This is very depressing. And the situation will only get worse with Starmer’s mad plans for immigration. The UK HE funding model has been dysfunctional for decades. Labour knows this but has made no move yet to fix it. What they are doing will only make things worse. 1/

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Thanks Keir Starmer and the Labour Party. @labouruk.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Glad to know I’m a stranger after living in the UK for 46 years and paying taxes here. Do you have any idea how hurtful that speech was?

UK universities depend on international students to subsidise UK students. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social We have opportunities to recruit excellent international students as the USA becomes unwelcoming. Why discourage them coming to the UK? They contribute much to UK unis, including billions of £££.

So disappointing to see Labour @labouruk.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social pandering to false narratives on immigration. Immigrants don’t steal jobs, housing, healthcare, school places. They treat patients, teach young people, build houses, pay taxes, improve growth. Change narratives!

Really, Yvette Cooper @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social, do you actually think that care staff are ‘unskilled’? It takes much training and skill to support elderly and vulnerable people. To cut migration figures, stop counting international students as migrants: they aren’t.

After the US-UK trade deal, very glad I have my own supply of organic, grass-fed beef. Hormone-free and not routinely fed antibiotics to stimulate growth. They just eat the stuff cattle are meant to eat: grass.

So here’s my personal impact story. I had been approved to be a Fulbright visiting scholar in a Latin American country (not naming to protect my proposed hosts) on the topic of feminist and gender archaeology. The approval for the project was retracted. I’m pretty sure that isn’t legal.

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

I realise there’s a lot going on in the world for news media to report, but can anyone tell me why there is no coverage of widespread Presidents Day protests against the current actions of the US administration by BBC, NYT, CNN, etc?

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

CALL NOW: Demand Your GOP Representative Reject Trump's Budget Sabotage

Instead of passing a responsible budget, they are trying to:

-Let Trump & Musk override the budget & steal taxpayer money.

-Slash access to health care, public education, and food assistance.

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What is the actual point of this ?

New federal mandates are transforming the curriculum of U.S. military base schools to restrict discussions of history, race, and gender, which creates glaring differences from the education systems of their host nations.

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People continued to use stone tools long after ‘prehistoric’ periods: their use in classical Greece is well documented but often neglected. Many tools were unmodified objects: a stick, a reed, a useful rock, a handy piece of broken pot. This is my rock for destoning olives. Works a treat!

Classics at the University of Otago is now offering Ancient Greek and Latin by distance. These classes are open to anyone interested in studying the languages by distance. For further information or details about how to enrol as a non-Otago student, visit: otago.ac.nz/classics/lan...

A shout out of gratitude to the kind and brilliant taxi driver who took me and 5 others to Gatwick from Three Bridges braving the chaos caused by the airport’s major security alert. Would never have made my flight without him.

Most content of Journal of Hellenic Studies 144 (2024) is now available on the Journal’s Cambridge Core webpages under ‘FirstView’. Most research articles are full open access.
With thanks to Laurence Totelin, Michaela Senkova and CUP colleagues! Have a look!

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@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Do we get to hear from the cats on Bluesky? They’ll like it much better than the other one.