Steven Hunt

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...

A Hundred Dalmatians.

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!

Clearing vacancies Courses available via Clearing.

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.

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.

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...

Front cover of book ‘Foreard with Classics’

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...

Extraordinarry!

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...

When Pompeii gets all the limelight (not complaining!) it’s good to see a conference on ‘the Other Place’

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

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.

This man is a Conservative MP and former No.10 adviser.

#gamingthepast

Aldo book bundle contest Win all five D V Bishop historical thrillers*

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-...

"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...

Only a day to wait before we find out if this happens!

Finally got done with my piece for this pride month! 🌈

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

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 😁

What a fabulous endorsement!

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

Thank you! Of course - now I see it!

Not sure I see it…someone pulling another out of the river, with a rope tied on. My eyesight might be poor!

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)

Venice. The Grand Canal view, in the sunshine, with boats

A view to die for

Necesse est mihi esse celer. Willing to be shot down in this. But I’d take celer to be the nominative because it’s affected by the verb esse

Necesse est mihi festinare. I prefer this…

Italian red train

£20 Rome to Florence. High speed. Truly comfortable. What’s not to like?

Wish I could attend!

Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.

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. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

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...