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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wouldn’t be where I am without the wonderful Greek provision at Camden School For Girls. I was so lucky it was my local school, and it’s so so important we keep these pathways open for state school kids. Please consider flinging a few quid their way of you can

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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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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“I could save a lot of time by buying raw ingredients, throwing them away and getting on with my book.”

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

God Sarah Moss is so good. You’d think the last thing that I, harassed mother of young children trying to finish an academic book, would wish to read is a novel about a harassed mother of young children trying to finish an academic book, but I cannot resist a Sarah Moss novel and here we are 🤷‍♀️

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Worst epic incipit ever

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FINALLY the school sent my 6yr old home with some decent reading material, Rainbow Fairies can go hang 😂

A small book, with a painting of a city on fire and the title Samuel Pepys The Great Fire Of London

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Week 1 of term and I envy Toad his to do list. Maybe we should all put “go for a walk touch some grass breathe some air” on our to do lists alongside all the interminable email-sending?

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Popped to the library cafe after a crappy day of crappy writing and was deeply disappointed to realise on second glance that these are not actually alcoholic. Who wants to start a campaign for real booze at the library? 😂

A drinks cooler showing cans of mocktails

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jbralston.bsky.social @jbralston.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But what if I told you that thinking isn't always efficient and that learning demands grappling with complex ideas in smaller groups, so you can't just "scale up" something like a course on advanced Arabic or Hegel or Feminist hermeneutics of testimony without losing the learning itself.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s so depressing to see how many of my peers have minimal or no employment this academic year, when meanwhile every Classics department I know has more work than can reasonably (or safely) be accomplished by the number of staff they have left.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Afternoon somewhat blighted by being sent on a complete wild goose chase by a long-dead German. Goose eventually located however and I now have a somewhat better understanding of Ancient Greek running socks.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Busker at TCR station is playing Wake Me Up When September Ends and tbh it feels a bit on the nose 😬😂

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 14/09/2026

The government’s university funding policy is forcing women out of the academy. The example below is a pattern. This is one of the many ways the whole mess is unjust.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our bus back from urgent care got stuck behind a broken down car and we had to wait for enough people to gather to physically push it out the way all while the poorly child screamed in my lap I would like a nap now please? Can we try the first day of term again tomorrow?

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well, it’s the first day of welcome week. I’ve got 20-odd first year personal tutees to meet at 3pm. And my toddler has done his Achilles tendon in (how??) AND all the trains from London to Bristol are cancelled. So I’d say it’s going well.

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Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Our AI-powered timetabling system has become self-aware and resigned from its position with immediate effect.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A library is such a casually beautiful place.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have a question for Shakespeare/early modern theatre people, is that anyone I know?? My Q. is about padding worn by male actors playing female parts. Is there evidence for this? Long story short re: Greek tragic actors I can find no mention of fake boobs and I’m wondering about parallels 😂

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

academic timelines are wild. research: apply for your grant to start in 2028. or let's plan a conference for september 2027. teaching: no timetabling. no room allocation for next week's teaching. no, students don't know either.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes, we have gone from the idea that central university management is there to support teaching and research to the idea that teaching and research are there to support ‘the university’. We must bring in more money, and not cost so much in doing it.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I assure you when the pogroms come for us, they won’t be checking our synagogue attendance. And Miliband’s lack of observance sure didn’t protect him from the antisemitism of the right wing press when he was Labour leader.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excellent & important article. I decided in my 20s to turn away from the insecurity of a career in Classical music for the relative security of academia. Only I discovered that academia is now also pretty much exactly the same as what’s described here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

While they are calling to maintain normal trade relations with Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, creating one Jewish state between the River and the Sea, the Board of Jewish Deputies once again complains about protestors who shout "from the River to the Sea". You can't make this up.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 07/09/2026

Universities are cutting jobs and courses while senior pay rises and management chases new campuses and shiny buildings. UCU vice president Mark Pendleton is right: while lower-paid staff face stagnant pay and insecure contracts, “that is not what is being experienced at the top of the sector”.

