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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Long time no hassle… but you know I think you’re brilliant… is there an easy way to stalk morphology and syntax digitally in the NT, eg counting simple imperfects vs periphrastic ones? Not like I’m writing an article or anything…

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

This is my first post for WiT and I really enjoyed writing it. Would love some feedback.

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Mthr Sian Clare Parker @sianclare.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

It's not typical Maundy Thursday matter but, given that today we are invited to reflect on our propensity to choose betrayal, fear, and self-interest over the love and selfless service offered to us all in Christ, this thread feels rather timely.

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Finding out a chapter I had submitted a proposal for really is going ahead, when I knew I'd had a particularly creative idea for it and was really hoping I'd get to write it. Hurrah! Yes I have a book and two other articles to finish first. It's okay. #TinyJoys

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I've spent the last week in Dubai, which prompted some reflections on Palm Sunday and landscape, so I've written my first theological blogpost. Feedback welcome... cressidaryan.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/o...

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Something I've been trying to sort out for a while and think is important for supporting and crediting our wonderful contributors. Very glad to see it happen. Please do get in touch with any article ideas.

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Content and Trigger warnings... some perspectives from Classicists. I'm well aware this is a "hot" topic, and encourage cordial debate around a collection of pieces I commissioned for @cucdbulletin.bsky.social on the topic: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0... @cucd.bsky.social

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Braille music transcription... I'm writing up a report on music score accessibility. Does anyone know anyone who can do Braille music transcription? Yes I have ABRSM and RNIB guidance on stuff too. I'll blog what I can of it (minus the specific stuff for work!).

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I have a strong desire to end my book concl as "so here's a summary of why I think Sophocles (&Plato) matter to understanding the New Testament and indeed the difference between Jerome, Erasmus, and Luther... but you know what? The tragectory continues & here's how it affects your teaching too."

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

trying to finish my book. Remembered I'd done a podcast about it: religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/translatio... (I got the date wrong, 1529). If anyone fancies sending feedback, it would be very welcome!

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Translation and the Reformation

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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Helen McVeigh @helenmcveigh.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Starting on Mon 24th February at 7.30pm GMT, Translating Ancient Greece looks beyond the surface of the texts we receive in translation. We will examine excerpts from Homer, Aristophanes, Plato & Sophocles. Find out more here helenmcveigh.co.uk/product/translatingancientgreece2 #Ancientbluesky 🏺📚

A series of paperback English translations of Sophocles' Electra and other plays, Aristophanes' Birds and other plays, the Iliad, the Homeric Hymns, Plato's Republic, and Sophocles' three Theban plays

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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Thank you so much to the people who signed up to support us over the last couple of days. We literally couldn’t do it without you. If just 9 more people pledge £10 a month it would cover our running costs for an entire year 🫢🥹

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Does anyone know how I could find out how many dual termination examples there are in Homer (or indeed other Greek authors, especially Sophocles and Plato)?

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Having had a look at the numbers, they haven't said it so I will... it takes about 30 people to chip in a fiver a month to let the Working Classicists team meet their 'here's how we'd like to run' operating costs.

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Started watching "Boarders". Quickly realised it wasn't 8YO friendly and switched it off for child. But for me, wow. When I was 23 I taught in a school which had a scholarship very similar and it caused me much pain trying to care for those children. Dare I blog about my experiences?

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Just got challenged on Twitter over whether suicide is a sin. Having had to deal with the JWs telling me that the very close friend I had who killed herself in their service was sinful. Please can any theology people I know pitch in to educate me better?

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

AutAngel are incredible. If you have a relevant interest in autism and are in the area, SIGN UP NOW!

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Wanted to put in an abstract. Didn't. Still think this looks AMAZING and hope other people are involved.

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Council of University Classical Departments @cucd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Putting the situation at Cardiff into context. 💪 CUCD is proud to be an affiliate member of the @artsandhums.bsky.social 👇Please read and share their open letter concerning the devastating cuts across the Humanities sector …

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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Teaching Classics Worldwide describes status, provision, practices and debates in Classics Ed in Europe, Asia, N & S America, Africa and Australia & New Zealand. A wealth of information, contacts, resources and links, useful for teachers, academics and researchers in Classics / Classics Ed.

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I'm writing a book on translating the New Testament Greek to Latin, the influence of Sophocles and Plato, the relevance of pedagogy and lexica, and ethical exegesis in the Reformation. Would anyone be willing to read some chunks for me?

