Judith Barr

Judith Barr

@jebarr.bsky.social

@J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels. #Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance

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yael
@yael.gay

and people say baseball is a sport where nothing happens

Judith Barr
@jebarr.bsky.social

Super interesting thread with parallels for similar imagined, exotic landscapes in decorative schemes of the ancient Med!

Buddhas in the West Material Archive@buddhasinthewest.bsky.social

In the 19th century, British ceramics decorated with imaginary Chinese scenes offered households a window onto a distant, mysterious world. But the China they pictured, with landscapes dominated by Buddhist pagodas, wasn’t necessarily a China that existed.🧵 🗃️ #Canton

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Jon Bois
@jonbois.bsky.social

every sport has a fun term for a weird little oddball occurrence. basketball has the wedgie, where the ball gets stuck between the rim and backboard. football has the doink, where a kick bounces off a goal post. baseball has baseball games

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Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social

Wanna introduce Roman trade to your class 🌍? I’ve noted it before but 1 of the most engaged activities I do all year is to have students make budgets from a salary I give them & using prices from Diocletian’s Price Edict (301 CE). Then they have to figure out how to ship it using Orbis.Stanford.edu.

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Taylor Mitchell Brown
@tmitchellbrown.bsky.social

Our more in-depth story on the sudden shut down of Chronicle Heritage. I talk to a handful of employees who recount their experience and concerns following the company’s dissolution. Many worry about the thousands of artifacts still in Chronicle’s care. #Archaeology #CRM 🧪🏺 New at @science.org

science.orgMajor employer of archaeologists shuts down, leaving workers in the lurchThe “ungraceful exit” of Chronicle Heritage leaves many researchers fearful for the future

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Josh Hadro
@hadro.bsky.social

How do you show a whole digitized book in one thumbnail? Modern books have illustrated covers, but in research collections the cover is often a plain library binding. So I made Flipbook: hover over a book from any #IIIF source and flip through its pages. hadro.github.io/flipbook/ #GLAMsky 📚📜

Judith Barr
@jebarr.bsky.social

“Now mama if you do not want me to pitch myself out of the third story window bring my Aquarium without those nasty gold fish” if anyone teaches my child about the existence of this tactic I shall scream

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Society of American Archivists
@saa-official.bsky.social

In the latest review on the American Archivist Reviews Portal, Cheryl Oestreicher reviews "Artistic Provenance Research," edited by Tal Adler and Sharon Macdonald. Read the full review here: https://ow.ly/jOs350ZJz8H

ow.lyArtistic Provenance ResearchEdited by Tal Adler and Sharon Macdonald. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2026. 208 pp. ISBN 978-3-8376-6553-6. Print €35.00. PDF open access. Reviewed by Cheryl Oestreicher [PDF Full Text] …

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

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Mateusz Fafinski
@calthalas.bsky.social

We all need to start writing emails with the same attitude Gregory the Great had when writing letters. Whenever someone fails to answer my email I will henceforth begin my message with "Greetings, Your Negligence".

Judith Barr
@jebarr.bsky.social

Literally just fulfilled a bucket list item by getting to see THE Jefferson’s Ground Sloth claws a couple of weeks ago at the Academy. Devastating and horrific news for Philly.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

I feel like I’m going to throw up

Judith Barr
@jebarr.bsky.social

A fossil dig. Walk like a dinosaur. Pet a dinosaur. The beautiful living animals space upstairs. The urban species wall. The incredible dioramas. Everyone deserves access to natural history collections.

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The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project
@chreproject.bsky.social

📖 Newly published! The project's chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies, edited by Elton Barker, Olympia Bobou, and Rubina Raja, is now available online. The printed volume of the Handbook is scheduled to appear on 14 September. doi.org/10.1093/9780...

doi.orgThe Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire ProjectAbstract. The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project provides a digital research infrastructure covering hoards of all coins in use within the Roman Empir