From the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities #blog: Shaping Transformation: University Collections in a Changing World - by Emily Rosevear (on the Dresden ICOM-UMAC / Universeum meeting) teecemuseum.nz/shaping-tran...

ICYMI - Guide to the classics: #Aristotle’s Poetics is a bible for screenwriters – but it’s often misread - by Emma Cole (UQ) - @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/guide-to-the... @emmacole.bsky.social

ICYMI - Fruit and veg, exercise, frequent bloodletting and more tips on staying healthy from medieval travellers - by Prof Megan Cassidy-Welch (U Divinity) - @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/fruit-and-ve... @megancw.bsky.social

#blog What’s New at SeumasU, Jan 2025 edition - by The Patrologist thepatrologist.com/2025/01/17/w... @jeltzz.bsky.social

#job Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor in Digital Technologies - Art and Material Culture of Antiquity - University College Dublin – School of Classics www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO000/a... 5yrs with possibility of permanency

#Egyptomania — the Big #Tutankhamun outside a motel in Buronga (near Mildura) - #bigthings

The most recent In Our Time podcast (on BBC Sounds) is outstanding. Subject: Socrates in Prison.

New co-edited book

New co-edited book

My book

It's that time of year again... Got a grad school interview coming up and wondering how to navigate it? Not sure how to prepare? Join us on February 3rd at 7:30pm for a panel discussion about how to nail that interview this term! Register here: bucknell.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The programme is out for the next term of late antique seminars in my brilliant department! Come in person or online! 😊

My article on sensory deprivation and the so-called Ploutonian at Eleusis has been published! This is a deeply personal and vulnerable article - establishing a route into Sensory Archaeology as an Autistic researcher. I’m very proud of it. #ClassicsBluesky

Feb 13 Sydney (CCWM, 6pm) Dr Andrew Yip, A model of a model of the world: towards a practice of 'critical modelling' for museums www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats... Book $ www.eventbrite.com.au/e/a-model-of...

Michael Zavros: Gods and Monsters at the Hellenic Museum - open until 27 April 2025 www.hellenic.org.au/exhibitions/...

#CFP Book chapters - Pasts Imagined: Creative Methods in Knowledge Production about History, Memory and Culture - eds. Ariella Van Luyn, Alina Kozlovski, Chris Muller - Abstracts by March 3, chapters by end 2025 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#postdoc #ECR #JRF Oxford - Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) - Randall MacIver Junior Research Fellowship in Classical Literature (Greek and/or Latin) - FT 2 years www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN861/r...

💫New Episode - Enemy of My Dreams with Jenny Williamson 💫 Join us on a tour of the late Roman empire reimagined! We sit down with author Jenny Williamson to discuss her novel that draws inspiration from some of Rome’s most amazing women. #AncientBluesky🏺 partialhistorians.com/2025/01/23/s...

No other classic text has left such a mark on how we tell stories, create theatre, and structure film. But what does it actually say?

A reminder of this event next Wednesday! Great opportunity to hear from & ask questions to staff at various institutions - whether awards and funding available, what’s in their collections, or how to collaborate on a research project 🏺 🗃️ #Classicsbluesky ics.sas.ac.uk/events/resea...

was reminded today that in undergrad, I was the only student to enrol in second semester Greek at 300-level and so I had an hour a week of one-on-one classes

The Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University has announced five #PhD positions in all of its subject areas, including Latin and Greek. For details, visit: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Trump’s meme coin is nothing new: it takes a page out of the ancient world’s playbook - by Gil Davis (ACU) - @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/trumps-meme-... #numismatics

This semester I ported a course by @mikekestemont.bsky.social from R to Python and taught it alongside a great colleague. Designed for Humanities Masters students with no maths and little Python, it takes you through univariate stats, testing, distributions, and finishes with Bayesian modelling.

