Dr Elaine C. Sanderson
@elainam42.bsky.social
🏛️ Classicist (Roman literature, civil war, emotion and trauma)
🎻 Violinist
🐴 Mum to Bish
🎻 Violinist
🐴 Mum to Bish
Had a thoroughly lovely time chatting all things Cicero, trauma, and civil war! Thanks very much for having me 🙏🏻
Today! - Dr Elaine Sanderson (Liverpool) will be speaking to us about 'Re-Making Memories: Reading Trauma and Recovery in Cicero’s Civil War Letters', 17:15-18:30 UK time. The talk will be hybrid (online joining instructions below). All very welcome to attend!
On 30 October will be welcoming Dr Elaine Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social (Liverpool) for a research seminar on 'Re-Making Memories: Reading Trauma and Recovery in Cicero’s Civil War Letters', 17:15-18:30 UK time.
The talk will be hybrid (details in the thread). All very welcome to attend!
The talk will be hybrid (details in the thread). All very welcome to attend!
October 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Had a thoroughly lovely time chatting all things Cicero, trauma, and civil war! Thanks very much for having me 🙏🏻
The very best view 💙
October 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The very best view 💙
Spent the weekend in the office to finish A Thing after a week with very little sleep. Now very tired, but also rather more excited about research than I had expected to be. Interesting 🤔
October 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Spent the weekend in the office to finish A Thing after a week with very little sleep. Now very tired, but also rather more excited about research than I had expected to be. Interesting 🤔
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On 30 October will be welcoming Dr Elaine Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social (Liverpool) for a research seminar on 'Re-Making Memories: Reading Trauma and Recovery in Cicero’s Civil War Letters', 17:15-18:30 UK time.
The talk will be hybrid (details in the thread). All very welcome to attend!
The talk will be hybrid (details in the thread). All very welcome to attend!
October 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
On 30 October will be welcoming Dr Elaine Sanderson @elainam42.bsky.social (Liverpool) for a research seminar on 'Re-Making Memories: Reading Trauma and Recovery in Cicero’s Civil War Letters', 17:15-18:30 UK time.
The talk will be hybrid (details in the thread). All very welcome to attend!
The talk will be hybrid (details in the thread). All very welcome to attend!
Very tired, so much to do, please send coffee... 😬
September 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Very tired, so much to do, please send coffee... 😬
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Oh for gods sake, we're asking about strikes again, at expense of the members, at a time when we really need to focus on so many other things. I suppose when you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The perpetual, tedious cries for a strike really don't help at all
I want to be very clear: we tried to stop this. We urged HEC to look at context and evidence, we were ignored and accused of 'betrayal'. Our full @ucucommons.bsky.social HEC report is forthcoming. If you want things to change at national level, you need to VOTE IN THE ELECTIONS.
We tried. I’m sorry. The vote was very close and our pleas for common sense and taking our time to work out next steps were met with accusations of ‘betrayal’ from the usual suspects. Commons HEC report imminent.
No, I don’t enjoy this.
No, I don’t enjoy this.
September 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Oh for gods sake, we're asking about strikes again, at expense of the members, at a time when we really need to focus on so many other things. I suppose when you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The perpetual, tedious cries for a strike really don't help at all
Just magic to round off a day of writing playing chukkas with Bish again 💙 It's been a long year of injuries and setbacks, but we made it just in time for the end of the season!
August 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Just magic to round off a day of writing playing chukkas with Bish again 💙 It's been a long year of injuries and setbacks, but we made it just in time for the end of the season!
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'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3
Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds
New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3
We did a little thing! So proud of Bishy 💙
August 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
We did a little thing! So proud of Bishy 💙
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This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
chicagomaroon.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Back behind the best ears 💙
July 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Back behind the best ears 💙
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You did and it’s ok. Good morning! 🩷
July 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
You did and it’s ok. Good morning! 🩷
Bye Coimbra 👋🏻
Thank you Sanne, Edward, and Pablo for organising a splendid panel, and to all fellow panelists for such engaging and inspiring discussions on a range of Greco-Roman historical narratives!
#CCC25
Thank you Sanne, Edward, and Pablo for organising a splendid panel, and to all fellow panelists for such engaging and inspiring discussions on a range of Greco-Roman historical narratives!
#CCC25
July 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Bye Coimbra 👋🏻
Thank you Sanne, Edward, and Pablo for organising a splendid panel, and to all fellow panelists for such engaging and inspiring discussions on a range of Greco-Roman historical narratives!
#CCC25
Thank you Sanne, Edward, and Pablo for organising a splendid panel, and to all fellow panelists for such engaging and inspiring discussions on a range of Greco-Roman historical narratives!
#CCC25
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How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system.
Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot
In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system.
Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Conference de-brief with Bishy after a lovely few days back up at @staclassics.bsky.social for #CA2025 💙
July 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Conference de-brief with Bishy after a lovely few days back up at @staclassics.bsky.social for #CA2025 💙
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Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
Looking forward to discussing fun things on silence in Latin lit tomorrow morning with @nicolettabruno1288.bsky.social, @helenlovatt.bsky.social, and @lemonamarshall.bsky.social!
#CA2025
#CA2025
We're excited to welcome delegates to #StAndrews for #CA2025 on such a fabulous morning! The day starts with registration and a welcome address at the Younger Hall. ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/programme
July 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Looking forward to discussing fun things on silence in Latin lit tomorrow morning with @nicolettabruno1288.bsky.social, @helenlovatt.bsky.social, and @lemonamarshall.bsky.social!
#CA2025
#CA2025
Emotions of Crisis workshop now underway at @livancworlds.bsky.social! Prof. Douglas Cairns of @edinclassics.bsky.social kicking off the day with the keynote: 'Between Anarchy and Despotism: Fear, Anxiety, and Their Antidotes in Greek Thought'
#EmotionsOfCrisis
#EmotionsOfCrisis
July 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Emotions of Crisis workshop now underway at @livancworlds.bsky.social! Prof. Douglas Cairns of @edinclassics.bsky.social kicking off the day with the keynote: 'Between Anarchy and Despotism: Fear, Anxiety, and Their Antidotes in Greek Thought'
#EmotionsOfCrisis
#EmotionsOfCrisis
Posing for the camera > looking where you're meant to be going 😅
July 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Posing for the camera > looking where you're meant to be going 😅
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
Delightful day of research things. Such a joy to have time to think 🙂
June 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Delightful day of research things. Such a joy to have time to think 🙂
Off to Warwick to talk about some nice(ish) things in Lucan!
Thanks for the invitation @joewatstein.bsky.social 😊
Thanks for the invitation @joewatstein.bsky.social 😊
June 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Off to Warwick to talk about some nice(ish) things in Lucan!
Thanks for the invitation @joewatstein.bsky.social 😊
Thanks for the invitation @joewatstein.bsky.social 😊
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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
May 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.