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Dr Eleri Anona Watson @elerianona.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

How did nurses shape Australia’s response to HIV/AIDS? Join Dr Geraldine Fela for ‘Blood Politics’, 31 Oct, 2.30pm, Schwarzman Centre. Free, all welcome: shorturl.at/MNB95 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @hflgbtq.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

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Dr Margaret Maitland @margaretmaitland.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Great post offering insights the lives of girls in ancient Egypt! @julia-hamilton.bsky.social draws together administrative, archaeological, and artistic evidence in discussing girls’ working lives, wages, migration, and more: theconversation.com/work-wages-a...

Copy of an ancient Egyptian wall painting depicting two women shown with yellow skin, long black hair, wearing white dresses, squatting at a weaving loom

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 03/07/2025

📰 We know little about the lives of children in Ancient Egypt, and even less about that of non-elite girls. @julia-hamilton.bsky.social explores how ordinary girls lived, perhaps working as apprentices to adults 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews @aunz.theconversation.com 1/3 theconversation.com/work-wages-a...

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Work, wages and apprenticeships: sifting for clues about the lives of girls in ancient Egypt

Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records alongside adult workers.

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Shaun Wilson @shaunwilson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Record union meeting at Macquarie today - currently 336 staff in the meeting and rising. NTEU Branch President, Nick Harrigan speaking - "staff have to save this University from its own Management"

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Yes, thrilled to be doing this with Alice, who conceived the workshop. We're looking for practice-based and research-informed engagements of all kinds with the #archives of colonialism (including #photography), for the October 2025 ISA meeting in Newcastle. 📜🗃️ More details in the link below!

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

ACLS, AHA, and MLA File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities. Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff. www.acls.org/news/acls-ah...

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ACLS, AHA, and MLA File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities

Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff.

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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Congratulations to Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia and their contributors on the publication of their new #OpenAccess book Classics and Race today. Read and download free at: uclpress.co.uk/book/classic... #Classics #Race #IntellectualHistory

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Here’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arc-gra... [Free login required] Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇

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“Under the ARC board’s proposals, most stand-alone fellowships would be replaced by “embedded fellowships” funded through other grant schemes and capped at two years. “Traditional four-year fellowships concentrate a significant amount of funds on a small number of individual researchers,” a discussion paper explains.
Observers fear this could inadvertently deny many ECRs a toehold in academia because current fellowship schemes such as the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Decra) and the mid-career Future Fellowships are available to researchers without positions at universities.
This could change under the proposals. The discussion paper implies that recipients of embedded fellowships must already be in “the university workforce” – suggesting that ECRs must obtain employment in the sector before gaining eligibility for ARC grants.
That is an “unrealistic” expectation, according to Sharath Sriram, president of Science and Technology Australia. “The assumption is all those who apply are already…in academic roles. That might have been true in the 1990s. It’s not the case anymore.
“There’s no stability of employment for people until they are six, seven years out of their PhDs. Universities often use success in grants and fellowships to determine who to employ.”
A researcher who monitors grant schemes, using the social media handle “ARC Tracker”, was unconvinced that the proposals would improve opportunities for ECRs.
They said changes to fellowship schemes needed to avoid closing “pathways” for young researchers and leaving them “overshadowed by the established group leaders”.
ARC Board chair Peter Shergold acknowledged the fellowship changes as one of the “stings in the tail” of his proposals, but said a primary goal of his reforms was “contributing to the development of the next generation of researchers”.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

If you’re wondering what a spreadsheet looked like in 1800 BCE, here is one that tallies foodstuffs for cattle received by four cowherds. Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”

Photo of a rectangular clay tablet in landscape mode pictured from the front at the top of the picture, the back at the bottom of the picture. Between the two is a shot of the bottom of the tablet, which looks like a narrow clay strip.

The front of the tablet is separated into boxes like an excel spreadsheet. The boxes have cuneiform signs in them.

The bottom of the tablet has about two lines of cuneiform text.

