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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is a coincidence that I'm teaching today my argument that the Roman Republic defined citizenship based on who wasn't allowed to be raped (gradually expanding categories of male and female citizens based on social status) &, conversely, who had the privilege to rape enslaved people & foreigners.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Does anyone know if any more information about this Golden Horde Jesus hat than this blurb from archaeology magazine? I tried looking for publications by the scholar referenced here but came up short. archaeology.org/issues/may-j...

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Digs & Discoveries - Mongol Fashion Statement - Archaeology Magazine - May/June 2015

The Golden Horde, a group of Mongols who conquered much of Eastern Europe in the […]

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Call me Amy Acton ‘cause ya girl just tripped over a dog gate #ohio

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Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Andy Beshear has an entire chapter in his new book about backing the LGBTQ community and it's worth a read. He talks about how the anti-trans ads were tested in KY during his election and how vetoing anti-trans legislation didn't hurt his reelection campaign.

However the anti-trans ads had less to do with Kentucky and more to do with the fact that we were in an election. Terry Schilling, the head of the APP, decided to test the ads in our election to determine whether or not the issue could win votes for the Republican Party. Earlier in the summer of 2019, Scholling had partnered with a behavioral science firm to try to find a wedge issue that resonated with suburban voters. That's right. The anti-trans ads did not come out of some firmly held conviction but was a purely political stance. Their research landed on trans athletes, specifically trans women, competing in women's sports. They tested their theory in the 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial general election. Although I won, APP considered their test successful, because their research showed the ads delivered thirteen thousand votes for Trump Lite, which made the race tighter than anticipated.

You might hask how, in this political climate, I was reelected after vetoing the anti-trans bill. Because people respect authentic faith. The day I vetoed it, I explained my why. I said I believe all children are children of God and that I don't want people picking on these kids. I then countered their anti-trans ads with commercials talking about good jobs, healthcare, roads and bridges, public education, and

public safety. The result? The biggest win of my career. So don't tell me the Democratic Party should stop fighting for the rights of all people. Just explain your authentic why, and then get back to focusing on issues that touch all our lives on a daily basis.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We started fostering a black pug today, definitely didn’t already start calling him Rudy (short for Rutabaga)

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Remember in June when an AI-generated Starbucks campaign was so historically insensitive it forced every Starbucks to close for a day so each employee could take a history lesson? Anyways, maybe companies should start hiring historians.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I do trivia games for my lower div history classes and have them come up with team names. Yesterday’s winning team was: Gladiator? I barely knew her!

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I can provide data for why history is important, put lists of successful CEO’s & politicians who majored in history … but at the end of the day… I just think it’s important to remember people, as many as we can, simply *because* they were people. I think it’s our duty as humans to do that.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Have any male professors had student evals complaining that they talk too much in class? I’m trying to see something

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is that a puzzle in my office, why yes it is!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Don’t mind me, standing in the dairy aisle and googling everything in my shopping cart to make sure nothing has been recalled

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here

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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document

The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”

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Ashley Holden 🩷 M.Ed. @mrsholden2019.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So #MitchMcConnell just gets to be dead & no one cares anymore? He just keeps collecting a paycheck, taking unlimited time off & everyone shrugs? I'm a teacher fighting stage 4 #cancer & if I was even 10 minutes late to work, I'd hear about it. If I disappeared, didn't call in, I'd be unemployed.

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John Travolta Confused Meme

ALT: John Travolta Confused Meme

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Adina M. Yoffie @adinayoffie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Right. I know that no one understands what historians do, and very few people understand what humanities professors do, but even I have been surprised at the extent to which people here argue that a history professor is now also a classroom tech person, as though there is time for that.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My fav ice breaker for the first day of class is having half the class pair up with someone they don’t know on the other side of the room & they have to find something in common unrelated to college & then tell me what it is.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Everyone shut up, I’m watching Tim Curry show us the meaning of 🤌🏻cinema🤌🏻

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...

chronicle.com

Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook

Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“Let that sink in” is my latest AI-phrase cringe

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For those still following Covid rates, and lucky enough to live in states in the US that track wastewater rates, note that the 'very strong increase' continues through late summer for now, and it looks like school reopenings are now associated with higher rates than Christmas/New Year.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The Trump administration has dramatically ramped up the sale of America’s federally protected wild horses, and a NYT investigation found that some are ending up in the slaughter pipeline. The BLM rounds up wild mustangs from public lands and places them up for adoption or sale.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One time on the academic job market I had an online teaching demo & interview scheduled. A few days before, I needed an emergency appendectomy. When trying to reschedule they said they didn’t have other times so I did the interview & demo while recovering from surgery. I didn’t get the job

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/08/2026

“Between Mother Mary, The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey, The End Of Oak Street, and the upcoming Verity, not to mention the whole other slate of projects she has in preproduction, we estimate that Anne Hathaway films currently account for a staggering 63% of all U.S. exports,” said Jason Nadu

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Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On Anne Hathaway

NEW YORK—Calling the current rate of theatrical releases starring the actress “unsustainable,” top analysts warned Wednesday that the U.S. economy was becoming overly dependent on Anne Hathaway. “Betw...

