Dr Naomi Scott
@drnaomiscott.bsky.social
A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes.
My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh
My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh
My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
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Dr Naomi Scott
@drnaomiscott.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Oh wow it’s suddenly all happening over here! Hello new followers! I occasionally post about Ancient Greek jokes (mostly rude) and ancient encyclopaedias (sadly almost never rude, but weird AF so I mostly forgive them).
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Birde on the sunlit branche outsyde myne office wyndowe
You have no internette connectioun, reade no newes
Litel surpryse that you are singing
You have no internette connectioun, reade no newes
Litel surpryse that you are singing
February 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Birde on the sunlit branche outsyde myne office wyndowe
You have no internette connectioun, reade no newes
Litel surpryse that you are singing
You have no internette connectioun, reade no newes
Litel surpryse that you are singing
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In the UK academic recession, you will be at one of these stages since many unis buy the same cuts model from the same consultancies. It is always the same process:
*Talk of belt-tightening
*Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments)
*Travel budgets cut
*Promotion freeze (1/4)
*Talk of belt-tightening
*Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments)
*Travel budgets cut
*Promotion freeze (1/4)
February 2, 2026 at 8:29 PM
In the UK academic recession, you will be at one of these stages since many unis buy the same cuts model from the same consultancies. It is always the same process:
*Talk of belt-tightening
*Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments)
*Travel budgets cut
*Promotion freeze (1/4)
*Talk of belt-tightening
*Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments)
*Travel budgets cut
*Promotion freeze (1/4)
Saw this just as I was coming out of teaching a class on Xenophon’s Oeconomicus and… yes. Feeling this quite hard.
Yes I know, I post this one too often, but it could be worse, I'm managing to keep myself from posting it every day.
February 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Saw this just as I was coming out of teaching a class on Xenophon’s Oeconomicus and… yes. Feeling this quite hard.
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We’ve still got a few open places for this brilliant hands-on mosaic making training event next week at @ics.bsky.social in London!
Come along to have fun making, while thinking about ancient/modern practice and research with leading experts Ruaidhri Ryan and Will Wootton.
@sas-news.bsky.social
Come along to have fun making, while thinking about ancient/modern practice and research with leading experts Ruaidhri Ryan and Will Wootton.
@sas-news.bsky.social
Hands-on thinking through ancient and historical mosaic practice
ics.sas.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:32 PM
We’ve still got a few open places for this brilliant hands-on mosaic making training event next week at @ics.bsky.social in London!
Come along to have fun making, while thinking about ancient/modern practice and research with leading experts Ruaidhri Ryan and Will Wootton.
@sas-news.bsky.social
Come along to have fun making, while thinking about ancient/modern practice and research with leading experts Ruaidhri Ryan and Will Wootton.
@sas-news.bsky.social
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Physics is under the cosh, Astronomy and Chemistry in peril, Geography is losing territory, English, Modern Languages and History are among the many shrinking UK disciplines.
Surely it's time to have a concerted, structured conversation about universities and the national research base.
Surely it's time to have a concerted, structured conversation about universities and the national research base.
UK physics research and science facilities face ‘substantial’ cuts.
Major cuts will hit UK science facilities and government research grants for physics and astronomy over the next four years, Research Professional News can reveal.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Major cuts will hit UK science facilities and government research grants for physics and astronomy over the next four years, Research Professional News can reveal.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UK physics research and science facilities face ‘substantial’ cuts - Research Professional News
Exclusive: Science and Technology Facilities Council seeks £162m cost savings, with existing projects facing axe
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Physics is under the cosh, Astronomy and Chemistry in peril, Geography is losing territory, English, Modern Languages and History are among the many shrinking UK disciplines.
Surely it's time to have a concerted, structured conversation about universities and the national research base.
Surely it's time to have a concerted, structured conversation about universities and the national research base.
2026 calls for More W.H. Auden and Poems On The Underground are on it.
January 28, 2026 at 4:39 PM
2026 calls for More W.H. Auden and Poems On The Underground are on it.
