Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social
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:
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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/
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This week, media psychology and classical reception specialist Kristen Leer discusses Ancient Egypt in horror movies and the problems surrounding "Egyptomania." Then, mapping the thousands of miles of...
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The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, Kristen Leer discusses Egyptomania in Europe. Then, mapping tarot cards and Platonic philosophy, opium in Ancient Egypt, @profarumpark.bsky.social discusses Classics and Asia, new ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social, and much more.
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Congrats to the 21,000 @uptecwa.bsky.social health care, research and technical workers at the University of California on voting to ratify their new contract! After 17 months of negotiations, this new contract is a testament to the power of our solidarity.
UC Workers Ratify ‘Best Contract Yet’ After Four Strikes and 17 Months of Negotiations
The union representing 21,000 healthcare, research, and technical professionals celebrates what union leaders are calling a historic win.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Congrats to the 21,000 @uptecwa.bsky.social health care, research and technical workers at the University of California on voting to ratify their new contract! After 17 months of negotiations, this new contract is a testament to the power of our solidarity.
Well there is already a great book on these topics. www.google.com/books/editio...
Policing the Roman Empire
Historians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution. Most recent scholarship has claimed that Roman society relied on kinship netw...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Well there is already a great book on these topics. www.google.com/books/editio...
K-Pop Demon Hunters is actually a movie about Twitter in the year 2025.
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
K-Pop Demon Hunters is actually a movie about Twitter in the year 2025.
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A student-led protest movement has kept Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić under pressure for a full year.
By refusing to bow in the face of intimidation, the protesters have exposed the corrupt authoritarianism of Vučić’s government.
By refusing to bow in the face of intimidation, the protesters have exposed the corrupt authoritarianism of Vučić’s government.
Serbia’s Protests Have Destabilized Aleksandar Vučić’s Rule
A student-led protest movement has kept Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić under pressure for a full year. By refusing to bow in the face of intimidation, the protesters have exposed the corrupt authoritarianism of Vučić’s government.
jacobin.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A student-led protest movement has kept Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić under pressure for a full year.
By refusing to bow in the face of intimidation, the protesters have exposed the corrupt authoritarianism of Vučić’s government.
By refusing to bow in the face of intimidation, the protesters have exposed the corrupt authoritarianism of Vučić’s government.
Oh my goodness! I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for reading!
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Oh my goodness! I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for reading!
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
Carolingian Biodiversity
How Interdisciplinary Can and Should Work
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November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
Seems… relevant.
Great opportunity! Check out our full post about a PhD position at York University in Toronto in the History of Authoritarian Politics in Ancient Rome with Professor Benjamin Kelly.
Deadline is January 15th. Share with Master's students in your networks!
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Deadline is January 15th. Share with Master's students in your networks!
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PhD Position at York University (Toronto) in the History of Authoritarian Politics in Ancient Rome (Deadline January 15) - The Classical Association of Canada
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November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Seems… relevant.
November 25, 1818: While Mary Shelley draws sketches of the Colosseum within the amphitheater during their Rome trip, Percy begins to pen his prose fragment, "The Coliseum." It is a romantic look at the ruins, overgrowth of plants & human hands that made the arena. Story: archive.org/details/essa...
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
November 25, 1818: While Mary Shelley draws sketches of the Colosseum within the amphitheater during their Rome trip, Percy begins to pen his prose fragment, "The Coliseum." It is a romantic look at the ruins, overgrowth of plants & human hands that made the arena. Story: archive.org/details/essa...
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If you are in Australia, you can watch the brilliant new documentary, Army of Lovers (on the Theban Sacred Band) on demand. For everyone else, it will hopefully come to YouTube soon (I am told or maybe use a VPN?), www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... and trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTe....
Army of Lovers Trailer
YouTube video by imagenationMTL
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
If you are in Australia, you can watch the brilliant new documentary, Army of Lovers (on the Theban Sacred Band) on demand. For everyone else, it will hopefully come to YouTube soon (I am told or maybe use a VPN?), www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... and trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTe....
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By the way, Ken Burns’ next documentary series is apparently in the can — LBJ & The Great Society
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
LBJ & the Great Society - Ken Burns
This three-part, six-hour series will chronicle the life and times of Lyndon B. Johnson, one of the most capable, colorful, and controversial men ever to occupy the White House. A figure of extraordin...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
By the way, Ken Burns’ next documentary series is apparently in the can — LBJ & The Great Society
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
The Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project (CMPHP) is an important project using remote-sensing methods to scan premodern prisons. They have now found medieval graffiti on Sicily & game boards etched by prisoners archaeologymag.com/2025/11/anci... Publication: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ancient prison graffiti in Sicily reveals games and fears of Early Modern inmates
Graffiti from a Sicilian castle prison reveals gameboards and ship carvings that shed light on Early Modern inmates’ daily lives.
archaeologymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project (CMPHP) is an important project using remote-sensing methods to scan premodern prisons. They have now found medieval graffiti on Sicily & game boards etched by prisoners archaeologymag.com/2025/11/anci... Publication: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ive been following Harmonia Rosales for a long time and love this new interview @hyperallergic.com with her written by Nereya Otieno
"I decided to write how the Greeks wrote, as if Yorubaland were the whole world" Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic (2025) is out!
hyperallergic.com/1053216/harm...
