Merry Christmas to all, from a very excited 12 year-old, her tuckered pup, and a dad taking wrapping paper duty VERY SERIOUSLY.

“These systems are fundamentally systems for repeatedly answering the question ‘what is the likely next word’ and that’s it,” said Emily Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington… “it is not based on reason or understanding or looking at information.”

This week’s #PeoplingBlog features the work of Uzma Z. Rizvi, whose project at MohenjoDaro in Pakistan highlights the ways in which archaeologists can engage in decolonial approaches in their use of legacy data through the framework of an archaeology of care: peoplingthepast.com/2025/11/28/b... 🧵/1

The University of Winnipeg has terminated its president.

Lauryn Hill: amazing, incredible, I am filled with joy that I actually got to see her live. My 19 year-old self can't handle it.

Happy Halloween/Game 6!

Our friends from Egypt's Dispersed Heritage, along with Millennial 3al A5er and and the Horniman Museum and Gardens have written a 🔥 post on the treatment of mummified remains for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social . Find it here (including the Arabic version): peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b...

Happy Halloween, #ClassicsBlueSky! Check out this amazing jack o'lantern from a student. It's the deer from an early Ephesian coin!

wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago www.thenation.com/article/cult...

In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingVideo contributions across the years /thread 🧵👇

The names of all the children that are known, with many more likely buried under the rubble. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Yusi Liu, Chris Gipson, and Najee Olya, building on the Mountaintop Coalition's panel at the SCS earlier this year. "International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World?" resdifficiles.com/internationa...

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.

Philology: the Best of All Possible Methods? A response to the apology. planudes.medium.com/the-best-of-...

Back on the ice for a fun pre-season skate with a bunch of my favorite young athletes! (Also loving the Greek myth crossover merch)

Contractually obligated to share this post as a professor of Greek named Melissa

The Folklorama Llama has been sighted!

Featuring @uwluxproject.bsky.social 's design your own shabti sheets, soon to appear at the Egyptian Pavilion.

This was an incredible season to record. I would like to thank our season 4 guests for sharing their wisdom and making our fields better through their scholarship and advocacy. They demonstrate everyday that things do not need to go on as they always have.

Today we welcomed a new member into the family and Lola is POOPED.

Heartbroken to read about the judge's remarks on the victim in the Hockey Canada trial. Regardless of the legal outcome, they are sure to put a chill on other sexual assault victims in the future.

It's going to be a fun year teaching our new course and learning from my colleagues! www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

In times of ongoing war, how can antiquities be protected from damage and looting? On today’s #PeoplingPodcast, we are joined by Dr. Isber Sabrine, co-founder of Heritage for Peace, to talk about his work preserving cultural heritage in the midst of armed conflict peoplingthepast.com/2025/07/15/p...

On today’s #PeoplingPodcast, we are joined by @zenakamash.bsky.social to discuss her work with Iraqi communities and how she uses craftwork to bring the public together with cultural heritage and to foster wellbeing: peoplingthepast.com/2025/07/08/p...

⭐ WORKING CLASSICIST OF THE YEAR ⭐ Zena Kamash (@zenakamash.bsky.social) is this years' Working Classicist of the Year! Congratulations, Zena! 🏆 #WCA2025

Is it possible to re-envision the place of Greece and Rome in the ancient world overall? In today’s new #PeoplingPodcast, we are joined by Dr. Mathura Umachandran to reimagine Classics through the lens of Critical Ancient World Studies (CAWS) /1 peoplingthepast.com/2025/07/01/p...

This has huge monorail energy

The advantage of being a classicist is that sometimes you can just blast a few notes on the salpinx in your colleague's office if you want to.

This episode should be particularly resonant for #Manitoba residents: building dams and moving communities. William digs down to the impact of hydropolitics and archaeology.

At the intersection of labour rights and archaeology. This is a very important conversation.

Just found out my little rural Manitoba hometown just had its first Pride march.

I thoroughly enjoyed talking to @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social about his brilliant work. And I may have fangirled about his own art too...

TENURED (It was long journey through the job market and contract positions, so I'd like to add that in this absolute gong show of a world, we need to do everything we can to create permanent, well supported academic positions.)

Winnipeg friends, take a look at this list and help the thousands of evacuees in the city:

If you ever wondered how all that stuff ended up in places like the British Museum, Dan Hicks is here to tell you the unfiltered truth.

In this week’s #PeoplingPodcast episode we are joined by Dr. Lisa Saladino Haney to discuss museum pedagogy, community engagement in exhibit development, and the display of Egyptian cultural heritage: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/20/s...

Cheering for this guy first and foremost tonight. I know what it's like to lose a beloved dad suddenly and I hope he can carry through.

Time to brag on my amazing students: these are the only undergraduate presenters at the @cacscec.bsky.social and they ate! Thoughtful, sharp, and passionate about how they contribute to our community. I am still glowing with pride.

Loving the @cacscec.bsky.social annual meeting as usual, but adapting to sleeping in my own bed while attending a conference!

Heba is one of my favorite scholars. Her work is full of wisdom and worth listening to in considering how our work on the ancient world relates to modern communities in those places.

This is 100% my issue with this kind of student cheating. It's more heartbreaking than anything else.

I was dreaming of being a guest of #PeoplingPodcast @peoplingthepast.bsky.social and then it finally happened! Follow them NOW 🔥❤️👇

New #PeoplingPodcast alert! Today, we are joined by @robertamazza.bsky.social to discuss the antiquities trade in both the past and the present, the ethics behind papyrology, and the illicit papyrus trade in academia. Listen in to “Fragments and Falsehoods” here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/06/p...

Not just a little disturbed that a post with the hashtag "Academic Freedom" wouldn't post on the other place until I removed said hashtag.

I live in this parking lot now

Don't mind me: I left home to pick up my husband and kid from the Jets game before Perfetti tied it up. Now in a random parking lot sending my best possible vibes down the street. #GoJetsGo #OT

I've been playing with @winnipegtransit.bsky.social 's new routes and it seems that when the switch happens, my 2-minute walk to a bus stop has now been changed to a 10-minute+ walk no matter which combo of routes I take. I wonder how I'll feel about this in the dead of winter?

The #PeoplingPodcast is BACK! Today, to kick off Season 4, we are joined by Katie Paul to discuss the role of Facebook in the illicit antiquities trade, and how the company has been complicit in the sale and destruction of cultural heritage. Listen here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/04/29/p...

Now that I am at last finished marking my Classical History term papers on election night, let me say I never want to teach a class so immediately relevant again. (Knowing I will straightaway)