Ah the inevitable email to say the entire department’s heating is out again. Just what I want to cheer up my intercity commute on this grey January day. #academiclife is such a joy…
January 26, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Ah the inevitable email to say the entire department’s heating is out again. Just what I want to cheer up my intercity commute on this grey January day. #academiclife is such a joy…
Long day long week but infinitely cheered by an afternoon spent reading Pollux on all the different ways to say ‘Baa’ 🐏🐐
January 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Long day long week but infinitely cheered by an afternoon spent reading Pollux on all the different ways to say ‘Baa’ 🐏🐐
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When it comes to academic writing, which is my best (so to speak), my position is that there currently is no responsible way to engage with AI.
Put another way, I don’t appreciate being lectured by credulous corporate shills for taking a principled stance grounded in research and practice.
Put another way, I don’t appreciate being lectured by credulous corporate shills for taking a principled stance grounded in research and practice.
"Criticisms of AI must include guidance for responsible engagement with it, not just exhortations to avoid it" good lord, I am so tired of these pieces that are the "sensible AI guy" stance that mostly comes down to "AI is here to stay and I am ready to lick the boot, begrudgingly"
January 20, 2026 at 9:11 PM
When it comes to academic writing, which is my best (so to speak), my position is that there currently is no responsible way to engage with AI.
Put another way, I don’t appreciate being lectured by credulous corporate shills for taking a principled stance grounded in research and practice.
Put another way, I don’t appreciate being lectured by credulous corporate shills for taking a principled stance grounded in research and practice.
Omg depths of Wikipedia did a Classics and I love it and also I have actually published about this, it’s genuinely an excellent joke (poor Hegelochus tho)
January 20, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Omg depths of Wikipedia did a Classics and I love it and also I have actually published about this, it’s genuinely an excellent joke (poor Hegelochus tho)
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SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT
The cat has already been fed.
The cat has already been fed.
January 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM
SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT
The cat has already been fed.
The cat has already been fed.
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
My mum asked how my day was and I gave her this nugget only for her to reply OH BUT HORSES DRINK BEER IT’S A WHOLE THING. And it is! People routinely give their horses beer. So maybe Andromache in Iliad 8 is right and all the ancient commentators are getting their knickers in a twist over nothing!
Pollux side-eying Homer for his claim that horses drink wine has absolutely made my morning. From a short chapter on horse food (Onomasticon 1.183): “and horses also eat fodder, and also according to Homer wheat grains, and, if indeed we believe him, they drink wine.”
January 14, 2026 at 6:21 PM
My mum asked how my day was and I gave her this nugget only for her to reply OH BUT HORSES DRINK BEER IT’S A WHOLE THING. And it is! People routinely give their horses beer. So maybe Andromache in Iliad 8 is right and all the ancient commentators are getting their knickers in a twist over nothing!
Pollux side-eying Homer for his claim that horses drink wine has absolutely made my morning. From a short chapter on horse food (Onomasticon 1.183): “and horses also eat fodder, and also according to Homer wheat grains, and, if indeed we believe him, they drink wine.”
January 14, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Pollux side-eying Homer for his claim that horses drink wine has absolutely made my morning. From a short chapter on horse food (Onomasticon 1.183): “and horses also eat fodder, and also according to Homer wheat grains, and, if indeed we believe him, they drink wine.”
Really looking forward to this! I’ll be giving the pre-performance talk on Tues. 3rd, book your tickets asap to hear me think out loud about why Clouds makes me so uncomfortable despite having some really very excellent and funny jokes (incl. what is maybe the funniest in all of Aristophanes imho)
Preparing for the new term - don't forget you can follow the progress of KCL's Greek Play on Instagram!
The Clouds by Aristophanes is adapted and directed by Giulia L Balsamo and will be performed from 3-5 March 2026 at the Greenwood Theatre, London SE1.
www.instagram.com/kingsgreekplay
The Clouds by Aristophanes is adapted and directed by Giulia L Balsamo and will be performed from 3-5 March 2026 at the Greenwood Theatre, London SE1.
www.instagram.com/kingsgreekplay
January 13, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Really looking forward to this! I’ll be giving the pre-performance talk on Tues. 3rd, book your tickets asap to hear me think out loud about why Clouds makes me so uncomfortable despite having some really very excellent and funny jokes (incl. what is maybe the funniest in all of Aristophanes imho)
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Good reading.
