Greg Woolf
@gregwoolf.bsky.social
Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
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Cambridge University Press
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November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
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October 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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If you're free this Thursday morning, I'll be giving a virtual lecture titled "The Real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians" as part of the 2025−2026 public lecture series hosted by the Bade Museum and Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley. Come join the fun!
October 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
If you're free this Thursday morning, I'll be giving a virtual lecture titled "The Real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians" as part of the 2025−2026 public lecture series hosted by the Bade Museum and Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley. Come join the fun!
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Dartmouth won’t trade academic freedom for favor from the Trump admin. Incredible. Yet another college rejects the Trump compact.
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Dartmouth rejects Trump’s compact, saying it won’t compromise its academic freedom
Dartmouth was one of nine colleges and universities asked to sign the White House’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The compact offered schools preferential access to federal fu...
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October 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Dartmouth won’t trade academic freedom for favor from the Trump admin. Incredible. Yet another college rejects the Trump compact.
www.nhpr.org/2025-10-18/d...
www.nhpr.org/2025-10-18/d...
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The University of Virginia became the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of government demands.
University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges
It was the fifth school in a matter of days to refuse an offer of preferential funding treatment from the government, even as the White House has threatened schools that do not sign up.
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October 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The University of Virginia became the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of government demands.
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Penn and USC have also rejected the Compact!
That makes 4 - stronger together.
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That makes 4 - stronger together.
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Penn, U. of Southern California Reject Trump Compact
The universities follow the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University in rejecting the Trump administration’s proposal that would require sweeping changes.
www.insidehighered.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Penn and USC have also rejected the Compact!
That makes 4 - stronger together.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
That makes 4 - stronger together.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Very good to see Brown University joining MIT in declining to sign up to the Adminstration's proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence" www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
Brown University president declines invitation for Brown to join federal Compact
In a letter to the White House, President Christina H. Paxson wrote that Compact provisions restricting academic freedom and undermining autonomy would impede the University’s ability to fulfill its m...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Very good to see Brown University joining MIT in declining to sign up to the Adminstration's proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence" www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
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Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
October 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
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Sorry to see schools placed in this situation but very glad Newsom is doing this. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Newsom threatens state funding for California universities that agree to Trump demands
Newsom said California universities that sign what he called the “RADICAL AGREEMENT” will lose state funds, including those for scholarships.
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October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Sorry to see schools placed in this situation but very glad Newsom is doing this. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025!
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Conference programme
Mountains of Greece: Heritage Narratives from the Past for a Sustainable Future, Athens, 22-24 October 2025
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September 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025!
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Hi Debby, great to see you over here!
Maybe it's dorky, but I'll introduce myself. I'm a nondisabled university professor who specializes in disability in ancient Greece. I approach this all through the lens of disability studies and critical disability theory, and advocate for disabled students in Classics and Archaeology.
September 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hi Debby, great to see you over here!
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Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
August 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
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I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!
Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/
August 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!
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In February 1896, two men ploughing a field unearthed one of the greatest prehistoric treasures ever found on the island of Ireland – the Broighter Hoard.
#Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
#Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
August 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
In February 1896, two men ploughing a field unearthed one of the greatest prehistoric treasures ever found on the island of Ireland – the Broighter Hoard.
#Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
#Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
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here's a recording of our lecture from earlier this year for UCLA's Global Antiquity symposium; a preview of our in-progress book project, "Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race" @mhanses.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
here's a recording of our lecture from earlier this year for UCLA's Global Antiquity symposium; a preview of our in-progress book project, "Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race" @mhanses.bsky.social
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As we continue on to engage other archaeological institutions, we are posting this final statement on the WAC campaign. We, unlike the World Archaeological Congress organisation, will not move quietly on, while Palestinians continue to be starved and slaughtered by Israel.
AAAWACStatement.pdf
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July 31, 2025 at 2:46 AM
As we continue on to engage other archaeological institutions, we are posting this final statement on the WAC campaign. We, unlike the World Archaeological Congress organisation, will not move quietly on, while Palestinians continue to be starved and slaughtered by Israel.
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The British Academy is opening a call for evidence from individuals and organisations with expertise in the key public policy areas for social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Find more information and details about how to respond here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/c...
Find more information and details about how to respond here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/c...
SHAPE the Future: Call for evidence
The British Academy is opening a call for evidence as part of a new phase of the SHAPE the Future programme, which will seek to examine the progress made against the long-term societal impacts identif...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
July 31, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The British Academy is opening a call for evidence from individuals and organisations with expertise in the key public policy areas for social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Find more information and details about how to respond here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/c...
Find more information and details about how to respond here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/c...
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It's very telling what happens to the comment whenever I write on this subject. Every other week, the comments in my substack are witty, funny and kind. On this topic, they're bitter, vicious, demented.
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The trans rights stitch-up
How government plans to silence debate on the new rules
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July 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It's very telling what happens to the comment whenever I write on this subject. Every other week, the comments in my substack are witty, funny and kind. On this topic, they're bitter, vicious, demented.
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My statement on today's news. 👇
July 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My statement on today's news. 👇
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heads up historians of the Roman period - very, very, short deadline on this *permanent* job to start this academic year at Uni of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor in Roman History at University of Nottingham
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in Roman History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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July 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
heads up historians of the Roman period - very, very, short deadline on this *permanent* job to start this academic year at Uni of Nottingham
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX393/a...
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‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’
FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches!
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FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches!
www.ft.com/content/3162...
Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy
Outgoing president Dame Julia Black calls on ministers to overhaul their ‘confused’ approach to higher education
www.ft.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’
FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches!
www.ft.com/content/3162...
FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches!
www.ft.com/content/3162...
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We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…
July 14, 2025 at 5:10 AM
We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…
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Tebbit was one of the architects of Section 28 which sought to prohibit ‘the promotion of homosexuality.’ This law emboldened bigots and silenced many librarians and teachers, including some of mine. As a gay kid I was left without official support from my school. It was terrifying and cruel.
July 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Tebbit was one of the architects of Section 28 which sought to prohibit ‘the promotion of homosexuality.’ This law emboldened bigots and silenced many librarians and teachers, including some of mine. As a gay kid I was left without official support from my school. It was terrifying and cruel.
