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Upcoming online conference: The Bible in Its Ancient Iranian Context (Pourdavoud Institute, UCLA) pourdavoud.ucla.edu/event/the-bi...

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Looks like a great volume. Also, that's a robust book review section!

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

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I am so honored to have been awarded the Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach Prize by the @scsclassics.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

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"Samuel’s Life of Barsauma, a little-studied, late fifth-century Syriac text, commemorates the ascetic career of a nasty saint." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Publication klaxon! My article on women working in the bars of #Pompeii and the graffiti evidence of sex work has been published. If you were in Cuma in 2022 or Carmona in 2023 it's that paper. Anyone want a copy let me know. (Can we still call them offprints if they are digital?) #AncientBlueSky

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There is no RELS colloquium this week, but our colleagues in the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins are hosting this talk with Pamela Klasova (Chicago) on Zoom tomorrow, March 6, at 6:30 pm! No registration necessary. Use this link to join: upenn.zoom.us/j/94938924535

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At Women Also Know History, we know that women make history every day of the year. This Women's History Month, we want to take the opportunity to celebrate the women whose scholarship enriches the historical profession and expands our knowledge of the past. womenalsoknowhistory.com

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Welcome to a new week A bit of beauty for your timeline

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I’m pretty sure this is what voters want from their elected officials www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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To close out Black History Month, I'm honoured to have been a featured writer in this piece in The 19th, sharing what Black literature means to me. 19thnews.org/2025/02/blac...

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🗃️ Ephrem Ishac introduces the first public Syriac HTR model on @transkribus.bsky.social 💻 helping make Syriac manuscripts more accessible 📜 🤖 #digitalhumanities #SyriacStudies #history #HTR #Coding #llm digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/18/f...

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3/5 @simchagross.bsky.social master class on magic bowls! An overview of the bowl corpus + key avenues for future research, incl so-called pseudo-script bowls, issues of literacy & materiality, the performative dimensions ancientstudies.harvard.edu/events?trumb...

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GOOD - MacArthur Foundation moving to emergency footing for nonprofit funding w/ increased giving, flexibility & trust www.macfound.org/press/perspe... I especially value them highlighting “flexible, trust-based models” that cover indirect costs at 29% & less onerous administrative requirements.

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Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening. An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply: “The same will happen here”.

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I just signed up for a (free!) @visithmml.bsky.social account in order to scroll through this whole book. It's gorgeous! 📚 📜

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I am finalizing an article on purple dye workers but wanted to remind y'all that a little over a yr ago, archaeologists excavating at Kotyaion (Kütahya: pleiades.stoa.org/places/609444) found gorgeous, Roman era neon pink cosmetics & lotsa oyster shells for makeup. www.dailysabah.com/life/history...

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Coming this August from @brepols.bsky.social Discipline, Authority, and Text in Late Ancient Religion Nineteen essays to honor David Brakke written by his former students, his grad school friends, and various other co-conspirators www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

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Job posting: work on a digital critical edition of works by Athanasius of Alexandria

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Greco-Roman Scribes 🖋️ are having a moment right now (thx in part to @candidamoss.bsky.social, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social & @illdottore.bsky.social ‘s work). And this new GRBS article on late antique Egyptian ones just after the Arab conquest is fab grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/gr... #openaccess

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond: Body, Affect, Concepts ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/horr...

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Today, I'm re-delivering this presentation on preparing amicus briefs and affidavits and doing legislative history for the members of @migrationcollab.bsky.social who, in ways writ large and small, continue to fight the good fight for immigrants and refugees in the US and abroad.

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Job opening: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Studies at the University of Bergen - open for applicants with PhD in religious studies, archaeology or history

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For anyone interested: podcast featuring the role played by women in the espionage networks in the Civil Wars - Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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hey the #NAPS2025 program is uuuuuup! www.patristics.org/wp-content/u...

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h/t @soraaad.bsky.social

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Not really into Valentine's Day, but a few years ago, Prof. @candidamoss.bsky.social wrote a great essay for the Daily Beast on its bloody origins. ❤️‍🔥 www.thedailybeast.com/the-bloody-h... Note: "All the same, it’s unclear if Lupercalia actually has anything to do with the romantic saint’s days."

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Professional news: Cover reveal! The official publication date with UC Press is September 23, 2025

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Love hard even if they don't read your work. #happyvalentinesday

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The queen has arrived! Welcome to Bluesky, Prof. Herrin! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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There’s an even fancier flyer now, including a handy QR code.

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Come on Jonah, get your act together

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#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

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What’s your favorite literary topography? So, I love imagined / literary topographies = I’m really excited to see the new edited volume _Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World_ now out! www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... for me? I like David Lynch’s Twin Peaks map.

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A two-year postdoctoral position at the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism at Johns Hopkins. Seems like a fantastic opportunity! krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/2025/0...

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"To be a Black female academic, navigating the double jeopardy of race and gender, means...to think, write, and teach under a cloud of suspicion that says you’re not good enough, not serious enough, not smart enough."–Renita J. Weems buff.ly/3koZVsJ #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackScholarsMatter

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

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oh wait, he's here! thanks for this amazing version @akma.bsky.social!

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Stigmatized persons are hard to recover, esp. voices of late antique sex workers. Late Roman historian Ulriika Vihervalli has a study in their newish (2024), open access book _Desire & Disunity - Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West_ on methods archive.org/details/oape...

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Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

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JOB: The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applicants for an Assistant Professor in Religion position in the area of American Religions, Race, Social Justice, or Africana Studies. Deadline: 2/27

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JOB: The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) and Yale Divinity School invite applications for a faculty position with the interdisciplinary program in Music and the Black Church who will also serve as its Associate Director. Deadline: 2/15/2025

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Heads up Late Antiquity folks. KU Leuven Fellowships: www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...

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GovWayback: access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing ".gov" in the URL with ".govwayback.com" https://govwayback.com/

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well hellooooo

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A federal court just blocked Elon Musk from interfering with the federal government’s payments system. There is power in fighting back. We won’t let up until this block is permanent.

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