✊⚡🏆 Working Classicists Awards 2025 ✊⚡🏆 It's time to announce the winners of #WCA2025! Our six categories this year: 🎨Creative Classicist 🦸Unsung Classicist 🧑‍🏫Educator Classicist 🤝Community Classicist 🌱Newcomer Classicist and ⭐Working Classicist of the Year And our winners are...

A grassroots movement like Arts Emergency rarely lasts or grows as we have.Our work changes lives, but we rely on monthly donations.Those donations are down £50k since 2021. We've cut all we can, now we're appealing to you for £2/month to plug the gap & go on www.arts-emergency.org/donate%F0%9F...

Thanks to JCT for publishing our article about the Relaxed Tutorial Project at The Open University!

Applications are open for MA studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University! Open to: - teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects - students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...

Thank you for the inspiration @silverpebble2.bsky.social #TinyJoys

Today's literal #TinyJoys are these adorable antique shop purchases ready for making tiny posies, inspired by @silverpebble2.bsky.social

More than #TinyJoys - massive joy today seeing my brilliant PhD student @lizwebb.bsky.social cross the stage for @openuniversity.bsky.social graduation - so lovely to be part of the ceremony. Huge congrats to all OU students graduating. You are fabulous and have so much to be proud of! 🎉🎓 #OUFamily

Friends! At the OU we are going to be running a series of online open days in the Arts and Humanities for Black and Asian students. Come along and find out how the Open University differs from other unis, and whether its accessible distance learning might suit you!👇🏻

'tis the season for very many garden-related #TinyJoys. Today it's the turn of these tiny tulips which opened overnight 🌷

Because I'm updating them today, I'd like to remind #AncientBluesky that we have *FREELY ACCESSIBLE* Ancient Greek resources at the Open University! 🏺 First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...

Welcome to OpenARC, The Open University’s Arts and Humanities Research Centre. OpenARC is the hub for research in the School of Arts and Humanities and supports a broad range of research groups, thereby facilitating disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen....

Open University has the largest student body in the UK. Everyone comes with a story. Everyone has a curious mind. And I think it's important to celebrate lifelong learning in a world which treats people as commodities.

Team Open University is back on BBC tonight for the University Challenge quarter-finals. If you watch, remember the importance of widening access to education for all. We are playing for the carers, the prisoners, the disabled, the kids who had to work to support their family and everyone else ♥️

#TinyJoys managed a run during a rare window when it wasn't raining. The sky was gloriously clear and fresh AND I saw two muntjac while I was out.

I saw a lot of people reposting this image, which looks like a poorly thought through advert for the new film version of the Odyssey. But, as has since become apparent, it was not an authentic film poster, so let's do a quick thread on how to check. 1/5

It is publication day for The Far Edges of the Known World! If you love ancient history, global history, unusual stories from the past, or if you want some nice historical escapism about life at the edges of the ancient world - pick up a copy today! #AncientBlueSky #BookSky #Skystorians

Our friends at contubernales.bsky.social are having a sale which INCLUDES our new book A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology! Buying direct from Contubernales means we don't lose half the profit to fees and stuff like we do on other sites, which means more money toward our outreach projects.

omg I loved Yellow Submarine as a teen (before I knew the Odyssey even existed) but did not know this... def need to rewatch!

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Do Lego ones count @emmabridges.bsky.social?

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery.

Hi, we're new here! Here's a bit about us... We're a UK-based campaign and research organisation, made up of members of the academic community, dedicated to ending sexual misconduct in higher education.

BOOK LAUNCH DAY!! Our book – A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - hits the shops today, so alongside celebrating we’ll be giving away a bunch of things! Keep your eyes peeled for 5pm tonight and grab your copy here: contubernalesbooks.com

This exciting volume on women (re-)creating Classics, the second of two, is coming in July - featuring a co-authored essay by me and playwright Wendy Haines, along with an extract of Wendy's excellent forthcoming play Medusa! Thanks to the editors for including us! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-rec...

#TinyJoys is realising that a thing you have written before can be repurposed for another thing you need to produce so you don’t have to do the Hard Thinking from scratch. 🎉

Wales deserves a strong capital university, one that trains its nurses; embraces the study of Religion and Theology and of Ancient History; teaches numerous languages, including music; one that does not reduce the Arts and Humanities to an irrelevance.

