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Congratulations Val - it looks fab!

Publication day! Just in time for essential summer reading (preferably by a pool with a cool drink). @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @openthanatology.bsky.social

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Penguin Vessel: 1,600-year-old Nazca depiction of a cold-water Humboldt penguin that lives in tropical Peru A rare penguin-shaped pot reveals the Nazca's interest in depicting the wildlife around them.

Repost of today’s astonishing artifact since the image didn’t come through earlier. 🧪🏺

Congratulations!

Cambridge Core webpage for an article titled "Disability in Antiquity".

Glad to see Debby Sneed's, Cecily Bateman's and I's co-authored Subject Profile on Disability in Antiquity for The Classical Review being published online and #OpenAccess today by Cambridge University Press.

You can read the full article via the following link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

This whole thread is full of truth. ECRs are the single-use plastic of the UKHE sector and no-one is doing a damn thing about it.

For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.

Publicity photo for the programme: in the foreground someone brushes clean a find with pompeii and Vesuvius behind them

The BBC series ‘Pompeii: The New Dig’ just won a Gold Tower at the New York Festivals TV & Films Awards!🏆
Well deserved honour for all who brought the wonder of an excavation to life through those who worked on site & the incredible stories they unravelled
tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com/Winners/Winn...

A book cover with a black background and yellow edging. The title is: The Roman Mourner. Funeral Rites, Gender and the Body. Beneath the title is a sculptured panel showing a laid-out body surrounded by mourners.

Not long til publication (10/07/25) @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Appendices are already available online. So if you're desperate to know (and who wouldn't be!) how often Roman mourners pulled their hair, groaned and so forth, see www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...

Reminder that the call for these scholarships is open! Deadline 4pm on 3rd June!

Great to see this out. Thanks due to the editors. And its Open Access, with a full PDF on the publisher's website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Elated that our book “Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World” is featured among new publications at the Uncommon Senses V conference at @concordiau.bsky.social
If you are here stop by Molson building 9th floor lobby to check it out!

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what a fantastic thing!! Grants for state school teachers to do an Open University Classics MA!

I am doing my MA in Classical Studies at the OU right now, it is wonderful, please PM me if you know someone who might be interested in doing this and would like to talk to a student on the course

Applications are open for MA studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University! Open to:
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...

I'm excited to announce my co-editor & I are hosting a virtual author panel for "Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays," on May 21st. Come listen and join our brilliant authors for a detailed discussion. More information & registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/qa-panel-w...

‘There Buds the Laurel’: Nature, Temporality, and the Making of Place in the Cemeteries of Roman Italy Using the necropolis environments of the Vesuvian region of Imperial period Italy as a case study, this paper examines the ways in which multiple, overlapping, and temporally specific senses of place ...

Spring is a great time to read about the 'planty’ agency of trees, plants, flowers, and fruits in the creation of the Roman funeral landscape 🌷

Check out 'There Buds the Laurel’: Nature, Temporality & the Making of Place in the Cemeteries of Roman Italy' from #TRAJ Vol. 1

doi.org/10.16995/tra...

Congratulations once again Dr Liz! I'm glad you got to enjoy those very well-deserved celebrations!

More than #TinyJoys - massive joy today seeing my brilliant PhD student @lizwebb.bsky.social cross the stage for @openuniversity.bsky.social graduation - so lovely to be part of the ceremony. Huge congrats to all OU students graduating. You are fabulous and have so much to be proud of! 🎉🎓 #OUFamily

A decorative strap junction from the iron age Melsonby hoard. It's a 20cm long figure of eight shape with openwork decorations and fragmentary coral beads all across its surface.

It's been so great to finally talk about the Melsonby Hoard. The important message missing from some of the press is the #YorkshireMuseum needs support to secure and conserve it!

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Online Open day for Black and Asian students details: join members of academic staff, student support staff and students of the OU to find out more about what it is like to be a Black or Asian student. This event will focus on the subjects grouped under the heading ‘Arts and Humanities’ (English, Music, Art History, Classical Studies) etc. You will be able to experience these subjects for yourselves as well as to hear more about how studying for a degree in these subjects might help take your career to the next level. At the OU, like many other universities in the UK, Black and Asian students are under-represented. We want to change that. The OU has always stood for education for all and many of our students study part time and in ways that fit into their busy lives. The event is completely free and all are welcome.

Friends! At the OU we are going to be running a series of online open days in the Arts and Humanities for Black and Asian students. Come along and find out how the Open University differs from other unis, and whether its accessible distance learning might suit you!👇🏻

Also, because there's a couple of broken links which are waiting to be updated in there, you can find our 'Introducing Ancient Greek' resource - for reviewing letters, sounds, words and word order - here: students.open.ac.uk/arts/openlea...

And we have more resources coming soon, including more OpenLearn courses to take you or your students much further with your Greek learning. And we'd love to hear from you if you find these resources useful! Please message or email me! #AncientBluesky 🏺

Learning Ancient Greek This page contains interactive quizzes designed for students who are using the Reading Greek series of textbooks (JACT/Cambridge University Press). The quizzes allow you to test yourself on the gramma...

We also have a whole host of resources collected on our Learning Ancient Greek page, including supplemental resources for working with the Reading Greek textbook: quizzes, a vocab tester, study guide and language reference book #AncientBluesky 🏺

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Getting started on ancient Greek This free course, Getting started on ancient Greek, offers a taster of the ancient Greek world through the study of one of its most distinctive and enduring features: its language.The course ...

Because I'm updating them today, I'd like to remind #AncientBluesky that we have *FREELY ACCESSIBLE* Ancient Greek resources at the Open University! 🏺

First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...

Please read and circulate this letter from CUCD and various learned societies in defence of Ancient History and Religion and Theology at Cardiff University
cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/03/11/o...

Poster for the Call for Presenters for UKDHHH's 2025 Connecting + Sharing event, which is taking place on Wednesday 25th June 2025, on Zoom. Text reads: Our goal is to build networks amongst academic and independent researchers, museum and archive professionals and volunteers, creative practitioners, and activists and community groups. We are open to a range of presentation styles, topics, focuses and lengths - as long as your idea relates to the histories and lives of Disabled, Neurodivergent and Deaf people, we are interested! This event will be focussed around the theme of ‘Disability history through space and time.’ Topics may include: Disability histories (any time period) Physical space / access Crip time / spaces Disability representation in media  The future of disability histories Disability histories in museum, university or community spaces We welcome diverse presentation formats. Please note your preferred type: 15-minute paper 5-minute presentation Workshops or conversation/interview sessions (30 mins) Creative presentations or performances (30 mins) Submit a short summary (around 200 words) and a bit about you/your organisation (around 100 words) in text or as a video (maximum 3 minutes) Deadline: 11th April 2025

CFP alert: Continuing on from the success of our 2024 in-person event, we are thrilled to announce that we are running a virtual event for 2025! This will be taking place on the 25th June 2025, on Zoom.

Deadline to submit your ideas is: 11th April 2025! #DisHist #CFP

Team Open University is back on BBC tonight for the University Challenge quarter-finals. If you watch, remember the importance of widening access to education for all. We are playing for the carers, the prisoners, the disabled, the kids who had to work to support their family and everyone else ♥️

I think this is halfway decent, if I do say so myself

Great to see this published!

Publication day! If you've ever asked yourself 'hey, I've got all this urine and saliva sloshing around inside me, I wonder if there's anything useful I can do with it?" then this is the article for you!