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Alice Sharpless
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Classical Studies PhD. Curatorial Assistant on the Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP) at the ANS | she/her
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If you click on this link, not only can you find links to two of my co-authored articles, BUT you can also find OPEN ACCESS to 240 papers across four volumes all on NUMISMATICS. livyarrow.org/2025/09/22/i...
September 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Publication Day! The INC Warsaw Proceedings are now available (open access), and I have a paper on Roman republican control marks and recut dies (with @profyarrow.bsky.social and Lucia Carbone). #numismatics doi.org/10.1484/M.WS...
September 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Found today somewhat by chance an obverse die link between the sextantes of four (!) different Roman republican coin series: RRC 188 (OPEIMI), 190 (OPEI), 191 (VAL), and 194 (3rd anchor); there are two other shared dies but only this one is used for all four series #ancient #numismatics
May 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Do you think snakes think legs are dumb
March 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Registration is now open for the RRDP conference at the American Academy in Rome, 9-11 April 2025! Join in person OR online! aarome.org/events/coins...
March 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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#news in #numismatics 🏺

The book: "Counterfeits, Imitations, and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii: Making and Faking Coins on Both Sides of the Limes" available open access via @brepols.bsky.social

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Counterfeits, Imitations, and Copies of Roman Imperial Denarii | Warsaw Studies in Archaeology
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February 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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What is the go to visual reference guide for all the different ancient representations of Roman military standards of all sorts including vexillia and aquila? Is there one? surely there must be.
February 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Bumping this with the hope that a senator might see it
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve
January 31, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Your regular reminder that being funny in alt-text is lovely, sure, but if it is NOT USEFUL TO PEOPLE WHO ARE USING IT FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE than it's useless and trash. If you can't be both funny AND accessible just be accessible. Just describe what's in the image.
January 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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January 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Random 🏺Ancient Bluesky question: is anyone aware of depictions of bird houses in Roman art? Not bird cages, but houses where wild birds could live? A few internet searches didn't turn up anything helpful but if anyone has leads they would be greatly appreciated!
January 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya
It’s a cold and it’s a broken “cowabunga”
December 22, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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If this is a difficult season for you I want you to know that the band that had a hit with the blender song in 1998 thinks you're alright
December 22, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Me: Oh wow a dream job is open at an institution I’d love to work for!

Also me: proceeds to send them a series of annoying emails pointing out errors in one of their online resources

🫥
December 22, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs.

Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this?

#PHEthx
Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision
The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...
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December 17, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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My department is advertising 3 doctoral positions in history and 1 in archaeology! Check out the calls below, circulate widely, and let me know if you have any questions about Oslo!
Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124) | University of Oslo
Job title: Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 16, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
December 17, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
Well this is grim
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:
December 10, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Do you think fish know they’re weird
December 7, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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What if, and like hear me out right, universities *didn’t* run like businesses which need to turn a profit.
a man in a sweater is holding a piece of paper and making a face .
Alt: a man in a sweater is holding a piece of paper and making a face .
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:41 PM