Last chance to sign up for the Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School! Deadline: 14 December

Call for applications! Digital Applications in Assyriology Summer School in Helsinki, 1–5 June 2026. Open to students worldwide in Assyriology/related fields. Topics: data collection/cleaning, programming, SNA, GIS. Apply by 14 Dec 2025. Info & application: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Postdoctoral position in Near Eastern Archeology in the very cool Understanding Epidemics project here at the university of Copenhagen. jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

For once in Danish! Min kollega Troels og jeg kommenterer brugen og misbruget af (Mesopotamiens) historie i amerikansk politik i et debatindlæg i dagens Politiken (bag betalingsmur): politiken.dk/debat/debati...

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#Jobalert! I am looking for a #postdoc to join my team in Warsaw for 2 years. The project focuses on Material Religion in #Mesopotamia. You'll be working with Rafał Solecki, two research assistants, and me. The application deadline is coming up soon: 14 Jan wnhs.uksw.edu.pl/.../employme...

The Centre for Textile Research @ucph.bsky.social is once again hosting the very popular CTR Summer School.

Open call for PhD scholarships (fully funded) at my department, possible subject areas include Assyriology, West Asian Archaeology, Egyptology, Modern Middle Eastern Studies (one is earmarked for Turkish studies) and many more! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

This may interest some of you: Tenure-track position in archaeology (European and/or North European Iron Age and Medieval/Renaissance archaeology, c. 500 BC - 1500 AD) at the University of Copenhagen: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

If you are a researcher in the #humanities or #social-sciences, especially if you are based in Northern or Eastern Europe, please fill in our survey and help us achieve a better representativity in the results. Thank you! atrium-research.eu/news/survey-...

Actually “per my last email” was not unheard of in millennia-old cuneiform letters. A woman named Datâ in the 8th century BCE wrote to her brother, “Why have I not seen your messenger until this very day? Now, if you are alive, let me forgive the shortcomings of your character…”

I'm determined not to be side-tracked here: what I mean by women's work is *not* -bearing children -owning businesses that enslave others -cleaning, cooking -sex work or care work but actual productive labor, mainly but not only spinning and weaving—a huge % of all work done in the ancient world.

For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago. They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.