"I decided to write how the Greeks wrote, as if Yorubaland were the whole world" Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic (2025) is out!
hyperallergic.com/1053216/harm...
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ive been following Harmonia Rosales for a long time and love this new interview @hyperallergic.com with her written by Nereya Otieno
"I decided to write how the Greeks wrote, as if Yorubaland were the whole world" Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic (2025) is out!
hyperallergic.com/1053216/harm...
"I decided to write how the Greeks wrote, as if Yorubaland were the whole world" Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic (2025) is out!
hyperallergic.com/1053216/harm...
And the most publicly accessible book on this is (as I say in the article) by James Romm. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sa...
The Sacred Band
From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexand...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
And the most publicly accessible book on this is (as I say in the article) by James Romm. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sa...
As I have talked about before, there are numerous reasons to read about the Sacred Band, but one is that some politicians today are eliding its dependence on queer love. hyperallergic.com/1029023/why-...
Why Does Elon Musk Have Such a Straight View of Antiquity?
Musk and other conservatives often omit the role of queer soldiers in ancient military successes when extolling the virtues of Greek warriors.
hyperallergic.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
As I have talked about before, there are numerous reasons to read about the Sacred Band, but one is that some politicians today are eliding its dependence on queer love. hyperallergic.com/1029023/why-...
If you are in Australia, you can watch the brilliant new documentary, Army of Lovers (on the Theban Sacred Band) on demand. For everyone else, it will hopefully come to YouTube soon (I am told or maybe use a VPN?), www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... and trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTe....
Army of Lovers Trailer
YouTube video by imagenationMTL
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
If you are in Australia, you can watch the brilliant new documentary, Army of Lovers (on the Theban Sacred Band) on demand. For everyone else, it will hopefully come to YouTube soon (I am told or maybe use a VPN?), www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... and trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTe....
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Words really can’t express how important @archive.org is in the world of information science, but it’s also pivotal to preserving digital histories targeted and then erased by the federal government as well. If you can?
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business
The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Words really can’t express how important @archive.org is in the world of information science, but it’s also pivotal to preserving digital histories targeted and then erased by the federal government as well. If you can?
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Look, I am a fan of it. I just am constantly surprised by random Costco purchases every Sunday
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Look, I am a fan of it. I just am constantly surprised by random Costco purchases every Sunday
Oh, happy to send a bunch of these
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Oh, happy to send a bunch of these
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It’s that time again… 👀 🎄
If you are a business or creator and you’d like to donate something to our Christmas giveaway please do drop us an email at [email protected]
We’ve got most of it covered but always grateful for such things 🥰
If you are a business or creator and you’d like to donate something to our Christmas giveaway please do drop us an email at [email protected]
We’ve got most of it covered but always grateful for such things 🥰
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It’s that time again… 👀 🎄
If you are a business or creator and you’d like to donate something to our Christmas giveaway please do drop us an email at [email protected]
We’ve got most of it covered but always grateful for such things 🥰
If you are a business or creator and you’d like to donate something to our Christmas giveaway please do drop us an email at [email protected]
We’ve got most of it covered but always grateful for such things 🥰
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November 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Yes I am gonna need you to accompany my husband from now on, Anise
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Yes I am gonna need you to accompany my husband from now on, Anise
Upon picking me up at the airport:
“We got a new hose that flushes out your butt, Mom”
This is how I found out that while I was gone, my husband got a bidet at Costco. Happy holidays 💦
“We got a new hose that flushes out your butt, Mom”
This is how I found out that while I was gone, my husband got a bidet at Costco. Happy holidays 💦
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Upon picking me up at the airport:
“We got a new hose that flushes out your butt, Mom”
This is how I found out that while I was gone, my husband got a bidet at Costco. Happy holidays 💦
“We got a new hose that flushes out your butt, Mom”
This is how I found out that while I was gone, my husband got a bidet at Costco. Happy holidays 💦
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Late Roman “barbarians”? As if. In case you wondered about frameworks for understanding how decentralized military groups engaged in collective action & used decentering as a tactic? here is a new open access article for you. link.springer.com/article/10.1... I do love the fifth century CE. 🏹
Breaking Down the “Barbarian” Trope: Strategic Military Coordination in Decentralized Collectives - Journal of Archaeological Research
Early modern history abounds with descriptions of “barbarians,” a term originating in ancient Greece and later applied to people deemed uncivilized. Historical knowledge about these groups comes large...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Late Roman “barbarians”? As if. In case you wondered about frameworks for understanding how decentralized military groups engaged in collective action & used decentering as a tactic? here is a new open access article for you. link.springer.com/article/10.1... I do love the fifth century CE. 🏹