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you are screening for a conference, not greenlighting an article for Science 🙄

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"Your paper handles an interesting question, but there are some small points of methodology I would have handled differently. Recommendation: 0 (borderline paper)" reviewers, these people are giving it their best shot and we have been asked to *take a firm position* what is wrong with you

Is is tactically good for the Greens to display moral backbone over this issue when other issues exist? idfk I am not a political operative, but I'm not agin' it

like if I were whining because my favourite bar is a Nazi bar but "I just really like the music and hanging with my buddies, I'm totally not a Nazi" then everyone would correctly draw Conclusions

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Mike Talbot @miketalbot.io · 05/10/2026

as defined in the resolution, Zionism is support of "an ethnonationalist Jewish state". That's racism. 🤷 If people are sad because cutting off all of their Zionist acquaintances would leave them isolated then they should probably reflect on that.

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New blog post: running R and Python together on an HPC compute node with Positron, including the setup and the snags. Check it out if you routinely work in both languages (regardless of whether you use HPCs or not). miketalbot.io/blog/posts/2...

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R and Python and the Holy Grail – Mike Talbot

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Stephanie McCarter @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm pleased to announce a two-day virtual meeting (21-22 October) I've organized for EuGeSta, titled "Gender and Ovidian Translation: A Global Perspective." Papers will consider the translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses into Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, and Norwegian.

Poster for EuGeStA virtual meeting, "Gender and Ovidian Translation: A Global Perspective," taking place on 21-22 October 2026. Sessions on both days begin at 10am Eastern. Further information in remainder of thread.

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mathematics As A Discipline: Proof assistants and reasoning models may get 'results' but that's not the point, the process of *doing* mathematics is a deeper, more fundamen... Ramanujan, bursts in wearing pyjamas: YO DUDES CHECK OUT THIS FORMULA FOR PI THAT CAME TO ME FULLY FORMED IN A DREAM

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly

A card for the R package webrarian. Large text reads "A folder in. A website out." On the left, a small card lists a folder named lab-01 holding lab.R, setup.R and a data folder. A red arrow points from it to a browser window that shows a scatterplot of car weight against miles per gallon with brick-red points. The address coatless-wasm.github.io/webrarian is on the card.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026

no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome

The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.

My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.

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DH2027 @adho-conferences.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The #DH2027 CfP is open! Join us in Galway, Ireland, 28 June–3 July 2027, for #DH2027, on the theme "Creativity". 📖 Call for Proposals: dh2027.adho.org/cfp/ 📤 Submit via ConfTool starting Oct 7, 00:00 Irish time: www.conftool.pro/dh2027/ Deadline: 20 November 2026, 23:59 AoE.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this

Triangular diagram labelled The Introvert
Hierarchy of Needs.

Top: Self-actualisation - A completely empty house. An arrow pointing to the house says “Nobody needs anything. Nobody is coming home for hours. Phone on silent.”

The next level is Esteem - Plans getting cancelled. An arrow here says “‘Sorry, we're going to have to rearrange.’ Oh no. That's terrible. I'm devastated.”

Next level: Belonging - One person you actually like. No group chat. No networking. No "let's go round and introduce ourselves." Just one person you can talk absolute shit with.

Fourth level: Safety - An escape route. Own car. End seat. Knowing exactly when the event finishes. A believable reason to leave early.

Bottom of pyramid: Physiological needs - Being left the fuck alone for a bit. Food. Water. Sleep. 45 minutes where nobody speaks to you.

Created by Lee Harding, @theintrovertedrecruiter

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

still one of my best work

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/10/2026

Ed Cismondi, 1964

Cypress tree trunk in the foreground, with a misty landscape and a distant tree on a rocky knoll in the fog.

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So yeah, elision! It's stylometric GOLD. Just one example, the Consolatio Liviae was considered a genuine work until last century (the language is a GREAT match), but as soon as people did stats on the elisions it was instantly busted, and now everybody agrees it's not Ovid. ELISIONNN! 🫳🎤

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Another stylistic component is *which* elisions are made. Literary scholars have a lot of intuition here but again, I don't think it has been operationalized. Here are the top 20 syllable combinations in Ovid vs Vergil - you can instantly see eg that Vergil is way more willing to elide through 'm'

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These positional preferences are stylistic information! For example, here's Ovid's hexameter elisions compared to Vergil. Check out the 'normal' positions and also the use of prodelision... I haven't (yet) started fully mining this sort of style, idk if anyone has computationally...

