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Sam Barber

@barber-samj.bsky.social

Art, architecture, material culture | Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages

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Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 4w ago

🐈 At a Roman villa In Adramytteion (Turkey) 🐕 the owners put the name of their cat and dog in a mosaic—I am reading σμαράγδιη (“emerald”) for the cat. (I am a little bit mystified by the eta on the end unless it is a nu, but this is cool). Dog is named ὠκεανός (“ocean”) arkeonews.net/1800-year-ol...

Mosaic depiction of a cat from the Roman villa at Adramytteion, accompanied by an inscription giving a name interpreted as meaning “Emerald.” Credit: AAMosaic depiction of a dog from the Roman villa at Adramytteion, identified by an inscription with the name “Okyanos” (“Ocean”). Credit: AA
Emily Wood@ebwood.bsky.social · last mo.

Couldn’t make it past the third paragraph in which Dr. “Unyoke the Sciences from the Humanities” says that the Sistine Chapel ceiling exists because there weren’t unions in early 16th-century Rome.

Schitts Creek Wrong

Alt: Gif of David from Schitts Creek saying, “I have never head someone say so many wrong things one after the other, consecutively, in a row.”

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · last mo.

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

A drawing of a god-like hand, inspired by Michelangelo's painting in the Sistine Chapel, pointing to a sign, "Talk to the Union Rep: Local 1508."
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · last mo.

The media’s defenders say the editorial / oped side of a newspaper is completely separate from the reporting side, so you shouldn’t blame the news side for bad takes on the editorial side. But when it comes to the @nytimes.com / @nytopinion.nytimes.com coverage of higher ed, there is no separation.

Screenshot of transphobic bigot Jesse Singal’s NYT opinion piece on ArdayScreenshot of NYT article “Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · last mo.

Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?

“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”
Jack Grimes@jackapedia.design · 2mo ago

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

Joseph Howley@illdottore.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nolan has adapted the stories The Odyssey is based on more than he’s adopted the text itself. There’s a smoothing out of the text‘s complication that inevitably unwinds it a little. It’s also a puzzle box movie where whats in the box is Trauma, but the Trauma of learning where you are in history.

Dr. Rachel Schine@rachelschine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

*whispers* hey, if you're a grad-level educator of conscience, you should probably warn PhD students off of coming here at this point and offer to help them make favorable contacts in other of the many excellent international universities if you're invested in their success

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this

Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Colleagues: if you do #GlobalMiddleAges work, this is an urgent case where you can use your expertise to support cultural conservation & Indigenous peoples. If you don't know Chaco Canyon, look it up. But do so quickly. The Comment period ends 29 July. #MedievalSky

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Archaeology News Online Magazine@archaeologynews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Italy has placed one of the best surviving works of Etruscan art on public display after bringing the famous François Tomb frescoes into state ownership. The painted panels, created between 340 and 320 BCE, now... More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/ital...

Italy returns 2,300-year-old François Tomb frescoes to the public after more than a century | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Italy returns the 2,300-year-old François Tomb frescoes to the public, placing a masterpiece of Etruscan art on display in Rome.

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