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Rachel Wood

@rklwood.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Hellenistic History, Cardiff. Classical archaeologist. Art and religion in ancient Iran.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️
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Alumni petition against the cuts to the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Any Exeter alumni who wish for their names to be added to the petition below should please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/SpdYvmmsCaJbmZft6. If you are not an alumnus, but still wis...
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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
How many FTE is that, anyway? Asking for quite a few friends.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Disgrace even by standards of Cardiff University It's fundamental violation of trust: the Salisbury Collection is a national possession of rare books, not an institutional asset to be discarded at whim The new Welsh Govt must intervene at Cardiff nation.cymru/news/fears-f...
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Fears for thousands of rare books as Cardiff University plans 'proof of concept' experiment
Martin Shipton Staff and students at Cardiff University have launched a petition aimed at stopping changes to the Arts and Social Sciences Library they fear could lead to the loss of thousands of rare...
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Rachel Wood @rklwood.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We found out through social media that they are shutting our library next month. At the same time as turfing us out of our offices for the summer.
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Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!
7km of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 15/05/2026
Postgraduate students at Cardiff University have complained about a lack of consultation over the £2m refurbishment of a building that Schools and staff were removed from in a cuts programme last year ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1liO
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 28/04/2026
Why’s an American pressure group that helped overturn Roe v Wade suddenly taken an interest in your local park? Anti-rights movements won't stop with trans people, and we must hold back the tide. Get behind @transsolidarity.bsky.social’s campaign: protectparkrun.uk
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Keep the ADF out of parkrun
The Alliance Defending Freedom helped overturn Roe v Wade. Now they have broken cover in the UK to threaten parkrun over trans inclusion. We have to act.
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Katherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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Ittai Gradel: Antiquities dealer who exposed British Museum thefts dies aged 61
Dr Ittai Gradel made global headlines after exposing the thefts of many artefacts from the British Museum.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Hearing that the splendid Dame @averilcam.bsky.social has passed. She was an amazing scholar. She will be missed. Please note her memoir and remember to cite her as one of the pivotal founders of the field we now call Late Antiquity. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
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Brepols - Transitions
Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...
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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
An urgent appeal to preserve Iran’s civilian infrastructure. Posting this again, now on a more reputable site. Please sign this to oppose T-rumps mad and criminal threat to destroy Iranian power plants. This catastrophe will lead to thousands of deaths! Please sign! c.org/YqBjzSXXbL
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Sign the Petition
An Appeal to Preserve the Civilian Infrastructure in Iran
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
You’re Dead To Me Live plays Cardiff (Thursday 9th), Edinburgh (Sunday 12th) and Manchester (Monday 13th) this week — we’re doing a 2 hour romp through the life of Alexander the Great If you’re a student who’d like to come, and you don’t already have a ticket, DM me for a educational discount code
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Rachel Wood @rklwood.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Spotted this enchanting looking thing featured in a bookshop while browsing on a windy Saturday morning. Looking forward to reading it @gevemac.bsky.social !
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Most humanities research — including the best, most world leading research by people we’ve all heard of — is unfunded, by which they mean produced as part of one’s routine job as a university lecturer, just “not funded by a big competitive external grant”. This would mean the death of research.
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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Problematic (to put it kindly) on so many levels. 1) there isn't really 'unfunded' research. The REF is there to allocate resources so that research is possible without a grant.
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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Khameleon Classics is quite a contained series of episodes – just 30 in total. They explore the obsession with Classics, what counts and why, the complicated legacy of colonialism, and how we might use ancient history to fight for a fairer society today. www.khameleonproductions.com/khameleon-cl...
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Khameleon Classics — Khameleon Productions
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"My fiancée Reem and I are separated from our families, trying to survive on what little we can find. The internet barely works. Electricity is a luxury. Food is a miracle." Beautifully written piece by @its2sakher.bsky.social Pls do read & share. First hand accounts from Gaza are so important. 👇
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Surviving Gaza: a personal account of life under siege
"Gaza is not just a news headline. It is my home. It is full of people who want to live -not just survive, but live in dignity, in safety, in freedom."
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*
A news story: "Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise"
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Spiteful, petty bean counters nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
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Cardiff University academic who objected to cuts robbed of title through 'spite'
Martin Shipton A distinguished archaeologist and academic who publicly opposed Cardiff University’s cuts programme has been “spitefully” denied a status often given to retired professors. James Whitle...
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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history
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Liz Morrish @lizmorrish.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Pecking away at UK universities
Is there a problem of relevance in UK universities? Liz Morrish considers the idea that acquiring a body of knowledge is redundant in the age of AI. Maybe universities should just concentrate on te…
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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New book out just in time for summer hols. The story of ancient #Carthage - from its 9th century BCE foundations to the tragic end, burnt to the ground in 146BCE by #Rome. 700 years as a foundational part of the western Mediterranean and 🐘 🐘🐘🐘 too. Thanks to @Eburybooks for making it all possible
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.” Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
People, seriously, will you PLEASE knock it off with the AI/LLM usage. You are causing actual droughts, and for what? Bullshit and slop. It’s embarrassing. You are embarrassing.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This hasn’t even made the news.
The level of criminal incompetence exposed by recent witnesses to the UK covid 19 inquiry… has proven that many, if not most of over 230,000 deaths were prevebtable’
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
University is not a business, education is not a product.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
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Dave @sharewyatt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🌟 @caerheritage.bsky.social BIG DIG open day! 🌟 🗓 Sat. 28th June 🕚 11am – 2pm 📍 Trelai Park Get ready to discover 4,000 years of Cardiff's history 🙂 ⛏️ Dig tours! 🎶 Music Workshops! 🎨 Art Workshops! 🍴 Heritage food tasting! @learncardiff.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social @ltotelin.bsky.social
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Annelies Cazemier @cazemiera.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Next Tuesday, 17th June, 2-5pm (UK), we are excited to hold our online roundtable on Past, Present, and Future Research on the Antigonids. This concludes the fifth year of #AntigonidNetwork activities. An opportunity to reflect but also to look ahead. #AncientBluesky Register to join us on Zoom.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Antigonid Network Roundtable. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Antigonid Network Roundtable. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Cops are shooting impact munitions madly. They're shooting at people who are simply moving along on sidewalks and leaving the area as they were ordered to do. No one in this video is throwing anything at police. Mounted cops are coming up behind people and hitting them with extra long riot batons.
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Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
❗Yesterday Cardiff University Senate, the body responsible for upholding academic standards, voted to NOT recommend management’s toxic 'Academic Futures' cuts plan to Cardiff University Council.❗ The ball is now in Council’s court at its meeting next Tuesday, 17th.
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
So this has become a short thread of archaeologists talking about all the interesting & important aspects of research which are not excavation. In fact excavation has always been only a small aspect of our work. But my Q to non-archaeologists, 'what would draw you to these stories' is unanswered>
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Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A clear message in support of Ancient History at Cardiff from colleagues across the UK. The university Council decides on Ancient History's fate in 6 days' time, along with the provision of Religion & Theology, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
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Rachel Wood @rklwood.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I'm guessing this film is not about what some of us might at first think @gevemac.bsky.social @josephinequinn.bsky.social ...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Trump's war to destroy Harvard. As the US government slashes Harvard’s funding, Nature has learnt that researchers at the university have lost nearly 1,000 grants worth more than US$2.4 billion.
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Harvard researchers devastated as Trump team cuts nearly 1,000 grants
Nature talks with scientists about an uncertain future as the US government lays siege to their university.
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CSMBR Pisa @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We are glad to share this Call for Papers for the conference 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒. 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐥𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 6-7 October 2025 University of Malta. 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨 𝐚𝐭: www.um.edu.mt/events/disco... #CSMBR #Opportunities #Conferences
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
👀 www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
“Even so, demand for humanities majors is on the rise, and with good reason.

