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A bit more on this disturbing development in the Spectator's reporting. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

Really looking forward to talking to the Brooklyn College community about LLM curiosity & tinkering in both research and teaching!

Who has some comfort fantasy novel recommendations for me? I want LOW conflict, LOW suspense, absolutely ZERO torture. Strong female characters a plus. A little humor. not too much romance. Please nothing based in the ancient mediterranean. Should I try some Terry Pratchet? where to start?

The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.

Today's wonderful @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social #thread.

Want to help keep our mosaics looking spick and span? We're looking for a (very) part time mosaic cleaner. Flexible hours and.... and we wouldn't joke about this.... YOU GET TO STAND IN THE HYPOCAUST!!! 🤩 sussexpast.co.uk/jobs/

Do you have questions about AI and LLMs? Are you in the NYC area? I've asked a friend, colleague, and former student to come give all us humanist types the basics. It will be excellent! @cuny.edu @sentantiq.bsky.social @isawnyu.bsky.social

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

I love that in a 1923 detective novel the author could have a policeman say in all sincerity two kidnapped women were in no physical danger. ‼️ I want a world this innocent and free of daily horrors, even if it never truly existed.

The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 115 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @theromansoc.bsky.social @darcytuttle.bsky.social @profyarrow.bsky.social

Do you have questions about AI and LLMs? Are you in the NYC area? I've asked a friend, colleague, and former student to come give all us humanist types the basics. It will be excellent! @cuny.edu @sentantiq.bsky.social @isawnyu.bsky.social

Past me is in the dog house. I've got 16 author date citations that I didn't add to my bibliography for this article as I went along. V naughty of past me. Most are easy but a handful are shockingly obscure... Time to reconstruct my research process.

It seems to me that the foundational 'wrong turn' in education was the increasing rhetoric from universities themselves and their supporters that the primary value of a university education was increased earning power. That leads pretty directly to this place we're in now.

I am going to marry two strangers because the blizzard closed city hall.

TIL Cicero's son got his portrait on coin of Magnesia ad Sipylum while he himself served as Pro Consul in Asia! rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2448

TurtleStitch Discovery Day @ Warwick 🗓 19 March, 10:00 - 15:00 (drop in) Explore TurtleStitch, where coding meets digital embroidery! A drop-in day for teachers, across Computing, Maths, Art & Design, and cross‑curricular projects. Register: www.warwick.ac.uk/turtlestitch #WMGOutreach #TurtleStitch

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

I got homesick yesterday and thought aloud about changing my tickets. Beloved reminded that I was not factoring in a certain East Coast blizzard. A dear friend pointed out that the one week point was getting v predictable for my loss of tolerance for solo travel.

This is gorgeous!

CALLING: Ancient Epigraphic Peeps, Papyrological Peeps, Prosopographical types, Lexographical types... Off the top of your head can you think of the same individual (not the same family), literally the same person, spelling their own name in different ways in different documents?!

If only @mayor.nyc.gov could do the same for @cuny.edu ... 😭

HELL YES THE KIDS DESERVE SNOW DAYS

Holy shit: they folded immediately after this @pamherd.bsky.social skeet www.cnbc.com/2026/02/22/t...

“But I didn’t vote for this”

I can't get over how perfectly this image encapsulates our current colonial museum moment. Tony Molelia wears a cotton smock so the cloak doesn't touch his skin. It's instead held in place by a museum curator. Descendants can get only so close to their heritage in a place controlled by preservation.

While Tech Bros are able to medicate themselves for optimal performance, women across the country are in prison because they use meth and opioids to deal with the trauma of poverty, medical neglect, and abuse.

Thank you to whomever created a Wikipedia page for me. I’m bemused, honored, and v v startled to discover this.

I will never understand why jobs like this are framed in such a way as to explicitly exclude clergy in deacons’ orders #EverydayDeaconism

A 130m-tall (420ft) kiwi was carved into Beacon Hill on Salisbury Plain in 1919 by New Zealand soldiers stationed there at the end of World War One. WW1 Wiltshire

You're into Roman Archaeology, especially the eastern parts of the Empire? Then you should follow my colleague Łukasz! bsky.app/profile/soko...

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Republicans are forcing you to spend several more hours in line at the airport rather than simply acceding to reasonable Democratic demands for ICE to follow the law www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

Bloomsbury press did cave to AI. Just pulled a piece out of an edited volume that will one day be published there.

Francis opened a door bsky.app/profile/brid...

'As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.'

I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

GORSUCH: “.. permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man. That is no recipe for a republic.” 👀

Unbelievable. Closure of Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. Sign the petition: weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

Come join me and the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social team! Teaching replacement post in Museum Studies, 1 year contract: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

As the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are ordered to release people they've kidnapped, they do it in the dead of night to make sure it's as cruel and brutal as possible. Fortunately, compassionate Patriots are there to meet them and make sure they're ok and driven to their homes.

Do you live in St. Louis?! Do you have coin friends in the area? Or archaeology nerds? Or just lovers of all things Roman. I'm giving a pretty awesome public lecture. Details after the link: classics.wustl.edu/events/divin...

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

I need more information. Anyone?

The Paper of the Month from Journal of Roman Archaeology is "Lead exposure in the Roman Empire: a review of the written, material, and bioarchaeological evidence" by Rachel M. L. Simpson and Sandra J. Garvie-Lok, available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/470uABQ #Archaeology #PaperOfTheMonth

This post became an object lesson in reading editions of fragmentary texts on the internet without access to an actual apparatus criticus. I love the the public domain but it has its drawbacks. livyarrow.org/2026/02/18/a...

The Board unexpectedly postponed the this year’s tenure decisions. “I was shocked and sick at heart to learn that four of my colleagues who did everything asked of them, and who should have been celebrating their achievement, are now in an indefinite limbo without any clear explanation as to why.”