Happy #MayThe4th . To celebrate, here is a retelling of the first movie - spes nova - told in (relatively) simple Latin and illustrated with Lego. The whole movie!! numen tecum sit. legonium.com/spes-nova

Here's a snapshot of the #Wikipedia editing #WCCWiki completed over March and April ...

We created a new page for Gay van der Meer, a Dutch numismatist who specialised in early medieval coinage of Britain, as well as medallic art: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_van_d…

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Heading home after a day in Durham at the WCC UK AGM, hearing from some brilliant speakers, with a magnificent keynote from @edithmayhall! Thanks to everyone who attended, either in person or online!

Please read, and spread the word about the WCC and the work it does! 💖

It’s the WCC UK AGM today. Sadly I can’t attend but I’ll be catching up later. The elections note I’ve served my maximum time as mentoring officer. Goodness. How did that happen? It’s made me reflect a lot on what mentoring means in different contexts / communities…

Looking forward to delivering my lecture on the history of laundry to the UK Women's Classical Committee today. Here's the 5th-c.-BCE proud dedication in the Parthenon of a water basin, inscribed THE WASHERWOMAN SMIKYTHE DEDICATED [THIS] AS A TITHE. I hope Athena liked it.

Important thread. Until recently I faced the prospect of redundancy every year (thanks to precarious contracts based on student numbers) and overpaying on the mortgage and having six months' worth of expenses saved up were my lifelines.

This is causing lots of upset, and rightly so. As a child my special interest was books. If people had tried to 'reduce its dominance' in my life, I wouldn't now have a doctorate and a career in Classics - and I would have been desperately unhappy.

A thread on Daphne (and Apollo) poems and images. The poems are mostly taken from Nina Kossman's 'Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Mythology'.

Blake's sketch in his notebook of the transformation. bridgemanimages.com/en-US/noartist…

After a stressful couple of weeks spent giving talks for Autism Acceptance Month, it means so much to be nominated for this award! Thank you to whoever kindly nominated me, and to everyone who's voted for me so far! 💖💖💖

With so many lovely folks doing stuff in Classics, it would be WRONG not to nominate someone for one of our SIX awards.

In fact, why not nominate someone for each of them?

workingclassicists.com/awards

Apparently no work is to be done this #Caturday .

Here is some more info on categories (in the format of a notes app apology for some reason)

This is lovely (and a big thank-you to Bloomsbury Classical Studies & Archaeology for giving me a spot in it!).

Apply, if you're eligible! (and feel free to ask questions - we're all very friendly!)

Such a pleasure to talk at an OU STEMinar yesterday about designing for autism and inclusive tutorials.

ZEUS: darling can we talk
HERA: no
ZEUS: but sweetheart, its just that hephaestus says you threw him off the mountain
HERA: so?
ZEUS: he says you told him to 'wheel himself back up'
HERA: and
ZEUS: well, its just the tiniest bit ableist, treasure
HERA: why. clearly he managed it

Register before tomorrow afternoon if you want to spend an hour listening to me being wildly overenthusiastic about Minotaur representations! All welcome!

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#LatinForTheDay – 17 April #Pentadius 🧵

“cui pater amnis erat, fontes puer ille colebat,
laudabatque undas, cui pater amnis erat.
se puer ipse videt, patrem dum quaerit in amne,
perspicuoque lacu se puer ipse videt.
quod Dryas igne calet, puer hunc irridet amorem;...