Rebecca Langlands
@rebeccalanglands.bsky.social
Professor of Classics at University of Exeter, co-director of Sex & History. Cyclist, footballer, violist, loves trees.
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Language cold spots are emerging: the East Midlands provision is vulnerable if threats of closure at Leicester and Nottingham are carried out.
Please sign their petitions! Links in comments.
Please sign their petitions! Links in comments.
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Language cold spots are emerging: the East Midlands provision is vulnerable if threats of closure at Leicester and Nottingham are carried out.
Please sign their petitions! Links in comments.
Please sign their petitions! Links in comments.
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Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
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Musk’s Grokipedia is almost certainly even worse than you thought it would be.
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Pretty Vacant
Full disclosure: I was one of those academics who, when Wikipedia first appeared, warned students against using it in no uncertain terms. To be fair, in those days most of its articles on ancient h…
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October 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Musk’s Grokipedia is almost certainly even worse than you thought it would be.
thesphinxblog.com/2025/10/30/p...
thesphinxblog.com/2025/10/30/p...
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Great afternoon of talks by lecturers from the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter for Classics for All.Talks on Roman coins, Latin etymology and Pompeiian graffiti to students from local schools from Exeter and Crediton showed how broad a subject Classics can be.
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great afternoon of talks by lecturers from the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter for Classics for All.Talks on Roman coins, Latin etymology and Pompeiian graffiti to students from local schools from Exeter and Crediton showed how broad a subject Classics can be.
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📢ARTIST CALLOUT📢
4-5 week paid placement for creative practitioner to work alongside the Gender and Sexuality Collective at Uni of Exeter.
💡Visual | Digital | Sound | Performing | Design | Lit | Film | Music
💡 Budget: £6,000
🗓️ Deadline: Sun 2 Nov
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4-5 week paid placement for creative practitioner to work alongside the Gender and Sexuality Collective at Uni of Exeter.
💡Visual | Digital | Sound | Performing | Design | Lit | Film | Music
💡 Budget: £6,000
🗓️ Deadline: Sun 2 Nov
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Arts & Culture Exeter | Creative Fellowship 2025-26: Callout for Artists
Applications are invited from creative practitioners for this year's Arts and Culture Creative Fellowship, which will be hosted by the Gender and Sexuality Collective, and will focus on reimagining th...
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October 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
📢ARTIST CALLOUT📢
4-5 week paid placement for creative practitioner to work alongside the Gender and Sexuality Collective at Uni of Exeter.
💡Visual | Digital | Sound | Performing | Design | Lit | Film | Music
💡 Budget: £6,000
🗓️ Deadline: Sun 2 Nov
🔗 www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/news/creativ...
4-5 week paid placement for creative practitioner to work alongside the Gender and Sexuality Collective at Uni of Exeter.
💡Visual | Digital | Sound | Performing | Design | Lit | Film | Music
💡 Budget: £6,000
🗓️ Deadline: Sun 2 Nov
🔗 www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/news/creativ...
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My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...
August 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...
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Attention all Allies of LGTBQ people supporting trans people please see this Petition!
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
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Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
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May 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Attention all Allies of LGTBQ people supporting trans people please see this Petition!
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
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Just ten years ago the UK was top of the list - the best place in Europe for LGBT rights. We are now 22nd
The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary
The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy
The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary
The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy
The #RainbowMap 2025 is live! Find out how 49 European countries rank on LGBTI human rights and see which ones are leading, or falling behind. Check it out now! rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org
May 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Just ten years ago the UK was top of the list - the best place in Europe for LGBT rights. We are now 22nd
The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary
The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy
The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary
The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy
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Hello World!
Welcome to followers changing channels from LinkedIn. Thank you everyone following me for the first time.
Here is a video link to an address I gave at the start of Trans History Week. Wherever you are, know the UK is trans-hostile. It will take 12mins of your life.
youtu.be/IPU6XN4lOvw
Welcome to followers changing channels from LinkedIn. Thank you everyone following me for the first time.
Here is a video link to an address I gave at the start of Trans History Week. Wherever you are, know the UK is trans-hostile. It will take 12mins of your life.
youtu.be/IPU6XN4lOvw
Trans judge taking UK to European Court Of Human Rights speaks out during Trans+ History Week
YouTube video by QueerAF | Understand the LGBTQIA+ news
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May 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Hello World!
Welcome to followers changing channels from LinkedIn. Thank you everyone following me for the first time.
