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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 7h

For those near Belgium come February, I'm happy to announce I'll be doing a round-table with @historianofarch.bsky.social and @calthalas.bsky.social on 'What kind of Late Antiquity do we want (published)?' for the first international conference of the Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 14h

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 14h

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 14h

As someone who's officially working in Late Antiquity can I just say this is getting silly? I know in recent decades people have been pushing the boundaries, but claiming the _entire_ first millennium as 'Antiquity' is just making the concept meaningless.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here I cannot help but notice the sharp contrast between Classics and History, because in Ancient History - _especially_ for the Later Imperial period - we constantly keep hammering how the Nazi's contaminated research 'on the Germanic'. May @jmharland.bsky.social be my witness.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

After a few months of writer's block, I wrote 1128 words for the monograph today. So happy to be finally in the flow again.

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Timmy O'Danaos @odanaos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh nothing, just members of Germany's ruling party CDU deciding together with rising far right party AfD to forbid Holocaust memorial stones in the streets www.dw.com/en/afd-cdu-b...

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AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau

Activists, politicians and representatives of Holocaust victims reacted with anger after the center-right CDU party joined forces with the AfD to ban new Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in the easter...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

Hey everyone remember how I was saying the AI X-risk criti-hype is a targeted project designed to kill regulations and further ensure an impatient rush on data centre contsruction www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say

Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy anniversary, sticking it to the world's richest See You And Tea.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A truly marvellous object: a 16th-century incense storage container in the shape of a #ship. Coins of the #Roman Emperor Nero, minted between 64 and 68 AD, have been attached as wheels. 📷️ Landesmuseum Württemberg

A intricately crafted incense storage container shaped like ship, made of bronze with a weathered patina. The container features a central lighthouse-like structure rising from its deck and is supported by Roman coins serving as decorative wheels, on is missing. The ship’s bow and stern are elevated and adorned with geometric carvings and porthole-like cutouts, enhancing its detailed, miniature design.

A Roman bronze coin, used as one of the ship's wheels, depicting Emperor Nero.

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Jona Lendering @jonalendering.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dankzij de zegeningen der AI-slop hoeven archeologen zuch niet meer te vermoeien met het zoeken naar afbeeldingen van rechtenvrije negentiende-eeuwse schilderijen om de Oudheid er zo goedkoop en oninteressant mogelijk uit te laten zien. AI verpest alles. gldmagazine.nl/2026/09/rome...

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Romeinse geschiedenis krijgt nieuwe impuls: Via Romana wordt grensoverschrijdende tijdreis langs de Rijn

De Romeinse geschiedenis langs de Rijn krijgt de komende jaren een nieuwe impuls. De Groene Metropoolregio Arnhem-Nijmegen (GMR) gaat samen met Nederlandse en Duitse gemeenten, musea en erfgoedorg…

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hear me out: Coyote VS Acme is the best pop-cultural rendition of Albert Camus' Myth of Sisyphus I've encountered so far. And if that's not enough to make you go see it in the cinema, then know it's probably the best Live-Action/Animation crossover since... Who framed Roger Rabbit?

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is who you had to buy weed from before legalization

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What?! Oh don't worry about "reputational risk"... you can go straight to "reputational damage."

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gisteren had ik 't genoegen om te mogen spreken voor het Nederlands Klassiek Verbond Friesland en de Academie van Franeker. Los van de gastvrije ontvangst in een charmante omgeving, was ik aangenaam verrast om zowaar mijn eigen oorkonde te krijgen achteraf. Eens te meer, voor alles een eerste keer.

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Jesse Keskiaho @jkeskiah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just got my hands on this fine looking volume, including my piece on a Carolingian copy of the first eight books of De civitate carrying annotations probably made in or near Arles in the early sixth century, possibly in the entourage of bishop Caesarius doi.org/10.30965/978...

Cover of the volume Augustine's De civitate Dei. Text, Context and Reception, ed. by Anthony Dupont, Marina Giani and Gert Partoens, showing a woodcut print depicting Aurelius Augustinus as a late medieval scholar

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lang geleden, Groningen. Blij je weer te zien.

