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Anna P. Judson

@annapjudson.bsky.social
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Durham Classicist (languages, Linear B, epigraphy, archaeology). Member of WCC UK and WIASN. Blogging (intermittently) at itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com. She/her

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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finally to help keep @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social's Small Grants scheme going, please consider joining us wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/about-us/joi..., buying merch at www.etsy.com/uk/shop/WCCU... or making a one-off donation pay.sumup.com/b2c/QZWJAUBA. Every little helps! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺4/4
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you have any additions/corrections to this document, please get in touch! (NB: sources of small grant funding only please, and UK-based/available to UK members; sadly I can't cover the whole world, or larger-scale research funding) @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social #ClassicsBluesky 🏺3/4
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Sources of small grant funding in classics & related fields
Sources of small grant funding in classics & related fields The WCC UK’s Small Grants Scheme provides grants of up to £150 to support members’ academic activities relating to the study of classics (...
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are seeing vastly increased demand for @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social's own Small Grants Scheme, which rarely covers applicants' whole costs - so this is meant to help provide information on alternative & supplementary funding sources. Example of our SGs in action: #ClassicsBluesky🏺2/4
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Small grant scheme in action: Ilaria Truzzi - WCC-UK
The WCC Small Grant Scheme that I received in March 2026, has allowed me to visit two archaeological museums around the Southern Valencian Community and Region of Murcia- Spain. I was already in Spain...
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've been compiling a list for @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social of small-grant sources - orgs with funds for UK-based students/researchers/teachers in #Classics & related fields to use for e.g. research trips, conferences, other professional development activities #ClassicsBluesky 🏺1/4
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Sources of small grant funding in classics & related fields
Sources of small grant funding in classics & related fields The WCC UK’s Small Grants Scheme provides grants of up to £150 to support members’ academic activities relating to the study of classics (...
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've been compiling a list for @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social of small-grant sources - orgs with funds for UK-based students/researchers/teachers in #Classics & related fields to use for e.g. research trips, conferences, other professional development activities #ClassicsBluesky 🏺1/4
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Sources of small grant funding in classics & related fields
Sources of small grant funding in classics & related fields The WCC UK’s Small Grants Scheme provides grants of up to £150 to support members’ academic activities relating to the study of classics (...
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Author Simulator 

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto  a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
 Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026
if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wow. Wondered who the guy who gave the BM so much money he got a *portrait* and a quote on the wall outside the exhibition. Now I know...
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
PSA for people with British Museum Bayeux Tapestry tickets: BM has massively oversold, expect to queue for a very long time before getting anywhere near it (1.5 hours today) and if your ticket is for one of the last slots you may not even get to see it at all, or not for more than 5-10min 😢😡
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyone from #ClassicsBluesky have a recommendation for a good video of (any part of) the Iliad being chanted/sung in Greek, for students to get a feel for what the hexameter sounds like?
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
FFS, You don’t even have to look *outside Cambridge* for examples of white professors who have behaved far, far worse and not only kept their jobs, but have been protected and celebrated by both their institution and the media.
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Love this!
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 12/08/2026
🏺With the solar eclipse in the news here in the UK, it’s probably worth noting that we have archaeological evidence of eclipses. Like this cuneiform tablet from Mesopotamia circa 900-600 BCE forecasting a solar eclipse. Now at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. 📜 n2t.net/ark:/21549/h...
A clay tablet with a fragmentary astrological text forecasting the dire consequences of a solar eclipse.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
extremely good practical illustration of how a colander can be used to see the eclipse
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists
One of those 'STOP DOING X' memes, ripping into archaeology. It has images of soil stratum, a trowel, and a flint shard. The text mocks archaeologists for digging for pottery sherds and saying everything has a 'ritual purpose'.
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The best thread
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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Yes, a question that doesn’t get asked enough is: is there a shortage of interest in the Ancient Greeks? I don’t think there is, I think there is a shortage of interest in critical analysis of the Ancient Greeks. Uncritical ref to the Ancient Greeks is over represented because of western supremacy.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
*this para is important. William O'Reilly, history don, was found to have plagiarised by the university, and has had sexual misconduct claims against him as well — but he remains in post at Cambridge, and the press/public barely noticed.
Allegations of plagiarism in a doctoral thesis do not usually make for riveting, front-page news. Indeed, in 2023, when the Cambridge history professor William O’Reilly faced allegations of plagiarising student essays, the press coverage consisted of barely half a dozen articles (a tribunal ruled the plagiarism was “the product of negligent acts but was not deliberate”). Few people could care less about what academics get up to.

