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Bexistorian
@bexistorian2.bsky.social
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PhD, art historian and medievalist, museums, digital humanities, first-gen
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From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.
ICE On Your Campus Questions to Ask Your Administration 1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities? 2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents? 3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant? 4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant. 5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance? 6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE? What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now 1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact. 2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night. 3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan 4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney. Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators: 1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so. 2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …
January 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
I wish my dentist took weekend urgent visits. I woke up with a toothache and swollen gum and classes start tomorrow. I'm managing ok but if it gets worse....
January 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
Looking for publications about the authenticity of the Getty kouros if anyone has recommendations. TIA.
January 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
I've lived in wildfire country for over 20 years (arizona) but watching the fire encroach on LA is horrific.
January 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
all consuming anxiety is just so much fun. So many things to be anxious about.
December 28, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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Youngest works in a history museum. Every December, they hide 60-80 mice around the displays. Patrons try to find them. No one has ever found all of them.
This a jewel thief mouse in mid-heist. He's suspended over a diamond brooch.
An orange wall provides the backdrop for a daring mouse. He is suspended by a string over a diamond brooch. He's wearing a black mask to protect his identity. The display holds several historic items about jewelry designer Arnold Shiffman, who won an award in 1955 for a diamond brooch called Queen of Hearts. The brooch depicts a woman's head. Her shoulder length hair and skin are comprised of diamonds. Her crown is silver with diamond inset on the crown points. Her mouth is open and she looks angry. Perhaps she is yelling about the thief! Close up of the mouse. His black mask and cowl appear to be crocheted. He is poised just above a red laser light that shines on the wall behind him. Will he be able to avoid that alarm trigger and abscond with the goods?
December 21, 2024 at 6:45 PM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
I used a cane this trip in museums and it was a game changer. I don't usually need mobility aids for my EDS but it made a huge difference in what and for how long I could do. If you are on the fence about a mobility aid, you might be surprised when you try one out.
December 22, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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They are now playing whoop there it is lol. Better than elevator muzak I suppose.
December 22, 2024 at 6:12 PM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
You know you are middle-aged when the club hits of your early adult years are playing at the airport. Hello, that's what we call music circa 1998 lol.
December 22, 2024 at 6:01 PM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
I find it to be such a strange holiday but for those that celebrate....
November 28, 2024 at 8:24 PM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
Well I whittled down my inbox from 140 to 38 emails. I think I deserve a cookie or something. Only took all day.
November 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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JOB: Tenured Associate/Full Professor, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Studies, Art History, Queen's University
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November 11, 2024 at 8:52 PM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
Museum folx: does your museum have any fakes or forgeries in the collection that you would love to talk about? I'm looking for few folx to Zoom with my class about fakes and forgeries in early to middle February. I can offer a modest honorarium so if you are interested, please let me know!
October 21, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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lisaonaga.bsky.social
CFP for "Fabricated Natures: Stories from the Bio-Material Archive" (workshop deadline Jul 15 2024)--please share to folks working on studies of multidisciplinary sciences re: #biomaterials #fibers #textiles #biomimesis #materials #animals #plants #prostheses www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/fabrica...
Nylon stockings under a microscope, 2021. Nylon, a polymer created in 1939, had widespread use, particularly and gradually replaced natural materials like silk, catgut, fur, and leather (Quye 2014: 214). Image: Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Potd/2023-03-27_(pt) https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/fabricated-natures-stories-bio-material-archive-deadline-july-15-2024
June 12, 2024 at 8:37 PM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
Does anyone have a reputable place to get blank maps for students to fill out? I'm specifically looking for maps for ancient Greece and Rome, the European Middle Ages and then for Europe for the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Thanks!
June 4, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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Art History friends - please share widely: NAU’s Department of Comparative Cultural Studies is looking to hire a full-time, in-person, benefit-eligible, non-tenure-eligible Assistant Teaching Professor in Art History. 1/3
May 23, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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Art historians- any recs on readings about AI and art history for 100 level courses? I'd like to get the students to think critically about it. I'm getting a lot of chatgpt submissions. - sigh- @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social especially!
April 1, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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actualkatherine.bsky.social
Brown University's anthro museum is hiring a NAGPRA coordinator under a different name 👀👀 www.ncai.org/resources/jo...
Associate Curator | NCAI
The National Congress of American Indians - Defending Sovereignty since 1944
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February 27, 2024 at 11:32 PM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
Well having rebound covid has been brutal but I'm starting to feel like I might not die after 5 days so that is something.
February 21, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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digitalmedievalist.bsky.social
🚨Job alert! Medievalsky, the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social is looking for a Digital Scholarship Manager and a Digital Scholarship Officer!
bodleian.ox.ac.uk Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · Feb 7
At the Centre for Digital Scholarship, we lead and shape discussions around practice and research within and beyond the University.

We're looking for a Digital Scholarship Manager www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFO120/d...

and a Digital Scholarship Officer!
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Looking for a professional services job in higher education? Apply now for the Digital Scholarship Manager position on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board.
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February 8, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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keystonedh.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky #digitalhumanities! Keystone DH = a midAtlantic network of DH people in the Mid-Atlantic US since 2015. We're hosting a conference at Penn State Erie (May 20 - 22): CFP by March 1: keystonedh.network/2024 (You don't have to be in midAtlantic to join the confererence!) Please share!
February 3, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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aclyu.bsky.social
College of Willam & Mary has a two-year postdoctoral position for someone doing language reclamation (ideally Algonquian). jobs.wm.edu/postings/58178
February 3, 2024 at 5:58 PM
bexistorian2.bsky.social
If this is your first year living somewhere with snow and ice, get spikes for your shoes, yaktrax or another brand. The black ice in your work parking lot will take out anyone. You can put them on most cold weather shoes and they grip better than even snow boots.
January 25, 2024 at 3:22 AM
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Why I love my campus
January 23, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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Survived the first week of classes and strangely avoided the terrible weather literally everywhere but here. We usually have major mountain snow in January but not yet. Last year, we had 6 feet drop this week. Today just rain.
January 22, 2024 at 12:17 AM