historian with commitment issues

I honestly worry about people who don’t have too many books

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Let you cook. Don't let anyone else cook you.

The problem with being a fan of classic literature is that you end up knowing so many fantastic words that basically never come up in everyday conversation. Do you have any idea how rare it is to get the chance to drop an "illimitable"?

Just solved a problem in my writing by the time-honored method of deciding it wasn't a problem.

guys do I need to get booze whats going on

flirting with people so I can get them to read my work

Want to cowrite a book? I’ll do the consonants and you can do the vowels.

Did Ancient Greeks And Romans Explore Iceland? - The Historian's Hut Iceland did not become a permanent place of settlement until the 9th century. The first inhabitants that built a long-term community on Iceland predominantly came from Norway, and later descendants of...

Did Ancient Greeks And Romans Explore Iceland?

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Best History Writing of 2025 The short-form history writing that moved, impressed, and taught our editors the most this year.

Read the short-form history writing that moved, impressed, and taught @bunkhistory.bsky.social’s editors the most this year. www.bunkhistory.org/resources/be...

Worried about what'll happen to academic historiography if they ever get rid of the words "entangled," "negotiate," or "engage."

Does history come alive through mummy reconstruction?

Earlier this year, I wrote the name of this book on a piece of paper and set it on fire, in a move that was very concerning to my spouse

Today I'm finishing the first draft of it, just months after finalizing the book that precedes it

So I guess all's well that gets well-burned in a fire

Anatolia’s First Phoenician Find: Human-Faced Glass Beads and Baby Jar Burials Unearthed - Arkeonews Discover a historic first in Anatolia as archaeologists uncover Phoenician human-faced glass beads and rare baby jar burials at Oluz Höyük,

Anatolia’s First Phoenician Find: Human-Faced Glass Beads and Baby Jar Burials Unearthed ⛏️🇹🇷 arkeonews.net/anatolias-fi...

Why *not* round out 2025 by listening to me chat about dirtbag medievalism and the theater kid to medievalist/medievalism pipeline?

There are a hundred literacy lessons that are central to building the skill, but the most important one in my life is, "who benefits from me thinking this way?"

It was amazing to write with @ehayot.bsky.social & each of us put our stank into every part of this essay.

I have no memory of how we drafted it in October, but when we came back to it a couple weeks ago, I felt this paragraph in my bones.

After 135 years, Wounded Knee Massacre site securely in Native hands - ICT Monday ceremony doubled as anniversary ceremony and as a celebration of new preservation law for site of 1890 atrocity

“The tribes now own the massacre site that for generations was in the hands of the Czywczynki family, which had previously operated a trading post and museum on the property. The tribes purchased the land in 2022 and now have had it placed permanently in their hands through the federal legislation.”

so many books i wanna read i'm going to explode

The department of one person teaching everything

You should make your new year's resolution to read more books. Especially nonfiction. Here's a good place to start

My New Year's resolutions for 2026:

Some dude thought it would be cute to respond to one of my "this is a cool archaeology discovery" posts by mansplaining remote sensing to me and saying "Are you aware of this technology."

My dude. I wrote the textbook. (I eviscerated him naturally)

“Grandpa, I bet you would have loved this place.”
-Note left on our typewriter

I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)

Rare medieval ‘cool S’

Canvas has enabled me to do exactly nothing more than I did via email and a very basic, open source LLM I could post pdfs to back in 2010. Instead, Canvas has gotten between me and my students in multiple ways and created days worth of extra work for me each semester.

I write a newspaper column about Scottish history, historians and heritage.

I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?

I’ve achieved my dream collection. #PhysicalMedia