Accidentally put Nicole Loraux's Invention of Athens on the same week of the course reading list three times. Is it time for a break yet? (Although it wouldn't be the worst thing if we read it three times in a week...)

🚀 Mythmatch launches March 13th on Steam!! 🚀 🐐 Merge the items 💪 Unite the people 🏠 Make a home Play the demo now and continue your progress in the full game. store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...

In meiner neusten Podcast-Episode GAME STUDIES spreche ich mit Rob Gallagher (King's College London) über sein neues Buch "Artgames after GamerGate". Viel Spaß beim Anhören! newbooksnetwork.com/artgames-aft... #spielforschung

In my latest podcast episode of GAME STUDIES, I talk to Rob Gallagher (King's College London) about his new book ‘Artgames after GamerGate’. Enjoy listening! newbooksnetwork.com/artgames-aft... //cc @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #palgrave #gamestudies

I have an awful lot of work to do at the moment. But it's February, the employment situation is getting emotionally pressing, and that is not very motivating.

On the HGN blog: an interview with @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social & Dr Victoria McCollum @ulsteruni.bsky.social on the amazing Witches of Islandmagee project. Huge thanks to Kirstin Mitchell (HGN Research Assistant Extraordinaire) for leading this conversation! www.historicalgames.net/interview-wi...

Do I know any South Asian game writers/narrative designers looking for a full-time contract?

Does anyone know of any grants/ bursaries for Classics PGRs around, who are facing financial hardship?

As promised recently, I'm delighted to now be launching a new monthly newsletter service which will become the home of monthly content from me regarding my work as a historian of both Star Wars and the First World War. But what does that mean? the-historians-holonet.ghost.io

I feel so defeated. I graduated from Cologne Game Lab this week and I've been looking for a job opportunity for around 3 months. I haven't seen a SINGLE 3D Environment Art position. If you know ANYONE in Germany that looks for a 3D Artist please help me. artstation.com/ercesubasi #3dart #stylized

2025 was a wildly fascinating ride into gendered histories throughout the past!! Here's a selection of some of the #WCCWiki #Wikipedia pages from across the year that we created or edited, including the achievements and challenges we faced as a community ...

When I started in academia I could manage extra work all evening and every weekend - the job I was doing meant that that was all going on teaching prep rather than anywhere useful, but still. I would value having that capacity back now - I really find myself so much more tired these days.

Question pour les devs Fr : qu'est-ce que vous recommanderiez comme hébergement de site web fiable et clean (pas d'IA Gen, yuk, dans le genre greenwashing ça se pose là) ? J'ai prévu de faire un petit site pour le lancement de The Abbess Garden (pour avoir l'air pro, tout ça ;) )

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

Do I know artists who work in an 18th century style of illustration who might take on a modest proposal (so to speak)? (would love to see portfolios)

Wondering if it's too on-the-nose for my next author biography to say "over the course of this project has worked at..." and then just list multiple places. I've already started putting "at the time of writing is" because often the bio doesn't match my institution by the time the work is published!

Also means stories end up framed like this. Zimbabwe's campaign wasn't good, but wasn't 'disastrous'. Rather than applying men's labels & preconceptions, it should be noted ZIM are a developing nation, have never been a top women's team, and were expected to lose to at least 3 of these games.

The entire model of Full Member and Associate status was already a ridiculous anachronism, and is exposed as a total farce by forcing women's cricket to fit into that men's framework.

Should underline this isn't about being anti-Zimbabwe. They are doing genuinely interesting things in women's cricket, such as playing multi-day domestic games, and should be supported. It's about the unfairness of granting access to funding & qualification routes based on inherited men's status.

'Women's T20 World Cup 2026 Global Qualifier: Day 4 wrap' #T20WorldCup #WT20WCQ www.icc-cricket.com/tournaments/...

What happened with #WCCWiki in 2025? How are women and non-binary classicists looking on #Wikipedia? Here's a thread to wrap-up last year, and to forge a path for 2026 ...

