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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Please sign this petition to stop the unnecessary redundancies at the University of Exeter: c.org/FgdPr8W6Ry

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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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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Heading to Cambridge this morning to give a research seminar on Latino-Punic Inscriptions in a Christian Funerary Landscape. Nice thing to do on a sunny Monday!! See you in the Faculty of Divinity at 2pm!

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates (online discussion led by Gabriel Bodard and @carolinebarron.bsky.social), Friday 20th February 2026 at 14:00–15:30 GMT ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Happy Monday, 246th January 😩😩😩

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Research leave is well and truly over! Was back to it @durhamclassics.bsky.social today, kicking off a new term with Pliny, Epistulae II in Advanced Latin! And you know what, it’s so nice to be back! (Remind me I said this when I’m tired and grumpy in week 18…)

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Officially in print, rather that just first view! Check out vol. 56 of Libyan Studies, featuring a plethora of delightful articles about Libyan epigraphy!

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Romeward Bound ❤️ The last 6 months have not been easy, but I’m going Rome for a few weeks and something tells me that everything will get better as a result. A tra poco, città mia!

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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

💥 Congratulations to Dr @carolinebarron.bsky.social , who has a new publication in the journal 'Libyan Studies'! 👉 Dr Barron reassess 53 Latin, Greek and Latino-Punic inscriptions from a late-antique tomb excavated in 1926 at Sirte, Libya 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/lis....

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

More than anything, I am just delighted that you are looking out for fakes! It makes me so happy!!

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This one is flummoxing me! It's not totally dodgy, but there's something off about it. My guess would be that the top inscription is genuine and that the bottom one was added later, but who knows when. It could also be a very well-executed fake! There will be hundreds of them out there deceiving us!

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.

To this day, only a few scholars of the Holocaust, and no institution dedicated to researching and commemorating it, has issued a warning that Israel could be accused of carrying out war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing or genocide. This silence has made a mockery of the slogan “Never again,” transforming its meaning from an assertion of resistance to inhumanity wherever it is perpetrated to an excuse, an apology, indeed, even a carte blanche for destroying others by invoking one’s own past victimhood.

What I fear is that in the aftermath of the Gaza genocide, it will no longer be possible to continue teaching and researching the Holocaust in the same manner we did before. Because the Holocaust has been so relentlessly invoked by the State of Israel and its defenders as a cover-up for the crimes of the I.D.F., the study and remembrance of the Holocaust could lose its claim to be concerned with universal justice and retreat into the same ethnic ghetto in which it began its life at the end of World War II — as a marginalized preoccupation by the remnants of a marginalized people, an ethnically specific event, before it succeeded, decades later, to find its rightful place as a lesson and a warning for humanity as a whole.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Thank you, tesoro mio!! I am so pleased!

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Thank you, Liz! I’m very pleased!

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I’ve had a rotten couple of months with various things not going particularly well. But today I have been promoted to Associate Professor @durhamclassics.bsky.social, which is very exciting and the mark of a new chapter! Better things ahead!

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Thank you for coming! I’m so pleased you got to see the work the @arcdurham.bsky.social students produced!

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My lovely students from the Pompeii module are exhibiting their visual reconstruction projects today in @durhamclassics.bsky.social! They’ve produced some excellent work and I am very proud of them. Poster by Eleanor Paxton 😊

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I hear you. I’m in the middle of an insomnia wave and it’s debilitating. Getting out is a great plan. Solidarity love x

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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

📚 Congratulations to @carolinebarron.bsky.social on the publication of 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Etchings from the Research Collections of the British School at Rome'! 🖼️ This book follows a 2021–4 exhibition at @bsrome.bsky.social co-curated by Dr Clare Hornsby and Dr Caroline Barron

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Solidarity like. It’s so depressing. We’ve lost our funding at Roman Statutes 2.0 (Chicago) too…

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

On my way to St Andrew’s today to give a paper in the School of Classics’ research seminar series. Excited to catch up with lots of good people there, and to see the beach!

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I (co)-wrote a book! The catalogue for the Piranesi Print Project I co-curated at the British School at Rome has been published, and I am very proud of it! The research for this project was so interesting, and there’s still work to do! Thank you to everyone who was involved, my heart is full ❤️

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

And so begins another Monday! This week’s Research To Do List task: finish the revisions to a talk on the Diaspora Revolts in Cyrene under Trajan that I’m giving in St Andrew’s next week. And some marking…

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Revisions are done and the article is submitted! I don't know if I actually achieved Clever Writing in the end, but it's better than it was before and most importantly it is DONE! Onto the next one...

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

V much want to write back with “but I tried to be clever the first time, don’t make me do it agaaaiiiiin”

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Article revisions are sooo nearly finished, but the last recommendation require Clever Writing and I DON’T WANT TO.

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Working on the final revisions to a little article about some Latino-Punic inscriptions in Libya today! Quite pleased with how it's going, and hopeful that I'll be ticking it off the Overdue Research Things To Do List by Friday...hold me accountable please.

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archadam.bsky.social @archadam.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It's been so great to finally talk about the Melsonby Hoard. The important message missing from some of the press is the #YorkshireMuseum needs support to secure and conserve it! 1/ www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...

A decorative strap junction from the iron age Melsonby hoard. It's a 20cm long figure of eight shape with openwork decorations and fragmentary coral beads all across its surface.

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Easing my way into Research Leave by finishing an overdue book review, which is proving to be more satisfying than anticipated.

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Haha, my misunderstanding reveals my tiredness! YES to any and all beverages with you!!

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

My caffeine consumption this academic year has been Considerable… replacing it with gin for the next 24 hours!

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It’s the end of term. A lovely term in many respects, but also brutal in its busy-ness and responsibilities. But…Research Leave lies ahead!! And whilst I have a book to finish and 24,000 other projects to complete, I really am a very happy Caroline. For now: bubbles. And then, gin.

A glass of champagne held up in front of a bookcase.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Oooof. Right smack on the nose here from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social writing in @theguardian.com

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Last week of term! And the final lecture for my Pompeii module. We've had such a good time: great, questioning students, more material than we know what to do with and brilliantly creative Visual Reconstruction projects to mark at the end. Definitely my favourite part of this job.

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It really is. You can’t imagine how much it delights this ancient historian to be surrounded by it all!

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It’s my new home and I am totally in love with it! But yes, painfully cold…

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