Looking for a fun YouTube channel focusing on archaeology, by a very smart and capable and very occasionally funny archaeologist? Check out Dr. Hugh Thomas, who recently did a video about the domestication of dogs: youtu.be/F_d-uffltg8?...

we can choose not to use AI generated resources.

That’s where Id look for sure

Right wing men desire a world ruled by hierarchy and domination, and the way they treat women and girls is an extension of that principle. Left wing men desire a world ruled by equality and dignity, and the way they treat women and girls is an exception to that principle.

Now available for preorder, with promo code TCCCR2026, "The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race," a major intervention against the decades-old orthodoxy of the alleged anachronism of "race" and "racism" for the study of the ancient past. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Greece & Rome Vol. 73 , No. 1 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @universitypress.cambridge.org @drdanielvazquez.bsky.social @hellenicsociety.bsky.social @pacman343.bsky.social @debscavator.bsky.social @drdanielvazquez.bsky.social @rhiannone.bsky.social

A very kind review of my book in Greece and Rome, making some of the connections between Roman autocracy and contemporary society that I hadn’t been *quite* willing to say out loud in print… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

BEYOND thrilled that I have been awarded (– along with my fabulous colleagues Mary Ton and Elias Petrou) funding from our Campus Research Board for the project "Parthenon at Illinois: studying interaction through historic and emerging replication techniques" 🎉 /1

My article on a vase with a kalos-inscription for Hephaistos has just been published, open access! In the article, I present a vase that's been largely ignored, but which gives us a new way to think about Hephaistos and his importance in 5th century BCE Athens. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

You can pre-order now! www.ucpress.edu/books/a-womb...

I requested a bunch of chapters through interlibrary loan this morning. They all just came in some 10 hours after I placed the requests... courtesy of the University of Tasmania's ILL services. Man, I love international research collaboration.

Moving petroglyphs and bulldozing roads to Native America sites.

📣 New issue is out now! As Women’s History Month begins, this issue brings attention to gender bias in #archaeology. These articles examine persistent inequities in visibility, citation, and leadership, and offer concrete strategies for change. Explore more here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We do this every summer! 100% works.

the call for a new cohort of Racing the Classics fellows is out! people should really be applying for this. apps due April 10th

Our article on a dedication of a late Archaic representation of a dwarf woman on the Athenian Acropolis is out, and open access! This project began in earnest in Spring 2022, so it's been a long time coming and I am so proud of it. Share with your students! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

join us two weeks from today 🥰

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

I love the intimacy that comes after you discover you both dislike the same person

Let's hear it for librarians, they're really out here enabling so much of our work as academics

Protect our right to mask in healthcare situations! Kiki’s Law, the Protective Medical Equipment Freedom Act, will be heard in the Illinois Senate Thurs. This takes a minute to complete. You do not need to write anything unless you want to. Simple instructions at docs.google.com/document/u/2...

Some analog #archaeogaming on NPR yesterday: finding the rules of an ancient Roman board game with @waltros.bsky.social and others: www.npr.org/2026/02/23/n... #classics

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

with alt text!

New drop from Maximus Planudes on the Anti-Empathy Movement and the End of the Iliad. planudes.medium.com/the-anti-emp...

On Thursday 19th March from 10:30am - 12pm, I'll be hosting a free online "Rethinking cataloguing" session for the Collections Trust, exploring what co-production means and what it could potentially bring to collections research, management and production. collectionstrust.org.uk/events/rethi...

On Thurs, Feb. 19, I'll be speaking at UC Davis about my recent co-authored project, a late 6th century BCE statue of a dwarf woman that was dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis. A recording of the talk from the Fall is available on YouTube, if you're interested! classics.ucdavis.edu/events/disab...

just a quick shoutout to this excellent resource, which I'm thoroughly enjoying teaching this term. so far we've read its excerpts of Kebra Nagast, Petrarch, Leo Africanus, Bartolomé de las Casas, The Florentine Codex, Winckelmann, and Phillis Wheatley Peters

If you're making a list, I also won't vote for Gavin Newsom if he's a nominee for President

It is my pleasure to announce the program for #ResDiff7 (March 13, 2026), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, co-organized with Elke Nash. Keynote: Samuel Agbamu (@samagbamu.bsky.social). Registration is now open: resdifficiles.com/res-diff-7-2...

ResDiff, now in its 7th (!) year is always such a great gathering and I've often thought the stated focus on inequity in Classics, while certainly an impt link between presentations, somewhat understates the range of types of interventions you'll hear. Honored to be part of yet another great lineup

The Association of Greek Archaeologists has published an open letter withdrawing its participation from the EAA Athens advisory committee 🍉 archaeol.gr/anoichti-epi...

I just turned over my portion of a writing project to my co-author and sure, maybe it IS months late, and sure, maybe my co-author needs to fix a bunch of things that I cannot myself resolve, but I did something and now I can turn to my other co-authored piece that I'm behind on 🙏

I'm seeing some takes re: the Epstein emails about how we would have been better off with Hilary, and if you don't want people in power who will cover up sex crimes, I've got bad news for you about your gal

“Conference participation is a source of economic, social, and cultural capital that translates into opportunities and future career success…gender plays a strong role in determining who occupies positions of prestige and that decisions about who is “qualified” affect distributions of capital...”

In #AHAPerspectives, we have two paired pieces this week about the value of teaching history to students outside history departments. First up is Kelly Schrum, who teaches history of higher education to graduate students in a higher education and student affairs program. 🗃️

OPEN ACCESS in @saa-aap.bsky.social: This team analyzed 22 years of data from the annual meeting of the SAA to examine how women's participation has changed over time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

You know the phrase, "the lioness does not concern herself with..."? Ancient Greeks had a version: "Hippokleides does not care." Herodotus says that this statement became a proverb. Here's the background: the tyrant of Sicyon, Cleisthenes, had a banquet to test out his daughter's suitors.

My fav part of the NYT piece about Gavin Newsom's memoir (in which he tries to claim an underprivileged upbringing) is when they say he had a bowlcut as a kid. I didn't know he had gone through that, it changed my mind about him ripping up homeless encampments for a photo op and denying a genocide 💕

In today's #PeoplingBlog, Jesse Obert, Asst. Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of South Florida, takes us through his research on warriorhood in Crete and the ways in which we can think about war booty through the lens of disability theory: peoplingthepast.com/2026/01/30/b... /1 🧵

Ds are demanding DHS stop "deporting US citizens," but deporting *US citizens* is not legal to begin with! So they're offering money to criminals if they...what, stop criming, I guess? It's basically 'hey stop robbing this bank and we'll give you a million bucks'. I swear I am going insane

Really useful tool!

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage." I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

If you'd like to learn more I did an interview with @historycanthide.skystack.xyz historycanthide.substack.com/p/why-are-wh...

My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

So was Jan. 6 actually just a job fair?

If you're in the Gainesville area on January 28, come hear me speak about my research on the International Space Station!