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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · 1d

The Herald has also written a news item about the letter, here: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2551943...

Without paywall: archive.ph/9gPsg

British Jewish group condemn 'weaponisation' of Manchester synagogue attack

A group of Jewish rabbis, academics and community leaders has described attempts to link the Manchester terror attack to pro-Palestine protests as…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see the Herald has published our letter (from the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network) in today's paper:
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2552...

Archived version (no paywall): archive.ph/BRTCY

SUJSN: www.jewishstaffnetwork.co.uk

Prominent Scottish Jews issue plea over reaction to Manchester attack

As Jews we absolutely reject the weaponisation of the Manchester attack to suppress protests against the genocide in Gaza

www.heraldscotland.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

As Jews we beg you: do not let the Manchester attack be weaponised

I was humbled to be invited to sign this letter as a strong ally of the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network and thank all colleagues here for their tireless commitment to peace
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2552...

Prominent Scottish Jews issue plea over reaction to Manchester attack

As Jews we absolutely reject the weaponisation of the Manchester attack to suppress protests against the genocide in Gaza

www.heraldscotland.com

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 5d

The area of Manchester where the horrific antisemitic attack took place is one of the few in the UK where Jewish & Muslim ppl both live in large numbers. We must learn from & follow how these communities support each other, as we condemn the attack & send love & solidarity to Jews across the UK

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · Aug 28

very excited for this next week!

Bobby Xinyue @bobbyxinyue.bsky.social · Aug 28

Here's the programme for the upcoming 'Fixed Handout 3.0' workshop on Luxorius. Get in touch if you'd like to come along. Cheers.

#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · Aug 12

terrible news. now I have to update my mental picture of caesar et al in egypt to costume them all in bucket hats.

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Aug 11

WOW! A 2,000-year-old felt hat intended to keep #Roman soldiers cool in the heat of the desert of Egypt has been painstakingly brought back to life.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

🏺 #archaeology

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jul 27

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

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

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

docs.google.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Jul 24

Carving out Jews as the special exception to the general anti-DEI rules of the federal government makes Jews into a specially protected buffer class, which both engenders resentment from others and enables the government to make us scapegoats if things go bad. It’s Court Jews all over again.

Paul Gowder @gowder.io · Jul 24

Wait wait wait wait so Columbia MUST create a DEI office for Jewish folks but MAY NOT create a DEI office for anyone else? Am I reading this right?

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Jul 23

The UK government is blocking Palestinian students in Gaza from taking up UK scholarships.

Some have been killed while waiting @theguardian.com

We’ve written to the Home Secretary demanding action and @drjogrady.bsky.social will be on @lbc.co.uk at 4 PM urging the govt to step in.

tr.ee/HjzPtS

Ministers urged to help students trapped in Gaza with places at UK universities

Forty people who have been offered scholarships unable to travel without biometric data they have no way of getting

www.theguardian.com

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · Jul 23

It's publication day for a project I'm so glad to be a part of. Candida, Jeremiah and Joe have done a spectacular job as editors, & I've learned so much from them & the other contributors to the volume!

Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Jul 23

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/book/60683

Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · Jul 23

It's publication day for a project I'm so glad to be a part of. Candida, Jeremiah and Joe have done a spectacular job as editors, & I've learned so much from them & the other contributors to the volume!

Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Jul 23

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/book/60683

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Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social · Jul 23

Was already looking forward to this - and all the more excited to see that @talithakearey.bsky.social is part of it!

Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Jul 23

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/book/60683

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · Jul 23

oh you two, stop being so nice about me! 💕 it's an absolute banger of a volume — I'm so glad to be a part of it!

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · Jul 17

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

After many requests, I finally accessed what turned out to be the saddest and smallest library I have ever seen. I was surprised to find that the books were not categorized by author or Dewey number but size. I tried to find a book before my allotted time ended and picked a cooking book; the second time I got a novel. I began flipping through the pages in search of solace, as books have always been my safe haven. To my surprise, I discovered handwritten notes scattered throughout the book, dated and written by various detainees over time. These messages were filled with reminders of hope, strength, and the assurance that this, too, shall pass. Tears welled up in my eyes as I read their heartfelt expressions. It’s incredible how human beings can find ways to uplift each other, transcending time, space, and borders if they want to and if they choose to. I continued to turn the pages, holding on to the hope of finding brighter moments in this terrifying situation—all thanks to the kindness of people I had never met.

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · Jul 8

(never stop)

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · Jul 8

actually, for #portfolioday, please enjoy this narrative event from Civ 7 with its corresponding inspiration (both by me)

a narrative event from Civ 7 which reads “Attendants cheer as the veil falls away from an enormous portrait. "This is a brilliant likeness of you," an august advisor exalts, "a celebration of your generosity, the leading style." The smile seems more an uncanny leer, but no one seems unsettled by it.”

you can choose to hang the portrait as if it doesn’t bother you, destroy it, or pay to have it redone.

a digitally altered mosaic portrait of Justinian, except he is offering a horribly unsettling grin

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · Jul 8

frankly this is bullying

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 5

It is truly upsetting that a senior scholar in classics, with the protections and stature of tenure, would openly gloat about the US denying visas to people (often nontenured) due to their political views. Maybe the worst thing I've ever seen on the Classics listserv, and that's saying something.

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · Jul 1

the answer is me, I am TK (this is why I use '[[/]]' instead)

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Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · Jun 29

Delighted to see this up online, *with* the cover image:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · May 28

Ooh, thank you!

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · Apr 30

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · Apr 28

a nice way to start a Monday morning: going over proofs for my chapter in 'Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean'!

Proof page of an article on 'Editing', reading:

Rome was a slave society; accordingly, its literature was sustained by enslaved workers. The unspoken backdrop to the individual authors who move through the canon of Greco-Roman antiquity—the Ciceros, Vergils, Ovids, and Plinies who sit on our bookshelves and monopolize our university courses—was a gargantuan quantity of labor performed by unfree literary workers. The influence of these laborers on Roman literature went far beyond “mechanical” or “technical” assistance—unusually for slave societies, where literacy is more often with- held from the enslaved as a means of control. In Rome, enslaved workers’ intellectual expertise was as valuable to their enslavers, or even more so, than their performance of physical labor and routine tasks.

Nonetheless, if we were to seek a history of enslaved editorial labor from Roman sources, we would come away all but empty-handed. As Sean Gurd has shown, discussions of the process of revision in Roman antiquity almost all center around the interactions of equal-status Roman men of the wealthy enslaving classes. For these authors, editing becomes a medium of social exchange and community formation, linked directly to an individual author’s tactics of navigating the social and political pressures of his day. Cicero’s idealization of the republic is mirrored in his attempts to instantiate a community of letters driven by common goals and mutual critique; Pliny the Younger speaks openly of editing other elite Romans’ work as a means of social climbing; and paranoid Horace portrays self-revision as [...]

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Talitha Kearey @talithakearey.bsky.social · Apr 19

don't get mad at me for saying this: trump cadence

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