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Research at Reading @uor-research.bsky.social · 24d

Ancient Rome's legacy looms large in Italy's history, from colonising North Africa to Mussolini's fascist reign and modern anti-immigration movements

Historian @samagbamu.bsky.social explains the long, dark shadow cast by the imperial eagle.

🔗 rdg.ac/467hym7

#AncientSky

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Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social · 25d

it's eye-catching and encourages reading on, I suppose?

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Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social · Aug 21

Nice of the anti-refugee nationalists to ensure that St. George's flag is trampled underfoot

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Classics@UnivReading @uorclassics.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations to everyone getting their #Alevel results today!

We look forward to welcoming our new Classics Department students in September.

If things didn't quite go to plan but you're interested in coming to @uniofreading.bsky.social you can call Clearing on: +44 (0) 118 402 0900

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · Aug 11

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social · Aug 1

Join Workers for a Free Palestine at Pelican House, Fri 8 Aug, for an evening of live music, dancing and solidarity.

All ticket sales support legal fees for the WFFP9, our friends who got arrested protesting arms sales to Israel, and who will go to court soon.

ra.co/events/2223482

ra.co

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Jul 30

This is a remarkable document for a mainstream media outlet to publish.

(gift link)

wapo.st/3IRLZn6

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

wapo.st

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Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social · Jul 14

happy les aristocrats à la lanterne day to all who celebrate

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Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social · Jun 26

Essential viewing on what Palestine Action do, why they do it, and why they must have our unwavering solidarity

tokillawarmachine.com

To Kill a War Machine

tokillawarmachine.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Jun 25

I can't believe Staten Island is Hamas

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jun 24

We are all Palestine Action.
🇵🇸

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Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social · Jun 15

What a weekend of fascistic parades in DC and warplanes flying over my street to finish @profdanhicks.bsky.social ’s breathtaking new book. Such a clear articulation of the tenacious, cold grip of the death cult of ‘militarist realism’. Will be returning to this a lot. Also big up Sylvia Wynter.

Red arrows fly over a London residential street

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Housmans Bookshop @housmansbookshop.bsky.social · Mar 20

THE RAYMOND WILLIAMS FOUNDATION TARGETED GRANTS SCHEME 2025
The RWF invites applications for up to eight grants of max £1,500 to support self-organised adult learning activities to help realise social justice aims. Deadline: 29 June 2025. More info at:

Grants | Raymond Williams Foundation

Home

www.raymondwilliamsfoundation.org.uk

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · May 30

Today the guardian is debuting our new calculations of climate damage caused by Israel's genocide in Gaza. Greenhouse gases are not the most important reason to demand a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, but this data shows yet another way that genocide harms us all.

Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries

Exclusive: The climate cost is more than than the combined 2023 emissions of Costa Rica and Estonia, study finds

www.theguardian.com

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · May 28

Oh wow, RIP Ngugi wa Thiongo!! A brilliant writer with so many faces

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Council of University Classical Departments @cucd.bsky.social · May 27

In the light of recent news from Cardiff University it seems timely to re-post this letter championing the work of colleagues in Ancient History and Religion from CUCD, CA, FIEC, @ics.bsky.social @theromansoc.bsky.social @hellenicsociety.bsky.social

Update at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures @mediumaevum.bsky.social · May 23

If your medieval studies project has been impacted by the NEH cuts and you would like your fundraising project amplified by SSMLL, please contact us at ssmll[AT]history.ox.ac.uk.

SSMLL stands in solidarity with our colleagues.

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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · May 22

Combined Classics Library Bursaries (up to £300) now accepting applications to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Combined Classics Library in summer 2025 in order to advance or complete a project of research or scholarship.

Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg

Combined Classics Library Bursaries

shorturl.at

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Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social · May 21

Looking for reading on the term "Amerindian". Seeing it being used in recent scholarship by great scholars whose judgements I trust, but intuitively - from a place of ignorance - it seems outdated? Any tips much appreciated!

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BigRedDiver @bigreddiver.bsky.social · May 18

This is what a leader does.
This is what a leader sounds like.

THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM

DO NOT OBEY.
SPEAK YOUR MIND.

Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · May 17

WOW: Absolute RESPECT to Cecilia Culver for delivering a courageous, and kickass, commencement speech that calls out her university's complicity with genocide
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6w...

STANDING OVATION!!! | Cecilia Culver, The George Washington University 2025 Commencement Speech

YouTube video by EverydayPal

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · May 15

Draft of an AI statement for future syllabi (building on what others have done & shared)

Generative Al Statement:

The goal of this course is to help you improve as thinkers, scholars, and community members. The use of generative Al and LLMs (including Chat GPT) is antithetical to these goals. I strongly encourage you not to use generative Al to complete readings or assignments. There is growing evidence that the use of generative Al facilitates labor exploitation of workers in the Global South, causes severe local and global environmental damage, relies on stolen labor of writers and artists, fails to provide accurate information or citations, and may be causing a microgeneration of students to struggle to think/write critically and become less employable after college. Beyond all of these, generative Al-written papers are (more often than not) poorly argued, woodenly and generically written, and obvious to humanities professors.

This course aims to help us practice the acts of critical thinking, analyzing, discussing, producing knowledge, and engaging with the communities in which we live. Accordingly, I ask that you embrace the difficulty of that process rather than attempt to outsource these skills. At the same time, I am not interested in attempting to surveil you through Al-detection software because this creates a hostile classroom environment between students and their professor. College is a time for you to decide who you want to be and how you want to engage the work set before you.

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Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social · May 12

Disgraceful

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says

PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements

www.theguardian.com

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · May 6

Call for applications for the inaugural Racing the Classics cohort-based fellowship (funded by a major award won by Dan-El Padilla Peralta and Sasha-Mae Eccleston). Mentorship, summer seminar, monthly practicum, stipend/travel, and more www.racingtheclassics.com

RACING THE CLASSICS

Racing the Classics began as a conference series. The summer seminar takes up the mantle of that series by inviting fellows to gather in-person for intensive, sustained conversation.

www.racingtheclassics.com

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Arielle Zibrak @zibrak.bsky.social · May 8

You guys, a conclave of old cardinals can decide on a POPE faster than an academic search committee can decide on the four people we're bringing to campus for an assistant professor search.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · May 8

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

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