Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave')
@profyarrow.bsky.social
Numismatics. Ancient History. ANS Fellow. Chair of Classics, Brooklyn College. Typo-Queen.
I treat this space like the office water cooler.
Blogging at livyarrow.org
I treat this space like the office water cooler.
Blogging at livyarrow.org
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PUBLICATION DAY "The Coinage issued in the Mithridatic Years" for RBN article with L. Carbone. We test traditional quantification techniques against new data, suggest a new means of comparing the intensity of coin production and trace Roman intervention in Eastern Med livyarrow.org/2025/12/01/n...
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Two young women, Christian asylum seekers from Iran with authorization to stay in the US, detained while on family trip
Via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: CBP posted a pic of two detained Iranians, saying, “No fun in the sun when you are unlawfully present.”
According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...
According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...
Priest says sisters slated for deportation are Christians who could face persecution by Iran
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We all feel a wound in our body of Christ, knowing what’s happening to them,’ said the Rev. Fran Gardner-Smith.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Two young women, Christian asylum seekers from Iran with authorization to stay in the US, detained while on family trip
My child who is less into church and usually chooses not to attend, has agreed with great gusto to play the part of Herod in this year’s pageant. Win? Worry? Either way the whole family is now looking forward to the service a bit more.
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
My child who is less into church and usually chooses not to attend, has agreed with great gusto to play the part of Herod in this year’s pageant. Win? Worry? Either way the whole family is now looking forward to the service a bit more.
Here's the language that seems to be behind the survey I got.
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Here's the language that seems to be behind the survey I got.
I sort of feel answering this question will make me complicit.
What does my gender have to do with my ability to do my job?
What does my gender have to do with my ability to do my job?
December 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I sort of feel answering this question will make me complicit.
What does my gender have to do with my ability to do my job?
What does my gender have to do with my ability to do my job?
I saw another news story about these 'golden' nooses as political jewelry. I thought that has got to be a hoax. No one would ever do that.... The times of Israel reports it is true. www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I saw another news story about these 'golden' nooses as political jewelry. I thought that has got to be a hoax. No one would ever do that.... The times of Israel reports it is true. www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
I doubt this has missed the keen eye of @chrisbrooke.bsky.social but nevertheless I'm compelled to share it tagging him. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk in 500 years
Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I doubt this has missed the keen eye of @chrisbrooke.bsky.social but nevertheless I'm compelled to share it tagging him. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I took the weekend off college stuff. It's going to be a hard week full of standing by my convictions and persisting in the face of naysayers. But after Thursday, I can focus on other things including my lovely, incredible students. We must remember the joy in the struggle. I know JOY.
December 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I took the weekend off college stuff. It's going to be a hard week full of standing by my convictions and persisting in the face of naysayers. But after Thursday, I can focus on other things including my lovely, incredible students. We must remember the joy in the struggle. I know JOY.
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“If ancient, proto-white, proto-western slavery was benign, maybe ours was too.” — some shithead opinion editor, probably
2. This is an extremely small sample size in a house in Pompeii. And yet many headlines are universalizing in order to say ALL Roman slaves ate better than the freeborn. We know that this is absolutely not true.
Look at this Reuters headline:
Look at this Reuters headline:
December 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“If ancient, proto-white, proto-western slavery was benign, maybe ours was too.” — some shithead opinion editor, probably
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political science
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
political science
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Thread…
A new report on dietary findings in a select area of Pompeii likely inhabited by enslaved people came out in Scavi di Pompei. Many newspapers are now running w/a headline about Roman slaves “eating better” than free Romans. pompeiisites.org/e-journal-de... Let’s discuss why this is problematic
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thread…
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And I say again … how will they enforce this?!? Do trans women have two heads? Will there be people there to ‘denounce’ anyone who - subjectively - ‘looks a bit too much like a ‘fella’’?!? The sheer crassness of it …
December 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
And I say again … how will they enforce this?!? Do trans women have two heads? Will there be people there to ‘denounce’ anyone who - subjectively - ‘looks a bit too much like a ‘fella’’?!? The sheer crassness of it …
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The federal vaccine committee has voted to end the recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
This committee has zero credibility and the process for this vote was chaotic.
Please instead follow guidance from expert organizations The American Academy of Pediatrics.
This committee has zero credibility and the process for this vote was chaotic.
Please instead follow guidance from expert organizations The American Academy of Pediatrics.
December 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The federal vaccine committee has voted to end the recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
This committee has zero credibility and the process for this vote was chaotic.
Please instead follow guidance from expert organizations The American Academy of Pediatrics.
This committee has zero credibility and the process for this vote was chaotic.
Please instead follow guidance from expert organizations The American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Where are my LGI alums?! We've made a good show on the money front but only 38 donors!?! Please kick in 5 or 10 bucks. It really matters how many supporters we can show here at CUNY. www.cunytuesday.org/p2p/441890/l...
