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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is how he his human draft up a conference abstract… by looking cute and fluffy

toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

ah yes, what I missed besides my husband and our cat - my husband’s food 😩 really no one makes smoked mandi better than him ❤️

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

As per tradition already, things are escalating in the ME just as I'm packing my bags to go back to Jordan. I just hope this time I manage to reach the country without rescheduling or canceling my tickets 🥲

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

That’s it then! 🎓 With just a slight sense of relief because I’m jumping right from my PhD to a scientific project. I’m genuinely thrilled that I’m continuing my scientific career and not going into academia, because I honestly wouldn’t change my current job for anything.

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I’ve very much unplanned consumed a large amount of Žižek videos in the past couple of days and now I fear he might materialize as my sleep paralysis demon

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 06/01/2026

here's a slide with recent publications relating to race and postcoloniality in Classics. this is not exhaustive (and there are several exciting books still on the horizon), but it does represent a significant groundswell in recent years

slide containing book covers of:
A cultural history of race in antiquity, ed. Denise McCoskey (2021)
Untangling blackness in Greek Antiquity, Sarah Derbew (2022)
The West, a new history in fourteen lives, Naoíse Mac Sweeney (2023)
Critical Ancient World Studies, eds. Mathura Umachandran and Chella Ward (2024) - open access
How the world made the west (2024), Josephine Quinn
Epic events, Sasha-Mae Eccleston (2024)
The Routledge Hnadbook ofClassics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial theory, eds. Ben Akrigg and Katherine Blouin (2024)
Classicism and Other Phobias, Dan-el Padilla Peralta (2025)
The White Pedestal, how nationalists use ancient Greece and Rome to justify hate, Curtis Dozier (2026)
The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race, edited by Rosa Andujar, Elena Giusti, Jackie Murray (2026)

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Waiting for my mentor to give me a green light to print out the final version of my thesis…honestly this is makin me more nervous than my viva (mainly because it’s already Wednesday and the deadline is Friday) 🥲

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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

In case you want a reminder of the last time we went through this conversation… For those with academic library access, I’ve also published Kennedy, Rebecca Futo. "Racist Reactions to Black Achilles." Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City (2022): 79-96.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

The meanings of seven different types of animal poop in English… 7. Apeshit = angry 6. Batshit = unhinged 5. Bullshit = lies (or unfair) 4. Horseshit = bigger lies (or totally unfair) 3. Chickenshit = cowardly 2. Dogshit = inferior quality 1. Catshit = what you do when someone throws a ball at you

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

WORD FACT “Sidereal”—of or pertaining to stars—comes from Latin sidus (“star, constellation”). From the same root, we get “consider”: to examine by observing the stars. The root is also linked to “desire”, interpreted as “away from the stars”—to feel the lack of a star, to long for it.

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

My short story 'The Cave' was published a few days ago in a Croatian magazine for speculative fiction. 🥳 If you're into historical settings, queer characters, Greek mythology and dark themes, you might even like it - and I'd love to hear from you if you do! Free download here: morinakutija.com/mag/

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Here’s a mid-2nd millennium BCE Mycenaean krater from Rhodes with an octopus design. It’s also nice to see this long tradition of cephalopodine decoration continued to this day in the barber shops of Byron Bay, Australia….. 🏛️BM 📷 me 🏺 AncientBlueSky

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The Classics Library @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Palace of Aigai: Greece reopens huge Alexander the Great monument 🏺ClassicsBluesky BlueskyClassics AncientBluesky 🏛️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...

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Palace of Aigai: Greece reopens huge Alexander the Great monument

Greece spent 16 years restoring palace ruins where Alexander the Great was crowned more than 2,000 years ago.

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Tamreen @scriptor.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

best part of this is that in context Data is talking about how terrorism can sometimes be pretty useful actually

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Sebastian Yūe 💜🧡 @sebastianyue.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Hey, freelancers: it's time to raise your rates for 2024. You've gained another year of experience and you deserve to be paid for it.

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

One of the many things I adore about writing is research. I can spend weeks in this stage and never get close to a wrap up, but the time is never wasted.

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

it's been YEARS since @narratricenessa.bsky.social tried to get me into P. Djeli Clark... after picking up "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" today, I regret it took me so long 🥲

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

I do have a plan for this, and yes it includes comic books, novellas and short stories. 😅

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

The cathedral of Syracuse, Sicily, is a typically wild, ornate baroque extravaganza but inside, & built into its very fabric, are the remains of the vast Doric Temple of Athena built by Gelon after defeating the Carthaginians at Himera in 480BCE. Magnificent 📷mine 🏺 AncientBlueSky ClassicsBlueSky

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

not an original thought but bears repeating: half of writing is just being allowed time to sit on your ass uninterrupted and think about things really hard until you puzzle them out, which doesn't look or feel like work at all. but it is!

