Are you considering achieving a PhD in #AncientHistory? And are you interested in #RomanReligion? This job advertisement @unimainz.bsky.social might be for you: stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/52699 t1p.de/0sjuf

I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying

The operator of WorldCat has won a default judgment against pirate site Anna's Archive directing it to delete WorldCat data and stop storing, scraping, or using it; assumption is it won't comply arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Also, it’s a black cat. Black kitties are excellent. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Egypt court hands life sentence to antiquities inspector over major artifact smuggling - EgyptToday www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/14...

Regional names for alleyways…

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Best fact learned at AIA/SCS: Alexander is buried in Peoria, IL. Tho tomb location not known precisely. Presumably collaborative dig among UC / UI will find it, for display at Art Institute. Can’t wait.

(548) Reading the Ancient Library from Herculaneum with Digital Unrolling - Richard Janko - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXM...

As @carlosfnorena.bsky.social says, another AIA/SCS for the books. Great to see those who attended. Hope everyone is getting home safely. Afterthought for the SCS officers: some therapy cats in the exhibit hall. Just saying. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Derrière l’apparente profusion de maisons d’édition en France, trois groupes seulement maîtrisent les deux tiers du marché. Notamment Hachette, racheté il y a un peu plus d'un an par Vincent Bolloré. ➡️ https://www.altereco.media/KpM

I signed up for this — it’s free

Hadn’t previously noticed that the wallpaper behind the Mother Superior singing “Climb Every Mountain“ depicts Yoda.

We’re not snowed in, but it is choofing cold - even down here in the Severn valley where the Malvern Hills protect us from the worst excesses of the prevailing westerlies - and that’s all the excuse we need to settle down with some great @pottedhistory.bsky.social content. Go on, treat yourself 👇

Anyone out there making podcasts, blogs, art, or other good things and fancy collaborating with Colchester Museums this year? We like history, creativity, and people who get excited about both. Let’s chat!

Well folks ..........tonight's the night for another 12 wonderful potters to enter @gladstonepottery for @potterythrow . Its funny how it seems so long ago when we filmed it . They are such a great bunch of potters . 😊 #Sunday at 7.30pm on @channel4 #studiopottery #feelthefearanddoitanyway

So much wrong.

An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it.

I asked GenAI for biblio on a topic of Hellenistic hsitory, esp non English. Out came the titles ! Some familiar, plus some very promising German titles of the 1990s and 2000s. I had no idea Prof. X had worked on this ! 1 min later, I asked the GenAI: do any of these exist ? Reply: actually no.

Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand. He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops

Loving the raccoon-and-slinkies metaphor.

Did not have Klearchos on my bingo card for today.

I see the Bronze Age posture of beseechment is still alive and well.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

10/10 for effort, wow.

My worry: a ms. from someone with an expiring tenure clock. They are out of time, panicking, and they either finished or wrote their ms. with AI.

This video will inspire you and break your heart and remind you why we humans have a chance - this is famous Ukrainian ‘Schedryk’ - you might know it as Carol of the Bells - performed live at one of DTEK thermal power situations ruined by Russian attacks P.s. it will make you cry.

Sent by a friend, captioned A Classics education proves useful for adding captions to cat pictures. Not wrong.

Draft ms. from a prospective author arrives. I had reason to run the spell-check on it: more than 1200 errors, and not because of chunks of foreign language. I didn't know the checker could get to a 4-digit number. Folks, run your spell-checkers. Maintaibn. Nume. Kingdons.

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

Italian police are trying to retrieve 300 ancient artefacts from the private collection of Vassil Bojkov, a Bulgarian oligarch nicknamed “the Skull” who has been accused in Bulgaria of corruption. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

13 years ago, 20 children and 6 educators never came home from Sandy Hook Elementary School. They were killed in their classrooms in a shooting that changed our nation forever.

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

The remains of the foundations of Piercebridge Roman Bridge in County Durham that once carried Dere Street across the River Tees, linking York with Corbridge. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #Piercebridge #RomanBritain

Situated by the pretty Bay of Locquirec in northern Brittany, the Roman baths of Hogolo were discovered by chance under sand dunes in 1892 and excavated in the 1930s and 40s. They were probably associated with a villa, which has yet to be found. #RomanSiteSaturday

Cue the manuscript submissions about Atlantis, citing this wall.

#Woodensday 1263-4 #AdventAngel originally decorated ceiling of Painted Chamber (King's state bedchamber) in Henry III's remodelled Westminster Palace with companion painting of prophet. Earliest surviving panel paintings in England, believed lost until rediscovered in 1994. @ BM

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful glass bracelets found in #Egypt, #Roman period, dating 1st century BC to 1st century AD. On display at Museum der Universität Tübingen. 📷 me 🏺

If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.

‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years

Hear, hear!

What it's like changing bed sheets with my help!

Tower of London closes after apple crumble thrown on crown jewels display

That would be “journalist.”

Important information here—the Authors’ Guild website is a reliable source of how we got here and what authors who have been affected should do.

Hey, that’s our book! U of Michigan Press, cloth 2011. #BellaMirabella teaches at NYU Gallatin.

OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...