Language cold spots are emerging: the East Midlands provision is vulnerable if threats of closure at Leicester and Nottingham are carried out. Please sign their petitions! Links in comments.

Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...

Musk’s Grokipedia is almost certainly even worse than you thought it would be. thesphinxblog.com/2025/10/30/p...

Great afternoon of talks by lecturers from the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter for Classics for All.Talks on Roman coins, Latin etymology and Pompeiian graffiti to students from local schools from Exeter and Crediton showed how broad a subject Classics can be.

📢ARTIST CALLOUT📢 4-5 week paid placement for creative practitioner to work alongside the Gender and Sexuality Collective at Uni of Exeter. 💡Visual | Digital | Sound | Performing | Design | Lit | Film | Music 💡 Budget: £6,000 🗓️ Deadline: Sun 2 Nov 🔗 www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/news/creativ...

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

Attention all Allies of LGTBQ people supporting trans people please see this Petition! www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

Just ten years ago the UK was top of the list - the best place in Europe for LGBT rights. We are now 22nd The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy

Hello World! Welcome to followers changing channels from LinkedIn. Thank you everyone following me for the first time. Here is a video link to an address I gave at the start of Trans History Week. Wherever you are, know the UK is trans-hostile. It will take 12mins of your life. youtu.be/IPU6XN4lOvw

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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Don't believe what the UK media is telling you about the Runcorn and Helsby by-election: www.cheryl-morgan.co...

The fabulous @saranahmed.bsky.social being brilliant as usual: feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...

A response: www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

We launched the Society for the Study of the Past yesterday at our Palestine event - a response to the fact that our disciplinary associations have failed us. It’s already looking like the only club I want to be in… More coming soon, but for now check it out here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

Petition to support ancient history at Cardiff, set up by students there chng.it/MSXnH968ZQ

This is pretty cool... we sent off our Roman iron ring with lion-engraved intaglio to be micro-CT scanned by some Exeter university students. We can now virtually slice the ring in any orientation to see internal corrosion and the intaglio itself (from any angle). Resolution is... 6 microns!! 😮😎

To begin, I want to introduce the Uncovering Roman Carlisle project; I work on engaging my community their incredible, but almost invisible Roman heritage. Check us out: www.uncoveringromancarlisle.co.uk Feedback and critique always welcomed - through challenge we learn!

Hello BlueSky. I don’t really know what this place is or what I’m doing here, but I do have two things to say. 1) Free Palestine 🇵🇸 2) our Critical Ancient World Studies book is out - you can find it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...