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...

in some languages, they don't say "I love you", they say "I made sure Future You would have a potato", and I think that's beautiful

Fascinating glimpse into everyday Roman life: This samian ware bowl was repaired with lead rivets, clear evidence that it was valued enough to mend rather than discard. The repair reflects either the practical mindset and economic realities of a Roman household, or it may have been a...🧵1/3 📷 me 🏺

all academic applications should have consolation prizes. doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020” or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”

Dave watched this government Education Committee meeting so you didn’t have to. But you do have to read his summary (if you have any interest in the future of HE)

🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

"In London #November isn't a month, it's a state of mind." Antal Szerb, Journey by Moonlight

If you're teaching the Julio-Claudians in schools, you might find this video on how to use coin evidence to teach Agrippina the Younger useful. :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=52AF...

very happy to see my PBSR article on female token issuers in Rome and Ostia is now live! If anyone would like a copy, let me know. :-) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

a lovely new addition to the Classics at Warwick Sketchfab account is this lead token showing a Roman woman! If you want to bring more tokens, and more women, into your life and teaching, have at it. :-) skfb.ly/pDu7X

My son just sent me a picture of a pub cat in a RUFF and how could I not post it for all the rest of you?

The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

Médaillon de vase représentant des arbitres interrompant un combat de gladiateurs. À droite le gladiateur blessé quitte l’arène (retrouvé à Fourvière, IIe-IIIe s.). Il a été présenté dans l’exposition « Spectaculaire ! Le divertissement chez les Romains » au musée Lugdunum à Lyon.

If anyone is interested, at the next Money and Medals online talk I'll be discussing how to engage school groups with coins and tokens (i.e. numismatic collections). 26 November, 12.30-1.30pm online, more info available here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dfc5df...

Most university branding is just so aggressively mid: bland, interchangeable, says nothing about what institutions do. Who does it even appeal to?

Occasionally I like to recall the FT’s finest hour: www.ftadviser.com/opinion/2021...

My GP just gave me a new response the next time something goes wrong at work

#ReliefWednesday! A Roman marble relief of a warship. Found in the necropolis of Praeneste (Latium), late 1st century BC. The relief presumably belonged to the tomb of a Roman veteran who had served on Octavian’s side at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌 They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law. Other governments should do the same! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

I wrote about the stupid white paper. In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.

🚨 Calling all Latin, Greek & ClassCiv enthusiasts🚨 Please help us to spread the word & let people know that registration for the 32nd @jactdurham.bsky.social is open! We have residential & non-residential options available. We also offer bursaries for those who need them! www.durhamglss.org

The 2026 Warwick numismatic day is 'Women, Power and Money'. If you work on coin-like things (broadly defined) and women, you might be interested in the call for papers below. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

Maybe its not really theft because they needed them to train their AI

Bronze Portrait of Marcus Aurelius. AD 160-170 AD. Found at a Roman frontier fort at Dunaszekcsó (ancient Lugo) on the banks of the Danube in Hungary. Currently at the state exhibition, Rheinisches landesmuseum, Trier. On loan from Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Random numismatic objects found in the course of a data search.... a Hollywood 'swing club' member token (?). numismatics.org/collection/1...

struggling to budget both myself & a decent post-doc under the ukri grant caps (given the massive overheads unis charge) & wondering how others are managing. Then I see all the 0.4 fte for 15 months precarious post-docs being advertised & realise that’s the only way to do it. I hate it, thanks.

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

Warwick taking far more students this year means bus hunger games every morning. Will I make my 9am? Will the queue reach a third city block? Do the scheduled buses actually exist? How many buses will drive past (2 and counting atm) To everyone trying to get onto campus this morning....

Given recent industrial relations over the last several years at Leicester..... this does not inspire confidence. le.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

A week today! - Our first research seminar of the year with Dr Simon Glenn on ‘The Bactrian Mirage: coins and history in Hellenistic Central Asia’ on 16 October, 17:15-18:30 UK time. More details in the thread below. Please note the change of on campus venue to Michael Sadler 1.01. All welcome!

Are Roman hippopotami the best hippopotami? Below a Roman token showing a lizard and one delightful rendered hippopotamus (the tail! 😍) Now in the British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

I had cause to be reminded of what I still consider to be @carlosfnorena.bsky.social 's greatest ever twitter thread. I just read it out to a room of postgrads. All agreed.

Have you ever heard of the emperor Domitianus? This remarkable coin discovered on farmland near Chalgrove in 2003 provides proof that a man named Domitianus claimed to be emperor in the early 270s CE. It was fused in a mass of nearly five thousand coins within a partially intact Roman jar.

preparing seminars for students and rediscovering just how much I love Fronto. Not so #tinyjoys Here's hoping the students will share the love. Since they are gonna get quite a dose of him!

This should also be how universities reply to the AI thing btw