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Sebastian Heath

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Mediterranean & computational archaeologist. ISAW/NYU. Child of immigrants. Opinions/typos mine. Original work CC-By. https://gaerhf.org https://p-lod.org https://palp.art https://roman-amphitheaters.org https://isaw.nyu.edu/publications/isaw-papers

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · Feb 19

Over here in these United States, I know no king.

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday Morning GAERHF thread. Mood? #GlobalAntiquity

Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure @gaerhf-bot.bsky.social · 3d

Overlapping conceptions of the human form from Malta and Sardinia. I don't mean that as any formal "Art Historical" statement. Just allowing for overlap in the Central Mediterranean. And beyond. 1: Bonu Ighinu Statuette from Sardiina (C. 4500 BCE) gaerhf.org#bonu-ighinu-... ... 🧵

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 5d

Also thinking. gaerhf:associated-pleiades-url predicate on a per object basis as grouping mechanism? Right now, GAERHF is "object based". Most records have no indication of higher-level spatial/cultural grouping. Mostly a side effect of data entry stage. How to do that well and how to express in ui?

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 5d

A "Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure" video.

Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure @gaerhf-bot.bsky.social · 5d

There are now 450 entries in GAERHF. So I made a video of scrolling through the "List" view. And paused to click on a few along the way. That was a bit random. This all neither here nor there yet. Much work to do! I had to compress it a bit to get under 100 mb. #GlobalAntiquity #GlobalDH gaerhf.org

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 6d

A thread on the current state of coverage of the Arabian Peninsula in "Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure". Though I missed this one, which was staged in GitHub: gaerhf.org#female-khor-... . #GlobalAntiquity 🧵

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 9d

The guy is really bad at governing. Making a mess of it.That’s just the facts here.

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 13d

Getting done generating maps for a bit. Choose the center of your world: Alexandria (Egypt), Begram, Berenice (Egypt), Palmyra. And see how close it is to elsewhere. Something like that. <10-ish seconds to generate all four maps and easy to add other sites to the python. (Which I'm happy to share.)

Alexandria with 5 1Km concentric circles.

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 14d

Working on the little script to generate these. Definitely "vibe coding" here. Map title now indicates center. Here's Palmyra. #GlobalAntiquity

1000 km concentric circles from Palmyra.

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 14d

The president has no inherent powers. Congress has no inherent powers. The courts have no inherent powers. Each only has the powers granted by the Constitution and that was made by "We the People." The inherent powers are ours. (This is all pretty basic and #SCOTUS has been getting it wrong.)

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 14d

Feels like it’s worth noting that Trump got less than half the popular vote. That’s becoming stale news. He’s now just an unpopular president. But yeah, last time we really checked, more people voted for someone other than Trump. There was never a mandate.

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 14d

Roughing out visuals for a big picture talk on Roman Art. Two maps: Berenice on Red Sea and Begram in Afghanistan. Both sites are "nodes" in long distance exchange. 1000 km radii on an equidistant projection for each. Do territorial states matter? Sure. But also not? (Like I said, "roughing out.")

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 15d

I don’t mean to say you’re wrong. Not at all. I was heartened by approach to a wider antiquity allowed for here. I like to think there are departments – mine included? – letting our PhD students create profiles that would be competitive for this position. 2-and-2. Part of what makes it a good job?

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 16d

This is an interesting #job description from Rutgers, "Assistant Professor, Global Ancient Art, Architecture, Material Culture": arthist.net/archive/50717

Assistant Professor, Global Ancient Art, Architecture, Material Culture

Erik Thuno. Department of Art History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 01.09.2026, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.11.2025

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 22d

My response to a text from the Cuomo campaign. Prob won’t be read so I post it here. #NYCVotes

Text with following reply to Cuomo campaign. “Yo. I'm voting for the socialist. Don't agree with him on everything but he's shown he cares. Shown he can set the agenda for a better city.”

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 22d

Indulging in some geekery by bringing a #Meshtastic node along with on commute to ISAW. On the LIRR. No acks yet…

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 22d

I am Spartacus.

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 22d

Zoom in and those are turkeys and deer chilling in same backyard. Seen during my bike ride on North Fork of Long Island, LI.

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 26d

Battled Azure's Docker container setup. Image wasn't working. Failure at start, auto-restart cycle. Issue was my new M4 MacBook was generating an Apple Silicon specific image. Once I built with "--platform=linux/amd64" all was good. A lot of "Digital Humanities" is "Digital Plumbing". And pain. #DH

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 27d

A thread on the work @epoehler.bsky.social and I are doing to build out Linked Open Data for Pompeii.

Pompeii Linked Open Data @p-lod-bot.bsky.social · 27d

@epoehler.bsky.social and I (@sebhth.bsky.social) are pushing ahead on "building blocks" for Linked Open Data at Pompeii (P-LOD). One intro is at isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog... . Two current websites are p-lod.org (bare presentation) and palp.art (focus on wall painting). A thread on recent work:

Moving forward with Linked Open Data at Pompeii

A retelling of Sebastian Heath's faculty research talk given in April, 2024. This is the first of three planned posts.

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · Sep 14

I’m not the biggest @governor.ny.gov fan. Her last campaign was lame – even low energy – and delaying Congestion Pricing was a low point. But she has risen to the moment many times recently, including with this endorsement: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · Sep 12

Here's a conundrum... What a great @peoplingthepast.bsky.social post: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... . But as full disclosure, the author is an @isawnyu.bsky.social student. I'm her chair (my great honor). So don't believe me, go check it out. (And my congrats/empathy to Lylaah!)

Blog #109: Graduate Student Feature with Lylaah L. Bhalerao: On Serendipity and Sanskrit in the Study of the Mediterranean World

We are kicking off the 2025/26 academic year over here at Peopling the Past with a blog by Lylaah L. Bhalerao, a PhD Candidate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York Univer…

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · Sep 10

I took the Aeneid with him. I'll let that sentence speak for itself. That's how good the class was. RIP and thank you.

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Brown Classics Department Mourns the Loss of Michael C. J. Putnam | Department of Classics | Brown University
classics.brown.edu/news/2025-08...

The Brown Classics Department Mourns the Loss of Michael C. J. Putnam

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hey, Mike: What did Trump see? What did he know? How'd they get him to flip? What did he say?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

in which Mike Johnson claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant to take down Epstein

Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · Sep 6

Quick note that I've put in a bit of time to switch 2 flask apps from passenger to gunicorn. Nothing against passenger. Had worked well. gunicorn providing all I need within python venvs. pypi.org/project/Flask/ gunicorn.org . Also using fastapi & uvicorn ( fastapi.tiangolo.com & www.uvicorn.org ).

Flask

A simple framework for building complex web applications.

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · Sep 4

Are they on Bluesky?

Chris Gelardi @chrisgelardi.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm incredibly excited to welcome Isabelle Taft as @nysfocus.bsky.social's immigration reporter. She's a dogged journalist who is going to rock it during these dark, eventful times.

Her first piece is up today, give it a read:
nysfocus.com/2025/09/04/t...

And send tips: [email protected]

Young New York Immigrants at Risk After Trump Ends Protections

New Yorkers are suing to reverse a Trump administration policy change that has upended the futures of tens of thousands of young immigrants.

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’m all for a multi-polar world. But it’s nice to be invited so this is pretty embarrassing for Trump, especially since he stans them all. And anyway, where is he these days??