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We’re heading into Week 9 of the Roman Medeas seminar by finishing three weeks of Valerius Flaccus and then diving into Roman North Africa with Hosidius Geta’s Medea Cento and Vandal Africa with Dracontius’ Medea for the final four weeks of term. /1

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New map application from the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC Chapel Hill: The Geography of Pliny the Elder "The Geography of Pliny the Elder compiles and maps the geographic data in Pliny's Natural History. The database, available for download from the ISAW website, includes some 6,500 […]

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Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”

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The women in Hadrian's household played a prominent role. They accompanied the emperors throughout the empire and attended official events. Hadrian even granted his mother-in-law extravagant honours. 📸 Marciana, Plotina, Matidia, Sabina and Mindia #InternationalWomensDay ♀️

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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

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The big ancient Mediterranean news 🗞️ 🍷 this morning focuses on wall paintings at the Villa Cuomo on the Bay of Naples (Pleiades Place: pleiades.stoa.org/places/65809...). XRF spectrophotometry has begun on the newly emerged depictions of wine processing artisans. www.facebook.com/share/p/1A2L...

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Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

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Great piece. “By treating NEH projects as falling under the scope of the orders, Eburne implicitly assents to the notion that research and teaching are equivalent to promoting ideology. This is indeed the guiding belief in Florida, and it is shared by the current administration.“

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This looks like a fantastic opportunity to be at the center of thinking meaningfully about humanities training in higher ed at a pivotal moment. acls.bamboohr.com/careers/58?f...

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WOW. 10+ Republicans just flipped in Montana and voted to kill a 25 year statute of limitations on trans care meant to end care, amended it down to 4 years. This may not seem like a big deal, but it's huge. It's the most Republicans I've seen flip like this in recent memory. Zooey's doing work.

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor. The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes! This is the power of representation.

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One thing I learned as department chair was to not respond to “problems” right away, despite my innate desire to do things immediately, because often it gets worked out without me. And if it doesn’t, I haven’t been wasting my wherewithal indiscriminately. This is a parable for our time.

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NEW: Following a ProPublica and Capitol News Illinois investigation, an Illinois lawmaker introduced a bill that aims to protect homeschooled students from abuse or neglect. “Illinois has zero regulations regarding homeschooling — we are not the norm at all,” she said.

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I’m excited to share this interview with my nana on black botanical histories. plantcraft.substack.com/p/plantcraft...

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Ask the families in WNC how Elon makes promises. He pledged to give victims of Hurricane Helene 30 days worth of free access, but failed to mention that survivors would need to fork over $400 for hardware—moreover, after 30-days the cost was $120 a month.

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I don't know how else to say this except for bluntly: It is not normal to have outbreaks of preventable diseases in wealthy countries. It is not normal to have children dying from preventable diseases in wealthy countries. This is the first US measles death in 10 years. There should be none.

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My new substack is out! A reflection on being an #academic woman who is studying historical #women & some of thr weirdness that emerges from that. All v personal reflections. Hope you enjoy! empressofbyzantium.substack.com/p/imposters-... #byzantium #skystorians #womeninacademia #ancientbluesky

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Sign of the day…

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Yes! This!

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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Men, do you need a pair of nail clippers that will defend you from the apocalypse???

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Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

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The University Of Cincinnati is replacing all of it's restroom signs with ones that designate use to only biological sex.

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There is a special place in somewhere hell-adjacent for ppl who take phone calls on speaker phone in an airport gate and then dare to tell the person on the other line that it’s a little noisy here.

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Life-threatening infections in Texas have soared among women losing a pregnancy after the state’s abortion ban. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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Cruz wants to cancel 20 NSF grants awarded to Cornell b/c they are "woke", by which he means they study marginalized populations or include them in activities. Largest by far ($9M) is infrastructure grant to improve science ed in rural NY -- so, mostly low-income white kids whose parents voted GOP.

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I was in an interesting meeting w a university leader discussing an all time low faith in institutions among the American people, higher Ed being but one and probably in the middle of popular distrust, below some and above others. And that this isn’t short lived or easily fixed. /1

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Professors with tenure: get political. Teach.

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When JD Vance can go to Dachau and immediately follow it by all but endorsing the far-right, Holocaust revisionist AfD, and Marco Rubio can go to Yad Vashem and immediately follow it by defending Vance's support for the AfD, we need to ask big questions about what Holocaust remembrance is even for.

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I think CUP isn’t posting these articles of the month here. cup.org/4i4x6u9

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