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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The event all Minoan scholars have been waiting for - World Octopus Day 🐙

Minoan vessel with spout, featuring a slightly stunned-looking and highly stylised painted octopus rendered in dark brown on cream.

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me: I'm going to submit my PhD by Christmas. Also me: That thing you found in that archive last week would make a fantastic foundation for a murder mystery novel.

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I won an award at Bristol for my AFHEA portfolio (!) yesterday and just spent the book token prize on some Loebs and feel slightly giddy. Haven't bought new Loebs in a million years, but it feels v. fitting for a prize, right?

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Hey have any expert ANE linguist folks commented on the possible Linear A discovery yet?

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

People on the other place losing their minds about the Odyssey, but nobody will ever go as hard as the 1968 Lob/Pichard comic (which must surely have influenced Ulysses 31?):

Comic book artwork featuring the head of a woman with blue skin and an elaborate yellow headdress emerging from the sea, with her mouth open, and a tiny naked man floating on a seashell, arm raised in fear, about to be swallowed up. The title, Ulysse, is in pink block caps, vertical down the centre of the image above her head.

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I've been writing about the extraordinary beauty of Minoan women this term - just look at this partial reconstruction by Émile Gilliéron, from a fragment of a woman wearing a lavishly embroidered flame-red gown with blue trim, breasts bare and arm raised in a confident gesture (Ashmolean Museum).

Fresco fragment of right breast and sleeved arm of a Minoan woman, with pencil drawing reconstruction around it.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.' Academia is a "greedy" occupation.

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The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities - LSE Impact

Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The more Spartan history you learn, the more you realise how little we actually know! And how much of the evidence contradicts itself.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Hugely excited that my new book, 'Stonehenge: The Story of an Icon', has been published by English Heritage! This has been several years in the making, quite a bit written before I left EH. Very pleased with the end result: www.english-heritageshop.org.uk/stonehenge-s...

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Stonehenge: Story of an Icon Book

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

There is a job for which I am not remotely qualified, and to be quite honest, not interested in, but it is tangentially in my field & at an institution I love, and I KEEP CLICKING ON IT. I have zero intention of sporting with anybody's sanity by applying, but I really need to stop re-reading the ad.

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Just been followed, unfollowed and followed again (what in the Twitter?) by a commercial conference on gender that charges speakers $1000 - why are people I know following them back?

Screenshot of pricing tiers of rip-off conference - prices range from $499 to $1099 to attend online, and it's $999 to speak!

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Are you - or is someone you know - a PhD student or ECR working on Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age/Archaic Greece? And within striking distance of London to tell us about your research in May (we have some money to help with travel costs)? Please share! forms.gle/PijTVxb7a8Nh...

Photograph of a fragmentary Bronze Age fresco of a bull and three athletes from Knossos, Crete.

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Now available for preorder, with promo code TCCCR2026, "The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race," a major intervention against the decades-old orthodoxy of the alleged anachronism of "race" and "racism" for the study of the ancient past. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race

Cambridge Core - Classical Studies (General) - The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Serendipitously found a desk with a window right by the history of tuberculosis shelf on my 1st visit to the Humanities Library in the Schwartzman (where I’d planned to write about TB!). Who even knew there would BE a history of tuberculosis - or phthisis - shelf here? @bodhumslib.bsky.social

Closeup photograph of 8 library books about the history of tuberculosis on a bookshelf.

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Very glad I went into Oxfam on Cotham Hill in Bristol this morning! @lemoustier.bsky.social

Photograph of a hand holding up a hardback copy of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes, with a window frame and greenery in the background.

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

A while ago I was chatting about the job market with a precariously employed academic and I asked them how many times a day/week they check jobs.ac.uk and they said "haha no, but sometimes friends send me a link from there if they think it's interesting" and I think about that a lot.

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Dr Hélène Maloigne @hmaloigne.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

You can also join our Online Support Group to receive regular updates, join meetings and connect with fellow scholars at all career stages. We welcome everyone regardless of career stage, publication record or academic status forms.gle/hqiSNHBCAoCk...

