Matasha Mazis @mattyhari@qoto.org

The 'Eleanor' crystal vase.
A 6th–7th century Sasanian rock crystal vase with a 12th century French gilded silver mount. The rock crystal was carved in a 'honeycomb' pattern of about 22 rows of small, hollowed-out hexagons. It once belonged to Eleanor of Aquitaine. It was given by Amir of Saragossa to Eleanor's grandfather William IX Duke of Aquitaine during a battle campaign.

Louvre Paris https://collections.louvre.fr/en/?fbclid=IwAR1gPGaD_ypUOd8rJML1IJLuVwfU2I-8qqk74MANzMS6dmZv_Yv_cca8OaY

I’m the guest judge for this ancient world competition. Please do disseminate to anyone interested. National and international competition. Details below:
Do you know someone who might want to take part in @lsaclassics 2023 Ancient Worlds competition?
🏺Open to all students aged 11-18
🏛️ Closing date for video entries: 1st March 2023
#Classics #ancienthistory #students #video #ancientworld
More information here: https://lnkd.in/eYx7Vur6

As it's #HillfortsWednesday I thought I'd share the love for my local one, the majestic and enigmatic Twmbarlwm. Tentatively dated to around 1 CE, it's probably unfinished and with what appears to be a Norman motte added at its eastern end. A source of much local folklore #hillfort #SouthWales #IronAge #archaeology #twmbarlwm #folklore #wales #CwmcarnForest

For #TombTuesday, this is the megalithic mushroom of Chûn Quoit (pronounced 'choon') on the West Penwith moors.

A Neolithic chambered tomb, these quoits are the oldest monuments in West Cornwall. Unlike the quoits at Zennor and Lanyon, Chûn was surrounded by a circular mound or cairn of stones, probably with a stone-lined entrance passage.

Watch Croft, the highest point in West Penwith, is on the skyline.

This visit October 2020.

#WestPenwith #Neolithic #Cornwall

For the third year in a row we are seeing the #Antarctic #OzoneHole persisting well into late November, and possibly December, due to low #stratospheric temperatures and a strong polar vortex. #CopernicusAtmosphere monitoring of the #OzoneLayer shows 2022 following a similar trend to 2021 and 2020 with the area (temperature at 50hPa poleward of 60S) well above (below) the 1979-2019 average size.

Latest monitoring can be found at https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/monitoring-ozone-layer

#ECMWF @vhpeuch

Dear #histodons, I would like to introduce myself briefly. I have been a professor of spatial history and culture since 2009, with a temporal focus on the (very late) Middle Ages, the early modern period and, when it comes to maps and atlases, also the 19th century. I am currently working on the history of fairs in Europe, for which we have also built a large database. I am also writing a book on urbanity. Information will be available in this virtual space (and maybe on Twitter for a while).

Oh hey, ORCID is on mastodon, hi @ORCID_Org !

Metadata is more than data about data—it is the key to data! ORCID hosts this webinar w/ @crossref +
@datacite to show how complete metadata and connections among people, places, and things benefits everyone. 28 Nov 6am (UTC) Register ➡️ https://bit.ly/3VjOcZG #BetterTogether

With each new day, the thought of disabling, dismantling, deactivating, deleteing, or just plain destroying my Twitter account gets stronger.
#twittermigration

It’s good to see engagement and use growing here. It would be healthy to have a social platform free of the billionaire oligopoly and the corporate ad folks, don’t you think?

@mattyhari @SpockResists
Hi. I'm just a random internet stranger jumping in to wholeheartedly agree with you. I wouldn't do this on the birdsite for exactly the reasons you described.

@grudgecat @SpockResists @dawnhumphrey Took me a while to work out the "see-you" thing as well! Regardless, I agree that Mastodon has been great. One of my favorite aspects is the local and federated scopes. I can join a server with like-minded people and stay in my bubble, but venture out to the wider federation when I want to.

So this is my second proper day of Mastodon.

Boost if you are staying. Are you happy here? Reply to boost your account. 🖖

Lots of people seem to be joining Mastodon right now, so here's a little intro.

I'm a political scientist at McGill U in Canada who has worked on Ukrainian, Russian and EEuropean politics for ~20yrs. I've written abt courts, rule of law, corruption, extremist parties, protest, and conspiracies. Since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in Feb, 2022, I've followed closely and I'm now writing a book on the roots of the war with my colleague and friend Oxana Shevel from Tufts U

Time for an #introduction!

I'm a #historian based at Edge Hill University in the UK. I work on the history of Victorian popular culture, particularly things like humour and the press. I also dabble in #digitalhumanities.

I like to post about the unusual things I find in archives (and to moan about how period dramas keep getting newspapers wrong.)

Here's one of my favourite Victorian jokes to kick things off!

#histodons #mediahistory #victorian #nineteenthcentury #19thcentury #history

"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human awesomeness"

-The Anthropology Department

"The scale of our efforts to control water is vast. But control is illusory. Water does what it wants, as we are seeing increasingly often, as people around the world grapple with severe floods and droughts."

"What Does Water Want?" A terrific piece by Erica Gies on how slowing the movements of #water by restoring its natural agency can be of vital aid in a #climate crisis for watersheds, human & wild communities, and ecosystem resilience.

#slowwater #flooding

https://psyche.co/ideas/what-does-water-want-most-humans-seem-to-have-forgotten