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Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 and Strong Message Here | Doom scroller, the internet
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
@gregjenner.bsky.social
~Public Historian 📜🤓 ~Host & creator of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐📻📜🏛️ ~Hon. Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓 ~ Author of 7 funny history books ✍️📚 ~ CBBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV (series 1-9) 🎭🤣 ~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️ www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
@flintdibble.bsky.social
⛏️ Archaeologist at Cardiff University. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛 2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos It's my real name | he/him www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
@thehistoryguy.bsky.social
Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
@sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/ Pasts Imperfect: https://pastsimperfect.substack.com
@questingvole.bsky.social
[indistinct chatter] @spectator lit ed. Author of The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
@metalclassicist.bsky.social
VAP in Classics at Grand Valley State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in Metal. he/him “Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth, and the Refounding of Rome” out September 26th with Oxford University Press. Curriculum vitae: tinyurl.com/SwistCV
@richove.bsky.social
Bodley's Librarian, @bodleianlibraries.Bsky.social & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social
@sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social
I am a screenwriter (Blinded by the Light), author (Greetings from Bury Park, They), journalist (Guardian, Times and lots of others), I teach at UCL and am working on my first stage play. Mostly though I am a husband and father of two young children.
@rogueclassicist.bsky.social
I've been curating classics social media since the 1990s and still feel a need to do it! Classics /Ancient World feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyrmsmhhg7vzz4ghj44y5xzq/feed/7cb2f06b13c0
@pompei79.bsky.social
Just an archaeologist who works at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
@elliemackinroberts.net
Slow runner. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat. https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html
@helenking.bsky.social
Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
@drmaimusie.bsky.social
Ancient Historian| Public Engagement Specialist | Co-founder @ClassicsinComm @UniofOxford |Trustee @TheRomanSoc @classicsforall Agent:www.hkmanagement.co.uk Website: https://www.drmaimusie.com
@emlynkd.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @ics.bsky.social, Uni of London Former A/Director, British School at Rome Archaeologist 🏺 Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷 Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️ FSA FRHistS FHEA. 🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
@gregwoolf.bsky.social
Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.
@vickyausten.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Public Engagement Coordinator for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social Gif Enthusiast. My own unique mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸 victoriaausten.com
@workingclassicists.bsky.social
www.workingclassicists.com 🏺A hub of resources, support & solidarity ⚡️Representing the working class in classics 🏛️ Run by @miri.bsky.social & @misterconnor1.bsky.social ✍️ Platforming working class academics ❤️ Woke AF email us: info@workingclassicists.com
@carolatack.bsky.social
Ancient politics and political thought, modern art, Plato and Xenophon. Fellow of Newnham College, FRHistS. Cambridge and elsewhere. Recent books: Plato: a civic life (Reaktion) and Xenophon (Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics, Cambridge).
@jldraycott.bsky.social
Roman historian and archaeologist. Lecturer @UofGlasgow. She/her. Represented by @pew_literary, published by @HoZ_Books.
@idaostenberg.bsky.social
Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg. Eller som min son säger: "Mamma är bara professor i vissa saker." Posts in English and Swedish.
@lucygrig.bsky.social
Ancient historian and failed optimist, always looking for somewhere to procrastinate
@petercnstewart.bsky.social
Professor of Ancient Art. Director of the Classical Art Research Centre at Oxford University @carcoxford.bsky.social. Chair of Trustees at The Brooking @thebrooking.bsky.social. Antiquity, modernism, arts.
@ancientlyric.bsky.social
www.bettinajoydeguzman.com PhD Classics student, Uni of Reading. Multi-instrumentalist. Composer. President of CCA South. Classics MA. Educator. Poet. BA English, Music, Psychology. Patreon.com/BettinaJoyDeGuzman
@antiquethought.bsky.social
Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social
@clairemillington.bsky.social
Archaeologist and writer. Once-upon-a-time a diplomat. Rural. https://clairemillington.com (She/her)
@soniaz.bsky.social
FSA Professor of Bioarchaeology at @unisouthampton.bsky.social, biological anthropology, archaeology, paleopathology... Archaeological dead bodies, identity, disability. Ancient Egypt, medieval Spain, Saxons in England.
@zenakamash.bsky.social
Writing - archaeology - heritage - wellbeing. British Iraqi. Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' student. Deputy Editor: European Journal of Archaeology. Likes crafting, boardgames and cats. She/her
@eltonteb.bsky.social
Prof of Greek Literature & Culture at The Open University | working-class Classicist | still delighting in Homer | dabbling in the digital | grappling with the politics of form & linked data | Pelagios partnership sec | hello to Jason | love the show Steve
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The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
@vlcampbell.bsky.social
Ancient historian, archaeologist, writer, lecturer at The Open University. All things Pompeii, Rome, and epigraphy. https://pompeiinetworks.wordpress.com/
@ullamr.bsky.social
An archaeologist who loves Eurovision and popular tv. Sharing content on heritage, politics and entertainment. She/her My opinions are my own.
@tonykeen58.bsky.social
Teacher/academic/classicist/critic/reviewer/sf fan. Writes on classical reception & popular culture, comics, & Doctor Who. Available for talks. UK. He/him.
@averilcam.bsky.social
Keble College Oxford, KIngs College London, posting on late antiquity and Byzantium and opinions, mum and granny, from Leek. Memoir: Transitions. A Historian’s Memoir (Brepols, 2024)
@emmabridges.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Classical Studies at the Open University. Thinks a lot about making humanities education accessible. She/her
@sophiecormack.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, Uni. of Sunderland. Perception of time, procrastination, learning analytics, online learning, cats, travel & happiness.
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Podcaster: Afghanistan with Roh Yakobi | Consultant | Advocate | 2024 Parliamentary Candidate - named among Labour’s 10 brightest new candidates by the New Statesman.
@corabeth.bsky.social
Autistic Geordie illustrator and classicist. Assoc Lecturer at The Open University. National Teaching Fellow. Working class/first gen. Rarely seen without a cat.
@drnaomiscott.bsky.social
A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes. My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
@lindsaypowell.bsky.social
Historian. News editor at Ancient History and Ancient Warfare magazines. Author of 14 books, including MARCUS AGRIPPA and GERMANICUS. Appeared on BFBS, History, HistoryHit and The History Network. 🇺🇸🏴 Website: https://lindsay-powell.com
@lucianixon.bsky.social
Classical archaeologist working on Crete, feminist, passionate about equality issues. Also very keen on museums, poetry, and bees. Canadian 🇨🇦 portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/collections/The_Sphakia_Survey_Internet_Edition/6816405
@abibaker.bsky.social
Museum archaeologist. Likes making things and colourful video games. Author of: Troy on display: scepticism and wonder at Schliemann’s first exhibition https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/troy-on-display-9781350191365/
@drhelenforte.bsky.social
I'm a classicist, an illustrator & cartoonist, a grandmother and a feminist (in any order)
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