Kate Innes

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As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Stained glass artwork featuring a running hare facing right in a crescent frame with floral border

English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by folklore and nature #WomensArt
#March1st #Spring

Useful corrective to this series.

It is possible to recognise the Iranian regime is hideous, murdering their own citizens, and ideally would be replaced by a more democratic government, and that the US bombing a city of millions is a bad thing and starting an illegal war is really bad. You don't have to support either government. 1/

Never deleting this vid @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️

A good society is where people have plenty of legal rights but never even have to think of going to law to enforce them.

A bad society is where legal rights are fragile or contested or violated and the courts are overloaded with cases.

A terrible society is where rights are not legally protected.

Today in every conservative accusation is a confession

The goddess Selket (with a scorpion on her head) arms outstretched guards the gilded funeral shrine of Tutankhamen.

Selket - one of the 4 goddesses who guard Tutankhamen's canopic jars. And a powerful, protective deity against potentially fatal scorpion stings named ‘She who causes the throat to breathe’
I was fascinated when I first saw her in the 1970’s - perhaps because asthma nearly ended my life. #egyptology

"Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility." from "Deep in Admiration" by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Deep in Admiration" was a talk given at the conference Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Dangerous Planet at UC Santa Cruz in May 2014. The text appears as the foreword to the collection Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 (published by PM Press).

Tutankhamen’s wife, Ankhesenamun, passes him an arrow on the lid of this box, made of ebony, copper, ivory, calcite and faience. The women of Egypt had more rights and power than most in the ancient world - and could own their own property. But female rulers were rare. More about them coming soon!

Nefertari - wife of Ramesses II in pleated top and elaborate wig, supports the monumental statue of her husband with one elegant hand.

The back of the massive statue of Ramesses II in the Grand Egyptian Museum inner courtyard, showing his wife and a column of hieroglyphs

Ramesses II monumental statue from Temple of Ptah at Memphis

Egypt day 1 cont.
Well, yeah. I guess Ramesses II is kinda great - but I can’t help being more intrigued by his diminutive wife - Nefertari (tucked behind his left knee) & other women of ancient Egypt. Nefertari was his 1st & head wife, and he gave her the title: the one for whom the sun shines 🌞😎

🏺🗃️ The #Historians of #Archaeology group website launches soon!

historiansofarchaeology.wordpress.com

We welcome submissions for the blog from everyone working on any aspect of the history of archaeology (excavations, object provenance, community, popular histories, histories of science...)
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I should think you deserve a special signed copy! 🏹 Let me know 😊

🚨Job alert: A fixed-term lectureship in #Egyptology (2 years) at Oxford, to cover the sabbatical leave of two members of staff, Richard Parkinson (2026-7) and Elizabeth Frood (2027-8); see
www.jobs.ac.uk/.../departme....
or search for 'Departmental Lecturer in Egyptology' on: jobs.ox.ac.uk

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

Egypt - day one 🌞
The Grand Egyptian Museum truly lived up to its name. But in the midst of the monuments & bling I found a few more natural, humble inspirations.
Animals were crucial part of Egyptian mythology, religion and artistry - as they are across the world. Tongues out! 😛
#Egypt #egyptology

I’ll definitely check them out. I need something intriguing and a bit bonkers atm - and Ovid is a hero of mine.

This sounds totally brilliant

The following images each contain a description of the course - you can find an accessible version of that description by clicking the link in the next post.

Friends! For the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s free learning platform I wrote a course: Exploring Ovid’s big ideas. It’s about Pacific Islander creation myth, monsters, Brazilian art, how stories change their meaning across time, British-Nigerian poetry, and of course… about Ovid. 💻🏺

Before I post the ancient tombs & temples from our recent trip to Egypt, sit with me at this table in the Fayoum in the morning sunlight, as it warms us & the cats at our feet, dancing across arabesques of wood.
The warmth of Egypt comes from its people and their artistry, as well as the 🌞
#egypt

Various British icons that are here through direct or parental immigration laid out like Sgg Peppers album cover which also is a result of immigration.

Just a reminder to any racist millionaire football club owners out there that without immigration we wouldn't have any of this

Repost from @‌nbcolympics

Nazgul started the day as a regular dog — ended it a #WinterOlympics legend. Safely returned home, sprint form: absolutely elite!

Raise your voice for wolves today at teamwolf.org!

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Died (alas!) on this day in 1538, in his home town of Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer. Here, Alexander the Great & Persian king Darius clash in the Battle of Issus, painted by Altdorfer in 1529.

'BBC policy on Brexit is not impartial' Why is the BBC giving so much time to hardline Brexiteers, asks journalist Raymond Snoddy

After the referendum, the BBC chief Lord Hall ordered the BBC to treat Brexit as a done deal, a decision which all but wholly excluded Remainer opinion from the BBC for around 2 years, thus grossly biasing the Brexit debate. It was a grotesque abuse of democracy.
www.radiotimes.com/tv/current-a...

I love this poem - thanks for posting it today, Bob.

Europe doesn’t need an apocalypse to lose to Russia.All it takes is a”bad peace"in Ukraine&a few well-timed crises in Europe itself.The essence of the scenario isn’t that Russia will”defeat NATO"in a major war.The essence is that the Kremlin can win without a major war

📹17.07.2025/BBC News,chykahlo