Here is a video link to an address I gave at the start of Trans History Week. Wherever you are, know the UK is trans-hostile. It will take 12mins of your life.
youtu.be/IPU6XN4lOvw
Welcome to followers changing channels from LinkedIn. Thank you everyone following me for the first time.
Here is a video link to an address I gave at the start of Trans History Week. Wherever you are, know the UK is trans-hostile. It will take 12mins of your life.
youtu.be/IPU6XN4lOvw
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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
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May 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
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Don't believe what the UK media is telling you about the Runcorn and Helsby by-election: www.cheryl-morgan.co...
Lies, Damned Lies and the British Press | Cheryl's Mewsings
So, Reform has won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. Judging by what I am seeing in the news and on social media, this is a major defeat for Labour whose voters, we are told, are deserting the party en masse for Reform. The lesson for Labour is apparently clear: they need to double-down on their
www.cheryl-morgan.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Don't believe what the UK media is telling you about the Runcorn and Helsby by-election: www.cheryl-morgan.co...
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The fabulous @saranahmed.bsky.social being brilliant as usual:
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Patriarchal Hammers
Some thoughts on the recent judgement by the Supreme Court
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April 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The fabulous @saranahmed.bsky.social being brilliant as usual:
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A response: www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...
Modern languages departments are neither colonial nor obsolete
Advanced linguistic and cultural skills remain essential for deep insight into how people see themselves in the world, say five modern languages academics
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March 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A response: www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...
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REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
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REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
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We launched the Society for the Study of the Past yesterday at our Palestine event - a response to the fact that our disciplinary associations have failed us. It’s already looking like the only club I want to be in… More coming soon, but for now check it out here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com
Society for the Study of the Past
A new history of the world...
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February 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
We launched the Society for the Study of the Past yesterday at our Palestine event - a response to the fact that our disciplinary associations have failed us. It’s already looking like the only club I want to be in… More coming soon, but for now check it out here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com
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Petition to support ancient history at Cardiff, set up by students there chng.it/MSXnH968ZQ
Sign the Petition
Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree
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January 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Petition to support ancient history at Cardiff, set up by students there chng.it/MSXnH968ZQ
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This is pretty cool... we sent off our Roman iron ring with lion-engraved intaglio to be micro-CT scanned by some Exeter university students.
We can now virtually slice the ring in any orientation to see internal corrosion and the intaglio itself (from any angle).
Resolution is... 6 microns!! 😮😎
We can now virtually slice the ring in any orientation to see internal corrosion and the intaglio itself (from any angle).
Resolution is... 6 microns!! 😮😎
January 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This is pretty cool... we sent off our Roman iron ring with lion-engraved intaglio to be micro-CT scanned by some Exeter university students.
We can now virtually slice the ring in any orientation to see internal corrosion and the intaglio itself (from any angle).
Resolution is... 6 microns!! 😮😎
We can now virtually slice the ring in any orientation to see internal corrosion and the intaglio itself (from any angle).
Resolution is... 6 microns!! 😮😎
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To begin, I want to introduce the Uncovering Roman Carlisle project; I work on engaging my community their incredible, but almost invisible Roman heritage.
Check us out: www.uncoveringromancarlisle.co.uk
Feedback and critique always welcomed - through challenge we learn!
Check us out: www.uncoveringromancarlisle.co.uk
Feedback and critique always welcomed - through challenge we learn!
Uncovering Roman Carlisle
www.uncoveringromancarlisle.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 10:15 AM
To begin, I want to introduce the Uncovering Roman Carlisle project; I work on engaging my community their incredible, but almost invisible Roman heritage.
Check us out: www.uncoveringromancarlisle.co.uk
Feedback and critique always welcomed - through challenge we learn!
Check us out: www.uncoveringromancarlisle.co.uk
Feedback and critique always welcomed - through challenge we learn!
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Hello BlueSky. I don’t really know what this place is or what I’m doing here, but I do have two things to say. 1) Free Palestine 🇵🇸 2) our Critical Ancient World Studies book is out - you can find it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Critical Ancient World Studies | The Case for Forgetting Classics | Ma
This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself
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December 14, 2023 at 2:59 PM
Hello BlueSky. I don’t really know what this place is or what I’m doing here, but I do have two things to say. 1) Free Palestine 🇵🇸 2) our Critical Ancient World Studies book is out - you can find it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...