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Sissel Undheim
@unsissel.bsky.social
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Religious studies professor @University of Bergen, studying religion in Late Antiquity, Lego, pop culture and public schools.


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idaostenberg.bsky.social
Oh dear.

”The Assassin's Creed series will feature real-life historical figures, including "Emperor Nero and Seneca the Younger, who served as Nero's tutor.”

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Netflix's Upcoming Action Fantasy Adaptation Gets Ancient in Major Season 1 Update
The setting for Netflix's live-action 'Assassin's Creed' video game adaptation has been revealed. 👀
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November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2

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The picture shows six needles of different sizes. They were made of bone resemble their modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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janeskj.bsky.social
Det er ganske enkelt å teste dette:

Prøv å mate en KI-bot med en lengre tekst du har skrevet selv, f.eks. en OA-artikkel, og be den så om å gi deg hovedpoenget/-ne i den. Jeg har forsøkt det et par ganger og jeg synes sjelden den lykkes så godt som mennesker. Faktisk lesing kan ikke erstattes.
November 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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mikemotia.bsky.social
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Maia Kotrosits, "After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present" (Duke UP, 2025)
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November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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ancientjewreview.bsky.social
New pod! Mike talks to Maia Kotrosits about After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Late Antiquity
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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janeskj.bsky.social
"Mange, også i akademia, tenker at KI-sammendragene er en oppsummering av kildene den henviser til. Det er det ikke, sier Bolstad."

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Mener Google feilsiterer Store norske leksikon
På Googles KI-oppsummeringer står det informasjon som angivelig er hentet fra Store norske leksikon. Men det stemmer ikke, sier sjefredaktør Erik Bolstad.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
unsissel.bsky.social
Have a happy and relaxed #Caturday!
#CatsofPompeii
Tabby cat sleeping in the middle of the Pompeii street (via Consolare, at the porta Ercolano). Photo: me, 17.11.2025
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
unsissel.bsky.social
More Stabia beauty for #FrescoFriday, with this reader immersed in his scroll. From Villa Arianna.
Profile, 3/4 of man reading in central panel, with light background and delicate architectonical features, flanked by red and yellow mostly monochrome panels, partly framed by architectonical elements. Villa Arianna (Ariadne), Stabia
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
unsissel.bsky.social
Suffering severe #sblaar / #aarsbl fomo, but spending some days in Stabia and Pompei do help.
And it's #FrescoFriday!
#VillaSanMarco
Part of wall fresco at Villa San Marco in Stabia. Lower part of the panel in dark red background, small female figure dressed in yellow over blue long dress standing at the bottom, holding the partly veiled Palladium (?) and a downward pointed rod. Upper panel:light background, female, semi-dressed, sitting with her back and face turned towards the viewer, holding a lyre. Panel framed by delicate gold pattern on left side and a slim solid golden column on the right.
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
✨Hephaestus and Thetis✨

This #FrescoFriday we drop in on Hephaestus who has just finishes forging the armour for Achilles. Thetis, Achilles’ mum, is right on hand for the pick up! This piece is held in the MAN Napoli.

#AncientRome
The scene shows Hephaestus on the left, seated and holding out a large shield to an attendant. Below Hephaestus sits another blacksmith working on the final details of the helmet. The pile of armour in vivid golds sits in the lower middle of the scene. Thetis sits to the right watching on with another attendant. Image credit to Sebastià Giralt via Flickr.
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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doccrom.bsky.social
#ReliefWednesday - I'm feeling the love today, so here she is in person, with this beautiful polychrome representation of Aphrodite from Dura-Europos, Syria: ca. AD 200-256. #Love #Archaeology 🏺

Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1935.43). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...
Plaster niche-relief showing Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and sexuality, brushing her hair and gazing into a mirror. She sports bracelets, anklets, and breast ornaments, with surviving traces of the ancient red pigments still showing.
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
✨The Seasons✨

This #FrescoFriday we travel to Block 10, Regio IX of Pompeii to enjoy some of the details from the blue room unveiled during archaeological work in 2024. The room is thought to have been a sacrarium — “a shrine devoted to ritual activities and the storage of sacred objects”.
Depicted on the luminous blue walls are personifications of the seasons amid architectural motifs. Here we see a figure identified as related to Autumn.
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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supercamilla.bsky.social
"Det er alt for farleg å bruke det i yrke der kunnskap er viktig, og det gjeld veldig mange yrke: Journalistikk, utdanning, forsking, prosjektarbeid og mykje anna."

