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Alice Sharpless

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Classical Studies PhD. Curatorial Assistant on the Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP) at the ANS | she/her

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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Two 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
Very thin tabby cat with bright green eyes and oversized ears
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James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Endnotes
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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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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It’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.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Happy weekend! Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting lively stylised octopuses with writhing arms. All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

Top L - Minoan storage jar decorated in ‘Marine Style’ with a wide-eyed octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded body which tapers to a narrow circular base. Short cyclindrical neck with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders. Height 55 cm. From Zakros, 1500-1450 BC

Top R - The iconic Minoan ‘Marine Style’ flask.  Rounded body with short cyclindrical neck out-flared at rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the flask. An almost cartoon-like octopus, with wide eyes and sucker-lined arms. Other motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC.

Bottom L - Minoan alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck with flat rim. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC.

Bottom R - ‘krater’ with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a front facing stylised octopus with wide eyes and tentacles which loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC.
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
english 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.
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The 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!
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Roman Coin Hoards Across Frontiers
Abstract. 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
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Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Got 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!
A hardback copy of "Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Indian Ocean Trade" by Jeremy A. Simmons standing upright on a stone bench in the lovely green courtyard of Princeton University Press.
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I 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"
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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Umm
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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Captcha final boss. I’m sweating
Captcha asking to type animal or bird name from three listed words which are salmon, bebop, and lemur
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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
If 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...
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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Publication 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...
Abstract for a paper entitled "The Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP): Methods and Preliminary Findings." Abstract says the paper discuss Roman republican coin series with sequential numerical control marks and a group of recut dies.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
If 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.
Homeland Security tweets: It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.
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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Found 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
Series of four Roman republican coins that share the same obverse die but have reverses signed by four different moneyers
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
COLUMBIA ALUMNI PULL UP! docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Alumni Letter to the CU Trustees
TO 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...
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Do you think snakes think legs are dumb
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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Registration 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...
Coins, Counting, and Community: Exploring Deep Data from the Roman Republican Die Project
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Subargenteus @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...
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Counterfeits, Imitations, and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii | Warsaw Studies in Archaeology
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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
What 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.
Coin of Hadrian
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I 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
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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Bumping this with the hope that a senator might see it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025
i 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
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Your 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.
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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Random 🏺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!
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya
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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
If 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
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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Me: 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 🫥
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Me, 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? #PHEthx
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Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision
The 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...
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
My 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!
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Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124) | University of Oslo
Job title: Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 16, 2025
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This 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.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Please 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
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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:
meme showing ma looking at 2145661(1) PDF file while other girl named 2145661.PDF looks on angrily
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Do you think fish know they’re weird
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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 04/12/2024
What if, and like hear me out right, universities *didn’t* run like businesses which need to turn a profit.
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a 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 .
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Alexandria 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!
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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In 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...
A page and a half of written text with footnotes discussing Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (a banana taped to a wall) and it’s value on the art market.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Love 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
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It’s okay to be rude to people who want you to die
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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
another 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.......
a medieval illustration of a monk wearing dark glasses and robes, throwing dice across a table with a devil-may-care look on his face
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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
There 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!
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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is probably the right decision. We hope it will encourage people to try other sites. *cough*OSTIA*cough* www.independent.co.u...
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‘Fragile’ Pompeii to cap daily tourist numbers at 20,000 to protect the site
Nearly four million people visited the main Pompeii site in 2023, a third more than the previous year
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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
So I've begun a numismatics starter pack. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/P9WBQpf
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Alice Sharpless @asharpless.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Baby faced demon with horns and a yellow t-shirt with an apple on it (Sweetpea from Adventure time) with a large white speech bubble directed at the quoted tweet
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Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Say what you like about Nero but the man had impeccable taste
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Lennart 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 ?
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