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University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi · 16/09/2026

Mitä antiikin ajan vessakirjoitukset opettavat ihmisistä? Antiikin tutkija Laura Nissin kertoo, mitä käymälät kertovat kreikkalais-roomalaisesta elämästä ja kulttuurihistoriasta. Kuuntele jakso #[open.spotify.com/episode/1spb...

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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Have a topic of broad importance that you would like to tackle using archaeological evidence? Would you like to bring a team of archaeologists together to do so? CfAS is launching a Synthesis Design Grants scheme for 2027 ! Proposals due 15 October. #archaeology www.archsynth.org/project/synt...

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Synthesis Design Grants - CfAS

Anyone with an idea for a synthesis project can now apply for a Synthesis Design Grant that will fund a Design Workshop.

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Cluster of Excellence ROOTS @clusterroots.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

You are researching how past societies have experienced, managed, and adapted to population decline? The CCSA Kiel together with the CfAS is calling for applications for a Design Workshop. The deadline is 07 September. More information: tinyurl.com/jdxw9mjd

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Call for Applications: Design Workshop on Understanding Population Decline in the Past to Inform Societal Futures - CfAS

Call for Applications open for Design Workshop on Understanding Population Decline in the Past to Inform Societal Futures

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Samuli Simelius @simelius.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Got a new book! Many interesting chapters on experiencing space in the past, including chapters dealing with Roman administration and republicanism - one of them mine.

Book: Experiencing space: Roman, Byzantine, and Medieval context

First page of my chapter: Magistrates in the Domus; Modelling Pompeian Houses

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Arctos – Acta Philologica Fennica Vol. 59 (2025 journal.fi/arctos/issue... #openaccess @anttiijaes.bsky.social @simelius.bsky.social

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Samuli Simelius @simelius.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

New article: "Reframing Pompeii: Population Debates and Inequality beyond Conventional Models,”Arctos 59, 2026. There is some critique, but also new results - for example, Gini estimates of Pompeii's income inequality. 1/3

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Samuli Simelius @simelius.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The modern West is once again competing with the Romans in inequality. 🏘️🏛️

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Nikolai Paukkonen @npkk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/fi-FI/page/6... Tervetuloa seuraamaan väitöstäni arkeologian alalta 5.6. klo 12 Helsinkiin. Tilaisuutta voi seurata myös etänä. Vastaväittäjänä toimii prof. Jari Pakkanen, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Helsingin yliopiston tapahtumakalenteri

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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In a new article for @antiquity.ac.uk, we find that a quantitative analysis of housing at Mohenjo-daro, one of the world’s first cities, reveals that inequality sharply declined over time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Inequality declined in the Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Inequality declined in the Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro

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Pompeii Linked Open Data @p-lod-bot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

New Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP) website is live. Try "Mythological Figure": palp.art/browse/#myth... . There's work to do. Exploring what the interface can and should be is absolutely part of the ongoing project...

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Testing new UI for Pompeii Artistic Landscape (PALP). Try p-lod.github.io/palp-client-... . Earliest stages! Slow! Barest functionality! But "Type Ahead" beginning to work. Try 'ar...' or 'ha..." in input in header. You might have to hit return even after choosing word. cc @epoehler.bsky.social

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Kamil Kopij @kkopij.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Our newest results from the project. Using 3d models we found that changes to the Forum Romanum by Caesar and Augustus reduced the visibility of speakers. At the same time they separated hypothetical crowds of two simultaneous events @ncn.gov.pl www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Hand gestures and the oratorical taskscape of Late Republican and Augustan Forum Romanum in Rome | Journal of Roman Archaeology | Cambridge Core

Hand gestures and the oratorical taskscape of Late Republican and Augustan Forum Romanum in Rome - Volume 38 Issue 2

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Thrilled to be guest editing the blog this month for a series on all things Roman gardens! Check out the first post featuring the wonderful Kaja Tally-Schumacher 👇

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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

What do archaeologists and ecological economists have in common? Both disciplines know that GDP is problematic, and that we can learn more about human economies by measuring their material worlds To bring these disciplines together, we are guest editing a collection for JAMT. #sustainability

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ewan coopey @euuanxcvi.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

In an effort to convince everyone posthumanism isn't scary I will be presenting 'Posthumanist Roman archaeology? Revisiting the Roman military community concept' as part of this year's @tracconference.bsky.social webinar series on 31/03/2026 17:00 BST Register www.ticketsource.co.uk/theoretical-...

several fragments of large rectangular Roman funerary tombstones arranged on a wall with a garden in the background

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Sami Syrjämäki @samisyrjamaki.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Töitä tarjolla Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnassa! Haemme läheistä kollegaa minulle tiedejulkaisemisen näköalapaikalle. Linkki hakuilmoitukseen kommenteissa.

