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Archaeologist and writer. Once-upon-a-time a diplomat. Rural. https://clairemillington.com (She/her)

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · Feb 24

I couldn't be happier to be publishing this with BAR Publishing! Please feel free to ask your library to order a copy!!

BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social · Feb 24

We are thrilled to announce the publication of Military Households of Roman Auxiliary Commanders in Western Europe and North Africa by @clairemillington.bsky.social!🏺

Now available here: doi.org/10.30861/978...

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 11h

Or whatever combination of drop some catches and accept it works best for you.

Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 12h

Half-ass the job, simplify feeding family (have you a partner), and skip most of the housework.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 13h

Accepting it can't and working from that to prioritise. Sleep, food, basic physiological essentials are essential even during your PhD.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19h

£12 billion when you factor in stamp duty.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 16h

...lack of clinician knowledge due to medical knowledge biased towards men for historical reasons).

Women now both expected to work post-children and for longer (increased pension age).

Are there any numbers to test this wondering?

Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 16h

This is good - there are other dimensions that I've wondered about specifically post-menopausal working women, health and employment that this only partially covers. Broadly.

Women's health tends to deteriorate around menopause (eg autoimmune conditions, menopause impacts...

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 17h

⚡ Important thread by fearless community champion George Monbiot!

Highlighting the very real consequences of Simon Wessely's campaign to deny vulnerable people care.

Neurodiverse people are now in the firing line 😕

👀 One to read

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 18h

Unique IDs? Claimant types? Beneficial owners? You had questions and we’ve got answers! It’s your step-by-step guide to filing an Anthropic claim ✅

We’re covering everything you need to know and more: authorsguild.org/advocacy/art...

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

What You’ll Need: Important Deadline: All claims must be submitted by March 23, 2026. Step 1: Check Eligibility. Start at the main settlement website. Before filing a claim, you must confirm your book...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 20h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 17h

Note, AI IS useful. Just not the sort that needs a data center (LLMs, primarily). If it needs a data center, then the input is (invariably) YOU. Your interactions, your social media posts, or your creative works. That you don't give permission & don't have the choice, reflects the grift involved.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 17h

LLMs can only answer one question. "What, statistically speaking, is a plausible reply to [your prompt]". This is what makes them useless.

Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 17h

AI tools trained as a workhorse on specific limited datasets to do specific useful things like identify drug candidates great. But that's about its limit.

Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah. There's a not very quiet row back from the idea that AI as being developed can live up to its grandiose claims. No indication that there are different directions for its development that would work either.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 17h

Bank of England doesn't reckon AI is all that.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social · 1d

New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Keepin' it Old School this time

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 20h

Me, today.

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 20h

The sort of cartoon you'd expect to see from me

www.worldofmoose.com/products/con...

Cartoon showing a man reading from a dictionary to another. He says "So, it turns out confirmation bias means exactly what I expected it to mean|"

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 1d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 2d

Today I'll be giving a brief introduction to fifth and sixth century Eastern Roman history, for an MA module on Medieval Greek Literature. Which is as good an excuse as any to sneak this into the PP:

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 21h

Anthropology should replace RE as mandatory at state schools: faiths are just one facet of the extraordinary ways people have chosen past & present to organise their lives and express identity - from households to states, craft to economy, or dealing with death. Anthropology opens minds & hearts.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 21h

🏺 And of course, Anthropology including Archaeology is so powerful because we use all kinds of data and analytical methods which bring together humanities AND sciences.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 21h

She's still sore people noticed her spelling mistake isn't she? Don't teach them English and they won't notice so much.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 21h

English, Anthropology, Sociology... removing these options for the majority would of course help the class war substantially, by preventing most people from learning more in understanding and appreciating the real diversity of humanity, culture and its communication

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 1d

#EpigraphyTuesday introduces us to one of the soon-to-be indispensable figures of #Roman public life, the #apparitor or bureaucrat. This Marcus #Claudius was possibly a lesser member of the gens Claudia, one of the ruling class of #Rome. #AncientBluesky 🏺

FUNERARY INSCRIPTION OF M. CLAUDIUS, C. 25-1 BCE. BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN

M(arcus) Claudius M(arci) F(ilius) scr(ibarum) mag(ister) q(uaestorum) et aed(ilium) cur(ulium). Arbitratu
Philarguri maioris l(iberti)

"Marcus Claudius, son of Marcus, President of the association of scribes for the quæstors and Curule ædiles. [This was set up] by the direction of Philargurus, senior freedman (of Claudius)". This large, almost completely intact block of marble was found along the via Casilina about 12 km outside the city walls. It records one of the army of apparitores or "assistants", a class of public servants amounting to a nascent bureaucracy by the end of the C2 BCE. There were four colleges of apparitores, namely, in ascending order of prestige, the præcones or heralds, the lictores or bodyguards of magistrates, the viatores or messengers, and the scribæ, responsible for taking and keeping public records. This Marcus Claudius, son of Marcus (the designation indicates that he was a freeborn citizen) was one of the scribæ working for the quæstors and curule ædiles, one of the bigger cogs in the vast imperial machine.

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Laura Geggel @laurageggel.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of ancient gold and silver coins and cool doodads found in Czech Republic. Why? Perhaps it was a seasonal market around 2,500 years ago. 🏺🧪 💰 #archaeology

Hundreds of ancient gold and silver coins from possible Celtic market found in Czech Republic

Hundreds of gold and silver coins, along with jewelry and other artifacts, have been found in the Czech Republic at what might have been an ancient Celtic market.

www.livescience.com

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