I've hit 100 responses to my survey on personal tutoring - half way there! If you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral responsibility for students in the last five years, whatever that's called, I'd love to hear your thoughts - it shouldn't take more than ten minutes. Do share if you can.

Sure! Here's a list of ten truths universally acknowledged that you can use in your writing.

Wow, they actually *retracted* this so-called meta-analysis about ChatGPT effects on learning performance, though it got massive metrics and social media attention before that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can’t wait until you can connect your loyalty cards to these so you can get more “bargains”.

Aargh totally missed that Songkick has been acquired by Suno AI 🙄

The IES, English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social and University English @univeng.bsky.social are always available to support colleagues throughout the sector in these challenging times. There's more information on our website here: ies.sas.ac.uk/leadership-c...

Upside of my training today: new PB of dumbbell bench press of 9x22.5kg followed by 8x 22.5kg (either side obv). Downside: forearms feel funny when I try to type now.

so. My monograph IRISH SHAKESPEARES is finally coming out this autumn 💚 not available to preorder yet but get your libraries to order!!

Amazing website tracking instances of fraud, plagiarism, falsehoods and disinformation in media outlets caused by people choosing to use text generation tools instead of critical thinking, research and analysis pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Classicist and Italianist outing to Ancient Grease the musical. Very raunchy, very queer, very fun. The lively and talented ensemble had us laughing (and blushing a bit). Definitely captures some of the spirit of myth too.

Really looking forward to seeing lots of you at the WCC tenth anniversary later! Let's start a hashtag, like the olden days. 😄 #TenYearsOfWCC @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social @lizgloyn.bsky.social @annapjudson.bsky.social @chrissieplastow.bsky.social

Thanks to the ICS library staff, there are also some wonderful displays in the library foyer on the third floor, celebrating powerful ancient women and also the work of women in the ICS and the Societies. Check them out when you arrive! @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social #TenYearsOfWCC

Oh, will you look at that - I had missed that my WCC And Me blog post is up on the @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social blog - just in time for #TenYearsOfWCC!

Even I -ostensibly a Classicist - have needed the Wayback Machine for research recently.

Two important volumes - the collected papers of Prof Pat Easterling, the first (and so far only) woman to hold the Regius Chair of Greek at Cambridge, an alumna & honorary fellow of @newnhamcollege.bsky.social, & a hugely important scholar on Greek tragedy. All online via Cambridge core...

Very rude that we’ve endured a ‘90s fashion revival, countless big Spice Girls/ All Saints 💓/ Oasis reunions, but no Alisha’s Attic reunion tour.

This is a nice bit of good news. A good reminder to redouble our conservation efforts!

I think I met Averil Cameron only once, when I was a terrified graduate student, but she was a significant influence for her quiet radicalism - how many ancient historians were thinking about post-structuralism in the 1980s, and engaging with people like John Henderson?

As we mourn the great Averil Cameron, I point you to her autobiographical talk from 2017: on being working class and female in Ancient History wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/05/22/s...

Finally summoned up the courage today to take a look at a chapter I first wrote a couple of years ago and it wasn’t as horrible as I imagined! It’s easy to feel disconnected and out of place when it comes to research when no one’s properly paid you to do any in a good few years.

actually this makes me feel so much better about my stats tyvm

Please consider following and giving this new community arts festival a boost!

Minoan amphora with floral design. 3,800 years old and still blooming gorgeous! 🌸 From Phaistos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Please consider following and giving this new community arts festival a boost!

My excellent Mum is setting up the first ever community arts festival in my hometown. Please give its instagram page a follow!! www.instagram.com/horleyartsfe...

Thought of doing a little pub quiz to help intermediate Latinists practise numerals, but I’m not sure if The Proclaimers are going to be within the realms of their experience

Recently finished the BBC comedy ‘Dinosaur’ about an autistic palaeontologist, her family,and romantic life. It’s written by and starring Ashley Storrie, who is herself autistic. Gentle and charming but very funny. An excellent watch.

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Been watching Small Prophets and Detectorists recently and I can’t help but feel that Mackenzie Crook is one of our greatest living pastoralists

Just in case you're wondering if this is you... By personal tutoring, I mean a system where a student is allocated to a member of academic staff with pastoral responsibility for them. Other titles include academic tutor, college advisor, academic advisor, academic support tutor & academic mentor.

A day of pedagogical experimentation today: making defixiones in Beginners’ Latin to practise relative clauses (and subjunctives) and trying out a Latin Consequences game to explore sentence structure in Intermediate.

Do u think they did an equalities audit before deciding on a two-tier workforce because I have some wild guesses about who is most impacted here.

Plotting and plotting: what are the best ways to get my intermediates more confident with Latin word order and sentence structure and improve fluency? I am thinking a variation of Latin consequences, maybe some kind of prediction drill. I have dreams of convoluted card and online games. Any ideas?

I reviewed again!

There were 250 people in the audience, at the biggest available room for our #awp26 panel, Resisting AI in Writing and Teaching. It was invigorating; hearing about how writing instructors are pushing back against their institutions was inspiring. Thanks to my co-panelists Carmen and Umair.

Not sure my students like Horace 1.5 as much as I hoped they would :/

Oyin in Traitors Ireland is amazing, a regal clairvoyant in a fantastic pincer movement with Vanessa.

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

Do we think my students will remember the formation of the Latin pluperfect indicative if it is accompanied by a picture of Taylor Swift Eras tour?

We have the next RHUL Studying Classics at University on 2nd July (not June, sorry!) and it's titled 'Of Gods and Women in the Ancient World'! Do pass on to any sixth formers of your acquaintance who might be interested.

Had a lovely time speaking to classics and English students at St Grammar School today about imagined invasions, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquity and Victorian and Edwardian performance. Had the pleasure of answering some brilliant questions!

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses. Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

Any recommendations for podcasts that leave you feeling upbeat? They can be about anything. Can’t seem to shake off the late-Winter blues.

Fascist #slopaganda isn't about seducing anyone. They're aware that their nostalgic images are ugly & fake, and that their promise to return to an imaginary past is a fraud. They're proud of the shallowness of their nostalgia, because their real promise is to legitimize cruelty against others

‘No wonder I got drunk that night. I’d been Chaucer for a week!’ - my article on Kipling’s Dayspring Mishandled, his entertaining and peculiar account of a Chaucerian forgery, is out now with the Review of English Studies! I absolutely *loved* working on this. academic.oup.com/res/advance-...

Love that the latest series of What We Do in the Shadows has a nod to The Warriors. This means that it now is not only a reception of the Prometheus myth (Laszlo’s monster) but Xenophon’s Anabasis. #ClassicalReception

Love that the latest series of What We Do in the Shadows has a nod to The Warriors. This means that it now is not only a reception of the Prometheus myth (Laszlo’s monster) but Xenophon’s Anabasis. #ClassicalReception