#EpigraphyTuesday Back when I was writing a chapter on ancient curses (itself an ancient time, as our students today would reckon it), I came across what was one of my favourite inscriptions: IG XII.1.737 (epigraphy.packhum.org/text/139285). The "Idameneus curse".

Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (15-22 September 2025), the editorial college published 17 new and 233 updated place resources, reflecting the work of thirteen people and two organizations. Full details on the blog at pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la... #ancientGeography #ancientHistory

Just deleted my Academia.edu account, and I advise everyone do the same. It's not a repository. It's a grift. (If you want my stuff, it's here: archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/... )

💻The #EpiDoc maintainers will be hosting a monthly online drop-in session (1 hour per month). 📨 Please feel free to come with questions, encoding difficulties, or just to listen in on the conversation. 📅The next session is Wednesday, October 22: 17:00 BST = 18:00 CEST = 19:00 EEST = 12:00 EDT

📣 New season of the Digital Classicist Berlin Seminar starts Oct 14! Hybrid lectures on 3D, cuneiform, digital twins, AI, citizen science & more. I’m happy to help organize it in my new role at BBAW. More in my blog post 👉 itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/09/19/a... #DigitalClassics #DH

Just want to note that a large portion of the ancient collection from the Detroit Institute of Arts’ 65,000 work collection is in the Public Domain (=free use). Like this lovely strigil key chain and bottle to take to the Roman baths. dia.org/collection/o...

Inbound links from place records in the @whgazetteer.org, as reflected in select datasets, are now included in the #PleiadesGazetteer Linked Data sidebar. Read all about it on the blog at pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/th... #ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS #LOD

Congratulations everyone! This was a great and exciting opportunity to work collaboratively on #PleiadesGazetteer A big thank you to @paregorios.bsky.social who took the time and patience to guide me through my very first contributions!

Report: #PleiadesGazetteer Co-Working Day (September 2025): 11 coworkers, 3 new and 117 updated place resources. Details: pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/re...

New issue of Journal of Roman Archaeology Vol. 28, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @dominik-hagmann.bsky.social @lsnasrallah.bsky.social

Give kitty treat! Etruscan art frequently features cats; on vases and tomb paintings in Tarquinia and Orvieto, domestic felines crouch expectantly under banquet tables and couches. This is more unusual, almost Greek, with the cat leaping for a treat. 🏺 🐈‍⬛ #ancientbluesky Abt. 490 BCE. 📸 me

Does anyone know of examples of Roman (or generally ancient Mediterranean) slotted spoons? Surely they existed, but I’m having trouble finding an example

Truly, this man has shaped our digital lives in important ways far out of our CTRL.

In a super interesting meeting organised by Alison Shell (UCL English), Arnold Hunt (Durham palaeography) and Gesine Manuwald (UCL Greek & Latin) to discuss the potential for Neo-Latin studies using advanced computational methods (esp ML/AI): OCR/HTR, machine translation, computational linguistics.

Last week the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college published 17 new and 116 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 8 contributors and editors: pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la... #ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS

The WHA is excited to announce the Call for Papers for our next conference in Incheon, Korea, June 25-27, 2026. Find the full CFP and submission information on our conference website: thewha.org/conferences/... [Image: Incheon Grand Bridge, by Cameron Henderson via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0]

We are so excited about the @thewha.bsky.social conference in Incheon Korea next June! If you are interested in any aspect of teaching and research about the transnational and global human past, you should submit a paper or panel proposal and come join us! #worldhistory thewha.org/conferences/...

Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (1-8 September 2025) the editorial college published 14 new and 160 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 4 people. More details here: hcommons.social/@pleiades_ga... #ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

So come along, or dial in, to hear me and others discuss what humanities can do for data science, as well as how humanities uses data science. I'm sure I may go on a patented rant about the potential ramifications of stopping listening to arts and humanities voices in AI development. Sign up here!

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

Last Week (25 August - 1 September 2025) in the #PleiadesGazetteer of ancient places, the editorial college published 15 new and 74 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 9 contributors and editors. Details on the blog: pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la...

People who know the sites well, which is the better option? Sardis, or Teos and Klaros? It will be the last day of a very long trip, and I'd like the best finale possible.

This is some kind of money laundering scheme

Please share! We're trying to crowd-source a dataset of post-1929 novels with maps.

The internet has waited long enough! This week's #PleiadesGazetteer Sneak Peek features a new place resource for the Cloaca Maxima. Full post: hcommons.social/@pleiades_ga... #ancientGeography #ancientHistory #ancientRome #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS

Do any of my #ClassicsSky friends have a source on the punishment for rape/assault of a Vestal Virgin? I only know of one, and I don't want to cite that author Romanists, help a girl out!

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

One of the oldest surviving handwritten documents from Britain! A 1,900 year-old business letter from Octavius to Candidus at Vindolanda Roman fort urgently asking him for cash to settle a balance. A glimpse of life on the Roman Empire’s northern frontier. 📷 by me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

ICYMI I shared some notes on setting up a particular configuration for Slack directed towards new users who are overwhelmed by the invasive default notification settings.

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GAERHF isn't strong on Pre-Pottery Neolithic yet. Think Gobekli Tepe. I've wanted to ease into that well-represented period. To give it context. I've now added a bowl from Körtik Tepe (c. 400 BCE to 9250 BCE so a hint early). With an anthropomorphic figure. gaerhf.org#stone-bowl-h... More coming...

New on the @isawnyu.bsky.social news blog: ISAW Commencement 2025: Two ISAW students were awarded doctoral degrees during the 2024-25 academic year and they have both secured great academic positions! isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-co...

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to false gods.

Nomination deadline for the 2025 Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology due 15 September to @archaeological.org More details and to nominate (self-nomination ok) see: www.archaeological.org/grant/digita... Please boost. #archaeology

New from @sarahebond.bsky.social in Hyperallergic: a review of, and commentary on, **How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond**, a "freely downloadable book by top ancient historians across the globe." hyperallergic.com/1037152/an-a...

Digital elevation model of the c. 3800 BC open-cast copper mine of Curak, Serbia. The first direct example for copper mining in the central Balkans during this period, Curak questions the idea of a 'societal collapse' during the 4th millennium BC 🏺 #Archaeology Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

LAUNCHED! I now have a storefront for selling canvas, metal, and Giclee fine art prints of my very best photographs. Please take a look and consider buying something peaceful and bucolic for your walls. andrewreinhard.com #NorthDakota #NorthernPlains #GreatPlains #photography

The 19th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1920, barring voting discrimination based on sex. But for women of color, the right to vote wasn’t fully realized until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 105 years later, we're still fighting for equal ballot access for all.

Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (18-25 August 2025), the editorial college published 7 new and 136 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 9 contributors and editors. More info: hcommons.social/@pleiades_ga... #ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS

Hello friends! Does anyone know of journalism or academic work on how digital infrastructures could hinder or prevent state secession from the union in these times? (Seems up @jamellebouie.net & @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ’s alley? others I don’t know abt?) TIA. Can’t find anything in a search

#EpigraphyTuesday 2/3 cent altar from Atrans dedicated to the majestic goddess Hecate in fulfilment of a vow by the Aurelius brothers Asclepiodotus and Lucius. CIL Ⅲ.5119. Hecate / Augustae / Aurelii As/clepiodo/tus et Luci/us pro sal(ute) / sua et suor(um) / v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito)

#PleiadesGazetteer Sneak Peek for Friday, 22 August 2025: hcommons.social/@pleiades_ga... #ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazettteers #HGIS

This is the headline I show my students when we talk about Alabama adopting its current state constitution in 1901. I teach in Alabama