Carly Silver
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Editor, writer, museum-goer, researcher, public historian, globetrotter, bespectacled legend
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Joel
about 1 month ago
Reasonably priced at 29.99. Why Odysseus?: Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero
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Why Odysseus?: Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero
Amazon.com: Why Odysseus?: Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero: 9783032209863: Christensen, Joel: Books
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Nick Slawicz
21 days ago
Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.
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The Whimsical Muse
21 days ago
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.
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Amy Sherman
28 days ago
job opening: Books Editor USA Today remote--anywhere in US except AK, HI, WY $53K-$82.8K 👇
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Job Details | Dayforce Jobs
Find your next adventure
https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/gannett/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/88358
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Alison Fisk
about 1 month ago
Happy weekend! 🦛 ❤️ Ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Ladybird Animal Sanctuary
about 1 month ago
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
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Jan McVicker
about 1 month ago
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...
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Wicked Stepmother No Longer, a Female Pharaoh Gets a Reputational Makeover
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/science/archaeology-egypt-hatshepsut.html?smid=bs-share
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#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
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Joel
about 1 month ago
available for pre-order now: Why Odysseus?: Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero
a.co/d/03nEFxoK
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Why Odysseus?: Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero
Amazon.com: Why Odysseus?: Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero: 9783032209863: Christensen, Joel: Books
https://a.co/d/03nEFxoK
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Byzantine mosaic representing Ktisis (personification of generous donation). Sixth century in origin, restored at
@metmuseum.org
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#mosaicmonday
about 1 month ago
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Excellent
#aas2026
, then fun times at the Bunny Cafe and Vancouver Aquarium.
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John McCafferty
2 months ago
The horses of the Sun, Charles Le Brun, c. 1672-1674 (Musée du Louvre)
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Sarah E. Bond
2 months ago
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...
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Keith (Keithius)
2 months 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
2 months 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 for expressions of interest: 2 March 2026
https://academic.oup.com/bics/pages/call-for-emerging-editors-board-members
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Robin James
2 months 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 — 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
2 months ago
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GG Launchbaugh
3 months ago
bunny swirl
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Preeti Chhibber
3 months 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)
3 months 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 Pistachio’s Home for Wayward Rabbits
about 1 year ago
Yes? Do you have an appointment?
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Joel
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months ago
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.
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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...
3 months ago
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Daniel Bellingradt
3 months ago
“So you are a historian? What is your field of expertise?” “The long January of 2026.” “All of it, really?”
#skystorians
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Nothing like spending a freezing Saturday inside with tea, line-editing on the couch.
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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bunny knuckles
3 months 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 O’Hara, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and ‘Home Alone’ 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/
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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
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#publishingsky
#skystorians
3 months ago
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Michael Caley
3 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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🏳️⚧️ Josie Nights (1997)
3 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
3 months ago
bunny loaf
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"“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...
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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
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Anjali Dayal
4 months ago
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
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Go see
#divineegypt
at
@metmuseum.org
before it closes next week!
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy
4 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
4 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
4 months ago
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John McCafferty
4 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
4 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"
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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
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4 months ago
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Dr Naomi Scott
4 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 don’t walk to book before the prices go back up to ‘I need another mortgage’ from merely ‘taking the piss’
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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
4 months ago
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary
4 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
4 months ago
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Glories of butterflies at the Strong Museum of Play!
@visitrochester.bsky.social
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Dr Victoria Austen
4 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
4 months ago
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
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