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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 8h

I heard the news of Chris Wickham’s illness only yesterday and woke up to the news of his devastating death. Not sure how to even express my sadness. This is unbelievable. RIP Chris. The world is smaller without you.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What you realise after watching two seasons of the TV show Dark Matter is that for American screenwriters, it’s easier to imagine people moving across 100 parallel worlds and dimensions than to imagine them moving away from Chicago!

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s amazing how so few Classicist have responded to this pile of nonsense, except the most racist Oxbridge Classics professor I have ever seen calling it “a great speech in style of ancient Greek orations.” As a historian, I would’ve been disgusted about politicians abusing my work in such way.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For no reason whatsoever, I have started studying Ancient South Arabian, mostly Sabaitic, this term. George Hatke, whose work I have followed for years, is a keen teacher & I really look forward to learning from him. So exciting to be a student again after so long, even if for just two hours a week!

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I did not listen to @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social and sat through this to the end. All I can tell you is that the most boring 19th century article on the Norman conquest of England is still more exciting, creative, intriguing, and fun than this catastrophic tv production. Avoid at ALL costs.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For pete’s sakes, or for the sake of every American out there, could someone inform T-rump that Iran is almost as large as California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas put together? And more populated than all of them together? Or larger than Iraq, Afghanistan & Syria together?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watching, enduring, this TV series and missing the days that the BBC produced masterpieces like I, Claudius and Rome, instead of this Game of Thrones knockoff. The real story of Harold II and William the Conqueror is so much more interesting than this nonsense…

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As you get older, you inherently feel how each academic workshop/conference originated. Which one was envisioned by the enthusiastic grad student, which one was set up by the ladder climbing early career, which one is by the jaded prof with money left from his last project, etc…

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What is this to you? A “dash-hound” دش-هاوند or a “duck-sund” داکسوند? In case of the latter, kindly introduce yourself to an insane asylum and leave us reasonable people of sound mind to our own!

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Avesta, an ancient sacred text, provides clear evidence that Iranians originated from Siberia & once inhabited most of Central Asia. I’m planning to take this evidence to the UNGA next year as part of an Iranian claim to Siberia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.

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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🪙 We're closing in on 10,000 views for my chat about #Viking Gold with Giselle Király for The Archaeologist's Notebook! Have you watched it on YouTube yet, or listened on Spotify? If so, please do let me know what you think! #Archaeology #Vikings youtu.be/R92vqPDVgA4

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The greatest Viking gold ever discovered

YouTube video by The Archaeologist's Notebook

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

While I believe Plum was under Dickens’ influence, there is really nobody who could write like Wodehouse.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

12,000 words on bloody Ammianus. ‘Zanybody wants to read it for me before I submit?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When I was applying for jobs w/ a research profile & plan as broad as this, I got rejections from position after position bc "you can't focus" & "global history doesn't mean anything"…! But here we are, 15 years later! Better late than never, eh? aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05501?app...

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Assistant or Associate Professor – Mediterranean and its Hinterlands, 500-1500 CE - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two recent publications, on the more “public facing” side of academia, thanks to the good graces of a couple of friends, including @rhigarthjones.bsky.social

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just finished this translation of Laurent Binet’s imaginative alt-historical novel Civilizations wherein Sapa Inca Atahualpa ends up conquering Europe. Well written, humorous, & gripping. First time in years that I could not put a book down. Greatly recommended, even though I have some criticism.

Picture of the front cover of the books Civilisations bu Laurent Binet. It shows a collage of an old wrinkled manuscript, some older lithograph, and parts of the portrait of a man (supposedly Atahualpa) where we can only see the eyes and the nose, and another painting showing a sun on top of it.

Back cover of the book with a snipped and endorsements. The snippet reads: “It’s world history, but not as we know it.” It continues “Freydis is the leader of a band of Viking warriors who get as far as Panama. Nobody knows what became of them.

Five hundred years later, Christopher Columbus is sailing for the Americas, dreaming of gold and conquest.
Even when captured, his faith in his mission is unshaken.

Thirty years after that, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives in a Europe ready for revolution. Fortunately, he has a recent guidebook to acquiring power - Machiavelli's The Prince. So, the stage is set for a Europe ruled by Incas and, when the Aztecs arrive on the scene, for a great war that will change history forever.”

The endorsements are:

'A bold and thrilling experiment in counterfactual history from a masterful storyteller' Financial Times

And
'A wild romp of a book that turns history on its head'
Guardian

The book is translated from the French by Sam Taylor

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Meine Meinung zu Herr Mahlers musik? Er hätte bei Mallerei bleiben sollen!

