New article on depictions of ancient Numidians! www.academia.edu/145552991/Ca...

Greetings check this out: Amplifying voices is a new Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish. Apply!!! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Something I talked about in this episode was the decision to permanently and irrevocably ‘out’ myself in my scholarship. It’s a decision I struggled with then and since but which I’ve never regretted. My neurotype facilitates my research and when I embraced that my research got better.

On this episode of Talking Disability (which I host on behalf of The Classical Pod) I spoke to brilliant guests @elliemackinroberts.net and Annis Wiltshire about autism and neurodiversity in the study of the ancient world. 🏺 Find it wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧

We “are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.” Thanks for this, @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and Christopher Nygren.

Dionne Brand writes: “Reading narrative requires, demands, acts of identification, association, affiliation, sympathy…acts of inhabiting…” And I’ve thought about what this means as I’ve done this work.

I think about this piece all the time

I need the bear to get me 3 or 4 times today

🚨Israel wants to steal the archaeological site of Sebastia: Here’s what you can do about it by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/i...

Delighted to be interviewed for this @artsprofessional.co.uk piece about the progress and enduring challenges for disabled people in the UK's arts and cultural sectors. Thanks to @drmaimusie.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute! www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...

Find the event details here: www.eosafricana.org/events/bhion...

READS is back at the SCS in San Francisco! Join us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Rita Dove’s Mother Love. www.eosafricana.org/reads/mother...

🚨CFP for #ResDiff7 is now available!🚨 Res Difficiles 7 will take place on 13th March 2026 with Dr Samuel Agbamu as our keynote speaker. Submit an abstract by 12th January 2026: resdifficiles.com/cfp/

SO MANY bad takes are circulating this morning so let’s put a couple of things clearly: 1) the biggest destroyers of historical sites have always been European colonisers (including Zionists ofc) 2) “ancient Israel” is a Zionist fairytale everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/t...

Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum: Race & the representation of the other Mon 15 Dec, 4pm, Senate House Full details: shorturl.at/dbH6p Speakers include: Hardeep Dhindsa (Birmingham Museums Trust), Mai Musié (UoL), Eleanor Newman (Oxford), Joseph Skinner (Newcastle)

Looking forward to our next @ics.bsky.social – British Museum seminar with another terrific group of speakers, incl @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @drmaimusie.bsky.social, Eleanor Newman & Joe Skinner. Register at link below!

stunning new #OpenAccess article by Mauro Puddu and Peter van Dommelen on "Subaltern Identities in Punic and Roman Sardinia" - a sensitive and expansive decolonial approach to rural landscape www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This looks amazing, on Lordean survival and natural disaster response. Open access from Andrea Warmack, and just in time to be cited as my manuscript goes out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I took public transit from UCLA to LAX and it costs me zero dollars (was supposed to cost $1)

there’s something that happens to my brain whenever I take a bus or train in LA (about which I am evangelical); I just completely space out, and no matter how long it’s been, it seems to me that I arrive instantly

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

people who tell me I should pick my battles, well maybe the battles should stop picking me

was struggling to motivate regarding a regular task of my profession, and my husband remarked with epiphanic clarity: "it's because you don't believe in it" ⚡

This is my kind of good trouble.

Reviewers are allowed to have their opinions about a text but they should not misrepresent what is and is not in the text

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

Admin at UC have claimed various reasons why they aren’t fighting in court, but they simply are afraid to take on the Feds, believing antagonism will somehow make a terrible situation worse. Thing is, it can’t be much worse, and you can’t placate a bully.

A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Rewatching this for ecocinema tomorrow. Hard not to see echoes of ICE in Chicago or the National Guard in L.A. while watching cops ruthlessly attacking the Water Defenders at Standing Rock in 2016. It's a stark reminder that Trump is mostly accelerating *what was already happening without him.*

I am so excited that this edited volume on the critical after lives of José Esteban Muñoz’s work for #biblicalStudies and #religiousstudies is out in the world at the Bible & Critical Theory. I am so honored to have worked with the contributors: bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...

omg thank god

"What is history if not an attempt to fish out or pronounce life's strangest, most inscrutable turns?" - @maiakotro.bsky.social

it shouldn't have taken me by surprise how quickly scholars who made public commitments to disciplinary change have just been unapologetically "mask off" during this political era. I've been critical about the rhetorical veneer of progressiveness (still am), but apparently it was doing *something*

I think a common misconception about the Epstein Guys is that they're all emeritus skeletons wandering the halls. Larry Summers is teaching multiple classes. Nathan Wolfe is a program officer at the UK equivalent of DARPA. We're all stuck with these freaks and no one knows how to solve this problem

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians received a grant for its Choctaw Dictionary project in 2020. However, as the department was nearing completion of the dictionary, the Trump administration terminated the award. buff.ly/5ApEvre

The UC Regents—the same people who cowered, while unions fought the Trump admin in court—are meeting this week at UCLA to discuss new rules to muzzle faculty speech, among other abhorrent appeasement strategies. This TUESDAY let’s show them who we really are.

I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

Key Findings: Exposure to a field-specific faculty sexual misconduct incident decreases degree completion in that field by 3.4 percent four years after the incident. This decline is driven by incidents occurring after 2015, among which we observe a 7 percent decline in in-field degree completion.

indeed, for every academic abuser and enabler: i promise there’s an amazing grad student out there who is doing work that’s as good or better. we’ve let the myth of the lone genius guy carry on too long. it’s caused so much harm, in so many ways.

we really, really need a new template for what powerful and smart looks like

They unilaterally canceled a faculty hiring initiative so successful it’s become a national model. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...

the guest editors have extended the deadline to Nov 28. make sure to get in touch with them if you're interested! #ResDiffJournal

“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.” Obit:

the language of power will cast matters as an equilibrium ("debate") rather than what it is: an assault