“At a conference last year, Robert Goldstein, the chief operating officer of BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, said the firm was adjusting its hiring strategy for recent grads. “We have more and more conviction that we need people who majored in history, in English, and things that have nothing to do with finance or technology,” Goldstein said.

“This demand for liberal arts degrees is due in part to the rise of artificial intelligence, which drives the need for creative thinking and so-called soft skills.”
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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).
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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is the UK.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I’ve done this. The text boxes give you several opportunities to use words like ‘shameful’, ‘inaccurate’, ‘immoral’, ‘irresponsible’, ‘misinformed’ and ‘planet-burning’.
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
[NEW VIDEO] Archaeology is under siege from popular anti-intellectual influencers. I document threats and harassment and provide actionable strategies for promoting public educational content Watch, like, comment, and share to boost visibility 🧪🏺 #AncientBlueSky youtu.be/F5PvwzgfKKw
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The Archaeology Wars: Call-To-Action to Support Public Education & Science Communication
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Fellowship in the History of Islamic Art and Material Culture- Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMW330/f...
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Fellowship in the History of Islamic Art and Material Culture at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
An opportunity for an academic position as a Fellowship in the History of Islamic Art and Material Culture is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
joining the war on cancer, on the side of cancer
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Rachel Wood @rklwood.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
A privilege to hear my most excellent colleague @gevemac.bsky.social introduce Ancient History at @cardiffuni.bsky.social to students joining us in September, and discuss the Phoenicians. And now I really want to go to Cadiz.
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On a clear day @icanseeforever1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
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achukilissa @achukilissa.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  A
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Nic Baker-Brian @bluntnorthener.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The existential threat to the study of Theology in a secular Welsh university context is a major issue and one which Cardiff has yet to address. Wales should not have to rely on English institutions for this provision.
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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...
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Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 at University of Oxford
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 on jobs.ac.uk!
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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism
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David Mouritsen @davidmouritsen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I’m at a loss for expletives
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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
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