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Katie Turner

@katieturnerphd.com

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Historian: 1st Century Material Culture | New Testament Reception | Religion & Pop-Culture | Clothing, Costume, Film Co-Host: www.GodsAndMoviemakers.com More about me: www.KatieTurnerPhD.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!

Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · May 19

And a form for anybody to add suggestions:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Museums, Libraries, and Archives with Free Images for Publication

A crowd-sourced list of images freely available for teaching, presenting, or publication under Creative Commons or Open Access license

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 1d

This isn’t really the point but I’ve just realized that I’ve been reading it as “artos” all this time and…I’m assuming it’s not actually Greek 😳
“You know you’re a NT scholar when…”

Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 1d

Mary Whitehouse also (who came before Schlafly I believe)

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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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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 3d

A local community group I'm affiliated with is running a charity drive for Gazans. If you can spare a penny and/or a repost, we'd be hugely grateful.

www.gofundme.com/f/Humanitari...

Donate to Humanitarian Appeal for Gaza, organized by Bromley 3 Faiths, organized by Bromley 3 Faiths Group

We, the members of the Bromley Three Faiths Group, are horrif… Bromley 3 Faiths Group needs your support for Humanitarian Appeal for Gaza, organized by Bromley 3 Faiths

www.gofundme.com

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 3d

Note the note at the end: "Every UK news outlet to which the authors sent this essay declined to publish it." 2/2

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 3d

"The fact that the asphyxiation of British higher education does not instantly count as a national scandal underlines the extent to which the austerity mindset continues to constrain our political imagination" - @robbhawkes.bsky.social & Scott Ferguson's piece is excellent.

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 5d

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 3d

A local community group I'm affiliated with is running a charity drive for Gazans. If you can spare a penny and/or a repost, we'd be hugely grateful.

www.gofundme.com/f/Humanitari...

Donate to Humanitarian Appeal for Gaza, organized by Bromley 3 Faiths, organized by Bromley 3 Faiths Group

We, the members of the Bromley Three Faiths Group, are horrif… Bromley 3 Faiths Group needs your support for Humanitarian Appeal for Gaza, organized by Bromley 3 Faiths

www.gofundme.com

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 6d

"There was a young man who liked Weetabix,
But otherwise he'd only eat meaty sticks.
He had sausages for lunch,
Snacked on pepperoni a bunch,
And every so often he'd eat a mix."

-a contribution from my spouse

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 6d

He eats a weetabix
He eats some luncheon meat
He eats some sausages
He eats enough to eat

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 6d

"...being alive is no answer to the problems of living. To be or not to be is not the question.
The vital question is: how to be and how not to be?"

- Abraham Joshua Hershel, No Religion is an Island

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 6d

“Nigel Farage is wrong in principle, his approach is racist, and we oppose it”

“Nigel Farage is right on immigration, but he doesn’t have the skill or experience to deliver his plans”

At some point, the government has to pick *one* of these narratives, instead of veering wildly between the two.

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 7d

Yup. I have two articles like this.

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stevewolgast.bsky.social @stevewolgast.bsky.social · 7d

Yes! Comments in footnotes.
And may I add: Please, @microsoft.com, please make Word stop changing fonts and sizes just because I’m starting a new ¶.

Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 7d

Literally all we want is to be able to add comments in footnotes.

The Verge @theverge.com · 9d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 7d

Literally all we want is to be able to add comments in footnotes.

The Verge @theverge.com · 9d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

buff.ly

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 7d

Literally all we want is to be able to add comments in footnotes.

The Verge @theverge.com · 9d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

buff.ly

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 9d

to be more in-depth and nuanced by virtue of parenthetical clauses, footnotes, etc. that just don’t translate well in a spoken format.
The problem is treating this as an either/or situation rather than a “yes, and” situation, where two different formats are used to complement each other.
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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 9d

Dyslexic academic here 👋
I will never be able to read at the speed I can ingest information in a video format (or retain it as well - unless I handwrite notes) and skimming is just something I can’t do. For me, the difference is the way information is transmitted - writing provides the space…
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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 9d

This is amazing!

Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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notidefix.bsky.social @notidefix.bsky.social · 9d

migrants tend to have a net positive outcome....

....namely they pay more in taxes than collect in welfare

there's also the fact that a lot of migrants come complete with high-income skills....

....and western countries DO NOT pay for education of these migrants

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Immigration and the welfare state

Abstract. As immigration continues to be politically salient in North America and Europe, questions about the compatibility of modern welfare states with i

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 9d

If Labour continues down this ugly, punitive, xenophobic path they will lose my vote. Stop chasing Reform!

Crazy to think it was a Labour government that made the UK a place I wanted to migrate to, to begin with.

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 9d

“Ministers are keen for migrants to prove they’ve integrated in the UK if they want settlement status. That includes…conditions such as making National Insurance contributions, not taking any benefits payments…”
This is ALREADY the case. 10 yrs for ILR - why!? Other than hostility to immigrants.

Shabana Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status

New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social · 12d

No historian can fail to be appalled by this exaltation of murder.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 13d

Oi biblical scholars:

Stop saying “the” Old Testament without specifying which one you mean. Decenter the Protestant collection as the unspoken norm (especially if you’re referring to a collection of texts that predates the Reformation).

‘K thanks.

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 14d

Looking again I withdraw my comment - a few people on here had said that was the origin, and the style of embroidery, along with the shape of the drape, do seem to suggest that's right. But I just noticed the menorah is only 5 branches. I have no idea if that makes any sense in a Bukharan context.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 14d

Expert here: We were not, in fact, ever puzzled. It has been and always will be a writing tablet. www.indy100.com/news/ancient...

'Laptop' spotted in Ancient Greek statue leaving experts puzzled

An ancient Greek statue of a woman seemingly using a laptop has sparked time travel theories online. "Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant" is a 37-inch marble statue created around 1...

www.indy100.com

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 14d

It's emails day. A day in which I write all the emails.

I loathe emails day.