Trump is threatening to eliminate the people of Iran overnight. Years of normalizing genocidal rhetoric and mass violence has brought us to this cataclysmic moment.

A new book by Molly Crabapple documents the rise and fall of a revolutionary Jewish party that fought against Zionism and for ‘solidarity across difference’

A long time ago, I wrote a little history of the medieval Kingdom of Hormuz. My plan one day is to start a project in the pre 1250 history of it. But for now, here is what I have for your reading pleasure. iranologie.com/the-history-...

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

I think I've used Averil Cameron's work at every phase of my academic career (which is saying a lot, given how "exploratory" I've been) and it was always great: thought-provoking, engaging, nuanced. I hope there was more to her life than scholarship but I also hope she knew her professional impact.

Happy to return from Easter break and see the theoretical underpinning from my thesis published in CAJ. If you like thinking about moving material culture and its meaning, I hope you will enjoy it!

feel like as millennials we kept being told that sure, the economy was bad but at least we'd never had to spend any time in a world where it felt like major, global, maybe even nuclear conflict could erupt at any moment and well well well: who's laughing now

My thanks go to @lejenksbrown.bsky.social for this sterling episode, which was so good I immediately asked her to return for another in a couple of months! This episode is perfect for people who know the Trojan war through movies and games, and want to try tackling reading a translation...

I've been thinking about some sort of content collective idea for a while but never have the time or energy to make progress beyond this draft pitch. It felt like it could work quite well, though. Feel free to take it / adapt it / improve it /share it / generally make use of this.

My next book, a practical guide for how to write for mass media, publishes four weeks from today. I hope you'll consider ordering it now, inviting me to speak, and to tell others. Here's what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said about my work. Pre-order here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

hey I know someone who wrote a GREAT book about this @rhigarthjones.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/All-Roads-Le...

🥳Cover reveal for 'Gladiators in the Greek World: How a Roman Bloodsport Took Ancient Greece by Storm'🥳 Now officially available to pre-order with an early bird discount (though I'm not sure the release date on the website is 100% set in stone yet) www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Gladiators-i...

Hi friends, I have resisted asking for help as I am very stubborn. But I can no longer burry my head in my books (so to speak). If you are able to help, then thank you - it is so very much appreciated. If you aren't, I totally understand. Emotional support is equally welcome.

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

“Disabled women are increasingly seen as stats and stereotypes – reduced entirely to our disabilities, or robbed of the dignity of being believed we have one.” Me on why it’s time to hear from disabled women in our own words. (Luckily, I wrote a book on it.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

The other thing you can make a lot of hay with, as a scholar, is going back and reading the scholarship that supposedly establishes a point---not always, but a lot of time, it doesn't! Pull out that one cinder block and the house starts to crumble

It is Arab Heritage Month and Poetry Month. So why not read this collection of Palestinian poetry, Heaven Looks Like Us? www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2527-h...

the process is part of the work. it’s not supposed to be easy. the effort creates good work. i can’t believe this needs to be explained to people who call themselves journalists.

Is anyone looking for an editor for a speculative fiction anthology? I’ve won a couple awards for my anthology work and I’ve been a submissions editor for two Hugo Award winning magazines (Strange Horizons and Uncanny). Lmk if you have a project that I might be a good fit for. ✨

A tragic and poignant website. “Remember them…Honoring the lives and legacies of Palestinian academics whose voices have been silenced.”

Something I am witnessing is a general shift, slowly but surely, in the Iranian public opinion of the West. The irony, & the failure, of IRI was that for 47 years, it forced everyone to shout Death to America and Death to Israel, but the results were the opposite. The Iranian public might have

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit almost halved if the government assesses their condition might one day improve. Charities warn the move could cause large-scale hardship, including “destitution.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

can you imagine if Mansa Musa ever met donald trump

🚨Calling all archaeologists🚨 Please consider signing this letter, to ask for democracy, transparency, and accountability in the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) NB: You do not need to be a member to sign & can sign anonymously, if you wish ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/xZZjy6le #Archaeology

solidarity with all my trans brothers sisters and themsters. You are loved. You are valid. You are enough and you are beautiful just the way you are. Fuck the IOC and the rest of these bigots.

The Republic of Ireland & Wales have joined Northern Ireland in our heroic boycott of the 2026 Men's FIFA World Cup. We refused to endorse the Trump Administration by participating in the tournament, so we decided not to bother winning. Sadly, Scotland, like cowards, did qualify & we disavow them.

... My hope it will help scholars within Islamic studies to better track trends within the field, and help scholars outside of Islamic studies think about how to situate and assign our work in their own fields. Link: academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

The IOC has just formally unleashed waves of additional harm in the name of sporting 'fairness.' Sport can never justify the dehumanization this ruling requires.

I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE LEARN THIS

A decade ago, I did make a reading list to help scientists get started! 🧪 medium.com/@chanda/deco...

You can donate to Mahmoud and his family here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-re...

I grew up in this community and I have a few thoughts I want to share. A short thread. www.jewishnews.co.uk/breaking-hat...

It’s the last week to see Emergency Exits at the Imperial War Museum, which explores decolonisation in Kenya, Cyprus and Malaya and which I was lucky enough to consult on as a part of a team of imperial historians. Go and see it if you can — it’s really great!

Science has never been neutral. That's clear from its history. Institutions, patrons, & practitioners of science had agendas and prejudices that shaped what they studied, how, and how they interpreted their findings. Those legacies persist, especially when denied. That's History of Science 101. 🗃 1/

In many ways human beings treat science like a religion. Especially the ones who disdain religion the most.

I’ve been out of the game for a while and lost track of people in the move to this place, so if you’re an adjunct/VAP/postdoc in history, can you reply and let me know what you work on? I am an editor at @contingent-mag.bsky.social and we are often looking for book reviewers etc.

Reminded of an excellent line from @erinbartram.bsky.social: "the 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. . . . you are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing." contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a...

Nowruz and Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate! May spring bring hope and strength to us all 🌸💪🏻💚

Hone: an Unreachable Dream I have lived my entire adult life away from Iran. We left Iran when I was 17 years old. For the first 5 years, I could not go back (mandatory military service). During that five years, I developed a travelling bug, a fernweh, or maybe just inherited it from my mum. I’d…

My "Ask Me Anything" about white nationalism and Greco-Roman antiquity is Friday at 9AM EDT on www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori.... Hop on and ask a question! (engagement drives the algorithm to make the post more visible to more people so it really helps!)

We are stronger together, and connection is the point. Crying reading this - @profirmf.bsky.social puts this better than I ever could.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

Now available for preorder, with promo code TCCCR2026, "The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race," a major intervention against the decades-old orthodoxy of the alleged anachronism of "race" and "racism" for the study of the ancient past. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Today marks our first interview, but we thought we'd give you TWO. First up: @drdanstewart1.bsky.social answers the thorny question "What is 'Classics', Anyway?" www.ancienthistory101.org/p/what-is-cl...