What a great idea - i love it!

What a phenomenal idea - yoink!

Rejoin is coming Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.

"We need to pursue the clearest, simplest approach - electorally, politically, logically and economically. That is the campaign to rejoin the European Union, without complication or caveat."

iandunt.substack.com/p/rejoin-is-...

Can you get a free sim from GiffGaff or something and basically have a burner number?

I don't often comment, but your work is absolutely gorgeous

The Persians did, in fact, come and take them successfully.

Have you had personal tutoring responsibilities in a UK HEI within the last five years? I'm running a short survey on the role of interpersonal relationships and care within personal tutoring, which takes about ten minutes to complete. Particularly keen to hear from men & folks not in Russell Group.

When democracy is stolen from the people by thieving, murdering elites, who will step up to help and fight to get it back? In Athens in 403 BCE, the answer was its immigrant community.
Listen to the full episode about the 30 Tyrants and the restoration of democracy with Roel Konijnendijk, link below

Sharing an important article that has come out of the University of Cambridge. Too many people I know in academia have been subject to various forms of abuse, and this is unfortunately one of the latest examples of this. Change is needed: archive.ph/l7JIX

A background of a cloudy sky made to look red, with a black line drawing of the Acropolis in Athens. The text (in yellow) says "the Thirty Tyrants with Roel Konijnendijk"

New episode klaxon! What happened in Athens once it lost the long, costly Peloponnesian War? The victors in Sparta weren't too fond of Athenian democracy, so it simply had to go... our guest expert this week, @roelkonijn.bsky.social walks us through an ancient regime change and its aftermath...

Now published fully:

Pagkalos, M. E. (2026). In the Service of the Demos: Civic Religion and Politics in Early Hellenistic Athens. Intellectual History Review, 36(1), 29-52. doi.org/10.1080/1749...

#publication #Hellenistic #history #HellenisticAthens

Also Science.

Stand up to hate protestors in central London

Choose love, people

There is an alternative built on compassion and an open hand. Do that thing where you take their closed fists and make them smack themselves, while saying “why are you hitting yourself?” Honestly, can you meet your own gaze in a mirror?

Honestly, I’ve had a few drinks, but what the actual fuck sort of country are we complicit in? Tomorrow, March 28, March Against Racism. Let them know this bullshit won’t stand.

One of my first experience in archaeology was sorting Bellarmine fragments in Newfoundland, and feeling a weird sense of connection across an ocean. Thanks for the flashback to simpler times

Clearly the best seat. I’m not giving it up, I’m driving! Choo choo!

A new DOUBLE episode for you this week! @mikebeer.bsky.social joins Alexandra to take a fresh, critical look at the life and career of Augustus. Think you know him? You might just know the image Augustus *wanted* you to know...

Good HE is really simple: quality time spent with subject experts who know and care about their students. My university and many others are deliberately abandoning this truth in favour of financial and organisational efficiency.

If you listen carefully, you can hear the Newf coming out a little bit

Dear @britishlibrary.bsky.social, please let Daisy in

I have learned the cat’s name is Daisy. I cannot reveal my sources. #LibraryCats

A tabby cat just outside the main doors of the British Library

The very cute and presumably well-read tabby cat is now looking at the camera just outside the British Library

There is a cat outside the main doors of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. We demand more #LibraryCats!

Issue 72: Life after Life of Archaeological Archives – Accessibility and Re-use of Archaeological Collections in Heritage Management. EAC symposium proceedings Issue 72: Life after Life of Archaeological Archives – Accessibility and Re-use of Archaeological Collections in Heritage Management. EAC symposium proceedings

New Issue: Accessibility & re-use of archaeological collections in heritage. EAC symposium proceedings management edited by Agnieszka Oniszczuk, Agnieszka Makowska and David Novák.
doi.org/10.11141/ia.72

Absolutely bonkers suggestion that we should follow the American model and cave in advance, rather than speak truth to power

Just flagging up this great digitisation on a budget guide from the HLF for small organisations:

www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/good...

The tangents are the fun part! Honestly, it’s enthusiasm and passion that make it engaging, and you have that in spades

Now I’m wondering if I have undiagnosed ADHD, because I also had no recollection of what I said. I did think your episode was fantastic though!

I’m on a podcast! Come here me give my take (and only my take) on what #classics is and should be, and some of the structural challenges it faces.

And for the uni, I ❤️ REF

#AncientBluesky 🏺

Jen Baird and Esther Breithoff standing on either side of a pink-and-white exhibit banner

We've set up a small exhibit on 'Sustainable Archaeologies in Times of Change' in our library as part of Birkbeck's Annual Climate Festival. If you're in Bloomsbury, please stop by!
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...