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Daniel Osland

@oslandd.bsky.social
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Claim to be a Roman archaeologist, actually work on late Roman Iberia, very interested in Portuguese soccer, NZ politics, California Nü Punk, and tertiary education. Personal views here, none endorsed by my employer (the University of Otago).

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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Trump's people may be essentially stupid in many realms, but in the pump and dump and market manipulation they are unmatched.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A celebratory post, but with mixed emotions. Congratulations, Arlene, and we'll miss you! www.facebook.com/OtagoClassic... #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky
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Classics at the University of Otago
🥳 We wish to congratulate our friend and colleague, Dr Arlene Allan, on her retirement from the University of Otago this week, after more than 20 years of dedicated teaching and research activity. At....
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Facebook public announcement of two new colleagues in Otago Classics! www.facebook.com/OtagoClassic... Staff profile pages for Dr Hannah Sorscher and Dr Davide Morassi here: www.otago.ac.nz/classics/staff #AncientBluesky
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Our people
Find out more about Classics programme staff, including our Head of Programme, academic staff, postgraduate students and support team.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
www.facebook.com/OtagoClassic...
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Classics at the University of Otago
We are very pleased to announce the recent arrival of two new permanent members of academic staff, Dr Hannah Sorscher (PhD, UNC) and Dr Davide Morassi (DPhil, Oxford). Both having come from the...
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
BBC story via Otago Classics FB: www.facebook.com/OtagoClassic... #ancientbluesky
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Classics at the University of Otago
The age-old question: "treasure" or "not treasure"? Fun little set of (apparently all silver?) Roman coins from Britain.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
AncientBluesky
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Otago Classics PhD candidate Jaymie Orchard will give a public lecture for the Otago Classical Association this Thursday at 6pm. Full event info on the FB: www.facebook.com/events/69166...
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Public Lecture: Stolen stories of a (lying) Roman Empire
Event in Dunedin, New Zealand by Classics at the University of Otago on Thursday, May 22 2025
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Digital reconstruction of the interior of the Parthenon. This appeared in my world about four weeks too late for my first-year class on classical archaeology, but I think the students will appreciate the visualization as we're now talking about the Pantheon. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
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Step Into a Painstakingly Recreated 3D Model of the Parthenon, Now Restored to Its Ancient Glory
A researcher simulated the Athenian temple’s lighting conditions at different times of the day, discovering that its interior was actually "quite dark and dim"
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Public lecture at the University of Otago this evening (17 April), Dr Hamish Cameron of Victoria University Wellingon, "In the Shadow of Roman Giants: The Language of Ruins in Valhalla's England". In person, from 6pm (drinks and nibbles from 5:30pm). Details at link www.facebook.com/share/18xG1Y...
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I can't make my brain accept that reporters just let them answer like this and move on to the next thing. "OK, he thinks it's legal, but how is it NOT an abuse of power? Saying 'he did it so it's done' doesn't answer that question. Where are you, reporters?
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Uh-oh, looks like elon took the chainsaw to facebook, which is currently experiencing a widespread outage. Maybe he'll offer to have xhitter cover that branch of the CIA's operations?
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A bit late with this, but a huge congratulations to the ASCS 2025 OPTIMA winner Elizabeth Leaning and to our joint runners-up Jemima McPhee and Jaymie Orchard! Pictured here with the prize committee. Classicsbluesky
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Full house for Prof. James Ker's (UPenn) keynote lecture, 'Seneca's First Intervention' at the Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference (ASCS46) at Australian National University, Canberra
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Awesome!!!
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Hamish @peregrinekiwi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
We're hiring! VUW Classics is looking for a generalist and particularly encouraging specialists in Greek history and Roman art and archaeology to apply. Full details here: ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Pūkenga | Lecturer in Classics
Join Te Kura o ngā Reo me ngā Tikanga-ā-iwi - School of Languages and Cultures as a Lecturer on a permanent, full-time contract.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I sort of discarded the ear spoons idea because those things seem to big to me. It seems to me we need a "mostly military" explanation for this particular set of objects.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Easier to publish "significant" research if there's a cool theme. When I read the article, I thought it was a very bold stretch based on the evidence presented. But I haven't thought of a nice conservative interpretation of the baby spoonlings, maybe someone else out there has an idea?
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I love this for them. Sorry, people, spoilers! In LoTR, Sauron is ultimately defeated, perhaps even utterly destroyed, by some sort of elf-like thing with hairy feet and no powers whatsoever beyond not being completely selfish and evil.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Looking at their Example 2 for a semester paper in Arts (FREN232), the 2025 cost is $1,040.70 - I would imagine there is some additional application fee, but distance students are exempted from the Student Services Fee (www.otago.ac.nz/studentservi...) so that's a small win.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I can't say what they'll be in 2026, but here's all the official information for 2025 (I think the govt.-permitted maximum increase year-on-year is 6%): www.otago.ac.nz/study/fees
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This is a guide to help you calculate your fees, understand the different fees that are charged, and how and when to pay your tuition fees.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Both languages are still offered in-person, on-campus at the University of Otago Dunedin campus. (forgot, AncientBluesky )
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Study says "the planet 'has darkened'," I buy it. edition.cnn.com/2024/12/05/c... Where are all those weather machines and hurricane generators to deal with this one?