But Arday could not expect to be similarly insulated by academia’s remoteness. This story has endured, stubbornly, because it is so perfectly calibrated for some of the most combustible charges of Britain’s culture wars: namely, that academic standards have been surrendered to a woke orthodoxy, and that minorities are unfairly advanced in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In my life time? Gladiator, 300, Troy, and Alexander all come to mind and all since the year 2000. What happens each time is people say it will save the study of ancient history, it is loved for a bit before the next big thing happens: all while ancient history depts across the world shut.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is such a good piece by @jaseokundaye.bsky.social. Excuse the long extract in the screenshot, but these points are really important.
But what happens when an academic’s story is sold through him being the “youngest black ever” (sitting alongside familiar monikers such as “the first black” or “black excellence”) and asterisked by a tale of hardship? You are not encouraged or invited to engage with the substance of their scholarship; instead, you are invited to clap. Instead of his appointment conjuring the question “what new opportunities for research will this lead to?”, it was “doesn’t this make you feel good?”

What this means is that Arday was treated not as a scholar but as a mascot, one who was particularly expedient for an institution that had been regularly embarrassed by its historic record on race: too few black students (in my cohort at Cambridge matriculating in 2015 there were only 15 black males out of 3,449 students); single-figure black academics (which is still the case); allegations of institutional racism. Independent of the merits or pitfalls of his own scholarship, what success looked like for Arday in this role was limited; what accountability could look like if misconduct occurred was constrained by him being a vehicle for Cambridge to signal its institutional progress.
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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Shh, don’t tell our colleagues at the Faculty of Classics Library, but this is the only Odysseus we’re really interested in 🤫🐾 #OdysseusTheCat #CambridgeUniversityLibrary
A ginger cat wearing a collar sitting upright outdoors on dry grass, with the Cambridge University Library tower visible in the background against a light cloudy sky.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors
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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“This summer… An epic tale of betrayal and the quest for forgiveness. In a world struggling to produce enough food, one man will brave the cold to survive. PLUMS only in cinemas.”
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Odyssesus's dad wants to chat Routes (This one is a print and I have four copies left of in the edition before it's sold out, ie never to be printed again! Shop link in my bio 👆) #odyssey
Scene is a domestic room in ANCIENT GREECE. The traveller ODYSSEUS enters to meet his DAD, an old, bearded man. 

DAD:
Odysseus!

ODYSSEUS:
Father!

DAD:
It’s so good to see you after all these years! How was your journey?

ODYSSEUS:
Not bad, yeah

DAD: 
Which way did you come?

ODYSSEUS:
Oh... I dunno. 

I just followed the sat nav

[There is a silent pause. Odysseus’s dad smiles, a frozen rictus of affability which says ‘that is not acceptable and I’ll pretend you didn’t say it’.] 

DAD:
Which way did you come.

ODYSSEUS:
Um. I dunno, Dad

DAD:
Did you come via the domain of the Cyclops?

ODYSSEUS:
I think.... um....

DAD:
Through the lair of the Laestrygonian cannibals?

ODYSSEUS:
Uh....

DAD:
Past the siren song of the enchantresses?

ODYSSEUS:
Dunno, I had a podcast on

DAD:
You must've gone the Western Edge of the World way, past Scylla the six-headed monster and the Whirlpool of Charybdis...

ODYSSEUS:
Is that by the McDonald’s roundabout

DAD:
Yes

ODYSSEUS:
Yeah I did come that way

DAD:
OOOH YOU SHOULDN’T COME THAT WAY

[Ends]
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 27/07/2026
wanted to contribute to Odyssey discourse but unfortunately nothing I could say is better commentary than bsky's post settings
screenshot of bluesky's Post interaction settings showing two radio buttons you can toggle to change who can reply: on the left, "Anyone," and on the right, "Nobody." 