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Where are my LGI alums?! We've made a good show on the money front but only 38 donors!?! Please kick in 5 or 10 bucks. It really matters how many supporters we can show here at CUNY. www.cunytuesday.org/p2p/441890/l...
Where are my LGI alums?! We've made a good show on the money front but only 38 donors!?! Please kick in 5 or 10 bucks. It really matters how many supporters we can show here at CUNY. www.cunytuesday.org/p2p/441890/l...
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Where are my LGI alums?! We've made a good show on the money front but only 38 donors!?! Please kick in 5 or 10 bucks. It really matters how many supporters we can show here at CUNY. www.cunytuesday.org/p2p/441890/l...
Today I learn that #Crustmus 🦀 lasts more than a day! Someone should have let me know before I used up two ancient crabs on day one. How long does this last any way? I have lots of crab control marks used to track dies at the Roman mint, this is from c. 76 BCE. numismatics.org/rrdp/id/rrc-...
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Today I learn that #Crustmus 🦀 lasts more than a day! Someone should have let me know before I used up two ancient crabs on day one. How long does this last any way? I have lots of crab control marks used to track dies at the Roman mint, this is from c. 76 BCE. numismatics.org/rrdp/id/rrc-...
I don't do graphic tees but I'd love this as a laptop sticker. Maybe with a little glitter to really make it sparkle.
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I don't do graphic tees but I'd love this as a laptop sticker. Maybe with a little glitter to really make it sparkle.
As #Crustmas 🦀 comes but once a year and my new connection @jopabinia.bsky.social seems keen on species identification here's one more crab on a coin!
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As #Crustmas 🦀 comes but once a year and my new connection @jopabinia.bsky.social seems keen on species identification here's one more crab on a coin!
#Crustmas! 🦀 On this denarius created by those who assassinated Caesar, the Crab represents the island of Cos as triumphant in navel combat (aplustre in claws) over the threat of kingship (diadem) and the forces of Rhodes (rose). numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#Crustmas! 🦀 On this denarius created by those who assassinated Caesar, the Crab represents the island of Cos as triumphant in navel combat (aplustre in claws) over the threat of kingship (diadem) and the forces of Rhodes (rose). numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
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Welcome back to reality and welcome to #coffeewithhunter
What are we drinking and how are we doing this morning?
What are we drinking and how are we doing this morning?
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Welcome back to reality and welcome to #coffeewithhunter
What are we drinking and how are we doing this morning?
What are we drinking and how are we doing this morning?
PUBLICATION DAY "The Coinage issued in the Mithridatic Years" for RBN article with L. Carbone. We test traditional quantification techniques against new data, suggest a new means of comparing the intensity of coin production and trace Roman intervention in Eastern Med livyarrow.org/2025/12/01/n...
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
PUBLICATION DAY "The Coinage issued in the Mithridatic Years" for RBN article with L. Carbone. We test traditional quantification techniques against new data, suggest a new means of comparing the intensity of coin production and trace Roman intervention in Eastern Med livyarrow.org/2025/12/01/n...
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Visa canceled at the border, a Hopkins grad student has been stuck in Canada for months
Visa canceled at the border, a Hopkins grad student has been stuck in Canada for months
Ehsan Rajabi said the university declined to advocate for him.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Visa canceled at the border, a Hopkins grad student has been stuck in Canada for months
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The next closing dates for application for the RHS Fellowship are 15 December & 9 March 2026: bit.ly/4426Z2p
Our Fellows work across universities, and not just in History departments, as well as in many professions beyond academia. Fellows practice history in the UK and 71 countries worldwide 2/2
Our Fellows work across universities, and not just in History departments, as well as in many professions beyond academia. Fellows practice history in the UK and 71 countries worldwide 2/2
Apply for Fellowship - RHS
Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 15 December 2025 and 9 March 2026 Fellowships are awarded to those who have made an original contribution to historical scholarship, typically through th...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The next closing dates for application for the RHS Fellowship are 15 December & 9 March 2026: bit.ly/4426Z2p
Our Fellows work across universities, and not just in History departments, as well as in many professions beyond academia. Fellows practice history in the UK and 71 countries worldwide 2/2
Our Fellows work across universities, and not just in History departments, as well as in many professions beyond academia. Fellows practice history in the UK and 71 countries worldwide 2/2
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I talk about this sometimes to folks not in academic or archival spaces and they scoff, then they get 👀👀, then they drink
One of the books in my office is 290 years old. It’s still in excellent condition and easy to read. I wonder how easy it’ll be to read electronic texts 290 years from now. I expect it’ll be rather trickier.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I talk about this sometimes to folks not in academic or archival spaces and they scoff, then they get 👀👀, then they drink