Takk for at du bruker den faglige tyngden din til å si klart i fra @jilltxt.bsky.social 💚
KI-forskar Jill Walker Rettberg vil ha KI ut av kunnskapsarbeidet
Nyheter | Kunstig intelligens KI-forskaren som seier stopp Kunstig intelligens høyrer ikkje heime i kunnskapsarbeid, seier Jill Walker Rettberg. Ho meiner det må bli slutt på å unnskylde språkmodell-s...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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kristadalton.bsky.social
I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project!
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November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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jilltxt.bsky.social
Du hørte kanskje at NTB publiserte en KI-generert melding sist uke. Visste du at KI-sammendraget endret sikkerhetstrussel fra fiendtlige statlige aktører til ekstemvær og aldrende teknologi? Slik ideologisk vridning viser at KI-bias kan være en sikkerhetsrisiko. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
Teknologien truer kunnskapssystemet vårt. Men den norske staten har slukt tekgigantenes PR rått.
Les kronikken.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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wmarybeard.bsky.social
Catch our real life Roman ghost story on Instant Classics tinyurl.com/7t2kpzuh On Thursday we are dropping the follow up episode on the underworld in epic. Come and meet the ghosts of the Odyssey and the Aeneid.
Roman Ghostbusters
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 30/10/2025 · 38m
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November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Huge LEGO Roman City Has One Million Pieces - Give Bread and Circuses - Bell of Lost Souls
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Huge LEGO Roman City Has One Million Pieces - Give Bread and Circuses
Step back in history with this massive LEGO Roman City, including hundreds of thousands of pieces and detailed buildings.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Sleeping Cupid Unearthed in Pula: A Rare Masterpiece of Ancient Roman Art - Arkeonews
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Sleeping Cupid Unearthed in Pula: A Rare Masterpiece of Ancient Roman Art - Arkeonews
During excavations in the historic center of the Croatian, archaeologists uncovered a finely carved marble sculpture of a “Sleeping Cupid,”
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November 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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janeskj.bsky.social
Happy to be editing the book series Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan) with Kees de Groot!

Looking forward to future book proposals!

@drrachelwagner.bsky.social @unsissel.bsky.social @asbjorndyrendal.bsky.social

link.springer.com/series/15420
Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture
Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (CRPC) invites renewed engagement between religious studies and media studies, anthropology, literary studies, art ...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
Small blue glass bottle with a round base and a long narrow neck, decorated with white swirling patterns. The bottle rests on a textured dark surface, reflecting light across its glossy finish
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Happy #Halloween
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.

Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper

#RomanArchaeology
Oval intaglio engraved with a skeletal human figure resting on an amphora and holding a jug, carved in translucent amber-colored stone.
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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wmarybeard.bsky.social
What better for halloween than a good old Roman ghost story? Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Roman Ghostbusters
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 30/10/2025 · 38m
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October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Gospel According to the Klan
The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
by @kellyjbaker.bsky.social
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October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Packed-out audience for @lucygrig.bsky.social's inaugural lecture @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...
Inaugural Lecture - Professor Lucy Grig | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
Professor Lucy Grig - Professor of the History of Late Antiquity - will give her inaugural lecture on 'A slow history of Late Antiquity'.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
✨The Eleusinian Mysteries✨

Demeter and Persephone flank a young youth thought to be Triptolemos. This beautiful Augustan era rendition based on a Greek relief is our pick for #ReliefWednesday and #ClassicsTober25.
Description from the Met: “Demeter, the goddess of agricultural abundance, stands at the left holding a sceptre. At the right is Persephone, her daughter and the wife of Hades, the god of the underworld. Each goddess extends her right hand toward a nude youth. The boy is thought to be Triptolemos, who was sent by Demeter to teach men how to cultivate grain. The original marble relief was found at the sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis, the site of the Eleusinian mysteries, a secret cult that was famous throughout antiquity. The original Greek work and a number of Roman copies survive. Here the ten Roman fragments are embedded in a cast of the Greek relief.“
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM