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Ray Laurence
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Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University.
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Tampere - Finland!
June 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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@raylaurence1.bsky.social giving a talk at Stockholm. How does a multi-species mobility look like? #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
June 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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@raylaurence1.bsky.social today from Tampere on age #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
June 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Bleak winter!
May 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Wonderful work being done on Thomas Ashby and the Roman roads of Italy by Macquarie graduates @janetwade.bsky.social and @nic33.bsky.social using the photo archive of @bsrome.bsky.social.
@raylaurence1.bsky.social @emlynkd.bsky.social @resaustrales.bsky.social @awaws.org
bsr.ac.uk/thomas-ashby...
May 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Roads!

Next week in Stockholm!!
May 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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We have a blog post up on our new Open Access book "How Republics Die: creeping authoritarianism in ancient Rome and beyond". Find the post here: doi.org/10.58079/13xuq and the book itself (with all the chapters in downloadable PDF) here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
May 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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True ✅
April 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Today is World Autism Awareness Day, in Autism Awareness Week, which is in Autism Awareness Month. Spare a thought today for all the autistic people who really hate April!
But in the spirit of awareness... I've been quiet on social media lately because I've been working on a Big Autism Project...
April 2, 2025 at 8:02 AM
This inspires a new approach to the 20 minute academic conference paper!

@ascs in Auckland early 2026!
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”

A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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🌟Early Release - Gladiator II with Alexandra Sills 🌟

We consider the highs and lows of Gladiator II with @belovedofoizys.bsky.social, whose research focuses on the representation of gladiators. This fantastic interview is out now for our wonderful patreons 🥳

www.patreon.com/posts/122599...
March 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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People are taking things into their own hands
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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We will not be distracted.
We will not be discouraged.
We’ve got our eyes on the prize.

And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve.

The time to organize is now.

OcasioCortez.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials.

I worked at the Pentagon.

If information like this is not classified, nothing is.

If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so.
March 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.
After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.
March 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
So, we reach end of week 4 of the academic year and are given an inkling of what Macquarie Uni is about to inflict on its employees.

futurecampus.com.au/2025/03/20/a...
Another savings plan at Macquarie U
Management at Macquarie University warns academics the times are changing and so must the way they work - and yes redundancies are mentioned.
futurecampus.com.au
March 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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