There is nothing to beat Austria for scenery.

A Slice of Luck! Carbonised Roman Bread Found in Switzerland 🍞 🏛 Archaeologists working in Windisch, Switzerland, have uncovered the earliest phase of the Roman legionary camp at Vindonissa, finding a 2,000-year-old charred loaf of bread. 📰 Read about it in AWLOH: open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

On Thursday, The King’s English Bookshop announced it would cancel a promotion for Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s new book in response to a wave of backlash.

I just launched a Kickstarter to fund a podcast project bringing hot fresh new science stories, research, and discoveries to kids and families. If you want to support #science and media literacy in These Times…the link with info and patron tiers is below! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...

Exclusive: President Trump’s expansion of the wall along the southern border with Mexico has damaged a rare Native American archaeological site in the Arizona desert, as the administration moves to rapidly build the $46.5 billion project.

May add this to the readings in my video games & antiquity class. I’ve been having students read Seller’s Hiding (in) the Tall Grass. They’d make a nice pairing.

Classics colleagues: 1) is there any reliable published information abt trends in academic jobs in Classics? In USA, North America, or globally? 2) what about on department closures? Thanks! (wondering if this is sthg @carlosfnorena.bsky.social @sarahebond.bsky.social @opietasanimi.com might know)

This is for their own good, since it is widely known that if a woman talks too much about soybeans, her uterus will dry up. That's just science. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Athena definitely holds the (moral) high ground. And she's armed.

In the thick of grading. Reading final reflections from my Roman civ students. They’re great!

I’ve managed to listen to a few episodes of @belovedofoizys.bsky.social’s new podcast, @ancienthistory101.org. They’re quite good!

Huh. I get this sometimes. No pain and they don’t last long. I figured it was just too much screen time. Which I suppose could still be connected . #til

Learned yesterday that a career-line colleague (teaching faculty) has resigned and is leaving the uni in large part due to push to increase teaching load without additional compensation. Some days it’s very difficult to balance my belief in the good of education with the system that runs it.

As recently as 2.5 years ago, the university had no problem with a right wing student organizing holding a screening of an anti-trans film with a lot of non scientific content (to put it mildly). How was that not advocating for a position? Free speech for me but not for thee

My university administrators censored a student who put “environmental justice” and “communities disproportionately affected by climate change” on an Earth Day flyer. I really have no words to express my anger and disappointment anymore

Everything (especially the state of this country) is stupid except this meme

Posted this on IG, but I’m sharing it here too. I’ve greatly enjoyed Kali Uchis’ Spanish language albums and would like to listen to other Spanish language artists as well. Give me recommendations!

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That’s funny because in 1814, British troops in red captured Washington, including the White House, and damaged and destroyed a lot. The US government then fled to Virginia…

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

“Drat,” said Toad.

Not to mention that half the reason for creating illustrations by hand is to learn about an object/feature as you create the illustration. tbh I’m just making up that 50% number, but drawing is observation and thinking and communication work, not just the final image.

This is the current director of Pompeii. I could not be more furious and I believe he could not be more wrong. www.westernwheel.ca/weather-news...

And 9 seconds later … www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Looking for recs for books in the sci-fi horror set on a hostile alien planet variety. MUST have a BIPOC author. For example, This World Is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa. Trad pub preferred, but can be self-pub. I've been searching all morning can't find much of anything.

For Italian-speaking gamers there, a nice review of The Abbess Garden :) It focuses on the gameplay, historicity & inclusivity ✨ #cozygame

I made a ✨Nighttime✨ version! 🏺🍷🌙💋

Big yikes on this project and process. I feel that planning and, in general, public institutions are not moving fast enough to deal with the data center boom

Friends in #histmed #photohist #histsci, do you teach a class/module on the visual culture of medicine/ medicine and art/ visual culture of science/ any other variation that could use a book on the history of medical photography? I'd be very interested to know! thank you!!

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The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

If you ever find yourself in Lava Hot Springs, hit up Eruption Brewery for their brussel sprouts. Ate there twice just to have them and the Meriweather’s Bannock St. Buzz cider - grapefruit and rosemary

It is my pleasure to share the recordings from #ResDiff7, an annual digital conference on inequity in the field of classics. All videos from #ResDiff7 (as well as all past conferences) can be found here: resdifficiles.com

My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

In a state with accelerating water shortages...

Who knew Brussel sprouts could be so good?!?

Whether I'm there or not next year, here are the things that have been replaced by a generic skills module including 3 weeks on Using AI: 1. My linguistics colleagues on accent and dialect change, and atittudes towards the local accent. Led by the accents in the room.

Off for a 3 day weekend to celebrate my birthday. Really struggling to not feel like I should be working.

This is a dance off. If you see this repost a dance.

So much for academic freedom

Say wtf! 🤦

“Coming out the backside” 💩

"The hallmark impact of imperialist archaeologies was the appropriation of the other’s historical arc and its incorporation into the western one as antecedent [e.g.] ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia constructed as the cradle of (western) civilization"

FOR GOD'S SAKE HOW FUCKING LONG DO WOMEN ALREADY SPEND QUEUING FOR FUCKING TOILETS

She was also told to remove the phrase “communities disproportionately affected by climate change” from an email advertisement, she said.

Thinking of making a playlist of Italian (pop) music in order to get better at understanding what I hear. Suggestions? (Inspired by hearing "Sarà perché ti amo" constantly on Instagram)

"With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself."

Why do epigraphical resources have to be soooooo painfully sloooooow?