Sitting in the window of a cafe and I just saw a woman walk by with a shirt that read "I am not responsible for what my face does when you talk" and I am so here for that energy

Amazing dinner at Luciano with @akpavlick.bsky.social tonight! Carbonara by a Michelin star chef in Rome just hits different 🤌🏻

Genuinely astonished at the Etruscan necropoleis I’ve been able to explore in northern Lazio the past few days - their scale, their extent - unbelievable. Pictures here is the Tomba Pola, Sovana, 3rd c. BC.

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

Whoever was responsible for designing the Historic Scotland information board at Wideford Hill Cairn deserves a medal for it.

Today's SCS Blog post on DEI in the Roman army by @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social is a tour de force, and made all the stronger by being absolutely direct in its modern parallels and message. Impressive and powerful stuff. (Also, the Bea Arthur cameo is fantastic - I'm off to learn more!)

A while ago, someone on here (I think @scottbot.bsky.social?) compared the way a lot of people treat GenAI now to the way people treated radium in the 1920s and 30s (ooh, let's put it in a health tonic! toothpaste! haemorrhoid cream!). I think about that a lot.

Unfortunately we've had a last-minute loss from the Routledge Companion to Video Games and History, and so if there is anyone who'd be interested in contributing a chapter on the history of India in video games (from any perspective, range of case studies welcome) please get in touch asap with me!

Gather round for an example of a provenance by omission, manufactured through the strategic cutting away of red flags. In 2008, this lovely Greek terracotta maiden was offered to the public, described as "ex-American private collection, collected in 1980's-1990's." Then...

Medicaid is on the chopping block. Please, please call your reps. Find them here: reps.fyi. This will deeply damage the insurance system overall, to say nothing of cutting millions of people from care. And again: as an adjunct, I am one of those people.

#OnThisDay - 9 May - the Ancient Romans celebrated the Lemuria, as Ovid Tells us (Fasti 5.421-422): "Ancient rites will be celebrated... They will bring offerings to the silent dead." Lemures were conceived of as the wandering spirits of the dead, often dangerous to the living. #DayOfTheDead 🏺

Your Pope name is the last thing you ate + the # of letters in your first name. Pope Pizza(not balla 😞) VI

Looks like today's election caught all of us by surprise, including the Wikipedia editors

Take this Malort, it is my blood

So it's not enough that Mike Schur, Amy Poehler, and JJ Philbin are teaming up to do a new show, but it's called DIG and it's based on *archaeological excavation in Greece*?!? If I ignore literally everything else in the world but this, I am now extremely happy.

just a lil' guy replica (that you can buy)

The rules of the internet clearly state that when you see Tom Holland's Umbrella, you're required to share it.

"Use AI or get left behind" ok, leave me behind, I'll be here in the library, doing actual research, citing real publications, writing my own words, not being replaceable by a bullshit artist algorithm that's destroying the environment.

Posted on the day all the grading comes due, a bit too on the nose...

Handing over academic institutional leadership to a roving class of elite administrators, none remaining in place long, just climbing ladders and cashing checks … was a mistake,

Hey, who wants something nice? So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:

Great job everyone

There was a time where this service single-handedly (well, and cheap beer and wine) kept archaeology grad students sane while they toiled overseas and yearned for the comforts of home

Adjuncts at my university haven't had a pay increase since 2017 (when we got whopping $25 per 3-credits), but now the university has mandated we also pay for parking. Not a hint of a COL increase, but now, fees. Tell me again how education and cura personalis are cornerstones of this institution.

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is CONCLAVE/EXVLUSIVE/CLOSE/CONCLUDE #wotd #conclave #exclusive #close #conclude

The countdown to Season 4 of #PeoplingPodcast is ON! Episode 1 of our "Cultural Heritage and Legacies of Colonialism" season drops next Tuesday April 29th 🥳 In the meantime, you can check out our season preview for what to expect: peoplingthepast.com/2025/01/14/p...

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

Looking for a documentary, available online ideally, to assign undergrads about looting/archaeological ethics/ownership issues as they relate to cultural heritage. My 2 previous go-tos have been removed & no hope of getting them in another format, so I need to start over. Any tips very appreciated!

If certain academics cared that much about 'academic freedom' they'd be constantly up in arms about how precarious academics have no meaningful academic freedom at all

Yikes. Excellent thread and links here.

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

I googled "houses that look surprised" and I'm glad I did.

Was thinking of a prof who had a huge impact on me as an UG today and decided I'd drop her a line. She's retired but I thought she'd likely still have her email address or at least contact info on a faculty page - yet, she's not included as emerita in either of her former depts. What on earth...

Today I'm writing about Mycenae, and stumbled across these lovely photos on @camunivmuseums.bsky.social website. They're from 1955, taken by Robert McCabe during an archaeological excavation of the ancient Bronze Age city museums.cam.ac.uk/story/mycena...

If you have a spare 3 minutes and would like to help out a former student of mine, would you fill out this short survey on your experience with museum exhibitions? She is interested in the way historically-relevant information is presented docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This sums up pretty much everything

Just got out of 3 hours of class plus an hour of student meetings and I see everything is even more awful than before, but also there are penguins? Please tell me about the penguins, and only the penguins (googling 'please tell me about the penguins' is delightful, but non-specific)

"area of focus" is a hell of a way to say "we're trying to remember how to win a game."

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

So cool! “Non-destructive radiocarbon dating of bone.” Or, in my head, bone broth dating 😂. Major implications for archaeology and museums.

Thank *god*

Twenty five hours

This is an amazing achievement, and it's got to be second to the fact that this is the first time I've felt any hope, *at all,* since November 6

Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years. Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism. May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.

Go, Cory, *GO* (also, hat tip to Wikipedia editors who work almost as hard as Cory Booker)

Cory Booker is a more able speaker after 22+ straight hours than I am on a regular day on 8 hours of sleep and 2 pots of coffee