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Edward Dandrow
@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.
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My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.

IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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If you're teaching the Julio-Claudians in schools, you might find this video on how to use coin evidence to teach Agrippina the Younger useful. :-)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=52AF...
Coins and Agrippina the Younger in the Classroom
YouTube video by Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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When Texas tried to steal 5 seats, I said to watch the litigation my law firm had filed because we had a good chance of winning in court. Today a federal court BLOCKED THE MAP.

While the legacy media ignored our case, Democracy Docket covered it from gavel to gavel. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Our first speaker for the series will be Hiba Alkhalaf (Voices of Heritage/Aswat Alturath). She'll be speaking about "From Destruction to Recovery: Syrian Heritage, Fourteen Years on". Link to book below.

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
From Destruction to Recovery: Syrian Heritage, Fourteen Years On (CISA seminar series)
First in the Archaeological Collaboration after Conflict Spring 2026 seminar series
www.bbk.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Words really can’t express how important @archive.org is in the world of information science, but it’s also pivotal to preserving digital histories targeted and then erased by the federal government as well. If you can?

Donate Here. archive.org/donate

New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business
The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Why were there so many sculptures (36 marbles and 16 bronzes) in the Antikythera wreck (70-50 BCE)? A great new, open access article by Brian Martens for ABSA argues they were for a gymnasion. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A really interesting take 125 years after this monumental discovery.
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The CFP for the Association of Ancient Historians meeting is up and abstracts are due on December 1. Please look at all the panel themes and apply! aah.conference.uiowa.edu
AAH Annual Conference 2026 | The University of Iowa
CFP: Association of Ancient Historians Meeting 2026: Iowa City: The 2026 AAH Annual Meeting will take place in person at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA from April 16-18, 2026. We invite abstr...
aah.conference.uiowa.edu
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Huh? Second largest public university in New Jersey. R2 level doctoral research university.
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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From 17 Nov., I will be an “invited international professor” (grand title for a guest lecturer) for a short course at University of Lille, sponsored by Faculté des Humanités & invited by @ekaterinanechaeva.bsky.social.

I am so excited about the experience ex-patria.univ-lille.fr/archives/4038
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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IU lecturer removed after *one* student complaint and no due process
IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation
School of Social Work lecturer Jessica Adams said a student submitted the complaint to the office of U.S. Senator Jim Banks over a graphic she used in her class. Adams said Banks’ office then contacte...
www.ipm.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The next #AntigonidNetwork seminar is on Tuesday 11th November, 5pm (UK). John Holton presents his two books: 'Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship' and 'Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors'. #AncientBluesky
To join, please register:
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: AN seminar: John Holton. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: AN seminar: John Holton. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Universityofexeter.zoom.us
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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The saddest part is the vet thinks he is only 2 years old. If anyone has a home to either foster or adopt Midnight, please reach out. His finders cannot keep him for very long but he can’t go back to the street.
Also, if anyone would like to help his finders with his vet care:
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Everything you wanted to know about medieval dreams of Ireland's apocalyptic imperial destiny but were afraid to ask! My article on the reception of Orosius' historiography by the Middle Irish narrative, Suidiugud Tellaig Temra, is now freely available on open access academic.oup.com/bics/article...
Ireland as the earthly culmination of translatio imperii in Suidiugud Tellaig Temra
Abstract. This paper discusses Orosius’ concept of translatio imperii, as repurposed in the Middle Irish narrative, Suidiugud Tellaig Temra ‘The Establishm
academic.oup.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...
September 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa: please sign and share!
www.change.org/p/save-greek...
Sign the Petition
Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
www.change.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe

Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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If you don't know the Manny Deli's story, they're offering a family meal to Chicago SNAP card holders during the crisis - and now we can help with the cost t.co/WQACF82yL5
November 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
November 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM