Tom Elliott

@paregorios.bsky.social

Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Works for NYU's https://isaw.nyu.edu, but lives near Huntsville, Alabama. Editor/PI of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org).

Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/

@joycewhitevance.bsky.socialReposted by @paregorios.bsky.social

This is about Ilhan Omar. But it's also about control, intimidation, & authoritarianism. The message is: we can do this to a member of Congress; no foreign-born American is safe. The administration is using fear as a tactic to discourage people from voicing opposition.

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@melissaterras.bsky.socialReposted by @paregorios.bsky.social

This tracks in the UK academic context too. The bullshit I have seen, and the contortions institutions and funders will get into to placate badly behaved men. Yet the only people I’ve seen forced out of posts have been women.

@paregorios.bsky.social

People. If you have Chrome and/or Firefox installed, just start each of them and fully quit each of them once every day, then we won't have to nag you every 3-5 days to update them for security vulnerabilities.

@sarahebond.bsky.socialReposted by @paregorios.bsky.social

Global medieval trade alert 🚨 “Archaeologists digging in the medieval city of Great Zimbabwe have discovered pieces of jade-green Chinese pottery, suggesting that the enigmatic empire had long-distance connections with East Asia more than 1,000 years ago.” Fab article by Dr. @killgrove.bsky.social

livescience.comChinese pottery discovered in Great Zimbabwe reveals medieval African empire's vast connections spanning thousands of milesArchaeologists excavating a medieval African kingdom have discovered pottery from eastern China, revealing connections across continents.
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@nberlat.bsky.socialReposted by @paregorios.bsky.social

the US has done this sort of thing before to Black leftists. state department seized passports from W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson.

@mearcsteppende.bsky.socialReposted by @paregorios.bsky.social

AIA 2027 preliminary program is out and I'm very excited to be on a panel alongside my advisor @robin-f.bsky.social and colleague @avnergoldstein.bsky.social (and several other great speakers) talking about post-Roman Forth transitions!

A screenshot of the online preliminary program for the 2027 AIA conference (https://www.archaeological.org/programs/professionals/annual-meeting/2027-preliminary-academic-program/) showing a variety of papers under the heading "End(s) of the Roman Empire? Lifeways and Legacies of Roman Imperium on the Roman Frontiers"
@nbedera.bsky.socialReposted by @paregorios.bsky.social

Student debt is at the heart of why campus sexual violence derails victims’ lives too. The primary reason victims drop out of college is because they are encouraged to take temporary leaves of absence—and then they can’t return until they are current on student loan payments.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social

An acquaintance is being sexually harassed at this job. I see him about once a week and ask how it’s going. Today he confessed, he can’t afford to leave because of his student loans. The point of debt at a national level, at an indivisible level, is docility. It’s capital’s greatest asset.

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