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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Academic peeps: Creating a map for publication: suggestions on how to produce map for publication? For class lectures I just grab scans & attribute sources, but never had to produce map for publication. Tips from start to end, people who can create (for pay), all suggestions welcome here or email.

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Academic citation questions re-Kindle format: What is accepted citation format for references to Kindle versions of a book? Pagination appears to change depending on font size, making it impossible to reference check. Are there embedded markers in Kindle formats to which one might securely link?

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Tarini Grace @candidkitten.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Since polio vaccines may be considered “optional,” do you enjoy the following? Walking, being warm, having energy, driving normally, sports, travel, functional bowel and bladder, strong bones If you enjoy any of the above, then polio vaccines are not optional, they’re common sense #polio #vaccines

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I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It.

Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Third thing sent back to editors. Next up a short write-up and dissertation reading and review.

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Another thing sent back to editors. One more to go.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Planning to spam the timeline for the next 2 weeks to make sure as many people as possible can get a copy during the free period. Stay tuned for increasingly unhinged posts as I find ways to amuse myself

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Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

Cambridge Core - Economic History - Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Just sent a thing back to the editors. Two things crept up to fill its place!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 25/03/2025

We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper. Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.

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Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We are offering two FREE, online semi-intensive short courses in #Phoenician and Punic #language in April 🏛️ 🏺 Elementary course info: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/eleme... Intermediate course info: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/inter... Share and Apply by 22 March!

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Elementary Phoenician – Grammar and Inscriptions

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LeftIdaho4Good @leftidaho4good.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

vaccinate your child. As a survivor of the measles, I lost much of my eyesight but am guaranteed immunity. My son, as an adult, just went and received a booster to ensure the 97% effectiveness that he can have with the vaccine. It is a PREVENTABLE DISEASE.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 24/02/2025

It's hard to describe what a feat this is, and shouldered by a much smaller group than the folks who captured the data. @asegerberg.bsky.social has been chipping away at this database for years. Rescuing data is hard, but curating & publishing it is a much harder, lonely slog. Prepare for it.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet shaped a bit like a diamond. Although it is only a fragment, the cuneiform text on it is well-preserved. There is a vertical line down the centre which indicates it once had at least two columns. The colour is reddish brown

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

editor asked for acceptance of a number of small changes. done and thing sent back.

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Making a note of this to include as part of the "what constitutes academic integrity and responsibility" in my next syllabus.

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

(Signatures are being added manually from the Google Form because of trolls and spam, so don’t worry if your sig doesn’t show up right away. I signed late yesterday and the list hasn’t been updated.)

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Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com · 19/12/2024

Wish you could enjoy watching the Poor Man of Nippur in its original language of Akkadian? You can! The Assyriology community at the University of Cambridge completed this project a few years back and it is a certified classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYo...

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The Poor Man of Nippur - World's first film in Babylonian

YouTube video by Cambridge Archaeology

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Fall 2024 semester is now in the books. Proofs have been sent back to editor. Another "thing" has been submitted. A few days rest and then planning for Spring 2025 and a big project.

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Jen (they/them) says Free Link @knifeboots.xyz · 19/12/2024

"We’re so primed in these moments to take in dangerous messages, to believe disabilities are problems to be solved rather than attributes to be understood, sometimes mitigated against and always supported."

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Augusta McMahon @augustamcmahon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#Assyriology postdoc opportunity at ISAC UChicago with the #Nippur Tablet Collection. 🏺 Deadline end of January. apply.interfolio.com/160845 EOE/Vet/Disability

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

NYU Campus Security and Administration is totally out of control. On Wednesday - I filmed a peaceful protest in Bobst library for two hours. Yesterday at 2pm while at home, I received an email explaining that I’ve been designated “persona non grata” and banned from several buildings on campus.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

New research uses computational linguistics to map words for emotion used alongside words for body parts in cuneiform texts from 934-612 BCE. Fascinating method and findings. Where in the body did people feel or express fear, joy, pride, sadness, shame, and more? www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Embodied emotions in ancient Neo-Assyrian texts revealed by bodily mapping of emotional semantics

Neuroscience; Linguistics; History

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Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

Art store has sale on sculpey, just in time to stock up for the first day of scribal school!

Cuneiform sign list, packages of clay and wooden sticks to use as stylii

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

Grades are submitted. Let summer reading, research, writing and travel begin!

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Thing sent! Only a week after the promised extended deadline.

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Second data center fail on campus within a week. WiFi down plus other systems. Guess everyone better keep their phones charged and have backup battery ‘cuz it’s gonna be phone as hotspot day

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Classes start tomorrow. Students still registering for Mesopotamian History.

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

I hear your grandfather's voice in your comment.

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Otto Neugebauer is in the Sunday NYT x-Word puzzle! #cuneinerds

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Course poster prepared. Now for the course ...

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

A wonderful, diverse resource! (full disclosure, I have contributed to it)

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

In spite of the cloud cover, which thwarts any attempt to view the annular eclipse (without having planned in advance to drive 3+ hours to reliably in lousy areas), it is getting noticeably darker.

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I'm looking forward to reading @blindscholar.bsky.social's article "Not Seeing, Unseeing and Blind" just out in the new issue of JBL. Congratulations, Eric!

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Sans fonts make editing xml SO hard.

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) has scheduled 3 "Expanding the Ancient World" events that offer professional development opportunities for teachers: isaw.nyu.edu/outreach/eta.... Topics: The Sogdians; Greece, Egypt, and the Body; and Nomads in World History. AncientBlueSky

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