Trump’s meme coin is nothing new: it takes a page out of the ancient world’s playbook - by Gil Davis (ACU) - @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/trumps-meme-... #numismatics

#postdoc #ECR #JRF Early Career Research Fellowship in Near-Eastern Archaeology - University of Oxford www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN109/e... FT 3 years

#postdoc Research Associate (Domestic Slavery in Late Antiquity) - 2 Positions Available - University of Leicester www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM175/r... 15 months

Have you read our latest book? Your thoughts could help others discover this gem. We’d love to read your review over on Good Reads or even 👀 Amazon. If you haven’t picked up your copy yet, we recommend these tales the Romans wish you didn’t know about them. Just a bit cheeky 😉 #AncientBluesky🏺📕

insane idea: is there any chance that the *start* of the Consolatio ad Liviam is unfinished 9BCE Ovid, but it was picked up and completed by someone else? I could make a case for this with stats, but stats in the absence of theory are rubbish :)

In recent weeks a whole bunch of new papers have been published in areas that are important to my research - with some amazing new insights ... and disappointments. One of my biggest let-downs has been the widely-shared article on ancient Peruvian #TattooHistory (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...). 1/🧵

A captivating new five-episode podcast series drawing on the latest research in human evolution, the series invites listeners on an extraordinary journey from our earliest ancestors in Africa to the global expansion of Homo sapiens. www.sydney.edu.au/arts/news-an...

#MosaicMonday We’re starting the week with one of our favourite ladies from late antiquity, Galla Placidia. “The good Shepherd" mosaic can be found in her mausoleum in Ravenna. The stunning scene is eclipsed only by the gorgeous geometric style starry sky. #AncientBluesky🏺

The famous Leda and the swan mosaic from the triclinium of the House of Leda Mosaic at Palaepaphos (Kourion) in Cyprus. Late 2nd/early 3rd cent. It was accidentally discovered in 1972 and depicts frequently retold myth of Zeus’ metamorphosis into a swan to seduce Leda #MosaicMonday #ancientbluesky 🏺

Margaret Hallo Beattie: a Tribute - by Tom Hillard (MQ) - Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies #AWAWS Blogging the History of Women in Ancient World Studies www.awaws.org/history-of-w...

Jan 21 deadline #CFP PhD/ECR conference - "The Next Ovid(s)" - International Ovid Society – Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa - June 19-21, 2025 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Online lecture series from Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens: "Nature and Natural Imagery in ancient Greek, Latin, Chinese and Japanese Literature: Comparisons and Contrasts": www.academyofathens.gr/en/ereyna/ke... Zoom: email [email protected]

#CFP Imaginative Landscapes and Otherworlds 2025: Animate Beings - online (UK) - June 14, 2025 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Due by April 20

This looks spectacular. The announcement of a private bathhouse found in the new excavations at Pompeii #archaeology 🏺 www.bbc.com/news/article...

As someone who's been obsessed with domestic baths at Pompeii for a long time (one day I'll get that article on the baths in the House of the Menander out!), this is so exciting. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

12 years ago in Eleusis. Can't quite believe it has been that long since I've been back to Greece.

Dr Pamela Armstrong will lecture at the BSA in London: “The Two Castles of Torone” 21 January - 6.00pm. Link to webinar: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... The forthcoming publication of ‘Byzantine Torone’ based on the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens’ excavations is out soon.

Jan 17 online (Lille 12pm EST/6pm CET) International Ovidian Society (IOS) Online Discussion of Recent Books on #Ovid - Session 4: Dr Simona Martorana (ANU) on _Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's Heroides_ (Cornell 2024) - commentator Prof Carole Newlands. Zoom ovidiansociety.org/events/

Researching in Disneyland on the legacy of Ancient Egypt for my teaching. Very glad to see at least they managed to get the "htp di nsw" formula right at the beginning of the hieroglyphs (I am guessing it was copied from somewhere else?)

‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?

I feel like this is a weird attempt to 'humanise' the BM or something. But I suppose people do really like to see the 'behind the scenes' type stuff. Content notice for pictures of human remains. Behind the scenes at the British Museum – in pictures

The Casa Della Gemma is one of a number of buildings temporarily reopened to the public at Herculaneum #archaeology www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/13/a...

More examples of Medieval Nubian tattoos hyperallergic.com/982831/uncov...

Kerameikos, Ancient Agora Sites in Athens Get Facelift