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Lin Foxhall

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Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool Editor, Journal of Hellenic Studies Lover of olive trees All views expressed are my own.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Jun 8

Exactly! Who else will train future scientists?

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · May 26

My Munstead Wood rose has just flowered as well! Also beautifully fragrant.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · May 16

And Labour are foolishly joining the long line of governments that have undermined universities and which will result in their demise. 3

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · May 16

What’s particularly sad is that despite the pummelling they’ve had UK universities are globally outstanding, bring huge amounts of money into the UK, and are the prime generators of crucial research and innovation. 2/

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · May 16

This is very depressing. And the situation will only get worse with Starmer’s mad plans for immigration. The UK HE funding model has been dysfunctional for decades. Labour knows this but has made no move yet to fix it. What they are doing will only make things worse. 1/

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UK HE shrinking

a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · May 12

Thanks Keir Starmer and the Labour Party. @labouruk.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Glad to know I’m a stranger after living in the UK for 46 years and paying taxes here. Do you have any idea how hurtful that speech was?

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · May 12

UK universities depend on international students to subsidise UK students. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social We have opportunities to recruit excellent international students as the USA becomes unwelcoming. Why discourage them coming to the UK? They contribute much to UK unis, including billions of £££.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · May 12

So disappointing to see Labour @labouruk.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social pandering to false narratives on immigration. Immigrants don’t steal jobs, housing, healthcare, school places. They treat patients, teach young people, build houses, pay taxes, improve growth. Change narratives!

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · May 11

Really, Yvette Cooper @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social, do you actually think that care staff are ‘unskilled’? It takes much training and skill to support elderly and vulnerable people. To cut migration figures, stop counting international students as migrants: they aren’t.

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · May 8

After the US-UK trade deal, very glad I have my own supply of organic, grass-fed beef. Hormone-free and not routinely fed antibiotics to stimulate growth. They just eat the stuff cattle are meant to eat: grass.

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Apr 21

They won’t succeed.

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Apr 19

Hubris megiste?

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Apr 5

Do they actually have a plan?

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Mar 9

As an American based in the UK, it seems to me there’s nothing ‘soft’ about it. We watch it unfold with horror.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Feb 24

And grape production is very unpredictable and can fluctuate in quantity and quality from year to year. This is down to weather which even the richest rich guys can’t control.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · Feb 23

So here’s my personal impact story. I had been approved to be a Fulbright visiting scholar in a Latin American country (not naming to protect my proposed hosts) on the topic of feminist and gender archaeology. The approval for the project was retracted. I’m pretty sure that isn’t legal.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Feb 20

I’ve always thought he’s more like Philip II of Macedon

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Matthew Herron @matthewherron.bsky.social · Feb 19

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Feb 18

I realise there’s a lot going on in the world for news media to report, but can anyone tell me why there is no coverage of widespread Presidents Day protests against the current actions of the US administration by BBC, NYT, CNN, etc?

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · Feb 17

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Feb 16

Did that last weekend!

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Hedy Lamarr @chudonew.bsky.social · Feb 16

CALL NOW: Demand Your GOP Representative Reject Trump's Budget Sabotage

Instead of passing a responsible budget, they are trying to:

-Let Trump & Musk override the budget & steal taxpayer money.

-Slash access to health care, public education, and food assistance.

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CALL NOW: Demand Your Republican Representative Reject Trump's Budget Sabotage

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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · Feb 14

CDC source:

“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.

They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Feb 12

Reminiscent of all the UK farmers, persuaded by lies, who voted to leave the EU and who are now struggling to export their products to the UK’s biggest customer, Europe.

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@usa.mom.in.germany @usa-mom-in-germany.bsky.social · Feb 9

New federal mandates are transforming the curriculum of U.S. military base schools to restrict discussions of history, race, and gender, which creates glaring differences from the education systems of their host nations.

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How DoDEA Schools Are Becoming Tools of U.S. Propaganda

The U.S. Government’s New Grip on Military Schools Abroad

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Jan 16

Well, maybe…or maybe not.

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Dec 17

And these are the olives

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Dec 15

People continued to use stone tools long after ‘prehistoric’ periods: their use in classical Greece is well documented but often neglected. Many tools were unmodified objects: a stick, a reed, a useful rock, a handy piece of broken pot. This is my rock for destoning olives. Works a treat!

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Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Dec 13

And depressingly they continue to do it. There is no longer any excuse for this. See Foxhall, L. 2020 Women’s work? Who made textiles in the ancient Greek world? In V. Pirenne-Delforge & M. Wecowski (eds) Politeia and Koinonia, 253-77. Leiden: Brill.

And Claire Taylor in JHS 2024:

Women, gender and the ancient economy: towards a feminist economic history of the ancient Greek world | The Journal of Hellenic Studies | Cambridge Core

Women, gender and the ancient economy: towards a feminist economic history of the ancient Greek world

www.cambridge.org

Lin Foxhall @linfoxhall.bsky.social · Dec 11

Oh yes!🫒🫒🫒🫒… and the oil is superb