I'd like to congratulate myself on the fact that my next two conference presentations and a publication in preparation are all on the same topic for once
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archaeologist, at the moment studying volcanic tuff as a building material but interested in all old trash ΟΣΟΝ ΖΗΣ ΦΑΙΝΟΥ he/him Pisa (but bury me beside the Piramide) 🥖🌹 Huttonite Uniformitarian simultaneously more and less fun than profile suggests
Neanderthals were talented hunters AND home decorators. Evidence from a Spanish rock shelter includes new tool types and evidence for windbreaks and other domestic arrangements. “Now we can start to imagine the spaces they were living in,” says archaeologist @annemiekemilks.bsky.social. @science.org
Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals
Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives
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Niche request: Anyone have good reference for what non-fancy buildings might look like in 17th century Vienna? My searches are returning a lot of grand and expensive buildings, and that's not what I'm looking for. I'm thinking inns, homes of people who aren't wealthy, etc.
_(Re-)Uniting City and Country: New Research on Urban and Suburban Socio-Topographical Structures_ Open Access now available: if you click on "Leggi le prime 20 pagine +" you should see the option "Scarica volume intero" (download entire volume)
Dan Diffendale@diffendale.bsky.social · 6mo agoa volume I'm a co-editor on has just been published. Contributions aim to center urban peripheries in the Roman world (heavy on Rome and Italy) from a variety of perspectives (The paper version will cost you mightily, but an open-access digital version should be available within a day or two) 🏺
school invite to “ultimate bingo night” ha im not falling for this again. it was supposed to be the ultimate bingo night last year and now i learn that must have been at the very best the penultimate bingo night
_(Re-)Uniting City and Country: New Research on Urban and Suburban Socio-Topographical Structures_ Open Access now available: if you click on "Leggi le prime 20 pagine +" you should see the option "Scarica volume intero" (download entire volume)
Dan Diffendale@diffendale.bsky.social · 6mo agoa volume I'm a co-editor on has just been published. Contributions aim to center urban peripheries in the Roman world (heavy on Rome and Italy) from a variety of perspectives (The paper version will cost you mightily, but an open-access digital version should be available within a day or two) 🏺
SO EXCITED to share this CFP for Binning The Classics? Discard Studies and Classical Antiquity, a one day conference on 23rd June 27 I'm co-organising with @rhiannone.bsky.social. Deadline for abstracts is 16th January 2027. If you have thoughts about ephemera, junk, debris and waste, share them!
CFP: Binning the Classics? Discard Studies and Classical Antiquity
Very glad to share this CFP for a conference I’m organising with my fab colleague Rhiannon Easterbrook under the auspices of the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome. Conference date: …
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fortunately temperatures will drop abruptly in mid October after they hit the text box
Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d agoThey listened to me. There is now more chart.
⛰️ #HillfortsWednesday Burnswark: (Dumfriesshire) hillfort surrounded by two Roman camps. One of the most remarkable concentrations of Roman fire power found at a native site in Britain. Lead sling bullets, ballista balls & bolts, & arrowheads tell the story of a Roman assault. 📷 ©TrimontiumTrust
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 2d agoI spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
Free, three-part "Getting Started" #PleiadesGazetteer online workshop now taking registrations for November 2026. Details via the events page for the first of the three sessions: https://pleiades.stoa.org/events/getting-started-workshop-1-finding-and-using-november-2026 This is a linked […]
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![Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5kgtr755iczaqxomeh2pmh7/bafkreicu2p2o3is64z5k37n222hgahp67ssca6ro3nggbjtpwasig2zzbi)
What if educational spaces worked to become one of the few places in life our students are not constantly surveilled under constant threat conditions?
There is a new cafe in Halifax called "Broken Man" : www.instagram.com/brokenmancafe/. It is on a pier: bsky.app/profile/gret...
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Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 4w agoI have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean
Dubourg, Remains of Ancient Buildings in Rome, 1st ed 1820, 2nd 1838 printing - first has colour wash borders Unaffordable when good, found in breaking condition, I'll rebound Classic in coloured aquatint technique, combining stippling in the engraving fields with delicate hand watercolour finish
Aaah look what I got in the mail! Congratulations to @miriamposner.com on publication and congratulations to everyone else who finally gets to read this incredible book.
Hot off the press, our VIEWS autumn seminars - with hybrid papers on Nsibidi and Dongba (plus Mycenaean and Cypriot writing but in person only). viewsproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/v...
VIEWS Autumn seminars
It’s a new term here at the VIEWS project, and we have many exciting things coming up. This post is just going to share our autumn seminar programme – the rest will be in another post s…
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Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Me today.... So glad the weekend is almost here Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. 📷 Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana
Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.
I haven't changed anything on my end, but Anubis (you know, that annoying consequence of trying to defend websites against crawlers) is now telling me my browser is configured to disable cookies
It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN
It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.
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Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today
what it ultimately boils down to is that trans women may never be allowed to win or be the best at anything.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last wk.Transgender girls have a biological advantage at... winning homecoming queen? That's apparently what Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia believes. They have blocked a transgender girl from running for homecoming queen in her high school Subscribe to support our journalism.