This story is going wild on X and elsewhere. The site was already published by Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli of Tulane University ages ago. This is why we have peer review. Mexican gov didn't have it in their database, but that doesn't mean it is unknown/unmapped. pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-...

My AI Agents Found an Unmapped Maya Site

AI agents analyzed NASA lidar data overnight and found a Maya site under the jungle that isn't on any map. Less than 72 hours later, Mexico's INAH replied.

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The next time someone asks me what I find different about living in the US, I’m mentioning this. Like, I am not much of a supporter of the military in general, but I grew up with the poppies on 11/11!

Steve Cookie Monster 🍪👹@smsaideman.bsky.social · 21h ago

Oh, man, moving to Canada taught me that. Fun to read the Dept of Veteran Affairs in the US on when to wear poppies. Entirely ahistorical or anti-historical. When my daughter went to the US for college, she was surprised that no one wore poppies on Nov 11.

Three chapters of the dissertation down, one to go! And revisions. Always revisions.

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉The orders are no longer pre-!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Unboxing pictures to follow (when the box arrives!😁) 🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊 #BookBirthday bsky.app/profile/magi...

Magistra Cohen (she/her)@magistracohen.bsky.social · 6d ago

Welcome to Bluesky! If you read Latin, you may be interested in my book, which comes out THIS TUESDAY, November 10! Selections from The Student's Catullus for AP and College Latin by Daniel H. Garrison and Nava R. Cohen Preorders at www.oupress.com/978080619739...

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes Reddit mods

@ics.bsky.social is hosting a panel of contributors from the new volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right", edited by @drhelenroche.bsky.social and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social, on Dec 9th 2-4PM GMT. Both in-person and zoom. Register here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right

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your annual reminder that, every year, bookstores make a third or more of their money between now & New Year’s ☺️ meanwhile, Amazon supports & abets ICE most bookstores ship nationwide. A lot of them also have stores on bookshop.org

Yet another 5 star review! @whittaylor.bsky.social & Joyce Rice give us The Greater Good, a timely examination of public health, primarily in the USA. Out this week from 23rd Street Books. @01firstsecond.bsky.social theslingsandarrows.com/the-greater-...

This was an extremely unpopular tweet, partially because people misunderstood the intent & partially because Bluesky is a tiny homegenous hothouse filled with libs who establish their relative status by using the most heated & extreme rhetoric. Notheless, let me explain what was on my mind.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 7d ago

I would just beg everyone, very much including elected Dems, to vigorously reject the words "retribution" & "revenge." Do not say them. Object when others say them. That's not what's happening here. The words you want are "accountability" & "rule of law."

This is why I firmly believe that the field of Religious Studies is every bit as essential as any STEM field to understanding what is happening with the creators of AI. This is just lightly secularized eschatology.

hailey@hailey.at · 4d ago

this is what i mean. like what the fuck kind of belief system is this?

Wrote a whole book about it

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 7d ago

For a long time, the implicit agreement was universities provided education that companies valued and didn't have to pay for, so training new employees & keeping them employed made sense. Now, companies want universities to provide the training but they don't to give universities any money to do it.

world historical vindication for the sophisticated epistemological method of going outside

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · last wk.

2024-2026 will be remembered as one of the stupidest national hysterias of all time a supposedly generational "vibe shift" completely disintegrated upon contact with Actual Republican Governance

Lovely to hear from our amazing Latin coordinator, Vanessa—and a sweet shoutout to the graduate TAs in our department from a student! Very gratifying.

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 7d ago

UW-Madison students, professors say classics are more relevant than ever - The Daily Cardinal www.dailycardinal.com/article/2026...

Today it's not a doomscroll, it's a schadenfeed.

Bigging up the underpaid, underappreciated tech doing an on-call shift who averted a terrorist attack and undoubtedly saved lives last night...

Lukasz Olejnik@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · last wk.

Cyberattack on France’s national blood service (EFS) via its refrigeration contractor Coolworld. Hackers reset freezers keeping blood donor samples at -30°C to a target of 110°C. The thing that stopped it from destructive impact was an on-call technician who noticed the temperatures going up.

It has been an extremely rough couple of years to be a non-citizen living in the US, and I'm very happy to say that for once I'm going to go to bed on time and sleep well on election night.

While people are understandably focused on the national level, the wave is going to reshape state legislatures, Governor's offices, AGs etc. Not much legislation from DC in the next 2 years, but the action will be at the state level.

Breaking: Oracle of Delphi pollster proven correct that invasion of Persia would lead to the collapse of an empire.

Eligible voters, there's still time to register and vote in the midterms TODAY in: CA CO CT DC HI ID IL IA ME MD MI MN MT NV NH NM UT VT VA WA WI WY More info at npr.org/vote

How to register to vote and check your registration status

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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do not funnel your grief over this death into trek and x-men merch, paramount & disney dont need your money. go to plays, give to charities, vote for candidates who will fund public art, and you will make it possible for people like patrick stewart to exist and keep existing. a rising tide lifts all

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

New podcast episode! We spoke to @curtisdozier.bsky.social about his new book, The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate. www.alliterative.net/podcast/2026...

Episode 128: The White Pedestal, with Curtis Dozier — The Endless Knot

We talked to Dr. Curtis Dozier about his new book, The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate . Curtis has spent the last decade or so tracking examples of...

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👇🎯 Again, whatever else you don’t like about universities & think is the problem - too many fancy dorms, too many overpaid professors, too much bloated & overpaid admin, football coach salaries, etc. - is orders of magnitude smaller than the decline in public funding since the 1980s.

Big Frickin' Swede@bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 3w ago

This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

A poet versed in Greek and Latin being praised, a speech in front of the acropolis, public executions of criminals, and a delegate to Greece faces bribery charges. Please check in on your ancient historians as time itself appears to collapse.

Part-time job in LGBTQ+ community archiving. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Invisible Histories 2027 Part Time Position

Title: Public Services Coordinator Location: Charlotte, NC (in-person only) Salary: $35,000 annually for 20 hours per week Benefits: $200/month insurance stipend; 5 days paid sick & vacation tim...

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In India the leaders of the Cockroach youth movement have been arrested, along with more than 1,000 protesters, opposition politicians, journalists, student union leaders & lawyers; New Delhi is in lockdown. The police have prevented mass protests against the country’s election chief taking place.

India’s ‘Cockroach’ leaders detained; New Delhi in lockdown

Indian police crackdown appears to have prevented mass protests against the country's election chief from taking place.

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📢Immediate opening for a Latin teacher in Chicago📢 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44... Please forward widely!

Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · last mo.

Canadian Anne Carson awarded Nobel Prize in Literature Carson, 76, has previously won several prestigious literary prizes www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

clifford ando’s essays in the maroon have no doubt ruined admins’ days. many days, i bet.

Josh Kovensky@joshkovensky.bsky.social · last mo.

UChicago, like any other college, gets vastly more women applicants than men. And yet, its undergrad student body is disproportionately male. chicagomaroon.com/53804/viewpo...