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The world has been warming faster than expected. Scientists now think they know why | CNN
Last year was the hottest year on record, oceans boiled and glaciers melted at alarming rates, and it has left scientists scrambling to understand exactly why.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I still think it looks a lot like Jake Gyllenhaal in this photo. Probably there's a good facial recognologist on here who can explain how very wrong I am.
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New York police release new photos of 'person of interest' in killing of insurance boss - live updates
The NYPD says the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan was
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Not exactly in the thread line, but someone shared this little gem today: therevelator.org/scientists-m... An interesting read for people who work in the US or people who work in a country whose ministers occasionally display Trumpistic fantasies...
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Advice for U.S. Government Scientists: Lessons Learned From the ‘Muzzling’ of Their Canadian Counterparts • The Revelator
The next four years will be awful for the science and conservation community. By learning from past experiences, we can minimize the damage.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Yes, I meant they could afford to make a principled statement against this decision and risk their position at the Royal Society, as they're still very comfortably positioned at Auckland.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Probably, realistically, not in a position to say much of any significance in this situation (beyond reiterating that "The Society’s statutory role is to advance and promote science, technology, and the humanities"). In my view, worth risking the job over a robust critique of the decision, though.
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Karen Barker @kazablanca.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Bronze snakes and perfectly intact eggs among treasures found at ancient Italian thermal spa.
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Bronze snakes and perfectly intact eggs among treasures found at ancient Italian thermal spa
Trove had been preserved by warm waters and mud at the Tuscan springs near Siena
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Classics at the University of Otago is now offering Ancient Greek and Latin by distance. These classes are open to anyone interested in studying the languages by distance. For further information or details about how to enrol as a non-Otago student, visit: otago.ac.nz/classics/lan...
A picture of three people ostensibly studying, using laptops and tablets at a picnic table in the sunshine.
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Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @resaustrales.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Dec 14 Canberra NMA (2pm AEDT) Spotlight Conversations - #Pompeii: A living heritage - Virginia Trioli, Prof Steven Ellis (Cincinnati), Dr Sophie Hay (Parco Archeologico di Pompei), Dr Lily Withycombe (NMA). Book $ www.eventbrite.com.au/e/spotlight-... @pompei79.bsky.social @stevenellis.bsky.social
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Spotlight Conversations – Pompeii: A living heritage
Join us for a special panel conversation where we will discuss the ancient past and living legacy of this fascinating city.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
lol... 🫠
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This short news report (in Spanish) is from a month ago, but still interesting on the Roman and post-Roman wall of Mérida (Augusta Emerita, in Spain).🏺An excavation focusing on a tower in the city's medieval wall revealed remains of the Roman wall, its ditch, and a house with wall paintings.
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La excavación en la torre albarrana de Mérida halla un tramo del foso de la muralla romana | Hoy
También han encontrado junto al María Luisa una domus pegada a la muralla en la que se ve las paredes adornadas con pinturas del siglo II
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
So, ummm, Gladiator II. Saw that. That's it, that's my post.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Someday!
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Miguel Costa @mncgmxpt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
1/2 Roman Galleries in Lisbon museudelisboa.pt/pt/nucleos/g... One of the most exclusive experiences you can have in Lisbon is a visit to the underground Roman galleries in the centre of the city. ... #archaeology #ancientbluesky #romanarchaeology #roman
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Indiana Jones and the careful excavation of a site that turns out to have been previously excavated but never published?
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Today I had to do a careful inspection of my vineyard (1 vine) to see how the crop is developing. Things are promising, but there are plenty of wind storms yet to come before I'll feel super confident about our 2025 grape supply. We're at about 50 bunches, so I'll have to prune in a couple weeks.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Still working out what to think about the bony materials that emerged from the packed clay at the base of the city wall/Roman amphitheater in Mérida, Spain, a few months back. I have to admit reviewing pictures of pottery is faster but less fun than reviewing pottery. 🏺 #ancientbluesky
(bovine) horn core in compact clay matrix with some nearby bones.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
See, been a while. 🏺 AncientBluesky
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Been a while since I posted, let's say I've been busy preparing for today's lecture, where I'll present some very preliminary results of the 2024 Otago-Consorcio Mérida excavation project. If you're in Dunedin.... facebook.com/events/s/pub...
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
I first came to Mérida on my own in 2006, and I was last here in 2016. Things have changed, I'm no longer the only person who knows about this place! 🏺 Thus ends week 6 of our Otago/Consorcio dig.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
Current frontrunner is sheep
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
Any bone people out there have a quick guess on what sort of critter this is? Roman context... 🏺 Ancientbluesky
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 21/07/2024
Action shot (the only one) showing me trowelling a step into the profile so I can climb out of the trench without my crutches. Three weeks down one week to go in the OtagoClassics/Consórcio Mérida excavation 2024! 🏺
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
The ends have little tiny circular posts that you can't really see here.
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
Got a bone thingy or doohickey here in Mérida, anyone recognize the form? Could be Roman, could be significantly later... Archaeologists out there or anyone else help us out please! 🏺 (Pencil above for a vague sense of scale)
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 13/07/2024
#meridafamous www.facebook.com/100064506499...
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University of Otago
A group of archaeology tauira and graduates have been spending their time excavating in Mérida, Spain, in the city’s iconic Roman theatre and amphitheatre! 🏛️🤯
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Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
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