Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 14hAfter making it past the opening crawl of the first two chapters of Lingua Latina per se illustrata, we're ready to start learning about Roman culture... LLPSI: Here's some Roman culture: 6161
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Another morning, another headline story to the effect of: "I fed my data into the plagiarism machine. Who could have thought that it would then plagiarise my data?" 080
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026100 hours into Elden Ring and I still have no fucking idea what this game is about. 130
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 27/09/2026A little something I've been thinking about for a while and finally started working on... jtauber.github.io/asterisk/ Feedback welcome!jtauber.github.ioAsteriskA workbench for comparative philology. 4336
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis. 4315126
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Cambridgecore: Not an online eBooks platform, but rather a bunch of tweed-clad students in a teashop on King's Parade. 192
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's pretty impressive how much this synthesis of linguistics and archaeology got it right before the aDNA revolution came only only a couple of years later. 2132
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Sampsa Holopainen @sampsaholopainen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This paper (by me, Terhi Honkola and Samuli Helama) on possible connections between the 4.2 ka climatic event and the early spread of the Uralic languages was published last week.sciencedirect.comExtreme events and the spread of Uralic languagesIn this paper we present novel aspects concerning the possible connection between the 4.2 ka climatic event and the early spread of Uralic languages f… 11913
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If this is true, why has Obsidian been silent about their subordination while Bethesda and Microsoft make the statements? 0102
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ok this is a good bittheonion.comXi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last VisitWASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres... 090
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My dad had one of these things and despite him being a bit of a weird Reform-voting libertarian, he had a very strong sense of professional ethics for which this was a symbol for him. 0132
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Agnes Callard, why does that name sound familiar? Oh wait... oh no...web.archive.orgAgnes Callard’s Marriage of the MindsThe philosopher, who lives with her husband and her ex-husband, searches for what one human can be to another human. 25011
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If we were truly talking "top academic talent" a) Canada would be investing in the people who already work there and b) people who are teaching 5/5 at a community college and changing people's lives on a shoestring would be top of the list. 110229
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Why does everything feel like this nowadays? 0144
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I've rapidly gone from "wait, what?" to doing a bit of googling to find out that this is real to asking "how many tenure-track jobs could have been spent on this instead?" 091
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Annie C Burman @anniecburman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Everyone's favourite little guy (actually very large guy), the Volsinian cippus shaped like a warrior's head. Ink drawing by O.A. Danielsson, based on Perali. The inscription is CIE 5000 = ET Vs 1.113. The illustration board has yellowed from the envelope it's been kept in. #etruscan 1114
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I would love this. I also remember a moment at the start of COVID when I was asked to change modalities to fully remote over a weekend. 1172
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Just got my hard copy of a little summer project that I helped out a bit with: In advance of this Fall's Cambridge Greek Play, Antonia Ruppel organised the creation of a basic student reader of Euripides' Ion using the play's performance text. 173
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026100 years of the "morph(eme)" – Bloomfield's foundational article came out in September 1926. dlc.hypotheses.org/4485 03317
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Watching a Guy Fieri video on Scandinavian cuisine in Chicago and the absolute butchering of Danish and Swedish pronunciation by the restauranteur himself is absolutely killing me. 160
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀ὣς φάτο Ἡσίοδος @hesiod-bot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026217 καὶ Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο νηλεοποίνους, /kaì moíraːs kaì kɛ̂ːras egéːnato nɛːleopoínoːs/ And she gave birth to Fates and and pitilessly punishing Dooms | – – | – – | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – | 151
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Mia Mulder @miamulder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026So I've suddenly started seeing a TON of videos and content pushed in my algorithm about some city council meeting or administrative meeting in a Canadian city with the shared vibe being "Canada's government is poorly run" I am a Swedish woman in the eu and I never see this shit before yesterday 111810
