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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

History, Literature, Art History

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7d

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Hey!! We’re hiring an archaeologist!! Come hang out with us!!

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Assistant Professor of Archaeology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 7d

"War is peace" is literally from Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8d

Did you know ICE is holding a disabled advocate and whistleblower who helped shut down one of their detention centres?

Alma Bowman is a 58 year old woman from Georgia who spent 30 months in ICE custody during the first Trump regime.

When released she became a fearless advocate for detainees 🧵

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 8d

*You’re* pushing college history faculty to have students write papers by typing prompts into AI that they immediately forget.

Meanwhile *I’m* collaborating with my college’s art department to make my students learn to write cuneiform on clay tablets that they get to keep.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 11d

Guess what our Halloween theme is this year!

A pug standing on a lawn in front of a 9 foot tall blow up flying saucer with an alien inside. The flying saucer looks like it’s flying because there’s a clear blow up part below

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 15d

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 15d

Autism does not need to be cured

Ableism does

The end

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 17d

*You,* a responsible academic, have just cancelled your academia.edu account.

*I,* a scatterbrained academic, have not been able to log into my academia account for months because I don’t know the password & I think it’s still attached to my former university email that I no longer have access to.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17d

One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

www.nbcnews.com

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 17d

"Iron slave- or gang-chain, 100 BCE-50 CE.
It has neck-plates to link five slaves or captives by the neck."

© Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
museum.wales/collections/...

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 17d

Someone *loves* the new Superman

A pug standing on back legs front paws on tv stand looking at a tv that has Superman lying on the ground

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 18d

😭 idk if I could handle that

Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 18d

Teaching “Fall of Rome” next semester and thinking of doing a decline or change model, where each week we investigate different aspects of Roman life/empire into Byzantium to determine decline or change.

Has anyone taught it this way? I’m not totally sold but considering it.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 18d

You may call yourself a "woman," but when archeologists dig up your bones in three thousand years, they'll tell everyone your copper ingots were subpar

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 18d

My school did a survey of what classroom tech we would like, and I asked for typewriters so students could type in-class work without the internet.

I also had to specify I was dead serious.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 18d

I wanna be able to put the photos I take on my phone directly to my computer without the cloud

Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 18d

I want my ports back. I wanna watch DVDs on my laptop.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 18d

So much this!

Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 18d

I want my ports back. I wanna watch DVDs on my laptop.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 19d

One of my students discovered what she believes is a fake ancient artifact in a museum (presented as authentic), and now that’s what she’s writing her paper on this semester.

Assuming it’s a solid paper, should I have her email the museum when she’s done?

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 21d

New office is slowly coming together. Tapestry art of Palmyra by @flaroh.bsky.social

Picture of office. Wall facing viewer has a tapestry of ruins with camels in front of them, they’re in a bright artsy style. Beneath them is an office chair and file cabinet with Knick knacks on it. To the right is a blue couch with a snail pillow. To the left is a desk that is mostly out of shot and a coffee maker on a little shelf.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 22d

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 23d

I vote genre!

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25d

1. A few hours before this morning’s presser, in which law enforcement authorities announced they had taken into custody Charlie Kirk’s killer, Meghan McCain, daughter of the late John McCain, weighed in on “the fundamental difference between the right and the left in this country.”

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