So, who is surprised by the "news" that UK #HigherEducation isn't doing enough to support #DisabledStudents? Thanks as always to @jimdickinson.bsky.social for shouting about this loudly and publicly. Universities - we need to do better! wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

I'm honoured to be shortlisted for a Scope Award, alongside some amazing disability advocates and changemakers! 🎉 I'm very lucky to have worked with some amazing people at @openuniversity.bsky.social who have been open to new ways of teaching and learning. 💖 www.scope.org.uk/awards/scope...

Time for the Superb owl #superbowl Votive Pot, Vindolanda Owl – PottedHistory share.google/AjODzECExGMo...

Great to see Brick Classicists Empire here, and gearing up for International LEGO Classicism Day later this month! 🎉 Do follow them if you're interested in Lego and the Ancient World!

Your periodic reminder that you can start learning ancient Greek right now, free of charge!

Where else could you listen to over 188 hours of ancient Roman history (and counting!)? We’ve been podcasting for many years and we’re thrilled to be still enjoying ancient Rome together and sharing it with you ☺️ #AncientRome #History #Podcast 🏺🎙️

What happened with #WCCWiki in 2025? How are women and non-binary classicists looking on #Wikipedia? Here's a thread to wrap-up last year, and to forge a path for 2026 ...

Here's a link to the first puzzle distributed by @classicsforall.bsky.social Why not give it a go and see how high you can get on the leaderboard? (You may have to register first before this will work for you.) puzzel.org/en/crossword...

Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... /🧵

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

📣 Places on @jactdurham.bsky.social are filling up fast 📣 Join us in July at St John’s College, Durham University for a week of #Latin and/or #AncientGreek! New for 2026: Classical Civilisation - Women: The Reality Behind the Myth! Register online: www.durhamglss.org

I am delighted to be part of this new venture and hope very much that you will be too! Do please sign up.

Humbled and delighted to officially receive the 2025 Forum Prize. Filled with so much gratitude to all of the wonderful friends and colleagues in Classics and beyond for being a part of this podcast journey. It wouldn’t be what it is today without you. Thank you so much. Much love, X

A first for me: hearing one of my students talking about their MA dissertation on a podcast with @wmarybeard.bsky.social! Congratulations to the fabulous @naomialderman.bsky.social on her first official outing as a Classicist with Opinions! 🎉 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...

this was a VERY GOOD WAY to celebrate my MA thesis: I was the first guest on the brilliant podcast Instant Classics with Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins, talking about women wearing the toga in Ancient Rome: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...

🚨NEW SERIES ALERT‼️ You’re Dead To Me is back for series 11, and to launch us off I’m joined by the brilliant classicist @wmarybeard.bsky.social and the hilarious comedian @pattonoswalt.bsky.social to discuss the controversial life & reputation of Roman Emperor Nero www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A Christmas surprise: if you want to download the open access copy of Stealing from the Gods, you now can... The official birthday is in a couple of weeks, but time is an arbitrary construct. (Oh, and we'll be PA6029.T46 K67 2026 at the library. An actual real call number!)

So thrilled to find an actual independent bookshop in my town - the first in over 100 years! 🥳 Please share to help get the word out, and do visit if you're ever in South Shields... Electric Beacon Books Bookshop UK share.google/C6sYwxZGUgje...

Today’s episode of BBC #DeadFunnyHistory is all about Hadrian’s Wall! Tell your kids! It’s a fun romp through 200 years of Roman Britain’s history www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Our video is a bit long for Bluesky, but we have an announcement to make. youtu.be/7JKUlvCq3m0?...

but also Cora Beth is definitively the best tutor.

When I say that I have the best students, I really mean it...! So proud of all the OU MA Classics students getting their results this week. 🎉 @openuniversity.bsky.social

👨🏫 Remembering P.J. Rhodes 👉 Read Prof. Rhodes' Biographical Memoir, prepared by Prof. John Davies and Prof. Lynette Mitchell 🔗 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/59... 👉 Peter John Rhodes worked in our department from 1965 and was Professor of Ancient History between 1983 and 2005.

It’s Disability History Month 2025 Disability history is an understudied but growing part of classics scholarship. We’ve put together a brief collection of resources for people interested in studying disability in the ancient world. Check out the thread below! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

There isn't much of 2025 left, but Susanna Elm's new book promises to be the book of the year!! The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity That cover is gorgeous, and it's open-access so you can just download it!

As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.

This weekend @edinburghup.bsky.social is doing a massive 50% discount. Which means you can even get a paperback of 'Late Roman Italy' for only 15 quid! An absolute steal for a 500-page tome.

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

If you fancy kicking some of that Black Friday money our way we’d be super grateful! You won’t get anything in return but a nice feeling and the knowledge that you’re helping kids all across the UK to learn about the ancient world. We’re 80% of the way to our year target ko-fi.com/workingclass...

I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts). I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.

Tomorrow is a month away from Xmas Eve. Please have a look to see if you have any children's clothes, books, toys, etc that are no longer needed & donate them to your local charity shop ASAP. The demand for these items is now, not after Xmas. People are skint but still want to make Xmas special. ❤️

If you like classics/Greek mythology/ancient stuff/history or know someone who does, may I humbly recommend our book as a Christmas gift? It's full of bite-size introductions to mythological characters and concepts and the money goes to a good cause! www.workingclassicists.com/a-periodic-t...

We recommend treating yourself to something a little bit Roman 😉

Many years ago, I helped set up The Returning Soldier Network, but circumstances meant that I had to step away for a few years as I tried to find secure work. Yesterday, I returned back into the fold as one of the project leads! So watch this space, plans are brewing... @milwelfhist.bsky.social

Important thread.

It is 90 years since George Orwell travelled to the north of England to learn about the living conditions of the northern working-class, during the long Depression of the 1930s. Today’s figures show not much has changed.

I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching? "Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies" Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific #academicsky 🏺♿

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

I've spent the last 3 years animating episode 1 of the Daleks' Master Plan for its 60th anniversary today! Yes, we had a slight technical hitch when I realised I'd uploaded the wrong version of the file, but we're good now! And you might want to keep watching to the very end.. youtu.be/2--OWFrTXUI

My biennial Ancient Greek Myth Advent Calendar has arrived! This year, get Sisyphus and his Rock to the top of the hill. Will he succeed? May or may not have been inspired by the world in general at present. Available as a PDF to print and make. greekmythcomix.gumroad.com/l/sisyphus

So pleased for the fabulous @openuniversity.bsky.social team who won International Collaboration of the Year at tonight's #THEAwards! 🏆

Wonderful to be at the #THEAwards in Edinburgh this evening!

Publication day! Kindle version out now,physical copy next month from Bloomsbury. My chapter entitled ‘Sensory Deception and Manipulation in Ancient Aristocratic Banquets’ and looks at what connects emperors Domitian and Elagabalus, the Italian Futurists and molecular gastronomy.

CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction

This weeks sees the 2025 A. G. Leventis Conference - 'Telling Bodies: A Conference on Corporeal Classical Reception'. Find confirmed speakers and details of related events - including the launch of the A.G. Leventis Centre for Greek Studies - at edin.ac/427jxo9 #Classics #HCA #Leventis #Edinburgh

Make Better Choices: You ARE Odysseus sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/09/m...

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

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A cat chilling in the #Roman ruins of #Pompeii.