Carly Silver

Carly Silver

@carlyasilver.bsky.social

Editor, writer, museum-goer, researcher, public historian, globetrotter, bespectacled legend

564 Followers 586 Following 358 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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The horses of the Sun, Charles Le Brun, c. 1672-1674

(Musée du Louvre)

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Central Asian Caravan Woman Rousing her Camel While Nursing
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE TITLE
騎駱駝哺乳婦人俑
CULTURE
Chinese
DATE
8th century C.E.
MEDIUM
Earthenware with unfired coloring
DIMENSIONS
Overall: 16 × 18 × 11 inches (40.64 × 45.72 × 27.94 cm)
CREDIT LINE
Purchase: the Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts--Commerce Bank, Trustee, and Hall Family Foundation Endowment for the Oriental Department
OBJECT NUMBER
2002.7
ON VIEW
On view
GALLERY LOCATION
229
COLLECTIONS
East Asian Art
TERMS
ChineseCeramicsTang dynasty (618-906 C.E.)

Good afternoon and major props to this 8th century CE woman breastfeeding as she rides a Bactrian camel along the Silk Roads 🐫 art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3254...

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1 month ago
Matilda the bunny sitting on the edge of a yellow rug in my office. She is facing towards the camera, with her head turned slightly to the right so that we can see the left side of her head. Matilda the bunny sitting on the edge of yellow rug in my office. Her head is turned slightly to the left so that we can see the right side of her head.

Matilda said to capture her good side, so I took pictures of both of her sides. ;-)
#Bunny #HouseRabbit #BunniesOfMastodon

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1 month ago
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Call for Emerging Editors Board Members Closing date for expressions of interest: 2 March 2026

The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies is looking to strengthen and extend the networks and scholarly expertise available to the journal by establishing an Emerging Editors Board. Read about it here: academic.oup.com/bics/pages/c...

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1 month ago

if you are a media & comms scholar writing about kalshi/polymarkets/etc and are interested in doing a 25k word crossover academic/trade book on it hmu I'd love to commission something like this

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The Queens of Chemistry in Ancient Assyria — Lady Science Women chemists have existed since ancient times, serving in royal courts as expert perfume makers.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Check out this article about the first known female perfumer of the ancient world, Tapputi-belet-ekallim.

#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #WomenInScienceDay

www.ladyscience.com/features/que...

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bunny swirl

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1 month ago
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gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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1 month ago

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

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10 months ago
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Yes? Do you have an appointment?

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1 month ago

In a new form of household trolling, the oldest, Aalia (15), is teaching Layla (4) to repeat that "Homer was a blind poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey"

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New significant podcast company launched Significant Productions has launched - bringing together Elis James, John Robins and long-time producer Dave Masterman

Significant Productions has launched - bringing together Elis James, John Robins and long-time producer Dave Masterman

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1 month ago

In response to the deluge of messages on casting in The Odyssey:

Helen was born from an 🥚 Don’t talk to me about historical veracity.

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I can't be the only one that noticed that the runner-up in the Forward Gal Stakes was named Imperatrice, the same name as Secretariat's maternal granddam...

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“So you are a historian? What is your field of expertise?”

“The long January of 2026.”

“All of it, really?” #skystorians

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a woman in a dress with the word yes written on it ALT: a woman in a dress with the word yes written on it

Nothing like spending a freezing Saturday inside with tea, line-editing on the couch.

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1 month ago
Orange cat Buddy looking at a posting of orange cat Sandal, who is having a thought. Buddy is proud of Sandal and dreams of having his own thought some day...
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Mass Market Paperbacks are discontinued Publishers Weekly last month reported that ReaderLink, the largest full-service distributor of

I somehow missed this news.

goodereader.com/blog/digital...

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1 month ago
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Catherine O’Hara, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and ‘Home Alone’ Star, Dies at 71 Catherine O'Hara, a legendary Hollywood actor known for her roles in 'Schitt's Creek' and 'Home Alone,' has died. She was 71.

RIP #CatherineOHara variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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Learn about turning your dissertation into a monograph and/or working in academic publishing! Next Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 6 PM join Christian Winting and me as we talk about all things Humanities/Social Science Publishing at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. #publishingsky #skystorians

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Hi Prof. K-J, would I be able to reach out to you via email, if you are interested?

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1 month ago

I now want to publish an edited collection on this topic...

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Four Centuries of Genealogy: A Historical Overview on JSTOR Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, Four Centuries of Genealogy: A Historical Overview, RQ, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Winter 1983), pp. 162-170

Hi! I spotted a bit here: www.jstor.org/stable/25827...

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1 month ago

ancient potters like fuck yeah I'm the one who had the idea of beakers with a bell shape I'm gonna live forever

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MOBY GOT DICK
By Josephine Riesman

I hate white whales and I cannot lie
You other seamen can't deny
When the beast swims by as a pale and eerie sight
Spermacetti is your right
You get sprung
Wanna throw spears well
Til you know that the whale's in Hell

Oh, Moby
I wanna stop goonin'
And get harpoonin'
My boatswain tried to stop this
But that eye you got makes
(Me so vicious!)

Ooh, Devil’s own whale
You say you wanna end my tale?
Well, try me, try me
Cuz I ain’t no average briney

I’ve seen him blowin’
To hell with all knowin’
He swim, fin
Got it goin’ like a turbo Schwinn

I’m tired of novelists
Sayin’ orcas are the best
Take the average Ahab and ask him why
I’ll tell ya I’m not shy

So sailors (YEAH!)
Sailors (YEAH!)
Has your whale-foe got the white? (HELL YEAH!)
Tell him to fluke it (FLUKE IT!)
Fluke it (FLUKE IT!)

Now throw that sharpened stick
Moby got Dick

Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer

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1 month ago

I would love to publish a book on ancient pickles!! Let's chat? :D

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1 month ago

Our girl bun did!

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1 month ago
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bunny loaf

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Dick Jacobs, New Haven lawyer who attended 500 Yale football games, remembered for his love of family Dick Jacobs was honored at the recent Yale-Harvard game for his fandom, just a couple months before his death.

"“He was a wonderful, wonderful, righteous, holy man." So true. <3

Dick Jacobs, New Haven lawyer who attended 500 Yale football games, remembered for his love of family www.nhregister.com/news/article...

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2 months ago

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

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