How did nurses shape Australia’s response to HIV/AIDS? Join Dr Geraldine Fela for ‘Blood Politics’, 31 Oct, 2.30pm, Schwarzman Centre. Free, all welcome: shorturl.at/MNB95 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @hflgbtq.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

Copy of an ancient Egyptian wall painting depicting two women shown with yellow skin, long black hair, wearing white dresses, squatting at a weaving loom

Great post offering insights the lives of girls in ancient Egypt! @julia-hamilton.bsky.social draws together administrative, archaeological, and artistic evidence in discussing girls’ working lives, wages, migration, and more:
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Thank you 😳❤️

Work, wages and apprenticeships: sifting for clues about the lives of girls in ancient Egypt Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records alongside adult workers.

📰 We know little about the lives of children in Ancient Egypt, and even less about that of non-elite girls. @julia-hamilton.bsky.social explores how ordinary girls lived, perhaps working as apprentices to adults 🏺

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Work, wages and apprenticeships: sifting for clues about the lives of girls in ancient Egypt Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records alongside adult workers.

‘[W]hat were the lives of ordinary girls like in ancient Egypt? And how did they make their way in a deeply patriarchal culture?’

Record union meeting at Macquarie today - currently 336 staff in the meeting and rising.

NTEU Branch President, Nick Harrigan speaking - "staff have to save this University from its own Management"

Yes, thrilled to be doing this with Alice, who conceived the workshop. We're looking for practice-based and research-informed engagements of all kinds with the #archives of colonialism (including #photography), for the October 2025 ISA meeting in Newcastle. 📜🗃️ More details in the link below!

Congratulations Regina! 🎉

New Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s Economy It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.

@sarahebond.bsky.social writes about my new @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social paper on #Pompeii slavery and inequality for @hyperallergic.com, great to see the study catching notice!

ACLS, AHA, and MLA File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff.

ACLS, AHA, and MLA File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities.
Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff. www.acls.org/news/acls-ah...

Congratulations to Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia and their contributors on the publication of their new #OpenAccess book Classics and Race today.

Read and download free at: uclpress.co.uk/book/classic...

#Classics #Race #IntellectualHistory

Yes. Thank you.

Excerpt from the article. Black text on white background with a few links in blue text. Excerpt as follows: “Under the ARC board’s proposals, most stand-alone fellowships would be replaced by “embedded fellowships” funded through other grant schemes and capped at two years. “Traditional four-year fellowships concentrate a significant amount of funds on a small number of individual researchers,” a discussion paper explains. Observers fear this could inadvertently deny many ECRs a toehold in academia because current fellowship schemes such as the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Decra) and the mid-career Future Fellowships are available to researchers without positions at universities. This could change under the proposals. The discussion paper implies that recipients of embedded fellowships must already be in “the university workforce” – suggesting that ECRs must obtain employment in the sector before gaining eligibility for ARC grants. That is an “unrealistic” expectation, according to Sharath Sriram, president of Science and Technology Australia. “The assumption is all those who apply are already…in academic roles. That might have been true in the 1990s. It’s not the case anymore. “There’s no stability of employment for people until they are six, seven years out of their PhDs. Universities often use success in grants and fellowships to determine who to employ.” A researcher who monitors grant schemes, using the social media handle “ARC Tracker”, was unconvinced that the proposals would improve opportunities for ECRs. They said changes to fellowship schemes needed to avoid closing “pathways” for young researchers and leaving them “overshadowed by the established group leaders”. ARC Board chair Peter Shergold acknowledged the fellowship changes as one of the “stings in the tail” of his proposals, but said a primary goal of his reforms was “contributing to the development of the next generation of researchers”.

Here’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️

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Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇

Photo of a rectangular clay tablet in landscape mode pictured from the front at the top of the picture, the back at the bottom of the picture. Between the two is a shot of the bottom of the tablet, which looks like a narrow clay strip. The front of the tablet is separated into boxes like an excel spreadsheet. The boxes have cuneiform signs in them. The bottom of the tablet has about two lines of cuneiform text.

If you’re wondering what a spreadsheet looked like in 1800 BCE, here is one that tallies foodstuffs for cattle received by four cowherds.

Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”

“carefully positioned lights” — really searching for the positives there, huh.

River Sheaf opened up next to Sheffield Castle site - BBC News The River Sheaf has been exposed at Castlegate for the first time in over 100 years

"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface.
The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark.
Fabulous.
A small light in the great gloom.
“It is starting to make its own meandering path…”
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Photo of a clay plaque with a rounded top that shows a woman breastfeeding a large baby or small toddler. She wears a skirt. The features on her face and that of the child are faded. She is in a standing position. There is no colour painted on the plaque that is visible, but there are a few minor cracks throughout.

"If an infant's body (has) a lukewarm temperature, his head has fever, he feeds at the breast and then drools a lot, his teeth are coming out. He may suffer for 14 or 20 days, but he will get well."

Teething described in a 3,000-year-old medical handbook from ancient Assyria and Babylonia.

Another online option ships internationally in case anyone is interested 📚

Screenshot from The Guardian's UK website this morning, under the category 'Egypt', a headline reading 'Smell like an Egyptian: researchers sniff ancient mummies to study preservation'

Hello @theguardian.com, this isn't news about Egypt, as your website categorizes it: it's news about Western scientists using colonial collections in Western museums to do to the ancestral Egyptian dead what they have done for centuries: promote themselves and grab headlines. 🧵📜🏺🗃️

When the Richest Man in the World Loves Classics Elon Musk is (as of now) not only the richest man in the world but also, thanks to President Trump’s embrace of him, one of the most politically powerful. He also loves Greco-Roman antiquity. That lov...

"Musk is committed to using his wealth and viral popularity to influence politics in the U.S. and abroad, and Greco-Roman antiquity has always been one of his favorite rhetorical tools" Thanks to @curtisdozier.bsky.social for this important post
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Registration for #ResDiff6 is now available: resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...

Very excited for #ResDiff6

Res Diff 6 2025 The 2025 Res Difficiles conference will take place on March 21st. Conference registration will be made available ahead of the event. Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addr…

It is my pleasure to announce the program for #ResDiff6 (March 21, 2025), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. Keynote: Sarah Derbew. resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...

Photo of a portrait shaped clay tablet with well-preserved cuneiform signs.

Photo of a portrait shaped clay tablet with well-preserved cuneiform signs.

In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour.

“we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...

Teaching history divorced from the concerns of the present is actually doing a bad job at teaching history.

A bit late with this, but a huge congratulations to the ASCS 2025 OPTIMA winner Elizabeth Leaning and to our joint runners-up Jemima McPhee and Jaymie Orchard! Pictured here with the prize committee. Classicsbluesky