You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Wake up Babe, a new euphemism for students getting drunk just dropped

Those of us inside can breathe for now… It is still unclear what will happen with renewals AND this will still definitely impact higher education.

This is obviously much needed and welcome clarification on a personal level. HOWEVER my base level anxiety has once again risen to a new level. It doesn’t need to be this way.

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

I wrote something up about how the H-1B fee could harm US higher education and the communities that rely on it. open.substack.com/pub/brendanc...

Try to switch off from the world for 12 hours and return to see the news about my H1B visa category. Email from the university telling me not to travel outside the country (by far the most direct messaging I’ve had from the institution since Jan). I just… 🥺

And our most popular #PeoplingBlog so far?! That's Blog #16 "Forgotten Kingdom: The Mitanni, with Mara Horowitz" peoplingthepast.com/2021/02/26/b...! Make sure to check out all of these fantastic pieces, and all of our blog content over at peoplingthepast.com ☺️

At number 2 is Blog #89 "Beyond Rome: The Indigenous People of Ancient Italy" with Claudia Paparella peoplingthepast.com/2023/11/03/b... /4

In third spot, is Blog #7 "Did Serial Killers Exist in the Ancient World?" with Debbie Felton peoplingthepast.com/2020/10/30/d... /3

At number 4, we have Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social with Blog #24 "The Nile and Ancient Egyptian Lifeways" peoplingthepast.com/2021/04/23/b... /2

In celebration of our fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! First up is the #PeoplingBlog! In fifth spot is Blog #56 "Lessons from the Past: Archaeology and Migration", with @meganjdaniels.bsky.social peoplingthepast.com/2022/04/01/b... 🧵

The first Augustus themed coin box of enlarged 3D printed replicas is off the manufacturing line and ready to go into a school next week! 🙌 a joint project between classics and design studies at Warwick. ☺️

Currently adding em dashes to my work in progress — does this make me AI? #WritersProblems

Looking forward to getting stuck into this! 🤓

Oh ffs. No, I do not want to "Chat with the PDF" of this interesting looking academic journal article I just came across. I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears. Just make it stop. #AcademicChatter

💃Bring on the weekend, Pompeii style 💃 These dancing maenads are here to invite you to join in a Bacchic rite or two as part of the culmination of the week. These gorgeous figures were part of the Villa of Cicero in Pompeii. #FrescoFriday #AncientRome

Seriously peer-reviewers, this is not 19th century and we are (I hope!) no longer publishing in Mitteilungen der Akademie für Geschichte der Gelehrtengesellschaft Göttingen. Let people actually submit writing that others want to read and stop policing "academic style".

who's gonna start the dumb appliances and small electronics company and make a killing? i do not want screens, bluetooth, internet, wifi, NOTHING.

I never feel more like a professor than when I'm a) teaching b) picking up something from the library

We're 5! (I can't believe it!) Many thanks to the wide variety of incredible scholars who have shared their time and expertise with us.

I love Peopling The Past so much for teaching material and extra credit assignments!

Congratulations on your 5 year anniversary.

Happy Birthday to us!! So grateful to be part of this team and to work alongside such amazing people ☺️

Interested in a global antiquity? There is a new, open access vol. _Classical Art and Ancient India_edited by Peter Stewart. 🌏 “This volume explores India's connections with the Med. and Western Asia during Graeco-Roman history, highlighting artistic exchanges” www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

These are the stories I want from social media 👇

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

On MWF, I teach ancient Greek for 4 hours, only 1 of those hours is on load teaching. For a dept that supposedly is destroying the discipline because our major isn’t language-centered, we sure do teach the languages a lot.

English!

Here's a conundrum... What a great @peoplingthepast.bsky.social post: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... . But as full disclosure, the author is an @isawnyu.bsky.social student. I'm her chair (my great honor). So don't believe me, go check it out. (And my congrats/empathy to Lylaah!)

On today’s new #PeoplingBlog, @lylaahlb.bsky.social takes us through her research on elephants and how they, and their accompanying peoples, served as vehicles for cultural exchange and transmission of knowledge as they traversed land and sea in antiquity: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... /1

we must start a 4chan movement that 'ironically' performs acts of charity, which gradually over time inevitably become real virtue.

The 2025/6 #PeoplingBlog season has begun! Please enjoy this timeline cleanse on ancient elephants! 👇

We are thrilled to share that #PeoplingPodcast has been named at #15 in Feedspot's "100 Best Greece Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025"! You can check out the full list here for all the amazing follow suggestions: podcast.feedspot.com/greece_podca...

For everyone complaining about boilerplate syllabus language, check to see if there's anything about recording without consent. Ours has 2 entire paragraphs on it, designed to protect both faculty and students from the kind of nonsense happening at Texas A&M.

lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field

The 14-person search committee for UVa’s new provost has 3 women and ZERO humanities professors. news.virginia.edu/content/uva-...

Why do some calls require *letters* of recommendation for *all* applicants? 100s of people apply for these postings. Save us all some time. Names of references are sufficient to apply for a call. Request full letters only for individuals moving on to second or third-round interviews....

If you think you can’t possibly be on this list, my little monograph on Roman gardens features not once but twice on LibGen soooo… check your name and add yourself to Anthropic settlement list if you qualify!

I don't love it! nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

Join us on Friday, September 19, from 3-5 pm for a reception to open our new exhibit, "Sweetbitter: The Literary Legacies and Afterlives of Sappho." This event will feature live dance and spoken word performances, as well as a look at the exhibit! All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

For those following along with my return-to-maiden name administrative journey… shout out to the lady at the DMV who looked at all my documents and said “oh gurl you DROPPING that man”. We laughed. Once again, I also cried when I got the new document.

Harper Letter's crew mount up

Our current timeline is just a litany of horrors.

Bleak

In celebration of another school year, September’s #ImageOfTheMonth traces the ‘back to school’ phenomenon to the fifth-century BCE. This red-figure cup attributed to the painter Douris prominently displays students, teachers, and the instruments of education. Find out more at peoplingthepast.com!

Completely obvious that neither are teaching undergraduates or have been recently. The survival of philology depends on the survival of the classics department, which, in many cases, depends on having a non-language option for the double majors.

It is also, as @vickyausten.bsky.social noted, striking that the piece targets Eccleston, Peralta, Greenwood and Rankine (all scholars of color) but not, say, Walter Scheidel, who just published a whole book on moving away from the old model of classics. But he's a white guy, of course. Funny that.

Just read books you enjoy, everything else is downstream of fun, it is literally an entertainment pastime, trying to do the Serious Literature thing is beyond tedious