Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Two weeks ago my sister and I found this starving kitty in desperate need of medical attention. Thanks to Familiar Hearts Animal Society she got that care and is now steadily gaining weight! Please consider donating to help cover her care and help them keep saving animals givebutter.com/FHASbespoke 020
Reposted by Alice Sharplessjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I 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 193126027998
Reposted by Alice Sharplesschris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait. 253192203784
Reposted by Alice SharplessAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Happy weekend! Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology 532581630
Reposted by Alice Sharplessarr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs. 437153904211
Reposted by Alice SharplessThe Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project @chreproject.bsky.social · 03/06/2026📖 Newly published: B. Hellings, M. Spoerri Butcher (@gordien3a.bsky.social) and C. Howgego (eds), Roman Coin Hoards across Frontiers (Oxford, 2026). doi.org/10.1093/9780... An impressive amount of new evidence for our understanding of the reach of Rome and the connectivity of the ancient world!doi.orgRoman Coin Hoards Across FrontiersAbstract. The book presents an introduction and thirteen other chapters on the hoarding of Roman coin outside the Roman Empire from c. 30 bc to ad 518, and 01410
Reposted by Alice SharplessJeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Got word from the team @princetonupress.bsky.social that advanced copies of my book are arriving at the press (they sent me this photo of it in the wild)! So excited to be able to hold it in my hands! 3339
Reposted by Alice Sharplessmindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later" 3475262543
Reposted by Alice SharplessLiv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2025If you click on this link, not only can you find links to two of my co-authored articles, BUT you can also find OPEN ACCESS to 240 papers across four volumes all on NUMISMATICS. livyarrow.org/2025/09/22/i... 154
Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Publication Day! The INC Warsaw Proceedings are now available (open access), and I have a paper on Roman republican control marks and recut dies (with @profyarrow.bsky.social and Lucia Carbone). #numismatics doi.org/10.1484/M.WS... 180
Reposted by Alice SharplessA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity. 13976002195
Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Found today somewhat by chance an obverse die link between the sextantes of four (!) different Roman republican coin series: RRC 188 (OPEIMI), 190 (OPEI), 191 (VAL), and 194 (3rd anchor); there are two other shared dies but only this one is used for all four series #ancient #numismatics 150
Reposted by Alice SharplessIsis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025COLUMBIA ALUMNI PULL UP! docs.google.com/document/u/0...docs.google.comAlumni Letter to the CU TrusteesTO SIGN THIS LETTER PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO SIGN UP GOOGLE FORM - WE WILL UPDATE LIST OF SIGNATORIES EVERY 4 HOURS UNTIL DELIVERY https://forms.gle/pT4JjDP4H8SJwRHp8 Columbia University in the Ci... 0145
Reposted by Alice Sharplesslukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Do you think snakes think legs are dumb 3403686285
Reposted by Alice SharplessLiv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Registration is now open for the RRDP conference at the American Academy in Rome, 9-11 April 2025! Join in person OR online! aarome.org/events/coins... 2199
Reposted by Alice SharplessSubargenteus @subargenteus.bsky.social · 21/02/2025#news in #numismatics 🏺 The book: "Counterfeits, Imitations, and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii: Making and Faking Coins on Both Sides of the Limes" available open access via @brepols.bsky.social www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...brepolsonline.netCounterfeits, Imitations, and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii | Warsaw Studies in Archaeology 0154
Reposted by Alice SharplessLiv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025What is the go to visual reference guide for all the different ancient representations of Roman military standards of all sorts including vexillia and aquila? Is there one? surely there must be. 2134
Reposted by Alice SharplessJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons 16665205310691
Reposted by Alice Sharplesseve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Bumping this with the hope that a senator might see it 687061771
Reposted by Alice Sharplessjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve 20828644410635
Reposted by Alice SharplessRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Your regular reminder that being funny in alt-text is lovely, sure, but if it is NOT USEFUL TO PEOPLE WHO ARE USING IT FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE than it's useless and trash. If you can't be both funny AND accessible just be accessible. Just describe what's in the image. 201153274
Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Random 🏺Ancient Bluesky question: is anyone aware of depictions of bird houses in Roman art? Not bird cages, but houses where wild birds could live? A few internet searches didn't turn up anything helpful but if anyone has leads they would be greatly appreciated! 6317
Reposted by Alice SharplessBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 22/12/2024I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya 6175142115
Reposted by Alice Sharplesseve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 22/12/2024If this is a difficult season for you I want you to know that the band that had a hit with the blender song in 1998 thinks you're alright 2879712783
Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Me: Oh wow a dream job is open at an institution I’d love to work for! Also me: proceeds to send them a series of annoying emails pointing out errors in one of their online resources 🫥 040
Reposted by Alice SharplessDaniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthxajmc.comInfant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs DecisionThe Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2... 35117085243
Reposted by Alice SharplessDr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 17/12/2024My department is advertising 3 doctoral positions in history and 1 in archaeology! Check out the calls below, circulate widely, and let me know if you have any questions about Oslo!jobbnorge.noThee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124) | University of OsloJob title: Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 16, 2025 26269
Reposted by Alice SharplessAnna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas. 15272412273
Reposted by Alice SharplessLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this 19122654920
Reposted by Alice SharplessJonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today: 503626583
Reposted by Alice Sharplesslukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Do you think fish know they’re weird 6153067
Reposted by Alice SharplessDr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 04/12/2024What if, and like hear me out right, universities *didn’t* run like businesses which need to turn a profit.media.tenor.coma man in a sweater is holding a piece of paper and making a face .Alt: a man in a sweater is holding a piece of paper and making a face . 1424342
Reposted by Alice SharplessAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice! 22079778416144
Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 21/11/2024In honor of Cattelan’s Comedian being (yet again) in the news, I’ll share these first pages of my dissertation on the creation of value for artworks. (FYI my dissertation is actually on the value of Roman silver tableware) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/a... 210
Reposted by Alice SharplessLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor 9594492823
Reposted by Alice SharplessViktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 21/11/2024It’s okay to be rude to people who want you to die 158205555175
Reposted by Alice Sharplessweird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 21/11/2024another throwback to the early wmg days, i spent probably a total of 10+ hours trying to find a digitised copy of the source manuscript, which i believe is held by the national library of russia. never did find it....... 442063136
Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 19/11/2024There are also so many great sites right around Pompeii that are usually almost empty! Oplontis! Stabiae! Herculaneum! And a little further away but a personal favorite, Baiae! 2376
Reposted by Alice SharplessWorking Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 19/11/2024This is probably the right decision. We hope it will encourage people to try other sites. *cough*OSTIA*cough* www.independent.co.u...independent.co.uk‘Fragile’ Pompeii to cap daily tourist numbers at 20,000 to protect the siteNearly four million people visited the main Pompeii site in 2023, a third more than the previous year 0111
Reposted by Alice SharplessClare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 10/11/2024So I've begun a numismatics starter pack. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/P9WBQpf 214819
Reposted by Alice SharplessEmma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Say what you like about Nero but the man had impeccable taste 3191
Reposted by Alice SharplessLennart Quispel @lquispel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024(1) It is time for my first Bluesky thread ! People who know me won't be surprised that it is about Misinformation and Magic, with some game theory in the background Why is misinformation so persistent ? Why do people keep sharing and/or believing in information that is most obviously false ? 74913