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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

St Jerome in his study 1474, by Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina 1430-1479. Doctor of Church, known for translation of Bible into Latin (Vulgate), St Jerome sits amidst books, birds & plants; his lion (right) & verdant views beyond. #InternationalTranslationDay National Gallery London

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Safaitic @safaitic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NACAL 49 Paris begins today The final program can be found at this link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Pzgi... The abstract booklet is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1S5T8...

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Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gespräch vor kurzem dazu mit Jon Mathieu, Urgestein der Alpinen Geschichte: Ich: "Hab für die Einleitung in deine Sachen geschaut" Jon: "Ah, wars hilfreich?" I: "Dein Forschungsstand bestand aus 3 Büchern" J: "Oh. Wirklich? Eh ja, irgendwo muss man halt Grenze ziehn! Alles passt eh nicht rein."🐳

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When the French tried to eat Baffin Island

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Thomas Heichele @thomasheichele.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Funfact: Technik als „Organprojektion“ Ernst Kapp (1808-1896) gilt mit seinem Werk „Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik“ als Begründer der Technikphilosophie als eigenständige phil. Disziplin. Er greift die klassische Vorstellung von Technik als Naturnachahmung auf. Er präsentiert ein

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NINO Leiden @nino-leiden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

WEEK VAN HET OUDE SCHRIFT – Zaterdag 26 september, 17.00-18.00u: ✍Van kleitablet tot palmrib✍ Willemijn Waal laat u kennismaken met allerlei schriftdragers die in de oudheid werden gebruikt: steen, klei, hout, papyrus en leer. Georganiseerd door NINO en RMO; 📝aanmelding via de RMO-website.

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Jur @jurdj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Timgad: theatre, Trajan gate, masaic, capitol, market

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you need to know where Cornwall is, just check out this map

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Stadt Frankfurt am Main @frankfurt.de · 25/09/2026

Unsere Stadt im Postkartenmodus. 🏙️ 📸 Schönes Wochenende, Frankfurt! ☀️

Der Blick geht über den Main in Richtung Frankfurter Skyline, der Himmel ist blau und im Vordergrund rahmen grüne Äste das Bild ein, Foto: Jan Hassenpflug

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Zo exciting! Onze Stemmen van Afrika scheurkalender is in de voorverkoop - volg de link en bestel ‘m alvast! www.universityshopleiden.nl/nl/boeken/57...

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Philip K. @herbilis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Der bisher absolut beste Tagungsstift

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Universitätsverlag Winter @winterverlag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In unserer Reihe "Kurze Einführungen in die germanistische Linguistik" – KEGLI – erschien vor wenigen Tagen der neue Band 35: "Passiv" von Lirim Selmani. Zum Buch geht es hier: buff.ly/CzyouIh

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Intenudas @izmarasan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There used to be rhinoceroses in what is now the Sahara desert , and the people who lived there depicted them on stones !

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Rare to see such a clear example of "tribe" being used to mean "ethnicity" rather than "political unit defined by a supposedly shared patrilineal ancestor" (the usual sense in MENA studies) or "ethnic group considered primitive by the speaker" (arguably the usual sense in Western popular usage)

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A nice sketch of Hadza, a isolated language with clicks spoken in northern Tanzania journals.flvc.org/sal/article/...

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A sketch of Hadza grammar | Studies in African Linguistics

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kind of surprised that the short form of Thomas is given here and put between quotation marks. Is this a thing in the US? (I mean, I can imagine this in cases like Reginald “Fat Reg” Johnson, but here?)