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore. 12318161
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026*taps the sign* 061
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Reading something on calculating the size of the 1600s French army (...yes, I am somewhat behind) and it is really funny as a Romanist the sort of, "but if we use THIS evidence, we get this number, but this OTHER pile of evidence." Look, Tacitus told me there were 25 legions. He seems trustworthy. 1034125
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀ὣς φάτο Ἡσίοδος @hesiod-bot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026211 Nὺξ δ᾽ ἔτεκε στυγερόν τε Μόρον καὶ Κῆρα μέλαιναν /nùks d é̞te̞ke̞ stuge̞ró̞n te̞ mó̞ro̞n kaì kɛ̂ːra mé̞lainan/ And Night gave birth to dreadful Fate and black Doom | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – | 182
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I just found this out from the Indogermanische Gesellschaft Facebook page that The Speakers of Indo-European And Their World. Proceedings of the 17th Fachtagung of the Society for Indo-European Studies (Basel, 9–12. September 2024) is finally out, and in Open Access! (huzzah!)medialibrary.reichert-verlag.deThe Speakers of Indo-European and Their World 1268
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026New publication: The article "Caland verbs in Celtic" by Stefan Höfler and myself has just been published in: L. Grestenberger, V. Reiter, M. Malzahn (eds), Deadjectival Verb Formation in Indo-European and Beyond. Berlin: Language Science Press 2026, pp. 83-113 2176
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...historians.orgHow Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHAWriting is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words. 181039336
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Honestly this just sounds like Dream Theater wrote it in 1991. 33715
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Some more snippets from my recent holiday in Austria. We visited the mighty Benedictine monastery of St Paul im Lavanttal (Carinthia), world-famous for keeping the only copy of the poem of the Irish scholar and his cat Pangur Bán (lower part of the left page). Above Messe ocus Pangur Bán,... /1 26321
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Well, as a lifelong collector of old weird books that was a really upsetting 404 Media story to wake up to today. 040
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 16/08/2026“Despite their compromised positions, adjuncts still win teaching awards, publish books, and contribute widely to scholarship, literature, and the arts. And they do this even though their academic research and writing—meant to be supported by a tenured position—has been relegated to unpaid labor.” 13621
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Harrassowitz Verlag @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Niya Prakrit, a Central Asian Gāndhārī dialect, was the administrative language of Shanshan (3–4 c. CE). N. Schoubben shows the strong Iranian (Bactrian) influence, but rejects a “Tocharian C” substrate, and argues Kushan officials shaped it. #openaccess www.harrassowitz-ver... 2129
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"Such a formidable word as Staatsschuldenverwaltungshauptkassenoberrechnungskommissar can be most faithfully rendered by Kokusai-Seiri-Kyoku-Kaikei-kwancho [国債整理局会計官長]." 🥴 < Nitobé 1927 Japanese Traits and Foreign Influences @ archive.org/details/japa... 1143
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026not to be confused with quesadilla 5581061804
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This is something I'd like to see vigorously investigated instead of endless 'is college woke!?' pieces in The Atlantic and the NYT - because my sense is this is correct, humanities courses subsidize more expensive fields. But that prompts further questions about decisions being made to cut them. 1363994
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic 121215464411
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 06/08/2026In my life time? Gladiator, 300, Troy, and Alexander all come to mind and all since the year 2000. What happens each time is people say it will save the study of ancient history, it is loved for a bit before the next big thing happens: all while ancient history depts across the world shut. 811137
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026One of these days I'm gonna sit down and watch The Phantom Menace for the second time since I saw it exactly once in the theatre and I will find it a revelatory experience. 390
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Stumbling through head-over-heels through the Albanian internet trying to figure out whether some Greco-Albanian periodicals published in 19th century Alexandria have ever been digitised while still not *really* knowing how to read this stuff has been one way to spend my evening, I guess. 0110
Reposted by Matthew Scarborough 𓀀Logeion Greek-Latin @logeiongklat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Greek verbs always have nice surprises: (ὀρύσσω, deep into the entry) "of a wrestler, dig into, gouge a tender part, τὠφθαλμώ Ar. Av. 442, cf. Pax 899, Philostr. VA 8.25; gouge out, ὀφθαλμὸν ὤρυττέν τις ὥσπερ ἰχθύος Antiph. 119." ==> Ready for anything the day may bring. 😎 3182
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I wrote a Lycophron joke but nobody knew what it meant. 040
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026So weird being an out of work Hellenist watching all of this. 2181