Spotted this enchanting looking thing featured in a bookshop while browsing on a windy Saturday morning. Looking forward to reading it @gevemac.bsky.social !

Most humanities research — including the best, most world leading research by people we’ve all heard of — is unfunded, by which they mean produced as part of one’s routine job as a university lecturer, just “not funded by a big competitive external grant”. This would mean the death of research.

Problematic (to put it kindly) on so many levels. 1) there isn't really 'unfunded' research. The REF is there to allocate resources so that research is possible without a grant.

Khameleon Classics is quite a contained series of episodes – just 30 in total. They explore the obsession with Classics, what counts and why, the complicated legacy of colonialism, and how we might use ancient history to fight for a fairer society today. www.khameleonproductions.com/khameleon-cl...

"My fiancée Reem and I are separated from our families, trying to survive on what little we can find. The internet barely works. Electricity is a luxury. Food is a miracle." Beautifully written piece by @its2sakher.bsky.social Pls do read & share. First hand accounts from Gaza are so important. 👇

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

Spiteful, petty bean counters nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history

New book out just in time for summer hols. The story of ancient #Carthage - from its 9th century BCE foundations to the tragic end, burnt to the ground in 146BCE by #Rome. 700 years as a foundational part of the western Mediterranean and 🐘 🐘🐘🐘 too. Thanks to @Eburybooks for making it all possible

WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.” Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran

People, seriously, will you PLEASE knock it off with the AI/LLM usage. You are causing actual droughts, and for what? Bullshit and slop. It’s embarrassing. You are embarrassing.

This hasn’t even made the news.

University is not a business, education is not a product.

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

🌟 @caerheritage.bsky.social BIG DIG open day! 🌟 🗓 Sat. 28th June 🕚 11am – 2pm 📍 Trelai Park Get ready to discover 4,000 years of Cardiff's history 🙂 ⛏️ Dig tours! 🎶 Music Workshops! 🎨 Art Workshops! 🍴 Heritage food tasting! @learncardiff.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social @ltotelin.bsky.social

Next Tuesday, 17th June, 2-5pm (UK), we are excited to hold our online roundtable on Past, Present, and Future Research on the Antigonids. This concludes the fifth year of #AntigonidNetwork activities. An opportunity to reflect but also to look ahead. #AncientBluesky Register to join us on Zoom.

Cops are shooting impact munitions madly. They're shooting at people who are simply moving along on sidewalks and leaving the area as they were ordered to do. No one in this video is throwing anything at police. Mounted cops are coming up behind people and hitting them with extra long riot batons.

❗Yesterday Cardiff University Senate, the body responsible for upholding academic standards, voted to NOT recommend management’s toxic 'Academic Futures' cuts plan to Cardiff University Council.❗ The ball is now in Council’s court at its meeting next Tuesday, 17th.

So this has become a short thread of archaeologists talking about all the interesting & important aspects of research which are not excavation. In fact excavation has always been only a small aspect of our work. But my Q to non-archaeologists, 'what would draw you to these stories' is unanswered>

A clear message in support of Ancient History at Cardiff from colleagues across the UK. The university Council decides on Ancient History's fate in 6 days' time, along with the provision of Religion & Theology, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

I'm guessing this film is not about what some of us might at first think @gevemac.bsky.social @josephinequinn.bsky.social ...

Trump's war to destroy Harvard. As the US government slashes Harvard’s funding, Nature has learnt that researchers at the university have lost nearly 1,000 grants worth more than US$2.4 billion.

We are glad to share this Call for Papers for the conference 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒. 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐥𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 6-7 October 2025 University of Malta. 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨 𝐚𝐭: www.um.edu.mt/events/disco... #CSMBR #Opportunities #Conferences

👀 www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).

This is the UK.

I’ve done this. The text boxes give you several opportunities to use words like ‘shameful’, ‘inaccurate’, ‘immoral’, ‘irresponsible’, ‘misinformed’ and ‘planet-burning’.

[NEW VIDEO] Archaeology is under siege from popular anti-intellectual influencers. I document threats and harassment and provide actionable strategies for promoting public educational content Watch, like, comment, and share to boost visibility 🧪🏺 #AncientBlueSky youtu.be/F5PvwzgfKKw

Fellowship in the History of Islamic Art and Material Culture- Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMW330/f...

joining the war on cancer, on the side of cancer

A privilege to hear my most excellent colleague @gevemac.bsky.social introduce Ancient History at @cardiffuni.bsky.social to students joining us in September, and discuss the Phoenicians. And now I really want to go to Cadiz.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The existential threat to the study of Theology in a secular Welsh university context is a major issue and one which Cardiff has yet to address. Wales should not have to rely on English institutions for this provision.

New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism

I’m at a loss for expletives

“I was stripped completely naked. “When I questioned the necessity for this I was told I would be forced violently if I didn’t comply and they didn’t want any trouble. “They looked inside my private area and touched all my sensitive parts.” www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The next #AntigonidNetwork event is a workshop on "Ancient Medicine in Macedonia and Northern Greece: New Approaches to the Classical and Hellenistic Periods", Tuesday 8th April 2025, 11am - 5pm, University of Exeter and online. For further details and to register, follow the link. #AncientBluesky

This report should break something in all of us. 15,613 children. The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0. 26% were under the age of 5

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

There is no world in which writing prompts for a machine to generate text in the shape of arguments teaches you to build an argument yourself, any more than there’s a world in which microwaving a lot of things gives you the power to project flame from your hands.

"We will not take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists and neo-nazis. We will not allow a white supremacist president and his party to claim the mantle of Jewish safety as they shred the Constitution." lithub.com/a-columbia-u...

The premise here, just to spell it out, is that no black person, woman, queer person, etc., has EVER genuinely accomplished something. Every time it ever seemed like they had, it was just white people virtue-signaling by using them as tokens or whatever Or in other words that they're natural slaves

'Bournemouth University’s English BA and politics BA courses will be suspended, with admissions being closed for next year. The suspension of courses is a part of the university’s financial recovery plan. The university has yet to disclose this plan'.