'How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is....If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem....the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls'. 1/4
'How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is....If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem....the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls'. 1/4
WEEKEND READING: What if, in trying to ‘fix’ universities, we are quietly unmaking them? - HEPI
Join HEPI and Advance HE for a webinar onTuesday, 13 January 2026, from 11am to 12pm, exploring what higher education can learn from leadership approaches in other sectors. Sign up here to hear this a...
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January 10, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Good reading.
'How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is....If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem....the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls'. 1/4
'How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is....If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem....the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls'. 1/4
Important announcement for my fellow itinerant academics: thetrainline has a massive sale on and my eye-watering January train expenditure has been made slightly less eye-watering. Run don’t walk to book before the prices go back up to ‘I need another mortgage’ from merely ‘taking the piss’
January 6, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Important announcement for my fellow itinerant academics: thetrainline has a massive sale on and my eye-watering January train expenditure has been made slightly less eye-watering. Run don’t walk to book before the prices go back up to ‘I need another mortgage’ from merely ‘taking the piss’
Clio cat heading into 2026 with the energy we all need
January 1, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Clio cat heading into 2026 with the energy we all need
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Hanukah protest at the Foreign Office, London, tonight
December 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Hanukah protest at the Foreign Office, London, tonight
Latkes incoming (my daughter declares grandma’s to be superior which yeah no probably fair)
December 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Latkes incoming (my daughter declares grandma’s to be superior which yeah no probably fair)
The wiki entry for Euripides Thyestes is slightly bonkers pls enjoy
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The wiki entry for Euripides Thyestes is slightly bonkers pls enjoy
Today I have gone down a weird rabbit hole of Hubert Parry’s incidental music for Greek plays. 1/
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Today I have gone down a weird rabbit hole of Hubert Parry’s incidental music for Greek plays. 1/
Please enjoy this excellent manatee and also maybe ask yourself what chaos might have unfolded if the Old Comedians had known about manatees just think of the possibilities for a chorus of singing manatees Archippus would have had a field day.
Manatee kick, push, coast… #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #kickpushcoast #lupefiasco #seapotato #seacow #sirenia #overhead #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
December 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Please enjoy this excellent manatee and also maybe ask yourself what chaos might have unfolded if the Old Comedians had known about manatees just think of the possibilities for a chorus of singing manatees Archippus would have had a field day.
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The Classics and Ancient History subject meeting
Tues 16 Dec, 10am-4.30pm
In person at Senate House: shorturl.at/7diQK
Including discussion with colleagues across the UK, updates on REF, and Spotlight talks from: Professor Katharine Earnshaw (Exeter) and Dr Anna Walas (ICS).
Tues 16 Dec, 10am-4.30pm
In person at Senate House: shorturl.at/7diQK
Including discussion with colleagues across the UK, updates on REF, and Spotlight talks from: Professor Katharine Earnshaw (Exeter) and Dr Anna Walas (ICS).
The Classics and Ancient History subject meeting
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December 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The Classics and Ancient History subject meeting
Tues 16 Dec, 10am-4.30pm
In person at Senate House: shorturl.at/7diQK
Including discussion with colleagues across the UK, updates on REF, and Spotlight talks from: Professor Katharine Earnshaw (Exeter) and Dr Anna Walas (ICS).
Tues 16 Dec, 10am-4.30pm
In person at Senate House: shorturl.at/7diQK
Including discussion with colleagues across the UK, updates on REF, and Spotlight talks from: Professor Katharine Earnshaw (Exeter) and Dr Anna Walas (ICS).
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IO SATURNALIA! Our annual festive giveaway is here!
12 bundles of gifts, and all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is:
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December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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IO SATURNALIA! Our annual festive giveaway is here!
12 bundles of gifts, and all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is:
🎄Follow us,
🎄Repost this thread,
🎄And fill out this form: forms.gle/zMcHKZqGNC...
Read on for prizes and T&Cs (UK&I only)...🧵
IO SATURNALIA! Our annual festive giveaway is here!
12 bundles of gifts, and all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is:
🎄Follow us,
🎄Repost this thread,
🎄And fill out this form: forms.gle/zMcHKZqGNC...
Read on for prizes and T&Cs (UK&I only)...🧵