Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 8hI know language evolves, but the incandescent rage I feel about the ways the verb “curate” and the noun “curator” are misused… 120
Reposted by Emily Woodevery usps @everylot-usps.bsky.social · 13hPAPINEAU: 105 E PAPINEAU ST, PAPINEAU IL 60956-9800 0104
Reposted by Emily WoodClare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 20hbtw our tokens database is back up again and live after a period of migration! (And we are back to adding more and more to it!) coins.warwick.ac.ukcoins.warwick.ac.ukTAM — Tokens of the Ancient MediterraneanExplore thousands of ancient tokens and tesserae from Egypt, Italy, Athens, and Late Antiquity. An open-access numismatic catalogue. 063
Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 15/10/2026There’s only one more episode of this series of Slow Horses left and then it’ll probably be a whole year before the next series comes out and I think that we could all use it a little bit sooner than that. 090
Reposted by Emily WoodKristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 14/10/2026A new documentary on the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe airs tonight on PBS. I interviewed the lead archaeologist, Shadreck Chirikure, and if you click through, you can watch an exclusive clip showing the team's discovery of Longquan celadon from eastern China. 🧪🏺livescience.comChinese pottery discovered in Great Zimbabwe reveals medieval African empire's vast connections spanning thousands of milesArchaeologists excavating a medieval African kingdom have discovered pottery from eastern China, revealing connections across continents. 13869337
Reposted by Emily WoodDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 14/10/2026There appears to be a publication from early summer on this, not open access unfortunately and not read it yet myself, but media reports suggest YES there are sealed ceramics with organic residues 🤩 link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comPreliminary Report on the Early Bronze Age Shipwreck in the Kekova Region of Antalya - Journal of Maritime ArchaeologyIn 2024, Akdeniz University conducted a study of the Kekova region in the Demre district of Antalya, during which a shipwreck carrying Early Bronze Age amphorae was documented. The visible cargo compr... 413828
Reposted by Emily WoodDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This story is INSANE. Shipwreck dates to the Old Kingdom- those vessels are classic in their shape. Many vessels still have residue in them! Could be wine, oil, resins... we'll know soon. Enormous congratulations to the team and Dr Karin Sowada www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comWorld's oldest shipwreck found off Kekova Island in TurkeyArchaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age. 4485125
Reposted by Emily WoodJessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 14/10/2026"For so many years, there was a really strict line in the sand when it came to sports betting. Then the tide slowly began turning internally. It was very troubling for me to see the normalization of betting and ESPN’s complete acceptance of that, and finally, they just decided to go all in." 9487123
Reposted by Emily WoodKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"Guinea-Bissau has not approved the controversial hepatitis B study in newborns that would be funded by the US government & private partners, the African country’s minister of health said... He said officials in Guinea-Bissau were “surprised” to see media reports that the country had given approval”theguardian.comGuinea-Bissau denies it has approved controversial vaccine trial in newbornsHealth minister says government ‘did not authorize’ Danish-led hepatitis B trial in babies backed by RFK Jr 0183
Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Tonight’s Art Historian Science Time™️ is the NOVA episode on the history of treating cystic fibrosis and the amazing advances medicine has made. 061
Reposted by Emily Woodbobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026edition.cnn.comHackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food | CNNHackers raised the temperature of refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets to as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, causing fires and spoiling food. 7272741516
Reposted by Emily WoodScrivenerApp @scrivenerapp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Left with rogue extra spaces after editing a document? Use ‘Edit > Text Tidying > Replace Multiple Spaces with Single Spaces’. 031
Reposted by Emily WoodMolly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Looking forward to this workshop on Nov. 6 in Princeton at the IAS. Livestream option is available! #earlymodern #skystorians #EarlyModernSpain 13211
Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Did I just find an important email that someone sent me in March because I set up a folder with an automatic filter 13 years ago and I had completely forgotten about it? Yup, I sure did! 🫠 0120
Reposted by Emily WoodEmily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 19/10/2023It's decorative gourd season, motherf*ckers. (Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Autumn, 1573, Musée du Louvre) 16210
Reposted by Emily WoodArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 12/10/2026STIP: Center for Spain in America Curatorial Fellowship, Meadows Museum, Dallas arthist.net/archive/54586 arthist.netCenter for Spain in America Curatorial Fellowship, Meadows Museum, DallasPatricia. Meadows Museum, SMU (Dallas), 01.10.2027–01.10.2028, Bewerbungsschluss: 04.12.2026 011
Reposted by Emily WoodDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do" 52799371700
Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I miss a lot of things about Chicago and Open House Chicago is a big one. 050
Reposted by Emily WoodSarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 12/10/2026D257,150 - issued in 1980 for a design for a "tree cutter attachment for a tractor or like apparatus." #DesignPatents 051
Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 12/10/2026“In that memo…Miller said that during one month in early 2026, Canny had charged the center $30,000 in consulting fees. And in another month, Canny had charged over $28,000 in fees and travel expenses, including two first-class round-trip flights between Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.” 001
Reposted by Emily WoodMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I've been thinking a lot lately about this 1943 watercolor—Untitled (Police Beating)—by Norman Lewis. What's striking is not only depiction of violence, a subject for many Black artists, but also the onlooker who responds gleefully: recognition there will always be those who exult in state violence 923858
Reposted by Emily WoodThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/10/2026Breaking news: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop cutting down trees at East Potomac Golf Links after preservationists asserted that more than 500 were taken down and “hundreds more” were slated for removal.washingtonpost.comJudge halts tree removal at D.C. golf course that Trump has proposed overhaulingPlaintiffs had said “hundreds more” were slated for the ax, and the judge ordered a stop to all tree removal until 7 a.m. Tuesday or until she issues another order. 1113447
Reposted by Emily WoodAaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Only 18 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes a Digesta Vetus, a book on Papal coinags, more Avvisi, some letters, History by Æ. S. Piccolomini, conclave notes and more #MedievalSky #Skystorianswiglaf.orgVatican Manuscripts Added Week 40 of 2026A total of eighteen manuscripts were digitized this past week. Most came from the Ott.lat collection, contributing eleven. The rest were split between Barb.lat with five and Comb with the remaining ... 0114
Reposted by Emily WoodEmily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 05/09/2024Hendrick Andriessen, Vanitas Still Life, ca. 1650, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum 45011
Reposted by Emily WoodEmily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Juan de Valdés Leal, In Ictu Oculi, 1671–72, Hospital de la Caridad, Sevilla 0132
Reposted by Emily WoodChapps @chapps.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A remarkable ancient Iberian silver patera (offering dish) with a wolf devouring a human head (!), encircled with snakes. It’s surrounded by two friezes: one showing nine hunting scenes, the other a procession of male and female centaurs. In Iberian culture, the wolf was a psychopomp … 🏺 1/ 📸 me 541386
Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Fernão Mendes Pinto and kirin, late 19th-century, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum 081
Reposted by Emily Woodevery usps @everylot-usps.bsky.social · 11/10/2026OGILVIE: 200 N HILL AVE, OGILVIE MN 56358-4501 0102
Reposted by Emily WoodEmily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection 8580188
Reposted by Emily WoodEvan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026**Early European Music Now: A Symposium of Performance, Scholarship, and Practice** (4-6 February 2027) A symposium at the Folger Shakespeare Library marking the 50th anniversary of the Folger Consort with an exciting roster of presenters. Apply by *November 2, 2026*, for admission.folger.eduCurrent and Upcoming Folger Institute Scholarly Programs | Folger Shakespeare LibraryFolger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo... 043
Reposted by Emily WoodProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026NEW: Early on Aug. 25, the Tohono O’odham Nation received a one-minute notice from Border Patrol. A convoy of contractors — guarded by masked agents — was en route to conduct testing for a coming border wall. The tribe was warned: Do not interfere.propublica.orgAs Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and DronesFor decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their... 28755459
Reposted by Emily WoodKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“Instead of counting the “whole number of persons in each state,” as commanded by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, the count will be restricted solely to “citizens or lawful permanent residents of the US.” This excludes all foreign citizen residents who do not meet these criteria”statnews.comProposed U.S. census changes could be catastrophic for public health“Erasing data does not erase need or harm,” writes social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger. 0113
Reposted by Emily WoodJohn Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Looking for some reading for the long weekend? We suggest that you check out JCB Research Associate Brittany Erwin's new blog post, "Skeletons and Great Balls of Fire: Funeral Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire." jcblibrary.org/news/skeleto... 031
Reposted by Emily WoodMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern 111741
Reposted by Emily WoodJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“After a month of looking at these Renoirs,” said one suspected burglar, “we just couldn’t take it anymore.” 45711
Reposted by Emily WoodSociety for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 09/10/2026📢 Job opportunity: two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Art History ‼️ (1/4) 174
Reposted by Emily WoodChicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 09/10/2026“All of us want to see [DePaul Art Museum] open again as soon as possible,” said Brother Mark Elder, a muralist and art professor.chicago.suntimes.comStudents, faculty and neighbors press DePaul University to reopen its art museum 0217
Reposted by Emily Woodkelsey ables @kelseyables.bsky.social · 06/10/2026New: The White House is conditioning $190 million for the Smithsonian on compliance with its executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" through legally-binding footnotes in recent OMB apportionments. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...theatlantic.comThe White House Revives a Pressure Tactic Against the SmithsonianThe Trump administration is threatening $190 million in museum funding. 15218116