I know archaeology is small potatoes, but if you are an American archaeologist with a foreign project, it is 1) unethical to work without local collaborators and 2) often required that you have them in order to receive a permit. Of course, they're getting rid of NEH and NSF SBE next year, too, so 😬🤷🏻‍♂️

"The authors wisely advise scholars to ignore historical photographs of professors hunched over the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi Codices with cigarettes dangling from their lips or fingers" lol great review, @ctschroeder.bsky.social!

‘One notable innovation concerned the status of enslaved women who bore their master’s children: these women, known as 𝘶𝘮𝘮 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘥 – “mother of the child” – were not allowed to be sold.’ @youssefbens.bsky.social on a new account of slavery in the Islamic world. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

@drewjakeprof.bsky.social talking about conversion at Blake Fest at Notre Dame yesterday

Our AJR #forum about Elizabeth Castelli's Martyrdom and Memory draws to a close with a response from the author

Christian persecution complex The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #BookSky #History of #Religion #Racism Did Jesus's followers really die for their faith? | @candidamoss.bsky.social QijNYM7V3JM

Since today is National Barbecue Day, 🔥 remember to give a nod to the patron saint of Barbequers, Saint Lawrence, who—when being persecuted on a hot gridiron under Valerian in 258 CE—noted: “Assum est, versa et manduca.” “This side is done, turn (me) over & eat.” csla.history.ox.ac.uk

A very early start this morning to talk to @cbsnews.com about expectations about the Pope's new encyclical www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xSk... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Added to e-Clavis: Manuscripta apocryphorum ~ Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1539 (10/11 c.) feat. Acts Andrew and Matthias and Martyrdom of Andrew. www.nasscal.com/manuscripta-...

When at Centrale Montemartini, I stop to read the poem on the funerary altar for Q. Sulpicius Maximus. Really enjoying @twhittermarsh.bsky.social’s new article on the poem inscribed on it, written when he was 11 for Domitian’s games. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (photo by @chapps.bsky.social).

Job Alert! One year post teaching Greek History at Cambridge to cover Ben Gray's Leverhulme Mid-Career leave. I can recommend the colleagues. www.classics.cam.ac.uk/news/teachin...

Happy Mother's Day, especially to those for whom today is complicated. To celebrate here's the unpaywalled version of a piece I wrote about the history of stepmothers www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

"It's no big deal that your loved ones died of COVID. In fact, if you think about it, it was sort of their fault that they died."

Many thanks to @cbzeichmann.bsky.social for this glowing review of God's Ghostwriters for JECS muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... I am especially glad that he mentioned the website with the notes (candidamoss.com/gods-ghostwr...)

May 1 is International Workers' Day (May Day). 🛠️ It commemorates the American workers striking for the provision of a 8 hour workday and the Chicago Haymarket affair in 1886. For me? I will be celebrating by returning to @camhawkins.bsky.social’s book today. www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Featuring a piece on field schools for high school students by Max Foa.

25th April is the feast of St Mark the Evangelist who is here depicted with his symbol in a Gospel book assigned to the abbacy of Fridugisus at Tours (807-834). BL Add MS 11848; Gospels; c 820-c 830 CE; France (Tours); f.74v @blmedieval.bsky.social

print copy of @monikaamsler.bsky.social's Element has joined the rest of the growing family!

Congratulations to the bumper crop of new AAA&S members in Religion! Honored to have voted for these remarkable scholars and researchers. www.amacad.org/new-members-...

You might wanna know that you can get @sarahebond.bsky.social's phenomenal Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire in hardcover for 72% off ($9.95) by clicking this link. amzn.to/4vYTYmC

Congratulations to this year's Rome Prize winners, especially to those in Ancient Studies, and more especially (if I may be permitted to cheer) to Berkeley's Cesca LaPasta! I also note that the RP winners across fields come from a wide range of institutions—not at all "the usual suspects." BRAVO.

Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...

So proud of @sarahebond.bsky.social for her amazing commentary on Trump’s arch for @nytimes.com and @cnn.com

talking about the Odyssey and the controversies around Nolan's Movie. Thanks to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social youtu.be/eIlAeAqMEa0?...

This is going to be terrible for my ego

I am so excited to be in Louisville for Grawemeyer Week! But I'm also about to pre-tape a segment for CBSN about the Pope and the President. It should air in the 6pm hour EST.

I will be giving the 2026 Grawemeyer Lecture in Religion this Thursday (April 16() at 7pm EST in the Caldwell Chapel at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. If you can't make it you can watch live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgw...

Averil was brilliant, kind, and generous. A life well lived and also a huge loss. She and my PhD advisor Liz Clark were very close, so I got to know her just a bit beyond the scholarship. She had a profound effect on Roman and Byzantine history

Amazingness from @artcrimeprof.bsky.social as usual

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! 📚 This week, Nandini Pandey, Niek Janssen & Christopher Londa discuss enslaved readers & writers in Roman antiquity. Then, Venice & the Mongols, a podcast on Cahokia, ancient astrological practices, ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more.

Easter timed piece on Pontius Pilate featuring the work of Helen Bond... www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

My man clearly had to fight with Cigna over an MRI

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, ancient Judaism expert Mika Ahuvia discusses angels in Late Antiquity. Then, South Asian graffiti in the Valley of the Kings, religion in Sinners, cultural heritage damage in Iran & Lebanon, new ancient journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more 😇

Don't miss the first installment of "The Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity Lectures" series this Wednesday, with Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social !

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

Just a reminder that this is coming up next week... at Lincoln Center

Join us March 6 for the latest First Friday Christian Apocrypha Workshop with Jeremiah Coogan (Jesuit School of Theology).

Looking for public domain & open license images? “Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone... [searching] 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.“ Also, attribute authorship with one click 📸

🚨 Please share 🚨 If you’re going to SBL in Denver this fall, consider submitting a paper for the Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom open call! We’d love to hear your work

Join us on March 18th @fordham.edu for a talk with Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social on her latest book! RSVP here: www.catacombsociety.org/events/

Not to brag but Sarah's partner in crime for the museum is my kid :)

Friends, I am hiring this year! My team is amazing. Watch this space for the ad as soon as it works its way through the HR labyrinth! If you want to know what my team is all about, ask @drewjakeprof.bsky.social, @chancebonar.bsky.social, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social, or @kkaelin.bsky.social!

Need distractions from the horrors? Read this amazing article by Kassie Miller on menstrual suppression in Imperial Rome www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please join us on February 6 at noon (EST) for the first First Friday Workshop of the new semester!

“It was winter and it was snowing” χειμὼν δὲ ἦν καὶ ὑπένειφεν… #Thucydides

Catch up on the latest posts from AJR: the full #forum on the new translation of Origen's Contra Celsum is now available:

The AAR has awarded the 2026 Martin Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion to @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social of Religion for Breakfast fame. Never has an award been so richly deserved! aarweb.org/news/andrew-...

Congrats to all @scsclassics.bsky.social outreach award winners last night! Outreach sustains our field and grows our community to include everyone interested in the ancient world. Can’t thank @candidamoss.bsky.social, Anne Groton, @lexie-henning.bsky.social, & @tastinghistory.bsky.social enough.

Storylife in the TLS www.the-tls.com/classics/gre...