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Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect: https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Seismic data revealed a Nile-sized ancient river under the Mediterranean Sea 🌊 🧪 eos.org/articles/anc...
Sedimentary deposits reveal a Nile-sized river system flowing from what are today Turkey and Syria.
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“Speaking from his office in Istanbul, with the Bosporus glinting behind him, Clare shrugs off the conspiracists.” lol. Archaeologist Lee Clare is the best. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...
In the hills of southeastern Turkey lies a site so ancient, it's turning our understanding of civilization on its head and leading to conspiracy theories.
Reposting to add that off the top of my head, other museums with public domain image collections include the Met, the Getty, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum. There's also a longer list here: apollo-magazine.com/open-access-...
Reminder: the Art Institute of Chicago has "free, unrestricted use of over 50,000 images of works in the collection believed to be in the public domain or to which the museum otherwise waives any copyright it might have...made available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)" www.artic.edu/collection
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
Reminder: the Art Institute of Chicago has "free, unrestricted use of over 50,000 images of works in the collection believed to be in the public domain or to which the museum otherwise waives any copyright it might have...made available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)" www.artic.edu/collection
Definitely setting 2 alarms.
Why is Michael P. not on Bluesky so I can tag him, lol.
Wait, what? JOH did say he accidentally went to the gun show one morning thinking he was walking to panels.
Let me just say that one year the conference was in Denver and I think this really helped people chill out before panels...