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface. The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark. Fabulous. A small light in the great gloom. “It is starting to make its own meandering path…” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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River Sheaf opened up next to Sheffield Castle site - BBC News

The River Sheaf has been exposed at Castlegate for the first time in over 100 years

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"If an infant's body (has) a lukewarm temperature, his head has fever, he feeds at the breast and then drools a lot, his teeth are coming out. He may suffer for 14 or 20 days, but he will get well." Teething described in a 3,000-year-old medical handbook from ancient Assyria and Babylonia.

Photo of a clay plaque with a rounded top that shows a woman breastfeeding a large baby or small toddler. She wears a skirt. The features on her face and that of the child are faded. She is in a standing position. There is no colour painted on the plaque that is visible, but there are a few minor cracks throughout.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Another online option ships internationally in case anyone is interested 📚

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hello @theguardian.com, this isn't news about Egypt, as your website categorizes it: it's news about Western scientists using colonial collections in Western museums to do to the ancestral Egyptian dead what they have done for centuries: promote themselves and grab headlines. 🧵📜🏺🗃️

Screenshot from The Guardian's UK website this morning, under the category 'Egypt', a headline reading 'Smell like an Egyptian: researchers sniff ancient mummies to study preservation'

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"Musk is committed to using his wealth and viral popularity to influence politics in the U.S. and abroad, and Greco-Roman antiquity has always been one of his favorite rhetorical tools" Thanks to @curtisdozier.bsky.social for this important post pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/01/31/e...

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When the Richest Man in the World Loves Classics

Elon Musk is (as of now) not only the richest man in the world but also, thanks to President Trump’s embrace of him, one of the most politically powerful. He also loves Greco-Roman antiquity. That lov...

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 13/02/2025

Registration for #ResDiff6 is now available: resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 11/02/2025

It is my pleasure to announce the program for #ResDiff6 (March 21, 2025), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. Keynote: Sarah Derbew. resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...

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Res Diff 6 2025

The 2025 Res Difficiles conference will take place on March 21st. Conference registration will be made available ahead of the event. Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addr…

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour. “we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...

Photo of a portrait shaped clay tablet with well-preserved cuneiform signs.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Teaching history divorced from the concerns of the present is actually doing a bad job at teaching history.

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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

A bit late with this, but a huge congratulations to the ASCS 2025 OPTIMA winner Elizabeth Leaning and to our joint runners-up Jemima McPhee and Jaymie Orchard! Pictured here with the prize committee. Classicsbluesky

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NINO Leiden @nino-leiden.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

NINO offers a two-year postdoc position starting September 2025. We invite applications of researchers in ancient Near Eastern archaeology. Tasks: original research, organise international workshop, publish proceedings, teach graduate seminar. Apply until 15 March 2025. buff.ly/3WBW9fA

Photo of stone stairs leading up to tombs at Qubbeit el-Hawa (opposite Aswan, Egypt) by Sid Skrabanja. Image announcing "Call for applications: NINO Postdoctoral Fellow in ANE Archaeology, deadline 15 March 2025".

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Find myself returning for the third time (the first post-Trump 2.0) to Nick Estes’ outstanding history of Standing Rock/#NoDAPL. On the assetisation of land & water; on resistance, community, solidarity. “The rallying cry of Mni Wiconi—‘water is life’—is also an affirmation that water is alive.”

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Ghosts in ancient Mesopotamia causes all kinds of medical issues. Vertigo, depression, and more. This therapy to treat someone seized by a ghost prescribed fumigation with pig, wolf, dog, fox, and gazelle poop, and other stuff that smelled awful. Seems a good way to get rid of a ghost was to stink

Fragment of a cuneiform tablet with about 15 lines of mostly preserved text divided into 7 clearly marked sections. The colour of the clay is reddish

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Last year, I wrote a brief article about how the heart “breaks” in ancient Mesopotamia. What could a broken heart have meant 3,000 years ago, and how did people express mental distress? To me, how they made emotional pain make sense is really moving anetoday.org/al-rashid-he...

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Heartbreak and the History of Distress in Ancient Mesopotamia - The Ancient Near East Today

The concept of “heartbreak” appears multiple times in cuneiform texts as a metaphor to describe both mental and physical conditions. How should we interpret this phrase? And is it anything like heartb...

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