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Historians of Archaeology - Online Support Group

Welcome to the Historians of Archaeology (HoA) Online Support Group! Please use this form to join the group and to join our mailing list. Membership to the group is free, all meetings will be hosted ...

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Insomnia last night boded ill for this morning, but have blazed through my to-do list, with a job application out, material for my supervisor sent, a conference org. meeting and my "homework" for it done. Now a pre-writing break before the children come home from school. Startled by my own power.

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New Snake Goddess just dropped: "La santa y la serpiente" by Nieves González. 🐍

3/4 length portrait of a very pale and serious young woman with bobbed crimson hair, wearing a bubblegum pink short sleeved shortie rash suit and a green inflatable snake swim ring.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Oxford’s most Oxford-y (free!) newsletter. In our midweek edition: 🏗 Botley Road bridge latest 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Flags go up… and down 🎼 Choral music bonanza 🍻 Oxford Pub of the Year 🐓 Save a hen! Plus politics, research news, trains and buses, and more. Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

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The Clarion, 3 February 2026

Botley Road, choral music, flags, pubs (award-winning and political), disgraced alumni and a train toilet nightmare. Happy Tuesday! This week’s long reads This week is Oxford Living Wage Week. In a...

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Griffith Institute @griffithinstitute.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

We are busy updating the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive with material and we are happy to announce that all related maps, plans, sketches and drawings are now available online! You can browse them here: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/maps-plans-s... As always, we welcome any feedback!

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has almost 75,000 signatures! Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I have an elderly parent who doom-scrolls, seeking out the grimmest news he can find globally. I can't stop him doing it, but I CAN pepper his intake with stories of positivity, like this unbelievable rebuilding of one of Ireland's derelict castles:

The rebuilt music room of Castlefreke in Co. Cork, Ireland, with an astonishing fan-design stucco ceiling created by stuccodores Kevin Holbrook and Dolcie Keogh.

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John Lidwell-Durnin @johnlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Science fiction (good and bad) plays a lot of roles in public culture: one of those roles is to provide a repository for guesses + prognostications on what the future might hold. Sometimes science fiction becomes self-fulfilling (see Zuckerberg's choice of the term 'metaverse')... 🧵

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Starting the new year at the beautiful Gamelands stone circle: www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/gamelands-fi...

Warmly dressed smiling woman standing beside a large, partially submerged stone in a grassy, rural landscape. More similar stones are visible about 40m away in the background.

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A beautiful sketch of a praying or weeping woman in The Palace of Minos by Sir Arthur Evans, depicted in a Minoan bronze figurine found at Troy in the 19th century, now at the Neues Museum in Berlin. The drawing might be by Emile Gillieron. id.smb.museum/object/69487...

Two hatched pen and ink drawings of the back and side of of a figurine of a woman with bowed head and elaborately braided and coiled hair. She is bare-breasted, and holding her right arm up to press her hand against her brow.

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Highlights of @tag2025york.bsky.social : 1. Giving my paper to such a lovely audience 2. Listening to so many great people 3. Dancing with them at the amazing party 4. The taxi driver who gave me a DETAILED account of his sister’s gangrene en route, prompting me to switch to the bus the next day

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Help! Banbury Museum has been told that Cherwell District Council is cancelling ALL of its core funding. There is a very tight deadline - Friday 19th December - to tell the Council what you think. Please respond to the consultation and share this post www.banburymuseum.org/news/no-fund...

Blue background with the text 'No Funding No Museum' and 'Banbury Museum and Gallery' overlain with a red slashed circle.

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Ploughing thru' the 423 pg @tag2025york.bsky.social abstract book & trying to narrow down the speakers I'd love to hear - impossible task! It helps/does not help at all that every paper at @suegreaney.bsky.social 's Power & Politics panel looks so good - speaking (1st! 😨) but then enjoying the rest!

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The next meetings of the Script Keepers Network will be next Sunday, 14th December, all very welcome. Here are the zoom registration links: 09:00 ET (14.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 16:00 ET (21.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Just got the full programme for TAG in York week after next and it's INCREDIBLE - mostly though I am boundlessly impressed at the how much work has gone into pulling all this together. Gosh. @tag2025york.bsky.social Anyway - I can't WAIT.

