This is (unfortunately) useful: air quality monitoring site, searchable by zip code. www.airnow.gov

AirNow.gov

AirNow is your one-stop source for air quality data. Our recently redesigned site highlights air quality in your local area first, while still providing air quality information at state, national, and...

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Wednesday's Weather Rating: 1/10 Oh hell no. High temperatures reach the upper 90s this afternoon with rising dew points bringing real-feel temperatures over 100° F. Wildfire smoke moves in later today resulting in horrid air quality and visibility. The vibes have left us.

Does anybody know who is running roman-britain.co.uk these days? I'd love a contact because hcommons.social/@paregorios/... Boosts for reach/visibility appreciated.

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio

Want the recording of today's incredibly valuable webinar helping folks apply for their NEH grant reinstatements? Register here: www.tfaforms.com/5227340 And thank you @jasonrhody.bsky.social and @janineutell.bsky.social

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The new Rhea Receptions series has gotten off to a good start w/ a pedagogy essay on juxtaposing novels about myths alongside primary texts. A book club I would totally join! Other genres might work, too-- hagiography or medieval lit perhaps? #rheareviews rheaclassicalreviews.com/2026/07/09/r...

Rhea Classical Reviews@rheaclassical.bsky.social · 4w ago

Exciting things happening here!!! Our inaugural essay for Rhea Receptions is up, discussing how to engage students with ancient myth via 'book club' by Dr. Stephanie Kimmey! Receptions is a limited summer run of essays exploring the ancient world today and written for a general audience. Read on👇

I'm so glad to see that Art History Pedagogy and Practice (AHPP) journal is back and still #openaccess. ahpp.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/ah...

(Podcast ad read voice) Feel like you're missing out on bold and innovative scholarship on the postclassical world? With subjects ranging from lost Persian manuscripts to Chinese historiography to a translation of the vita of a trans monastic saint, Essays in Long Late Antiquity has got you covered

Mateusz Fafinski@calthalas.bsky.social · last mo.

Friends, Romans, fellow late antiquity fans! The first issue of Essays in Long Late Antiquity, a new journal published fully in open access by Liverpool University Press is out! We have a stunning volume for you to read with amazing contributions. 1/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...

Totally niche question for Late Antiquity and Art Historian scholars: anyone have easy access to Gerda Bruns, Der Obelisk und seine Basis auf dem Hippodrom zu Konstantinopel (1935) and/or can suggest recent scholarship on interpretation of the reliefs on the base of Theodosius' obelisk?

Just learned about this game -- you're given 10 artifacts / day (from The Met's collection) and have to guess where they were made and when. 🏺🧪 And it's hard! I only got top 35%, which is kinda sad as an archaeologist & author of our Astonishing Artifacts column @livescience.com. anthropeum.com

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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Great news, please share widely: the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki will open a permanent university lecturer position in Digital Humanities in Autumn 2026. Teaching-focused, future-facing methods role, linked to LingDig, HELDIG and SSH-wide methods teaching. More details in August.

Joy Connolly: “Americans have not lost trust in higher education because of scholar-activism or relativistic thinking, but because public investment in the system has shrunk, tuition is prohibitively expensive, and other priorities crowd out the student experience.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Letter | Preconceived Beliefs Plague Humanities Report

Its authors committed one of the faults they criticize most sharply, writes Joy Connolly.

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Fellow ancient history artists look at this!! Fully funded artist oppurtunity working with North East archives about Hadrians Wall, hosted by @vindolandatrust.bsky.social 🏛️🌿 If I didn’t already work at an archive three days a week I’d be all over this www.vindolanda.com/2027-artist-...

How exciting to see this fantastic project by @docuracy.co.uk using/citing Adam Franklin-Lyons and Pavel Oleinikov's ODFMS-reviewed dataset from Digital Philology muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242. To read more about the Open Datasets For Medieval Studies data peer review project, see odfms.hcommons.org.

Stephen Gadd@docuracy.co.uk · 3mo ago

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

Sharing this in memory of Lynne Goldstein, a colleague whose mentorship shaped my career in many positive ways. Lynne had so many great stories that Autumn Painter and I recorded an oral history of her work with MSU's Campus Archaeology Program. oralhistory.campusarch.msu.edu

As always, 5calls.org made it simple to take some small action in the midst of [all this] by providing representatives' numbers and a script.

Thinking about attending the SCS in Boston? Love monks and Late Antiquity? Submit an abstract for this panel!

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For the next two weeks, the new Cambridge Elements in the History of Constantinople addition, on _The Great Palace_ at Constantinople is open access. Read it for free while you can! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Just launched: Open Datasets For Medieval Studies, a new annual installment in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures (Johns Hopkins Press) wherein scholars peer review research datasets. Section co-edited by @lauramorreale.bsky.social @jwtorg.bsky.social & me. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242.

Don't forget to nominate any #DH resources for DH Awards 2025 so they get on the ballot! Deadline coming up soon! dhawards.org/dhawards2025... The current distribution of votes per category is a tad uneven and you can probably guess which categories are which!

A reminder that the 5 calls app (or website) has all the contact info handy for calling reps, and even has scripts for specific issues.

Also I forgot to say that if you win an award to go to Kzoo, there will be a waiver for DMSI participation fee AND a subsidized registration fee for the Congress!

Digital Medievalist@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 Applications are OPEN for #DMSI 2026! Join us for the fourth #Digital #Medieval Studies Institute in: 🇺🇸 US: 13 May (at ICMS Kalamazoo) 🇬🇧 UK: 10 July (at IMC Leeds) ⚠️ Bursary Deadline: 20 Jan 2026 ▶️ Info: US: tinyurl.com/DMSI-2026-US UK: tinyurl.com/DMSI-2026-UK Questions? 📧 dmsi.hello@gmail.com

Nominations are open for DH Awards 2025. Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once. dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

Happy new mayor day to all who celebrate!

+1 for Rhea being a great place to publish--humane, ethical, scholarly.

Hannah Čulík-Baird@opietasanimi.com · 9mo ago

and of course @rheaclassical.bsky.social, also open access - a book review journal prioritizing underrepresented scholarly voices rheaclassicalreviews.com

**We're hiring a post-doc @gctlc.bsky.social** Come join a fantastic team of scholars @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social committed to intentional, responsive, and liberatory pedagogy at @cuny.edu and beyond. Applications due February 1, 2026. Job call here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

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Quick reminder that @isawnyu.bsky.social is having a VIrtual Open House for Prospective Students day after tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 5th, 10AM US Eastern time). Info and registration at isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-... . Please share if you think someone who would be interested hasn't signed up. Thanks!

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists. We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still. Archaeologists 🥺 www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Great new tool from Flickr foundation - the Data Lifeboat, to package up Flickr image collections and get them out of dodge quickly, with metadata and readmes. Speaking to urgency of portability of digital cultural heritage given current times. They need some testers to play and give feedback 👇

Flickr Foundation@flickrfdn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Even great code has some bugs! Be among the first to try out our new Flickr archiving tool Data Lifeboat, and help us find those bugs! Head over to datalifeboat.flickr.org to get started. Original images from US National Archives and State Library of NSW on Flickr Commons.