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British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

📢 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Rome! The Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell’arte in Roma (coordinated by École française de Rome) offers two 6-month fellowships in 2026–2027. bsr.ac.uk/open-call-un...

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Open Call | Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell’arte in Roma - bsr.ac.uk

The Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell’arte in Roma (coordinated by École française de Rome) offers two 6-month fellowships in 2026–2027. 🔹 Conduct research at t...

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Please sign the #petition to save the wonderful Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet, 远东博物馆) which holds - among many other things - material from the earliest scientific archaeological excavations ever to be conducted in #China kampanj.skiftet.org/medelhavsmus...

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Rädda Medelhavsmuseet

Medelhavsmuseet och Östasiatiska riskerar att stängas för gott. En hyreshöjning på 57% tar knäcken på kulturen.

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Dr Lewis Webb @lewismarkwebb.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... @universitypress.cambridge.org #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

Cover image for edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic'. Depicts detail of a gilt bronze statue of a Roman woman. Pergola, Italy. c. 70-30 BCE.

Book description: In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case studies of individual women, such as Licinia, wife of C. Gracchus, Mucia Tertia, Fulvia and Octavia Minor, with broader surveys of the institutional frameworks and social conventions that constrained and enabled women's wealth and its consequences. The book contributes to the recent upsurge of interest in re-evaluating the role of women in Republican Rome and will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.

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Tiedetäti (Dr. Laura Nissin) @tiedetati.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Yhteishaku mielessä? Haluatko oppia ymmärtämään maailmaa syvällisesti? Kehittää kriittistä ajattelua? Hankkia relevanttia kielitaitoa ja muita tulevaisuuden taitoja? Lähde opiskelemaan antiikintutkimusta! Ks. vinkkejä os. antiikintutkimus.fi/yliopisto-op...

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Yliopisto-opiskelu – Antiikintutkimuksen verkosto (Ave)

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Cluster of Excellence ROOTS @clusterroots.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

On 17 + 18 July, a conference organised by our "Urban ROOTS" subcluster will focus on "Dynamics of urbanity. Configurations of boundaries in pre-modern cities". If you are conducting research in this area and would like to submit your own contribution, you can do so until 28 February! #CallForPapers

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Conference: "Dynamics of urbanity. Configurations of boundaries in pre-modern cities"

Organised by the Subcluster “Urban ROOTS” | Call for papers open until 28 February 2026

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

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Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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Samuli Simelius @simelius.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Abstract deadline approaching!

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Tiedetäti (Dr. Laura Nissin) @tiedetati.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Tieteessä tapahtuu -lehden mainio juttu Suomen Rooman-instituutin merkityksestä (by @uulis.bsky.social). Koko juttu suositeltavaa luettavaa. Tähän lainaan jutusta vain itseäni, koska tietenkin: 1/2

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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Is #inequality the price of "development"? Many economists have long been guided by the idea that as societies become more "developed" they become more unequal. Our new paper challenges this idea. History is not a one-way street. #Archaeology 🧵(1/4) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Kuznets at -7000: Is there a really long-term relationship between growth and inequality?

We use archaeological data on house sizes to generate estimates for economic inequality and economic growth from the Early Holocene to about the first…

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Antiikintutkimuksen verkosto (Ave) @antiikintutkimus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Ave on mukana Tieteiden yössä! Torstaina 22.1. klo 18.00 järjestettävässä tilaisuudessa kuullaan, miten leijonat, temppelien pyhät kissat ja nykypäivän katukissat ovat kulkeneet ihmisen rinnalla antiikista meidän aikoihimme. Mukana myös valokuvanäyttely Kyproksen katukissoista. Ks. ohjelma:

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Tieteiden yö: Kissaeläinten historiaa ja nykyisyyttä itäisellä Välimerellä – Antiikintutkimuksen verkosto (Ave)

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Antiikintutkimuksen verkosto (Ave) @antiikintutkimus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Professori Christer Bruunin uusi tieteellinen monografiajulkaisu 𝘖𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘢 – 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺, 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘦’𝘴 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵: academic.oup.com/book/61735

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Ostia-by-the-Sea: Society, Population, and Identities in Rome’s Port

Abstract. The book is a historical study of the population of Rome’s harbour town Ostia, the society in which the Ostians lived, and the identities of thes

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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Check out this post-doc in landscape #archaeology here in York! This looks like amazing chance to engage with an understudied region, and build up critical African datasets, which can be used to address a whole host of #sustainability challenges. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

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Jobs - The University of York

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