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Steven Hunt

@stevenhuntclass.bsky.social
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Associate Teaching Professor in Classics Education at University of Cambridge. Author, traveller, pianist.

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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The value of University Outreach www.stevenhuntclassics.com/post/opening...
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Opening Cambridge’s Doors: Why Outreach Visits Matter More Than We Think
Over coffee yesterday, Molly Willett from the Cambridge Classics outreach team told me about a visit she’d just hosted: four Year 12 students from a London school, accompanied by their teacher – who h...
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A blog on my adventure in the #european Parliament on the subject of teaching ancient #greek www.stevenhuntclassics.com/post/interna...
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International Day of the Greek Language at the European Parliament
On the evening of 3rd February 2026 I had the honour of speaking at this event. I explained the hard work done by teachers and students in the UK in making Ancient Greek and Ancient Greece accessible,...
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Chasing India Gate: A Very Determined Stroll Through New Delhi
On our final day in New Delhi, we decided it was time. India Gate had been hovering on our mental to‑do list all week, and now, armed with Google Maps, stubbornness and a questionable sense of directi...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is the most dreadful nonsense I've read all week what is the matter with these joyless cunts
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 29/01/2026
What's not surprising is that the people who think LLMs improve general productivity are the same who will contract out a site to PwC.
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Roel Konijnendijk @roelkonijn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Incredible shot of the Hellenic Navy's new frigate Kimon being welcomed yesterday by the trireme Olympias and the armoured cruiser Averof (photo by Nick Dendris)
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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
There are a lot of factors contributing to disillusionment among creators, but one big element is that you can work and strive and dedicate years to honing your craft and building an audience and still be fighting for pennies, while the money people will gladly throw billions at the new slop fad.
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Ryan Bernardoni @dangercart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Stealworkers
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A peep into the archives of #Latin #teaching in 1971 www.stevenhuntclassics.com/post/living-...
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Living the dream: why live questioning is a good thing
I’ve been reading some of the articles in the journal Latin Teaching, which was published by the Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching, whose archives I have begun to explore. I came across thi...
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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
a poster with a blue background and an isometric pattern of green hexes with a blue and red decoration. the text reads CALLING ALL HISTORICAL GAMERS: Playful Time Machines is an NWO-funded research project investigating what historical video gameplay means to players. We are looking for survey respondents aged 18 and up who play grand strategy, action/ adventure, and shooter games about the past! Fill in our survey at edu.nl/7w3yn!
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
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Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education
The production and circulation of knowledge in education increasingly depends on large-scale digital infrastructures. In this article we provide a critical review of the transformation of the conte...
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A short blog post of the Conference on Comprehensible Input in Ancient Languages Teaching which I organised at the Faculty of Classics in the University of Cambridge - published by the @Classical_Assoc classicalassociation.org/ci-in-ancient-… #Latin #Greek #Classics #Education
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Getting close to the CI conference I’m running on 24 October in Cambridge. In person and online. Free, but you need to collect a ticket to get sign up details. www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
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Select tickets – Comprehensible Input in Ancient Languages Teaching – Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Comprehensible Input in Ancient Languages Teaching – Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, Fri 24 Oct 2025 - Building upon last year's successful ancient languages teaching conferen...
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Dr Christine Plastow @chrissieplastow.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Here's your annual reminder: whether you received A-level results today, years ago, or never, there's space for you at the @openuniversity.bsky.social!
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Look, I know it's highly unlikely any actual teenagers getting results are On Here, but if you're in the vicinity of one thinking about engaging with Clearing, the Classics dept at Royal Holloway has places, and I think we're jolly good. As are our Humanities colleagues.
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Clearing vacancies
Courses available via Clearing.
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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · 13/08/2025
Please boycott Duolingo. It was a bad app that only worked for people who already knew the language even before going 'AI-first'. Repeat after us: you cannot learn a language 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙨 speak through AI generated content. techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/t...
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The backlash against Duolingo going 'AI-first' didn't even matter | TechCrunch
Duolingo faced significant backlash for announcing that it would become an "AI-first" company -- and yet, the app posted strong financials this quarter.
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This got published 7 years ago (author’s copy pictured). Mai, Arlene and I decided that make classics education in schools and informal settings and provide practical, inspirational examples. 7 years isn’t long ago, but feels like it! We’ve come a long way since! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/forward-w...
Front cover of book ‘Foreard with Classics’
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Extraordinarry!
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Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori] @futuritas.eu · 08/08/2025
What's the value of academic articles and doing research? The product or the process? This article has been a long process, and how I've processed the ongoing AI disruption of research. I use it very little, and while it's clearly not all bad, I argue for caution. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Registration now open! Join the ICS, American Friends of Herculaneum & UK Herculaneum Society for: Herculaneum: Contexts, Present Progress and Future Prospects. Mon 13 Oct, 9.30am-5.30pm Tues 14 Oct, 10.30am-5pm ics.sas.ac.uk/events/herculaneum-contexts-present-progress-and-future-prospects
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 04/08/2025
I originally thought it a good thing when dog-whistling politicians finally allowed their racism to show overtly. I thought they’d be seen for what they were, booted off the media and thrown out of their parties. I was a fool.
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This man is a Conservative MP and former No.10 adviser.
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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
#gamingthepast
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SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com · 30/07/2025
ICYMI: UK readers can win a bundle of all five Cesare Aldo historical thrillers! Find out more in my latest author newsletter: dvbishop.substack.com/p/aldo-book-...
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Aldo book bundle contest
Win all five D V Bishop historical thrillers*
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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"Gaming the Battle of Alesia: a lesson in ethics" Kate Nolting discusses what she learnt about Applied Classics by designing a role-playing game based on ancient warfare to teach lessons about ethics and political ideologies in modern classrooms. modernclassics.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/06/06/g...
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Only a day to wait before we find out if this happens!
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Katrin Dirim @katrindirim.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Finally got done with my piece for this pride month! 🌈
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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
When you both want to wear the new zebra-print co-ord out 👍🏛️🍑🦓 #MuseumBums "Decoys and Ghosts" by John Rainey, in their current exhibition at @goldenthreadni.bsky.social Thanks @cal.br for sharing 😁
Two sculptures the shape of classical statues but a light teal colour. The bottom half of one is painted with black and white stripes, and the top half of the other is also
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Once upon a time, I spent nearly 2 years in Australia. Got to experience Macquarie as an Ancient History powerhouse for all of Australasia. Until recently, it had a concentration of Late Antiquity expertise few universities in the world could boast. This is horrifying. Solidarity with our colleagues
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
hands-up-education.org/conf25.html Saturday 7 June £49 or less (if you’re a Pgce) London Museum of London Come learn more about developments with the best (Spoiler, I’m going to run through GenAI)
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A view to die for
Venice. The Grand Canal view, in the sunshine, with boats
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
£20 Rome to Florence. High speed. Truly comfortable. What’s not to like?
Italian red train
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Wish I could attend!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

