Christine Johnston
Archaeologist of bronze age people and pots and environment 🏺public history and pedagogy with Peopling the Past
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- Reposted by Christine JohnstonI was dreaming of being a guest of #PeoplingPodcast @peoplingthepast.bsky.social and then it finally happened! Follow them NOW 🔥❤️👇
- New #PeoplingPodcast alert! Today, we are joined by @robertamazza.bsky.social to discuss the antiquities trade in both the past and the present, the ethics behind papyrology, and the illicit papyrus trade in academia. Listen in to “Fragments and Falsehoods” here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/06/p...
- This episode has everything: smuggling, scandal, Sappho, a disgraced Oxford prof, & a 🔥 takedown of everyone's least favorite 'hobby' store. Check out our AWESOME episode on the extreme & illegal lengths collectors go through for papyri #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #AntiquitiesTrade #Papyri
- New #PeoplingPodcast alert! Today, we are joined by @robertamazza.bsky.social to discuss the antiquities trade in both the past and the present, the ethics behind papyrology, and the illicit papyrus trade in academia. Listen in to “Fragments and Falsehoods” here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/06/p...
- Reposted by Christine JohnstonThis is the first big R1 to start making announcements. Schools have funded most people through the summer. We should expect hundreds of similar announcements over the summer and early fall, as institutions decide what they are going to do.
- Trump's war in science is working. The destruction of scientific research will hurt our economy and our future. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/06/c...
- Reposted by Christine JohnstonBREAKING: University of Washington students have launched an occupation of the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB), calling for the university to cut ties with Boeing in solidarity with Palestine. The company is one of Israel’s largest weapons suppliers.
- Reposted by Christine JohnstonEveryone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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- Reposted by Christine JohnstonUK ARCHAEOLOGISTS Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Christine JohnstonIf you're protesting this May Day, know your rights.
- I am so thrilled that the season is now here! 🥳This is one of the most meaningful projects that I have been a part of -- the topics addressed by our amazing guests couldn't be more timely or pressing. Please listen and share! 🙏 #PeoplingThePast #ATHAR ##CulturalHeritage #AntiquitiesTrade #Looting
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- So incredibly excited!! If you haven't listened yet, check out the promo to learn more about the upcoming season
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Christine JohnstonEuphemisms for pot have a long history: the 15th-century study of ḥašīš "weed" in Arabic, by the historian al-Badrī, tells us that 'In Yemen it is “the Green.” In Diyar Bakr, it is “the Dusty.” In Antioch, it is “Cat-head"...In Syria, it is known as “the Toasted” in Hama and “the Cheerer” in Homs.'
- Reposted by Christine JohnstonFor every dollar invested in public research grants the economy benefits $2.56 (for medical research). I think auditing the rich returns us $12 for every dollar invested but that doesn’t appear to be on the table.
- Reposted by Christine JohnstonThe NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false. The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
- What a great way to spend a Saturday! Some excellent speakers and conversations--videos should be posted on the site in the future Huge thanks to all the organizers and speakers!
- The Long Arc of Fascism teach-in starts tonight and our website is now live! Stay tuned for videos, photos and reports: www.longarcoffascism.ca
- Reposted by Christine JohnstonReminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
- Reposted by Christine Johnstonhalf-remembering that thing about how most Roman citizens experienced the fall of Rome as simply one day their local bridge went out and nobody came around to repair it
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- Reposted by Christine JohnstonHonestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges. Good luck! 🫡
- 🚨🚨 The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/p...
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- Reposted by Christine JohnstonWhile we were all sleeping: The Supreme Court, in an order issued in the middle of the night, ordered the Trump administration to not remove anyone under the Alien Enemies Act until other legal steps play out in the lower courts. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
- Reposted by Christine Johnston🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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- Reposted by Christine JohnstonThere’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
- Reposted by Christine JohnstonGood reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- Reposted by Christine JohnstonI think the Ozturk case suggests that 1) yes, Canary is being used to ID students for deportation 2) someone in State is OVERRIDING evidentiary analyses (like the one WaPo reports that said there was no evidence against Ozturk) to sustain Canary "conclusions."
- It looks very much like the Department of Homeland Security memo seeking to revoke Ozturk's visa copied language directly from the Canary Mission website. Is DHS just following the "deport list" from an anonymous website? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
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- Reposted by Christine JohnstonPeople love to list useless things done by Roman emperors, namely Caligula’s declaring war on the sea. But a technocrat “conquering space” w/an 11 min 🚀 flight carrying a brigade of rich female celebrities—when ticket $ combined are worth the entire NEH budget for a yr—is beyond Caligula levels imo.
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- Reposted by Christine Johnston1. Major ruling: A federal court has ruled, for now, that Trump cannot take away school lunch money from hungry kids over trans students. This is Gov. Janet Mills first victory after telling Trump she would "see you in court." The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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- Reposted by Christine JohnstonFollowing up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US. They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US. www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...
- THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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- Reposted by Christine JohnstonWow. This is the full document submitted by Rubio against Mr. Khalil invoking INA 237(a)(4)(C). The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.
- "The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil" "Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs." Free this man immediately. apnews.com/article/mahm...
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- Reposted by Christine JohnstonWho could’ve ever foresaw except all the people who did and got arrested for doing so
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- Reposted by Christine Johnston"Like Amazon, but with human beings."
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- Reposted by Christine JohnstonAt Perseus, the vast majority of hits have always been from non .edu addresses. NEH means the Greek and Roman world is available to everyone, not just academics.
- Reposted by Christine Johnston“they are getting rich directly off the market chaos that’s ruining your retirement and gutting your investments” is the kind of shit that makes people very angry
- Reposted by Christine JohnstonWant to see the scope of what the NEH grant terminations is? The ACH ( @ach.bsky.social ) has compiled a database: impact.ach.org
