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Jamey Walters

@jedwardwalters.bsky.social
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History professor. Former manuscript cataloger. Research: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Syriac manuscripts, Syriac Literature. He/him.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 10h
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 9h
your daily reminder that the field of religious studies remains relevant. In fact, it is increasingly relevant.
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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 10h
I see discussions of using AI to restore inscriptions or papyri, presumably by using brute force to assemble parallels. I assume this could also work for classical art history, i.e. dating vases by style (vibes or Morellian). But can AI do good philology ? I.e. offer brilliant emendations to ms ? 1/
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
me, rewatching the GOP’s “gotcha moment” backfire magnificently during the Jack Smith hearings
Don Draper from Mad Men at the movies
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Stones and Bones is out on Polar Bears and new Odyssey fragments. Featuring Michael Kulikowski, @sarahebond.bsky.social, Christopher Epplett, Nandini Pandey, and @sentantiq.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/...
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Polar Bears in the Roman Colosseum?
It isn't as far-fetched as it sounds.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think about this a lot in terms of languages. Some depts expect/are expected to train students in the requisite math, coding, and technical knowledge to understand the material in more depth Most humanities courses don’t expect/aren’t allowed to require students to know requisite languages
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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also, I’m sorry, but your little disclosure statement that you used ChatGPT to make your slides but “not any of the content” for your presentation doesn’t make me judge you any less.
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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I genuinely feel like I’m losing my mind when I’m around other educators who are talking about teaching students “responsible uses of AI”.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love the optimism about Dems winning in November - I share it! And: I'm a tiny bit nervous that winning will free folks of the urgency to fix deeper structural problems in our party that will fuck us in the long-haul if we don't grapple with them.
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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One option for humanities classes going forward: don't schedule the class, schedule the work
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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us for a great time talking about #apocrypha! I’m really looking forward to presenting this project—it’s a fresh work in progress & it’s always fun to cross between medieval & apocrypha studies. #MedievalSky
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A helpful clarification on what’s happening in Edinburgh. divinity.ed.ac.uk/understandin...
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Understanding our programme changes | School of Divinity | School of Divinity
Building for the future strength of theology and religion at the University of Edinburgh
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This week I started experimenting with creating bingo cards to go along with my lectures and handing out small prizes (candy) to the first three people to get bingo, and I think it’s maybe the best pedagogical idea I’ve ever had.
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every time I read the word “efficiency” (or worse, hear it in a meeting), I think of Wendell Berry: “The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the standard of the nurturer is care.”
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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
JEDI for Jedi: How Diversity Training Brings a More Sustainable Balance to the Force.
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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maybe? This seems to fall inline with SCOTUS view of executive power. Plus there are more and more incompetent lower level judges confirmed every month. Finally even if gorsuch/roberts/c-b stop it, immense damage will have happened
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Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am excited to share my new publication "The Life of Susanna in the Light of Beta Israel Manuscript Tradition" which just appeared in this cool new book! www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/inte...
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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some details and sources on the Syriac texts here:
gedsh.bethmardutho.org
Alexander Cycle
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Brent Nongbri on Manuscripts of the Alexander Romance | Variant Readings brentnongbri.com/2026/09/20/m...
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Manuscripts of the Alexander Romance
The Alexander Romance (or The Life of Alexander of Macedon or the Life and Acts of Alexander, or The History of Alexander the Great, King of the Macedonians…) survives in hundreds of manuscri…
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not just an arch, it’s a murder arch.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@RossWBermanIV

I’m a REAL MAN:

