Greg Woolf

As we continue on to engage other archaeological institutions, we are posting this final statement on the WAC campaign. We, unlike the World Archaeological Congress organisation, will not move quietly on, while Palestinians continue to be starved and slaughtered by Israel.

The British Academy is opening a call for evidence from individuals and organisations with expertise in the key public policy areas for social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The trans rights stitch-up How government plans to silence debate on the new rules

It's very telling what happens to the comment whenever I write on this subject. Every other week, the comments in my substack are witty, funny and kind. On this topic, they're bitter, vicious, demented.

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My statement on today's news. 👇

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heads up historians of the Roman period - very, very, short deadline on this *permanent* job to start this academic year at Uni of Nottingham
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Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy Outgoing president Dame Julia Black calls on ministers to overhaul their ‘confused’ approach to higher education

‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’

FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches!

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We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…

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Tebbit was one of the architects of Section 28 which sought to prohibit ‘the promotion of homosexuality.’ This law emboldened bigots and silenced many librarians and teachers, including some of mine. As a gay kid I was left without official support from my school. It was terrifying and cruel.

ISAW Seeks New Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator ISAW is seeking a new Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Curator. The recommended deadline for applications is July 15th, 2025.

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Working Classicists Awards 2025 2pm Uk time 05/07/25

Working Classicists Awards 2025

TOMORROW

2pm (UK time)

Get ready to cheer on our winners! 👀
#WCA2025

Good to know that with the distractions of a rebellion on welfare reform out of the way, the UK prime minister can devote himself to his key role of commenting on pop festivals.

I think Starmer would have to help out by making UK a bit friendlier to students from overseas and their families.

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History!

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Application deadline is August 7.

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@caramalines.bsky.social I've read the book from Maud Woolf in German, please tell her, I've enjoyed her book.

"Die 13 Tode der Lulabelle Rock" von Maud Woolf Das Cover zeigt eine Comiczeichnung einer Frau, die mit einer Pistole in der rechten und einem Softeis in der linken Hand auf der Motorhaube eines Sportwagens sitzt. Im Hintergrund ziehen vor einem schwarzen Himmel und einem gelben Horizont weiße Wolken auf.

Was tut eine erfolgreiche Schauspielerin um allen Events und Verpflichtungen nachzukommen?
Sie lässt sich "Kopien" für alle Lebensbereiche anfertigen.
Und was, wenn diese Kopien nicht mehr gebraucht werden?
Sie schickt die 13. um alle anderen zu töten.

#Bücher
#Büchertipp
#Booktober

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors. I am, though, especially thrilled for Maud Woolf. Lulabelle is her debut and it totally rocks.

"Das Ministerium der Zukunft" von Kaliane Bradley und "Die 13 Tode der Lulabelle Rock" von Maud Woolf sind bereits auf Deutsch erschienen.

Paperback of Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf, which is predominantly grey, but with neon pink text and crosses over white silhouette faces of a woman. A maroon leather bookmark in the shape of a woman with a pink bikini and gold accents sits on top.

A gap is revealed in my bookmark collection. I’m very short on things that are or go with neon pink (and this is the third time it’s been a problem in the last year or so). This is the best I can do.

THE 2025 SHORTLIST FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD IS: PRIVATE RITES BY JULIA ARMFIELD THE MINISTRY OF TIME BY KALIANE BRADLEY EXTREMOPHILE BY IAN GREEN ANNIE BOT BY SIERRA GREER SERVICE MODEL BY ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK BY MAUD WOOLF

Buy all six Clarke Award shortlisted books AND support independent book shops? 🚀

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www.bbc.com/news/article... some good news today.

Religious art from Ancient India

Really enjoyed Ancient India @britishmuseum.bsky.social today. Buddhism and Jainism against the background of earlier and contemporary religious imagery throughout South Asia.

📢 Calling all Classicists 📢

Please consider submitting an essay to the @scsclassics.bsky.social Society for Classical Studies blog! We want to hear your voice!

800-1000 words. Let me know via DM if you have questions — or a pitch!

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New issue of Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025) #openaccess @avartnp.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social @meganjdaniels.bsky.social @idamhartmann.bsky.social ‬ Mobility and Migration in the ANE avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

Building Bridges Across the Caucasus How the Digital South Caucasus Collection Came to Life

Fun things happening @isawlibrary.bsky.social

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@isawnyu.bsky.social is seeking to recuit a Director for Exhibitions to lead a small but highly skilled team to created exceptional exhibitions and to work with faculty, staff and graduate students across the Institute.

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Here's the Shortlist for the 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award - Reactor Congratulations to the authors!

Juhu, unsere Maud Woolf (Die 13 Tode der Luballe Rock) ist für den Arthur C. Clark-Award nominiert worden. Kein Wunder, "Blade Runner meets Barbie" ist doch ein super Pitch.

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Hello brave new world! Starting off on here with a bang by announcing that my debut novel Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock is shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award for 2025! As I have about four followers so far this feels a bit like bragging to an empty room but I’m very happy to be here!

Poster for the talk, repeating information provided in the body of the post overlayed on a photograph of a spiral staircase.

Next month marks the start of this year's Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series!

This year is "Power at Hand: Luxury and the Contestation of Political Identities in Hellenistic Asia and the Post-Achaemenid Iranian World," presented by Matthew P. Canepa.
RSVP here: isaw.nyu.edu/events