Reasonably priced at 29.99. Why Odysseus?: Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero a.co/d/0fKTrGG4

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

I realize that pub crawls are all the rage, but I truly feel as though there could be an immense market for library crawls, bakery crawls, museum crawls, bookstore crawls, and greenhouse crawls.

job opening: Books Editor USA Today remote--anywhere in US except AK, HI, WY $53K-$82.8K 👇

Happy weekend! 🦛 ❤️ Ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Every Easter, rabbits are bought as gifts, and many are abandoned just weeks later. Rabbits are intelligent, social animals who need love, space, vet care, and commitment for 10+ years. Bunnies are not Easter decorations — they are family. #NotJustForEaster

Wicked Stepmother No Longer, a Female Pharaoh Gets a Reputational Makeover A reassessment of damaged 3,500-year-old statuary adds to evidence that Queen Hatshepsut wasn’t the villain that scholars long took her to be. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/s...

#findsfriday Here is the head of a cow, taken from an Egyptian statue of the goddess Hathor (often depicted as having bovine features). This cow originally had lapis eyebrows! From c. 15th c BCE

available for pre-order now: Why Odysseus?: Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero a.co/d/03nEFxoK

Byzantine mosaic representing Ktisis (personification of generous donation). Sixth century in origin, restored at @metmuseum.org. #mosaicmonday

Excellent #aas2026, then fun times at the Bunny Cafe and Vancouver Aquarium.

The horses of the Sun, Charles Le Brun, c. 1672-1674 (Musée du Louvre)

Good afternoon and major props to this 8th century CE woman breastfeeding as she rides a Bactrian camel along the Silk Roads 🐫 art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3254...

Matilda said to capture her good side, so I took pictures of both of her sides. ;-) #bunny #houserabbit #bunniesofmastodon

The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies is looking to strengthen and extend the networks and scholarly expertise available to the journal by establishing an Emerging Editors Board. Read about it here: academic.oup.com/bics/pages/c...

if you are a media & comms scholar writing about kalshi/polymarkets/etc and are interested in doing a 25k word crossover academic/trade book on it hmu I'd love to commission something like this

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Check out this article about the first known female perfumer of the ancient world, Tapputi-belet-ekallim. #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #WomenInScienceDay www.ladyscience.com/features/que...

bunny swirl

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Yes? Do you have an appointment?

In a new form of household trolling, the oldest, Aalia (15), is teaching Layla (4) to repeat that "Homer was a blind poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey"

Significant Productions has launched - bringing together Elis James, John Robins and long-time producer Dave Masterman

In response to the deluge of messages on casting in The Odyssey: Helen was born from an 🥚 Don’t talk to me about historical veracity.

I can't be the only one that noticed that the runner-up in the Forward Gal Stakes was named Imperatrice, the same name as Secretariat's maternal granddam...

“So you are a historian? What is your field of expertise?” “The long January of 2026.” “All of it, really?” #skystorians

Nothing like spending a freezing Saturday inside with tea, line-editing on the couch.

I somehow missed this news. goodereader.com/blog/digital...

RIP #CatherineOHara variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Learn about turning your dissertation into a monograph and/or working in academic publishing! Next Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 6 PM join Christian Winting and me as we talk about all things Humanities/Social Science Publishing at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. #publishingsky #skystorians

ancient potters like fuck yeah I'm the one who had the idea of beakers with a bell shape I'm gonna live forever

Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer

bunny loaf

"“He was a wonderful, wonderful, righteous, holy man." So true. <3 Dick Jacobs, New Haven lawyer who attended 500 Yale football games, remembered for his love of family www.nhregister.com/news/article...

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Go see #divineegypt at @metmuseum.org before it closes next week!

"He's in acquisitions. They bring back books from all over the world. They're a different breed entirely." ---Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended. They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision. Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Spotted: @metalclassicist.bsky.social's book in the wild #aiascs26

Maybe because it gets dark so early these days this 17thC tile from Safavid Persia is appealing to me a lot (Rijksmuseum)

Some good news, if you need it: The city council of Franklin NC has voted to return an important Cherokee mound to the EBCI. "Noquisiyi ("star place") is part of a series of earthen mounds.. the heart of the Cherokee civilization" wlos.com/news/local/t...

me going up the San Francisco streets #aiascs26

Important announcement for my fellow itinerant academics: thetrainline has a massive sale on and my eye-watering January train expenditure has been made slightly less eye-watering. Run don’t walk to book before the prices go back up to ‘I need another mortgage’ from merely ‘taking the piss’

Hey everyone! Kicking off 2026 by attending #aiascs2026 in San Francisco. Come chat with me about your publication plans, or just say hello! #aiascs #ancientbluesky #skystorians

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Covered In Snow. Flourishing.

Just found out Taye Diggs grew up in Rochester

Glories of butterflies at the Strong Museum of Play! @visitrochester.bsky.social

I could have posted a million different takes on *that* article, but this thread by Bret encapsulates them all. THERE ARE NO JOBS.

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).