Kai Buckingham
@elysian-kai.bsky.social
Student at Macquarie University.
Lover of books and shiny objects.
Ambulatory wheelchair user👩🦽
Lover of books and shiny objects.
Ambulatory wheelchair user👩🦽
Pinned
Kai Buckingham
@elysian-kai.bsky.social
· Aug 30
Hi! I'm Kai. I'm a student at Macquarie University. I'm building expertise in archaeological drawing and digitisation along with language skills in Coptic and Hieroglyphics. My research leans towards Egypt and the intersections of the ancient and modern cultures on accessibility and tourism. 🌈⭐️🪻
My adventures in cooking today
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
My adventures in cooking today
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Next Saturday 11th October, I'll be travelling up to Barnsley to deliver a lecture for the wonderful Hapy Egyptology Society. This lecture will be an overview to my work on disability in Ancient Egypt, focusing primarily on what we can tell about the ancient Egyptian's attitudes towards disability.
October 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Next Saturday 11th October, I'll be travelling up to Barnsley to deliver a lecture for the wonderful Hapy Egyptology Society. This lecture will be an overview to my work on disability in Ancient Egypt, focusing primarily on what we can tell about the ancient Egyptian's attitudes towards disability.
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Nearly 20 years in academia and I have never seen a library website interface redesign that was better than the older version, NEVER
Why is it always like this
Why is it always like this
October 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Nearly 20 years in academia and I have never seen a library website interface redesign that was better than the older version, NEVER
Why is it always like this
Why is it always like this
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A woman’s linen shroud from Roman Period Egypt is our pick today for #ClassicsTober25.
The artistry is phenomenal. The woman is surrounded by uraeus-cobras and the goddesses Isis and Nephthys depicted as red kites. At the bottom we see the woman led by Horus and Anubis into the afterlife.
The artistry is phenomenal. The woman is surrounded by uraeus-cobras and the goddesses Isis and Nephthys depicted as red kites. At the bottom we see the woman led by Horus and Anubis into the afterlife.
October 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
A woman’s linen shroud from Roman Period Egypt is our pick today for #ClassicsTober25.
The artistry is phenomenal. The woman is surrounded by uraeus-cobras and the goddesses Isis and Nephthys depicted as red kites. At the bottom we see the woman led by Horus and Anubis into the afterlife.
The artistry is phenomenal. The woman is surrounded by uraeus-cobras and the goddesses Isis and Nephthys depicted as red kites. At the bottom we see the woman led by Horus and Anubis into the afterlife.
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Archaeological drawing course round 2. I Chose some challenges this time!
October 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Archaeological drawing course round 2. I Chose some challenges this time!
Did I pick up enough books this week?
October 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Did I pick up enough books this week?
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📰BREAKING📰
SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes.
Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.
SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes.
Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.
October 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
📰BREAKING📰
SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes.
Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.
SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes.
Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.
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At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times!
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
October 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times!
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me
#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology
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Best one in the series I think
September 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Best one in the series I think
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Europe's oldest blue pigment
Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined
Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined
Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
September 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Europe's oldest blue pigment
Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined
Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined
Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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Alright, I want to make sure my team are booked and busy this autumn and so I’m offering a special discount for Bsky users only
Send us an enquiry via the web form or via email with the code ‘BSKYBELOVEDS’ for a tasty 15% discount off all interview, focus group, and workshop transcription services
Send us an enquiry via the web form or via email with the code ‘BSKYBELOVEDS’ for a tasty 15% discount off all interview, focus group, and workshop transcription services
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September 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Alright, I want to make sure my team are booked and busy this autumn and so I’m offering a special discount for Bsky users only
Send us an enquiry via the web form or via email with the code ‘BSKYBELOVEDS’ for a tasty 15% discount off all interview, focus group, and workshop transcription services
Send us an enquiry via the web form or via email with the code ‘BSKYBELOVEDS’ for a tasty 15% discount off all interview, focus group, and workshop transcription services
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My friend wrote an Element! and a *really* cool one: it's a guide to the Arabic and Persian sources on Rūs death rituals, including new translations of them*.
It's still free to download until 2nd October 2025 so get it now (and try not to forget about it...)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
It's still free to download until 2nd October 2025 so get it now (and try not to forget about it...)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
Death Rituals
Cambridge Core - Global History - Death Rituals
www.cambridge.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My friend wrote an Element! and a *really* cool one: it's a guide to the Arabic and Persian sources on Rūs death rituals, including new translations of them*.
It's still free to download until 2nd October 2025 so get it now (and try not to forget about it...)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
It's still free to download until 2nd October 2025 so get it now (and try not to forget about it...)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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That’s it, it’s out!
