Finally, the WCC UK is on Bluesky! Lots of exciting updates in the next few months, so do give us a follow @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social

📯JOB: Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, History (2 yrs, "connected histories across Indian and Atlantic oceanic world regions and geographies" 🗃️

My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a new article in JRA on Berenike, Indo-Roman trade, and of course some pet monkeys which may have had pet piglets or kittens? 🐵 Really this is just amazing research showing us the extensive connections between the Mediterranean and India. #GlobalAntiquity

New blog on how ISAW's Pleiades project collaborated in the creation of Itiner-e, a new digital atlas of the roads of the Roman Empire isaw.nyu.edu/news/pleiade...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...

That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

If you're free this Thursday morning, I'll be giving a virtual lecture titled "The Real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians" as part of the 2025−2026 public lecture series hosted by the Bade Museum and Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley. Come join the fun!

Dartmouth won’t trade academic freedom for favor from the Trump admin. Incredible. Yet another college rejects the Trump compact. www.nhpr.org/2025-10-18/d...

The University of Virginia became the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of government demands.

Penn and USC have also rejected the Compact! That makes 4 - stronger together. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Very good to see Brown University joining MIT in declining to sign up to the Adminstration's proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence" www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

Sorry to see schools placed in this situation but very glad Newsom is doing this. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025! mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/13/c...

Hi Debby, great to see you over here!

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

In February 1896, two men ploughing a field unearthed one of the greatest prehistoric treasures ever found on the island of Ireland – the Broighter Hoard. #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

here's a recording of our lecture from earlier this year for UCLA's Global Antiquity symposium; a preview of our in-progress book project, "Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race" @mhanses.bsky.social

As we continue on to engage other archaeological institutions, we are posting this final statement on the WAC campaign. We, unlike the World Archaeological Congress organisation, will not move quietly on, while Palestinians continue to be starved and slaughtered by Israel.

The British Academy is opening a call for evidence from individuals and organisations with expertise in the key public policy areas for social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Find more information and details about how to respond here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/c...

It's very telling what happens to the comment whenever I write on this subject. Every other week, the comments in my substack are witty, funny and kind. On this topic, they're bitter, vicious, demented. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

My statement on today's news. 👇

heads up historians of the Roman period - very, very, short deadline on this *permanent* job to start this academic year at Uni of Nottingham www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX393/a... 🗃️

‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’ FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches! www.ft.com/content/3162...

We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…

Tebbit was one of the architects of Section 28 which sought to prohibit ‘the promotion of homosexuality.’ This law emboldened bigots and silenced many librarians and teachers, including some of mine. As a gay kid I was left without official support from my school. It was terrifying and cruel.

Working Classicists Awards 2025 TOMORROW 2pm (UK time) Get ready to cheer on our winners! 👀 #WCA2025

Good to know that with the distractions of a rebellion on welfare reform out of the way, the UK prime minister can devote himself to his key role of commenting on pop festivals.

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

@caramalines.bsky.social I've read the book from Maud Woolf in German, please tell her, I've enjoyed her book.

Was tut eine erfolgreiche Schauspielerin um allen Events und Verpflichtungen nachzukommen? Sie lässt sich "Kopien" für alle Lebensbereiche anfertigen. Und was, wenn diese Kopien nicht mehr gebraucht werden? Sie schickt die 13. um alle anderen zu töten. #Bücher #Büchertipp #Booktober

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors. I am, though, especially thrilled for Maud Woolf. Lulabelle is her debut and it totally rocks.

"Das Ministerium der Zukunft" von Kaliane Bradley und "Die 13 Tode der Lulabelle Rock" von Maud Woolf sind bereits auf Deutsch erschienen.

A gap is revealed in my bookmark collection. I’m very short on things that are or go with neon pink (and this is the third time it’s been a problem in the last year or so). This is the best I can do.

Buy all six Clarke Award shortlisted books AND support independent book shops? 🚀 Yes please 👍 uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-ar...

www.bbc.com/news/article... some good news today.

Really enjoyed Ancient India @britishmuseum.bsky.social today. Buddhism and Jainism against the background of earlier and contemporary religious imagery throughout South Asia.

📢 Calling all Classicists 📢 Please consider submitting an essay to the @scsclassics.bsky.social Society for Classical Studies blog! We want to hear your voice! 800-1000 words. Let me know via DM if you have questions — or a pitch! Most recent blog, by @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social, here ⬇️

New issue of Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025) #openaccess @avartnp.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social @meganjdaniels.bsky.social @idamhartmann.bsky.social ‬ Mobility and Migration in the ANE avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

Fun things happening @isawlibrary.bsky.social medium.com/@nyulibrarie...

@isawnyu.bsky.social is seeking to recuit a Director for Exhibitions to lead a small but highly skilled team to created exceptional exhibitions and to work with faculty, staff and graduate students across the Institute. Please apply at the following link: uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/14756/job

Juhu, unsere Maud Woolf (Die 13 Tode der Luballe Rock) ist für den Arthur C. Clark-Award nominiert worden. Kein Wunder, "Blade Runner meets Barbie" ist doch ein super Pitch. reactormag.com/heres-the-sh...

Hello brave new world! Starting off on here with a bang by announcing that my debut novel Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock is shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award for 2025! As I have about four followers so far this feels a bit like bragging to an empty room but I’m very happy to be here!

Next month marks the start of this year's Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series! This year is "Power at Hand: Luxury and the Contestation of Political Identities in Hellenistic Asia and the Post-Achaemenid Iranian World," presented by Matthew P. Canepa. RSVP here: isaw.nyu.edu/events

We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ We’re creating a fighting fund to look at both domestic and international cases, all the way up to the European Court of Human Rights. Join us 👇 goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

The @ics.bsky.social and @dh-researchhub.bsky.social are supporting an #EpiDoc #TEI #Digital #Epigraphy #3dImaging workshop in Trinity Dublin and Maynooth next month. I think there are a few spaces available. ics.sas.ac.uk/events/epido...