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ancientschool.bsky.social
Registered Career Practitioner, ancient history post-grad student, roller skater, ice hockey tragic, cat slave. Wangerriburra country. 🇦🇺
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It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Why is this important? Because, until the 1970s, women in the western world were considered too stupid to be scientists and were expected to sacrifice their lives to men. Men expected to get female servants #WomenInSTEM www.un.org/en/observanc...

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Who else here remembers the card catalogue? #LibraryLife @statelibraryvic.bsky.social

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoying a lovely Italian lunch and a good book. Little comes close to genuine pleasure. ♥️🍝📓. A huge thank you to all the trail-blazing female Australian war correspondents🇦🇺

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A little cat ASMR courtesy of the Cats and Dogs exhibition at NGV Melbourne 🐱

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There is just something hypnotic about a suspended balloon 🎈🎈

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Behold the majesty. #BlueSkyCats

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“Archaeologists complete largest mass exhumation in Australian history from old cemetery under The Hutchins School” The fascinating story of the largest archaeological mass exhumation in Australian history in Hobart #archaeologynews 🏺 www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

I am really excited to dive (pun intended) into this book by @capandgown.bsky.social . She had me at University and travel. The fact that gap years, study abroad and knowledge tourism is so popular today suggests that there was method in James Lough’s 1926 mad idea. #travel #university

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Gah!!! This is the Starter Pack thread I have be looking for my whole BlueSky life! #archaeology #heritage #AncientHistory

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We just write it as X. 🇦🇺 #enshittification

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I have finally finished my course work for 2024. Now I can do my own reading. Found these @historytoday.com in the local (Australian) library. I have vino and now I lēgo:

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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley, English writer, author of Brave New World, died #OTD 1963. Charles Sheeler ⁦‪Michener Art

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Am pretty sure there is a lesson in here for me…. Happy Monday peeps! 🖤🤍🐈‍⬛

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Hey @bsky.app like so many dedicated scholars of the ancient world, I am migrating away from the dark lands of X. Rebuilding my little network one click at a time. #AncientHistory

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