Curatorial Assistant - Greek Coins and Research Assistant CHRYSOS+ project @AshmoleanMuseum. Quondam quizzer @OUQuizSoc & rower @NewCollegeBC. Lapsed Brummie
Oxford, England
Joined January 2012
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Below is my first substack post, which is a selection of personal musings on this past year and the year to come.
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If England don't have a list of >100 Mastermind questions prepared for Smith whilst batting, they have failed our nation.
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I always found this bit of memoir by the late Tom Braun of Merton (a child refugee from the Nazis) an exceptionally touching one: the British spirit one felt an immediate sympathy for by comparison with the Soviet block, too.
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Work at the moment requires me to read lots of quite lengthy books, so looking for my fun reading to be short stories/novellas etc. to break that up. Hit me with you recommendations, recent reads etc.
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Today's Classic Cover of the Day is Sabriel by Garth Nix, illustrated by husband-and-wife pair Leo and Diane Dillon!
ALT Sabriel by Garth Nix
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Was not prepared for the graphical abstract
Excited to share our latest manuscript in @CellCellPress. Here we discovered neuropeptides that specify and reprogram the division of labor in leafcutter ants! penntoday.upenn.edu/news/wha…
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Vote on the TLL Latin Word of the Year 2024! Until Dec. 19. The five finalists were published this year in the TLL and don't appear in another standard dictionary of ancient Latin.
⭐️reteiaclor ⭐️retotatototato ⭐️retroactim⭐️revaleo⭐️revolumen
parerga.hypotheses.org/3516
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God bless the student who just described Xerxes crossing the Hellespont in the essay I am marking as an act of "youthful arrogance". He was 38 at the time.
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look how they massacred my koi
Koi carp collector loses 25 prized fish in 'otter massacre' bbc.in/4eQociJ
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This is my favorite graph of all time
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POV: you’re the words ‘Southgate Agonistes’ at the top of a new Microsoft word document
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The site is perhaps best known for the dozen or so decapitated heads strewn over its terraces.
Having fallen off the seated colossi over the millennia (or, in one case, having been struck by lightning), they are left staring across the plains with looks of quiet indignation /4
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Discovered my late tutor Peter Derow’s handwritten genealogy of the Spartan Kings.
May be of interest to @AntigoneJournal and @ArmandDAngour among others.
