Oh, will you look at that - I had missed that my WCC And Me blog post is up on the @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social blog - just in time for #TenYearsOfWCC!

Really looking forward to seeing lots of you at the WCC tenth anniversary later! Let's start a hashtag, like the olden days. 😄 #TenYearsOfWCC @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social @lizgloyn.bsky.social @annapjudson.bsky.social @chrissieplastow.bsky.social

Wrote a bit about the Oscan inscription featured in my latest round of #epigraphy #baking! itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/e... #EpigraphyTuesday #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky🏺 @durhamclassics.bsky.social @katherinemcdon.bsky.social @diffendale.bsky.social

fabulous! our new Oscan inscription now in cake form! I'm just sorry I'm not there to partake... What would Nimzis think?! Certainly the Italic world had no shortage of ritual cakes...

All ready for the British #Epigraphy Society spring meeting @durhamclassics.bsky.social! Epigraphic conference cake to be revealed later...

⚖️ One year ago, the Supreme Court promised us our rights were still protected. 🟰 Since then - our lives have become less free, less safe and less equal. Where is the dignity and respect in this? 📝 It's going to take more than minor tweaks to make a difference here. What happens now? ➡️

No paywall copy of the article in the Times about unwanted sexual advances by Simon Goldhill at Cambridge. Thank god students in 21st century report this shit and the universities take it seriously archive.ph/2026.04.09-1...

Any Cicero and/or text crit #ClassicsBluesky folks who can help out more specifically than I can?

As a linguist, this is true. #linguistics

As we mourn the great Averil Cameron, I point you to her autobiographical talk from 2017: on being working class and female in Ancient History wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/05/22/s...

And the BIG BAD I SAID NO blogpost is live! (If you know the cartoon I'm referring to, welcome: childhood memory unlocked). Huge thanks to everyone below who commented on my post about 'how [and whether!] to say no in academia'. drlauravarnam.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/t...

Hey if you need something to do over this long weekend, have a go at my PhD student Anna-Merete’s survey. It’s sentences to rate, you just need to have any English variety as your first language, and it’ll take you 10–15 minutes. #linguistics docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This #Caturday, have two very comfortable #ArchaeoCats from Herculaneum #AncientBluesky🏺

Breaking news: we've just signed a once-in-a-lifetime loan agreement to bring rural England's most iconic artwork home for the first time in 1,000 years. Introducing our 2027 major exhibition - Bayewe Tapestry: the Fight to Wool England.

Bluesky academic pals, I’m planning to write a blogpost about ‘saying no’, or at least, ‘how to consider whether to say yes’ to an opportunity. What are your top tips? 🙏🏻

This is a really good petition. It holds the government accountable for their failure to protect trans people, gender diverse people, and women against anti-trans hate and lawfare. Please sign and share everywhere! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Reminder: March 31st deadline for applications to travel bursaries for @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social 10th anniversary celebration! Up to 7 available for grad students and un(der)employed Classicists. Info & to apply: wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/29/c... #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

March’s #WCCWIKI editing session is happening next week! Tuesday 24th at 1pm. Join with the link below!! 🏛️🏛️ Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168.

Have you had personal tutoring responsibilities in a UK HEI in the last five years? I'd love to hear from you! I'm running a short survey on interpersonal relationships & care within personal tutoring, which takes ~10 minutes to complete. Please do share: I'm keen to get a wide range of responses!

Celebrating Women in Classics: Ten Years of the Women’s Classical Committee UK Join the ICS and WCC on Wednesday 22 April for a round table discussion and Q&A on the theme of ‘Celebrating Women in Classics’. Drinks reception from 5pm; panel discussion at 6pm: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

We're sure all you can think about today is that it's World Plumbing Day. 👨‍🔧💦 So here's the Palace plumbing - ceramic pipes that carried water around the formal gardens and fed fountains and ornamental basins and the like. (1960s excavation photo) 🧵👇

REVEALED 👀 Who wrote the letter Wes Streeting relied on when he paused the puberty blockers trial? https://goodlaw.social/t7ks

Reminder: sign up for the @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social 10th anniversary celebration, April 22nd @ics.bsky.social! Free & all welcome; travel bursaries available for grad students & un-/under-employed Classicists attending wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/29/c... #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺

That Starmer keeps Mahmood in post shows this is not just the actions of an inhumane Home Secretary, but a deeper rooted ideology of hostility and xenophobia within this government. No-one benefits from blocking Chevening scholars. This is cruelty for sake of it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The official statement from Grammarly is so typical of AI boosters/tech companies of late. ‘Sure, we’re resurrecting the dead to exploit them for a few dollars and the ‘experts’ have no idea we’re using their names and reputations, but we hoped to make more money before anyone really noticed’

Over twenty years ago, a court ruled that forcing trans people to live “in an intermediate zone as not quite one gender or the other is no longer sustainable”. That decision became the foundation for the UK’s Gender Recognition Act. Here’s how ✍️ @jessothomson.co.uk

I can just tell you now what their conclusion is going to be.

Come on, lexicographers, just admit it when you've got no idea what a word actually means 😂 #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

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