I've selected "Nobody" for the screenshot.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’m a former classicist who just saw The Odyssey, AMA. Just kidding… if I have to hear about the hospitality of Zeus one more time imma dispatch dozens of suitors.
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I missed out 6) which is that Nolan's use of Bronze Age material culture (some instantly recognisable, some a bit more allusive/not-quite-right, mixed in with a whole bunch of Not Bronze Age stuff in a fantasy world) is more or less spot on for the Homeric epics' relationship with the Bronze Age
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Thoughts of a Bronze Age Aegeanist watching the #Odyssey 1) nice pottery 2) Palace of Ithaca on the outside is totally the Evans concrete version of Knossos, right? 3) Polyphemus lives in the Cave of Nestor! 4) Nolan appears to think you can walk to Pylos from Ithaca? ... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I very much enjoyed the Antonine Wall display on my recent visit to @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social. Especially love this building inscription, where the Victory figures seem to be cheerleading to celebrate how much of the wall the legion has built #EpigraphyTuesday #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
Rectangular stone with carved relief and Latin inscription, lit from below. At either end of the stone two male figures are holding up standards on poles; in the middle two winged female figures have their arms raised as if holding up the smaller rectangle containing the inscription above them.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026
🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🎉 Congratulations to our academic staff members who have just been promoted! 👉 Dr Chris de Lisle to Associate Professor 👉 Dr Anna Judson to Associate Professor 👉 Prof. Phil Horky to Band 2 Professor 👉 Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson to Band 2 Professor 👏 Wonderful news, and very many congratulations
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#OnThisDay in 1952 Michael Ventris announced on the radio that he had deciphered the Linear B script, and the language it was used to write was Greek: www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/maga... #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 1/2
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Linear B decoder Michael Ventris on BBC in 1952
For more than 50 years, the decipherment of a mysterious ancient script called Linear B was seen as one of the greatest linguistic riddles - it was eventually cracked in 1952 by a British architect.
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Katherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In March 2026 the University of Exeter was boasting of its top 100 QS World Rankings status for arts and humanities. Now it is devastating the same areas with drastic cuts. Something is seriously wrong. Solidarity to all the excellent colleagues affected by this. news.exeter.ac.uk/university/e...
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Exeter records sweeping successes in QS World Rankings by Subject
The University of Exeter has recorded sweeping success in the latest prestigious international ranking, reflecting its strong teaching and research excellence. Exeter has recorded significant, double-...
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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?
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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Colleagues at Exeter have asked me to circulate their petition as widely as possible: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026
Why are you concerned? Do you not trust your senior management team? Do you not love us? thesphinxblog.com/2026/06/24/t...
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This Will Hurt You More Than It Hurts Me
[The Neville Morley of Earth 2 developed a brief stint as Faculty Education Director into a full-blown managerial career, rapidly progressing via Head of School and Dean to Pro-Vice Chancellor for …
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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is awful news from Exeter 😢
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Along with almost all of my colleagues in history, this afternoon I got an email telling me that I am at risk of redundancy. It looks like the University of Exeter sent this email to the vast majority of people in Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. Bit hard to breath right now.
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This week's #TinyJoys: #NotMyCat has been helping* me work from home *napping very comfortably while I work
Ginger and white cat curled up in an almost perfect circle on a patchwork quilt. His tail is neatly tucked around him and one paw is covering his face
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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"I am the sacred property of Hera-in-the-Plain: Kyniskos the butcher dedicated me, a tithe from his works." Sybaris, c. 520 BCE. I wasn't looking for this object, but now I love it so.
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    1884,0614.31: 
    Bronze ceremonial shaft-hole axe-head inscribed with a religious dedication; wedge-shaped blade with curving sides; elaborate shaft decorated with a cast figure of a winged creature depicted frontally, probably a sphinx, details of the wings and hair rendered as deep incisions; bead-and-reel and tongue borders above and below the figure; the edges of the shaft holes are also decorated; the terminal of the axe-head comprises a rectangular projection ending in a bulbous head, with a stepped transition between the two elements; the inscription is inscribed on the blade with seven lines of characters in the Achaean Greek alphabet.
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
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Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🚨 Parliament is back today. Join us in asking your MP to reject the EHRC’s harmful Code of Practice: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
Reject the code

Our communities deserve better than this
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 21/05/2026
The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. The guidance tells organisations how they should approach trans inclusion. Here’s what that means 👇 goodlawproject.org/the-code-of-...
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The Code of Practice: what you need to know | Good Law Project
The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. Here’s what that means.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The UK Government is expected to publish its updated Code of Practice tomorrow – just in time for their holidays.
The UK Government is expected to publish its updated Code of Practice tomorrow – just in time for their holidays.

While MPs enjoy their break avoiding scrutiny, trans organisations will once again be left to deal with the consequences of government decisions withheld until the last moment.

Early reports in the right-wing press won’t tell us the full story.

TransActual will be reviewing the new guidance and will publish a full statement as soon as possible on the new Code, and what it may mean for you and your rights.
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 02/05/2026
ENTER OUR DRAW TO WIN A BOOK! We have signed copies of @badancient.bsky.social's The Far Edges of the Known World to give away! Click the link for instructions on how to enter. Open until May 20th, UK residents eligible only. www.ancienthistory101.org/GIVEAWAY
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Me: I wish I could have the afternoon off from marking Turnitin: [collapses] Me: not like that! I have so much to do!
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 17/05/2026
As a humanities scholar this is bizarre. I don't think you should be listed as the author of a paper if you haven't read it or don't understand the things it references. That feels... basic?
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