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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts

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Slow runner. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️‍🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat. https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · Jan 11

FYI this is a Mercator projection hate account and always will be, so you can unfollow if that offends you.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 52m

(Not mine, found in my camera roll, giggled)

Three-panel meme. Woman asks man “What’s your zodiac sign?” He replies “Dinosaur.” She says “But that one doesn’t even exist.” Final panel shows him saying “None of them exist.“

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 10h

I’ve had a panic. Done some teaching prep. Done some bad writing. Now I am going for a run to stave off a second panic.

Things are so hard at the moment. Working part time is unsustainable, yet I don’t really have any strategies to deal with that and UKHE feels like a ticking time bomb.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 1d

10/10 would watch this piece of durational performance art.

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 1d

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 1d

Not a hot take but if you don’t want a gay kid, or a trans kid, or a disabled kid, or an Autistic kid, or an [insert other thing here] kid: DON’T HAVE A KID.

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 1d

Once again, the Zionist definition of “ceasefire” is “you cease, we fire”.

DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 1d

The evilest trick Israel always plays is to sign ceasefire agreements and immediately violate them.

Violating truces and human beings is in Israel's DNA.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Aug 19, 2024
Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social · 1d

My new "theory of religion"...

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 3d

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 1d

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 1d

(This post is composed very badly, I am both annoyed and did not sleep well)

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 1d

I know that these are often automated but I am BEGGING universities to stop sending these stupid email to staff who you haven’t hired to do any research (but also, why haven’t you? Why can’t you put research time into temporary staff contracts? It’s almost like you don’t actually value us!)

Screenshot reads ‘This will ensure a full and accurate record of your publications exists and help ensure your outputs meet
REF open access requirements.’

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 1d

And just like that I am the parent of a 14 year old.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 2d

My interview with The Ancients podcast on the Sasanians and the Rise of Islam.

open.spotify.com/episode/42Mc...

Rise of Islam

open.spotify.com

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

*The Orphanage is one of the best movies I have ever watched in my life but I am not a scary movie person and it deeply freaked me out and I just don’t think I could face it again.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

‘Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand’

Eggplant

The Orphanage*

Waterloo

Neville Morley @nevillemorley.bsky.social · 2d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Boiled eggs

The Vanishing

We All Stand Together

Phil Edwards @philedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Brussels sprouts

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Hotel California

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 2d

revising a research strategy document for an org and part of me thinks every org that has such a strategy and supports historical research should have an item in that strategy which is basically: support historians to actually do research

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

Here’s a thing I’ve noticed about runners in the area I live in - this is a deeply reductive take, just fyi.

Women seem to always be happy running. Women smile at each other. Women appear to have fun - even when obviously running hard.

Men are grumpy motherfuckers.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

She is also incensed that all my work is not magically done, but mainly because she wants attention.

A black and brown tabby cat with large green eyes sits upright on a desk, a pink keyboard and laptop are in the background.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

Let’s both try that next week and see how we get on. Report back. 😆

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

Oh yes, one can never begrudge getting to spend time out enjoying moving one’s body!

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

(On the plus side I had a very lovely nearly 2 hours not having to think about them and just enjoying being out in parks!)

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

Vicky, it doesn’t work! Very rudely all my problems and work were still here when I got back!

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

Hey look at that, also a post-Little 10km and 10m pb!

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

Sadly my problems are still here 😆. But thanks!

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

So you’ll be pleased to hear that I did not run 15kms to avoid my problems.

I ran 17kms.

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 2d

Thinking I should go on a 15km run to avoid all my problems and work.

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