#TinyJoys is noticing for the first time this year that it's still light at 5pm - always a watershed moment in my year 🎉

I will not post much on this topic, but I'm the Head of Ancient History and Religion at Cardiff University. Our staff and students are nothing short of amazing. Those who know me will know that I'm doing all I can.

#TinyJoys is booking a random midweek day off with no plans other than 'rest', whatever that looks like for you. (This is me today and I highly recommend it.)

Please can you help @hellenicsociety.bsky.social. They have left X 🥳 and would like to be added to relevant starter packs. Give them a follow. And please reskeet!

Still lots of unclaimed #buyastrangerabook day offers. I've just reposted them. If there's one you'd like to take advantage of, don't be shy! (UK only)

Delighted to see our @openuniversity.bsky.social Classical Studies MA feature as one of @naomialderman.bsky.social’s cultural highlights!

Very proud of fabulous @openuniversity.bsky.social Classical Studies colleagues who worked as academic advisors on this series - def worth a watch either at 9pm tonight on BBC2 or on iPlayer any time.

Hello! We're migrating from other social media, hoping that this place is healthier! We'd really appreciate help rebuilding our 1000s of followers - many thanks! To kick off, here's a link to our latest podcast - Prof. Marsha Henry on 'the end of peacekeeping': www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

Hey everyone, I don't think Meg's on Bluesky, so is there any chance we could try and spread this around here? Link: ko-fi.com/agameganon/s... #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

How come we’ve forgotten the story of our first (and fiercest) mythic mothers? Properly thrilled to kick off my storytelling year by bringing Queens of Albion to StoryNight at Torriano (London), Weds 12 February, 19:30. www.stepheharrop.co.uk/performances/ torrianomeetinghouse.wordpress.com

Hey! Check out this lovely episode of The Classics Podcast with Katrina of the Classical Association on illustrating the ancient world, with me and @flaroh.bsky.social and @corabeth.bsky.social ! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the...

In around 4 weeks’ time the first blossom will appear in the hedgerows. Cherry plum flowers (Prunus cerasifera) are delicate & unassuming but that subtle glimmer of white (sometimes pink) is perhaps the most beautiful as it marks the end of winter & the prospect of warmer days.

Hello Bluesky! 👋 🌞 We're the team behind Being Human - the UK's national festival of the humanities. We're all about opening up humanities research and bringing it to life in creative, fun and participatory ways for communities across the UK. It's nice to be here! youtu.be/Wb0pMG0GnNc

Less than a month until my book is out(!), but there was a lot I couldn't fit into the word count. I often add posts to my newsletter expanding on some of the evidence or artifacts I found in my research - so if you fancy a look at some of the global history of the ancient world, take a look.

Handily OUP are offering a hefty discount on my book Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience as part of their #AIASCS promotion so you can currently get it for £15 (or $21 in the US) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

How to opt-out of Cambridge University Press emails inviting authors and editors to allow their work to be given to provides of AI (heading usually includes "AI subsidiary aggregation addendum") Open the email and then follow these steps: (1/3)

New blogpost - an interview with the fabulous team at @workingclassicists.bsky.social about their exciting new book! classicalstudies.support/2025/01/10/i...

Happy 2025 everyone!🧡🌿🏺 I’m excited to spend this new year illustrating the ancient Mediterranean world, and also learning more about my own local folklore🌿 Any shares so i can reach my audience on this new platform are greatly appreciated 🧡🧡🧡 #artvsartist #illustration #ancientbluesky

#TinyJoys is a daily recce of the garden to see what's growing... won't be long now!

Thanks for an epic #buyastrangerabook day. I haven't worked it out completely , but I think, thanks to you, about 20 books have been given out. That's amazing! You lot are ace. Thanks. S

For some #TinyJoys I recommend following @biggreenbooks.bsky.social and #BuyAStrangerABook - if you have the means you can gift someone else a book, or you can bagsy for yourself one of said books, or you can just get a dose of joy from observing folks giving and receiving books.

At what point is it socially acceptable to stop beginning all my emails with 'Happy New Year!'? (OK I know this sounds curmudgeonly but surely it's not just me...)

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social see below for my #BuyAStrangerABook offer which still stands if anyone is interested!