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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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Intenudas @izmarasan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Correspondence : - Meaning : Hangar , kind of tent #Tamajeq : Tafala #Tetserret : Təfilaw And "House" #Awjili : Tfilli

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Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Camel fight Iran, 17th century Opaque watercolor on paper

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of the interesting things with Punicus being an exonym is that the traditional Tuareg script - clearly a descendent of the Libyan scripts of Antiquity - is called Tifinagh. By far the most likely etymology is “the Punic ones” 1/2

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Visit Tamanrasset @visittamanrasset.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tamanrasset, 1960 — early color photography era. De Foucauld's bordj in the center, Fougani palace and old shops nearby, surrounded by way more green than you'd expect. Different town back then. #Tamanrasset #Sahara

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Amazing to be at the National Portrait Gallery tonight to toast the knowledge-sharing & conservation efforts that have led to the public display of this mysterious #earlymodern portrait from 1626 (the artist and two boys are as yet unidentified). It will be on show in London until March 2028.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't think I shared already this rather sh*y picture of a green light in Wuppertal with the portrait of the young Friedrich Engels on it

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Nadim Mansour @nadimmansour.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Het dreigt misschien vergeten te worden maar een demonstratie voor ‘remigratie’ is ook zonder rellen hartstikke fout.

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Nachtbibliothekar @nachtbibliothekar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If I only could… #walk #september#nature #runningupthathill

Ein Hügel an einem sonnigen Septembernachmittag

Grüne Wiese mit drei Bäumen, im Hintergrund grassende Rinder.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It was the Phoenicians not the Romans, who brought 🍷 wine to Spain according to ancient DNA from seeds. But also remember to read @josephinequinn.bsky.social on the fact the Phoenicians did not self-refer or identify themselves by this name. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Eastern origin and three-millennia persistence of a founding grapevine lineage in Iberian viticulture

Pérez-Jordà et al. use archaeogenomics to show that eastern domesticated grapevines laid the foundations for Iberian viticulture 3,000 years ago. Genetic relatedness indicates these introductions gave...

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Paul McGhee @pmcghee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Should you ever need to explain to anyone how to turn flax into linen, I can recommend this delightful Czech cartoon about a mole who needed pockets. share.google/EDYoJpWggd3y...

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KRTEK - Episode 01: How the Little Mole Got His Trousers - Jak ...

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026

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PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector

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Jona Lendering @jonalendering.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Een van de leukste verzamelingen teksten uit de Oudheid is het archiefje dagrapporten van het limes-fort Bu Njem in Libië. Gastblogger Josine Schrickx vertelt. mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/09/18/w...

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Wachtdienst aan de Romeinse grens - Mainzer Beobachter

Gastblogger Josine Schrickx ontraadselt een Latijns werkwoord, gevonden in de administratie van fort Bu Njem in Libië.

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Safaitic @safaitic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BES26 has concluded. Incredible new discoveries. Some will go directly up on OCIANA and others will require full-length publications. Stay tuned.

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Paul McGhee @pmcghee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Queen Charlotte, patron of weavers, home flax spinner ("she spun tolerably well, for a Queen") and collector of fine linens, would have been discussed at Morecambe Lodge that evening by Dr Syntax and his host. (Warning, long video of interest to very few people) youtu.be/sMO8Gzo5UxM?...

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The Incredible Art of Making Linen

YouTube video by Historic Royal Palaces

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Some photos from the district whre Rembrandt was born for @eisforenkidu.bsky.social The windmill is a reconstruction from 1987 following an etchimg by Rembrandt; possibly the mill his father milled in

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OverBoeken @overboeken.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dit is het land waar 'boze mensen' wonen. #AnnieMGSchmidt

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

impressive linguistic mashup: Le Cheese Nan

Shopfront of a fastfood place in Montpellier selling some kind of cheesy naan breads, called Le Cheese Nan

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: Morocco has been razing neighborhoods in an attempt to spruce up its cities before it hosts the 2030 World Cup. But residents are being given short notice and paltry compensation when their homes are demolished, reports Renée Boskaljon for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

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As Morocco Races Toward the World Cup, a Wave of Demolition Is Erasing Old Neighborhoods

Residents report being given short notice and paltry compensation before their homes are razed

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