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If Scotland separated from England and creates its own state, it should revert its name to Alba.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anybody wants a Latin puzzle? “… antegressum regem uestis claritudine rutilantem. quem iuxta laeuus incedebat Grumbates, Chionitarum rex nobilis…dextra rex Albanorum…” So, is the Albanian king to the right side of the king, or “to the right” as Ammianus sees him (so to the left of the king)?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shana tova to all my Jewish friends. Happy 5787. May it be a prosperous and happy year. Fill up on apples’n’honey, or if you are an Iranian Jew, on sheep’s lung kebab (don’t ask!)…

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I need a new type of music to love. I usually listen to a wide variety of music, including lots of “world music,” but my comfort music is hard rock/metal. Lately though, that does not quite hit the spot. Somehow I need something more profound but still hardcore.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A few years ago, an Emirati student of mine wrote an essay that started with “I don’t understand why the media always refers to ‘wars in the Middle East’. There are no wars in my country & I’ve never experienced a conflict.” Somehow I feel like some warmonger read her essay & said: “hold my beer!”

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Καὶ ἐν ταῖς διαπραγματεύσεσιν ἀδιάλλακτοί εἰσιν, ὥστε μὴ αὐτοὶ προσφέρεσθαι ἃ βούλονται ἑλέσθαι πρὸς τὸ ἑαυτῶν συμφέρον, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς δεχόμενοι ταῦτα ὑπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν προσφέρεσθαι in negotiations they (Persians) are irreconcilable as they do not offer themselves what they want to receive for…

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Working on a paper abt the Sasanian siege of Amida in 359 & realising its less on the siege than abt arguing against different scholarly takes on Ammianus. Yet another case of a primary source dominating our narrative, while the actual event isn’t so important for others to note.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Trying to get back into Old Norse and Icelandic by attempting to compose some skaldekvad. Watch this space for my contribution to pithy verses abt people splitting each other’s skulls for entertainment!

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We seem to be in a Morkinskinna ‘n’ Sigurðr Jorsalafare phase of Viking Studies?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Five days of intense and breakneck conferencing at the International Congress of Byzantine Studies. We need to be paid overtime for this! :) Had two presentations: one on Arabs between Byzantium and the Sasanians and the second on Antiochene deportations in 540 and the Weh-Andiok of Khosrow I.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A lot of very kind people started following me in the last couple of days. That usually doesn’t happen to me. Can someone tell me how you find me, new friends??

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“… the entire population of Niconedia was handed over to Satan to be punished.” (Joshua the Stylite, 47) Hey, I get it Josh, Izmit is a weird place. But so much hate?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

At an international conference, someone asked the presenter “how much can we trust the X author from the seventh century to really reflect the letter he claims he is quoting?” and was answered with “I think we can trust the GREEK text…” Greeks, famously the most truthful people on this earth.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If you need to write a 4 page “Conclusion” to a 19 page article, in which you bring up three new arguments & end it with “well, these things look similar,” you probably did not write your article very well and wasted a lot of my time.

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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’ve just walked in on The Bug doing his yoga workout. Namaste to you too.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Started my day by discovering that the back window of my rental car was smashed by Milanese thieves, but ended it with the most pleasant drive through Ticino and Graubunden.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Celebrating my birthday with some of my closest friends in one of my favourite cities on earth is the highlight of my Summer. It gets lots of hate, & the locals are sometimes hard to deal with & their politics sucks, but Nice still manages to charm even on the 100th visit.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Aaaah, academic politics & conflicts, where storms in teacups meet gigantic egos outbidding each other at performative outrage over humbugs wrapped as moral stance all surfing the bottom of underfunded fields with few opportunities, managed by arsonists in charge of a wild fire.

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’ve gathered all my old sorrows So to leave them behind at an old Tavern But the Tevern door opens and I hear someone singing drunkenly “I gather all my sorrows….”

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Right now, Vienna is as hot as Athens, with a higher dew point. The difference is that in Athens, AC is everywhere and you can easily take a break from it by stepping into a store. In Vienna, there is a widespread myth that any “drift” is hazardous to one’s health & that ACs are Devil’s Machines!

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I am laughing out-loud reading this. At one point, it sounds like Jairus is going to go easy, but noooo, he shifts it up & rolls over Perry with a heavy steamroller! (From Banaji’s Theory as History, 2010).

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I don’t feel like attending big conferences anymore. I have enough friends, know the fields enough, and don’t really find new research directions that interesting. Old? Perhaps!

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Considering the little time one has for reading books, fellow academics, what would you rather spend your time reading: 1- Older books that you’ve missed before? 2- the hot, new scholarship of the day?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The US gov’t, taking clues from Loki, is fomenting mischief around the world. Presently, it has prepared a nice headache for Spain’s leftist gov’t to punish it for not toeing the line. This will probably cause the fall of the Spanish gov’t, but the US should also consider Loki’s fate…

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Surely a simple documentary following a randomly-selected group of disabled people as they apply for PIP and UC would prove or disprove the theory that it's easy to get benefits

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Apartments just finished in Tehran Some remarkable organic terraces created with what looks like terracotta cladding. The architect is Alireza Taghaboni

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This button will appear on every post LOL

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Btw, Christian art specialists: which story is this stained window depicting? Is this St. Lambert?

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Roissy-CDG airport of Paris never fails to amuse & surprise. Who’d think that in the land of Haute Cuisine, food options of an entire terminal are poorer than that of the land of bitterballen and limited to two bakeries & Carrefour City supermarket? Even American airports do better than this!

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