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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · 13h

Spent the weekend in the office to finish A Thing after a week with very little sleep. Now very tired, but also rather more excited about research than I had expected to be. Interesting 🤔

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Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · 5d

On 30 October will be welcoming Dr Elaine Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social (Liverpool) for a research seminar on 'Re-Making Memories: Reading Trauma and Recovery in Cicero’s Civil War Letters', 17:15-18:30 UK time.

The talk will be hybrid (details in the thread). All very welcome to attend!

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · 16d

Very tired, so much to do, please send coffee... 😬

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Sally-Anne Wherry @sawherry.bsky.social · Sep 9

Oh for gods sake, we're asking about strikes again, at expense of the members, at a time when we really need to focus on so many other things. I suppose when you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The perpetual, tedious cries for a strike really don't help at all

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · Sep 8

I want to be very clear: we tried to stop this. We urged HEC to look at context and evidence, we were ignored and accused of 'betrayal'. Our full @ucucommons.bsky.social HEC report is forthcoming. If you want things to change at national level, you need to VOTE IN THE ELECTIONS.

Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Sep 8

We tried. I’m sorry. The vote was very close and our pleas for common sense and taking our time to work out next steps were met with accusations of ‘betrayal’ from the usual suspects. Commons HEC report imminent.

No, I don’t enjoy this.

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Aug 20

Just magic to round off a day of writing playing chukkas with Bish again 💙 It's been a long year of injuries and setbacks, but we made it just in time for the end of the season!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 20

'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3

Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds

New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Aug 3

We did a little thing! So proud of Bishy 💙

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · Jul 24

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · Jul 23

Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”

UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”

“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.

chicagomaroon.com

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Jul 19

Back behind the best ears 💙

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Careful, Jenn Bites 🧛🏻‍♀️🩷🧛🏻‍♀️ @alldolledup44.bsky.social · Jul 19

You did and it’s ok. Good morning! 🩷

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Jul 18

Bye Coimbra 👋🏻

Thank you Sanne, Edward, and Pablo for organising a splendid panel, and to all fellow panelists for such engaging and inspiring discussions on a range of Greco-Roman historical narratives!

#CCC25

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 17

How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system.

Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government.

This week's column.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot

In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Jul 15

Now in sunny Coimbra to think about textual engagement and reader experience in Greco-Riman historical narratives! ☺️

#CCC2025

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Jul 13

Conference de-brief with Bishy after a lovely few days back up at @staclassics.bsky.social for #CA2025 💙

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jul 13

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Jul 11

Looking forward to discussing fun things on silence in Latin lit tomorrow morning with @nicolettabruno1288.bsky.social, @helenlovatt.bsky.social, and @lemonamarshall.bsky.social!

#CA2025

St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · Jul 11

We're excited to welcome delegates to #StAndrews for #CA2025 on such a fabulous morning! The day starts with registration and a welcome address at the Younger Hall. ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/programme

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Jul 7

Emotions of Crisis workshop now underway at @livancworlds.bsky.social! Prof. Douglas Cairns of @edinclassics.bsky.social kicking off the day with the keynote: 'Between Anarchy and Despotism: Fear, Anxiety, and Their Antidotes in Greek Thought'

#EmotionsOfCrisis

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Jul 2

Posing for the camera > looking where you're meant to be going 😅

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · Jun 19

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Jun 19

Delightful day of research things. Such a joy to have time to think 🙂

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · Jun 4

Off to Warwick to talk about some nice(ish) things in Lucan!

Thanks for the invitation @joewatstein.bsky.social 😊

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · May 29

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · May 30

[falling down a cliff]
parkourrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Dr Elaine C. Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social · May 31

Stick and balling at snail's pace. With obstacles 😅

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