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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts

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Slow runner. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️‍🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat. https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · Jan 11

FYI this is a Mercator projection hate account and always will be, so you can unfollow if that offends you.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 12h

Oh I’m so sorry.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 12h

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LOOK AT THAT PLATFORM 6! What a shock.

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 16h

Let’s not pretend that you don’t know where the 15:15 to London King’s Cross is, Leeds Central. It’s on Platform 6. It’s always on Platform 6. I can literally see the train sitting there.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 22h

Here is my hot tip for other parents. Make sure your kid knows who was PM when Liz died.

I guarantee one day it will win them a pub quiz.

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Well, quite.

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 1d

Yes. Unless the person I can sacrifice is Elon Musk. Then I’m pulling the lever. (/s obviously)

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 1d

Not a hot take at all but people know that being anti-antifa means you’re just pro-fascist, right?

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 1d

Ugh. Do you even fartlek, bro?

#RunSky

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 1d

Giving my @leedsclassics.bsky.social first years Aeschylus instead of Herodotos, which on the one hand: amazing and on the other: completely amazing.

This is going to be such a cool seminar. I'm so bummed I won't get to run it (though my GTA is wonderful, and I have every faith he will smash it!)

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 1d

I’ll be so honest I had a little bit forgotten about Kemi Badenoch.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 2d

The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.

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Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · 1d

Roundtable: 'Writing the Past' with author Caroline Lawrence, Thursday 6 November, 17:15-18:30 (UK time) - all very welcome to attend this hybrid event (details in thread)

Listen to Caroline's new podcast on the Aeneid here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/v...

Virgil's Aeneid: Ep. 1 - Lumen

Podcast Episode · The Classics Podcast · 17/09/2025 · 37m

podcasts.apple.com

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 1d

I need everyone to know that there is currently a reality-tv style daily voting thing on the Guardian Australia to determine the best Aussie native bird, and my personal favourite, the Superb Lyrebird needs more votes so do your thing, Bluesky.

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

But also, I genuinely do need a part time job and I have no idea how to go about finding one.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

Do you think Bernard Black is hiring? I need a part time job.

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 3d

Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian accounts. Unban Palestinian ac

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

Hi, if you want to see awkward photos of what I wear every day in the name of curing my body dysmorphia, go follow my Instagram.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Apr 3

Meme
Drawing of a cat yelling
Why is the cat screaming?
1. Why wouldn't the cat scream
2. If you were smart, you'd be doing the same thing

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 3d

Reading a cfp these days is like ‘ohhhh that’s interesting… oh no, it’s in America’ *delete*

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 3d

TIL that T-Rex could chew its own tail.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 4d

中秋節快樂! 🥮 Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

To celebrate, it would mean a lot to support @divyampersaud.com’s current birthday drive for Spark Space, a workspace in Gaza that is STILL supporting students and workers.

I’ve donated £10 - can you match me?

linktr.ee/sparkworkspace

Spark Space | Linktree

A safe, fully-equipped workspace serving students & workers in Gaza.

linktr.ee

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 3d

So many HE colleagues at risk of redundancy are struggling with limited support and understanding.

Universities may believe they are putting packages in place but the realities of so much risk, change and threat are way more significant than is currently appreciated.

Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 7d

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 4d

Just putting it out there that the cat distribution system can call on me at any time.

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