I’m reading about academic integrity for Humanist and came across this ethics curriculum. Many students don’t know what counts as cheating, which should be something institutions address, but they often don’t. This is a free tool to help address cheating out of ignorance:

Trump has really been ramping up the ‘enemies within’/hostis rhetoric in a way that makes this Roman civil war scholar pretty twitchy.

This week Historians At The Movies talks abortion rights, Jewish summer camps, the 1960s, and THAT SOUNDTRACK. Join us on Netflix at 8pm eastern this Sunday, October 5 for DIRTY DANCING. Make #HATM the time of your life be sharing and we’ll see you soon! 1

Recovering from a miscarriage: "We aren’t even going to answer that. Women are not allowed to have a miscarriage."

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

As part of my administrative role in the graduate school, I wrote a thing about the need for high quality mentor training for faculty & the challenge for humanities faculty in finding mentor training built for our different environments & challenges. It starts with a story about crying in my office.

When Augustus exiled Pylades for singling out a powerful elite man in the audience for popular disdain, the Roman ppl protested so loudly that he eventually had to bring him back and be seen to celebrate him … even when he mocked Augustus on his return. Collective voices matter. They’re powerful.

Sinclair Ends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Boycott, Says Its ABC Stations Will Resume Airing Show Immediately variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Matidia Minor. Because why put a statue of yourself in pudicitia pose above the porta regia of a theater when you CAN HAVE THIS.

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” (Published Dec. 2022)

I am thrilled to share that my article, “Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios” is now available on the Journal of Roman Studies website via FirstView. (It’s also open access!)

This is really interesting. I can’t remember a network doing this since Columbine when several pulled episodes including Buffy TVS which pulled Earshot the week or Columbine and never aired it on TV and then delayed the S3 finale because of violence in a library. Because Columbine was so shocking.

I had an online research class my 1st year of high school. Search engines were still new (Google didn’t dominate yet), so we were taught how they worked, their differences, how to evaluate results that came up, & the trustworthiness of different kinds of websites. We should still do this—and more.

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

A marvellous scene of daily life for #ReliefWednesday: A #Roman funerary relief depicting the transport of two (wine?) barrels on a four wheeled cart pulled by two oxen. A #dog, probably the driver's beloved companion, is sitting on the barrels. 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

It's UK official! DATA EMPIRE, coming July 9, 2026 🤩

Classics ppl: I recently read that we have a lamp w the image of an empress - I think livia but could be wrong. I can’t find where I read this. Anyone know what I’m talking about? I’m interested in empresses in mass produced media generally - how ave Romans consumed images of imperial women.

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.

we're having some really good luck with persuasion; they hate what it's done to all their services and daily interactions and they HATE stealing from their own capacities and wellbeing to fuel a bubble. try the speeches and short persuasive/informative reading assignments here? against-a-i.com

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

From the noted anarchists at the Financial Times. archive.is/2025.09.23-0...

The firing of Jimmy Kimmel due to government pressure has rightly shaken those committed to free speech. Entertainers have always criticized politicians. The sign of a good politician who values free speech is to let them; only authoritarians take revenge - just ask the Romans./1

My favorite example is basically they made up all of the language and accent for Deadwood. lithub.com/david-milch-...

Why would you call me without texting first??

The firing of Jimmy Kimmel due to government pressure has rightly shaken those committed to free speech. Entertainers have always criticized politicians. The sign of a good politician who values free speech is to let them; only authoritarians take revenge - just ask the Romans./1

Writers, this is our moment. Our words change the world. If they didn’t, people wouldn’t try so hard to shut us up

Pharmacy in Durham NC PACKED today with ppl getting their Covid and other vaccines before tomorrow’s meeting.

My HS classmate died of meningitis his freshman year of college. Another student in a neighboring dorm to me almost died because of it.

Reminder! The deadline for submitting fellowship applications to @iasceu.bsky.social is coming up soon! If interested, submit your application form and all required documents by September 20, 2025. For more details and how to apply, please visit our website: ias.ceu.edu/calls-fellow...

Didn't make the article but key point is, what if I told you that there was legislation in the 1800s that gave millions of dollars to HBCUs? Then what if I said it was being done to ensure that other insts never had to integrate? Now you can see what this is www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...

like 99% of studies on human aging don’t include menopausal women 51% of humans undergo menopause menopause is the standard pattern of human aging; some people just don’t undergo it

Amplifying this opportunity. www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/16/v...

I’m rereading estimates on the cost of columbaria inscriptions for a talk im giving at the same time im calling around to get quotes on a tombstone for my father and figuring out the financing of all the stuff. This is not the work/research synergy I’d prefer.

Today we celebrate FIVE years of Peopling the Past! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has contributed to and supported our project – we appreciate ALL of you! And stay tuned over the next few weeks as we count down our top 5 blogs, videos, and podcast episodes from the past 5 years 👀

As part of my administrative role in the graduate school, I wrote a thing about the need for high quality mentor training for faculty & the challenge for humanities faculty in finding mentor training built for our different environments & challenges. It starts with a story about crying in my office.

People keep asking us if we watch the Pit. No, we don’t, because Z watched one episode and said it felt like being at work and had to stop. But he did praise its realism. Glad Noah Wiley gave a shout out to those going on or coming off shift. It meant a lot to those who work in that space.

“the chancellor claimed we had a problem due to our liberal arts designation (& its interpretation to suggest “liberal” politics), a problem we ‘can’t educate our way out of.’…Our chancellor is willing to compromise students’ education due to a legislator’s ignorance on the meaning of liberal arts”

Agreed. Her performance in DFS was masterful.

News came this week that a full copy of the Ptolemaic era Canopus Decree of 238 BCE has been discovered. archaeologymag.com/2025/09/comp... As per usual, Berenice II seemed quite surprised when told of the discovery.

Among the many indignities of the deprofessionalization of the professoriate is the liberal brainwashing narrative — which actually says more about the people making the accusation than about us.

On today’s new #PeoplingBlog, @lylaahlb.bsky.social takes us through her research on elephants and how they, and their accompanying peoples, served as vehicles for cultural exchange and transmission of knowledge as they traversed land and sea in antiquity: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... /1

Well, this past month has certainly been full of lows, but there’s also a high I’m now allowed to share publicly: I was selected to receive this year’s Richard K. Lublin Teaching Award. This honor means more to me than I can express in words right now.

And here’s my own photo of the Nemi theater frescos w a backstage image. I like this one because you can see the different kind of shoes cast aside after a performance or being made ready to wear.

Every time I pop my head up from coding there's some fresh new horror. Basically cutting funding for all enrollment-based MSIs (so that leaves HBCUs and TCUs alone, for now). They say $350 mil was allocated for this and they'll be reallocated to other programs. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

I really wish people would stop underselling what happened back then. The president had an affair with a 22 year old intern and then *she* was mocked for years because of it. We would call that power imbalance problematic if it was the boss of a midsized company and their secretary.

In 2020-2021 when so few students across the country were willing to wear masks when faculty - with elderly parents, or small children at home, or pregnant themselves - BEGGED them to, I wondered how the teacher-student contract could ever be emotionally repaired in my lifetime./1

A lot of leftists are sharing jokes about the Epstein files and Trump and the letter. A lot of these jokes have as the implicit punch line the anonymized girls who were abused. Can we stop doing that? We have other ways to express shock and horror at the Epstein of it all. These girls deserve more.