Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
@elliemackinroberts.net
Mid runner. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat. Ursine mode of being.
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Ellie's fundraiser for Step Forward (Tower Hamlets)
Help Ellie Mackin Roberts raise money to support Step Forward (Tower Hamlets)
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So I am running the London Lea Valley 50km in March and trying to raise some money for Step Forward - a youth centre in Tower Hamlets, Kiddo attends their LGBTQIA+ group and it's been such a brilliant and supportive space for them, which feels so important when trans youth are under constant attack.
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Urgent Appeal🚨
I am Nema, a mother of three children
My young children are suffering from severe cold and hunger.
Life in the tent is extremely difficult and cold
My children need your kindness
I need 200$ to buy blankets and food for them💔
✅ Verified By Molly Shah
tinyurl.com/SaveNemaFamily
I am Nema, a mother of three children
My young children are suffering from severe cold and hunger.
Life in the tent is extremely difficult and cold
My children need your kindness
I need 200$ to buy blankets and food for them💔
✅ Verified By Molly Shah
tinyurl.com/SaveNemaFamily
January 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Urgent Appeal🚨
I am Nema, a mother of three children
My young children are suffering from severe cold and hunger.
Life in the tent is extremely difficult and cold
My children need your kindness
I need 200$ to buy blankets and food for them💔
✅ Verified By Molly Shah
tinyurl.com/SaveNemaFamily
I am Nema, a mother of three children
My young children are suffering from severe cold and hunger.
Life in the tent is extremely difficult and cold
My children need your kindness
I need 200$ to buy blankets and food for them💔
✅ Verified By Molly Shah
tinyurl.com/SaveNemaFamily
Has anyone written a piece about the Parthenon not being a temple that I can quickly cite without having to go over the whole thing? I thought I did in my CQ piece, but... apparently not (or my CTR+F abilities have... gone?).
January 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Has anyone written a piece about the Parthenon not being a temple that I can quickly cite without having to go over the whole thing? I thought I did in my CQ piece, but... apparently not (or my CTR+F abilities have... gone?).
TIL that Autistic people have stronger mirror neuron responses than Allistic people, and I find that actually fascinating.
January 13, 2026 at 12:19 PM
TIL that Autistic people have stronger mirror neuron responses than Allistic people, and I find that actually fascinating.
You know the thing I really like about Cambridge Core that other publication platforms could take note of - when I press the 'download PDF' button it just DOWNLOADS THE PDF rather than opening it in a separate silly window thing where I have to click 'download PDF' AGAIN.
January 13, 2026 at 12:03 PM
You know the thing I really like about Cambridge Core that other publication platforms could take note of - when I press the 'download PDF' button it just DOWNLOADS THE PDF rather than opening it in a separate silly window thing where I have to click 'download PDF' AGAIN.
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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts on Instagram: "Enclothed cognition and why what we wear matters.
More here: https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/blog/to-be-the-audacity-thinking-about-wearing-in-2026
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January 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Let’s get dressed and talk about getting dressed, in the second instalment of my series on #EnclothedCognition
Watch on TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRh5c7ro/
Watch on TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRh5c7ro/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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January 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Let’s get dressed and talk about getting dressed, in the second instalment of my series on #EnclothedCognition
Watch on TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRh5c7ro/
Watch on TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRh5c7ro/
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'Urgent
My family of 15 living in freezing cold,rain without warm shelter, blankets,food,treatment
They shivering now
We desperately need your kindness to save them from freezing cold,rain
We are trying to raise £300 before it's too late😭🥶🙏
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social'
My family of 15 living in freezing cold,rain without warm shelter, blankets,food,treatment
They shivering now
We desperately need your kindness to save them from freezing cold,rain
We are trying to raise £300 before it's too late😭🥶🙏
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social'
Help Mohammed Al-Sbakhi save his large family from Gaza
✅Vetted by @gazavetters, verified on the list ( #544 ) Molly Shah✅
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January 12, 2026 at 5:56 PM
'Urgent
My family of 15 living in freezing cold,rain without warm shelter, blankets,food,treatment
They shivering now
We desperately need your kindness to save them from freezing cold,rain
We are trying to raise £300 before it's too late😭🥶🙏
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social'
My family of 15 living in freezing cold,rain without warm shelter, blankets,food,treatment
They shivering now
We desperately need your kindness to save them from freezing cold,rain
We are trying to raise £300 before it's too late😭🥶🙏
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social'
Pretty sure I’ve decided I’m going to do the England Athletics Leadership in Running Fitness course.
