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pearcele.bsky.social
Assyriologist, MELC UCBerkeley. Gardener, Walker.
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Hats off to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and the southern state councils for leading the way in speaking up about what they're losing with the NEH funding cuts.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

We are offering two FREE, online semi-intensive short courses in #Phoenician and Punic #language in April 🏛️ 🏺 Elementary course info: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/eleme... Intermediate course info: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/inter... Share and Apply by 22 March!

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

vaccinate your child. As a survivor of the measles, I lost much of my eyesight but am guaranteed immunity. My son, as an adult, just went and received a booster to ensure the 97% effectiveness that he can have with the vaccine. It is a PREVENTABLE DISEASE.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

It's hard to describe what a feat this is, and shouldered by a much smaller group than the folks who captured the data. @asegerberg.bsky.social has been chipping away at this database for years. Rescuing data is hard, but curating & publishing it is a much harder, lonely slog. Prepare for it.

submitted 113 days ago • 4 comments

My Superb Owl pick

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

submitted 130 days ago • 31 comments

editor asked for acceptance of a number of small changes. done and thing sent back.

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

Making a note of this to include as part of the "what constitutes academic integrity and responsibility" in my next syllabus.

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

Wish you could enjoy watching the Poor Man of Nippur in its original language of Akkadian? You can! The Assyriology community at the University of Cambridge completed this project a few years back and it is a certified classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYo...

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

Fall 2024 semester is now in the books. Proofs have been sent back to editor. Another "thing" has been submitted. A few days rest and then planning for Spring 2025 and a big project.

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

"We’re so primed in these moments to take in dangerous messages, to believe disabilities are problems to be solved rather than attributes to be understood, sometimes mitigated against and always supported."

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

#Assyriology postdoc opportunity at ISAC UChicago with the #Nippur Tablet Collection. 🏺 Deadline end of January. apply.interfolio.com/160845 EOE/Vet/Disability

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

NYU Campus Security and Administration is totally out of control. On Wednesday - I filmed a peaceful protest in Bobst library for two hours. Yesterday at 2pm while at home, I received an email explaining that I’ve been designated “persona non grata” and banned from several buildings on campus.

submitted 185 days ago • 45 comments

New research uses computational linguistics to map words for emotion used alongside words for body parts in cuneiform texts from 934-612 BCE. Fascinating method and findings. Where in the body did people feel or express fear, joy, pride, sadness, shame, and more? www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

submitted 186 days ago • 3 comments

Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever

submitted 186 days ago • 105 comments

Art store has sale on sculpey, just in time to stock up for the first day of scribal school!

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