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

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

The Israeli government is using US tax dollars to carry out a mass ethnic cleansing campaign across the occupied West Bank. Since signing the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, Israeli forces have displaced almost 40,000 Palestinians from their homes.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Some not so great news on the funding front: a lot of fellowships that aren’t directly tied to the federal government are also being paused. Most of the people I’ve spoken to are in the wait and see stage but students in the last few years of their program should be aware that funds might be scarce

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Heads up #ancientsky and please RS: ReMeDHe is accepting nominations for the Heidi Marx Prize for the best article published in the last 3 years on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean Deadline is firm at March 1 Details here: www.remedhe.com/the-heidi-ma...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 11 days ago • 309 comments

If you're a worker impacted by any of the Trump executive orders or Elon Musk's OPM/DOGE efforts, please reach out to us On Signal 518-727-7964 Email [email protected] www.theguardian.com/securedrop

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

what they understand is that humans are downstream of the environments they inhabit, the acts of cultivation from which "culture" is derived, and seeing the flourishing of things that oppose their domination and exploitation, they opt to burn the field in the hopes of lording over their chosen weeds

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I think ppl should be paid a living wage to do doctoral level research in the humanities purely for its own sake, to produce knowledge and understanding of the human.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 20 days ago • 1330 comments

The deadline is FEB. 1 to email us your abstracts for our 20th Biennial Cusanus Society Conference in Gettysburg this September! The theme? "Perspectives on Mystical Vision & Aesthetic Experience." The plenaries? CJ Jones & Niklaus Largier. Join us!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Best city in the goddamn world.

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

19th News [Jan 19] -- New 592-page anthology, “A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States,” took its 40 editors more than a decade to compile. It documents how GAC is not experimental, not new, and not even confined to trans people. Available Feb 1. [HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 27 days ago • 1664 comments

Boy is it an odd time to be working with federally funded fellowships

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Vote blue no matter who to stop fascism

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk Appears To Give Nazi Salute theonion.com/elon-mu...

submitted 31 days ago • 49 comments

My new essay comic, Antisemitism in a Time of Genocide, is now up at Le Monde Diplomatique in France. I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.

submitted 32 days ago • 74 comments

A charming little piece for Sunday: a terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp. From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Have a lovely Sunday! 📷 by me 🏺 AncientBlueSky #archaeology

submitted 36 days ago • 20 comments

Some incredible messages left in my new office (yes, it was really written by the CIA)

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Meta is fundamentally evil company that deserves to be wiped off the face of the planet.

submitted 45 days ago • 87 comments

video games are an invaluable tool in teaching children to find and kill god

submitted 46 days ago • 232 comments

The left has made space for anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists for too long. Anti-vax is fundamentally a stance against solidarity and collectivism. It is one of the most individualistic, nihilistic positions you can take. It’s not anti-pharma. It’s anti-human.

submitted 49 days ago • 63 comments

Bye, dissertation books

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, we’re hiring another historian! Remote within US only, unfortunately (I do not make the rules). And Mark is correct that we’re interested in hearing from History PhDs!

submitted 51 days ago • 49 comments

Hi, Bluesky! Are you a classroom educator (K-12 or college) or school administrator who has feelings (good or bad) about changes you've noticed related to generative AI, including but not limited to ChatGPT? email me, kate . cox @ theverge . com, if you're willing to talk my ear off about it.

submitted 51 days ago • 15 comments

As an ally I will be sitting my ass down and LISTENING to these AI accounts. I want to know how best to support their communities, whether that's somehow donating an AI-generated coat or just cutting down an acre of old-growth forest so Meta gets an additional $0.07 from Unilever.

submitted 51 days ago • 22 comments

Turning half the planet into data centers just to reinvent the concept of imaginary friends

submitted 58 days ago • 38 comments

Today is my first day working full time as the Assistant Director of Fellowships at UChicagoGRAD! This is really a dream job in a lot of ways, since it’s a great work environment (nicest group of people in the world at GRAD) and I’ll get to read and think about so many different fields.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

We are now accepting applications for the 2025/26 Shohet Scholars Grants. Awards range from $2,000-$30,000. Projects need not focus on the catacombs but should be within the sphere of the Mediterranean world from the late Hellenistic to the late Roman periods. Deadline Jan 15.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

submitted 58 days ago • 88 comments

A hummingbird pooped on my face today 🎄

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submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

submitted 72 days ago • 130 comments

𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝙳𝙰𝚈 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝚃𝙸𝙼𝙴

submitted 60 days ago • 11 comments

It’s been a week since my defense, and I don’t think I’ve been this drained physically and mentally since I had COVID. It went well and I still feel ill and scared when I see an ancient thing 🙃

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments