🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️

How many FTE is that, anyway? Asking for quite a few friends.

Disgrace even by standards of Cardiff University It's fundamental violation of trust: the Salisbury Collection is a national possession of rare books, not an institutional asset to be discarded at whim The new Welsh Govt must intervene at Cardiff nation.cymru/news/fears-f...

We found out through social media that they are shutting our library next month. At the same time as turfing us out of our offices for the summer.

Postgraduate students at Cardiff University have complained about a lack of consultation over the £2m refurbishment of a building that Schools and staff were removed from in a cuts programme last year ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1liO

Why’s an American pressure group that helped overturn Roe v Wade suddenly taken an interest in your local park? Anti-rights movements won't stop with trans people, and we must hold back the tide. Get behind @transsolidarity.bsky.social’s campaign: https://protectparkrun.uk/

Hearing that the splendid Dame @averilcam.bsky.social has passed. She was an amazing scholar. She will be missed. Please note her memoir and remember to cite her as one of the pivotal founders of the field we now call Late Antiquity. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

An urgent appeal to preserve Iran’s civilian infrastructure. Posting this again, now on a more reputable site. Please sign this to oppose T-rumps mad and criminal threat to destroy Iranian power plants. This catastrophe will lead to thousands of deaths! Please sign! c.org/YqBjzSXXbL

You’re Dead To Me Live plays Cardiff (Thursday 9th), Edinburgh (Sunday 12th) and Manchester (Monday 13th) this week — we’re doing a 2 hour romp through the life of Alexander the Great If you’re a student who’d like to come, and you don’t already have a ticket, DM me for a educational discount code

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

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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