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Berensreverie 🤒 @berensreverie.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

As short and sweet as the sound of a lyre

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Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

An Ancient (Archaic) Greek aqueduct from the 6th century BCE that runs for 11.5km on the island of Naxos 🏺 One of many casual reminders that aqueducts weren’t a strictly Roman invention! AncientSky

A cross-section of an embankment next to the road with a row of circular terracotta pipes running through it in a channel. An Ancient Greek Archaic aqueduct from Naxos.

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Jelena @jelenawrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

"Dark Woods, Deep Water" is out in the world today. If you like dark, Gothic fantasy fuelled by sorrow and rage, if you want vengeful Slavic gods, tired, disillusioned heroes and clever rogues, give it a try. books2read.com/u/mVD7Mr

Cover of Dark Woods, Deep Water depicting the goddess Morana reaching for a castle in a snowy forest

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SixKeys @sixkeys.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

My boy (finally) looks good 🥹💕 youtu.be/LbpQ8940EZI?... (screenshots by @accesstheanimus.bsky.social ) #BAEsim #AssassinsCreedMirage

Basim from the Assassin's Creed Mirage PC features trailer, looking better than in previous trailers

Another close-up of Basim from the Assassin's Creed Mirage PC features trailer

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Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

The poet Ovid was banished from Rome in 8AD to Tomis (modern Constanța in Romania) by the Emperor Augustus. The council of the city of Rome revoked his exile in December 2017, over 2000 years after his banishment. "My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope." Ovid ancientbluesky

A statue of the ancient Roman poet Ovid. He seems to be in middle age but appears to be still physically strong. His robes wrap his entire body with the exception of his bare arms. He holds a tablet of some kind in his left arm which is tucked across his midriff. His right hand is held to his chin and his gaze is downcast in apparent contemplation. His hair is cut short. The statue has a slight greenish patina, indicating that it's likely made of bronze. The plinth is of a cream stone. At the base of the statue is the name OVIDIVS

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

I wanted to order a signed copy of Wilson's Iliad, but Barnes&Noble doesn't ship to Croatia 😭😭😭

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

mental health walk done ✔️ now to pour a glass of wine and write ❤️ call it a perfect evening! (or more likely edit, since I've foolishly finished a chapter yesterday night 😭)

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 06/09/2023

Cover letters are just self-insert fan fiction.

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Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek @philoglossa.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Ancient Greek Word of Uncertain Provenance of the Day: ἄνθρωπος 'person, human being', first attested in a dative-instrumental form a-to-ro-qo (*ἀνθρώκʷωι) 'with (a figure of) a person' describing an inlaid decoration on a ta-ra-nu *θρᾶνυς 'footstool' in a Linear B inventory list (PY Ta 722.1).

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

my grand plan yesterday night: I'll start writing at 7 PM so that I finish everything by 11 and head to bed by midnight what really happened: stayed up writing until 2 AM 🫠 I have one week to fix my sleeping schedule before I start working again 😭

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Beowulf taps into the primal human of fear of defeating someone in combat and then being forced to fight their mom

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Learning shouldn’t require loads of cash and permission of an institution via competing hunger games style to match upto some arbitrary criteria. It should be free so that anyone can learn anything, anytime (at any age), anywhere (at any place), anyhow with whoever they want

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Khajiit has wares, if you have coin. 😼

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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Hello! We just launched a Discord channel for refugees from #ClassicsTwitter and anyone interested in saying hello! We've got a bunch of channels including free resources, teacher and student forums, textbook requests, memes, giveaways, career advice, and more. discord.gg/VWBpVgEM

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Join the Working Classicists Discord Server!

Check out the Working Classicists community on Discord - hang out with 23 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

ClassicsBluesky AncientBluesky 🏺

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

a month ago I found Myke Cole's Bronze Lie in my local bookstore and I couldn't believe it (I'd just finished reading it on my Kindle but I bought the physical copy too), and yesterday I found this gem omg 😭

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 30/08/2023

Are you a Hellenic polytheist who worships Persephone and/or Hades? If so, I’d like to invite you to participate in a research project that will look at how Hellenic Polytheists engage with ancient evidence.

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

I got a much better job offer today 🫠 I'll have to take the afternoon off for some serious decision-making!

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TayaSigerson @tayasigerson.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Hermes and Dionysus: Then and Now

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

I ended up in a Greek learning discord - it's all in Greek. this will be an interesting experience 😅

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toni ✨ @alexikakos.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

after almost two months of job hunting, I got my first offer. not the thing I was hoping for, but at this point I'm not in a position to choose anymore and I'll have to go with it until I find something that's more in my niche.

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