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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My favourite too! Used it on a book cover once.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ah, but this is what’s on the outside of my garden wall in Italy! La Spada nella Roccia.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It’s the whole idea of spoiling the glory of summer soft fruit by combining it in that way with any bread. It’s just a horrible concept. And somehow, it typifies British cuisine for me. On the whole I’m not a fan.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Summer pudding is yet another British food travesty that spoils glorious summer soft fruit by oppressing it with truly terrible bread.

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Katherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In March 2026 the University of Exeter was boasting of its top 100 QS World Rankings status for arts and humanities. Now it is devastating the same areas with drastic cuts. Something is seriously wrong. Solidarity to all the excellent colleagues affected by this. news.exeter.ac.uk/university/e...

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Exeter records sweeping successes in QS World Rankings by Subject

The University of Exeter has recorded sweeping success in the latest prestigious international ranking, reflecting its strong teaching and research excellence. Exeter has recorded significant, double-...

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Yes, it’s a pain for journal editors looking for potential reviewers too. But, on most university websites you can look at staff members’ lists of publications which give you their research interests in some detail. A little more work, but more informative results.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I had one of those recently.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

They don’t even bother to try to hide the corruption. They throw it in our faces.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I am old enough to remember pre-email communications in academic workplaces. In the days of paper letters and memos there was at least as much junk and it took ten times as long to deal with. Honestly, in comparison email is a boon and a huge time-saver. Paper was much worse!

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I once had to write to the Guardian to tell them that their article about beef cattle was illustrated by a dairy herd. They changed the picture pretty fast. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one to contact them about this.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

What Donald Trump says he intends to do in Iran doesn’t sound like he wants to decimate their infrastructure. Clearly he doesn’t know what ‘decimate’ means. This is why you need to know Latin.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Yep, another ancient historian here. This is definitely correct.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Exactly! Who else will train future scientists?

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

My Munstead Wood rose has just flowered as well! Also beautifully fragrant.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

And Labour are foolishly joining the long line of governments that have undermined universities and which will result in their demise. 3

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

What’s particularly sad is that despite the pummelling they’ve had UK universities are globally outstanding, bring huge amounts of money into the UK, and are the prime generators of crucial research and innovation. 2/

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This is very depressing. And the situation will only get worse with Starmer’s mad plans for immigration. The UK HE funding model has been dysfunctional for decades. Labour knows this but has made no move yet to fix it. What they are doing will only make things worse. 1/ qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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UK HE shrinking

a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Thanks Keir Starmer and the Labour Party. @labouruk.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Glad to know I’m a stranger after living in the UK for 46 years and paying taxes here. Do you have any idea how hurtful that speech was?

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

UK universities depend on international students to subsidise UK students. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social We have opportunities to recruit excellent international students as the USA becomes unwelcoming. Why discourage them coming to the UK? They contribute much to UK unis, including billions of £££.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

So disappointing to see Labour @labouruk.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social pandering to false narratives on immigration. Immigrants don’t steal jobs, housing, healthcare, school places. They treat patients, teach young people, build houses, pay taxes, improve growth. Change narratives!

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Really, Yvette Cooper @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social, do you actually think that care staff are ‘unskilled’? It takes much training and skill to support elderly and vulnerable people. To cut migration figures, stop counting international students as migrants: they aren’t.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

After the US-UK trade deal, very glad I have my own supply of organic, grass-fed beef. Hormone-free and not routinely fed antibiotics to stimulate growth. They just eat the stuff cattle are meant to eat: grass.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Do they actually have a plan?

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

As an American based in the UK, it seems to me there’s nothing ‘soft’ about it. We watch it unfold with horror.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

And grape production is very unpredictable and can fluctuate in quantity and quality from year to year. This is down to weather which even the richest rich guys can’t control.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

So here’s my personal impact story. I had been approved to be a Fulbright visiting scholar in a Latin American country (not naming to protect my proposed hosts) on the topic of feminist and gender archaeology. The approval for the project was retracted. I’m pretty sure that isn’t legal.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I’ve always thought he’s more like Philip II of Macedon

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Matthew Herron @matthewherron.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I realise there’s a lot going on in the world for news media to report, but can anyone tell me why there is no coverage of widespread Presidents Day protests against the current actions of the US administration by BBC, NYT, CNN, etc?

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

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Hedy Lamarr @chudonew.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

CALL NOW: Demand Your GOP Representative Reject Trump's Budget Sabotage Instead of passing a responsible budget, they are trying to: -Let Trump & Musk override the budget & steal taxpayer money. -Slash access to health care, public education, and food assistance. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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CALL NOW: Demand Your Republican Representative Reject Trump's Budget Sabotage

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

What is the actual point of this ?

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Reminiscent of all the UK farmers, persuaded by lies, who voted to leave the EU and who are now struggling to export their products to the UK’s biggest customer, Europe.

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@usa.mom.in.germany @usa-mom-in-germany.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

New federal mandates are transforming the curriculum of U.S. military base schools to restrict discussions of history, race, and gender, which creates glaring differences from the education systems of their host nations. open.substack.com/pub/usamomin...

open.substack.com

How DoDEA Schools Are Becoming Tools of U.S. Propaganda

The U.S. Government’s New Grip on Military Schools Abroad

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

People continued to use stone tools long after ‘prehistoric’ periods: their use in classical Greece is well documented but often neglected. Many tools were unmodified objects: a stick, a reed, a useful rock, a handy piece of broken pot. This is my rock for destoning olives. Works a treat!

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

And depressingly they continue to do it. There is no longer any excuse for this. See Foxhall, L. 2020 Women’s work? Who made textiles in the ancient Greek world? In V. Pirenne-Delforge & M. Wecowski (eds) Politeia and Koinonia, 253-77. Leiden: Brill. And Claire Taylor in JHS 2024:

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Women, gender and the ancient economy: towards a feminist economic history of the ancient Greek world | The Journal of Hellenic Studies | Cambridge Core

Women, gender and the ancient economy: towards a feminist economic history of the ancient Greek world

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Oh yes!🫒🫒🫒🫒… and the oil is superb

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Yes, we had a class like that. I think it was in high school for us.

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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Classics at the University of Otago is now offering Ancient Greek and Latin by distance. These classes are open to anyone interested in studying the languages by distance. For further information or details about how to enrol as a non-Otago student, visit: otago.ac.nz/classics/lan...

A picture of three people ostensibly studying, using laptops and tablets at a picnic table in the sunshine.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A shout out of gratitude to the kind and brilliant taxi driver who took me and 5 others to Gatwick from Three Bridges braving the chaos caused by the airport’s major security alert. Would never have made my flight without him.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Yes I get that. But all those uncivilised ‘barbarians’ discovered and used grafting a lot earlier than the Greeks!

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I can tell you for sure that many other ancient peoples were grafting olives several millennia before the 5th century BCE, and the Greeks themselves had mastered grafting at least a millennium earlier.

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