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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

There really is no football team I find quite as disgusting in their attitude and behavior as Argentina's national team and which I enjoy seeing lose more.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I am so happy Paraguay got eliminated. South American men seem to be too emotional to play.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Und dann auch noch vom König von Gondolin... I can retire now.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I was today years old when I googled the etymology out of interest and learned that it comes from the Middle English for „feather“ and that little fledgling birds are thus naturally not fully fledged. Learned something!

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schwarze0fm @schwarze0fm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

🎧NEUE FOLGE🎧 Die Schlacht von Pydna (168 v. Chr.) veränderte die antike Welt. @drcrollinger.bsky.social c/o @unitrier.bsky.social erklärt,wie es zum römischen Sieg über Makedonien und dem Wendepunkt der Geschichte des gesamten Mittelmeerraums kam.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Is this what good news feels like, then?

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Something sad, something cute, something iconic from Kocaeli Museum.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

tfw when somebody decides to move his rebuilt 4th c. Roman sailing vessel in front of you but you're still vibing (sound on)

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Now out in paperback (GBP 23.99) and best when dramatically lit! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

As a late antique historian, hearing/seeing „dominate“ still being bandied about as if it were an even slightly useful term is…exhausting.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

After years' work, this 👇 has just now appeared as an e-book, w/ print version soon to follow: chock-full with excellent chapters by excellent people, anything (almost) you ever wanted to know about the Athenian Empire, and a pretty owl on the cover to boot. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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The Attic Empire. The Athenians and their Allies in the Fifth Century

This handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the polity known as the Delian League, or the Athenian Empire. Founded under the leadership of Athens in 478 BCE and dissolved in the aftermath of the Pe...

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Aus Gründen: Wieso schreiben österreichische Universitäten Professuren nach §99 UG aus? Sind das in jedem Fall Tenure Track-Stellen? Sind das Stellen für Interne? Ich blicke gerade nicht durch.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Die Vorstellung, dass Department-Strukturen (oder JProfessuren) das Panakeia der deutschen Universität sein sollen, finde ich ehrlich gesagt naiv. Würde man den Sparkurs der vergangenen Jahrzehnte revidieren und wieder die Räte als regulären, verstetigten Mittelbau einführen, wäre schon viel getan.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Always excited when new work on the Great Palace comes out - this is based, as far as I can see, on an extensive (Spanish) PhD the author submitted in Madrid in 2023. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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The Great Palace

Cambridge Core - Middle East History - The Great Palace

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I don‘t think „history“ can help us much to understand or navigate the current situation; on the other hand: the current situation very much can help to understand history. I‘m never reading Suetonius or Tacitus in the same light again as I did pre-2016.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

One not inconsiderable annoyance of the current batshit political situation is the glut of hastily written „Why this is actually like Roman/Greek/Persian/Mongol imperialism and what history can teach us“ opinion pieces. History teaches us nothing; we refuse to learn.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Least surprising headline ever - and with that: a happy new year all round.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Arguing about the merits of a filmed retelling (!) of a work of fiction that has gone through multiple retellings already, based mostly on "accuracy" of armour and ships in screenshots and a trailer, is high up there among the things that makes me dislike my profession.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Beamtenstatus ist in D ja gerade in der Diskussion... denkt jemand wirklich, wir würden nicht auch so 3-Welt-Verhältnisse in D haben, wenn eine Partei an der Macht wäre, die nicht der demokratischen Mitte zugehörig ist? If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. wset.com/news/nation-...

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OU grad assistant to no longer have instructional duties after grade dispute with student

A graduate teaching assistant at theUniversity of Oklahoma who gave a student a zero on an essay will "no longer have instrctional duties at the Univesrity", a

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I just saw a 60 Minutes segment on Bundeswehr-financed robocockroaches as weapons of war and maybe it's time that 2025 ended already.

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Christmas PSA: "Empresses-in-Waiting" will be out in pb in January but you can order it now with 50% discount! Use discount code 27WINTER when buying through LUP!

