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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 6h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Dr. Zoé Elise Thomas @archaeadne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🎶she was a gamer cat / she made zombies go splat / camping spawns and trolling chat 🎶

A white and orange tabby cat is facing a computer monitor with a still image from the game Project Zomboid, where a character is washing something in a body of water. The cat is delicately reaching out a paw and touching the character.

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Dr. Zoé Elise Thomas @archaeadne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The academic job market is fun because I just got a rejection email for an AY2627 position, that I withdrew my application from, five weeks into the fall semester, the day after submitting a job app for AY2728. 🤡

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

all these people sound like this:

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨”Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies was the only field within the newly consolidated Social and Cultural Analysis Department that had all of its courses cut from the core, said professor Jo Hsu, who specializes in gender studies and rhetoric.” 🚨 www.statesman.com/news/educati...

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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes

The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

great advice in general but doubly so if you're going to spend any significant amount of time on social media

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

latent space, as opposed to La Tene space, which flourished across Iron Age Central Europe,

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Dr. Zoé Elise Thomas @archaeadne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me any time a student accidentally reminds me that Before COVID I was going to do Roman bioanth and they unleash my alternate identity as a Bone Lady

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just released a new keepsake game- Bleed Map! You play alongside a video game of your choice, creating a map of the digital space. At the same time, you'll be prompted to record emotions and thoughts from your everyday life that bleed into the experience. florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/bleed-map

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Bleed Map by Florence Smith Nicholls

A keepsake game for materialising digital play

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Follow-through on my intention to include more history drawings: A paper doll of Philippe I of France. I’ve often thought of Versailles as like a doll’s house & especially feel this way about Philippe’s role. If you like, more description is continued in the thread. - #SciArtSeptember Day 10: Woad

A photo of a paper doll of Philippe I of France, the Duke of Orleans. This image shows the doll from the waist up, dressed, in a blue gown. The figure has loose dark brown hair and pale skin, and holds a white flower in one hand. The doll rests on a wooden table top.

A photo of a paper doll of Philippe I of France, the Duke of Orleans. This image shows the undressed doll, wearing a white shift, next to a blue gown that the figure can wear. The doll and dress rest on a wooden table top.

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Night at the Museum 🏛️🌌🏺👻

Art by flaroh illustration. Septembers illustration is a nighttime scene in the House of the Faun room at the National Archaeology Museum in Naples. The eponymous faun/satyr figurine is in the foreground, and is observed by a ghostly Roman lady with an impressive Flavian hairpiece. She looks mournful as she passes through the room of her former possessions, her gaze lingering on the bronze statuette. Behind her, the mosaics displayed on the wall are visible through her translucent body.

The palette is a vibrant mix of blues contrasted with bright orange line art

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Dr. Zoé Elise Thomas @archaeadne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Listen its important for the plot that he’s hot okay I promise

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 04/09/2026

Almost every young woman academic I know (including myself) has been targeted and belittled, sexually or otherwise, at some point by a higher-ranking man. After the state of the job market, it’s probably the number two thing I warn prospective grad students about.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

gotta bring this classic over here

a tweet from my old twitter account reading “[historian voice] it has always sucked ass to be alive”

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Someone once told me “Abusers groom allies too” and I could feel my worldview shifting in real time.

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Dr. Zoé Elise Thomas @archaeadne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“…it’s worth asking an alternative: “What would Dolly do?” She showed us you don’t have to be perfect. You just have to choose to be kind, and generous and compassionate. You just have to choose to see the humanity in the people you meet along the way.”

