Katie Turner
@katieturnerphd.com
Historian: 1st Century Material Culture | New Testament Reception | Religion & Pop-Culture | Clothing, Costume, Film
Co-Host: www.GodsAndMoviemakers.com
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Katie Turner
@katieturnerphd.com
· May 19
Do you know of a museum, library, or archive that offers images from their collection for publication or presenting, for free?
Please use the form below to help crowd-source a list of these magical places!
Please use the form below to help crowd-source a list of these magical places!
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"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
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Happening this Friday!
Anyone in the Nottingham area is welcome to join in person.
Email the address at the bottom if you would like to join online.
Anyone in the Nottingham area is welcome to join in person.
Email the address at the bottom if you would like to join online.
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Happening this Friday!
Anyone in the Nottingham area is welcome to join in person.
Email the address at the bottom if you would like to join online.
Anyone in the Nottingham area is welcome to join in person.
Email the address at the bottom if you would like to join online.
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Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.
Cannot stop laughing at this clip from The Chosen of Romans carrying a chanukiah out of the Temple (during its destruction c70).
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Cannot stop laughing at this clip from The Chosen of Romans carrying a chanukiah out of the Temple (during its destruction c70).
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the thing that scares me about Labour HE policy is that because I work in the sector I can see how absolutely insane it is, which makes me wonder just how terrible their policies are in all the other sectors I’m in less of a position to engage with critically out of lack of knowledge.
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
the thing that scares me about Labour HE policy is that because I work in the sector I can see how absolutely insane it is, which makes me wonder just how terrible their policies are in all the other sectors I’m in less of a position to engage with critically out of lack of knowledge.
Hard same.
I am Jewish historian of Christian medieval art. I am certain that knowing something about Catholicism has been pretty vital to my understanding of modernity.
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hard same.
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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Clothing and Identity - new perspectives on textiles in the Roman Empire -- Project website
ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-pro...
ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-pro...
DRESS ID – University of Copenhagen
ctr.hum.ku.dk
November 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Clothing and Identity - new perspectives on textiles in the Roman Empire -- Project website
ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-pro...
ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-pro...
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Sure, the author wrote a one-paragraph summary, but wouldn't you like this broken robot to do it instead?
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Sure, the author wrote a one-paragraph summary, but wouldn't you like this broken robot to do it instead?
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📣 I’m teaching a National Gallery online course about Saints this December!
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📣 I’m teaching a National Gallery online course about Saints this December!
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
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People need to reckon with the hypocrisies of governments prepared to suport products that algorithmically fabricate history while stripping funding from the archives and repositories that hold actual historical artifacts. This is far more expansive than the cyberattack on the British Library.
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
People need to reckon with the hypocrisies of governments prepared to suport products that algorithmically fabricate history while stripping funding from the archives and repositories that hold actual historical artifacts. This is far more expansive than the cyberattack on the British Library.
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The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.
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I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I’ve been asking this question since the attack. The silence as one of our major national institutions was crippled has been extremely frustrating and shortsighted.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I’ve been asking this question since the attack. The silence as one of our major national institutions was crippled has been extremely frustrating and shortsighted.
Always a pleasure share my stuff…even better when I get to see @siobhanjolley.bsky.social and visit Manchester!
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Always a pleasure share my stuff…even better when I get to see @siobhanjolley.bsky.social and visit Manchester!
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This week’s astonishing artifact is an ancient Egyptian human-hair wig found in the tomb of a royal architect and his wife. 🏺🧪
Merit's wig: A 3,400-year-old Egyptian headpiece smoothed down with ancient homemade hair gel
Merit's head covering was made from real human hair and was buried with her in its own wooden cabinet.
www.livescience.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This week’s astonishing artifact is an ancient Egyptian human-hair wig found in the tomb of a royal architect and his wife. 🏺🧪
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My former employer, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, will be the first Russell Group university to cut #Theology degrees from next year onwards: thetab.com/2025/11/06/r...
Do consider to sign this student-led petitions: www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
@uonucu.bsky.social
Do consider to sign this student-led petitions: www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
@uonucu.bsky.social
Russell Group uni plans to axe a huge 48 courses that aren't 'financially viable' enough
The uni won't accept freshers for 15 subject areas
thetab.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
My former employer, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, will be the first Russell Group university to cut #Theology degrees from next year onwards: thetab.com/2025/11/06/r...
Do consider to sign this student-led petitions: www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
@uonucu.bsky.social
Do consider to sign this student-led petitions: www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
@uonucu.bsky.social
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Reminder of the quality of the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social TRS course that they have now chosen to scrap
Delighted that our Theology & Religion courses are ranked in the top ten of @thetimes.com UK University Rankings 2026 League Table!
More: tinyurl.com/55ddyx84.
#colleagues #happy #success #trs #theology #religion
More: tinyurl.com/55ddyx84.
#colleagues #happy #success #trs #theology #religion
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reminder of the quality of the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social TRS course that they have now chosen to scrap
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Good for them, it's madness what has been proposed.
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Good for them, it's madness what has been proposed.
Today seems like a good day to remember Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), whose pioneering work in X-Ray diffraction led to the discovery of the structure of DNA – but only after one of her photos was stolen and shown to the men who would later win a Nobel Prize for the discovery (without citing her).
Witness History - Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer - BBC Sounds
The scientist produced an X-ray photograph in 1952, that helped show the structure of DNA
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Today seems like a good day to remember Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), whose pioneering work in X-Ray diffraction led to the discovery of the structure of DNA – but only after one of her photos was stolen and shown to the men who would later win a Nobel Prize for the discovery (without citing her).
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And this is different from phrenology, how exactly?
"A new paper suggests the use of skull calipers can tell a recruiter much about an applicant's personality"
"A new paper suggests the use of skull calipers can tell a recruiter much about an applicant's personality"
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And this is different from phrenology, how exactly?
"A new paper suggests the use of skull calipers can tell a recruiter much about an applicant's personality"
"A new paper suggests the use of skull calipers can tell a recruiter much about an applicant's personality"