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I just learned the word "mouthfeel" for food and the brainfeel isn't good.

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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate. Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I really, really, *really* hate how Tolkien is being appropriated by the political right and billionaire edgelords. Tolkien hated Nazis and was at the very least uneasy with the greed he associated with capitalism.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Good grief, who has time for a 40 gb update

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Jenny Cromwell / Papyrus Stories @jennycromwell.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Ancient Egypt in Video Games is now available for pre-order! The website says a March publication, but my schedule from the publisher says Jan (🤞). The hb version is pretty pricey, but a ppb version will hopefully be down the line! Check out details here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

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Ancient Egypt in Video Games

This volume is the first to focus on the presentation of Ancient Egypt in video games. The contributions examine diverse topics concerning how Egyptian history, culture, monuments, and the land itself...

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Heute findet in Luxemburg etwas statt, was nicht in allen westlichen Ländern mehr selbstverständlich erscheint: ein freiwilliger, friedlicher und geordneter Übergang von einem Staatsoberhaupt zum nächsten. www.wort.lu/politik/luxe...

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Luxemburg hat einen neuen Großherzog

Erbgroßherzog Guillaume hat seinen Eid in der Chamber abgelegt und tritt damit offiziell die Nachfolge von Großherzog Henri an.

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Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

May 2026 👀 My monograph "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" will be out next year in @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's IMAGINES series! Many thanks to @ubisoft.com for the #ImmortalsFenyxRising art ⚡ More information (soon!) on www.bloomsbury.com/uk/character...

The cover of "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" by Alexander Vandewalle, to be published in the IMAGINES series by Bloomsbury Academic in May 2026. The cover depicts the cover art of Immortals Fenyx Rising, showing the game's protagonist Fenyx in battle with a towering Cyclops.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Soooo... there is a thing called the Manchester Game Centre, which, I think, was originally called the Manchester Game Studies Network. I linked to a review on their blog on my uni URL, my CV, everything... A colleague texted me to say to check the link on my uni url, just to be sure.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Will anyone ask the Dodos if they even WANT to come back to this time in our planet's history?

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Wer ist noch so alles NICHT beim Historikertag?

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Zigarettengespräch von Studis überhört. Man diskutiert die Probleme beim Einsatz von ChatGPT usw., erkennt durchaus, dass es Handlungsbedarf gibt. Eine Studentin verspricht, das jetzt gar nicht mehr zu machen, KI-Copy-Paste, man müsse ernst bleiben. Sie tippt das jetzt ab, wegen der Wasserzeichen.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Don‘t think I can go back to normal conferences after this - tra otium e negotium.

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I'm writing a chapter on late antique emperors and kissing and I really, really want to call it "A kiss with a fist is better than none" but it has to be in French. 😭

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a monkey is sitting on a rock next to a cat in the woods .

ALT: a monkey is sitting on a rock next to a cat in the woods .

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Haven‘t heard about Greenland in a while. Is that still a thing?

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

How is what's happening now politically not the Earth Alliance plot line of Babylon 5, S2-4? Seriously. What meaningful differences are there?

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Elif Oezmen @elifoezmen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln) „Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“ 1/2

Aufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbar

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

What's our thinking about authors recording audiobook versions of their books themselves, rather than leaving it to professionals?

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Da der Historikertag nächsten Monat ansteht und von 76 Sektionen gerade einmal 3 althistorisch sind... mich würde interessieren: Empfinden Althistorikerinnen und Althistoriker den VHD und HT tatsächlich auch als "für sie"? Fühlt man sich zugehörig? Sehen das die anderen Epochen auch so?

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Christian Rollinger @drcrollinger.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

An der Supermarktkasse. Ältere Dame kauft gesund ein, junger (19?) Kassierer sichtlich überfordert, hat in seinem Leben noch kein Gemüse gesehen. Hebt Wirsing fragend hoch; "Wirsing, junger Mann." Hebt Knollensellerie fragend hoch; "Sellerie, junger Mann." "Staudensel-", "Knolle, junger Mann."

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