The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us. Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Emergency relief for displaced people in #Lebanon www.chuffed.org/project/1719...

It frankly doesn’t matter if DHS “lied.” They should not exist, and Columbia university, which has been cooperating with these state agencies to provide information about students, staff, and faculty to facilitate deportation, does not get to come out of this looking like a victim.

If you want some clarity on recent changes to references to “Palestine” at the British Museum, here is a timeline of events and analysis everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/t...

Soon I'm giving two public lectures at Scripps College in CA as part of the O'Brien Distinguished Visiting Professorship. LA-area friends, would love to see you there! March 31, 4:30pm: Lyricism as Historiography of the Long Past April 1, 4:15pm: Feminist Histories and the Problem of the Real

just became a monthly supporter of @jamhoor.org because in a world of ever-proliferating little mags, we could stand to see a lot more dedicated work on south asia and the potentials of its left

Israel is trying to rewrite ancient history. In Palestine, Israel has systematically destroyed ancient heritage and made colonial land grabs of archaeological sites. #OPINION by Dr Marchella Ward Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-isr...

Interesting list of weekend reading on revolutionary romance from @plutopress.bsky.social: www.plutobooks.com/love-and-rev...

Can 20 people join us today in donating to the Sameer Project for Ramadan? $8 provides a meal for a family, and $32 can pay for groceries. You can also donate more to fund a water truck or a water desalination plant. Pass this on, please. See their IG for details: www.instagram.com/p/DUq5PoSjkK0

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...

Everything about Leqaa Kordia's arrest and incarceration is abhorrent. CAIR has set up an easy form for you to send your representatives a message demanding Leqaa Kordia's release. secure.everyaction.com/6U1ygBt6eUK-...

Excellent choice!

What an honour to speak at an event for the Earth Rover Program last week alongside some incredible people, almost none of whom seem to be on BlueSky except for @georgemonbiot.bsky.social I spoke on soil health in ancient Mesopotamia, and here are some snippets of what I learned along the way

London friends! Come hang out with us tomorrow and reimagine a play about how powerful men sacrifice young girls in the name of never-ending wars that preserve an unjust world order… which is in absolutely no way relevant to the world in which we live, of course.

The executive board wants to install a task force to discuss results, and the President and Secretary have announced to step down only after the Annual Meeting in Athens. Nothing has been said about Gaza. These responses are not sufficient.

The EAA votes are out The great majority of our archaeological community has voted in favour of the petitions raised by #concernedEAA. We asked for a democratic process, we asked for accountability, and for the need to acknowledge the horrific genocidal policy of Israel against Gaza.

once again, i feel compelled to remind academics that when you use theories, methods, and epistemologies of the marginalized but treat your marginalized colleagues and students like shit: you are the problem. and yeah, we see you.

🚨EAA per rollam vote results🚨 For anyone who doesn't want to trawl through a long document to find the results, I've compiled them here. Well done to everyone who voted for demonstrating strongly and clearly that change is needed 👏🏼👏🏼

The deadline for this cool opportunity is fast approaching!

If you couldn't make it to #RaceB4Race Love last month the recordings are now available online! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Next Thursday—19 Feb, 5pm—come to hear me talk at the Society of Antiquaries of London (Burlington House/Royal Academy courtyard) about museums, ancestral remains, and unfinished case of the Worcester College skull cup. Open to all, free of charge but register here >> www.sal.org.uk/event/skull-...

““the major choice faced by the intellectual is whether to be allied with the stability of the victors and rulers or—the more difficult path—to consider that stability as a state of emergency threatening the less fortunate with the danger of complete extinction.”

‘A New Year in Gaza’: By Ibrahim Nasrallah The people named in this poem are the writers, painters, and musicians martyred in the genocide. They are only a few of the many artists who were martyred in the past two years of war against Gaza.

As internet remains weak in Gaza, hundreds of people come to Spark workspace EACH WEEK to connect to online jobs & classes. To feed their families & build their future! Help this youth-led humanitarian project empower the community. Hit "weekly"! 0/770 by Saturday: chuffed.org/project/spar...

