Professor of Classics at Nottingham, writing, cats, brass banding, flowers. Power of Sadness, Latin Epic, Argonauts crossing. She/they. Legally blindhttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mm4od2nigk23Student work continues most encouraging, rewarding and consoling. We really have great students. I would be very sad to give up teaching Latin poetry to people and I have been incredibly privileged to be able to do it for so long.18 May 2026 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4od2nigk23https://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mlw7jldvxs26The great pyramid of Giza, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the colossus of Rhodes, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus! [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 20:51 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlw7jldvxs26https://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mlvhtk5a522mWell just wow. In this shit show of a week, I’ve just read the best UG dissertation I’ve ever had. I’ve had some amazing students over the years, and the current ones are as good as any I’ve had.15 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvhtk5a522mhttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mlsz6cwiok2cFarmers are very difficult patients. What makes my father so challenging is the utter selflessness of his tyranny14 May 2026 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsz6cwiok2chttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mlo3jzmlic2yStarted the new Ann Leckie, Radiant Star, and wondered how the central character’s name was spelled, I can’t help wondering whether Jonr is a reference in some way to genre?12 May 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlo3jzmlic2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mlnih3z4ns2dSo maybe let’s not destroy the arts? And the academic research that underpins, collaborates with and amplifies them? Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/12/arts-cultural-engagement-linked-slower-pace-biological-ageing-ucl-research?CMP=share_btn_url12 May 2026 09:36 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnih3z4ns2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mlnalvfcr226Sometimes it is ten or twenty other books that they will never have time to write [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 07:16 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnalvfcr226https://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mllorv6ohk2oThis end of life thing (parent) puts things in perspective. I told my sister: ‘I just want to go to bed at night knowing I did my best’. The same applies to other aspects of my life. Limit the damage. Keep on swimming. Etc.11 May 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllorv6ohk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mlljmztjgk2e2000 plus people at risk of redundancy. That’s well over half, so very likely to include me. Tempting, tempting.11 May 2026 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlljmztjgk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mlisswinm22sThis would be great for our Communicating the Past module! @uonclassarch.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 May 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlisswinm22shttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mlha4dg7522uEmotion check: very grateful for new Murderbot right now09 May 2026 21:51 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlha4dg7522uhttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mlb5c6hzp22mSurprisingly knocked back by Future Nottingham 2 going through Council. It’s no surprise. Guess I was more in denial than I realised. It will be hard to keep going through all this.07 May 2026 11:45 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb5c6hzp22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3mlay6uhtz227This is also interesting advice to think about for getting students engaged. Make it their job to remind themselves why they are there. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 10:13 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlay6uhtz227https://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3ml4z2cifdk2bI just really don’t want to do any more work. There are loads of things that need doing but I really don’t want to do them.05 May 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4z2cifdk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/helenlovatt.bsky.social/post/3ml3vvhkvjs2kAnd how much of a problem is it that the sector’s best known media outlet is owned by a private equity group with an explicit business focused agenda? [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:eisypeozktywh4v4ziruylax/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3vvhkvjs2k