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The longer you look at cursed AI middle school map the funnier it is

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+

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Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Well, this book review has absolutely made my day!!! Thank you, Canterbury Medieval Combat! medievalswordschool.co.uk/book-review-...

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Book Review: Gladiators in the Greek World: How a Roman Blood Sport Took Ancient Greece by Storm – Medieval Sword School (HEMA)

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

*buys pillow* *feed now full of dozens of ads for pillows using clearly AI-generated “physical therapists”*

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Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

you're in her DMs, I'm in her DMS. We are not the same (I am dead)

Photo of an ancient Latin inscription, beginning DMS (Dis Manibus Sacrum, "Sacred to the Shades of the Departed"), set up by a woman named Aurelia Iusta for herself while living as well as for her deceased husband Marcus Aurelius (not the emperor) and her deceased son Marcus Aurelius Aper.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There’s what, one article about Thomas Hubbard asking Jeffrey Epstein to fund his conference about rape? You know, Thomas Hubbard, who taught a class called the “Mythology of Rape,” and was awarded $700,000 to retire early after student protests.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On July 31, Simon Baron-Cohen urged people to tone down the rhetoric on twitter re Jason Arday, and pointed to his own research on autism and suicide. Alexander Kustov responded with "Shame" Elon Musk with "Evil," and a wide variety of people came out jeering. The kind of cruelty on display here.

Prof Ian Pace
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If an academic is in such a condition that public scrutiny of his (equally public) work may cause suicidal urges, then as a matter of urgency he should take leave and receive care. Using this threat to try and silence critics is about as low as it gets.
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In 2014 we published the first large-scale study of suicidality in autism, subsequently widely replicated, revealing that 1 in 4 autistic people have planned or attempted suicide. That’s why I’m very concerned about the impact of the media coverage on Professor Jason Arday who is

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This tweet reads like a spoof intent on painting academics in a bad light ...
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In 2014 we published the first large-scale study of suicidality in autism, subsequently widely replicated, revealing that 1 in 4 autistic people have planned or attempted suicide. That’s why I’m very concerned about the impact of the media coverage on Professor Jason Arday who is

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This is amazing. You can't call out plagiarism because SUICIDE.

This is the cheapest argument imaginable. It's what the trans movement did to shut down debate.

I've lost respect for Simon Baron-Cohen. He should be henceforth considered an absurd figure.
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In 2014 we published the first large-scale study of suicidality in autism, subsequently widely replicated, revealing that 1 in 4 autistic people have planned or attempted suicide. That’s why I’m very concerned about the impact of the media coverage on Professor Jason Arday who is

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I care deeply about people's mental health.

However, this is not a satisfactory defense for at least two reasons.

First, what about the mental health of the people who's work Arday stole?

What about Paula Zwozdiak-Myers? Women face an elevated risk for certain mental health
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
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Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“We don’t do this because it’s be easy. We do this because the Roman crimes in Sicily can never be forgiven.” This project has been amazing to watch and I think this is my favorite installment to date.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Showing students why not to rely on genAI for essays by seeing what Google AI thinks different ancient objects are. For this photo it said these are pipe stems made of animal or human bone like those “from the Anker site in Chicago” with “linear or carved markings.” ⭐️ if you know what it really is

Two objects on a white surface, they are long and thin and clearly hollow. There is writing on one of them which is difficult to make out but has the word REX on it

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In honor of I’m assuming a number of my students watching the Odyssey, I’ve decided to add my Luwians lecture for both my lower div classes.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Things I’m not loving right at this moment: -the color of the sky -the wind sheets of water falling from the sky -the thunder -my lack of basement

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists

One of those 'STOP DOING X' memes, ripping into archaeology. It has images of soil stratum, a trowel, and a flint shard. The text mocks archaeologists for digging for pottery sherds and saying everything has a 'ritual purpose'.

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Love when it’s dark and stormy and the glass door is foggy and THERE IS A HANDPRINT ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE GLASS IN THE LOCKED PORCH AREA WHAT THE HELL and the lights are flickering a little

Glass door with a distinct handprint on the outside

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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 09/08/2018

The bomb missed its mark by about 2 km; still 36-74,000 people were killed. Half of #Nagasaki destroyed.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 09/08/2018

#OnThisDay, Aug. 9 1945, another #nuclear bomb ('Fat Man', with a blast yield of 21 kt even stronger than #Hiroshima’s 'Little Boy' (14 kt) three days earlier) was dropped on #Nagasaki.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Love in the Time of Cyclospora

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