Carly Silver
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Editor, writer, museum-goer, researcher, public historian, globetrotter, bespectacled legend
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John McCafferty
18 days ago
The horses of the Sun, Charles Le Brun, c. 1672-1674 (MusƩe du Louvre)
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Sarah E. Bond
22 days ago
Good afternoon and major props to this 8th century CE woman breastfeeding as she rides a Bactrian camel along the Silk Roads š«
art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3254...
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Keith (Keithius)
28 days ago
Matilda said to capture her good side, so I took pictures of both of her sides. ;-)
#bunny
#houserabbit
#bunniesofmastodon
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The Institute of Classical Studies
28 days ago
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:
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Call for Emerging Editors Board Members
Closing date forĀ expressions of interest: 2 March 2026
https://academic.oup.com/bics/pages/call-for-emerging-editors-board-members
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Robin James
28 days ago
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
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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...
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The Queens of Chemistry in Ancient Assyria ā Lady Science
Women chemists have existed since ancient times, serving in royal courts as expert perfume makers.
https://www.ladyscience.com/features/queens-of-chemistry-in-ancient-assyria-2021
28 days ago
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GG Launchbaugh
29 days ago
bunny swirl
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Preeti Chhibber
about 1 month ago
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
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gradient.horse
Draw a horse, watch it run!
https://gradient.horse/
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)
about 1 month ago
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?
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GusGus and Pistachioās Home for Wayward Rabbits
11 months ago
Yes? Do you have an appointment?
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Joel
about 1 month ago
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"
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RadioToday - UK & Ireland
about 1 month ago
Significant Productions has launched - bringing together Elis James, John Robins and long-time producer Dave Masterman
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New significant podcast company launched
Significant Productions has launched - bringing together Elis James, John Robins and long-time producer Dave Masterman
https://radiotoday.co.uk/2026/02/new-significant-podcast-company-launched/
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Sarah E. Bond
about 1 month ago
In response to the deluge of messages on casting in The Odyssey: Helen was born from an š„ Donāt talk to me about historical veracity.
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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...
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Daniel Bellingradt
about 1 month ago
āSo you are a historian? What is your field of expertise?ā āThe long January of 2026.ā āAll of it, really?ā
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Nothing like spending a freezing Saturday inside with tea, line-editing on the couch.
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Virginia Petit
about 1 month ago
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bunny knuckles
about 1 month ago
I somehow missed this news.
goodereader.com/blog/digital...
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Mass Market Paperbacks are discontinued
Publishers Weekly last month reported that ReaderLink, the largest full-service distributor of
https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/mass-market-paperbacks-are-discontinued
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RIP
#CatherineOHara
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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Catherine OāHara, āSchittās Creekā and āHome Aloneā Star, Dies at 71
Catherine O'Hara, a legendary Hollywood actor known for her roles in 'Schitt's Creek' and 'Home Alone,' has died. She was 71.
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/catherine-ohara-dead-schitts-creek-home-alone-1236646029/
about 1 month ago
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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
about 1 month ago
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Michael Caley
about 2 months ago
ancient potters like fuck yeah I'm the one who had the idea of beakers with a bell shape I'm gonna live forever
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š³ļøāā§ļø Josie Wars: Episode XXL -Ā Rise of Riesman
about 2 months ago
Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer
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GG Launchbaugh
about 2 months ago
bunny loaf
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"āHe 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...
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Dick Jacobs, New Haven lawyer who attended 500 Yale football games, remembered for his love of family
Dick Jacobs was honored at the recent Yale-Harvard game for his fandom, just a couple months before his death.
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/dick-jacobs-died-yale-attorney-new-haven-21292112.php
about 2 months ago
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Anjali Dayal
about 2 months ago
weāre in the vetās 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
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Go see
#divineegypt
at
@metmuseum.org
before it closes next week!
about 2 months ago
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy
2 months ago
"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
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Brodie Waddell
2 months ago
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...
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Spotted:
@metalclassicist.bsky.social
's book in the wild
#aiascs26
2 months ago
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John McCafferty
2 months ago
Maybe because it gets dark so early these days this 17thC tile from Safavid Persia is appealing to me a lot (Rijksmuseum)
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Britt Lundgren
2 months ago
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...
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A town in western North Carolina is returning land to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
An important cultural site is close to being returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after a city council in North Carolina voted to return the land.
https://wlos.com/news/local/town-franklin-western-north-carolina-returning-land-eastern-band-cherokee-indians-ebci-city-council-tribe-culture-tradition-qualla-boundary-vote
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me going up the San Francisco streets
#aiascs26
2 months ago
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Dr Naomi Scott
2 months ago
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 donāt walk to book before the prices go back up to āI need another mortgageā from merely ātaking the pissā
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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
2 months ago
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary
2 months ago
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Covered In Snow. Flourishing.
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Just found out Taye Diggs grew up in Rochester
3 months ago
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Glories of butterflies at the Strong Museum of Play!
@visitrochester.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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Dr Victoria Austen
3 months ago
I could have posted a million different takes on *that* article, but this thread by Bret encapsulates them all. THERE ARE NO JOBS.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Marsh's Library
3 months ago
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From FranƧois Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
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John McCafferty
3 months ago
Pendant in the shape of a parrot, c. 1680 - c. 1700 Silver, emerald and diamonds. Portugal or Spain. (Risjksmuseum)
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Royal Historical Society
3 months ago
This week we launch a new programme for early career researchers with
@ihr.bsky.social
&
@chalkefestival.bsky.social
'Pitch my Project' is an opportunity for early career historians to present their research at the 2026 Chalke History Festival
bit.ly/44kfUMM
Applications now invited
#Skystorians
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Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS
Have you ever wanted to share your research with a wide audience? Would you like to gain experience in public speaking, and be supported to develop imaginative ways to communicate your research to the...
https://bit.ly/44kfUMM
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I'm headed to
#AIASCS
to learn more about the fascinating research
#skystorians
are doing, and to show off our amazing books. Interested in potentially publishing with Palgrave Macmillan? Send me an email at the address here (
link.springer.com/series/14756
) and let's set up a time to meet!
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The New Antiquity
Over the past two decades, our understanding of the ancient world has been dramatically transformed as classicists and other scholars of antiquity have moved ...
https://link.springer.com/series/14756
3 months ago
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Springer Nature
3 months ago
Have you considered turning your research into a book? Submit your book idea, and we'll match you with an editor to guide you through the publishing process.
bit.ly/4mSdyvz
#ResearchPublishing
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Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
3 months ago
Funding opportunity: Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Rochester. Applications due January 10, 2026
maryjahariscenter.org/blog/humanit...
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Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Rochester | Mary Jaharis Center
https://maryjahariscenter.org/blog/humanities-center-postdoctoral-fellowship-university-of-rochester
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Has anyone worked on
#classicalreception
of Robert Icke's
#Oedipus
? Absolutely astounding.
#ancientsky
#skystorians
3 months ago
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Keith (Keithius)
3 months ago
My, what big ears you have, Matilda!
#bunny
#houserabbit
#bunniesofmastodon
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Maureen
3 months ago
For anyone who uses archival methods, weāve offering a $4,000 fellowship to use any of our holdings on site in Storrs, CT. Easy application! Please apply! Please repost!
library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
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On
#FindsFriday
, let's highlight this Roman bust of an older woman
@carlosmuseum.bsky.social
. Her headcloth seems to identify her as a nutrix (nurse), perhaps formerly enslaved. From the 2nd half of the 1st century CE. šøme
#archaeology
#ancientsky
#skystorians
3 months ago
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