Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 3 new and 70 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 9 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one of […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Finally, the WCC UK is on Bluesky! Lots of exciting updates in the next few months, so do give us a follow @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social

📯JOB: Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, History (2 yrs, "connected histories across Indian and Atlantic oceanic world regions and geographies" 🗃️

Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, History

If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, History Barnard College seeks a full-time (earl...

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New blog on how ISAW's Pleiades project collaborated in the creation of Itiner-e, a new digital atlas of the roads of the Roman Empire isaw.nyu.edu/news/pleiade...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...

That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

If you're free this Thursday morning, I'll be giving a virtual lecture titled "The Real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians" as part of the 2025−2026 public lecture series hosted by the Bade Museum and Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley. Come join the fun!

Dartmouth won’t trade academic freedom for favor from the Trump admin. Incredible. Yet another college rejects the Trump compact. www.nhpr.org/2025-10-18/d...

Dartmouth rejects Trump’s compact, saying it won’t compromise its academic freedom

Dartmouth was one of nine colleges and universities asked to sign the White House’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The compact offered schools preferential access to federal fu...

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The University of Virginia became the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of government demands.

University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges

It was the fifth school in a matter of days to refuse an offer of preferential funding treatment from the government, even as the White House has threatened schools that do not sign up.

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Penn and USC have also rejected the Compact! That makes 4 - stronger together. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Penn, U. of Southern California Reject Trump Compact

The universities follow the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University in rejecting the Trump administration’s proposal that would require sweeping changes.

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Very good to see Brown University joining MIT in declining to sign up to the Adminstration's proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence" www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Brown University president declines invitation for Brown to join federal Compact

In a letter to the White House, President Christina H. Paxson wrote that Compact provisions restricting academic freedom and undermining autonomy would impede the University’s ability to fulfill its m...

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Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

Sorry to see schools placed in this situation but very glad Newsom is doing this. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Newsom threatens state funding for California universities that agree to Trump demands

Newsom said California universities that sign what he called the “RADICAL AGREEMENT” will lose state funds, including those for scholarships.

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Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025! mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/13/c...

Conference programme

Mountains of Greece: Heritage Narratives from the Past for a Sustainable Future, Athens, 22-24 October 2025

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Hi Debby, great to see you over here!

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

Sam Rutherford (he/him)@echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/

In February 1896, two men ploughing a field unearthed one of the greatest prehistoric treasures ever found on the island of Ireland – the Broighter Hoard. #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

here's a recording of our lecture from earlier this year for UCLA's Global Antiquity symposium; a preview of our in-progress book project, "Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race" @mhanses.bsky.social

Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race

YouTube video by Global Antiquity UCLA

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Hannah Čulík-Baird@opietasanimi.com · last yr.

really grateful for the positive feedback we received this week at UCLA’s annual Global Antiquity conference for our in-progress book on Cicero’s rhetorics of race

As we continue on to engage other archaeological institutions, we are posting this final statement on the WAC campaign. We, unlike the World Archaeological Congress organisation, will not move quietly on, while Palestinians continue to be starved and slaughtered by Israel.

The British Academy is opening a call for evidence from individuals and organisations with expertise in the key public policy areas for social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Find more information and details about how to respond here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/c...

It's very telling what happens to the comment whenever I write on this subject. Every other week, the comments in my substack are witty, funny and kind. On this topic, they're bitter, vicious, demented. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

The trans rights stitch-up

How government plans to silence debate on the new rules

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My statement on today's news. 👇

heads up historians of the Roman period - very, very, short deadline on this *permanent* job to start this academic year at Uni of Nottingham www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX393/a... 🗃️

Assistant Professor in Roman History at University of Nottingham

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in Roman History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’ FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches! www.ft.com/content/3162...

Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy

Outgoing president Dame Julia Black calls on ministers to overhaul their ‘confused’ approach to higher education

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We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…

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102K views · 2.5K reactions | 🐍 🪜 Did you know that the game of snakes and ladders began as a teaching tool in ancient India? Originally known as ‘moksha patam’, the game reflected ideas of karma a...

🐍 🪜 Did you know that the game of snakes and ladders began as a teaching tool in ancient India? Originally known as ‘moksha patam’, the game reflected ideas of karma and progress – with ladders...

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Tebbit was one of the architects of Section 28 which sought to prohibit ‘the promotion of homosexuality.’ This law emboldened bigots and silenced many librarians and teachers, including some of mine. As a gay kid I was left without official support from my school. It was terrifying and cruel.