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Hoywoj @aushoywoj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

CDU Stadträte wollen zusammen mit einem Ex-Mitglied der "Skinheads Sächsische Schweiz" und anderen Rechtsextremisten die Verlegung von Stolpersteinen verbieten. Die Oberbürgermeisterin macht mit. Das ist die Situation in Sachsen seit den letzten Kommunalwahlen. taz.de/Stolperstein...

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Stolpersteine in Sachsen: „Das dient nicht dem Erinnern, sondern dem Vergessen“

In Heidenau unterstützen CDU- und AfD-Mitglieder einen Antrag gegen die Gedenksteine für Opfer der Nazis. Betroffenenverbände kritisieren den Vorstoß.

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Ricky Broome @karanthir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Me: Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a Jacob Rees-Mogg. Jacob Rees-Mogg: How about side by side with someone who says the English are a mongrel race, not an Aryan master race? Me: Aye, I could do that Jacob Rees-Mogg.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The world is a burning dumpster fire. So I'll rejoice over every nugget of good news. LIKE THIS!

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"This was the most political interview I've ever done with a journalist" Zowaar op mijn verjaardag kon ik niet alleen mijn favo band Manic Street Preachers zien. Voor @apache.be mocht ik ook nog es frontman James Dean Bradfield interviewen. Een retrospectief over de band, hun geschiedenis en de UK

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Waarom Wales’ meest succesvolle (en meest politieke) band zal blijven spelen en schuren

De marxistisch-geïnspireerde band neemt nog lang geen gas terug.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is mad to see the impunity with which far right activists have been able to operate especially in the context of mass arrests of the Palestine solidarity movement. This is particularly alarming across the water in Britain where fascist thugs are running riot. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard

Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But I cannot stress enough: we have spent decades de-prioritizing and defunding the humanities broadly in secondary and post-secondary education and then we're all surprised-Pikachu-face when we are suffering from systematic leadership failures in exactly those skills and knowledge domains.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A striking thing about the various estimates of how many people Musk killed when he shuttered USAID is that, while of course the exact number is unknown, the estimates all point to a figure of about 750,000 deaths within a year, of which 500,000 were kids Mass murder isn’t “ill fated cost-cutting”

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Latest addition to the personal library. Featuring, inter alia, the best analysis I've read hitherto on Constantine II's & Constans' "civil war".

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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Robin Williams’ daughter is urging fans to stop sharing AI-generated videos of the late actor. “Just because he’s gone does not mean he’s now your puppet. Have some shame.” #RobinWilliams #AI

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

- "Alright, class. You have two brownies and three cookies. If you eat all of them, what do you have left?" - Sadness, Frank. Sadness is what I've got left.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've taught introductions to Byzantium for a decade. A point I always stress is that Eastern Rome had the most enduring political system of all western Eurasian history. Fresh after Brexit referendum, I included a picture of the UK's PM for comparison. No other PP slide has seen as many updates.

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Lia van Bekhoven @liavanbekhoven.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Uit de Financial Times. En wat voor VK geldt, gaat ook op voor NL. #Musk #staatvijandig

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How would you describe your social media reach?

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Zover heb ik een lijstje met @bartvanloo.bsky.social, David van Reybrouck, Edward De Maesschalk, @adedijn.bsky.social, Johan Op De Beeck, @vincenzodm.bsky.social, @mirellamarini.bsky.social, de team geschiedenis voor herbeginners, @drdragases.bsky.social, Robert Nouwen, @jonasroelens.bsky.social...

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's my last eve in Sardinia. And I'm sure gonna miss the whole spectrum of colours.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not only did I get to visit a proper Nuraghe (at Palmavera) on my final day, it even includes the only preserved throne of this civilization. Or to quote the great scholar Borat Margaret Sagdiyev: "King of the castle, I have a chair!"

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At long last, my article on Languages, Identities and Communication in the Age of Bede has come out in the EHR. And it is open access! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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Languages, Identities and Communication in the Age of Bede*

Abstract. This article seeks to address the underexplored role of language as a marker of identity in the early medieval period by focusing on England in t

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