Very tired. Stuck beneath a dog. Send biscuits.

Amateurs think about the Roman Empire. Pros think about the Bronze Age city states.

Or, as some would call it Matt, democracy.

These days, it's rare that I wake up feeling relieved about world politics. Today I did! Well-done Hannah Spencer. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Happy anniversary @paulftremlett.bsky.social we have entered the Bronze Age 🖤

It's coming!

A selection of the approximately eleventy billion photos I've taken over the last few days 'for teaching purposes', and yet I know from long experience the only one which will actually appear in my powerpoint slides is the one with the dog in it

A (temporary) change of campus can be a very good thing

Is it wise to include instructions from the Demotic Magical Papyri on how to practice necromancy in a lecture to first years? Asking for... me 💀😄

Just have to find wood, iron, water, fire and stone and we can keep the dark from rising

Both the title, and entire content, of my hypothetical TED talk

Well, that optimism lasted less than a day

Welcome 2026

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...

A final set of bookmarks from a few years ago, featuring the Ghost Bear of Hookland, the blue Owl of Hookland (also called the 'Holland Owl' by Hookland archeologist @kjsoar.bsky.social) a swan skull surrounded by fossilized sea urchins and a Hookland Crow #BookmarkoftheDay 🖤🐾🤍

Our ways are the old ways. Merry Christmas everyone.

Happy Solstice everyone

The Walker is abroad. And this night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

Which fictional character would you spend Christmas with? Tag 3 friends. I will change my opinion a million times after posting this, but I'm going with this guy. He could entertain me with Punch and Judy, teach me alchemy, and take me back and forth through time. Plus he has a little dog.

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

🖤💔

'Only one more week of term to go' I whimper as I crumble to dust

Hello, I’m Keir Starmer and I’m a former human rights lawyer, so you can trust me when I tell you human rights are bad and need to be eradicated

Good morning

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Deeply appreciate this endorsement of ‘Stories of the Stones’ from @kjsoar.bsky.social!

Introducing monster studies in a lecture tomorrow, and have decided to illustrate #7 (The Monster is Really a Kind of Desire) with sparkly vampires rather than Isabelle Adjani in Possession. Never say I don't think of the kids.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Rocking around the Christmas tree with Nuada and the Dorset Ooser

Happy weekend everyone

I want to write something on Mr Benn. No idea what. I just want to write about him.

Well, I know what I'll be wearing next time I visit 😁🖤 @helleborezine.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dr Katy Soar, Lecturer in Classical Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social, spoke at the recent Women in Horror Weekend in Nottingham. She's pictured with fellow panellist Zara-Louise Stubbs, editor of Uncanny Gastronomic. Read Katy’s blog on the ancient roots of horror here bit.ly/3X1gDy6

About last night... It was an honour to help open the Nottingham Waterstones Women in Horror weekend talking about @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird books 🖤🦇🎃 It was also a thrill to be the guest at the same Waterstones I used to work at, many moons ago 😁 📷 @paulftremlett.bsky.social

Dr Katy Soar, Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social has edited Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird reviewed by TLS today. Read the review here bit.ly/43KjQWB. And Katy has written a Hallowe’en blog on the ancient roots of horror stories. Read it here bit.ly/3X1gDy6

I like to make memes of 90s songs that students won't know as a way to help them understand archaeological dating. Foolproof.

Loved this, by @talkscaredpod.bsky.social. It freaked me out and broke my heart in equal measure 🖤

🖤 Can't wait to read this! 🖤

Many thanks to Phil Smith (Mythogeography) for this wonderful review of 'Return of the Ancients'. 🖤 www.mythogeography.com/return-of-th...

Two years of this good boy 💕

Wait time in urgent care. Should have bought a book...

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

And another one gone...

Featuring some words by me about masks 🎭🖤

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Oh hey, it's September

One of the warmest, kindest, most generous people I've ever met. Such a loss. 💔

It me! I'll be doing a panel about the @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird series with Zara-Louise Stubbs, editor of 'The Uncanny Gastronomic', at Nottingham Waterstone's on Halloween 🖤 Especially fun as I used to work at this branch, many moons ago...

When Abu jumps up at people and tries to steal their food in a coffee shop, he's 'so cute', 'so friendly', 'adorable'. Yet when I do it, I get asked to leave.