I floated it to Kiddo and they basically said I should do it and volunteer at one of their youth centres to host a youth run club.
Now I just have to figure out how to pay for it and fit it in.
I floated it to Kiddo and they basically said I should do it and volunteer at one of their youth centres to host a youth run club.
Now I just have to figure out how to pay for it and fit it in.
January 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Pretty sure I’ve decided I’m going to do the England Athletics Leadership in Running Fitness course.
I floated it to Kiddo and they basically said I should do it and volunteer at one of their youth centres to host a youth run club.
Now I just have to figure out how to pay for it and fit it in.
I floated it to Kiddo and they basically said I should do it and volunteer at one of their youth centres to host a youth run club.
Now I just have to figure out how to pay for it and fit it in.
Let’s get dressed and talk about getting dressed, in the second instalment of my series on #EnclothedCognition
Watch on TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRh5c7ro/
Watch on TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRh5c7ro/
TikTok - Make Your Day
vm.tiktok.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Let’s get dressed and talk about getting dressed, in the second instalment of my series on #EnclothedCognition
Watch on TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRh5c7ro/
Watch on TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRh5c7ro/
Do you know what pisses me off the most about running?
First, and most egregiously, it is actually true that the more you do it the better you get, and that running consistently is the only reliable way to improve.
Second is that it’s also true that it’s good for your mental wellbeing.
First, and most egregiously, it is actually true that the more you do it the better you get, and that running consistently is the only reliable way to improve.
Second is that it’s also true that it’s good for your mental wellbeing.
January 12, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Do you know what pisses me off the most about running?
First, and most egregiously, it is actually true that the more you do it the better you get, and that running consistently is the only reliable way to improve.
Second is that it’s also true that it’s good for your mental wellbeing.
First, and most egregiously, it is actually true that the more you do it the better you get, and that running consistently is the only reliable way to improve.
Second is that it’s also true that it’s good for your mental wellbeing.
I’m a big fan of the fact that famous men are starting to wear things other than black suits on red carpets.
January 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
I’m a big fan of the fact that famous men are starting to wear things other than black suits on red carpets.
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Finally, the WCC UK is on Bluesky! Lots of exciting updates in the next few months, so do give us a follow @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Finally, the WCC UK is on Bluesky! Lots of exciting updates in the next few months, so do give us a follow @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social
Little’s school has a uniform swap shop that’s just always open and it’s so good. As a person who tries to buy as few new items of clothing as possible (and none for myself) on environmental and ethical grounds it’s amazing, but living in an area with a wide socioeconomic spread its also amazing.
January 12, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Little’s school has a uniform swap shop that’s just always open and it’s so good. As a person who tries to buy as few new items of clothing as possible (and none for myself) on environmental and ethical grounds it’s amazing, but living in an area with a wide socioeconomic spread its also amazing.
I wonder if people consider why I talk more about running than about academia when I am not a great runner and I am a great ancient historian.
Last year I vowed to control the things I could control.
Last year I vowed to control the things I could control.
January 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
I wonder if people consider why I talk more about running than about academia when I am not a great runner and I am a great ancient historian.
Last year I vowed to control the things I could control.
Last year I vowed to control the things I could control.
I don’t wanna be that guy (yes I do) but the chickpea ‘omelette’ that I made myself this afternoon was INCREDIBLE.
Aquafaba is a miracle.
Aquafaba is a miracle.
January 11, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I don’t wanna be that guy (yes I do) but the chickpea ‘omelette’ that I made myself this afternoon was INCREDIBLE.
Aquafaba is a miracle.
Aquafaba is a miracle.
Also a reminder that I’m running to raise money for the youth charity Step Forward who provide loads of amazing and supportive programmes including the LGBTQIA+ group my trans non-binary kid attends. Queer, trans, & gender nonconforming youth are so under attack right now that all support is vital.
