a little write-up about Naples, books, dust-heaps, flesh, philology, and Heraclitus: triacorda.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-mo…

2 minute summary of our work published in Nature Medicine this week: 1 year after hospitalisation with COVID-19 we found cognitive deficits equivalent to 20 years of ageing associated with raised brain injury proteins and reduced grey matter volume nature.com/articles/s4159…

Just published, freely accessible, results of archaeological and related research carried out the last couple of years by the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, mostly in Magna Grecia, with a couple of very small contributions by yours truly: acma-digitale.it/pub/index.php/…

Should you care to, you could vote in the AIA photo contest (once per day until October 1); you might particularly like the second photo, of the Greek temple of the Tavole Palatine at Metaponto under a cloud and rainbow... ;) archaeological.org/photo-contest/…

I see now that it's not always the second photo, but you might still like to vote for it...

last day to vote!

In which the author reuses the arguments and results presented in my scholarly article ”Veni, vidi, vici and Caesar’s triumph”, published in The Classical Quarterly 63.2 (2013) - without giving any references. 😡

Do not forget the people of Gaza. Read the full piece here: tribunemag.co.uk/2024/10/jeremy…

people asking if this is about Tampa or Gaza or Beirut: yes to all three - but the century is still young

After a bunch of online "experts" popped up to accuse the NYT of faking CT scans showing Gazan children shot in the head, the Times confirms that it has photo evidence corroborating the scans that is too horrific to make public. Hope all the people who boosted this lie are proud.

The vote by the Israeli Parliament against UNRWA is unprecedented. It opposes the United Nations Charter and violates the State of Israel’s obligations under international law. Failing to push back against these bills will weaken our common multilateral mechanism. This should be a

gonna keep ringing this bell: everyone from climate to repro activism should get familiar w/ the techniques used to repress the Stop Cop City movement (bs RICO charges, weaponization of vague new "anti-terror" laws, criminalization of bail funds, ect) and have a plan to meet them

Good Evening, "The Odyssey" was a 3400 year sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

There is no reason, no justification, for the images from Gaza. The flooded tents, the frozen infants, the pain and the suffering, the death and destruction, they are the results of utter dehumanization resulting in an utter loss of humanity. This is the only truth.

you accept a cup of kindness

new office view

archaeo hive-mind: does anyone know of good archaeological contexts from the ancient Mediterranean in which coins were found within the structure of a multi-part monument? (e.g., between an inscription and its base, or between multiple blocks of an altar)

I was excited to be able to attend the launch of Fragment Found, a publication exploring our relationships and connections to found pottery sherds. I was lucky to have to contributed to this exciting volume, you can read about the launch here: …encoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/fra…