I have withdrawn my in-person participation from the @asor-research.bsky.social conference

which means that the true proportion is higher given the incorrect classification of children, medics, and journalists as combatants

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City. "He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent." It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

Mark your calendars! Join us for this workshop packed with incredible scholars 🙏

For those in Canada, please consider signing to : 1. Call on the Gov of Canada to suspend all arms exports to Israel; 2. Support war crimes investigations; 3. Demand unrestricted aid access; and 4. End its complicity in violations of international law. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Did Jeffrey Epstein invent AI? Not exactly but he's exactly the kind of rich guy who promoted it bc it served his interests...makes u think

This is why Israel won’t allow international media into #Gaza. This is Beit Hanoun. It was a thriving city of 67,000 people. Nothing is left - the result of the Israeli state attempting to exterminate Palestinian society. The war crime of the 21st century. #Genocide (🎥 Gaza Notice)

Gaza faces the severe risk of famine as food consumption and nutrition indicators have reached their worst levels since the conflict began. Read more: unicef.link/3HaUx85

So excited that the NEH has funded Leigh Anne Lieberman & my application for a summer 2026 institute on digital literacies and methods in ancient Mediterranean studies research and teaching! Stay tuned for more!! #TeachAncient #DigitalHumanities

What a great way to bring season 4 to a close! Take a moment to listen to our conversation with @yannisham.bsky.social about ethical futures for archaeological practice from the field to the classroom. #CulturalHeritage #archaeology #PeoplingThePast #ColonialLegacies

Why do we need a new Society for the Study of the Past? The brilliant George Connor of @workingclassicists.bsky.social explains!

In the midst of a televised genocide where we see an ENDLESS stream of 🇵🇸 children being killed by 🇮🇱, the American society for overseas research hosted this talk on... the death of children in ancient Israel I don't know what else to say at this point www.asor.org/news/2025/04...

"Our field and its institutions are inevitably entangled with broader questions of justice, memory, and the obligations we have towards those affected by violence and marginalization."

“Why use airdrops when you can drive hundreds of trucks through the borders?,” Juliette Touma tells @nytimes.com “It’s much easier, more effective, faster, cheaper.” Lift the siege, open the gates and guarantee safe movements and dignified access to people in need. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/w...

Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.

This is the Sameer Project’s video. The least you can do is credit and share the link to their North Gaza campaign: chuffed.org/project/help... Original post: x.com/sameerprojec...

Trump's forthcoming AI action plan will inevitably center industry & lead to the unrestrained, unaccountable rollout of AI into every part of our lives. @dairinstitute.bsky.social is among the 90+ orgs demanding an AI policy agenda that puts the interests of people first. peoplesaiaction.com

We on the AAUP Committee on AI have been connecting with members on their concerns with technology. We’ve been developing recommendations to loosen or even refuse big tech’s hold on higher ed, for better working and learning conditions, and building solidarity around many fights tied to tech.

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

From documenting heritage destruction in war to supporting communities in rebuilding after violence to creating social wellbeing and healing among displaced people, Dr. Isber Sabrine and Heritage for Peace do such incredible work. #peoplingthepast #CulturalHeritage #archaeology

We have decided to ban the use of GenAI for research, writing & creative work at our organization. In fact, we make people sign an agreement saying that their research, analysis, writing, and creative work are *theirs* and not done by GenAI.

this is such a beautiful conversation with @zenakamash.bsky.social about the power of connection and healing through tangible and intangible cultural heritage—please take a few minutes to hear more about this amazing work! #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #ArchaeologyLovers

what could an anti-colonial and anti-oppression future look like for disciplines studying ancient pasts? what would your dream be? #IDreamOfAFreePalestine #PeoplingThePast #Archaeology #ColonialLegacy #CulturalHeritage

listen to learn more about the politics of cultural heritage protection and salvage and the ways that they are intertwined with other political and economic agendas, leading to significant impacts on modern communities #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #RiverCultures

Local communities play key roles in archaeological excavations and knowledge production, but are so rarely acknowledged for this. Take some time to listen to this important conversation on archaeological labourers 🙏❤️ #peoplingthepast #CulturalHeritage #archaeology

Join us for a tour through the origins of Classics and ideas of "western civilization" #peoplingthepast #CulturalHeritage #ColonialLegacy #TheGrandTour

a must listen for anyone who loves museums! When and why were cultural &anthropological museums founded? What is the connection to empire & colonialism? Listen to learn about museum origins & what we can do to move museums in more ethical directions 👏 #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #MuseumLife

I am so inspired by the work Lisa is doing and how she demonstrates an “imperfect but satisfying” way forward for curation practices.

