How did nurses shape Australia’s response to HIV/AIDS? Join Dr Geraldine Fela for ‘Blood Politics’, 31 Oct, 2.30pm, Schwarzman Centre. Free, all welcome: shorturl.at/MNB95 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @hflgbtq.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

Great post offering insights the lives of girls in ancient Egypt! @julia-hamilton.bsky.social draws together administrative, archaeological, and artistic evidence in discussing girls’ working lives, wages, migration, and more: theconversation.com/work-wages-a...

📰 We know little about the lives of children in Ancient Egypt, and even less about that of non-elite girls. @julia-hamilton.bsky.social explores how ordinary girls lived, perhaps working as apprentices to adults 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews @aunz.theconversation.com 1/3 theconversation.com/work-wages-a...

‘[W]hat were the lives of ordinary girls like in ancient Egypt? And how did they make their way in a deeply patriarchal culture?’

Record union meeting at Macquarie today - currently 336 staff in the meeting and rising. NTEU Branch President, Nick Harrigan speaking - "staff have to save this University from its own Management"

Yes, thrilled to be doing this with Alice, who conceived the workshop. We're looking for practice-based and research-informed engagements of all kinds with the #archives of colonialism (including #photography), for the October 2025 ISA meeting in Newcastle. 📜🗃️ More details in the link below!

@sarahebond.bsky.social writes about my new @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social paper on #Pompeii slavery and inequality for @hyperallergic.com, great to see the study catching notice!

ACLS, AHA, and MLA File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities. Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff. www.acls.org/news/acls-ah...

Congratulations to Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia and their contributors on the publication of their new #OpenAccess book Classics and Race today. Read and download free at: uclpress.co.uk/book/classic... #Classics #Race #IntellectualHistory

Here’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arc-gra... [Free login required] Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇

If you’re wondering what a spreadsheet looked like in 1800 BCE, here is one that tallies foodstuffs for cattle received by four cowherds. Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”

"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface. The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark. Fabulous. A small light in the great gloom. “It is starting to make its own meandering path…” www.bbc.com/news/article...

"If an infant's body (has) a lukewarm temperature, his head has fever, he feeds at the breast and then drools a lot, his teeth are coming out. He may suffer for 14 or 20 days, but he will get well." Teething described in a 3,000-year-old medical handbook from ancient Assyria and Babylonia.

Another online option ships internationally in case anyone is interested 📚

Hello @theguardian.com, this isn't news about Egypt, as your website categorizes it: it's news about Western scientists using colonial collections in Western museums to do to the ancestral Egyptian dead what they have done for centuries: promote themselves and grab headlines. 🧵📜🏺🗃️

"Musk is committed to using his wealth and viral popularity to influence politics in the U.S. and abroad, and Greco-Roman antiquity has always been one of his favorite rhetorical tools" Thanks to @curtisdozier.bsky.social for this important post pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/01/31/e...

Registration for #ResDiff6 is now available: resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...

Very excited for #ResDiff6

It is my pleasure to announce the program for #ResDiff6 (March 21, 2025), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. Keynote: Sarah Derbew. resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...

In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour. “we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...

Teaching history divorced from the concerns of the present is actually doing a bad job at teaching history.

A bit late with this, but a huge congratulations to the ASCS 2025 OPTIMA winner Elizabeth Leaning and to our joint runners-up Jemima McPhee and Jaymie Orchard! Pictured here with the prize committee. Classicsbluesky

Job opening: Lecturer in  Ancient History  at University College London

NINO offers a two-year postdoc position starting September 2025. We invite applications of researchers in ancient Near Eastern archaeology. Tasks: original research, organise international workshop, publish proceedings, teach graduate seminar. Apply until 15 March 2025. https://buff.ly/3WBW9fA

Find myself returning for the third time (the first post-Trump 2.0) to Nick Estes’ outstanding history of Standing Rock/#NoDAPL. On the assetisation of land & water; on resistance, community, solidarity. “The rallying cry of Mni Wiconi—‘water is life’—is also an affirmation that water is alive.”

Ghosts in ancient Mesopotamia causes all kinds of medical issues. Vertigo, depression, and more. This therapy to treat someone seized by a ghost prescribed fumigation with pig, wolf, dog, fox, and gazelle poop, and other stuff that smelled awful. Seems a good way to get rid of a ghost was to stink

Last year, I wrote a brief article about how the heart “breaks” in ancient Mesopotamia. What could a broken heart have meant 3,000 years ago, and how did people express mental distress? To me, how they made emotional pain make sense is really moving anetoday.org/al-rashid-he...