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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 7h

Shame on you Ollie Pope, Luke Wood, Moeen Ali, Reece Topley, James Vince, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Laurie Evans for caring more about the money in your own pockets than the human rights of women and girls. This was a personal choice by you, and you chose wrong.

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England players told to think of 'daughters, sisters or mothers' before committing to Afghanistan Premier League T20 tournament

English cricketers aiming to play in a men's T20 franchise tournament organised by the Afghanistan Cricket Board have been urged to think about their "daughters, sisters or mothers".

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 16h

First classes on both modules done, which means I've spent the week doing Foucault and then some Marxist work on ideology. Apparently I don't like to start things off easy.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The worst thing about proofs is when they come back - you feel like you've had this great achievement - finished proofing over 700 pages! And then here they are again.

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Dr Thomas R.P. Coward @tomcoward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An interesting experiment which may help in unwrapping further Herculaneum scrolls. (Also it's nice to be quoted!)

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Someone should hire me to spend six months updating women's cricket pages on Wikipedia. They are all terrible.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Because of IT updates I can't use my work laptop to check emails or indeed use any work websites. Such a productive time I am having today. </s>

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This should not be the norm - as it increasingly is now in Higher Education in the UK. Job security is virtually non-existent.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Too many givens. Send an edit button!

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Off to London to start the teaching term, for what may well be my last time, in classics or at all. Feels also somewhat ironic given my apparent redundancy that actually this is the start of quite a busy term with a lot of London time, given my teaching load is actually quite high.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The new EBSCO interface is driving me mad. I need to be able to read more than two pages of a book without having to stop to load, come on...

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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

4 October Deadline: ICS Conference Grants Do you have an upcoming conference you would like the ICS to support? Now accepting applications to our Conference Grants scheme. Small grants - max £500 - are available to support conferences and workshops throughout the UK: ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/grant...

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

resharing this as well in case people missed it... do think about applying, or share with your networks! last time we advertised, only men applied, so I would especially encourage women to think about applying as we would like to have a diverse group of editors

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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Whilst it’s not my full #NYCC schedule yet I can now flag up a few of the things I’ll be doing there. Come see/find me at these and maybe get a book signed too!

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Community Land Scotland @communitylandsc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Three residencies. Six communities. Three languages: Gàidhlig, Scots and English. We're commissioning storytellers to help communities capture and share the community owners' stories of land and identity. £3,500 fee. Apply by 9 Oct, 1pm. buff.ly/TUT3YUA

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really looking forward to this!! Delighted to be part of a panel at @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @enwright.bsky.social and @chriskempshall.bsky.social!! Come along and listen to us talk about history and games! It’s free and in person in Cardiff

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This November we’re hosting a free interactive discussion event as part of Cardiff Univeristy’s @beinghumanfest.bsky.social! Come for history&games, stay for @chriskempshall.bsky.social & @hollynielsen.bsky.social saying excellent things! (I will be there too..) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fact-versu...

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Fact versus Fiction in the Gaming World

A free interactive discussion panel to explore and imagine historical video games

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looks like a really excellent event!

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looks like a really excellent event!

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One male teacher did a 'skit' pretending to be a disorganised schoolgirl (girls' school) for everyone to laugh at, complete with weird Britney Spears-esque take on the school uniform. At the time we thought it was quite funny but now I look back and think how deeply inappropriate and unkind it was.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why does everyone on LinkedIn post Like this Not in continuous paragraphs Not even sometimes in continuous sentences. It's as if the style is aiming at some sort of bad corporate poetry.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well that looks like I've set myself some gaming homework then.

Image shows a draft word document which contains a marker for a new paragraph that says ’Resonance'

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The BBC's description of the OD cup final including "Georgia Elwiss batting with the former England player Tammy Beaumont" makes me laugh a bit. Have we just got exceptionally short memories in women's cricket coverage...? Tammy is not the sole former England player in that partnership!!

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Exciting new update on my algorithm attempting to find me new employment: clinical trial adverts!

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why are the blaze having to give themselves their own medals though...?

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Hypocaust @hypocaust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Emma Jones finds the boundary off the last regulation ball of the competition to take The Blaze 254/7 (50.0) to the women's domestic treble. Beaumont 74 (122) Elwiss 64 (74) Wellington 3-36 Tyson 2-46 The Blaze win by 3 wickets. live.nvplay.com/ecb?tab=m_sc...

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is the most thrilling final of the season, for sure.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am just such a Georgia Elwiss fan.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel like I spend a lot of time lately noting weird adverts, but the Colgate one is especially odd. What kind of "friendly chat" starts "have you been seeing someone else???" Don't the words in adverts have to make sense at all?

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The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🎮 Help us map the UK’s videogame heritage We’ve launched the UK’s first nationwide survey of videogame-related collections, and we want to hear from developers, publishers, studios, collectors and industry professionals. Take part: forms.gle/z9a1qhVopYMT...

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Behind the Screens: UK Videogame Preservation Survey

The Behind the Screens survey intends to establish a general picture of what videogame related collections already exist in the UK, and to assess levels of awareness towards videogame preservation and...

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think what's happening at universities is appalling. But I also think that if some academics paid more attention to their temp colleagues it would not be so surprising. At 3 separate institutions I've been made redundant while new hires were got to cover teaching I'd been doing - 1 perm, 2 temp.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And of course this seems a reasonable moment to remind people that I am not seeing them so much as being one of them - my current employment ends Feb. So if you'd like to hire a classicist/historical games specialist, now's the time!

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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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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

RIP 847 years ago Hildegarde von Bingen, abbess, mystic, theologian, musical composer, astronomer, pharmacist and doctor, and among many other things inventor/discoverer of the sacred language “Lingua ignota”, who died #onthisday in 1179 CE. (Pictured, her conception of the world as a "cosmic egg")

A brightly coloured manuscript image of an oval-shaped world containing stars or flowers and surrounded by feathers or leaves, with a hole in the middle and a particularly prominent florescence towards the top. Grotesque faces or masks illuminate the left, right and bottom edges.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Last index entry, and this sight makes me both proud and sort of horrified:

Box from the Adobe Acrobat search, showing 'women' with 492 matches.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 16/09/2026

I’m up before dawn for travel, which means I can bug the lunchtime UK crowd: Do I know any game nerds with interests in 18th century (1660-1835) within shouting distance of Oxford (or willing to be for purposes of talking about their work for/with 18th century scholars?)

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also lots of adverts to do a degree in Kent. Got to be honest, I don't think not enough degrees is my employment problem. And I am already in Kent.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every time I am job hunting my algorithm starts showing me lots of adverts for the royal marines/royal navy. Tbh I am relatively desperate, I should probably consider the suggestion.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's brilliant to be coming to the very last days of Routledge Companion work, because it's great and nearly done, but also I find it quite sad - so much of it feels like saying goodbye to a great group of people, we've been working with for years! Possibly I am too sentimental for volume editing.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Gosh there are a lot of words that end -city.

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Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you've not yet sent in an abstract for IMC 2027, consider submitting one with us!

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Filer been a bit up and down in today's game, but currently on a hat trick ball with the first two bowled (stumps flying). Not a bad sight!

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 10/09/2026

Okay so I’ve seen a lot of Oresteias. I wrote my MA thesis on The Oresteia and the Eumenides is my single favourite Greek tragedy. The Oresteia that’s currently on at The Bridge is one of the - if not the - best Oresteia I’ve ever seen.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well that was very intense. But excellent. Lots of interesting choices.

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 10/09/2026

I'm placing a bounty on a couple of video game soda machines. I'm trying to track down clear screenshots of the soda machines from: 1) Alan Wake 2 2) Doom: Dark Ages (specifically, the hospital flashback from the Revelations DLC) Bring me pictures! Pictures of soda machines!

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Angry J. Jonah Jameson (Spiderman)

ALT: Angry J. Jonah Jameson (Spiderman)

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

September brings with it a great deal of existential dread (or at least aca-existential), but also orchestra. Thank goodness.

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