Tom Elliott

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Pasts Imperfect (3.5.26) Across the world—from the United States to Canada to Australia—departments and museums within higher education are closing. This week, ancient historian Geoffrey Greatrex discusses the suspension of t...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out, focused on the closing of humanities depts. & museums. @otavano.bsky.social discusses the U. of Ottawa, @mokersel.bsky.social on the DePaul Art Museum, @meirazk.bsky.social & @vox-magica.bsky.social on shuttering religious studies depts, & Justin Vorhis on U. Iowa.

Now Live: Renaissance Medals Online The ANS is pleased to announce the launch of Renaissance Medals Online (RMO), a new, open-source research tool focused on the beginnings of medallic art in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth …

It's been online for a few weeks while putting on the final touches, but we are formally announcing the launch of Renaissance Medals Online, starting with the condottieri of Italy, with large contributions from the National Gallery of Art, British Museum, and Berlin: numismatics.org/pocketchange...

"The National Park Service is erasing any material that does not focus on the "greatness" and "progress" of Americans, or the "beauty, abundance, and grandeur" of America. These are the materials submitted for elimination."

"The National Park Service is erasing any material that does not focus on the "greatness" and "progress" of Americans, or the "beauty, abundance, and grandeur" of America. These are the materials submitted for elimination."

Yesterday the Post ran a story about the National Park Service censoring displays and exhibits critical of America's past. The NPS even has a database of what's being considered for erasure. I downloaded the 7GB database and turned it into a protest bot. Here's @nps-uncensored.bsky.social.

Are you volunteering? ;)

All we've got at present is the so-called "Trajan's Kiosk": pleiades.stoa.org/places/22274... (which I can't help thinking of as someplace where you can buy yourself a miniature Trajan to put in the curio cabinet when you get home).

In case anybody thought that turning the crank on the bring-back-Jesus machine was not on the menu ...

Military leaders pushing 'Armageddon views' on troops as Iran war begins: complaint A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers Monday that the Iran war was part of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming, according to a complaint ...

This is insane. Trying to convince these young people to embrace becoming cannon fodder.
www.rawstory.com/military-267...

Now all I've got to do is get somebody to create an Isis temple entry ...

Philae! pleiades.stoa.org/places/786089

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

AI event with Patrick Burns

If you are in the NYC area, you're invited!! @diyclassics.bsky.social

Sun Tzu “Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.

& the current proposals aren't good for GLAM data imo, have your say here

Wikidata's notability policy is under review here: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Epigraphic Object Encoding

Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Epigraphic Object Encoding, Thursday 5th March at 16:00 GMT (online only). Presentation by Gabriel Bodard & Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini (University of London), Polina Yordanova (University of Helsinki).
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The president is still a pedophile and should still be impeached.

Our #siteoftheweek is POP - Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine. POP describes and disseminates scientific descriptions of cultural assets that are studied or preserved in France (works of art, buildings or sites, objects or furniture, photographs, etc.).

A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map stretches from England in the north to the Horn of Africa in the South and from the Iberian peninsula in the west to the Indian subcontinent in the east.

Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (23 February - 2 March 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 16 new and 226 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta […]

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In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

Laszlo the Dog Brings Comfort to Classics Students When you check Google Groups after course registration to see who’s in your upcoming classes, there’s one extra pupil you won’t find listed in a class with Associate Professor of the Classics Naomi Ro...

Laszlo the Dog Brings Comfort to Classics Students – The Colgate Maroon-News
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Stansbury: “The vast majority of co-conspirators that were investigated were the women who assisted in Epstein's crimes—

None of the male perpetrators who committed rape & SA, including potentially the president who’s accused in the files, have been called to testify & to account for what happened”

Thanks to @serviliusahala.bsky.social, the #PleiadesGazetteer now has a place resource for the Sanctuary of Palaimon (Palaimonium), a Roman sanctuary located at Isthmia and dedicated to an embodiment of the Isthmian games ... #SneakPeek

According to Nielsen, 'CBS Evening News' just recorded its lowest-rated February of the 21st century, averaging 4.4 million total viewers and 538,000 in the key 25-54 demographic.

Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show By Daniel Ruetenik, Graham Kates Updated on: February 7, 2026 / 5:18 PM EST / CBS News U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had "limited interactions" with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.

From a Fox News story (link below in thread) Cantor accused the airline of failing to prevent hijackers from taking the plane that crashed into the firm's headquarters in the north tower of the World Trade Center. After years of legal wrangling, American agreed to $135 million settlement in December 2013. Some people inside Cantor believed the money would be distributed to families of company employees who died in the attacks, or put into the firm's general coffers. But during a conference call in March, Lutnick told senior executives "the bulk" of the money would be distributed among the firm's partners, according to one person on the call. Further, the person said each partner would receive $2 for each partnership unit. The source also said Lutnick is widely believed to own the biggest piece of the firm's partnership shares, thus entitling him to possibly tens of millions of dollars from the settlement.

TIRED: Lutnick was in business with Epstein

WIRED: Lutnick was in business with Epstein using money he skimmed from the American Airlines 9/11 settlement with Cantor Fitzgerald

This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades.

In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.

THIS is what RFK Jr. is doing right now in reverse. He is undoing incredibly effective disease prevention efforts.

Scientists and healthcare professionals are screaming at the top of our lungs about what the result will be.

But until people see it for themselves, many will not believe.

Bear with me if you can as I attempt to use HPV vaccines to demonstrate why many can’t see the danger of RFK Jr.

TLDR: Disease prevention takes time and discipline. Not discipline of an individual, but the ability to invest in public health when the benefits may not be immediately clear.