Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Bucknell is closing its university press bc apparently it "doesn't serve undergrads." What content exactly do they think is being taught in upper-level undergrad courses? IT'S RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS FROM PRESSES LIKE BUCKNELL UP. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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You all need a snoring bunny in your timeline! #Bunsky

Have you had to Google a niche grammatical question lately, or are you even an editor?

I make this exact face when I'm ordering at the counter looking up at the menu

'Anne de France and Her Family (1325–1522): Genealogies of Premodern Gendered Power and Influence', by Zita Eva Rohr, examines how premodern elite women were critical to the geopolitical success of late medieval monarchies. 🔗 bit.ly/4mcZYTz #BookSky

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston... “Gov. Greg Abbott urged Texas A&M to fire the professor seen in the video because they acted “contrary to Texas law,” although he did not say which law the professor had violated.” Could that be because the prof didn’t violate any TX (or federal) law? 🤔

Attn: #skystorians, check out this new @springernature.com #palgravemacmillan release on #earlymodernhistory and #bookhistory: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Hi all, I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market. As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Nathan

Oh my word the newly displayed Lucanian tombs in Paestum Museum! @davidebb.bsky.social @alexharvv.bsky.social @petesavin.bsky.social @romanarchaeouk.bsky.social @wittspat.bsky.social

This is now out in paperback and the publisher sent me copies. I've got four to give away — if you're a graduate student, early career, or contingent researcher, I'm happy to send you a copy in the US, or deliver to AIA/SCS/AAR/SBL. Just chime in here or send me a DM.

The Qur’an actually is on the reading list for our required second-year course on philosophy and political thought. Students read a few excerpts from it as well as from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and many other books. It is true and it is not a bad thing www.college.columbia.edu/core-curricu...

I really can’t believe we’re here now.

When my grandkids (ha!) ask me what it was like to live through this, I’m going to try to remember how in order to get through the day you had to be a damn emotional ninja and if you let your guard down at all you could just get flattened by the weight of it

Strolling in stilts

catGPT, why won't you answer my query

***Attention Historians*** Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for August 2025. A thread. I will update the thread over the course of the month. 1/

The Welsh for June is Mehefin, which means midsummer. May is Mai which, like the English word, derives from the Roman Maius. However, there is an archaic name, Cyntefin, which means the start of summer. So summer is Wales is 3 months long. It rains in all three.

Bunny love means they're welded together at the atomic level

My Dept of History at W. Michigan University in Kalamazoo is hiring an Asst/Associate Prof in African American History. Please come join us! 2-2 load/generous research & travel funding, diverse & culturally lively community/ free college in MI for kids. ?s welcome. www.wmujobs.org/postings/4277

We're starting to see hints of orange in the foliage here in Vermont and Wallace is eating his feelings about it.

#InternationalDogDay The interior of the House of Paquius Proculus, #Pompeii, #Italy, with its splendid 'cave canem' ('beware of the #dog') mosaic. 📷 My own 2019. #Archaeology #History #art #artwork #ancientbluesky

New @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social. Greenpoint. Late summer. Bliss.

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

OUT OF THE WAY. Cultural icon and notoriously harsh fashion critic Pigeon is coming through. 💅

Hello again! #welcometonewyorkcity

bunny name of the day: Health Insurance

Proud to have worked with Declan on his @springernature.com title investigating the Irish National Stud, #Thoroughbredhistory, and #horsehistory!

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

For #FindsFriday - who doesn't love a contemporary Danish illustration of a #viking ship? On a halfpenny minted in Ribe in the 820s, from the remarkable Damhus hoard: tidsskrift.dk/arkaeologi_i...

What is everyone's #songofthesummer?

Today's the day. 406 years ago today, when a Dutch ship called the White Lion brought some "twenty and odd Negroes" who they'd captured from a Portuguese ship to the shores of Virginia. One year before the Mayflower, Black history continued on American soil

I don't often whip out a #PhallusThursday these days, but as @partialhistorians.bsky.social did, here's an incised graffito of an ithyphallic Satyr on the Reverse of a Gorgoneion from Magna Graecia, ca. 525-475 BC. 🏺 Image: Cleveland Museum of Art (1994.8). Link - clevelandart.org/art/1994.8

Are you passionate about shaping groundbreaking scholarship in history? We're seeking a Senior Editor to join our team as the W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor—an endowed position focused on acquiring trade and scholarly books in US history & related fields 👇 uncpress.org/now-hiring-w...

University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off faculty—incl many *tenured* faculty—& among those impacted are Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Here is a link to a petition asking the president to reconsider actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...

#EpigraphyTuesday introduces us to a cloak-maker, Priscus, a #freedman of the #gensCornelia working in the huge warehouse / market of the #HorreaGalbiana down the #Tiber near the #Emporium in #Rome. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

[Jay-Z Big Pimpin voice]: 🎶self-soothing🎶

For #WorldLionDay here's one of my favourite lion mosaics. From the House of the Mosaic Doves, Pompeii (VIII.2.34), discovered in March 1885. Still remarkable, though now damaged by the subsiding floor. #Pompeii 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (114282)

“I asked ChatGPT” yeah well I asked the beautifully coiffed snake god Glykon by submitting my query in writing to his prophet Alexander at the temple in Abonoteichos that has a back room nobody’s allowed to go into

just snacking on some of these little guys. suppose i should leave a note of some sort

Beyoncé Homecoming album is literally untouchable!!!

Why not start your week with blowing the perfect soap bubbles while running naked and jumping over a skull?

Hello, I’m a historian in a film. I can instantly decode ancient Near Eastern scripts, and am fluent in 23 dead languages, yet my primary field is 16th century European portraiture

Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Philip Reinagle, Portrait of an Extraordinary Musical Dog, 1805, oil on canvas, 28 1/4 × 36 1/2 in. (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond)