Today's World Wolverine Day. Seems like the bars should be serving blue beer.

Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models. Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵

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Wounded Knee. Tulsa. My Lai. Abu Ghraib And now, Minab We need to talk about the horror when 180 little schoolgirls, boys and teachers were obliterated by U.S. Tomahawk missiles last week. And tell Congress: Not one more dime for these war crimes My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

Le rôle possible d’un champignon dans les Mystères d’Éleusis buff.ly/gwpDLqS #HistoireAncienne #Antiquité

New papyri! Found in situ no less.

I infer it’s #PapyrusSaturday. Long over.

Baturday Bat World Sanctuary

For $200M she could have hired a good graphic designer, the kind who doesn’t commit this kind of layout. I know a few who’d work for a mere $100M.

Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print | Alexander Hurst

One of our most thoughtful commentators is out with a new book that has a prescription for insulating government and the country from rulers like Trump, who WULALAD (wake up lying and lie all day). Details and discussion here:👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/weissman...

New book coming soon from Andrew Weissmann, Liars’ Kingdom: How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and Save America. Due out 5/19, can preorder now.

#MosaicMonday Construction on a Supermarket screeches to a halt after workers uncovered an #ancient #Roman Villa With Mosaic-Tile Floors. Archaeologists excavated the site on Warrington Road in Olney, Buckinghamshire. #Archaeology #RomanBritain #History 📸 Oxford Archaeology.

Definitive evidence of Roman alluvial gold mines found near ancient Iulia Libica in the eastern Pyrenees www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/02/d...

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

“2026 is the year of the horse” The horse:

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

Thinking warm thoughts for all my NE friends and family, with all that snow coming in. ❄️⛄️🪏

Well done. The Gaudreau kids w Team USA. Says it all.

US hockey players honored the late Johnny Gaudreau after their gold medal win ❤️ His family was in the stands to see the moment.

Wasn't is Foyles bookstore in London who lined the roof of the store with copies of "Mein Kampf" to ward off German bombing ?

Well, this has been the winter from hell in so very many ways, but I was happy to see the first snowdrops emerging in a sunny garden corner. So jealous of the pictures of actual blooming flowers coming in from UK friends, and soon we'll have our own.

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Sharing for a colleague: The American Friends of Herculaneum sponsors annually scholarships of up to $3,500 for undergraduates & graduate students who are pursuing the study of ancient Herculaneum. The deadline is 1 March. For more information, consult this link: cal.byu.edu/macfarlane/h...

The deadline to file an Anthropic claim is fast approaching. Here’s everything you need to know before the March 30 cutoff:

Broke: Cat Owner Woke: Cat Dad Bespoke: αἰλουροβοσκός, ailouroboskos ("herder of the sacred cats") * *A position for slaves of a temple of Bastet attested to in a Ptolemaic document.

Curious what Ghislaine Maxwell bought for $13.751.93 at the December 9, 2004, Sotheby's NY Antiquities sale, but of course I can't find the lot listings online :( source: www.justice.gov/epstein/file... relevant catalog in the currently closed MMA library: library.metmuseum.org/record=b1501...

an in kind donation from Brendan Carr to @jamestalarico.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

The University of Michigan’s archeology museum has a gorgeous, nearly full scale watercolor reproduction of the Villa of the Mysteries done in the 1920s. Never noticed the ornate faux stone panels above the figural scenes before!

Speaking of rare moths, @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social, I see that the Entomological Society of America is here on bsky: @entsocamerica.bsky.social I bet they have many professors of rare moths.

Stonewall 2.0. ❤️

If a door gets left open here for any length of time it summons the elusive but impressive garage peacock.

We’ll discuss claiming deductions, lowering your taxable income, setting money aside for retirement, whether you need to be making estimated tax payments, and more Register here: authorsguild.org/event/tax-ti...

That halftime show was astounding. Wow. One for the ages.

The oldest known image of an owl: More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...

Faculty at the University of Calgary report potential room for compromise with administration to save Classics and Medieval Studies. They thank everyone for support and request a temporary pause in the letter-writing campaign. Read more: www.cac-scec.ca/2026/02/ucal... Share widely!

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Tomorrow! Celebrate Unesco's World Greek Language Day with us. Feb, 9th, 2026 at 7pm. With the ambassador of Greece to Canada and Keynote lecture by our own Professor Richard Burgess on "The Origins of the Greek Alphabet". #WorldGreekLanguageDay2026 #Ottawa #uOttawa #Greek

It turns out that not all ice is created equal. Ice rinks are calibrated specifically for different sports, and at the Olympics these sport specifics are tightly controlled by the event’s "ice meisters." 🎤✏️: Marta Hill 📸: Getty Images

#FindsFriday #Roman wild boar sculpture carved from local red sandstone, with local character I feel. The boar was symbol of 20th Legion - Legio XX Valeria Victrix, instrumental in building Hadrian's Wall, Chester fort + much more; stationed in Britain till early 4th C. @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social

A super opportunity has just dropped, Team #ReadUP and #ApplyUP, to help publish spectacular @cornellupress.bsky.social books and receive more emails from me than you ever imagined.