Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts

@elliemackinroberts.net

I play running. 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

Just, like, never ever forget that we as individuals aren’t responsible for the climate crisis. Wash the yoghurt pots, of course, but also advocate for large corporations to stop trashing the planet and to be held responsible for the trashing they have already done.

Ian McQue@ianmcque.bsky.social

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
@elliemackinroberts.net

I am going to dress up as one of Artemis’s nymphs for Halloween, and I am making my chitoniskos out of Lycra so I can do my run in it and frankly I’m so excited but I need a bow and arrows. I’ve been thinking about this ALL DAY.

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
@elliemackinroberts.net

Aside from everyone else's great points on how sad and dystopian this is, it's also not a difficult task if you regularly and routinely tell your child what makes them amazing.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
@elliemackinroberts.net

My teenager is weird (compliment), creative, resilient, they're secure in themselves and their own being, they're reflexive and patient and brilliant. My six year old is exuberant and open, she's artistic and chaotic (compliment), she's kind and full of love and joy. Literally 45 seconds.

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John Bull
@garius.eurosky.social

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

The Shire-Reckoning@shire-reckoning.bsky.social

Elrond tells the long story of the One Ring, from its forging in the Mountain of Fire, to its betrayal of Isildur at the Gladden Fields. Frodo is startled to learn that Elrond himself marched with Gil-Galad in the Last Alliance against Sauron, more than three thousand years ago.

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
@bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social

Barely two months ago, we lost Professor Jason Arday. Thousands grieved. Institutions across higher education spoke about inclusion and belonging. Now Nathan Cofnas is being given a room at Oriel College, Oxford, to ask whether DEI is undermining higher education. 🧵

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
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Also, if you want to just read what I wrote, it is open access. #ClassicsBluesky Frames in stone: The Parthenon frieze and the sequential choreography of architectural sculpture academic.oup.com/bics/article...

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts@elliemackinroberts.net

Interesting the things you find when you have to google your own article to get a PDF of it...

greekreporter.comParthenon Frieze May Have Told Its Story Like a Film - GreekReporter.comNew research suggests the Parthenon frieze revealed its story, with scenes unfolding as ancient viewers walked past the columns.
Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
@elliemackinroberts.net

More seriously, maybe this is what happens when you abandon doing the ‘right’ research and just do the stuff you’re actually interested in, because none of it is leading to a permanent job anyway! 😂

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts@elliemackinroberts.net

Apparently this was very interesting!

labrujulaverde.comThe Parthenon frieze was designed to be viewed as a cinematic sequence that only comes to life as you walk by, not as a static work of artA study published in the journal Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies proposes a radically new reading of the Parthenon frieze, the famous 160-meter-long sculpture that surrounded the temple...
Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
@elliemackinroberts.net

Ha ha ha, you can tell how tired I was typing this - 'engaging discussion with engaged students' 🤦‍♀️ Anyway, it was great.

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts@elliemackinroberts.net

What an amazing evening talking to the @leedsclassics.bsky.social Classics Society about sensory approaches to Ancient Greek religion. I don’t mean to brag but our students are incredible. Such an engaging discussion with a group of really engaged and thoughtful students! I love my job.

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Zack Polanski
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

bbc.co.ukUK government approves Jackdaw gas field, and says production will start this month - follow liveActivists say approving the gas field will raise carbon emissions - while the developers argue it is important for the UK’s energy security.
Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
@elliemackinroberts.net

Backyard is the obvious way for ultra running to become an Olympic sport, but you couldn’t do teams of 15. Mixed teams of 5? 5 men, 5 women? It should start immediately after the opening ceremony (because tbh I like the complex situation of starting late).

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
@elliemackinroberts.net

Context: 1 yard = 6.706km/4.167miles, each yard is run every hour on the hour. World champ teams are 15 runners and every lap is 1 team point. Countries are running on their own course, simultaneously (so every country is on yard 70). Australia on 986 yards (in first place).

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Keith
@keithdunn.bsky.social

Now it’s getting interesting. . .

jaredbeasley.bsky.social@jaredbeasley.bsky.social

Yard 54. Japan loses another runner. Australia is currently 11 Yards behind them but now with an extra runner. Belgium 🇧🇪 is 18 yards back.

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Nina Willburger
@drnwillburger.bsky.social

The condition of fabrics from #prehistoric pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900 to 3300 BC. The thread measures a total of about 10 m in length.🧵1/2

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Kate Armstrong
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‘It seems men gain respect over their careers, while women continue to report “‘I have all these accolades, and I have all this stuff, and [yet], I have to keep proving myself,’” Spoon explains.’

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social

“Held to higher standards. Left off invitations. Pointed to as “diversity” but ignored. These are just some of the hundreds of examples of devaluation women faculty in the United States shared” www.science.org/content/arti...

science.orgFor women academics, feeling devalued can be a fatal career blowThousands shared their stories for a new study of faculty attrition
Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
@elliemackinroberts.net

*actually in English it’s octopuses. I am firmly in the English plurals in English camp, but if you’re going to say octopi at least be pedantically correct about the fact it’s from Greek not Latin.

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts
@elliemackinroberts.net

I say this as a white trail and ultra runner but I am begging white trail and ultra runners to recognise that trail and ultra running has an incredibly high bar to entry. It is not a readily accessible sport. There are loads of people doing good work to make it more accessible, but…