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Freshman, Yarmouth High School
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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Classical Association is offering (paid, remote) internships this summer. There are 4/6/8 week placements available. Closing date: 8 June, applicants must be UK based and aged 18 or older at the time of the internship. Further details are all here: classicalassociation.org/internships
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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 13/05/2025
🚨The House of Lords have voted for a significant amendment to the Data Bill, forcing AI companies to disclose the copyrighted works used to train their models. Read all about it here: www.alcs.co.uk/news/house-o...
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House of Lords pass transparency requirement amendment for AI training
Lords voted 272 votes to 125 in favour of the amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, which requires AI companies to reveal which copyrighted materials they have used to train their models.
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Candace Richards @circa-candace.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Out now! A collaborative volume that explores provenance, pedagogy, participatory programming and ethics for managing ancient Mediterranean collections in this region by #museum experts and researchers. 🏺📜🖼🏛 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Mediterranean Collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand | Pers
This volume brings together academics and museum professionals responsible for ancient Mediterranean collections across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to
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SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com · 07/05/2025
Only 50 days until my new Cesare Aldo historical thriller CARNIVAL OF LIES gets unleashed by @panmacmillan.bsky.social...
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
It was a pleasure!
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
New issue of Journal of Classics Teaching: Vol. 26 , No. 51 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess @cambridgeup.bsky.social @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social @corabeth.bsky.social
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
My last JCT Editorial! In which I describe the Journal’s evolution and offer some thoughts on the media treatment of the cancellation of the Latin Excellence programme, the Curriculum Review, and a brief tribute to Alan Clague, who passed away earlier this year. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This book was much discussed at #ressdiff5 where Dr. Derbew spoke about bringing Africa into the Classics (and non-Classics) classroom, it's going to be a great resource #ancientbluesky
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Stanford and Yale back Harvard in opposition to the Trump administration 👏 thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Geoff Barton @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“The wealth of bands, orchestras, concerts and gigs we see today isn’t a predictor of our musical future, it’s a reflection of our educational past”: powerful @theguardian.com letter on the bleak decline of music in state schools …
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Steven Hunt @stevenhuntclass.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Today was a tidying up day with the Journal of Classics Teaching, whose reins I shall soon be handing over to another editor. Sad to do my last editorial. So here’s a tree frog to cheer up. #classics
Green tree frog with lugubrious expression
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
What I don't think those in power or even the public realise, is that if the higher education sector full on collapses (it's toppling right now), the economic, research, and investment ramifications over the next 10 - 15 years will be devastating for the UK.
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Dr Aimee Scott @aimeehindsscott.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hello! I'm looking for work in teaching post 16 - FE, HE, and/or continuing ed. I can teach Classics, Ancient History, English Literature, and Art History. Short term or visiting lecturer work welcome!
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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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