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R F Kennedy (not Jr.)

@kataplexis.bsky.social
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Ancient Historian and Professor. First gen, public school, state college kid teaching at a SLAC. PhD OSU, BA UCSD. “Come on down here, third string. Let me show you how outclassed you are.” ~Full Metal Alchemist

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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
oh. cool! now to just finish the final revisions on the book so it hits production this summer.
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
it is teally nice to be appreciated sometimes. especially in an otherwise meh review bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04...
Each of these essays is a small gem, while it should also be said that Rebecca Futo Kennedy’s chapter on race and the metic must now be required reading for anyone interested in the continuing debate over the use of race as a category of analysis in ancient studies. Her provocative claim that metic became a racialized category in the 5th and 4th century is argued with great skill and is an exhilarating read.

In fact, it is the essays that develop novel and unexpected arguments that make the volume most exciting. Just as Futo Kennedy situates the legal category of metoikia within a broader kaleidoscope of contested statuses structured around inclusion and exclusion…
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
GOP Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz devised this off-ramp, Kennedy says on Fox: "Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, he said no. ‘No deals with the Democrats.’ It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the president said no deal."
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
After one owed book chapter and an abstract this summer, i should be able. It would be a good lead in to my next book project on ancient immigration across antiquity.
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Are we going to have to write that joint article?
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
oooooo. that looks good. I will look it up.
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
That crostini looks amazingly delicious.
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Oh. Check the UK site. It’s there.
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
on the website.
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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Now available for preorder, with promo code TCCCR2026, "The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race," a major intervention against the decades-old orthodoxy of the alleged anachronism of "race" and "racism" for the study of the ancient past. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
Cambridge Core - Classical Studies (General) - The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I just had virtually the same conversation with my nephew (humanities edition) - he’s graduating college in May and had wanted to go into academia but says it’s totally infeasible with so many departments not taking grad students and funding drying up. We’re losing an entire generation of scholars.
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jackiemurr.bsky.social @jackiemurr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Of course my first post on here will be shameless self-promotion. I have two books coming out imminently. Cambridge is offering 20% off until the end of April with this discount code TCCCR2026 www.cambridge.org/9781009295130
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
welcome!
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🚨🚨🚨 🇮🇱 BOMBED NEXT TO THE UNESCO SITE OF BAALBEK This adds to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 axis targeting of a series of heritage sites in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon over the past week (see post 👇 🧵)
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Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
How lovely to see mine & Sharon Macdonald’s article on “degrowing museum collections” in the top 10 most read of all time articles in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. No. 8! www.tandfonline.com/action/showM...
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Most read articles from International Journal of Heritage Studies
Explore the most read and downloaded articles published in International Journal of Heritage Studies
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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 09/03/2026
On March 5, 2026, Marion County Judge Christina R. Klineman made an existing temporary injunction permanent, ruling that the abortion ban imposes a substantial burden on religious exercise, and violates Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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Indiana's Religious Right to Abortion Wins in Court (Updated)
Judge recognizes Jewish pro-abortion religious beliefs.
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough. American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 09/03/2026
Haahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha.
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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
25 specialised panels at the International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Bologna, 30th Aug–4th Sept 2027) are seeking proposals of 20-minute papers. Deadline Sept 2026. Lots to choose from! site.unibo.it/epigrafia-gr...
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The 17th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy will be held in Bologna from August 30 to September 4, 2027
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
1. Ancient Greek and Persian History 2. Roman History 3. Ancient Historians 4. Ancient Drama 5. Ancient Gender and Sexuality 6. Ancient Race and Ethnicity 7. Ancient Art/Modern Politics (Hitler, Mussolini, Confederacy) 8. First Year Ancient Greek 9. Advanced Ancient Greek (variety of texts/authors)
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Finally an Alexander maybe done right.
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Did you see that Jacob Tierney is going to be leading a new Alexander series for netflix? based on the golden mean.
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
He can only nominate.
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Connor Storrie as Alexander?
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I am so here for this. apple.news/AK71IjhFFQFm...
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'Heated Rivalry' Creator Jacob Tierney Lands Alexander the Great Drama at Netflix — The Hollywood Reporter
The series is based on Annabel Lyon’s 2009 novel ‘The Golden Mean’ about the relationship between the Macedonian ruler and the philosopher Aristotle.
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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
So their nuclear program grew back like Trump’s ear?
Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting a CNN segment. The text shows a back-and-forth between Collins and Mullin discussing whether something described as “obliterated” is being rebuilt. The embedded image shows a CNN studio set labeled “The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” with Collins seated across from a male guest. A lower-third banner reads, “Massive military buildup looms over Iran talks.”
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
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UI African American, Gender Studies faculty prepare for program closures
University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of "low-enrollment" degrees and majors ...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Tom Nichols: “There are people in the Republican Party who think it’s a hoot to post Nazi memes and to use language from the Third Reich, and I wrote it because we can’t keep ignoring this and pretending that it’s normal. The Republicans in fact do have a Nazi problem.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files. This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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🇺🇲💥🧨‼️🦅Diana🦅‼️🧨💥🇺🇲 @citiesbydiana.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
#alysaliu WOKE IS BACK BABY MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...
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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
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Kelly Gregory @kellygregory.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Had to be at least a decade ago that a NPR show hosted a historian who had published a book on the Stasi and the SS. It turned out the SS et al., had not been the magical intelligence machines at all but had relied almost entirely on neighbors lining up to rat out each other.
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Al Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Study proves what we’ve already know, Elon has turned Twitter into a right wing propaganda fire hose. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao
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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 20/02/2026
It is almost as if this could apply to all the corporatization of youth sports. Let kids (and I mean all the way up to ... and through? ... college) have fun. Don't keep making youth sports a scholarship/trophy case monstrosity.
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
So we are skipping the obvious Teen Spirit?
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Loved watching the women’s figure skating today. So much joy on ice. I’ll need to watch a replay of the women’s hockey, too.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/02/2026
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/02/2026
NEWS: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to life in prison after a court found him guilty of leading an insurrection tied to his 2024 martial law declaration that triggered a constitutional crisis and military raid on the National Assembly.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/02/2026
trollmaxxing to the maxx.
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RavenMae @ravenmae.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I think we found the official title for @leavesdancing.bsky.social
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Re-upping for the evening crew
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Nooooooo! Love this elephant.
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I had not imagined this — admittedly — very conventional reading of the end of the poem was at all problematic, still less a form of “activist” teaching, a sin against God, or an incitement to civilizational suicide.”
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