YOU ARE ODYSSEUS, officially available wherever you order your books! Enjoy your weekend adventures if you’ve already got your copy!
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
YOU ARE ODYSSEUS, officially available wherever you order your books! Enjoy your weekend adventures if you’ve already got your copy!
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
September 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
That’s it, it’s out!
YOU ARE ODYSSEUS, officially available wherever you order your books! Enjoy your weekend adventures if you’ve already got your copy!
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
YOU ARE ODYSSEUS, officially available wherever you order your books! Enjoy your weekend adventures if you’ve already got your copy!
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
I ordered the books...
Chat... why are all the cool ones hardcover only... sobbing
Heading off to work at my local bookstore! I'm ordering a crap ton (actual measurement) of Ahis books for interest reading today and need that money.
September 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I ordered the books...
What's up, my fellow nerds.
For my fans of ancient history, what's a book that jumped out to you recently? I'm placing a massive book order and need recs tysm.
For my fans of ancient history, what's a book that jumped out to you recently? I'm placing a massive book order and need recs tysm.
September 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
What's up, my fellow nerds.
For my fans of ancient history, what's a book that jumped out to you recently? I'm placing a massive book order and need recs tysm.
For my fans of ancient history, what's a book that jumped out to you recently? I'm placing a massive book order and need recs tysm.
Chat... why are all the cool ones hardcover only... sobbing
Heading off to work at my local bookstore! I'm ordering a crap ton (actual measurement) of Ahis books for interest reading today and need that money.
September 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Chat... why are all the cool ones hardcover only... sobbing
Heading off to work at my local bookstore! I'm ordering a crap ton (actual measurement) of Ahis books for interest reading today and need that money.
September 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Heading off to work at my local bookstore! I'm ordering a crap ton (actual measurement) of Ahis books for interest reading today and need that money.
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Did you know that #hcnswmember, the @harbourtrust has finalised it's First Nations Strategy, – a 3-year plan outlining their commitments and responsibilities when working with First Nations peoples, cultures and heritage, and Country? Further information can be found below👇
View our First Nations Strategy | Harbour Trust
Developed in collaboration with our First Nations Advisory Group and Terri Janke & Company, the strategy embeds respectful cultural values into the management of our Sydney Harbour places. It seeks…
buff.ly
September 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Did you know that #hcnswmember, the @harbourtrust has finalised it's First Nations Strategy, – a 3-year plan outlining their commitments and responsibilities when working with First Nations peoples, cultures and heritage, and Country? Further information can be found below👇
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I should try and reflect on my Dracula joke. It sucks.
I have a joke about Dorian Gray. It never gets old.
I have a joke about Polyphemus but nobody will get it.
September 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I should try and reflect on my Dracula joke. It sucks.
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We are delighted to announce that we will publish @sachacoward.bsky.social’s Queer as Folklore in paperback and ebook editions in December 2025.
Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky
Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky
September 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
We are delighted to announce that we will publish @sachacoward.bsky.social’s Queer as Folklore in paperback and ebook editions in December 2025.
Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky
Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky
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My colleagues @horusofnekhen.bsky.social, @tibg1312.bsky.social, and I wrote a state-of-the-field-type article about disability in antiquity that was recently published and is open access. This article just gives a brief history of the subfield, with a discussion of future directions.
DISABILITY IN ANTIQUITY | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
DISABILITY IN ANTIQUITY
resolve.cambridge.org
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My colleagues @horusofnekhen.bsky.social, @tibg1312.bsky.social, and I wrote a state-of-the-field-type article about disability in antiquity that was recently published and is open access. This article just gives a brief history of the subfield, with a discussion of future directions.
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Coming up, I'm giving some talks, including a free online talk about my newest project, which is focused on Greek sculpture and the place of disability within it, on Sunday, October 19 at 10am Central:
AIA Event Listings - Virtual Symposium: Disability in the Ancient Greek World - AIA-Nashville Society, Nashville Parthenon, Metro Nashville Parks & Recreation, Centennial Park Conservancy
Archaeological event listing for AIA-Nashville Society, Nashville Parthenon, Metro Nashville Parks & Recreation, Centennial Park Conservancy
www.archaeological.org
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Coming up, I'm giving some talks, including a free online talk about my newest project, which is focused on Greek sculpture and the place of disability within it, on Sunday, October 19 at 10am Central:
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Wordle accepts ‘DALEK’ as a valid guess but not ‘LATIN’, thereby demonstrating the superiority of the Dalek Empire over those puny Romans.
September 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Wordle accepts ‘DALEK’ as a valid guess but not ‘LATIN’, thereby demonstrating the superiority of the Dalek Empire over those puny Romans.