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Fulbright board resigns citing interference by Trump administration All members of the board that oversees the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Program, which facilitates international educational exchanges, have voted to resign over alleged political interference from President Donald Trump's administration, the board said on Wednesday.

I may currently be on the last of the Fulbright grants as we’ve known them:

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Anti-Trump protests planned in D.C.-area on day of military parade Organizers nationwide and in D.C. are organizing demonstrations.

"No Kings" protest organizers are encouraging everyone to get out of DC for day on June 14. Where are you going? #nokings

Dan Diffendale Follow Carthaginian warship ram (Egadi 3) from the Battle of the Aegates Islands, 1 Bronze with high lead content Mid 3rd c. BCE (terminus ante quem 10 March 241 BCE) Discovered in the sea west of Levanzo in the Isole Egadi The ram bears a Punic inscription, a prayer to the god Baal: "Let this [ram] be aimed at the ship: with Baal's wrath, that permits the target to be reached, let go and hit the decorated shield in the center" (per label in Bonn). In the collection of the Soprintendenza del Mare, Palermo, Inv. 3912 Photographed on display in the exhibit "Im Meer Versunken: Sizilien und die Unterwasserarchäologie" (October 10, 2017-June 24, 2018) at the LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn. Photo by Dan diffendale via Flickr

Naval rostra (rams) were excav. off Sicily from the Battle of the Egadi islands (241 BCE). Roman inscriptions note the quaestors; the Punic one reads:

“Let this [ram] be aimed at the ship: with Baal's wrath, that permits the target to be reached, let go and hit the decorated shield in the center"

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil.

Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

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New Eos" Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome Newsletter 06/07/2025 @eosafricana.bsky.social @scsclassics.bsky.social mailchi.mp/dbf8de784262...

Total Persons Disappeared by ICE: 4,535

United States Disappeared Tracker: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

These are our colleagues, humanities friends. The needless cruelty of it all.

2,800-year-old royal tomb discovered near King Midas' home in Turkey Turkey's minister of culture and tourism announced the discovery of a new tomb in an eighth-century-B.C. city that was the homeland of King Midas.

New tomb excavated at Gordion! 🏺🧪

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Judge says administration can dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has denied a request to halt the Trump administration’s further dismantling of an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the country.

"Judge says administration can dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services" The destruction of IMLS will have a devastating impact on small regional museums & libraries across America, many of which depend on these grants to operate. Some may not survive. apnews.com/article/inst...

Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts on Steam Run your manuscript workshop, receive orders to illustrate medieval books, decorate them any way you like, send them back to clients to get paid, and unlock new jobs, decorations, and items. Welcome t...

And for my Medieval archaeogaming friends: this is Scriptorium, a game in which you get to illustrate your own manuscripts, with each decorative element based on real medieval manuscript art!
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is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data

It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info

Enjoy!

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈

Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

Know someone who wants to teach Latin in Chapel Hill? The school district has 2 positions open, one at the middle school and one at the high school level.

(Just posting as a parent whose kids really want to keep taking Latin!)

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$105 Million Reparations Package for Tulsa Race Massacre Unveiled by Mayor

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.

Led by Senator Warren, Mass. lawmakers demand answers about Trump’s ongoing attack on international students - The Boston Globe Since early March, more than 4,700 international students at 160 colleges across 48 states have had their legal status in the United States terminated, often without notice or obvious cause.

MAJOR UPDATE: The Trump administration has been BLOCKED in court from kicking out Harvard’s international students.

This fight is about defending students and protecting America's economic advantage to attract the best and brightest from around the world.

Something's up (down?) at #UNC.

The Bd of Trustees, which has authority over tenure decisions, tabled all at its March mtg & re-tabled all from the College of Arts & Sciences & the non-health professional schools (Law, Biz, etc) at its next mtg. All w/o explanation.

#AcademicSky #academicfreedom

Archaeologists uncover multi-period sanctuary at Khirbat Balu'a in Karak | Jordan Times
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Holding a hearing at 1:00 AM? What is it? They’re hiding? Good opportunity for us to all set our alarms and get up for a little midnight popcorn & airing of the truth.

Registration is now half full for our first-ever Friends of ASOR tour in Chicago on September 18 and 19 for an exclusive behind-the-scenes experience. Space is limited, so grab your spot today. Registration and details can be found here: buff.ly/RPZoI6Z

Hatnefer's heart scarab: An exquisite ancient Egyptian gold necklace inscribed with the Book of the Dead A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Hatnefer's heart scarab: An exquisite ancient Egyptian gold necklace inscribed with the Book of the Dead | Live Science
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I just heard about this opportunity at OSU for someone who could lecture in Arabic and also teach a course on decipherment of ancient scripts! We must have some followers with the right sorts of interests.

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Check out the full list of languages courses offered this summer, including Classical Ethiopic, Old Church Slavonic, Sahidic Coptic, Mycenaean, Manichaean Parthian, Bakhtiari, and many others!

Love this. The journal Behavioral Medicine has a call for papers from terminated public health grants:

The Terminated Public Health Science Issue

Check it out: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

New book alert:
"Readers of the Lost Ark" explores the different ways people have interpreted and made sense of the Ark from ancient times to the present, in biblical literature, theological discourse, popular film, travel souvenirs, toys, and more
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Poetic justice for the Parthenon marbles | Apollo Magazine In ‘Frieze Frame’, A.E. Stallings collects the responses of poets and artists to the marbles. She explains to Fatema Ahmed why they now deserve a new lease of life

In her book ‘Frieze Frame’, A.E. Stallings collects the responses of poets and artists to the Parthenon marbles since the early 19th century. She talks to Fatema Ahmed about why the sculptures now deserve a new lease of cultural life