A fine piece here from Allison Morris.

Teuta Hoxha (29) has been in prison without trial for 13 months so far. This is her Birthday. bsky.app/profile/hill...

Very excited to be part of the next iteration of the amazing Res Diff series!

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Ancient Rome's legacy looms large in Italy's history, from colonising North Africa to Mussolini's fascist reign and modern anti-immigration movements Historian @samagbamu.bsky.social explains the long, dark shadow cast by the imperial eagle. 🔗 rdg.ac/467hym7 #AncientSky

Nice of the anti-refugee nationalists to ensure that St. George's flag is trampled underfoot

Congratulations to everyone getting their #Alevel results today! We look forward to welcoming our new Classics Department students in September. If things didn't quite go to plan but you're interested in coming to @uniofreading.bsky.social you can call Clearing on: +44 (0) 118 402 0900

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Join Workers for a Free Palestine at Pelican House, Fri 8 Aug, for an evening of live music, dancing and solidarity. All ticket sales support legal fees for the WFFP9, our friends who got arrested protesting arms sales to Israel, and who will go to court soon. ra.co/events/2223482

This is a remarkable document for a mainstream media outlet to publish. (gift link) wapo.st/3IRLZn6

happy les aristocrats à la lanterne day to all who celebrate

Essential viewing on what Palestine Action do, why they do it, and why they must have our unwavering solidarity tokillawarmachine.com

I can't believe Staten Island is Hamas

We are all Palestine Action. 🇵🇸

What a weekend of fascistic parades in DC and warplanes flying over my street to finish @profdanhicks.bsky.social ’s breathtaking new book. Such a clear articulation of the tenacious, cold grip of the death cult of ‘militarist realism’. Will be returning to this a lot. Also big up Sylvia Wynter.

THE RAYMOND WILLIAMS FOUNDATION TARGETED GRANTS SCHEME 2025 The RWF invites applications for up to eight grants of max £1,500 to support self-organised adult learning activities to help realise social justice aims. Deadline: 29 June 2025. More info at:

Today the guardian is debuting our new calculations of climate damage caused by Israel's genocide in Gaza. Greenhouse gases are not the most important reason to demand a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, but this data shows yet another way that genocide harms us all.

Oh wow, RIP Ngugi wa Thiongo!! A brilliant writer with so many faces

In the light of recent news from Cardiff University it seems timely to re-post this letter championing the work of colleagues in Ancient History and Religion from CUCD, CA, FIEC, @ics.bsky.social @theromansoc.bsky.social @hellenicsociety.bsky.social Update at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If your medieval studies project has been impacted by the NEH cuts and you would like your fundraising project amplified by SSMLL, please contact us at ssmll[AT]history.ox.ac.uk. SSMLL stands in solidarity with our colleagues. (5/5)

Combined Classics Library Bursaries (up to £300) now accepting applications to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Combined Classics Library in summer 2025 in order to advance or complete a project of research or scholarship. Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg

Looking for reading on the term "Amerindian". Seeing it being used in recent scholarship by great scholars whose judgements I trust, but intuitively - from a place of ignorance - it seems outdated? Any tips much appreciated!

This is what a leader does. This is what a leader sounds like. THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM DO NOT OBEY. SPEAK YOUR MIND.

Draft of an AI statement for future syllabi (building on what others have done & shared)

Disgraceful www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Call for applications for the inaugural Racing the Classics cohort-based fellowship (funded by a major award won by Dan-El Padilla Peralta and Sasha-Mae Eccleston). Mentorship, summer seminar, monthly practicum, stipend/travel, and more www.racingtheclassics.com

You guys, a conclave of old cardinals can decide on a POPE faster than an academic search committee can decide on the four people we're bringing to campus for an assistant professor search.

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

Wow is this how I found out I didn't get the job? A fucking chimney?

monsignori in the attic by the lightswitch who watches over you make a little conclave in your soul north of here you might meet @calculizer.bsky.social* rallying votes for Fr. Pizzaballa make a little conclave in your soul *it rhymes if you replace the handle with his name leave me alone

Thursday is normally my first year introduction to archaeology class, which I absolutely love teaching, but instead i’ll be on the picket line with my UEA @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues, fighting compulsory redundancies. Please follow our branch account for more info!

Trump's instructions for his new ‘Garden of Heroes’ statues: "All submissions must depict figures from a long, eclectic list issued in a previous executive order...Mr. Trump has also directed that subjects be depicted in a 'realistic' manner, with no modernist or abstract designs allowed."

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

“The Seventh Commandment comes to mind: If you steal something you have to give it back,” he said in 2023 let’s remember how Pope Francis returned three Parthenon Marbles, apologised for residential schools, and committed to returning Indigenous artefacts from the Vatican collections✨

A bit more than 2 weeks until the deadline for this - do get in touch if you are considering an application!

Not to put too a fine point on it, but Musk and his ilk also omit a crucial feature of Rome in the 1st century BCE: two generations of civil war and mob violence takes a toll on populations and family structures

Stop Comparing Trump’s Lawbreaking to Caesar Crossing the Rubicon www.zocalopublicsquare.org/stop-compari...

Refusing to share the "reconstruction" of the face of a woman buried in the Shaft Graves at Mycenae. No, this doesn't let us "look at the face of the past". No, it's not surprising a modern reconstruction (ignoring all the actual grave finds discussed in the article!) looks "incredibly modern" 🏺

@yaelrice.bsky.social and I co-authored this piece precisely to combat misguided work like this so people don't have to constantly rehearse the arguments about why it's specious. We laid it all out here for you! hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

#CFP Claudian after Claudian: influence and reception of the poet #Claudian - University of Paris Nanterre, 16-17 October 2025 - listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Due by April 30

This studentship is only possible because of the generosity of the late Prof. Em. Jane F. Gardner, world leading expert in Roman law, women, and the family among many other things, who passed away in 2023. You can read about the department's memorial for her here: blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-...

the dismantling of (cross-disciplinary) studies of liberation reminds me of Sylvia Wynter’s invitation to think about academic work that has and can radically shift our present system of knowledge. pedagogy can foster rebellion. research has the capacity to undo harm and learn about resistance.

This studentship is only possible because of the generosity of the late Prof. Em. Jane F. Gardner, world leading expert in Roman law, women, and the family among many other things, who passed away in 2023. You can read about the department's memorial for her here: blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-...

Come and do a PhD on Roman History or Latin at @uorclassics.bsky.social - we arguably the nicest Romanists and Latinists of any UK department (according to me) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ960/t...