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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 4h

we really are just romans, arent we?

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Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, does the very notion of scientific genetic studies _not_ put you unabashedly in a state of total horror?

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Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social · 20h

For me as for so many others, Chris Wickham has been fundamental for how I think about the early medieval world--I'd even go so far as to say how I think about history writ large. An enormous loss.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIS is how it's done. Ithaca Mayor tells Cornell where to get off.

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Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Good lord. What do you even say to this

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Kate Franklin @melucene.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

coming out of the summer like

The head of John the Baptist, carved by Donatello

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/09/2026

They’re calling it the Chronicle of Free Media Exposure For Opponents of Higher Ed:

Screenshot of a Chronicle of Higher Ed interview with Neil Gross

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m convinced that one of the ways we as academics are taught to depoliticize our work is by calling intellectual formations “turns.”

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🐈 At a Roman villa In Adramytteion (Turkey) 🐕 the owners put the name of their cat and dog in a mosaic—I am reading σμαράγδιη (“emerald”) for the cat. (I am a little bit mystified by the eta on the end unless it is a nu, but this is cool). Dog is named ὠκεανός (“ocean”) arkeonews.net/1800-year-ol...

Mosaic depiction of a cat from the Roman villa at Adramytteion, accompanied by an inscription giving a name interpreted as meaning “Emerald.” Credit: AA

Mosaic depiction of a dog from the Roman villa at Adramytteion, identified by an inscription with the name “Okyanos” (“Ocean”). Credit: AA

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 02/09/2026

I am very skeptical. I mean with this error rate it makes most of this useless!

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Michael Weiss @mweissohcgl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Two-year Mellon Post-doc in Linguistics at Cornell. Historical linguists strongly encouraged to apply! societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/mellon-postd...

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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027-29

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Couldn’t make it past the third paragraph in which Dr. “Unyoke the Sciences from the Humanities” says that the Sistine Chapel ceiling exists because there weren’t unions in early 16th-century Rome.

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Schitts Creek Wrong

Alt: Gif of David from Schitts Creek saying, “I have never head someone say so many wrong things one after the other, consecutively, in a row.”

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky

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Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

tbh it does feel like the author was let down by both the press and the peer review process here (as the reviewer himself notes)

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Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"It's even possible to identify particular typologies of errors, such as those from a scanner (quain per quam, 300; tarn per tam, 306) or serial typing errors (the curious inversion of -tiv for -vit: denegativ, 185; consociativ, 109 e 301)." yikes

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Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

one of the harsher opening paragraphs I've seen in a while (and it continues in largely the same way for 2400 words)

Il lavoro di Nicole Demarchi può essere considerato una buona tesi di dottorato, ma non è un’altrettanto buona monografia scientifica. Il lettore deve innanzitutto vincere il fastidio che gli suscitano i continui errori linguistici, italiani e latini, che rivelano una scarsa cura nella preparazione del testo. Non mi dilungherò sugli errori di italiano, che si trovano pressoché in ogni pagina; presento solo quelli sintattici della p. 45, per dimostrare che non sto esagerando: “Uno dei testi fondamentali a chi vuole approcciarsi,” “un arco cronologico di circa XIII secoli,” “oltre a quest’opera, i quali primi tre capitoli” (per evitarli bastava usare un correttore automatico). Ma pensiamo che anche il pubblico non italofono sarà disturbato dai continui errori nelle citazioni latine.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026

The media’s defenders say the editorial / oped side of a newspaper is completely separate from the reporting side, so you shouldn’t blame the news side for bad takes on the editorial side. But when it comes to the @nytimes.com / @nytopinion.nytimes.com coverage of higher ed, there is no separation.

Screenshot of transphobic bigot Jesse Singal’s NYT opinion piece on Arday

Screenshot of NYT article “Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”

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D.Va the Headless MEKA Gunner @sunlightwarden.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tell me about a complicated van.

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geb @geb1999.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

obligatory

@Kali_de_Armas
feudal MF DOOM:
on the mic, he's a freeholder
known to lift an ox over each shoulder
ahem... wheat sower and a wif stroker
can't plant the crops if it gets one degree colder

*woman's voice says "Villein"*

his work is agricultural
everything he makes, the lords tax it multiple

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

i had no idea, and this is really deplorable of nolan (from the excellent @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social review in LRB)

The most troubling ethical problem with Nolan’s Odyssey concerns the decision to film part of the movie in the occupied territory of Western Sahara, thus normalising the ongoing violence against the indigenous Sahrawi people. It is particularly galling that Nolan used this land simply as a visually striking backdrop for a film that centres, aggrandises and redeems the hero of a territorial war on account of his belated and partial acknowledgment of his own guilt.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/04/2024

remembering the greatest interview of all time

An interview with the guy who yells MORTAL KOMBAT in the theme for Mortal Kombat

interviewer: I see. will you do it over the phone?
guy: would i do it over the phone? absolutely.
interviewer: let's hear it.
guy: Mortal Kombat!

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It looks great. rich, textured. on the brain it is very smooth

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Bringing-about-the-bronze-age-collapse-and-crying

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Nolan has adapted the stories The Odyssey is based on more than he’s adopted the text itself. There’s a smoothing out of the text‘s complication that inevitably unwinds it a little. It’s also a puzzle box movie where whats in the box is Trauma, but the Trauma of learning where you are in history.

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

*whispers* hey, if you're a grad-level educator of conscience, you should probably warn PhD students off of coming here at this point and offer to help them make favorable contacts in other of the many excellent international universities if you're invested in their success

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Colleagues: if you do #GlobalMiddleAges work, this is an urgent case where you can use your expertise to support cultural conservation & Indigenous peoples. If you don't know Chaco Canyon, look it up. But do so quickly. The Comment period ends 29 July. #MedievalSky

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Djust perfect

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Admonitio Generalis fragment went for a whopping £130,500 higher than the estimated high price. I.... wow.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

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Archaeology News Online Magazine @archaeologynews.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Italy has placed one of the best surviving works of Etruscan art on public display after bringing the famous François Tomb frescoes into state ownership. The painted panels, created between 340 and 320 BCE, now... More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/ital...

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Italy returns 2,300-year-old François Tomb frescoes to the public after more than a century | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Italy returns the 2,300-year-old François Tomb frescoes to the public, placing a masterpiece of Etruscan art on display in Rome.

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

taco bell only gives you diarrhea if it can sense you are not pure of heart

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

From one of the Arabic lit listserves. Because why would anybody need or want to learn about Arabic or Islam right now? (To say nothing of the not “right now” reasons…) Petition to stop huge humanities cuts at Exeter: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 12/07/2026

Hello from academia

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Oh for sure. The aggravating thing is that overall I think the on-pitch referees have been very good at getting those types of calls correct.

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CPN @oksettledown.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

the discourse app is dying and the sports app is struggling to be born

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Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I think it's also down to flaws in implementation. VAR can only "recommend" a review to the on-pitch referee based on something they've seen, but what referee is going to reject that without (e.g.) going to the monitor - and that then creates an expectation of a decision being changed

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Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

jk, doesn't matter now! 🇪🇬

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Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yes, it's a foul and so per the rules it's no goal and a free kick back in the Egyptian half - fine. But did the referee make a "clear and obvious error" for VAR to intervene? What was "clear and obvious" about it?

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