UK. Still ghastly regardless of geography.

ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

Giorgio de Chirico, Gli Archeologi, 1927 ca, Museo Carlo Bilotti, #Rome #art

Monday is start of academic year for us in southern hemisphere, week kicks off with 407 students in unit I teach #exciting But, Friday will bring All Staff Town Hall with VC, trepidation -what doom will be announced?

Ping @tjderrick.bsky.social

for the cycle of responses to images from Nolan's Odyssey production

Deadline for the Tytus Fellowships is drawing nearer... More here: classics.uc.edu/departments/...

A voice from inside Cardiff: despair and questions to the management voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

US Museum Returns Ancient Statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius to Turkey - GreekReporter.com greekreporter.com/2025/02/20/u...

Classics on the chopping block at York University—a major R1 institution. Please see the link below for ways to help.

This is a sign - walk away from Trump USA. Students get it - USA is now an enemy state for foreigners and its citizens