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Gina Konstantopoulos

@gvkonsta.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies in NELC at UCLA. Sumerian, religion & magic, demons, exorcism, and monsters. Also posts about walking in LA and my idiot cats.

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Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 6h
I remember getting the 'why do you' version of this question once when I, contingent postdoc, was interviewing for a permanent position. I answered well enough but it really took a lot to not go 'I've got less than a year on my current contract, why do you think?'
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Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 6h
My apartment in LA does not have AC, which means I currently consist almost entirely of sweat, spite, and mikan-flavoured popsicles
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Annihilation always makes Halloween lists, so I thought I'd do a thread of creepy reads. Starting today with a flat-out modern masterpiece, Max Lury's No Ghosts. Thoroughly contemporary and disturbing grounded in deep characterization, and, in part, outdoing Back Rooms while also its own thing. 1
No Ghosts in lower left, Max Lury in lower right. White hand reaching down, two eye holes in the wrist.
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rectangular sticker that shows a simulation of the Oregon Trail game screen with the wagon and below it says you have died from American salad
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Greek system should be put to the torch and the earth salted so nothing can grow in its place.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us
Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1: 
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
YOU COULD HIRE SO MANY FUCKING TENURE TRACK FACULTY FOR THIS. SON OF A BITCH.
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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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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one, we see a man sitting at a restaurant table. He is sweating. He says "Y-you have beautiful eyes".
The second panel zooms in on the man's face. He says, "I'm sorry. I'm just so nervous."
In panel three we see that a biblically accurate angel is sitting on the other side of the table.
In panel four we zoom in on the angel's face, who says "BE NOT AFRAID".
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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
They made sad beige toys for children, from the popular short form internet video series “Don’t make sad beige toys for sad beige children, by Werner Herzog” youtu.be/KqnBkwDuYI0?...
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Best of Sad Beige Werner Herzog
YouTube video by Sad Beige
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Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraleigh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
people explaining how much they love their cats has got to be my favorite genre of posts. like, yes. please talk about your angels with me. share pictures. tell me all their habits. i want my bsky experience to be folks loving their cats.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.
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Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The non-hard surfaces in my entire apartment basically include: the couch and a small rug next to the couch and yet! and yet
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Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Academic job alert! TT assistant professor in Assyriology/Cuneiform Studies at Berkeley: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05496
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
Assistant Professor -Assyriology (Cuneiform Cultures)- Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And the other 3 months we are expected to do the unpaid work of research and writing and course prep for the sake of our career, as opposed to the paid and supported parts of our job.
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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is documentary
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think I've put enough structures in place in my classes that I'm not going to bother hunting AI work. There are consequences, they are clear and they are drastic, but if I catch you, well, you get the hammer, and if I don't, you're wasting your money and your potential and your education.
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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This! Once you steal all the existing analysis and feed it into the machine and tell everyone to use the machine, where will the new analysis come from?
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
those rolling stacks you'll find in any big state school library
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Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I just sneezed and spooked Tinycat next to me, so that's my evening
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
August as an academic
Tabbycat in tie say he hopes he doesn’t have a lot of meetings… while in the background is a lots of meetings factory
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 21/07/2026
just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Does anyone have favorite references on the interdisciplinarity penalty (people doing interdisciplinary work are underrewarded in their appointing departments, run centers and degrees without resources or dedicated hires, go to double committee meetings, etc.)?
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Benoit Blanc (incredulous): Is this nominally august chamber even fully cognizant of how many of its number have slipped the veil?
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/07/2026
i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I know it’s a weird thing to say. But I saw both Labyrinth and Legend in the theater when I was 7 and I was never the same human again as I was before. Those movies came out two months apart, by the way. Nobody asked 1986 to go as hard as it did. 1986 didn’t give a fuck it came to party.
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Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
In the entirety of my apartment, I have one small rug under a coffee table. Everything else is tile/bare floor. Guess where the floofs throw up 90% of the time just guess
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/07/2026
Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.
Megan Rapinoe
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Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Revisiting an old talk on the history of Assyriology and realized I missed out on the chance to use this for George Smith and his 1876 mid-excavation demise and I may never recover:
Image of old green-and-black Oregon Trail screen showing the text "You have died of dysentery"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well,
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
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Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
On repeat to set the mood for the day (okay, toss-up between this and "Guillotine" by Arcana) www.youtube.com/watch?v=im9F...
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Beautify the Bootstraps
YouTube video by Kata - Topic
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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy Independence Day
A drawing of Patience and Fortitude, the  stone lions that guard the entrance to the New York Public Library. Between them is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut: "The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
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Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Today's tangent: translating some lines of Sumerian has required a good 20 minutes on the pros/cons of sprouting grains. still not sure about the pros/cons but it has helped settle the translation, so there is that
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026
NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforeGoogle's total energy consumption more than new zealand
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I am not certain, but I think this might be the greatest thread (and greatest use of alt text) of all time.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2026
Everyone should be extremely concerned that birthright citizenship was 5-4 and not unanimous.
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
A bouquet of flowers next to a stack of books that includes:

Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press)
Sunward by William Alexander (Saga Press)
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (Tor Books)
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta (DAW Books)
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Slow Gods by Claire North (Orbit)
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Reporting live from New York
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Lenin Rises: Must Crush Capitalism!
Alt: Lenin Rises: Must Crush Capitalism!
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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/06/2026
‘You are legally required to be indoctrinated at the Center for Intellectual Freedom’
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 15/06/2026
You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."
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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Every time I’m in Central Park I get so mad at LA golf courses all over again
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Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
+whole poem linked in comments
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/06/2026
"I know this might seem surprising coming from me, but considering that the price of bread is currently skyrocketing, Trump spending millions on a red, white, and blue drenched octagon is a real slap in the face to John Q. Plebeian."
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I am Emperor Caligula, and Even I Think the White House UFC Event is a Bit Much
“I know this might seem surprising coming from me. And don’t get me wrong, I’m no stranger to bread and circuses. But considering that the price of bread is ...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
hey its actually a gigantic problem that 1 of the 2 major political parties in this country are consistently claiming any election they dont win has been “stolen” or “rigged”
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