I am so chuffed about this positive review of my recently published edited volume in the latest issue of Classical Review!!

You know, I really wish I could read an account by Tacitus of the events in the USA this year. I mean…he thought Tiberius was juicy subject matter…jeez. Can you imagine…

Out of all the heartbreaking things that have happened in the past six months, perhaps this one fills me with the most actual dread…

Calling all ancient art historians! I am planning on making my CAA debut in Chicago this February 2026 and I'll be co-chairing a panel! Now soliciting proposals. Please consider submitting an abstract if interested, and feel free to share...

Omg I need this

FINALLY…my name is in print, and I can hold this book in my hands at last!!!

A close-up photo of an ancient woven rattle made from interlaced plant fibers, displayed on a white surface with a stone wall in the background. The object has a short handle and a rounded, basket-like head.

Children have always enjoyed making noise: a some 4,000 years ago, a kid in Egypt was buried with this rattle, so the child might play with it in the afterlife.

On display at Neues Museum Berlin

📷 me

Congrats!!!

I do too!

Thank you for watching!!

Ugh that design is SO cool, I need it on a shirt or something, who did it?!

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨ALERT!!!!!!!🚨🚨🚨🚨THIS IS NOT FAKE!!! I am going to appear on Jeopardy! Tune in on Thursday, May 29 to watch me play.

Unfortunately I think he did this to soft-launch the idea of himself as some kind of supreme religious leader. Unfortunately everything he does seems to be purposeful

My Ph.D. advisor does this. Not sure if I’d do it myself, personally, but I can understand why.

Photo of 2025 #StandUpForScience rally in Pennsylvania. People holding signs in support of science. Credit: Eric Schulz

In community, there is courage. Strength. Hope. This Saturday, April 5, a major national mobilization will resist Trump & Musk’s illegal power grab. With 1,000+ events nationwide, resistance is gaining momentum (!!).

Find your local #HandsOff event here: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/map/

Same. Honestly, I don’t have the energy to post about it. I use this space to look at ancient stuff as my distraction from it all…

Michelangelo?!! 😂 struggling to see how anything on that list is “right wing” as he probably defines tbh

Literally, same

Great now I want a pet coati

Hahahaha true! I’m still laughing about it tho, honestly. Things got very heated, which felt accurate!

In my Western art survey course, we had a debate yesterday on the use of icons in religious devotion. I had students roleplay as Byzantine theologians. They took their roles very seriously. One got so impassioned that he let out an F-bomb. I don't think a Byzantine clergyman would have said that!

One of my very favorites.

Hello #academicbluesky, what feelings come up when you contemplate writing? I’m trying to see something

In honour of #NationalPuppyDay, a #Roman sculpture from #Pompeii of four little pups curled up together & sleeping peacefully - a lovely piece of ancient art, made more than 2000 years ago #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology AncientBlueSky 🏺

Obverse of a Roman aureus: Jugate busts, right of Nero (in forefront), bare-headed and draped at back of neck, and Agrippina the Younger, draped and bare-headed.

Reverse of a Roman aureus: Quadriga of elephants, left, bearing two chairs with figures of Divus Claudius and Divus Augustus, both radiate.

#OnThisDay - 23 March - in AD 59 Agrippina the Younger, one of the most significant figures of the Julio-Claudian period, was assassinated on the orders of her son, the emperor Nero. #Agrippina #AncientHistory 🏺

Image: RIC Nero 6; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 5469). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Omg. Amazing. Proving yet again why they are one of the best fashion houses today

So sorry to hear. I’m not going to CAMWS, but I feel your pain…air travel is a MESS lately. I had to go to LA twice this month, and getting there both times was a bit of a nightmare…this is another datapoint sadly 😢

In my two cents, his death was 100% natural. Seneca, a contemporary, doesn’t mention anything about murder in his account of Tiberius’ death 😊