Elspeth
@knittedwarbler.bsky.social
Mainly knitting and classics! Writes a bit of flash fiction, usually involving things with tentacles. Classics MA student at Open University (she/her)
The Yorkshire Museum are crowdfunding to save a spectacular 1st century hoard, possibly associated with Carthimandua, to buy it for the museum and fund conservation - it would be brilliant to keep it in Yorkshire!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...
Save The Melsonby Hoard - Yorkshire Museum
Help us save, conserve and share the Melsonby Hoard – an incredible treasure of 900 Iron Age objects recently unearthed in North Yorkshire
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The Yorkshire Museum are crowdfunding to save a spectacular 1st century hoard, possibly associated with Carthimandua, to buy it for the museum and fund conservation - it would be brilliant to keep it in Yorkshire!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...
The church up the road from me is ringing a peal this morning which will take them till lunchtime to complete. I have a pot of tea and am going to listen to the bells whilst reading The Nine Tailors and reflecting on how beautifully eccentric change-ringing is #TinyJoys
January 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The church up the road from me is ringing a peal this morning which will take them till lunchtime to complete. I have a pot of tea and am going to listen to the bells whilst reading The Nine Tailors and reflecting on how beautifully eccentric change-ringing is #TinyJoys
I just got the feedback for my MA dissertation, and tutors are the best! They said some very kind things (apparently I have 'a flair for putting an argument together') and I am currently a little teary and feeling like maybe I am a scholar after all #TinyJoys
December 17, 2024 at 9:26 AM
I just got the feedback for my MA dissertation, and tutors are the best! They said some very kind things (apparently I have 'a flair for putting an argument together') and I am currently a little teary and feeling like maybe I am a scholar after all #TinyJoys
Open University results day - I passed my #OUClassics MA with merit! Very happy 😊
December 16, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Open University results day - I passed my #OUClassics MA with merit! Very happy 😊
As a university HR person who's currently considering applying to do a PhD I've been wondering about the references. What value do they add for prospective graduate students? Given that they add almost no value to job applications beyond fact checking, and can be anti-EDI very easily.
Dear academics
We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists.
This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by…
*checks notes*
…every other industry on earth.
We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists.
This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by…
*checks notes*
…every other industry on earth.
Who is for abolishing grad app letters of rec at the point of application? Would it be so bad if letters were requested AFTER candidates were shortlisted? If we do this at UCSD who will join us?
December 15, 2024 at 11:46 AM
As a university HR person who's currently considering applying to do a PhD I've been wondering about the references. What value do they add for prospective graduate students? Given that they add almost no value to job applications beyond fact checking, and can be anti-EDI very easily.
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December 9, 2024 at 8:54 AM
@bertsbooks.bsky.social subscription delivery day is always exciting!
November 9, 2024 at 5:54 PM
@bertsbooks.bsky.social subscription delivery day is always exciting!
Well. Today I got the nerve up to ask a potential supervisor about a doctorate, and they said 'yes, that sounds really interesting, email me about your ideas.' Terrifying but also, hopeful... just need my #OUClassics MA result next month now!
November 7, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Well. Today I got the nerve up to ask a potential supervisor about a doctorate, and they said 'yes, that sounds really interesting, email me about your ideas.' Terrifying but also, hopeful... just need my #OUClassics MA result next month now!
I've just submitted my #OUClassics MA dissertation, I am both very relieved and slightly terrified... results day in December!
September 28, 2024 at 2:53 PM
I've just submitted my #OUClassics MA dissertation, I am both very relieved and slightly terrified... results day in December!
Perks of having academics in the family, just posted a draft of my dissertation for proofreading. Had a quick read before posting, I can see some issues and an odd typo, but but I don't think it's terrible
September 10, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Perks of having academics in the family, just posted a draft of my dissertation for proofreading. Had a quick read before posting, I can see some issues and an odd typo, but but I don't think it's terrible
Got some tutor feedback on my #OUClassics dissertation today - OU tutors are the best! So constructive and helpful. Rewrites and edits for the rest of the month, the end is in sight!
September 5, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Got some tutor feedback on my #OUClassics dissertation today - OU tutors are the best! So constructive and helpful. Rewrites and edits for the rest of the month, the end is in sight!
First draft of my dissertation is written! Needs a proofread in a couple of days, then will send it to my tutor who will hopefully not think it's garbage. (I currently have no idea how good it is or whether it makes sense, brain is too fried from writing the thing!)
