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Tampere - Finland!

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@raylaurence1.bsky.social giving a talk at Stockholm. How does a multi-species mobility look like? #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋

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@raylaurence1.bsky.social today from Tampere on age #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋

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Bleak winter!

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Age in antiquity workshop next week! research.tuni.fi/trivium/frid...

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bsr.ac.uk/thomas-ashby...

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Wonderful work being done on Thomas Ashby and the Roman roads of Italy by Macquarie graduates @janetwade.bsky.social and @nic33.bsky.social using the photo archive of @bsrome.bsky.social. @raylaurence1.bsky.social @emlynkd.bsky.social @resaustrales.bsky.social @awaws.org bsr.ac.uk/thomas-ashby...

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Roads! Next week in Stockholm!!

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We have a blog post up on our new Open Access book "How Republics Die: creeping authoritarianism in ancient Rome and beyond". Find the post here: doi.org/10.58079/13xuq and the book itself (with all the chapters in downloadable PDF) here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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True ✅

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Today is World Autism Awareness Day, in Autism Awareness Week, which is in Autism Awareness Month. Spare a thought today for all the autistic people who really hate April! But in the spirit of awareness... I've been quiet on social media lately because I've been working on a Big Autism Project...

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This inspires a new approach to the 20 minute academic conference paper! @ascs in Auckland early 2026!

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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🌟Early Release - Gladiator II with Alexandra Sills 🌟 We consider the highs and lows of Gladiator II with @belovedofoizys.bsky.social, whose research focuses on the representation of gladiators. This fantastic interview is out now for our wonderful patreons 🥳 www.patreon.com/posts/122599...

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People are taking things into their own hands

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We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com

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The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials. I worked at the Pentagon. If information like this is not classified, nothing is. If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so.

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The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

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So, we reach end of week 4 of the academic year and are given an inkling of what Macquarie Uni is about to inflict on its employees. futurecampus.com.au/2025/03/20/a...

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US is now a fascist totalitarian country? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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At a glance, it looks like about 75% of my published work, everything from recent publications and a monograph to some obscure academic reviews from 25 years ago. I might not even hate the "fair use" of this material, to be honest. But helping to line the pockets of Mark Zuckerberg?? HELL NO.

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We all know what day it is...

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very proud to have been involved in the development of this report, for which I also wrote the afterword, being launched by the All Party Parliamentary Group in London today www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Nice work in Tottenham

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A toxic toy? A #Roman lead figure of a #camel, presumably a kid's toy (height 5.08cm, length 7.62cm). Dating probably 1st century AD, from Lower #Egypt. On display at the British Museum 📷 me 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

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Happy #InternationalWomensDay on #RomanSiteSaturday! Women have always been part of #archaeology. When Roman Verulamium (now St Albans) was excavated by Mortimer and Tessa Wheeler in the 1930s, women made up over half the team! Here are a few photos 1/6 📸 St Albans Museum #IWD #Trowelblazers🏺

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Over 150 people rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, March 6, in the second protest against sweeping layoffs at the institution.

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I love this photo that @melissabender.bsky.social captured of me at the #standupforscience rally yesterday in NYC. I wonder if I could make this my official faculty photo lol @jackiantonovich.bsky.social @kimberlywheiman.bsky.social @archaeoscape.bsky.social @sarahruncie.bsky.social

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40 BOOKS IN ROMAN HISTORY WRITTEN BY WOMEN A killer reading list of great books (and personal favorites!) in Roman History to celebrate #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025. Limited to English (to keep it manageable!) and listed in order of publication. Let's go!

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As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

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Wall painting fragment from Ostia Antica depicting Lares (a household guardian) between two serpents. Dating to the second half of the 2nd century AD, the fragment can be viewed at the Ostia Antica site museum. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #OstiaAntica

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Ping @davidrafferty.bsky.social “clusterfuck”?