iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess #MENAdoc: "Das Tabassaranische : grammatische und syntaktische Untersuchungen einer südostkaukasischen Sprache" by Karl Bouda [Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1939] dx.doi.org/10.25673/125... #Kaukasussprachen #Dagestan #Tabassaranisch #CaucasianLanguages #Sprachwissenschaft

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Pedestrians, cyclists, drivers of the world: please stop using phones in traffic. You'll hurt someone, either yourself or someone else. Thank you. Signed, a concerned cyclist.

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tomorrow! Don't forget to register!

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ads from the back of old ufo/paranormal/occult magazines are the best. Like OF COURSE I'm already in the process of constructing a pyramid in my backyard, I get FATE magazine!

PYRAMIDS! BUILDING A BACKYARD PYRAMID? DO IT RIGHT!

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

In case you missed it! The recording of So Miyagawa's paper is now online on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiEf...

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TeTra | So Miyagawa "Examining the Apocalypse of Elijah"

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Syriac in an Armenian animation about the origins of Armenian literature www.youtube.com/watch?v=liuU...

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This might be my favourite ever episode. Absolutely insane.

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

TeTra continues during the summer! Next Thursday 9 July at 4PM CET @somiyagawa.bsky.social (University of Tsukuba) will speak about the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah. If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

These days I see a worrying number of children participating in traffic while not even looking up from their phones. Please, parents, educate your children, and educate yourselves while you're at it. #nophonesintraffic

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Next Thursday 18 June at 10 AM CET! Irene Tinti (Florence) •Debates in the Margins: Tracing Interconfessional Relations through the Lens of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts• If you want to receive the Zoom link and are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Haven't looked forward to a series of @taskmaster.tv this much in a long time!

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

For those who missed Thursday's Book in the Spotlight, here is the recording! Great conversation between Christine Shepardson, the author of A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious DIfference in Late Antiquity, and @philipforness.bsky.social!

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TeTra | Book in the Spotlight: Christine Shepardson, A Memory of Violence (2026)

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Yiannis @yiannisbab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ah yes, the "Thdpsssps"

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Next Thursday 11 June, 10 AM! William M. Barton (Universität Innsbruck) •Byzantine Letters in Golden-Age Spain: On Vicente Mariner’s translation of Theophylact Achridensis’ Correspondence• Image, BNE, MS 9813, f. 673r

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

As job titles go it can't get much better than this.

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The CLAIM & GenAut Projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Come work with the CLAIM team in the new ERC project in Vienna! Apply here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct... Details CLAIM.univie.ac.at/ @erc.europa.eu | @univie.ac.at | @etf-univienna.bsky.social

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Since we cannot seem to rely on any governments for this and the problem certainly will not solve itself, please tell someone this week to stop using their phone while in traffic. It saves lives. #nophonesintraffic

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Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Iain Gardner has been doing fantastic work making Manichaean texts more accessible... global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Cover of Iain Gardner's The Letters of Mani, featuring a papyrus fragment.

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ariel @toomuchpiano.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

an Ottoman Lord’s Prayer: a thread. so i recently found out—i can’t remember from whom, but if it was one of you please let me know!—that there is a community of Turkish-speaking Chaldean Catholics in Kirkuk, Iraq, who continue to use Ottoman Turkish as a liturgical language. 1/

ای سمواتده اولان پدرمز، اسمك مقدس اولسون
ملكتوتك كلسون
ارادتك سمواتده اولدیغی كبی ییر ایزرنده نخی اجرا اولنسون
یومی اتمكمزی بزه بوكون ویر
وبزه صوچلو اولنلنره باغشلادیغمز مثللو، بزم صوچلرمزی باغشله
و بزی اغوایه كتورمه، لكن بزی شریردن قورتار
زیرا ملكوت وقدرت وعزت الی الابد سنكدر. آمین

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

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Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Wishing they did reprints of Robert Thomson's translations of the Armenian histories. It is impossible to find a copy of Lazar P'arpec'i for example.

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TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Next week! With Christine Shepardson (The University of Tennessee Knoxville) and @philipforness.bsky.social (KU Leuven)!

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Als er over vijftig jaar nog geesteswetenschappers zijn, en als zij zich afvragen hoe de afbraak van de letteren is verlopen, hebben zij aan de reactie van het Nijmeegse College van Bestuur op het aftreden van Paula Fikkert als decaan Letteren, een goede bron. neerlandistiek.nl/2026/05/paula/

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Crisp @crisp91.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered one of the oldest and best-preserved images of Jesus ever found: a 3rd-century fresco showing Christ as the “Good Shepherd.” The discovery in ancient Iznik offers rare insight into early Christianity and Roman-era beliefs

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Spectacular archaeological finds in Turkey shed new light on origins of Christianity

The remarkable discoveries include the best-preserved early image of Jesus discovered near the Turkish city of Iznik

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Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I found a bizarre, unidentifiable mythical creature in the medieval manuscript Kitāb al-Bulhān—the most peculiar I've ever seen.

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Words such as 'museum', 'formula', and 'ratio' instantly give away their Latin origin, but 'wall', 'street', and 'kitchen' come from Latin too! These were borrowed very early: into Proto-West Germanic, the ancestor of English. Today’s graphic shows six construction terms. Next time: food words.

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This rare Roman pottery lamp, shaped like a foot wearing a sandal, was made between 50-60 CE, and was found at Borough High Street in Southwark. Archaeologists discovered the lamp in a rubbish pit, close to buildings that had been burnt down during the Boudican rebellion in 60-61 CE. #FindsFriday

A lamp made from orange terracotta in the shape of a sandalled foot.

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