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Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Big day! I finally got my own copy of Crossing the Danube. Ten years in the making and it’s now real and in my hands! You can preorder it here press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

A woman (I) wearing a rust-coloured top and blue jeans stands in her living room holding a book with a green cover

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

#TrenchWork The Reality of Archaeology, a very occasional series #Archaeology #Flatlands

Montage of machine excavated archaeological evaluation trenches in a flat arable landscape..

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Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Moodle can be clunky, but it's free and open source. Why would institutions go for a commercial platform? And why is Canvas so dominant in the US?

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Bunkerhunter @bunkerhunter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Ein Sieg für die Demokratie! Und damit wünsche ich eine gute Nacht. 😴

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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Life with a cat with chronic constipation involves a lot of time watching a cat shit. The plant pot isn’t my preferred place, but better out than in.

A cute grey cat squats on an indoor plant pot, about to defecate

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Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I've been so disgusted by everything that's come out about Epstein that I can only handle it in small portions, but this article is such a good survey of the times we live in. It's really worth reading www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club

Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

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Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Yesterday I arranged a trip to the Cairo Geniza unit with students. The earliest dated copy of the Hebrew bible, next to a shopping list of the Chief Rabbi (lemon chicken and molokhia), and at the other end of the table a letter from merchants in India. Such wonderful collection! @theul.bsky.social

The curator Benjamin Outhwaite stands at the end of a long table that is covered in manuscripts. He holds up a letter of Jewish merchants from India.

Bible from Iran
Two leaves from a small codex of the Hebrew Bible, written in an Abbasid style horizontal format. It was written in 903-4 in Gunbad-i-Mallgān. It is the earliest dated copy of the Hebrew Bible. TS NS 246.26.2

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Contemporary campus novel in which a professor from the US pitches up at a British university for a year and realises that no one told them that they had to set their readings and their coursework five months earlier.

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Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

First day of the worst month. But we can get through it! youtu.be/38PB3sBZxf4?...

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Whole 'nother Story - February

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Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

It's a slippery slope. Give them a fire station, and they'll want a national health service. Give them a library, and they'll demand free higher education.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Midweek Treat: #RecipeOfTheDay is Sticky Toffee Pudding, the dark empress of desserts! I can’t even write its name, let alone gaze at this photograph, without wanting to eat it, frankly. www.nigella.com/recipes/stic...

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Sticky Toffee Pudding

There is very little that can compare with the glory of a sticky toffee pudding. My STP is altogether deeper and darker than the original version: it is still sweet, but the muscovado sugar and black ...

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Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Ok, but the time-honoured solution to this problem is to actually read what one cites?

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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Last week, the media declared a “partial victory” for Sandie Peggie, who sued the NHS for letting a trans colleague use the women’s changing room. In fact, the case was a flop. The gender-critical movement might be persuading journalists, but it’s failing with judges 🧵

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute

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Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild: 1. fox (my street) 2. grass snake (in the river Cam) 3. eel (river Cam) 4. peregrine falcons (Cambridge city centre) 5. kingfisher (by the river) Bonus because not really native: muntjac deer (my garden)

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Entitled to lower bills. Entitled to a liveable planet. Entitled to make hope normal again. Know your entitlement. Know our collective power. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The revenge of the entitled. From Zack Polanski to Zohran Mamdani, the angry bourgeoisie is in revolt against populism

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 4 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4 Paleoscience and the Study of Late Antiquity @ucpress.bsky.social @janetekay.bsky.social @shakenbeck.bsky.social @r-c-jackson.bsky.social

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Volume 9 Issue 4 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

Mahmood furious over asylum seeker taxi bills.

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Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Spending a few days in Ljubljana at a workshop on “Bridging History, Archaeology and Natural Sciences”. A great range of sharp papers by PhD students and ECRs.

Kongresni Trg, Ljubljana. A large paved square in the foreground. In the middle distance there are two beautiful 19th-century university buildings, and in the background Ljubljana castle is just visible. It’s autumnal and overcast.

Programme for a workshop titled “Bridging History, Archaeology and Natural Sciences: New Perspectives on Identity, Mobility, and Social Organization in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Three of the log boats discovered during the Must Farm palaeochannel excavations are going on display at Flag Fen Archaeology Park. Nine boats were found with dates ranging from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Rare Bronze Age log boats on display in Peterborough first

The boats

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 09/11/2024

Remember, remember the 9th of November. #OnThisDay in German #history🗃️: 1918: Kaiser dethroned, #WeimarRepublic proclaimed. 1923: Hitler's #BeerHallPutsch coup d'état in Munich fails. 1938: #Kristallnacht. Anti-Jewish Pogroms, synagogues burning. 1989: #BerlinWall falls.

Photo of Philipp Scheidemann proclaiming the Republic from a window of the Reichstag building on 9 November 1918.

Photo of Munich's Marienplatz during the failed Beer Hall Putsch: In the foreground to the right men in Stahlhelm and Swastika brassard on a small truck.

Photo showing the interior view of the destroyed synagogue in Berlin's Fasanenstrasse following the pogrom in November 1938.

Photo of a lot of people standing in front and atop the Berlin Wall. Prominently in the close background: the Brandenburg Gate.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

A satirical poem about universities.
All Staff Assembly

Unlike other universities
We do not have an emergency
However, we must continue
To take action with urgency

Don't let there be rupture
In trust over the new role families
This is not a restructure
There are always some redundancies

We do not work with arms companies
We work with engineering firm subsidiaries
Who produce dual use technologies
That kill people

Some of us are paid very differently
But this is very good for the university
You see, the disparities in our salaries
Are contributions to Diversity

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/10/2025

"We're forty strong, the last holdfast of humanity against the gathering administrative flood. Forty full-timers and adjuncts combined, music professors, theater professors, dance professors."

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Dean of the Dead

The wind howls outside the arts building, drowning out the sound of the approaching deans. We don’t know exactly where they are. The Porcupine and ...

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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It really is quite something that this bill as drafted states plainly that even a net contributor who ever received any state support at any time has to go. Foreigners must do much more than put in more than they take out. They must never feel at home, nor have any access or rights to anything

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Exodus 8:4.

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen for a while. Congrats @deutschebahn.com ! And yes Germans do a sense of humour as well. I guess things need to go to shit before you discover it. 😉

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Susanne Hakenbeck @shakenbeck.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This is a disgraceful reversal by the EAA and a shocking interference in academic freedom.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Swan Lake when?

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