August 29, 2024 at 3:29 PM
First draft of my dissertation is written! Needs a proofread in a couple of days, then will send it to my tutor who will hopefully not think it's garbage. (I currently have no idea how good it is or whether it makes sense, brain is too fried from writing the thing!)
After four years on a waiting list, today I got the keys to a jaunty red beach hut! It's very basic, just a shed, but has quite the view #TinyJoys
August 3, 2024 at 10:30 AM
After four years on a waiting list, today I got the keys to a jaunty red beach hut! It's very basic, just a shed, but has quite the view #TinyJoys
Just submitted a first draft of a chapter of my dissertation fir my tutor's feedback. Good luck to him, I'm not convinced it makes an awful lot of sense... but only 10,000 words to go!
July 22, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Just submitted a first draft of a chapter of my dissertation fir my tutor's feedback. Good luck to him, I'm not convinced it makes an awful lot of sense... but only 10,000 words to go!
I'm at Cambridge uni library doing some MA work, as they have an exhibition about crime writing that's related to my topic and look, this is Agatha Christie's typewriter!
July 15, 2024 at 9:50 AM
I'm at Cambridge uni library doing some MA work, as they have an exhibition about crime writing that's related to my topic and look, this is Agatha Christie's typewriter!
You know it's International Medieval Congress time when the jousting tents are out on campus...
July 1, 2024 at 10:38 AM
You know it's International Medieval Congress time when the jousting tents are out on campus...
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We fixed a broken, half-century old robot from 15 billion miles away using a radio and our monkey brains and that is goddamn amazing.
GUESS WHO IS SENDING BACK DATA FROM ALL FOUR OF ITS OPERATIONAL SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS??
Voyager 1 we love you
Voyager 1 we love you
June 18, 2024 at 4:40 AM
We fixed a broken, half-century old robot from 15 billion miles away using a radio and our monkey brains and that is goddamn amazing.
Went on a book raid to the library at work (dissertation reading pile is growing!) - it's easy to forget how beautiful the Brotherton is #TinyJoys
June 11, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Went on a book raid to the library at work (dissertation reading pile is growing!) - it's easy to forget how beautiful the Brotherton is #TinyJoys
It's @bertsbooks.bsky.social subscription day, hurrah! And a particularly good one for a person in academia, I may or may not be taking notes...
June 9, 2024 at 9:18 AM
It's @bertsbooks.bsky.social subscription day, hurrah! And a particularly good one for a person in academia, I may or may not be taking notes...
My dissertation title was approved! Now I just have to write the thing...
June 3, 2024 at 1:14 PM
My dissertation title was approved! Now I just have to write the thing...
Buying new stationery is the correct way to start an MA dissertation, yes? Asking for a friend...
May 17, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Buying new stationery is the correct way to start an MA dissertation, yes? Asking for a friend...
Just handed in my last assessed MA essay along with my dissertation propsal. It's a bit strange, hope my tutor likes the diss idea!
May 13, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Just handed in my last assessed MA essay along with my dissertation propsal. It's a bit strange, hope my tutor likes the diss idea!
Afternoon off work. And I had every intention of sitting down to write my dissertation proposal for my MA Classics with Open University. But am on the beach instead - thinking very hard about my dissertation, clearly...
May 9, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Afternoon off work. And I had every intention of sitting down to write my dissertation proposal for my MA Classics with Open University. But am on the beach instead - thinking very hard about my dissertation, clearly...
Reposted by Elspeth
fabula murina (mouse story) CXLV
Minimus, Minima et Silvius diēs Bellorum Stellarum celebrant (Minimus, Minima and Silvius celebrate Star Wars day).
vis tecum sit! (May the Force be with you!)
#fabulamurina
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
#StarWarsDay
Minimus, Minima et Silvius diēs Bellorum Stellarum celebrant (Minimus, Minima and Silvius celebrate Star Wars day).
vis tecum sit! (May the Force be with you!)
#fabulamurina
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
#StarWarsDay
May 4, 2024 at 11:31 AM
fabula murina (mouse story) CXLV
Minimus, Minima et Silvius diēs Bellorum Stellarum celebrant (Minimus, Minima and Silvius celebrate Star Wars day).
vis tecum sit! (May the Force be with you!)
#fabulamurina
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
#StarWarsDay
Minimus, Minima et Silvius diēs Bellorum Stellarum celebrant (Minimus, Minima and Silvius celebrate Star Wars day).
vis tecum sit! (May the Force be with you!)
#fabulamurina
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
#StarWarsDay