Every ancient historian should read this article bc the implications 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It’s been a month and no one in our family has said anything about, what I think to be, the best prank ever.

"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue." Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.

Now seeing accounts claim that AI being “trained on” art & books to generate content isn’t “stealing.” When a student uses a book to generate a paper and doesn’t cite it, what do we call that?

Someone write an academic paper on Heidi Klum’s Halloween costumes

Meet Greg!

I once saw an AI article all about how Titus Labienus (100-45 BCE) was a Roman Emperor so…

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

I painted ur dog

Immediately jumps on the bed I just made

Me, in class: I mean if I were to steal these pieces from the Louvre, I’d break them down and sell the stones individually. My students: 🧐🧐🧐 where were you October 19th

What if I started podficcing my fav ancient history fanfics on AO3? What then?

i think its so funny that he thinks to modernise the white house it needs a ballroom. when last you been to a ball?? Who are you inviting over? Madame Bovary? you want to modernise the place all you need is laminate flooring and a corner sofa. what a waste of money

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

I’m sorry but it’s not up to you to decide if a student’s accommodations are unreasonable. if a student did everything necessary to get accommodations for “anxiety” then trust me, they need them. I once tried to apply for accommodations & it was so heartless & confusing I gave up.

I’m dying Katabasis (R.F. Kuang) is so effing funny: “To be honest she had never gotten around to trying Proust, but Cambridge had made her the kind of person who wanted to have read Proust, and she figured Hell was a good place to start.”

First paragraph and I’m hooked

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually. The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

This isn’t my school but I’m so close to Cincinnati, apply so we can hang out! www.higheredjobs.com/search/detai...

FYI there’s a super convincing-looking fake PayPal phishing email saying you were charged for an iPhone or something. I just got it and checked my PayPal (no transaction there) and forwarded the message to [email protected].

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I walked into the classroom and immediately could tell my senior seminar students were planning something. What were they planning? Getting flip phones and destroying their smart phones. So that’s where the history majors are at.

SCS AIA CAMWS

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

🚨 Hey!! We’re hiring an archaeologist!! Come hang out with us!! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

"War is peace" is literally from Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Did you know ICE is holding a disabled advocate and whistleblower who helped shut down one of their detention centres? Alma Bowman is a 58 year old woman from Georgia who spent 30 months in ICE custody during the first Trump regime. When released she became a fearless advocate for detainees 🧵

*You’re* pushing college history faculty to have students write papers by typing prompts into AI that they immediately forget. Meanwhile *I’m* collaborating with my college’s art department to make my students learn to write cuneiform on clay tablets that they get to keep.

Guess what our Halloween theme is this year!

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Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

*You,* a responsible academic, have just cancelled your academia.edu account. *I,* a scatterbrained academic, have not been able to log into my academia account for months because I don’t know the password & I think it’s still attached to my former university email that I no longer have access to.

One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”

"Iron slave- or gang-chain, 100 BCE-50 CE. It has neck-plates to link five slaves or captives by the neck." © Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales museum.wales/collections/...

Someone *loves* the new Superman

Teaching “Fall of Rome” next semester and thinking of doing a decline or change model, where each week we investigate different aspects of Roman life/empire into Byzantium to determine decline or change. Has anyone taught it this way? I’m not totally sold but considering it.

You may call yourself a "woman," but when archeologists dig up your bones in three thousand years, they'll tell everyone your copper ingots were subpar

My school did a survey of what classroom tech we would like, and I asked for typewriters so students could type in-class work without the internet. I also had to specify I was dead serious.

I wanna be able to put the photos I take on my phone directly to my computer without the cloud

So much this!

One of my students discovered what she believes is a fake ancient artifact in a museum (presented as authentic), and now that’s what she’s writing her paper on this semester. Assuming it’s a solid paper, should I have her email the museum when she’s done?

New office is slowly coming together. Tapestry art of Palmyra by @flaroh.bsky.social

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

1. A few hours before this morning’s presser, in which law enforcement authorities announced they had taken into custody Charlie Kirk’s killer, Meghan McCain, daughter of the late John McCain, weighed in on “the fundamental difference between the right and the left in this country.”

34. Hanania & Rufo seem like canaries in the coal mine. While others are busy telling their story – “that the left glorifies death, particularly of adversaries, and the right does not,” according to Meghan McCain – they are not seeing the right-on-right white-on-white danger to their lives.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...