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

69 days left until book deadline. I’ve decided to write a separate case study on the Lord’s Prayer because it was proving too hard to integrate into chapters and is an awesome “proof text”. What are people’s top books on this? I need a broad denominational sweep please…

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Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Awful news

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Does anyone here do foredge painting? I’m making more and more books and would love to add this to them.

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Went to the Oxfordshire schools dance festival today. Serious talent from teachers and students alike. But also serious joy. Please let this be the future of PE. Rewarding and exciting. Beautiful and energetic. Plus performance experience.

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The snooker table arrangement at the German Masters is beautiful. I’ve never seen anything like it. Aaaaah. I love snooker.

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Conor Trainor @drconortrainor.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Come work with us! 🚨 Job Opportunity: Ad Astra Fellow @UCD School of Classics / School of Art History and Cultural Policy !!! 🚨 📍 Specializing in Digital Technologies & Antiquity 💼 Salary: €62,855–€99,533 📅 Deadline: 21 Feb 2025, 12 PM (Irish Time) 👉 Apply now: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I thought it was a good idea to teach Polycarp once. I can’t remember who put me up to it. I think it was a good idea?

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I can’t spell. As I attempt to write a book this sometimes worries me. Then I remember I did a PhD on the 18th Century when people didn’t even care for consistency in spelling their names and I relax again. Still can’t spell. Shameful for a Classicist? Not.

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The Hunting of the Snark @snarkhunt.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Yes. "Valley" occurs 3 times in snrk.de/snarkhunt/, "valley of shadows" in the preface and a "dismal and desolate" and "narrow and narrower" valley in the poem. I am not sure whether this is a reference to Psalm 23. But if not, could Carroll have thought about the Psalm when he re-read his poem?

Left: Henry Holiday – Illustration (with the Butcher and the Beaver in a spooky valley) to Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), chapter The Beaver’s Lesson.
Right: Matthias Grünewald – segment (in mirror view) from "The Temptation of St. Anthony" (1515).

See also https://snrk.de/page_wild-figure/#Gruenewald and https://snrk.de/wimmelbild/.

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Has anyone ever thought about the valley in the Hunting of the Snark and Psalm 23? It keeps coming back to me as a link to think about.

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Working on my book and finding that each new theological argument I need sparks a dozen reflections I wish I had an outlet for. No, my book is not an embodiment of my faith. Applied to be a women in theology blogger. Need that outlet! Fingers crossed.

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A reminder that the WCC UK is fundraising for its Small Grants Scheme, which funds a variety of amazing projects. The WCC UK Needs Your Help! Donate to support the Small Grants Scheme - WCC-UK search.app/igQUb4T2VcoP...

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Since 2022, the WCC UK has run its Small Grants Scheme for members. The Scheme grew out of our Emergency Grants scheme, established by our founding Treasurer Carol Atack to support colleagues in need ...

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Katherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@ics.bsky.social is hosting or supporting several events in the next fortnight for UK Classicists. First up next Weds we are helping @cucd.bsky.social with an important briefing for anyone thinking of applying to serve on our @ref2029.bsky.social subpanel: ics.sas.ac.uk/news/cucd-se...

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CUCD Serving on the REF Panel

The REF2029 team has recently released details of how to apply to be part of the REF2029 assessment process.

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Grade 5 singing booked for March! I’ve never done a singing exam before so we’re starting gently. Next stop apparently Grade 8 or diploma but let’s not get ahead. Now to relearn aural and sightsinging skills!

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I’ve been thinking about demonstrative pronouns, diegetic spheres, and the Trinity. Proximal demonstratives for Jesus, distal by definition for God as the one outside our earthly diegetic space… but what about the Holy Spirit?

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Magazines for KS3 Classics fans. What is there? All I can think of seems to be too old or too young. Have been asked. Do we need to create something? (No more projects until my book is in though).

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Today I’m assessing cadets on their ability to use EDIP as instructors. What are the best activities anyone has used for trying out EDIP? (Explain, Demonstrate, Imitate, Practise). L

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Cressida Ryan @cressidaryan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I want to get to know #VickyBeeching music. Do people have any recommendations? First thing I’ve listened to starts with Hebrews 13:8 so it’s already a win in my book!

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

If you enjoy A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology it would mean the world to us if you’d rate or review it on Goodreads! It helps us a lot. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... Likewise if you get it from Amazon, a positive review goes a long way! 🥰

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 15/01/2025

This has felt very obvious for some years, but useful to have it confirmed by a proper study. Given that 'impersonal messages from faceless bureaucracy' is a key factor, it doesn't help that I can email students on a module only via systems that make my messages appear impersonal and faceless...

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