Robin Fleming
@robin-f.bsky.social
Historian of Roman and early medieval Britain @ Boston College. Writes history from archaeology/material culture. Recently finished a book on Roman dogs. Distracting myself from thinking about the US political Hellscape by thinking about 5th c Britain.
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The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
A Second Chance at Intellectual Life | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...
A Second Chance at Intellectual Life | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
How a newly minted Radcliffe fellowship program helped Lily Macrakis, at the time a stay-at-home mother with a master’s degree, reignite her bookish passions—and reach her full scholarly potential.
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A Second Chance at Intellectual Life | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...
The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
An early medieval traffic bollard (!??!) sighted outside a T-station in Cambridge, Mass.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
An early medieval traffic bollard (!??!) sighted outside a T-station in Cambridge, Mass.
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Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
October 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
For those interested in thinking about rethinking periodization, especially the line between the Roman and early medieval periods in British history and archaeology; www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Periodisation, Terminal Narratives, and the Beginning of the Middle Ages in Lowland Britain
This brief contribution seeks to remind readers that familiar periodisation schemes are deeply entrenched not so much because they have withstood the test of time but because scholars come of age a...
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August 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
For those interested in thinking about rethinking periodization, especially the line between the Roman and early medieval periods in British history and archaeology; www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Somebody who really understood the art of potting in fifth-century Hampshire and somebody who really didn’t. The one on the left from a cemetery at Itchen Abbess, the one on the right from Alton.
July 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Somebody who really understood the art of potting in fifth-century Hampshire and somebody who really didn’t. The one on the left from a cemetery at Itchen Abbess, the one on the right from Alton.
Just out and open access: Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3
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July 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Just out and open access: Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Three late-Roman objects from Hampshire, decorated—as so many LR objects in Britain are—with dolphins. At the Hampshire City Museum.
June 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Three late-Roman objects from Hampshire, decorated—as so many LR objects in Britain are—with dolphins. At the Hampshire City Museum.
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meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Trump’s tariff equation is nonsense, says @johnauthers.bsky.social. Here’s why 🎥
April 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Trump’s tariff equation is nonsense, says @johnauthers.bsky.social. Here’s why 🎥
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To all members of the EAA and friends, please be aware of important information regarding our next annual meeting #EAA2025.
An email has also been sent to members, but you can find details attached.
To all members of the EAA and friends, please be aware of important information regarding our next annual meeting #EAA2025.
An email has also been sent to members, but you can find details attached.
April 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ***
To all members of the EAA and friends, please be aware of important information regarding our next annual meeting #EAA2025.
An email has also been sent to members, but you can find details attached.
To all members of the EAA and friends, please be aware of important information regarding our next annual meeting #EAA2025.
An email has also been sent to members, but you can find details attached.
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“Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News: ‘If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together.’”
Mike Waltz said he never met Jeffrey Goldberg. A photo suggests otherwise
Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News, "If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together."
www.newsweek.com
March 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News: ‘If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together.’”
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There’s one appropriate response from faculty: fuck you
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to ‘intervene’ in potential ICE detainments on campus
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to “intervene” in ICE detainments
A memo sent by the Office of General Council at Johns Hopkins instructs faculty and staff not to intervene if federal law enforcement detain a community member on campus.
buff.ly
March 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
There’s one appropriate response from faculty: fuck you
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A reminder about the Smithsonian: the Vice President has a seat on the Board of Regents (defined by law). But he’s not chair of the Board, or vice chair, and he’s not on the Board’s executive committee. Structurally he has one vote.
The Board of Regents | Smithsonian Institution
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March 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A reminder about the Smithsonian: the Vice President has a seat on the Board of Regents (defined by law). But he’s not chair of the Board, or vice chair, and he’s not on the Board’s executive committee. Structurally he has one vote.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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The Fifth Amendment says due process is due all persons, whether the number eight or eight million.
And if there were a mass-violation exception to the Constitution, why have a constitutional at all?
And if there were a mass-violation exception to the Constitution, why have a constitutional at all?
And here we go -- Fox News is now saying we should get rid of "due process" because it's too cumbersome.
Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."
www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...
Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."
www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...
Fox's Brian Kilmeade: “It's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people” Co-host Lawrence Jones: Constitutional rights “are afforded to illegals in this country. We should re...
www.mediamatters.org
March 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Fifth Amendment says due process is due all persons, whether the number eight or eight million.
And if there were a mass-violation exception to the Constitution, why have a constitutional at all?
And if there were a mass-violation exception to the Constitution, why have a constitutional at all?
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French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched…
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
Just got back from a very fun protest at the downtown Boston Tesla dealership. Well attended, raucous, and a great antidepressant.
March 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Just got back from a very fun protest at the downtown Boston Tesla dealership. Well attended, raucous, and a great antidepressant.
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We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government.
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
Columbia Disciplines Students Who Occupied Campus Building Last Year
Sanctions for the Hamilton Hall occupation include expulsions and suspensions.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government.
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...