Rhiannon Garth Jones
@rhigarthjones.bsky.social
Teaching Fellow in Global Medieval History, Uni of Leeds. PhD in early Abbasid visual language of power & relationship to Rome, general geek, chronically ill. I want to live on a boat again. She/her.
*All Roads Lead to Rome* out now with Aurum Press.
*All Roads Lead to Rome* out now with Aurum Press.
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I can't quite believe I'm saying this but: I wrote a book! And it's being published this May!
It's about Rome, its enduring appeal, the many different ways it has been interpreted, and how understanding this helps us see both the past and the world today more clearly.
geni.us/AllRoadsLead...
It's about Rome, its enduring appeal, the many different ways it has been interpreted, and how understanding this helps us see both the past and the world today more clearly.
geni.us/AllRoadsLead...
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okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.
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was fun to work on this with @rhigarthjones.bsky.social - about choosing different ways to talk to different publics
In #AHAPerspectives, Rhiannon Garth Jones and Matthew Gabriele argue for moving away from the traditional bibliography in trade books and toward something more conversational to engage with the wider public. 🗃️
Bibliographies for the People – AHA
Embracing alternative citation help the public better engage with trade history books.
www.historians.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
was fun to work on this with @rhigarthjones.bsky.social - about choosing different ways to talk to different publics
Things bringing me joy this week:
- Listening to my students' fab podcast assessments
- Seeing my friends and colleagues do amazing work
- The promise of moutabal for lunch
- Danish voters pushing back against the move right (I hope it's this)
These all feel like more than #tinyjoys, honestly 💚💜
- Listening to my students' fab podcast assessments
- Seeing my friends and colleagues do amazing work
- The promise of moutabal for lunch
- Danish voters pushing back against the move right (I hope it's this)
These all feel like more than #tinyjoys, honestly 💚💜
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Things bringing me joy this week:
- Listening to my students' fab podcast assessments
- Seeing my friends and colleagues do amazing work
- The promise of moutabal for lunch
- Danish voters pushing back against the move right (I hope it's this)
These all feel like more than #tinyjoys, honestly 💚💜
- Listening to my students' fab podcast assessments
- Seeing my friends and colleagues do amazing work
- The promise of moutabal for lunch
- Danish voters pushing back against the move right (I hope it's this)
These all feel like more than #tinyjoys, honestly 💚💜
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My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Assistant Professor - History of Art & Architecture | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
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CFP: Reimagining Body and Space in the Ancient World, ISAW Graduate Student Conference, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, March 5–6, 2026. Submissions due December 19, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/reimagi...
Reimagining Body and Space in the Ancient World | Mary Jaharis Center
maryjahariscenter.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
CFP: Reimagining Body and Space in the Ancient World, ISAW Graduate Student Conference, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, March 5–6, 2026. Submissions due December 19, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/reimagi...
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Readers of Pharos will recognize many of the white nationalists who receive laudatory treatment on Elon Musk's new Grokipedia 1/
Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Readers of Pharos will recognize many of the white nationalists who receive laudatory treatment on Elon Musk's new Grokipedia 1/
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Port commented: “I don’t want you to feel like you have to pretend to be something you’re not around me. What’s that noise? Are you… hissing at me? How did you manage to mess your hair up like that without touching it?”
“You can unmask with me” says neurotypical who doesn’t realise you’re feral
A non-autistic friend who wants you to feel safe to unmask with them has no idea what they’re saying, it has been confirmed. Eli Port, 44, would like you to be comfortable enough to be your true…
thedailytism.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Port commented: “I don’t want you to feel like you have to pretend to be something you’re not around me. What’s that noise? Are you… hissing at me? How did you manage to mess your hair up like that without touching it?”
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Anyway, if you want to support my work, consider preordering my next book
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Anyway, if you want to support my work, consider preordering my next book
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
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Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
Alice could not eat food for years.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
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Citation is power. Citation is epistemology. Citation is the creation of legitimacy and the gifting of authority.
Some things should not be given currency in our disciplines.
Some things should not be given currency in our disciplines.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Citation is power. Citation is epistemology. Citation is the creation of legitimacy and the gifting of authority.
Some things should not be given currency in our disciplines.
Some things should not be given currency in our disciplines.
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I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza | CNN
Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out.
edition.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
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“At a time when my feelings about the wider world of publishing have been rather negative, the support of [my local librarian] has made a huge difference to me“ - scroll down a bit to read my bit on how, both as a young reader and now author, I owe so much to libraries
The GLL Literary Foundation One Year On – Books For Keeps
booksforkeeps.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
“At a time when my feelings about the wider world of publishing have been rather negative, the support of [my local librarian] has made a huge difference to me“ - scroll down a bit to read my bit on how, both as a young reader and now author, I owe so much to libraries
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Brave, funny, loving, shameless, compassionate, horny, and in solidarity with everyone fighting a good fight: Alice Wong was the example of how to live your life. Live it in such a way that people around the world gush about how much they loved you when you pass. Alice knew how to live!
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Brave, funny, loving, shameless, compassionate, horny, and in solidarity with everyone fighting a good fight: Alice Wong was the example of how to live your life. Live it in such a way that people around the world gush about how much they loved you when you pass. Alice knew how to live!
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
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I guess the harvesters started throwing olives at each other as like a joke and it got out of hand. Senseless and also tragic
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I guess the harvesters started throwing olives at each other as like a joke and it got out of hand. Senseless and also tragic
Delighted to see this book get the @mideastmedieval.bsky.social Best Book Award - it is *excellent* and made me have frankly far, far too many interesting thoughts (dangerous).
See for yourself, if you haven't already!
See for yourself, if you haven't already!
Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Black Knights
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...
press.uchicago.edu
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Delighted to see this book get the @mideastmedieval.bsky.social Best Book Award - it is *excellent* and made me have frankly far, far too many interesting thoughts (dangerous).
See for yourself, if you haven't already!
See for yourself, if you haven't already!
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Well, I've bitten the bullet and become the owner of www.ancientalexandra.co.uk
Home - Home
alexandra sills ancient historian
www.ancientalexandra.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Well, I've bitten the bullet and become the owner of www.ancientalexandra.co.uk
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There is no love story imo, it's a book about being trapped by a class and gender system that incentivises brutality, it's about people who hurt each other because they lack the courage or the awareness to challenge that system
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
There is no love story imo, it's a book about being trapped by a class and gender system that incentivises brutality, it's about people who hurt each other because they lack the courage or the awareness to challenge that system
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this is required reading today. much love to my work co-conspirator @slyprofessor.bsky.social for this.
It's absolutely the norm in our field for scholars, often senior ones, to publicly direct their ire at people trying to de-platform the reputaion of known sexual predators, not at the sexual predators. The "but his work?!" and "Don't let his mistakes define him" is beyond predictable. 🤮
Love the Scholarship But Hate the Scholar’s Sin?: 'Himpathy' for an Academic Pedophile Enables a Culture of Abuse
In her excellent book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, the philosopher Kate Manne coined the term Himpathy, which she defined as “the excessive sympathy sometimes shown toward male perpetrators of se...
religiondispatches.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
this is required reading today. much love to my work co-conspirator @slyprofessor.bsky.social for this.
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