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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reminded recently that bereavement isn't linear, and time doesn't always heal 💔

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's that time of the year when I receive supervision requests from prospective PhD candidates; so, I am clarifying my research interests. As part of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, I am conducting research in philosophy of cognitive neuroscience and religion.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Getting ready for, and enthused over, this term's teaching: Research Methods lectures (for postgrads) & Philosophy of Religion tutorials

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 28/09/2026

Smiles, gowns and a lot to celebrate 🎓 Congratulations to everyone who graduated from Oxford last week. 📷 | 12atOxford (Instagram) and New College

A large group of Oxford students in academic dress gather outside the Sheldonian Theatre ahead of their graduation ceremony.

A group of smiling graduates in academic dress walk together through New College, Oxford, in the afternoon sunshine, with more graduates following behind.

Graduates in black academic gowns and blue-trimmed hoods walk through a stone archway at New College, Oxford, with two graduates at the front smiling towards the camera.

Three smiling graduates in academic dress stand beneath the Gothic stone arches of New College, Oxford.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was inducted and installed last night as the Rector for St Mary the Virgin Weston Turville in the Oxford Diocese (Church of England). The role sits alongside my academic commitments. Very grateful for the support of old friends and the warm welcome from new ones 🙏🏽❤️

Welcome to St Mary's, a friendly, all age and inclusive community where all are invited to encounter the love of God. Whether you are seeking spiritual growth, a place to worship, or simply curious about faith, you will find a warm welcome here. We celebrate diversity, embrace questions, and journey together in faith, love, and service. No matter your background, identity, or beliefs, you are valued, and we look forward to sharing this journey with you.

St Mary's, a 12/13th century church, at night illuminated via uplight.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land -from 'Home' by British-Somali poet, Warsan Shire

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fascinated by how nineteenth century women sculptors used art to subvert contemporaneous misogyny. 2 neoclassical examples: Harriet Hosmer's 'Zenobia in Chains', 1859 & Edmonia Lewis's 'Death of Cleopatra', 1876

A woman and the intricate details of her attire are sculpted in marble. Zenobia ruled Palmyra (in present-day Syria) for six years after her husband’s death in 267 CE. She conquered Egypt and reigned until defeated by Roman emperor Aurelian who triumphantly marched her in chains in a procession through Rome.
In Hosmer's depiction, Zenobia is regal even in chains.

Marble sculpture of Cleopatra in the moments after her death in her royal attire, in majestic repose on a throne. The identical sphinx heads flanking the throne represent the twins she bore with Roman general Marc

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

[the divine law] forbids the rich to be so stingy that some are compelled by necessity to beg. Thomas Aquinas

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New arrivals 🙌🏾 by my homie, Thomas Aquinas 📚

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 16/09/2026

One of those Oxford evenings 🌧️ 📷 Instagram | Melodicshutter (July, 2026)

A low-angle view of Oxford’s Bridge of Sighs at dusk, reflected in a large puddle on the street. Warm streetlights illuminate the historic buildings, contrasting with the deep blue evening sky.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At Christ Church Oxford today for a roundtable on Pope Leo's encyclical on AI. A pix of the College in the calm before term begins.

Pix of Christ Church with blue skies overhead.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They've unfurled and smell divine

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Interval of Don Giovanni at Royal Opera House ❤️

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy birthday to Euphemia Lofton Haynes; first African American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics (1943); and a reformer of the segregated D.C. public school system. Her thesis was on symmetric correspondences. So, I think she would have enjoyed the one in her b.-d. years (1890-1980).

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When the going gets tough, the tough (me) gets herself flowers

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When Dorothy Hodgkin--the only British woman to get a Nobel prize in science--heard that one of her assistants' grant had been cut because she got married, she wrote a furious letter to the Secretary of the Research Council dated 21st October 1955. #WomenInStem

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Manchester, 1970s, photo by Thomas Blower.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) with some of her abstract, wire sculptures. It is through Asawa's work that I found out about the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.

Black/white photo of with some of her abstract, wire sculptures.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Made scotch eggs for the first time. This one is SO big, it has its own shadow

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fanfic idea: 'Parable of the Sewer' in which the heroine goes around with a sewing kit mending garments and hearts in a dystopia.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I can see the light of a clear blue morning And I can see the light of brand new day And everything's gonna be all right It's gonna be okay -Dolly Parton

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Came across this photo of Marguerite Thomas Williams, the first African American woman to earn a PhD in geology (1947).

B/w photo with caption: Marguerite Thomas Williams, the first African American woman to earn a PhD in geology (Catholic University of America, 1947). Shows off her new doctoral gown on her family's back steps in Washington D.C.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Happy birthday to Florence Nightingale David (1909). Like her namesake, F. N. David was an English statistician. What are the (statistical) chances?! An advocate for women in statistics, she went on to head the Statistics Department at the University of California, Riverside.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

Watching so many people in the last 48 hours across the ideological spectrum insist that gutter racism is an intellectual position open to debate rather than a toxic belief has certainly been clarifying. People lose their lives & you continue to treat this as an intellectual exercise.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lost in Mary Sommerville's diary (1874) which reads like a Jane Austen novel. Love this story of how her uncle, "Dr Sommerville" taught her to read Latin and assured her that "in ancient times...some women had been very elegant scholars." Male allyship ❤️

Picture of page 37 of Sommerville's Personal Reflections. Text can be accessed at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009386676&seq=49

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Today I am immersing myself in Toni Morrison: comforting & strengthening. "She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

'The Eclipse' 1970, Alma Thomas

"The Eclipse was the last work Thomas created as part of her “Space” series. It was inspired by the total solar eclipse that occurred on March 7, 1970, and was visible from across the Eastern United States, including Washington, DC.
In a total eclipse, the moon blocks the view of the sun from Earth, appearing like a hole in the sky and allowing the sun’s corona, usually masked by bright light, to become visible. With its dark blue core and radiating rings of color, Thomas’s painting captures this rare moment of celestial alignment, its off-center composition suggesting the progressive movement of the moon across the sky."

The description of Thomas' The Eclipse by The Smithsonian

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

As a lecturer, what I want to impart to students are tools not views.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My apocalypse plan remains: grabbing some snacks* and heading to The Bodleian. *I have been assured that snacks are allowed in an apocalypse.

A room lined with seemingly endless rows of books at the Bod.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

On James Baldwin's birthday, here is my favourite portrait of him (2014) by Marlene Dumas. The black and white portrait features a quote by Baldwin, "Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

black and white portrait of James Baldwin featuring a quote by
Baldwin, "Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Nothings says "Summer" better than a stack of freshly baked meringues

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Happy Bday to Maria Mitchell (1818-1889).Here's her house on Nantucket & telescope of historic comet fame in window.She was hired 1845 by A.D.Bache at USCoastSurvey to establish cardinal point for latitude & longitude in US & spent season in field w/ Survey as 1st fed funded woman scientist in US 🧪🗃️

double photo collage with one a cedar shingle two story house with plaque saying "birthplace of Maria Mitchell America's first woman astronomer" & second photo her brass telescope in the window.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Cats, unlike dogs, don't need to be reassured of the importance of their place in the universe. They know they are at the centre of the cosmos.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

IBrioche Beef Burger Brunch ...with streaky bacon and fried egg...Delish ❤️

Beef burger with a stack of chunky chips and a glass of red wine.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Asked the AI Companion in Zoom to disable itself. It came back with something like "disabled! If you need anything else, I'm right here ready to help!" What?!

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As someone whose research is multi-disciplinary, I can confirm that classicist-reviewers are the most rigorous.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class, it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity." Anna Julia Cooper

Black and white photo of Anna Julia Cooper sitting in a chair and staring directly into the camera with an opened book in her lap.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 25/07/2026

To every trans Londoner: this city is yours too. Today we celebrate London Trans+ Pride and reaffirm a simple truth: you should be free to live as yourself, without fear or prejudice. You are loved. You are wanted. You belong here.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Happy birthday Alexandre Dumas (1802) French novelist & playwright (The Three Musketeers & The Count of Monte Cristo etc) His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, was born into slavery and went on to have an illustrious military career Here is Alexandre Dumas who puts the afro in #AfroEuropean

B/w image of Alexandre Dumas with arms folded and sporting a gorgeous 'fro.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

'Wednesday Morning' by Dominican figurative painter, Hulda Guzmán, 2019

Realist painting of a tropical landscape in vivid blues and greens.

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

'Wednesday Morning' by Dominican figurative painter, Hulda Guzmán, 2019

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"I am not an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope." Cornel West

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Salmon en croûte with spinach and sun-dried tomatoes ❤️ Its golden, flaky, homemade puff pastry is the star 🙌🏾 💕

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