Also, if you are a scholar of the Ancient Near East, consider sending us your stuff! It will be published in our edited collection for Nature: www.nature.com/collections/...

This looks amazing. Looking forward to joining from a distance

Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025! mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/13/c...

If anyone wants me, I’ll be working my way through Pliny’s Natural History and feeling inadequate www.manto-myth.org/blog/pining-...

Now out - open access - in Classical Review. Thanks, @thedancinggrad.bsky.social for taking this one on.

Latest review just dropped! I had the pleasure of reviewing the new English translation of the Valla commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and I unsurprisingly found it the most definitive English-language commentary on the Metamorphoses out there. Check out the review here! doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Look, I know it's highly unlikely any actual teenagers getting results are On Here, but if you're in the vicinity of one thinking about engaging with Clearing, the Classics dept at Royal Holloway has places, and I think we're jolly good. As are our Humanities colleagues.

Here's your annual reminder: whether you received A-level results today, years ago, or never, there's space for you at the @openuniversity.bsky.social!

for the numismatically inclined, this term's ACANS Numismatics talks, including one by yours truly aimed at teachers in high school classrooms teaching Agrippina the Younger. Times are given in Australian time, but recordings of the series are also available at www.youtube.com/@ACANSMQ/vid...

The Pelagios Network’s People Activity are holding a Sample Data Gathering Sprint 29 July, 12 - 1pm, Online via Zoom (register for link) Organisers: Gabriel Bodard (London) and Jun Ogawa (Tokyo) https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/linked-open-data-people-data-gathering-sprint

The awesome Dan Pett's talk for Historic England on digital innovation in heritage is here museologi.st/talks/he-lin... featuring work for The British Museum, The Portable Antiquities Scheme, The Fitzwilliam Museum, etc. Nearly all the resources he discusses are open source, reproducible & low cost

“You’ve got people who’ve worked their entire lives in these disciplines, and then that knowledge is lost, which is why I think these decisions are so incredibly damaging and shortsighted.” -NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes @alisonbarnes.bsky.social Read more: nteu.info/guardianmq

#JobAlert! Collection Curator (full-time, 4 years) at the Powerhouse Castle Hill: https://iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collection-curator-526330 #glam #museums

Only nine more days to apply to this awesome conference on religious toleration in classical antiquity, in beautiful Groningen, featuring yours truly and @renskejanssen.bsky.social!

‪2/‬ ‪“I remember the raw, aching desire to live life again, the pain of losing yet another day, and the effort it took not to be pulled under by the sadness.”‬ ‪ #PwLC‬ #LongCovid #PwME

6/ From "The importance of understanding rest: How my experience of rest as an athlete clashed with my experience of rest as a patient" www.thereforme.uk/p/the-import... #MEcfs #LongCovid

On the "three mantras of Long DH" (Futurebuilding DH) from Johannes Burgers: 1) "go slow and build things", 2) "teamwork makes the dreamwork, but nagging helps" (people-first proj management), 3) "love your data like you love yourself" (tech changes, data doesn't; set your data free!). #ACH2025

Want to work with the WHG team? The Institute for Spatial History Innovation @ Pitt is hiring a full-time Research Associate to be the Digital Data Specialist & Managing Editor of World Historical Gazetteer! Learn more & apply by July 11: bit.ly/4kAknki @rmostern.bsky.social @docuracy.co.uk

www.manto-myth.org/blog/things-... Thoughts on times when it’s just sources all the way down

Good one 😆

This is the final week to submit an abstract to Digital Humanities Australasia (DHA2025)! Website: dha25.org Theme: 'Digital Archipelagos' 2-5 December The Australian National University Canberra (Ngambri) Abstracts due: Friday 6th June (11.55pm AoE) ECR Bursaries: dha25.org/info/bursari...

I was going to say ”not all heroes wear capes”. But honestly, maybe @dieworkwear.bsky.social does?

Classical Review is now reviewing digital projects as well as books - my thoughts on the transition www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

This is looking exciting! Mapping mythic history over time, a collaboration with Furman colleagues including @geophilologist.bsky.social

New issue of The Classical Review Vol. 75, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambridgeup.bsky.social @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social @simelius.bsky.social

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

Australia’s bloated universities are plagued with scandal and struggling under the weight of their own poor governance and financial mismanagement. A new paper by The Australia Institute concludes it’s time for a major shake-up in the way they are run.

The enormous volumes of LIMC are so valuable to the study of Greek myth. Over the past few years some of this legacy data has been migrating online. Digital LIMC now has URIs for mythic people - many now aligned to MANTO. #LOD 🏺 www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-x...

As I don't think the Classical Association (UK) are on here yet, here's a nod that nominations for the CA Teaching Awards are open up to 2nd May. All the details are on the website, including the nomination link.

Register now for our 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy! Weekly sessions, starting Wed 14 May, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... (Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-x... Shieldbands! With stories on them

Ancient Rome used high tariffs to raise money too – and created other economic problems along the way. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 theconversation.com/ancient-rome...

"Without the National Endowment for the Humanities, there would have been no Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. There would have been no Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Pleiades' progenitor). And so so so much more. ... full post: hcommons.social/@paregorios/...

www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-x... Got some good examples of epigraphy as evidence for local myth? Let me know - I want them for MANTO

Our visiting fellowship competition is open! And this year we have launched a pilot scheme for a Remote Inclusivity Fellowship - aimed at tackling inequalities in academia - alongside our in person fellowships. 🌈 1/6 viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/v...

Things I learned at CAMWS: Illinois Classical Journal now has no backlog and ALSO they have started publishing short form notes in addition to regular length articles. So let that be widely known!

We just launched an open search for postdocs at the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social in a bunch of areas (social informatics, climate informatics, communications, econ, behavioral science, literary theory, algorithmic justice), all mentored by different faculty: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04845

evening walk with thunder in the distance and a little pup who’s loving getting out amongst it all. Kangaroos and gang gangs spotted.

Data Driven Classics: Interdisciplinary Connections through Shared Data | King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/events/data-...

Heads up #ancientsky and please RS: ReMeDHe is accepting nominations for the Heidi Marx Prize for the best article published in the last 3 years on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean Deadline is firm at March 1 Details here: www.remedhe.com/the-heidi-ma...

This was my very first contribution to @digitaltolkien.com (can you tell I like names? :) ). It was so much fun, and hopefully there is more to come!

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Jennifer Guiliano & I are happy to share our October issue of #ReviewsInDH: “Digital Archaeology,” a special issue edited by @sarahebond.bsky.social and Hannah Scates Kettler. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v5-10

📣 We are hiring! Research Assistant for digital data acquisition and data management (100% position until 31 December 2028) in the Oldenburg team in Germany. Become part of our team and help shape the future of the Prize Papers Project! Deadline: 15 January 2025. #earlymodern #history #DH 🗃️

ANNOUNCING... A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉 📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now) 🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales.bsky.social ✍️ 117 different writers 🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @corabeth.bsky.social 👇 Read more...