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Faculty of History, University of Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

We are hiring! We have an exciting opportunity for someone to facilitate research and engagement work in relation to a major exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, around the theme of sensory experiences and exchanges across the early modern world. Apply now! www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/resear...

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Research Assistant in Global Renaissance Studies

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Trying to ignore my two flu-ridden teenagers, and back to marking some genuinely good essays, including a budding Linear B scholar who is going take all our jobs some day (if there are jobs to be taken, etc. etc.).

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

4. The Aegean Linear script Or Linear A and B if you prefer! Bronze Age syllabic systems with logograms (or whatever you want to call them) - which is the very subject of this recent presentation by me. youtu.be/oqwzTSLCeBE?... #adventcalendar

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Sematography in Linear A and B and related problems

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Switching from writing to marking for a few days and genuinely looking forward to reading what these students have to say about archaeology and material remains. Then next week, back to what *I* have to say about archaeology (and material forgeries…).

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Griffith Institute @griffithinstitute.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

100 years after Tutankhamun’s mummified body was unwrapped, we are retelling this story through the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, a new searchable database of every archaeological record from the tomb’s excavation. Explore the Beta release on the 1925 unwrapping: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk

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Explore Tutankhamun's tomb through the excavation records of Howard Carter and his team in the 1920s

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Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Hi all, A modest proposal on the contours and future of Decolonial Archaeology (open access). Grateful to all who inspired the ideas! I would welcome all feedback and critique. A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair

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Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

If you’re in Oxford TODAY, it will be lovely to see you @blackwelloxford.bsky.social at 5.30pm 📗 #Economica #womenwealthpower

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British School at Athens @britschoolathens.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

📢 Vacancy on the Crete Subcommittee Applications are invited from those interested in becoming a member of the Crete Subcommittee to serve for four years from 1 April 2026. Check out our website to find out more! www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/07/v... Deadline: Friday 19 December

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British School at Athens : Vacancy on the Crete Subcommittee

Applications are invited from those interested in becoming a member of the Crete Subcommittee (https://www.bsa.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Annexe-A_ToR_Oct-2025.pdf) to serve for four years from ...

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Interested in getting some hands on experience with our collections? We're looking for volunteers to help catalogue and research our collection of 17th-century tokens. Volunteering will usually take place on a Thursday, 2 hours per week. Email gallery@leeds.ac.uk for the full role description.

White and purple text over a photograph of a gloved hand holding a coin reads "Volunteer with us! Coin Collection Volunteer - 17th century tokens"

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I'm a fan of volunteering as a way to gain valuable cv-friendly experience, which can be tricky, but I don't think volunteers should be load-bearing in any way like project manager, compared to "helps at coin-handling sessions 2 Saturdays a month" or data entry. But I just saw a volunteering opp 1/3

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Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Join us on the 27th of November for the 7th LBA/EIA Aegean ECR group online conference, happening from 2-6pm (UK time)! We have some fantastic speakers joining us this year (see the poster below), and we look forward to welcoming you - register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BTwUa6HmBB

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Laura Alvarez (University of Cambridge): Understanding 'ritual' symbols of the Minoan period through the body

Dermot Grant (Trinity College Dublin): Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Commercial and Navigation Networks: Artefact Based v Simulations

Myrto Kokkalia (Université Libre de Bruxelles): Late Geometric and Archaic storage vases (pithoi) in the Cyclades: typology, uses and contexts

Renée Trepagnier (University of Bristol and Ashmolean Museum): Using the Archive as Subject: The Cases of the North-East House and the North Pillar Crypt at Knossos

Panagiotis Koutsouris: Negotiated Landscapes: Uneven Territorial Integration in the LH IIIB Argolid and Corinthia

Sarah Lidwell-Durnin (University of Bristol): Exercising Power at Knossos: The Captain of the Blacks and Imperial Preconceptions

If you have any questions, please contact the organiser: sarah.lidwell-durnin@bristol.ac.uk

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