@edwarddandrow.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Ancient History, Roman Near East, war and violence, cultural and ethnic identities, numismatics. Perennial traveler and writer, easily distracted by animals. Cat and bunny slave. Speak only for myself.
Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations.
In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.
Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.
But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
Female Agency is here in paperback! Agency is relational, so why not relate to a lighter and less expensive set of chapters about it: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
I just gave a talk about the origins of American numismatics symbols. The elimination of the olive branch from the eagle on the reverse of the dime is a break with tradition (it was on the first dimes minted in 1796, and based on the "Great Seal" established in 1782). /1
fortune.com/2026/03/12/u...
🇯🇵 Former Fukushima worker devotes life to abandoned pets
Not far from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, former plant worker Toru Akama tends to dozens of pets abandoned after the catastrophe 15 years ago, work he sees as part of his quest for redemption.
On advance access: "Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii"
by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
What stands out to me is the arrogance. The surefootedness that this was the correct thing to do despite no experience in government. The presumption that they were entitled to use their own uninformed judgement to cut funds to things that they don’t personally value www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...
Hey lazyweb friends, have any of you made or seen a viewshed analysis from/to Nemrut Dag? TIA
#archaeology #ancientGeography #HGIS
Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.
Cavanaugh on first days leading DOGE’s small agencies team which targeted #NEH. Started in the “middle of February 2025.” He first met NEH staff on March 12. 1477 grant terminations sent out by DOGE on April 2. It typically takes 6-8 months to review an NEH grant.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY-Q...
"Even an effort to catalog and digitize the papers of Thomas Gage, a British general in the American Revolution, was guilty of “promoting inclusivity and diversity in historical research.”
+ Important update on the lawsuit fr AHA, MLA, ACLS etc. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
A. This is awful and no one, wherever you stand on the death penalty, should be okay with it
B. This is a good headline that refuses to equivocate
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
A reminder that destroying historic/heritage sites is a war crime. It is, to put it bluntly, a terrorist tactic, deployed by deplorable groups such as the Taliban (Bamiyan Buddhas) and ISIS (Palmyra).
Trump and the conservative media ecosystem have done a ton of work to recast the Biden years as a Hoover/Carter disaster that Trump rescued us from. I do think that gets harder every month
Wow did something happen in the US in January 2025?
Turns out #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous DID hire someone to do an enviro survey of his Everglades concentration camp -- AFTER it was built. They did a super-crappy job, too. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e... via @miamiherald.com
34 month PDRA position on my Roman Britannia: Mobility and Society project, based with fab project co-lead Dr Sophy Charlton at @york-bioarch.bsky.social - come join our interdisciplinary Cardiff-York team and reshape narratives of the Roman period in Britannia.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT035/p...
This ICE detention center is the largest in the country and has become notorious for rampant physical abuse, medical neglect, and death.
We won't let up the pressure until it's shut down for good.
Influential right-wing voices are seeking to bridge the divide in MAGA media over Donald Trump's war in Iran by urging the president to launch a new phase of mass deportations targeting American Muslims for denaturalization and removal.
It's a really dark trend
www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...
Data Coordinator (Post-Ex)
Headland Archaeology
Salary: £35,457.99-£37,778.88 (depending on experience) + generous benefits package
Date: March 27, 2026
Based in Midlands & West (Hereford), South & East (Silsoe), Scotland (Edinburgh) or Yorkshire & North (Cleckheaton).
www.bajr.org/job-ad/data-...
WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?
NOEM: Yes
WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?
NOEM: No.
Prof. Anna Foka on “Reimagining Pausanias: Digital Methodologies for Ancient Cultural Geographies”, 12 March, 17:15-18:30 UK time, online only research seminar. All welcome to attend! Joining instructions in the thread.
For more on the Digital Periegesis project: nodegoat.abm.uu.se/viewer.p/5/4...
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
One last push as well for the Violence and Representations of Violence unit that I co-chair for #SBLAAR2026!
Submit your papers and teach us about ancient violence
members.sbl-site.org/cfp-detail?z...
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.
