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2/2 It was occasionally a Nantucket sleigh-ride but worth every moment The third iteration remains active today, but most real online interaction has moved to social media. See you there!

1/2 Thirty-two years ago today John Sanders and I launched the ANE mailing list at what was then the OI Chicago now ISAC. It was fun and I learned a lot and made many fast friends.

If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

Vance drops Ohio State's championship trophy during White House visit https://twp.ai/4imctI

Another one bites the dust: at the American Oriental Society meeting in Boston, on April 11, 2025, the members changed the society’s name to “American Society for Premodern Asia” (ASPA).

Your turn big public universities! A lot of us are now looking at you Ohio State, Michigan, Texas & Texas A&M, Arizona State, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan State, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Penn State, and on and on and on... www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

We're at #AOS2025 this week! Stop by our booth to browse our books or shop online through our virtual exhibit until 6/12: buff.ly/J38BScF

Thanks to your reports, we have created a tracker of college campus Visa revocations. Please continue to let us know if you hear of these (names of colleges and number of revocations). www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...

One of the AWOL pages: ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2014/06/alph... was said to violate "community standards", bit it's back.

Converting my 401K into cartons of cigarettes for barter before the market opens tomorrow.

Legislature, Judiciary, stand up and fight back! It's your job!

This is terrible. record.umich.edu/articles/u-m...

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

Digital Humanities Awards Voting Now Open dhawards.org/dhawards2024... Several ancient focused projects are nominated for Digital Humanities Awards in this cycle . AWOL won in 2015, and in 2021

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Have you heard about the Levantine Ceramics Project? LCP is an open-access, interactive website and digital publication, sponsored by ASOR, for the study of Levantine pottery from the Neolithic era (c. 5500 B.C.E.) until today. Check it out here: buff.ly/4ggumZg

Someone denounced AWOL ancientworldonline.blogspot.com for spreading malware, which it was not doing. The host suspended some pages but on review declared it nihil obstat.

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

Happy New Year and happy sixteenth birthday to AWOL, which launched 6 January 2009. During those six years I have written and edited 11203 entries. ancientworldonline.blogspot.com

Update… Due to a weird situation we are currently making basically no money on preorders unless they come from Contubernales directly. Please don’t worry if you’ve already ordered from Amazon, but if you CAN wait for 5th Feb or order from @contubernales.bsky.social that would help us out a lot!

When this family lived in New York we volunteered in Riverside Park. When we passed muster they assigned us custody of the East side of Grant's Tomb. I liked that grantstombgarden.blogspot.com

Where indeed! SESSION BLOCK 5: SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM 5D: Where Are They Now? Winners of the AIA’s Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology (Workshop) www.archaeological.org/grant/digita...

A new toolkit has been launched to help cultural heritage organisations enable and encourage the reuse of out-of-copyright works in their collections. 📜 www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

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