Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Finishing my morning coffee with house panther 060
Reposted by Ben Cartlidgeelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150253941
Reposted by Ben CartlidgesephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!! 5254251968
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Duo has never asked me this. It wouldn't fucking dare. 220
Reposted by Ben CartlidgeAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The Guardian once asked me 'what one change would you make to achieve Black equality in Britain?' and it feels appropriate to share my answer again 544701870
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Nyx deciding to be extra cute in honour of my birthday 2110
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 01/08/2026My friends take much better Nyx pictures than I do 030
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I wrote about PTSD, veterans on drugs, and Nolan's Odyssey for The Conversation theconversation.com/what-the-lot...theconversation.comWhat the lotus flower reveals about veteran PTSD in Christopher Nolan’s The OdysseyThe magic flower is used by the nymph Calypso to purge Odysseus’ trauma. 0103
Reposted by Ben CartlidgeBen Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 02/02/2026"there is always an oligarchy" - words of Ronald Syme I never forget 051
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Someone is excited that it's #Caturday tomorrow 1140
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 02/02/2026"there is always an oligarchy" - words of Ronald Syme I never forget 051
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 25/12/2025The darkness brooded on the arms of the chair 260
Reposted by Ben CartlidgeNeville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 24/12/2025Four hundred oligarchs, Fear, honour and interest, A bipolar conflict And a κτῆμά ἐς αἰεὶ. 151
Reposted by Ben CartlidgeNeville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 24/12/2025On the ninth day of Christmas, Thucydides sent to me Nine IR Realists Eight toiling triremes Seven sorry Spartans Six truest causes Tragic irony! 1112
Reposted by Ben Cartlidgethe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 24/12/2025because for me while yes pleasure is central to the effort, it’s a complex pleasure that can be transformative if I allow it to be, and “be less ignorant” is a yearly, endlessly renewable goal 12149
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Being nursed back to health by Nyx and the power of sleepies 260
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Recent Nyx, featuring help on academic tasks; sleepies; independent study of philosophy; and pure joyful posing 160
Reposted by Ben CartlidgeKrittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 11/12/2025*enters the room, cloak flapping* “This opuscule appears to me utterly remiss” *leaves* 072
Reposted by Ben CartlidgeJames Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 11/12/2025An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi... 76595151
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 22/11/2025I read the stuff academics wrote and knew I could do the same or better. 030
Reposted by Ben CartlidgeBen Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 30/10/2025The reckless joy of the addict 181
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 12/11/2025This was terrific fun - sharing my own 'bit', but do watch the whole thing! www.youtube.com/live/T7x5syH...youtube.comOverboard! 2025YouTube video by Classics for All 000
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 30/10/2025As always, Nyx is grateful to @noreenmasud.bsky.social for telling her papa to get silvervine 260
Reposted by Ben Cartlidgetrouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Makes his own kimchi and likes the warm sound you only get with vinyl. 43913198
Reposted by Ben CartlidgeJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename. 135106241481
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 28/10/2025It was Black Cat Day yesterday and we missed it! Sorry Nyx. 3212
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 09/10/2025It was the curry best of times. It was the Currywurst of times. 030
Reposted by Ben Cartlidgerogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Compulsory Greek & Latin course for medical students propose punchng.com/don-seeks-co...punchng.comDon seeks compulsory Greek, Latin course for medical studentsA Professor of Classics at the University of Ibadan, Prof. Olakunbi Olasope, has urged the introduction of a compulsory course in Greek and Latin roots of 012
Reposted by Ben CartlidgeMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025'universities are not companies...their leaders do not play a direct role in fulfilling the academic mission. Their role is twofold: to ensure the financial solvency of the institution, and to create the conditions in which academic staff and students can pursue excellence. Both are essential.' 1/2timeshighereducation.comLeaders and academics must rebuild trust – or risk losing excellenceThreat of financial collapse is causing universities to double down on an officious management style that is sapping academic morale, undermining excellence and damaging collegiality between academia’... 29632
Reposted by Ben Cartlidge👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 30/08/2025there’s an essay here about when the joke starts in the U.K. it just gets an extra long day by rolling west but if it starts in the states when Australia is awake we can all keep it going indefinitely 1026525
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Ra Ra Rasputna, Lover of the orange tsar There was a cat that really was gone! 040
Reposted by Ben CartlidgeSam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Personally, I won’t even say hello to A.I. Just a death stare.nytimes.comOpinion | These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I. 072
Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Tonight Nyx listened to Ethel Smyth and learned about feminism. 170