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The seven elite universities losing millions of pounds… while bosses' pay rises

Russell Group universities are axing jobs and cutting courses as the sector faces a financial crisis fuelled by a drop in international students

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Talk to me about your e-readers! I’m a full convert (you can read in the dark! You can hold an e-reader and a baby at the same time! YOU DON’T NEED SPACE IN YOUR TINY LONDON FLAT FOR ALL THE BOOKS) but my kindle is on its last legs and I want out of the Amazon ecosystem. How do ppl find the Kobo?

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I mean also massive props to the man for making my deeply fucked up and ‘needed more boundaries frankly’ time as a Cambridge choral scholar look comparatively healthy and normal by comparison. Not a turn I thought things would take tbh.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Orr teaching ethics (ETHICS! ETHICS!!!!) is giving me strong ‘the cobbler’s children always go barefoot’ vibes 😳

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

No I can’t make you a pterosaur that actually flies out of a piece of A4 paper and a pritt-stick also when does nursery open again is it soon please say it’s soon.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I realise this is a deeply unfashionable statement at the moment, but I hate rain, even after a summer of drought and even knowing how much we need it nothing ruins my day faster than having to go out in the rain.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Trying to explain to the littles why I’m suddenly sobbing along to Working Girl in the car 😭 Always my fave of hers, a true anthem to female solidarity across classes.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Caught the 6yr old reading an hour after lights out and my god the effort of performing being cross when all I could think was yeah I’d do that too if you handed me a new novel then only gave me 30mins, fair play to you my girl 😂

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The idea that we need “intellectual diversity” in academia conflicts with the idea that the goal of some fields should be to learn actual truths. We don’t need to hire young earth creationists in geology departments, because the field has taught us young earth creationism is false.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Since I see we’re doing the cups again did I mention I saw this absolutely brilliant cup? I bet Pollux has a word for every object on this cup. www.bnf.fr/fr/mediatheq...

A Greek black figure vase depicting a man seated on a throne (wild cat underneath, lizard on the wall to the left) overseeing men weighing and carrying in a workshop.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Celebrating ten years married to @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social today, and in honour of our library-based courtship and, let’s be honest, our library-based relationship in general we are taking a break from our usual routine of going to the library together to… visit a different library instead.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I only got to two and this is still deeply and hilariously relatable 😂

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I see that the SlopAI firms have been seeding “ah but agriculture is worse” stories because apparently people don’t know* that every env. campigner ever has already been talking about that? It’s not a surprise or a secret? Two things can be bad at once? * choose not to know

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

May I recommend to you most heartily the courgette parmagiana. Most of the joy of the aubergine version (arguably more if you like your food extra light in summer) but SO MUCH LESS WORK.

A courgette parmagiana in a blue pie dish sitting on top of a hob to cool

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Languages education faces a “vicious circle”: as schools struggle to recruit and retain language teachers, provision becomes more limited, fewer pupils can study languages at GCSE and A level, and so fewer people later enter language degrees or train as language teachers.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I spent most of July manually making a spreadsheet of every Plato quotation in Pollux’s Onomasticon. I’ve done the same for a whole list of other authors. Aristophanes took me MONTHS. Yes a computer could do it for me but the product isn’t the point, the process is.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

NATION OF COLANDERHEADS VOTES BINFACE please please pleeeeeease the headline writes itself c’mon we are owed this one

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So what do we reckon the apocalyptic portent means for Binface’s chances tomorrow?

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Neither craft nor science a particular strength of mine, so quite why I’m attempting to turn a cardboard box into a pinhole projector at 5pm on a Tuesday I don’t know. It will be a miracle if it works.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Early hyper-specialisation. From age 16 I did nothing but Greek, Latin, and Classical music. Didn’t even do a 4th A Level like most ppl (bc I wanted time for more double bass practice instead). It was great for me but I don’t think having that narrow a formal education from 16 is to be recommended.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In case anyone was in any doubt, Brexit has indeed made August travel an absolute nightmare. Suuuper fun time today waiting a full 30mins in our car at the Shuttle departures in Calais just to GET OUT OF OUR PARKING SPACE to join the carpark queue for the passport control queue.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Trying to channel this energy as we queue interminably to board the Eurostar while the kids squabble in the back of the car 😬

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Oh gawd I see we are doing Covid discourse again. I had my first child 2wks into the first lockdown. Having a complicated birth and then a sick newborn in lockdown was unspeakably traumatic & I’ll never quite be the same again after that experience. But you know what would have been worse? 1/

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