Do you like museums? Want to learn more about how decisions are made behind the scenes? Listen as we explore how some museums are rethinking their practices and working with communities to better care for their holdings #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #MuseumCollections #ColonialLegacies

We are fundraising to support #archaeology #students in #Gaza to settle their tuition fees & complete their degrees. We've worked with them at the #GAZAMAP project monitoring vulnerable #culturalheritage. Please donate and share: gogetfunding.com/help-gazan-s...

I am so grateful that Heba was able to share her time and work with us 🙏 Please listen to learn more about the Egypt's Dispersed Heritage project and their excellent community engagement work! ❤️ #CulturalHeritage #EgyptianHeritage #CommunityEngagement

In today's post in our series on #CulturalHeritage and #ColonialLegacies we get to learn about the origins of Everyday Orientalism – an amazing public history project that has been interrogating colonial legacies in #AncientMediterraneanStudies and its related disciplines.

We have two excellent new blogs in our #CulturalHeritage and #ColonialLegacy series! Check out this exciting recent dissertation project on unprovenanced antiquities and the potential approaches to reconstructing context.

Very worried this is a sign of what’s to come more broadly. (It’s already here in some places.)

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

This episode has everything: smuggling, scandal, Sappho, a disgraced Oxford prof, & a 🔥 takedown of everyone's least favorite 'hobby' store. Check out our AWESOME episode on the extreme & illegal lengths collectors go through for papyri #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #AntiquitiesTrade #Papyri

This is the first big R1 to start making announcements. Schools have funded most people through the summer. We should expect hundreds of similar announcements over the summer and early fall, as institutions decide what they are going to do.

BREAKING: University of Washington students have launched an occupation of the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB), calling for the university to cut ties with Boeing in solidarity with Palestine. The company is one of Israel’s largest weapons suppliers.

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

📕❤️🇵🇸 Here is an amazing Zine on the targeted destruction of Palestinian librairies, archives, museums and cultural workers: px-files.pixpa.com/853110/17457... Square codes link to more resources. Feel free to print and share!

UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you're protesting this May Day, know your rights.

I am so thrilled that the season is now here! 🥳This is one of the most meaningful projects that I have been a part of -- the topics addressed by our amazing guests couldn't be more timely or pressing. Please listen and share! 🙏 #PeoplingThePast #ATHAR ##CulturalHeritage #AntiquitiesTrade #Looting

We are BACK!! Really excited for you to all listen to this and the upcoming episodes on cultural heritage and legacies of colonialism. I learned SO much about Meta from this episode 👀

So incredibly excited!! If you haven't listened yet, check out the promo to learn more about the upcoming season

From the archives for #EarthDay – check out the #PeoplingBlog series on human-environment relations in the past and the role of the natural world in human history, including this post from Dr. Alan Faharani on archaeobotany: peoplingthepast.com/2021/04/09/b... 🌍

Again, cancelling NSF & other federal competitive grants in higher education is massive contract breaking which undermines the most basic tenets of the rule of law & property rights in a democratic society.

Please consider adding data to this. We can’t reconstruct what we don’t know we’ve lost.

Euphemisms for pot have a long history: the 15th-century study of ḥašīš "weed" in Arabic, by the historian al-Badrī, tells us that 'In Yemen it is “the Green.” In Diyar Bakr, it is “the Dusty.” In Antioch, it is “Cat-head"...In Syria, it is known as “the Toasted” in Hama and “the Cheerer” in Homs.'