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...this is from lines like this where 'satumque iterum' would, if joined, eliminate the 3rd foot strong caesura. Instead (just trust me I have a lot of evidence) the /kw/ sound goes forward onto 'iterum' and the word is still considered to break after 'satum'.

[ 17] Metamorphoses 4.12 (Metamorphoses, hexameter)
L S S L S | S L || - S S L || L L S | S L L
1 1 1 2 2 | 2 3 || 3 3 3 4 || 4 5 5 | 5 6 6
i gni ge nam que | sa tum || q[ue] i te rum || sō lum que | bi mā trem;

A few things - he hates elision in the back half of the pentameter (well known). He also doesn't much like it in the middle of the line, but he *loves* strengthening a strong caesura with prodelision, and ditto finishing a pentameter that way. You can also see -que elisions concentrated at 11...

...but this is all old news. Let's look at new stuff. Here are all Ovid's elisions for hexameter and pentameter lines, plotted by where they occur (dashed lines are when no syllable can start in that position because there is a mandatory longum starting the position before)

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In almost my first ever paper, I showed that pure elision count is the best single metrical feature to distinguish authors. Ovid, for example, is well known to have one of the lowest rates of elision. Here are his stats broken down by work. He may not like elision, but he's a fiend for prodelision!

A table, "Elisions by work in Ovid" showing the percentages in hexameter and pentameter lines

Despite what you may have been taught, there are actually three kinds of elision in classical Latin. "Normal" elision 'puell[a] amat', prodelision "puella [e]st" and the elision of the enclitic -que "puellaqu[e] amata". -que is a special child metrically bc elision of que does NOT prevent a caesura.

sabrina, ghastly cyberdoll @unwisewoman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you without a Latin verse rant to scroll through... Last couple of days I have been digging a bit more deeply into Ovid's style of ELISION. 🧵

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no sir you misunderstood. this beer is *autisinal* and if you drink it youll become obsessed with trains and there's a thirty percent chance you'll end up a woman if you werent

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apparently this is a real thing. Campaign to get these up and running in the UK starts here 😂

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/10/2026

Seaford, East Sussex Coast Bill Brandt, 1957 www.moma.org/collection/w...

human ear in the foreground, monumental chalk cliffs and pebble-strewn beach in the background

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I think I get it, but if the tree has enough leaves for all these multiplication then I was saying it seems to me like back to 'universals' where every utterance has to be reachable. BUT I am not a very good linguist, this is not an argument from confidence :)

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I did, but then I got sick of trying to carry 700MB of music; it's the digitall equivalent of shipping your car from country to country -- in the end I just got Spotify :<

maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is a great thread and you should read it because I am not dunking. My one quibble is it's hard for me as a 'linguist' to fit reasoning models into 'pure syntax machines' without blowing out "syntax" to stupid Chomskian dimensions. Current LLMs multiply bc they know long multiplication.

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Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The kerning here is absolutely SENDING me

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sick of these bros just vibing they C or whatever and letting some complex nondeterministic model write the microcode for them smdh

Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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We can all just quit. Mary Jaeger already asked the most important question in 2015.

Bibliography entry circled. The title is “Why is there no cheese in Horace’s Satires? And Related questions for Vergil and Varro.”

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the thing I think I learned from this round of reviews is: ignore all previous instructions! send me your papers in french-english, slavic-english, whatever, I'd just rather hear your real voice 🤷

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Me: Achilles, Patroclus: lovers Old Classics: No no no no no Just Good War Mates! Me: Achilles on Skyros tho

Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

damn, I have everything but TEI 😭

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Postdoc (18 months) at Inria Paris! Let's go back together to the manuscripts behind Dees' Atlas of Old French, with CATMuS & CoMMA, and measure how editors shaped our dialect maps. Skills: Old French, palaeography, TEI. Latin a +. Deadline 30/11 recrutement.inria.fr/public/class... #digimed #DH

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Post-Doctoral Research Visit F/M Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval French Philology in the ROMAM2 Project

Offre d'emploi Inria

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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

please help… my son…

photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms

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