Archaeology PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & the Minoans🏺💀
Archives volunteer @ Griffith Institute & Ashmolean Museum
In Oxford/from Dublin
Reading: Queen's Play, Dorothy Dunnett
Sarah Lidwell-Durnin
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'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.'
Academia is a "greedy" occupation.
People on the other place losing their minds about the Odyssey, but nobody will ever go as hard as the 1968 Lob/Pichard comic (which must surely have influenced Ulysses 31?):
I've been writing about the extraordinary beauty of Minoan women this term - just look at this partial reconstruction by Émile Gilliéron, from a fragment of a woman wearing a lavishly embroidered flame-red gown with blue trim, breasts bare and arm raised in a confident gesture (Ashmolean Museum).
Just saw an event coming up that made me think of this (always worth a read): www.workingclassicists.com/zine/trojan-... @workingclassicists.bsky.social
The more Spartan history you learn, the more you realise how little we actually know! And how much of the evidence contradicts itself.
Hey have any expert ANE linguist folks commented on the possible Linear A discovery yet?
There is a job for which I am not remotely qualified, and to be quite honest, not interested in, but it is tangentially in my field & at an institution I love, and I KEEP CLICKING ON IT. I have zero intention of sporting with anybody's sanity by applying, but I really need to stop re-reading the ad.
Just been followed, unfollowed and followed again (what in the Twitter?) by a commercial conference on gender that charges speakers $1000 - why are people I know following them back?
Are you - or is someone you know - a PhD student or ECR working on Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age/Archaic Greece? And within striking distance of London to tell us about your research in May (we have some money to help with travel costs)? Please share! forms.gle/PijTVxb7a8Nh...
