Got a new book! Many interesting chapters on experiencing space in the past, including chapters dealing with Roman administration and republicanism - one of them mine.

Arctos – Acta Philologica Fennica Vol. 59 (2025 journal.fi/arctos/issue... #openaccess @anttiijaes.bsky.social @simelius.bsky.social

New article: "Reframing Pompeii: Population Debates and Inequality beyond Conventional Models,”Arctos 59, 2026. There is some critique, but also new results - for example, Gini estimates of Pompeii's income inequality. 1/3

One more before summer (break) romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/a...

The modern West is once again competing with the Romans in inequality. 🏘️🏛️

Folkhemmet 🇸🇪

tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/fi-FI/page/6... Tervetuloa seuraamaan väitöstäni arkeologian alalta 5.6. klo 12 Helsinkiin. Tilaisuutta voi seurata myös etänä. Vastaväittäjänä toimii prof. Jari Pakkanen, Royal Holloway, University of London.

In a new article for @antiquity.ac.uk, we find that a quantitative analysis of housing at Mohenjo-daro, one of the world’s first cities, reveals that inequality sharply declined over time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Talk tomorrow romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/i...

Tomorrow in Vienna romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/t...

Friday in Vienna www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/even...

Workshop in Helsinki (and online) on 'Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, social and cultural perspectives', on Monday 4 May:

New Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP) website is live. Try "Mythological Figure": palp.art/browse/#myth... . There's work to do. Exploring what the interface can and should be is absolutely part of the ongoing project...

Tänään Suomen Ateenan-instituutin ystävien, Lähi-idän instituutin ystävien ja Villa Lanten ystävien yhteinen esitelmäilta aiheesta 'Itsevaltiaat'. Helsingissä ja Zoomissa!

Testing new UI for Pompeii Artistic Landscape (PALP). Try p-lod.github.io/palp-client-... . Earliest stages! Slow! Barest functionality! But "Type Ahead" beginning to work. Try 'ar...' or 'ha..." in input in header. You might have to hit return even after choosing word. cc @epoehler.bsky.social

Our newest results from the project. Using 3d models we found that changes to the Forum Romanum by Caesar and Augustus reduced the visibility of speakers. At the same time they separated hypothetical crowds of two simultaneous events @ncn.gov.pl www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thrilled to be guest editing the blog this month for a series on all things Roman gardens! Check out the first post featuring the wonderful Kaja Tally-Schumacher 👇

Hakuaika päättyy sunnuntaina 26.4.2026.

Found some time to write a short blog post about Liisa Jalkanen's and my article "Feelings and the Roman house: A sentiment analysis of Pompeian graffiti" romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/f...

What do archaeologists and ecological economists have in common? Both disciplines know that GDP is problematic, and that we can learn more about human economies by measuring their material worlds To bring these disciplines together, we are guest editing a collection for JAMT. #sustainability

In an effort to convince everyone posthumanism isn't scary I will be presenting 'Posthumanist Roman archaeology? Revisiting the Roman military community concept' as part of this year's @tracconference.bsky.social webinar series on 31/03/2026 17:00 BST Register www.ticketsource.co.uk/theoretical-...

Töitä tarjolla Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnassa! Haemme läheistä kollegaa minulle tiedejulkaisemisen näköalapaikalle. Linkki hakuilmoitukseen kommenteissa.

📢 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Rome! The Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell’arte in Roma (coordinated by École française de Rome) offers two 6-month fellowships in 2026–2027. bsr.ac.uk/open-call-un...

Please sign the #petition to save the wonderful Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet, 远东博物馆) which holds - among many other things - material from the earliest scientific archaeological excavations ever to be conducted in #China kampanj.skiftet.org/medelhavsmus...

Den här veckan i Uppsala romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/h...

Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... @universitypress.cambridge.org #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

Yhteishaku mielessä? Haluatko oppia ymmärtämään maailmaa syvällisesti? Kehittää kriittistä ajattelua? Hankkia relevanttia kielitaitoa ja muita tulevaisuuden taitoja? Lähde opiskelemaan antiikintutkimusta! Ks. vinkkejä os. antiikintutkimus.fi/yliopisto-op...

#Call for #Applications: #HumanPast #SCAS #Fellowships 2027-28 for both #early-career and senior #interdisciplinary researchers. Deadline: 1 June 2026. More information on our web: shorturl.at/VAAfl #humanpast #opportunity #genetics #archaeology #linguistics #prehistory @haam-community.bsky.social

I morgon i Göteborg romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/m...

On 17 + 18 July, a conference organised by our "Urban ROOTS" subcluster will focus on "Dynamics of urbanity. Configurations of boundaries in pre-modern cities". If you are conducting research in this area and would like to submit your own contribution, you can do so until 28 February! #CallForPapers

Teologinen tiedekunta hakee tuntiopettajia kreikan kesäkursseille 2026.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Abstract deadline approaching!

Tieteessä tapahtuu -lehden mainio juttu Suomen Rooman-instituutin merkityksestä (by @uulis.bsky.social). Koko juttu suositeltavaa luettavaa. Tähän lainaan jutusta vain itseäni, koska tietenkin: 1/2

Tutkijalehtorin paikka auki Suomen Ateenan-instituutissa!

I was supposed to write this earlier but I forgot. A blog post about my SCAS seminar. romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/s...

Määräaikainen tutkijatohtorin paikka haettavana Suomen Rooman-instituutissa.

Is #inequality the price of "development"? Many economists have long been guided by the idea that as societies become more "developed" they become more unequal. Our new paper challenges this idea. History is not a one-way street. #Archaeology 🧵(1/4) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ave on mukana Tieteiden yössä! Torstaina 22.1. klo 18.00 järjestettävässä tilaisuudessa kuullaan, miten leijonat, temppelien pyhät kissat ja nykypäivän katukissat ovat kulkeneet ihmisen rinnalla antiikista meidän aikoihimme. Mukana myös valokuvanäyttely Kyproksen katukissoista. Ks. ohjelma:

Professori Christer Bruunin uusi tieteellinen monografiajulkaisu 𝘖𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘢 – 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺, 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘦’𝘴 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵: academic.oup.com/book/61735

Well, this is something! cultura.gov.it/comunicato/2...

Check out this post-doc in landscape #archaeology here in York! This looks like amazing chance to engage with an understudied region, and build up critical African datasets, which can be used to address a whole host of #sustainability challenges. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

A short blog post on my forthcoming workshop "Dynamics of inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean" romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/c...

On the importance of archaeology www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Kirjoitin hieman antiikin - ja miksei muunkin - eriarvoisuuden tutkimisesta. #gini fenestrafinnorum.com/2025/12/17/m...

I’m organizing a workshop called ”Dynamics of Inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean” (22-23 October 2026, Helsinki) Here’s the CfP:

Together with Liisa Jalkanen we wrote an article ”Feelings and the Roman house: A sentiment analysis of Pompeian graffiti”. The goal was to test sentiment analysis for Pompeian graffiti, and hopefully, further research using this methodology and graffiti will follow.

A job in Helsinki at the ERC Advanced Grant Project "Work without End: Informal Taxation and Forced Labor within Persian Southern Levantine Temple Economy and Society (WORK-IT)" @workit-hki.bsky.social

Excited to be heading back to Dumbarton Oaks for the first time since my PhD! Looking forward to discussing all things Gardens of the Roman Empire www.doaks.org/events/garde...