So I am running the London Lea Valley 50km in March and trying to raise some money for Step Forward - a youth centre in Tower Hamlets, Kiddo attends their LGBTQIA+ group and it's been such a brilliant and supportive space for them, which feels so important when trans youth are under constant attack.
Ellie's fundraiser for Step Forward (Tower Hamlets)
Help Ellie Mackin Roberts raise money to support Step Forward (Tower Hamlets)
www.justgiving.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Also a reminder that I’m running to raise money for the youth charity Step Forward who provide loads of amazing and supportive programmes including the LGBTQIA+ group my trans non-binary kid attends. Queer, trans, & gender nonconforming youth are so under attack right now that all support is vital.
So remember how I said yesterday I smashed my 10km PB?
Well. Today I smashed my half-marathon PB.
That was my goal for this weekend. Back-to-back PBs.
Now my legs are trashed and I am starving.
Well. Today I smashed my half-marathon PB.
That was my goal for this weekend. Back-to-back PBs.
Now my legs are trashed and I am starving.
January 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM
So remember how I said yesterday I smashed my 10km PB?
Well. Today I smashed my half-marathon PB.
That was my goal for this weekend. Back-to-back PBs.
Now my legs are trashed and I am starving.
Well. Today I smashed my half-marathon PB.
That was my goal for this weekend. Back-to-back PBs.
Now my legs are trashed and I am starving.
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The @mforpalestine.bsky.social are right about this one it’s a brilliant little book and you can read it in about ten minutes!
The next book in our "MfP Recommended Read" series is Isabella Hammad's Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative" (Black Cat 2024). Recognizing the Stranger argues for the world of literature as a venue for thinking through the political fights of our time.
January 10, 2026 at 5:12 PM
The @mforpalestine.bsky.social are right about this one it’s a brilliant little book and you can read it in about ten minutes!
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Musk’s porn bot is now generating 6,000 sex abuse images every hour. Even Starmer is concerned. But Ofcom is still deliberating as to what action to take.
Meanwhile I have had to ban comments on all the blogs I run because of the Online ‘Safety’ Act.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
Meanwhile I have had to ban comments on all the blogs I run because of the Online ‘Safety’ Act.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
The Gist: The Abuse Factory
X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
January 10, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Musk’s porn bot is now generating 6,000 sex abuse images every hour. Even Starmer is concerned. But Ofcom is still deliberating as to what action to take.
Meanwhile I have had to ban comments on all the blogs I run because of the Online ‘Safety’ Act.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
Meanwhile I have had to ban comments on all the blogs I run because of the Online ‘Safety’ Act.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
It’s not lost on me that I’m reading a book about vegan athlete nutrition while absolutely stuffed to the gills with sweet potato brownies.
January 10, 2026 at 10:20 PM
It’s not lost on me that I’m reading a book about vegan athlete nutrition while absolutely stuffed to the gills with sweet potato brownies.
I know this is total first world problems but for the amount of money my AirPodsMax cost I expect them to work and increasingly the just don’t.
January 10, 2026 at 7:22 PM
I know this is total first world problems but for the amount of money my AirPodsMax cost I expect them to work and increasingly the just don’t.
First race of the year. Smashed my 10km PB, came first in my age category and 9th woman overall.
That is the energy I’m bringing to 2026.
That is the energy I’m bringing to 2026.
January 10, 2026 at 12:04 PM
First race of the year. Smashed my 10km PB, came first in my age category and 9th woman overall.
That is the energy I’m bringing to 2026.
That is the energy I’m bringing to 2026.
I miss you, I miss you, I miss you
January 9, 2026 at 10:45 PM
I miss you, I miss you, I miss you
It’s genuinely shocking to me that [redacted] appear to have jettisoned [insert well known classics charity here].
January 9, 2026 at 10:43 PM
It’s genuinely shocking to me that [redacted] appear to have jettisoned [insert well known classics charity here].
Omg is how much I think Steven Bartlett is a toxic performative grifter FINALLY where I get to be a true hipster???
January 9, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Omg is how much I think Steven Bartlett is a toxic performative grifter FINALLY where I get to be a true hipster???