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Andrew Riggsby

@antiquethought.bsky.social
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Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And here, in this glum days, is an actual tenure-track job in our department! careers.historians.org/jobs/rss/226...
careers.historians.org
One moment...
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 28/09/2026
A fun episode on one of my favourite topics, cognitive offloading. Offloading (to our body, culture, technology, environment!) is one of the human superpowers, if you may. And now, for better or for worse, it's being taken to the extreme.
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Dr Alex A. @dralexa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s publication day! It’s a pleasure to finally see this edited volume in print. A massive thank you to my co-editors and to all the collaborators to the volume. It’s a pleasure to bring together a wealth of scholars from across the world, all asking questions about the Roman Censorship.
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A number of Germanophone papyrological collections joined forces for the online Papyrus Portal project (now I think under the aegis of something called Organa Papyrologica). But all links seemingly send you to this music site out of Leipzig. Anyone know anything about this?
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
An absolutely first rate podcast. manymindspodcast.substack.com/p/many-minds...
manymindspodcast.substack.com
Many Minds podcast: A starter pack
A guide for new listeners
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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My book has a face! 🥹📚 So excited to finally share the cover of The Nile Flows with Gold. Forthcoming, Spring 2027 with Princeton University Press.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hi Homer, I recently came across The Iliad and was blown away by its expansiveness, its humanity, and its complex use of . Have you considered new ways to promote your book and expand its reach across various platforms? I would love to connect and hear your ideas. Kind regards, Apollonius
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Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton
dolly parton new yorker cover
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/08/2026
Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
A black-and-white portrait of Dolly Parton with big blonde hair, sitting in a chair and smiling. A headline reads: "1946-2026: Dolly Parton." Photo by Jack Manning/The New York Times
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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 24/08/2026
The Battle of Alesia was a massive defeat for the Gauls, but was Vercingetorix to blame? Was he simply a loser? Listen to our full episode with Zoé Elise Thomas (@archaeadne.bsky.social) for more... www.ancienthistory101.org/p/vercingeto...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Talarico: Ken Paxton is anti-puppy. I wish I was joking when I said that, but reports just came out revealing that Ken Paxton protected a research lab that was notorious for torturing and killing hundreds of puppies. I'm going to be a senator for all Texans, including our four-legged Texans.
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And while we’re talking about cybersecurity around academia!!! www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
insidehighered.com
Cyber Threat Delays Start of Classes at UT San Antonio
Although the university says no data was compromised, experts say the disruption still has consequences.
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Did CUP get hacked again?
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@turhansbeycompany.bsky.social
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I’m reminded of the extent to which the answer to Hanson and Heath’s “who killed Homer? was not in fact post-modernism but Christianity.
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I am in awe. Just got a digital off print from a colleague. The first page has title, author name, and so much footnote (largely acknowledgements) that there is NO body text. Even the abstract is bumped to p.2.
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
For all my Information History people: souvenir shopping in highland Peru.
Replica of a quipu.
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Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Out today!
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@nakhthor.bsky.social Congregations!
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Does anyone have to hand the JRA 1991 supplement on LIteracy in the Roman World? I need a few pages, and my copy has disappeared on me.
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Also of interest to Classicists!
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I checked with a colleague of mine at Exeter, and he thought that it was worthwhile for people to sign this petition about the absurd down-sizing proposed there: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Javal Coleman @javalac.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The excitement continues!!! Come to the SCS in Boston in January to see @dominicmachado.bsky.social and I give our joint paper “Uncritical Fabulation - Subjection, Subjectivity, and the Study of Slavery.” Excited to be going back to the SCS in person! 🧐🧐
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Academic question. This has now happened to me a few times. I referee an article for a journal, and it is not accepted. At some later point a different journal asks me to referee the exact same article. My strong instinct is to decline, though I can't exactly articulate why. Thoughts?
