Helen Foxhall Forbes
@helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social
Cat lover. Late antique / early medieval history / theology / archaeology, especially environment and climate in the past. PI of ERC Consolidator Grant @SSE1K@bsky.social at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. Despair at the state of the world
Join us tomorrow!! Please share - this will be a very exciting talk I am sure
📢 SSE1K Online Seminar Series: People and their Environments in the First Millennium CE
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
October 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Join us tomorrow!! Please share - this will be a very exciting talk I am sure
I am really looking forward to this! Please share and encourage people who may be interested to attend!
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I am really looking forward to this! Please share and encourage people who may be interested to attend!
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Speaking now in session 1149 Resilience and Environment in the Mediterranean: Memory - John Haldon (Princeton) - Palaeocologies and Landscapes as Reservoirs of Social Memory: Social, Cultural, and Environmental Aspects
July 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Speaking now in session 1149 Resilience and Environment in the Mediterranean: Memory - John Haldon (Princeton) - Palaeocologies and Landscapes as Reservoirs of Social Memory: Social, Cultural, and Environmental Aspects
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And we are go! Our first speaker is Dr Michele Abballe (Università Ca’ Foscari) talking about Long-Term Population Dynamics across the Italian Peninsula in the First Millennium #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
And we are go! Our first speaker is Dr Michele Abballe (Università Ca’ Foscari) talking about Long-Term Population Dynamics across the Italian Peninsula in the First Millennium #IMC2025
Exciting papers at #IMC2025 from @sse1k.bsky.social SSE1K: Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE and friends today!
@nikulinaav.bsky.social @danlawrence86.bsky.social
@nikulinaav.bsky.social @danlawrence86.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Exciting papers at #IMC2025 from @sse1k.bsky.social SSE1K: Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE and friends today!
@nikulinaav.bsky.social @danlawrence86.bsky.social
@nikulinaav.bsky.social @danlawrence86.bsky.social
short notice but: @calthalas.bsky.social will be giving a talk at 14.00 CEST TODAY - "Productive Environments: Monastic Attitudes and Urban Space in the Early Middle Ages" - join online at unive.zoom.us/j/4157673439...
May 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
short notice but: @calthalas.bsky.social will be giving a talk at 14.00 CEST TODAY - "Productive Environments: Monastic Attitudes and Urban Space in the Early Middle Ages" - join online at unive.zoom.us/j/4157673439...
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
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Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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December 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
This is interesting. One of the suggestions for countering AI-produced assignments is oral exams. This is what we do in my subject in Italy and it certainly leaves the student no place to hide.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis
More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 9:50 AM
This is interesting. One of the suggestions for countering AI-produced assignments is oral exams. This is what we do in my subject in Italy and it certainly leaves the student no place to hide.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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**Black UK PhD students**
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Black heritage PhD scholarships | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol
We welcome applications for full scholarships to postgraduate research programmes starting in 2025.
www.bristol.ac.uk
December 8, 2024 at 5:55 PM
**Black UK PhD students**
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
This is quite exciting - from the village where I live - gin made with jujubes!
November 16, 2024 at 7:45 PM
This is quite exciting - from the village where I live - gin made with jujubes!
Logged in for the first time in ages and discovered a lot of new followers - thank you! Just catching up with following back which may take a bit of time
November 16, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Logged in for the first time in ages and discovered a lot of new followers - thank you! Just catching up with following back which may take a bit of time
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“When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target...These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional"
www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...
www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation...
www.972mag.com
December 1, 2023 at 1:43 AM
“When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target...These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional"
www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...
www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...
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Once again:
WAR SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS A SPORT IN WHICH WE WAVE OUR FLAGS AND ROOT FOR OUR TEAM.
THE ONLY WINNER IS PEACE.
Everyone and everything else loses.
Is loss.
Is lost.
WAR SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS A SPORT IN WHICH WE WAVE OUR FLAGS AND ROOT FOR OUR TEAM.
THE ONLY WINNER IS PEACE.
Everyone and everything else loses.
Is loss.
Is lost.
October 13, 2023 at 10:23 PM
Once again:
WAR SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS A SPORT IN WHICH WE WAVE OUR FLAGS AND ROOT FOR OUR TEAM.
THE ONLY WINNER IS PEACE.
Everyone and everything else loses.
Is loss.
Is lost.
WAR SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS A SPORT IN WHICH WE WAVE OUR FLAGS AND ROOT FOR OUR TEAM.
THE ONLY WINNER IS PEACE.
Everyone and everything else loses.
Is loss.
Is lost.