Got an upcoming talk for the Australian Centre for Ancient #Numismatic Studies about how coins were implicit to the flows of power and symbols in the #Roman military world, with reference to Deleuze and Guattari of course! Wed Mar 4th, 6pm Sydney, on Zoom Email [email protected] for rego

et voila! Online open access via the MQ Waranara library: ‘Roman archaeology with agencements,’ a thesis that looks to assemblage thinking in order to both unpack how social life was (and is) always more-the-human and to enhance the concept of the Roman army as a community. doi.org/10.25949/313...

et voila! Online open access via the MQ Waranara library: ‘Roman archaeology with agencements,’ a thesis that looks to assemblage thinking in order to both unpack how social life was (and is) always more-the-human and to enhance the concept of the Roman army as a community. doi.org/10.25949/313...

this is well cool

Have you read the latest #TRAJ editorial? 'Emerging from the Shadows' by Isabel Annal & Sian Therese 'explores the necessity of producing new narratives, theoretical as well as public facing, concerning the lived experiences of those enslaved in a Roman world'.. doi.org/10.16995/tra...

Had a fantastic week in Auckland at #ASCS47 this year! I was privileged to present on the AWAWS sponsored panel ‘Home is Where the Hatred Is’ with Katherine Prouting and Meg Challis. Looking forward to the next one!

Fortunate to attend #ASCS47 at the last-minute in Auckland this week. A great chance to see old friends and meet new ones! Always wonderful to see the supportiveness of our community on full display. If anyone wants to put together a panel on Roman Social History for ASCS in Feb 2027, let’s chat!

My review of Cupcea 2024 'Latin inscriptions from the legionary fortress of Apulum' in Classical Review doi.org/10.1017/S000... An extensively researched corpus of inscribed monuments found in situ in a military fortress - I mean, what more could one ask for? #epigraphy #archaeology

‘It’s financial stupidity to enter the humanities in any of our universities, and the current federal government has done nothing to abate that.’ Great piece by Ben Quilty on our undervaluing of the arts in Australia: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

toit

For the entire month of December, the History Australia special collection on history and AI is free to read! Grab a cup of tea, settle in, and happy reading! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...

Seems like the world is getting posthumanist Roman archaeology in Dalmatia whether it likes it or not Awarded with corrections! What a Monday #archaeology

A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.

Joining Bluesky one month into my PhD in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University. I will be sharing bits and pieces as I go. Here's a cryptic sneak peak of what will be the project's conceptual foreground. Let's roll!

I still refer to this site a blue-skee, and no one can stop me 🇦🇺

me trying to formulate robust postdoc projects

me trying to formulate robust postdoc projects

If only retractionwatch.com/2025/10/21/l...

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Totally agree with this sentiment. *But* I would get many academics (not OP) to ask themselves: Does their assessment structure facilitate this process? Or does it simply assess the end product and thus render mistakes and struggles too risky (from the perspective of increasingly time poor cohorts)?

Totally agree with this sentiment. *But* I would get many academics (not OP) to ask themselves: Does their assessment structure facilitate this process? Or does it simply assess the end product and thus render mistakes and struggles too risky (from the perspective of increasingly time poor cohorts)?

📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza. Archaeologists: Cancel membership | Speak up | Share Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b... #EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza

Given the EAA has gone back on excluding Israeli institutions from the conference - and is also trying to prevent @archagainstaparth.bsky.social from protesting in their sessions - it’s time to walk away until they can find their moral compass. blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

Whose idea was it for me to present a paper at an international conference just under a fortnight after my submitting thesis? Oh yea... #🏺

If you haven't already, we urge authors who believe their books may have been unlawfully downloaded by Anthropic to visit the website below and provide the requested information. www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology

There is something strangely appealing about du Choul's drawings of figures on Trajan's Column ...

Now, why would Macquarie University Faculty of Arts want to cut its major in this field...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Dr Anna Revedin, former Director of the Italian Institute of Prehistory and Protohistory, has endorsed the Archaeologists Against Apartheid campaign in support of the Palestinian people. #archaeology #🏺 #archaeology🏺 #eaa #archeologia

Read this, from over a year ago: aje.io/6eu9x6 And sign this: forms.gle/3mRwsAMdEA8n... #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺 #eaa2025

73. I love peer reviewing the work of colleagues. It is a wonderful way of being in community with others.

Yes! For instance, I am tentatively excited about Google Aeneas, which uses existing human-coded databases of 250K ancient Roman inscriptions to help predict missing fragments in other inscriptions. This uses computers' superior quantitative capabilities to supplement epigraphers' expert knowledge.

Modelling I commissioned from the PBO shows JRG has hiked up student debt by more than $10bn 🤯 The xbench has been pushing for reform, good to see Labor backbenchers joining this call. This reform is urgent. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social must boycott apartheid and genocide Israel. Sign and share the open letter. Deadline Tuesday August 12th! #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺#eaa2025 forms.gle/bW8cmekgefV1...

Please sign! Glad to see this, esp after writing an op-ed last year that got me a lot of threats www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

#archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺 #eaa2025

Another teaching prompt for historians: What are the guiding principles of your survey courses? Not "outcomes." What ideas, approaches, orientations to the material do you want them to keep in mind during the term?

palpable irony

Thanks to an incredibly generous former student, we have some wonderful news for archaeology at Birkbeck: a new institute. The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies will enable research projects, support global collaborations, and fund studentships as well. www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

Coming (finally) with Oxford University Press this fall!

👃🤢 Enjoyed writing this for @theconversation.com

If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.

Read the demands of @archagainstaparth.bsky.social for the @worldarch.bsky.social below, and be sure to do so before Friday’s plenary session where they will be voted on. We must strive for a #wacwithoutapartheid #WAC10 #archaeology #🏺

Read the demands of @archagainstaparth.bsky.social for the @worldarch.bsky.social below, and be sure to do so before Friday’s plenary session where they will be voted on. We must strive for a #wacwithoutapartheid #WAC10 #archaeology #🏺

We welcomed @worldarch.bsky.social 's recent decision to exclude from the Darwin congress an archaeologist at a university based in an illegal Israeli settlement on Palestinian land. But we were also alarmed by the oversight which almost led to #wac10 attendees sharing the space with a war criminal.