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Katy Soar
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PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology. Writer for Hellebore. Co-editor of 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press). Editor 'Circles of Stone' and 'Return of the Ancients' (British Library Tales of the Weird). She/her.
I have a dog.
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Dr Katy Soar, Lecturer in Classical Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social, spoke at the recent Women in Horror Weekend in Nottingham. She's pictured with fellow panellist Zara-Louise Stubbs, editor of Uncanny Gastronomic. Read Katy’s blog on the ancient roots of horror here bit.ly/3X1gDy6
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
kjsoar.bsky.social
About last night... It was an honour to help open the Nottingham Waterstones Women in Horror weekend talking about @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird books 🖤🦇🎃
It was also a thrill to be the guest at the same Waterstones I used to work at, many moons ago 😁
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November 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Dr Katy Soar, Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social has edited Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird reviewed by TLS today. Read the review here bit.ly/43KjQWB. And Katy has written a Hallowe’en blog on the ancient roots of horror stories. Read it here bit.ly/3X1gDy6
Tomb raiders
The British Library’s Tales of the Weird anthology series, begun in 2018, describes itself as “a chilling collection of gothic and supernatural stories
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October 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
kjsoar.bsky.social
I like to make memes of 90s songs that students won't know as a way to help them understand archaeological dating. Foolproof.
October 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Loved this, by @talkscaredpod.bsky.social. It freaked me out and broke my heart in equal measure 🖤
A book called 'Good Boy', next to my good boy, a Bosnian mixed breed rescue called Abu
October 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
kjsoar.bsky.social
🖤 Can't wait to read this! 🖤
helleborezine.bsky.social Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · Oct 1
Exciting news! HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology is here! 9 new tales of the supernatural and the strange by Ramsey Campbell, Ally Wilkes, Reggie Oliver, Helen Grant and more, set in some of the most beguiling locations of Occult Britain.

👉🏼 Pre-order now to secure your copy: helleborezine.com
Tales of Occult Britain - edited by Maria J Pérez Cuervo- cover art by Isabella Mazzanti, design by Sam Freeman. Cover shows a skull with a crown, a witch, a faerie, a toad and the moon.
October 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Many thanks to Phil Smith (Mythogeography) for this wonderful review of 'Return of the Ancients'. 🖤
www.mythogeography.com/return-of-th...
Return of the Ancients
Crab Man's review of the book 'Return of the Ancients'
www.mythogeography.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Two years of this good boy 💕
September 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Wait time in urgent care. Should have bought a book...
September 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...
Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central. Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window. Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot. Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform. Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.
September 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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And another one gone...
hystericalblkns.bsky.social Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · Sep 17
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
September 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Featuring some words by me about masks 🎭🖤
helleborezine.bsky.social Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · Sep 17
Ready for a new issue? Pre-orders for The Mirror Issue are now open worldwide! ✨🪞✨

Mirror magic, ritual masks, films that cast a spell, doppelgängers and fetches, changelings, evil portraits, spirit traps and much more.

👉🏼 helleborezine.com
Cover of Hellebore: The Mirror Issue, showing a woman with eyes closed and her reflections in two mirrors, both with open eyes
September 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
kjsoar.bsky.social
Oh hey, it's September
a black and white photo of two men laughing in a car and the words `` of course im fine '' .
ALT: a black and white photo of two men laughing in a car and the words `` of course im fine '' .
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September 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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One of the warmest, kindest, most generous people I've ever met. Such a loss. 💔
johnnymains.co.uk Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · Aug 28
A dear, dear friend, John J Johnston, has died suddenly this morning. Am devastated. He let me stay at his granny flat when I visited London a few years ago, and I had a brilliant night out with him and his husband John. A kind, gentle soul. This is a bleak day.
August 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
kjsoar.bsky.social
It me! I'll be doing a panel about the @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird series with Zara-Louise Stubbs, editor of 'The Uncanny Gastronomic', at Nottingham Waterstone's on Halloween 🖤

Especially fun as I used to work at this branch, many moons ago...
August 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
kjsoar.bsky.social
When Abu jumps up at people and tries to steal their food in a coffee shop, he's 'so cute', 'so friendly', 'adorable'. Yet when I do it, I get asked to leave.
August 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Because I am very tired and finding it hard to be motivated by anything, here is a picture of Abu as a puppy, shortly after he was rescued from the side of a road in Bosnia. You're welcome.
August 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Thank you @wyrdbritain.bsky.social for this terrific review of 'Return of the Ancients'!
July 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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karenho.bsky.social
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
kjsoar.bsky.social
Holy fuck yes to this
lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 17
we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already
ox.ac.uk University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Jul 17
Oxford University and @cam.ac.uk have each received a £6.25 million gift to expand their outreach work with socio-economically disadvantaged students in STEM subjects.

Find out more ⬇️
July 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
kjsoar.bsky.social
Genuinely quite sad about how it's all ended up with Jane's Addiction. They meant a lot to me as a band, back in the day
July 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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I think about Marcos a lot
July 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Wow! 'Return of the Ancients: Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird' reached the top 10 of most popular books in independent bookshops at the start of July! Thanks to everyone who picked up a copy 🖤🖤

www.thebookseller.com/bestsellers/...
Women's Prize winner Yael van der Wouden keeps safe in first place with the Indies
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Penguin) has stuck around at the top of the Indie Bookshop Top 20 for a second consecutive number one, keeping five places ahead of its Total Consumer Market (TCM)...
www.thebookseller.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
kjsoar.bsky.social
Breakfast at home is not a patch on Athens breakfast, but I get to share it with this wee scamp 😍
July 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM