Mikki Brock

Ancient Roman Military Officers Had Pet Monkeys, And The Pet Monkeys Had Pet Piglets Some monkeys also had their own puppies and kittens.

This new headline about findings from Roman Berenice is doing the most. 🐒 🐖 www.iflscience.com/roman-milita...

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

‘ICE was here’: Dedham church sparks outrage over nativity scene with political message A Dedham church is causing controversy over another political statement in their Nativity scene this holiday season.

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place.

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The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys “If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

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Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it.

I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.

10/10, no notes. Career goals.

A right of passage for Medieval English monarchs, even!

This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention

you know what? good advice.

Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!

I feel this in my bones.

Thank you!

Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age Explore our latest publication Art Deco Scotland. An exploration of Scottish architecture in the Jazz Age. Saltire 2025 winner. Shop now at stor.scot.

Also: the winner in my category looks absolutely fascinating (and gorgeous!), and I already have a copy on the way. Massive congrats to author Bruce Peter and publisher Historic Environment Scotland. Can’t wait to read this!

It was such an honor to be shortlisted for Scotland’s Research Book of the Year. I was sorry to miss the ceremony, but I was cheering everyone on from my side of the pond. Huge congratulations to all of the winners—so well-deserved.

(I too am just delighted by the illustration on the program!)

Oh what a wonderful illustration of the cover! Thanks so much for attending, and congratulations to all the nominees and winners!!

yes! I'd chalk this up in part to the ongoing influence of the imagery of Leviathan (the original demonic sea monster!)?. Such fascinating stuff. If you ever want to write/edit a book on the supernatural and the sea...I know a good series! (our new one at MUP :)

This is so fun. I have a student who’s doing a seminar paper on “demonic” sea monsters, and both of these figures are featuring heavily.

“POTENTIALLY DIVISIVE.” Gtfoh.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.

Late 17th-century English needlework showing typical labours of the month. Focus shows a woman picking apples in October, and a woman spinning in November.

Line graph titled Autumn Sectors shows an indexed monthly distribution of Commerce and Food Processing Tasks where 100 is the monthly average and both Commerce and Food Processing rise during the autumn quarter of October, November and December to an annual height of over 140 in December.

Cosy season is well upon us

Curl up w/ a warm drink & NEW post on CUP's blog:

The #Autumnal Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England

This seasonal celebration of our new book features apples & pears, cider & ale, meat & markets, & the #Christmas milling craze
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Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.

Worlds Turned Upside Down History Podcast · Monthly Series · Worlds Turned Upside Down tells the story of the American Revolution as a transatlantic crisis and imperial civil war through the lives of people who experienced it....

Just in case you'd rather listen to the American Revolution then scramble to find the login for your PBS app, may I offer you something that will leave your Worlds Turned Upside Down?

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what a wonderful photo and event, in celebration of a fantastic book! Congratulations again!

However we respond to this sort of news, it’s essential to keep in mind that there are *fantastic* scholars working at these institutions. What is happening to universities in Texas and elsewhere is heartbreaking.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."