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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 24/08/2026

The Battle of Alesia was a massive defeat for the Gauls, but was Vercingetorix to blame? Was he simply a loser? Listen to our full episode with Zoé Elise Thomas (@archaeadne.bsky.social) for more... www.ancienthistory101.org/p/vercingeto...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a dog walked across a wet clay tile as it lay drying at Chedworth #Roman villa in Gloucestershire 🐾🐕 "Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog" (Terry Pratchett) Canis malus. Nulla tibi cena 📷 August 2026 #TilesOnTuesday #Archaeology

An orange / red Roman tile in a museum case with a dirty great big dog paw print near the middle. Bad boy. No cena for you

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Their names are gone from UT’s doors, but faculty and alumni say the academic communities they built will endure.” ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻

statesman.com

Four UT departments are gone. Their histories span decades

Their names are gone from UT’s doors, but faculty and alumni say the academic communities they built will endure.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Relatedly: the vast majority of universities are not Ivy League or elite small liberal arts schools, and we spend way too much time talking about them as though they are representative when a regional state school is, by the numbers, closer to what most academics and students actually experience.

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Dr. Zoé Elise Thomas @archaeadne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Come for the Gallic chieftain with the great mustache, stay for the unhinged cannibalism jokes! It was such a joy to record with @ancienthistory101.org thank you @belovedofoizys.bsky.social for the opportunity!!

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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 19/08/2026

It's time for a little more military history this week, so we have a biography of Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix! Our guest expert is archaeologist @archaeadne.bsky.social , who will take us past the mythmaking of later history, and walk us through the short but dramatic career of an enemy of Rome.

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Vercingetorix - a Biography - Ancient History 101

with Zoé Elise Thomas

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Dr. Zoé Elise Thomas @archaeadne.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It felt a LITTLE on the nose to find this on my desk my first day in the office at LSU. 🤡

A photograph of a student newspaper front page that says Clowning 101 with a picture of a professor writing on a chalk board with a clown face photoshopped over their head. Three juggling pins have also been photoshopped around their hands to make it look like they are juggling.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We know the truth is more like this

That Mad Men 'I don't think about you at all' meme, edited to show the archivist saying 'I feel bad for you' with the archaeologist responding 'I don't think about you at all'.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists

One of those 'STOP DOING X' memes, ripping into archaeology. It has images of soil stratum, a trowel, and a flint shard. The text mocks archaeologists for digging for pottery sherds and saying everything has a 'ritual purpose'.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

how very Shakespearean of them

silly digital doodle of a cicada but the still furled wings are poofy sleeves and it is holding a tiny skull saying “to BEE or not to BEe”

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Beekeepers, beehives, and the extraction of honey, with Virgil beneath in the initial 'P'(rotinus) at the beginning of Book IV of the Georgics Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. G. 98; Virgil, Georgics; 15th century, middle; Italy, Milan; f.49v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Academician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"If you want me to graze on tough vegetation on rocky ground, I'll graze on tough vegetation on rocky ground. If you want guidance and emotional support, I'll graze on tough vegetation on rocky ground." -Glyptodon

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026

So interesting to see all these writers weigh in on the morality of the review’s existence without substantively addressing what was actually most problematic about it: the failed attempt to discuss racism that was so bad that it reads as racist But, they don’t care about Black people so 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 01/08/2026

The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships to colleges across the state due to lack of funding, with many would-be freshmen finding out only weeks before their move-in date. www.mississippifreepress.org/soul-crushin...

mississippifreepress.org

‘Soul-Crushing’: 170 Foster Students Denied Scholarships at Last Minute Across Mississippi

The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships weeks before classes begin due to lack of funding.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Julian @minikinetic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My illustrations for the Odyssey.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Chloe Zhao's THE TIGER IS OUT, coming 2028

The Tiger
by Nael, age 6
From They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

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GPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The sea coloring in Nolan's The Odyssey have been criticized for being on the blue end of the spectrum rather than "wine-dark." This skips around the alternative hypothesis, that a third type of wine, a Blue to go with the Reds and White, was lost in the bronze age collapse and never rediscovered.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 27/07/2026

I really loved Wilson's essay! It reminded me of things about The Odyssey that I'd forgotten & which enriched my experience of the film! I disagree with some of its points & find that *exciting*, because it's helping me sharpen my own thinking about it through the lens of her expertise!

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one mood (Troubled).

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