I made it out! But I found some interesting stuff there. This is what I went to read: John Grote 1861, A Few Words of Criticism a propos of the Saturday Review of April 20, 1861, Upon Dr Whewell’s Platonic Dialogues for English Readers, Cambridge. It includes some zingers:

I'm off to the Rare Books Room. If you don't hear from me within 24 hours, please call for a rescue team.

JOB: Associate Professor of Professor of Ancient Philosophy @StAnnesCollege @OUPPhilosophy Details:

Also: is this my favourite @wearejames song? It is today.

Compare this imminent landscape with the *17* Cambridge PhD students funded in the 2024 cohort. Many of those 17 will be match-funded by colleges and other institutions (so not wholly AHRC supported). But this is a significant reduction.

JOB. Temporary Teaching Associate in Greek literature @CamClassics 2 year position.

RT @CamClassics: The Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient G…

JOB: we are advertising for an Assistant Professor of Classics (Greek history) @CamClassics. Permanent position. More information here: Please circulate widely.

I have become the Everton of my Duolingo league, constantly battling relegation and scrambling madly for points at the end of the season.

RT @Rainmaker1973: A 140-year-old tortoise wearing her 5-day-old son as a hat.

@redshirtcinema Your reference in today's pod to a Simpsons Twin Peaks bit reminded me of this masterpiece.

One of the best albums of the 1990s.

If you've been listening to In Our Time on Socrates in prison and want to think some more about Plato's Crito, here is a thing I wrote about it a while ago.

@AntigoneJournal

Tomorrow at 9am on BBC Radio 4 and then available as a podcast (I think with bonus content!):