Announcing—LatinCy Readers v.1.0.2, i.e. LatinCy-powered corpus readers for Latin text collections. Quickly get sentences, lines, words annotated for lemma, POS, morphology, NER, etc. Supporting .txt, .xml, .tess, .conllu, and more. github.com/diyclassics/... #digiclass #nlproc

This from Raja Abdulhaq for @partiindigenes.bsky.social should be required reading (especially for all those looking to secret service explanations for Epstein: empire has always been about dehumanisation - and still is, just look at its American-Zionist incarnation - it is not a secret).

ICYMI: the registration link for the Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference is live! this year's edition will be completely online, and thus so easy to attend, with incredible keynotes from Evren Savcı @evrensavci.bsky.social and Lamya H! studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...

Trying to get your brother to text back and send wine in the 7th century BCE. “Why do I not see your messenger? If I see your messenger before I enter Borsippa, let my brother send one jar of the same wine that you drink.”

Not exactly shocking news but it's worth noting that Hubbard seems to have requested money from Epstein to fund an anti-Title IX conference (something in line with, say, his class & multiple conference talks about how women are regularly making false rape claims) thetexasorator.com/2026/02/03/d...

High school Latin teacher friends, we'd love to have some of your students at this!

The Healthcare and Disability in the Ancient World unit is welcoming papers in the following categories for this year's #SBL @sblsite.bsky.social Annual Meeting: tinyurl.com/29ene8n6

"The university estimates that the continued bombardment destroyed a total of nearly 1 million books. Their destruction is, by that measure, the single greatest intellectual loss in Gaza’s long and turbulent history." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The response to our Day for Gaza has been really inspiring. Thank you for affirming that this is still an important story, and that the people of Gaza have not been forgotten.

Your periodic reminder that you can start learning ancient Greek right now, free of charge!

Proud to publish this reflection in Pasts Imperfect. Thank you to PI’s incredible team!

A beautiful short novel imagining Ovid in his Black Sea exile, engaging with people he sees as barbarians and adopting a feral child raised by deer. A great novel of the line between nature and culture, masterful in its work with space, narrated as a letter to the future.

When was the southern Levant first called Palestine (plst) (hint: around 1100 BCE)? What did ancient Israelites share with related peoples like Arameans, Philistines and Judahites? This chapter of my forthcoming Peoples Beyond Empires: A History of Ancient Israel, Judah and Palestine, lays it out

And just a quick reminder for everyone boycotting the EAA that this doesn’t have to mean not presenting your research. Get in touch with us if you would like to host / help build an alternative space! We don’t have to wait for big subject orgs to get it, we can build alternatives. #boycottEAA

Another reason to #boycottASOR: This Israel Antiquities Authority employee will talk about a site located on the depopulated Palestinian village of Dayr Rafat. The ethnic cleansing of that and 4 other nearby villages took place on July 17-18, 1948. www.asor.org/news/2026/01...

You know, archaeologists friends, there are other places to do your cool stuff right? If you want to do panels in a space that is not Zio, get in touch with @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social and let’s build some alternatives?

If you work on religious violence in antiquity — especially as it intersection with environments, more-than-human relationships, forced displacement, or diaspora — please submit your paper to the Violence section for SBL 2026 in Denver! members.sbl-site.org/cfp-detail?z...

‼️The Sameer Project has had to reduce water distributions by 50%, pause grocery vouchers for 110 families, and has had to stop music classes due to a large decline in donations. They may have to stop food distributions too. We cannot let this happen. Donate today! chuffed.org/project/1132...

READ: Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism and procedural tricks to prevent her release. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...

Since last spring, colleagues at my school and several others have held weekly vigils Monday at noon on campus for victims of ICE. if you’re thinking of organizing on your campus after this latest travesty, I recommend joining them. it’s something lots of people want to show up for

A complete reframing of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales by the incredible Thai-Catherine Matthews 🤯. We’re just getting started, too. Tune in here: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

THIS WEEK! Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is in-person in Tempe and online. Check out the program for schedule and more information on our speakers: asuevents.asu.edu/event/love-r... Register today: na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...