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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 16h

Are you a woman* in Classics**? Do you want to add loads of interesting women into your feed? Well: here is the list for you! #ClassicsBluesky

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Mathilde Larrère @mathildelarrere.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Là on tient du très bon! ( photo prise par Natasha Thierry)

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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore @barbarasplendor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Quale posto migliore di Trento per parlare di ignoranza e conoscenza dei funghi? il 29 ottobre alla fondazione Kessler! #histscie #fungifriends #histmed

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Some archaeological finds may appear unremarkable and ordinary, yet they often are more interesting than any treasure, such as this Roman glass square bottle remarkably containing a rare find – preserved ointment. The waxy mass of fatty acids and glycerine contains plant fibres from...🧵1/2 📷 me

A small Roman square glass bottle with a short neck and a rounded rim, featuring a applied handle on one side. The translucent greenish glass is weathered, and the bottle is filled with pale yellow-brown residue. The vessel sits on a dark display surface, with another stone container blurred in the background.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oct. 13, 1926: The school board in Genoa, Neb., decrees that all girl students must wear skirts long enough to cover their knees—not for morality, they say, but to ensure their warmth in winter. Hazel O'Bryan (seen getting measured) is among girls protesting a dress code from "horse and buggy days."

Hazel O'Bryan being measured by her aunt, Mrs. Mike Brown; at left is her school friend Gladys Bradshaw (Omaha, Neb., Daily Bee)

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is a long shot, but does anyone here have access to a library holding Cosmopolitan USA, 68, issue 5 (May/June). I would need (quite urgently) a high-res photo of p. 120 (advert for Nysis), as running into a copyright issue with image I currently hold. Will pay and acknowledge.

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Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Sappho: ]οὐδ ] ]μ

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Dre Grr @drgrr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#esclavage #HistoireMixte 1852 🇺🇸 Rose femme esclavisée prépare 1 sac en coton pour sa fille de 9 ans, Ashley, sur le point d'être vendue. Il contient un vêtement, un peu de nourriture, un souvenir d'elle-même. Ils sont représentatifs d'un lieu, d'une période et du système de l'esclavage. ⤵️

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Ashley et son sac de coton, tisser les mémoires de l'esclavage : épisode du podcast Esclavage, des histoires intimes | France Culture

AUDIO Esclavage, des histoires intimes, épisode : Ashley et son sac de coton, tisser les mémoires de l'esclavage. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Ashley et son sac de coton, ti...

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Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Early for #MosaicMonday, but a progress update on my edible Theodora mosaic (made out of fondant on wafer paper)! Think it is almost done ☺️

Photo of sheet of water paper with lots of differently colored pieces of fondant that I colored and cut tesserae out of, and made a mosaic of the empress Theodora with a gold background; I attached the tesserae with edible ‘food glue’

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ROWAN @rowanclair.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ginkgo biloba, a living fossil, the last surviving species of its genus.

Illustration of autumn ginkgo leaves in different shades of vibrant yellow.

Illustration of autumn ginkgo leaves in different shades of vibrant yellow arranged into a repeating pattern.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️

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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"GENERATION 67 QUI FAIT MAI 68"

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I have not even received a workload allocation for last year (2024/25) - the same goes for everyone in my school. Other schools were very on top of calculating workloads. As I say, it is a complete mess.

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm very torn on the very notion of workload allocation. On the one hand, I see that it could help have more equality. On the other hand, it completely ignores differences between people and it eats up so much time in and of itself.

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Tbh, I don't have enough of an insight into this to give an accurate answer. Workload modelling has been a constant mess at Cardiff, going from centralisation to decentralisation and back almost on a yearly basis.

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I can't personally record a time when I had 40% of my time allocated to research. Also, for years, we were told that those 1500 points were just points, not hours. Anyway, the situation is of course worse in other places, but worsening of conditions are never good.

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I feel this article lacks a lot of context. I'm at Cardiff and the big change is that this model is now for the entire university. The main aspect is that allocations for most tasks have been revised down and universalised.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 11/10/2026

Only a financial journalist would look at academic publishing and think "what that sector needs is more mergers and private equity" to deal with the mess that financialisation has caused. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Mergers could help by creating savings that offset the increased costs of quality control. The industry’s biggest four groups account for two-fifths of articles published. That leaves plenty of scope to roll up the unwieldy long tail that includes university publishers and professional organisations such as IEEE. There have been a few smaller transactions so far, such as Wiley’s £337mn acquisition of Emerald Publishing in June. But Informa’s decision earlier this week to separate Taylor & Francis from its live events business may give dealmakers a boost.

Private equity can help, having already dipped a toe into the sector: Springer Nature was previously owned by companies including EQT and BC Partners. And the financials still look attractive.

