the next online Money and Medals Network Talk will be on the Medallic Portraits of Sir Winston Churchill, given by Chris Gallacher of the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social on 27 May at 2pm GMT. Find out more and sign up here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

A move from 5 Colleges to 3 Faculties is not just a tidying exercise. Restructures create redundancy risk, workload intensification, and disciplinary marginalisation.

A red jasper gem showing what Henig interpreted as the god Elagabal - an eagle on a conical stone, flanked by sacred standards.

And here in full colour! bsky.app/profile/dtwe...

Came across this wonderful glass paste yesterday showing Erotes in a garland workshop! Now in Munich.

All my solidarity to colleagues. Another university 'management team' with zero sense of accountability. All too easy to blame the government. And enough with the rhetoric of 'improved curricula'. Impoverished curricula and skills that will not longer be transmitted - that's the reality.

A lovely visit from Dr Clare Rowan and Prof Alison Cooley to talk about Res Gestae , Numismatics and to show us the coins of Augustus.

Registration is now open for the 'Women, Power and Money' conference at the University of Warwick on June 11! Online or in person attendance possible. :-) Find out more about the programme here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla... @tokeneffort.bsky.social

An amazing piece of beautiful, delicate Roman glass (C3rd AD), incongruously decorated with the slaughter of the arena. We see a retiarius, Pulcher (‘Pretty Boy’) fighting a secutor, Auriga (‘Charioteer’). The other side shows a leopard in a venatio, or wild beast hunt 🏛️📷 Trier’s Landesmuseum

Evidence like this (combined with Rebecca Benefiel & Sarah Levin-Richardson's work) makes me much more skeptical of our assumptions about non-elite Roman women's literacy. There's almost certainly a spectrum of literacy, from Amica and Detfri's ability to sign their names to Sulpicia writing poetry.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Now open! The McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme is the University of Melbourne’s flagship postdoctoral development program... 2026 Round EOI deadline: 7 May sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/research-fun...

Well these are excellent. Thank you @ucu.org.uk 👍

🥂 A final baking effort of the academic year: a Tarte Tatin for the party tomorrow to congratulate Prof Kevin Butcher on his well earned retirement, after a truly stellar international career at the top of ancient numismatics. 🥂

It'll be my second proper talk as Dr Lucy Moore to boot! We've got mystery hoards, unique coin types, MEMES & lots more!

The next money and medals coin talk is an introduction to the (rather wonderful) coin collection at the University of Leeds with @lucymoore.bsky.social! Find out more and sign up here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

my numismatist colleague is retiring, so we are looking for another ancient numismatist here at Warwick! Friendly department, coin collection to use in teaching and outreach, and another numismatist to chat to! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU516/a...

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Prepping a talk on Eurysaces the baker for an open day tomorrow and thus was rather *too* delighted to pop out to see modern bread baskets at my local bakery this morning!

Reset the "days since Birmingham Uni management make the news for all the wrong reasons" counter, lads.

Never change Glasgow 😂

"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war." - Ilya Kaminsky

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Roman 'voodoo doll' from Eining: Hand-modeled clay figurines with puncture holes are commonly referred to as 'voodoo dolls'. Archaeological and epigraphic evidence indicates that these figurines were pierced with nails or needles by individuals attempting to influence or harm a person. 🧵1/2 📷️ me 🏺

today is a day I get to teach coinage and that is ALWAYS a good day! One of today's discussion points below: a decadrachm of Syracuse signed by Kimon circa 405-400, AR 36 mm, 43.34 g, with a charioteer being crowned by Nike on one side and the nymph Arethusa surrounded by dolphins on the other..

Lego @davidfearn.bsky.social

Our official host for the day, the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, tells us all about their participation over the years in ILCD. See link to there special web-page: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

@profyarrow.bsky.social there is a good discussion of the coin shovel by Beckmann in the AJN. 👍 😁

Two perforated altar reliefs from the Mithraeum at Mundelsheim. One depicts Sol, the sun god, with the radiant. the other shows Luna, the goddess of the moon, with the crescent. In Roman times, they were illuminated from behind, creating a striking play of light and shadow that must ...🧵1/2

We're hiring at Birkbeck! Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics, full-time and open-ended. Closing date March 18th. Details here: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Exploring the potential of VR coin handling and exhibitions with classics students and the amazing Rob O'Toole in anticipation of the Money and Medals Day next week!

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

It has to be "The Muppets Take Medieval Studies," because Kalamzoo is objectively the funniest place name for anywhere an academic conference takes place.

I know there is much out there right now to be much angrier at. But GoogleBooks losing search functionality is super duper bad news bears for researchers in book fields. Like, it’s hard to even express how very very bad. www.reddit.com/r/google/s/O...

Only a few days left to sign up for the Money and Medals Network latest training day on 19th February - Engaging diverse audiences with numismatic collections - its a hybrid event with both online and in person attendance possible! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

#BlueskyClassics Check out this nuts bit of Classical reception: The Dying Gladiator pub in Brigg, North Lincs. Opened in the 1860s it is, allegedly and unsurprisingly, the only pub named this in the world. With it's weathered copy of the Dying Gaul sculpture. Wild.

What is the story is with the big foot on this provincial coin of Trajan Decius? Did the Isindians have a foot idol in their local temple? Something in the Odyssey with Achilles' Elephantiasis? A reference only found in Pausanius' lost Description of Asia? Inquiring minds want to know. #Numismatics

its that time of year! Tickets available for our student production of Aeschylus' Oresteia (Libation Bearers and Eumenides) Thurs and Fri next week @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Warwick Arts Centre. www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/qKj...

Finally, the WCC UK is on Bluesky! Lots of exciting updates in the next few months, so do give us a follow @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social

A headline to sum up our times:

A small bronze figurine holding a sign in Greek, now on display in Leicester Museum's Egypt galleries. Unfortunately not much information known and I can't read the Greek through the glass but I am intrigued! Has anyone come across anything similar or know anything of this piece?

And the finest Christmas tradition has arrived — #DuvetKnowItsChristmas is today! 1) Follow @rhodri.biz 2) post your pics of your makeshift Christmas Eve sleeping arrangements and 3) give money to the homeless @centrepointuk.bsky.social

WE'RE HIRING!!! universityvacancies.com/university-c...

Happy Winter Solstice everyone! The days are getting longer from today 🌞 #Winter #WinterSolstice

Help! Banbury Museum has been told that Cherwell District Council is cancelling ALL of its core funding. There is a very tight deadline - Friday 19th December - to tell the Council what you think. Please respond to the consultation and share this post www.banburymuseum.org/news/no-fund...

Life size and enlarged 3D printed replicas of Roman tokens made by @wmgwarwick.bsky.social to.... think about doing educational things with!

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

the next Money and Medals training event will be hybrid (University of Warwick/online) on 19 Feb and will focus on engaging diverse audiences with numismatic collections. More information and registration details here! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

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Just a few more days for abstracts if you are interested in the 'Women, Power and Money' conference at Warwick in June this year! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...