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Javal Coleman @javalac.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Out today. it means a lot for this to be published on Juneteenth and before Father’s Day. classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/jav...
classicalstudies.org
Blog: Fatherlessness in Antiquity and Now | Society for Classical Studies
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
@turhansbeycompany.bsky.social
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Javal Coleman @javalac.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dramatic announcement incoming: After over 3 years yours truly has written for the SCS blog once again. Stay tuned for “Fatherlessness in Antiquity and Now” this week.
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Surprised Pikachu Meme
ALT: Surprised Pikachu Meme
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Noted without comment, especially not about the top line.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Everything you every wanted to know about the history of American immigration and citizensip policy. At UT Sept. 10. bsky.app/profile/unla...
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
@grammartable.bsky.social
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
One more thing from me on standardization (one more in the pipeline, and then I think I'm done). www.academia.edu/167894508/St...
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Standardization and Standardizations
Let me begin with a word about my title. 1 Creating novel plural forms of abstract nouns is perhaps too much in academic fashion these days. Nonetheless, a central framework of my discussion today wil...
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Javal Coleman @javalac.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It’s out!!! Late on posting this but this new chapter and the volume it’s published in is out now! Shout out to Hilary Lehmann and @chrissieplastow.bsky.social for their great editorial work and to @dominicmachado.bsky.social @foodoriented.bsky.social amongst others who read this whole before!!
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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 25/05/2026
Living Precariously in the Roman World by Astrid Van Oyen This book investigates the lived experiences of inequality in the Roman world through qualitative analysis of archaeological data. cup.org/4dHoTvl #archaeology
Cover of the book "Living Precariously in the Roman World" by Astrid Van Oyen. It depicts two individuals in ancient attire, seated near pottery, with trees in the background.
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jackiemurr.bsky.social @jackiemurr.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
My book is real.
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Society for Classical Studies @scsclassics.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Applications for the 2026 Erich S. Gruen prize, which recognizes graduate research, are now open at apply.classicalstudies.org. Find out more information about the prize at classicalstudies.org/awards.
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Kris Seaman @keseaman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy Birthday, Erich! The 2026 SCS Erich S. Gruen Prize competition is now open! @scsclassics.bsky.social classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...
classicalstudies.org
The Erich S. Gruen Prize | Society for Classical Studies
About the Gruen Prize On behalf of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), the Erich S. Gruen Prize Committee invites all graduate students in North America to enter the seventh annual competition fo...
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I wonder if part of the problem here is that while "credentialing" is a terrible description of what college does, it's less implausible as a description of what distinguishes colleges.
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Niche humor (and probably marginal at that. My wife just bought this new feeder toy for the dogs, and it came with its own sekoma/tabula mensoria.
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Anybody know why the Yale digital objects catalog doesn't (I think) have PDura numbers for their papyri from there? E.g. why can't I find this as PDura 100?
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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I am co-editing a special issue of Epigraphy Graffiti Iconography on the theme "Writing, place-making and architecture". More information here: journals.wisethorough.com/index.php/EG... All scripts, areas, periods welcome, from ancient to modern. Please share!
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Writing, place-making and architecture | EGI - Epigraphy Graffiti Iconography
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Our AJR book review #forum on Sarah E. Bond's Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire continues with an essay from Richard Last @yalepress.bsky.social @sarahebond.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/4/...
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Ancient Associations and Collective Labor Action in Sarah Bond’s Strike — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
First, the initial three chapters, which cover the Roman Republic, read like a new history of Rome, one that shows how ingrained collective labor action really was in Roman society.
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Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
a volume I'm a co-editor on has just been published. Contributions aim to center urban peripheries in the Roman world (heavy on Rome and Italy) from a variety of perspectives (The paper version will cost you mightily, but an open-access digital version should be available within a day or two) 🏺
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(Re-)Uniting City and Country
This volume inaugurates the IN-ROME Studies Series and explores the dynamic relationship between cities and their surrounding landscapes. Its objective is to enhance our understanding of the complex c...
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