I’m SCARED OF CITIES

I’m MAD at the LITTLE MERMAID

My truck is TALL and I have to crawl into it like a BABY

Do not get me STARTED on women’s sports
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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Highly recommend this new article by David Taylor about Jessie Payne Smith (Margoliouth) and her work as both a Syriac scholar and a suffragist: www.new.ox.ac.uk/mrs-margolio...
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Mrs Margoliouth: Jessie Payne Smith, Syriac Scholar and Suffragist | New College
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026
This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Inbox: USIP Plaintiffs Seek Emergency Court Order to Prevent Trump Name from Being Carved into Building storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Expanding the Supreme Court is a popular idea, pass it on
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Probably the scariest and also most intellectually rigorous uncanny novel I have ever read. My review for the NYT. Free link. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/b...
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Book Review: ‘The Rouse,’ by China Miéville (Gift Article)
“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to raise and weaponize the dead.
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Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CFP: Syriac Scribes and Reader, proposed session at the 10th North American Syriac Symposium, Vanderbilt University, June 27–July 1, 2027. Submissions due October 15, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/syriac-...
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Syriac Scribes and Reader | Mary Jaharis Center
Abstracts are invited for a panel dedicated to Syriac scribes and readers and the latter’s interactions with the manuscripts. Possible topics to be explored:
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you have to force students to enroll in your program/center's courses, that's not a class, it's a hostage situation.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These centers are the guy who thinks hot young women aren’t showing up to the bar he stocked with weird dude things because pink-haired woke commie broads won’t let them.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shout out to the student journalists at The Daily Iowan for reporting on the travesty that is Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom. With quotes from me dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Uncertainty in leadership, curriculum surrounds UI Center for Intellectual Freedom
In the barren walls of his Calvin Hall office, where the Center for Intellectual Freedom resides, interim director and University of Iowa economics professor Luciano de Castro shuffles a stack of pape...
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Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Job posting: Assistant or Associate Professor – Mediterranean and its Hinterlands, 500-1500 CE, University of California Berkeley. Applications due October 15, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/assista...
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Assistant or Associate Professor – Mediterranean and its Hinterlands, 500-1500 CE, University of California Berkeley | Mary Jaharis Center
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny
Pete Hegseth, looking like a cocktail you found the morning after a party
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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pretty much this
Ed Sheeran: "I'm gonna side with oppressive colonizers. Literally everyone I'm touring with is Irish. Can't see any way this will go
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
new (open access!) article from Brent Nongbri redating some "early" gospel papyri (or "Nongbriing" them) brill.com/view/journal...
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The Construction and Date of P.Bodmer 14–15 (P75)
Abstract This article describes an underutilized criterion for assigning dates to papyrus codices, the presence of very long sheets (kollemata) in the rolls from which the bifolia of papyrus codices w...
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Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New #BMCR review of Susanna Elm's The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity, by Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.09...
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The importance of being gorgeous: gender and Christian imperial rule in late antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In just over 50 pages, @candidamoss.bsky.social challenges modern assumptions about who counted as a slave trader and demonstrates that the entire apparatus of Roman medicine, commerce, and education was complicit in the manufacture and sale of human beings. Link below 👇🔗
Book cover of 'Marcion the Enslaver' by Candida Moss, published in Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesungen, 2026, De Gruyter.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apologies for this hot take, but it seems like taking a partisan hack who's a complete dipshit with no experience in the field and making them the head of your network news division might *not* have been a brilliant idea?
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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really looking forward to reading this! And good timing too, as my unit on Rome is rapidly approaching in my ancient civilizations course.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The phrase “washes up” is perhaps not the best way to describe a newly found fragment of Homer on parchment 📜 . But I do love that it’s Book 12 and dated to the 4th century CE—in Coptic. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/09/scra...
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Scrap of 1700-year-old copy of The Odyssey washes up in Utrecht - DutchNews.nl
A 1700-year-old scrap of parchment containing verses from the Odyssey has been discovered in the library of Utrecht University. Researcher Mark de Kreij came across the fragile artefact two years ago ...
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
After Robert Kraft rallied stadium owners to prevent Ed Sheeran’s tour from their venues unless he fired Macklemore, Sheeran’s opening acts Finneas, Lukas Graham, Aaron Rowe, as well as Sheeran’s touring band, Beoga, have all announced their departures from the tour.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.
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