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reminder that "biological sex" is not a thing that exists. It is a legal fiction in every place that refers to it. In the UK, in the equality act, it means "the sex that was written on your original birth certificate." Incidentally, it doesn't matter if that's due to a clerical error.

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‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male

Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changed

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Death by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban

Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026

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Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D. @deadbovids.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is your annual reminder that honeybees aren't native to North America

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ah yes. Zooming in would have helped! Thanks for deciphering it.

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Alt text: placard with, in black ink & block letters: 'Quousque tandem abutere minister patientia nostra?' In smaller letters: 'Latin?' (Perhaps querying how to render ministre in Latin). Love the Ciceronian allusion, although as a student I'd tend to identify with Catilina, not the old fart.

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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gigantesca manifestación en Madrid por el asesinato del rentismo a Maricarmen, mujer desahuciada de 87 años. Impresionante. (Vídeo: Federación Vecinal de Madrid).

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm really digging the historic references in these protests. Probably the best one yet "Everyone reviles the militia" (common protest slogan : everyone hates the police") in mock archaic French. bsky.app/profile/psyc...

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

6,877 taken into police custody since the start of the protests, 86% minors. 1,923 minors face prosecution That means 2/3 of detained children face no prosecution. Considering reports of violence in custody, racist slurs & sexualised insults, this scale of arbitrary detention of minors is staggering

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DIRECT. Mobilisation des lycéens : 6 877 personnes ont été placées en garde à vue, dont 86% de mineurs, selon le dernier décompte du ministère de la Justice

A ce stade, 2 376 personnes font l'objet de poursuites, dont 1 923 mineurs.

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nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They block the exits, and they tell you to leave, then you ask to leave, and they block the exits....and then you make it to one exit and they tell you to go to another exit, and then they scream at you to get back, and they lie to you, and they have the weapons, and they are the weapons

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wish I could explain that dissonance. What I would say to these YP is that you never learn to live with it. It fuels you to seek better throughout your life. And continue to read Rimbaud!

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nothing more perfectly sums up the institutionalization Of revolution more than French riot cops attacking French youth in a place they’ve been taught to celebrate revolution for their entire school career.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Headlines like this have been making the rounds seemingly annually since I was in my twenties, and I think it’s more interesting to ask why this has become a thing. What aspect of public discourse is this motivated to play to?

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Repression in France’s overseas territories gets little attention. But protests are also happening and kids are detained. In Guadeloupe, 21 schools were blocked on the 6th of October. In Le Moule, gendarmes were choking, kicking and pinning a teenager to the ground during his arrest.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This. We need to stop seeing diagnosis as a prerequisite for being flexible and making adjustments. Everyone benefits from the (usually small) changes required. I was talking about this yesterday, for instance how you can sense as a teacher who might struggle with eye contact.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

SO EXCITED to share this CFP for Binning The Classics? Discard Studies and Classical Antiquity, a one day conference on 23rd June 27 I'm co-organising with @rhiannone.bsky.social. Deadline for abstracts is 16th January 2027. If you have thoughts about ephemera, junk, debris and waste, share them!

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CFP: Binning the Classics? Discard Studies and Classical Antiquity

Very glad to share this CFP for a conference I’m organising with my fab colleague Rhiannon Easterbrook under the auspices of the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome. Conference date: …

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is an excellent thread on what is happening in France re student mobilisation. I feel this movement will eventually spread in other European countries as Gens Z and alpha justifiably protest against very poor funding of their education and constant negative press around their 'useless' studies

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The police brutality in response to student movements in France is a stain on French society. Solidarity

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Watching this with great interest (student-led political movement!) and concern (dreadful police repression). Riot police fire teargas as 250,000 take part in schools protests across France www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Riot police fire teargas as 250,000 take part in schools protests across France

Officers also carry out baton charges as students, staff and parents march in cities including Paris, Marseille and Lyon

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gros soupir. How much do these people get paid to repeat such asinine comments ad nauseam?

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We're all used to seeing (and mocking) the endless queues waiting to summit Yr Wyddfa but reading George Borrows' Wild Wales and he records that the mountain's tourism was well enough established in the mid-18thC that there was a permanently inhabited cabin dispensing refreshments located at the top

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Autumn bonfire Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)

On a misty autumn evening, a small group of cows approach a bonfire with curiosity

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Behold the destruction of what made the UK HE system unique. Yes, it is possible to offer a degree without personal tutoring (that is what I experienced during my first degree), but how much will be lost.

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very much agree with this point. Yes, music and languages can be hobbies (language learning is definitely a hobby of mine), but facilitating those hobbies is very different from teaching DEGREES in music or modern languages.

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