So, I have just learned about this prosciutto sundial (or HAM CLOCK as I will be calling it) and I am truly obsessed with this little guy! "The prosciutto has proved easier to describe than to explain" 😂 😂 perfect, no notes

Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT? As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc. It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece??? What?

🎆 Celebrate ten years of the Women’s Classical Committee UK 👉 Join for a special celebration event in London on 22 April: wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/29/c... 🤩 Featuring our very own Katharine Russell on the impact of retellings of Classical myth on the study of Classical Civ in schools

#NotMyCat but apparently my supervisor

A piece of modern Odyssey scholia #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky (Description since no alt text: a translation of Odyssey 9.471-90, where Odysseus taunts the Cyclops after escaping his cave. Next to his speech an arrow has been drawn leading to the word "Twat")

It's #InternationalLEGOClassicismDay! 🎉 This year I've been building a LEGO Katabasis Book Nook, which has been a ridiculous amount of fun! Here are a few pictures - and you can find the whole thing on my website: classicalstudies.support/2026/02/20/i... #ILCD10 #BCEPantheon

In case anyone wants to know the gist without reading details: yes, it's *that* former UT prof. Yes, he is quoted saying some really awful stuff (CNs at top of the article; I would add "victim blaming/disbelief" and "paedophilia apologism"). Only even slightly good part: he didn't *get* any money

[wtf?]Former professor requested thousands from Jeffrey Epstein Foundation to fund campus rape policy conference – The Daily Texan thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...

#TinyJoys: snuggles with #NotMyCat

🎓 Want to find out about our MA Classics programme? 💥 Watch our new video from Prof. Ioannis Ziogas, Director of Taught MA Programmes, to learn more 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?si=cyz... 👉 And see full details of our postgraduate provision here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

The British Epigraphy Society spring meeting is in Durham! Featuring a viewing of the Lanchester diploma and an optional trip to Chesters. All welcome. www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Birthday Invitations! 🎂 🏛️ Come celebrate with us! 22nd of April! Sign up below! 🏛️🏛️ wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/29/c...

@womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social is nearly 10! Come celebrate with us and a great line-up of speakers @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @alicekonig.bsky.social & Katharine Piu San Russell @durhamclassics.bsky.social. Travel bursaries available, see info in QT'd link #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

For anyone else watching what's going on in Minnesota and not knowing how to help from abroad: the @aclu.org has filed a lawsuit over ICE'S actions. You can donate directly to @aclumn.bsky.social: action.aclu.org/give/support...

Excuse me while I get out my tiniest violin 🎻

Now on Bluesky: @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social! #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺

CALLING ALL UG STUDENTS. Awards (up to £1000) for students of classical studies at a UK University to visit classical sites and museums in Greece, Italy or the Eastern Mediterranean in the Easter or summer vacation. Society of Dilletanti travel awards now accepting applications: shorturl.at/fxXMI

#AncientBluesky 🏺 people who know more about the Bronze Age Cyclades than me - what would you recommend for an interested first-year undergrad to read by way of an introduction? (To the archaeology in general and/or specifically to issues of identity and Minoan/Mycenaean contacts)

🚨This is an emergency🚨 This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life. Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban @transsolidarity.bsky.social #ScrapTheBathroomBan

I have ended up adapting this passage to use a few more words my students already know, and written an extension assignment to translate into Latin a happier alternative ending for queen Dido in which she is delighted to get rid of Aeneas and sails off to be a pirate. Had to get pirates in somehow 😄

Call for help from Latin teachers: does anyone know a textbook w/ passages using only 1st decl. nouns and pres and/or impf verbs?? Otherwise I'm going to have to start writing silly stories featuring a cast of women, girls, daughters, farmers, poets & pirates... #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

If you or anyone you know is a PGR or ECR working on the Aeagan LBA/EIA, come to this online conference, chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) on the 27th of Nov. Proposals on any topic within the remit of the group are v welcome - forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiC... Please share widely!

Second package of Women's Classical Committee UK merch arrived today! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/WCCU... #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

First day of term vibes 😄

First piece of Women's Classical Committee merch has arrived, and joined some of my other classical stickers! #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.etsy.com/uk/shop/WCCU...

That’s it, it’s out! YOU ARE ODYSSEUS, officially available wherever you order your books! Enjoy your weekend adventures if you’ve already got your copy! laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...

This afternoon's coworker: keeping an eye on things and checking out the latest research into Cretan Hieroglyphic #AncientBluesky #NotMyCat

#ClassicsBluesky #AncientBlueksy

The Women's Classical Committee UK now has merch! Get your stickers, mugs, and tote bags here and help support our work, including our Small Grants fund Shop here: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/WCCU... More info on the WCC & what we do: wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky 🏺

Proquest has started automatically displaying an AI summary when viewing ebooks

One of the pirated material sources Anthropic AI trained on is LibGen, the other database is PiLiMi (can't found a search for). So, if you're an author, submiting your info to the lawyers (prev tweet) is the best way to kill genAI like Anthropic. Search LibGen: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Anthropic AI class action lawsuit used multiple libraries, so if you're an author, send your book titles and information confidentially to the lawyers: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... This does not apply to illustrations. Thanks to my lit agency KOMM for the info.

Looking at reconstructions of Mycenaean palaces online for teaching purposes and my absolute "favourite" has to be this one. Just...wow, spot the problems with this view of the megaron at Mycenae? (A real elephant in the room...) 🏺

🏺😂 xkcd.com/3129

Normally spam emails asking me to submit a paper to a random predatory journal are annoying, but I'm quite delighted by the sign-off in today's: "Your email within 24 hours will boost a hope in me. Awaiting your rapid come back" Tomorrow: my academic come back as an expert in "education and AI" 😄

This effort is UK-based, but I signed at my desk in Chicago, so we can clearly sign it here on this side of the ocean. C'mon c'mon fellow cis women! Not In Our Name - we support trans women & the broader trans community. Don't put your hatefulness on us.

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision: goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

"This proposed guidance goes far beyond what the For Women Scotland judgment requires. It amounts to a bathroom ban for trans people, violating people’s right to privacy in their everyday lives" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

UK academics - please sign this open letter to the UK government: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Classicist problems: when you Google CMS online to find the Corpus of Minoan & Mycenaean Sealings, forgetting that most people using that search term are looking for the UK's Child Maintenance Service...

Lovely to see this out in the world: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0.... My report of a workshop I organised at the 2024 CA on the intersection between EDI and Latin language teaching, out now in the @cucdbulletin.bsky.social Read for an overview of the discussions had, but also for a lot of 1/2

Exciting post today! (Open-access version of Ester's and my chapter: works.hcommons.org/records/sd1t...) #AncientBluesky 🏺

Things are about to get a bit ancient. I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.

In the light of recent news from Cardiff University it seems timely to re-post this letter championing the work of colleagues in Ancient History and Religion from CUCD, CA, FIEC, @ics.bsky.social @theromansoc.bsky.social @hellenicsociety.bsky.social Update at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#TinyJoys of today: napping seals

Next-level trolling from a university management team proposing to shut down its actual ancient history programmes.

We're running a live Zoom event for Durham students next Tuesday, 2-3pm BST, for students to talk to us directly, face-to-face (video feeds permitting!) about the ongoing industrial action :) If you're a student at Durham, come along to ask your questions! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Close to TWO THOUSAND academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW. (Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29