In 2016 7% of biographies on #Wikipedia about classicists were about women. Now @richardnevell.bsky.social's wonderful analysis shows that 10 years later, that number is now almost 20%. That's a huge achievement! #WCCWiki

I have been playing a very bad game which seems to have as its premise that you should play terrible mini games and if you do well it'll show you some pictures of half naked Aphrodite. But... I can see Aphrodite half naked any time!!

I could really use a badge saying "It's for work!" for when I'm playing embarrassingly weird switch games on the train...

My work laptop now won't shut down and is just permanently stuck on a screen advertising winter wellbeing week. Seems counter productive. (WW week of course still features no job security, the best way to improve my wellbeing this week.)

I am teaching a *lot* of Greek drama over the next three weeks. (Including one play twice, as a one off). And then quite a lot all term. Fun.

I love that in Aeschylus' Persians when the dialogue with living characters proves unsatisfactory, they just summon up a dead one, for a better scene. What an approach to drama.

Not sure if Scotland are trying to push their RR here, because that was quite nonsense from Lister. Just bat nicely and win the game! #SCOvZIM

Relatable.

I think after a certain length of time we should just time out TV umpires.

Expelled! is a brilliant game (and I'm not just saying that because the Latin is good...) - everyone should try it out if you haven't already! The story and characters are great fun.

Expelled! is one of the @theguardian.com top 15 switch games to play this year. Or now. You could also play it, right now. (and it’s on sale on steam for another few hours)

In the last five days (not even a whole week), Sky sports, the BBC, the new owners of the Manchester hundred team and the ICC have all provided substandard attention to women's cricket. It's 2026, do better!!

Today we tackle a big topic that we’ve mulled over for a while but we thought it was important to discuss women’s cricket, Fairbreak and Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Plus we speak about the WPL, the Hundred changes and very briefly Alyssa Healy’s retirement open.spotify.com/episode/0iTm...

✍️Fairbreak goes to Saudi – the ultimate compromise? As mentioned in the podcast, Richard has written a detailed piece on Saudi Arabia & Fairbreak’s new partnership noughtiechildpodca.wixsite.com/my-site/post...

Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... /🧵

The next #WCCWiki editing session is on Thursday 22 January 2026, 13.00-15.00 GMT. All warmly welcome to our online meeting. Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168. Email [email protected] for more information @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social

Two hours later I can now report that in the freshly numbered room I was teaching in, trying to plug my laptop in as instructed by a notice on the wall has apparently killed the laptop. What a good first day.

Also we now start the week on Friday. KCL is really just leaning into chaos this term.

It's quite funny that my institution has decided to renumber all its rooms lately, but doesn't give out a nice concordance upon doing so. So if you've written down an old-style room number, it's basically impossible to work out what that would be now.

Hey, does anyone know if Yuriy Lozynsky published his 2014 Toronto PhD on ancient cult hymns as a monograph? #ClassicsBluesky

Local libraries are amazing. You can just take loads of books! For free!

Excuse me, we're supposed to be discussing ludonarrative dissonance, get on the page!

Always enjoy starting my morning with a Routledge Companion meeting - a lovely chance to catch up with the wonderful @chriskempshall.bsky.social and @robehoughton.bsky.social , and discuss progress on what is the biggest project I'll ever do (because I'm never saying yes to one of these again...)

Preparing for the new term - don't forget you can follow the progress of KCL's Greek Play on Instagram! The Clouds by Aristophanes is adapted and directed by Giulia L Balsamo and will be performed from 3-5 March 2026 at the Greenwood Theatre, London SE1. www.instagram.com/kingsgreekplay

#VictorianStudies people! It's outside of my area, has anyone written about marrying your dead wife's sister or dead husband's brother? It was illegal, but was it accepted socially?

The proceedings of last year's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social conference are finally out! All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism. #historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies

Crisis time! All our classes tomorrow have been cancelled because there's not enough water on campus. Thanks Storm Goretti and South East Water - the storm was unavoidable, but maybe less dividends to shareholders and more money spent on infrastructure! Back to teaching on Teams 😬 #AcademicSky

friends! acquaintances! help! i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks. know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty! hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...