iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org · 12/08/2026

New episode alert! @drdragases.bsky.social joins 101 to give us a crash course in Late Antiquity, a fascinating period that gives Game of Thrones a run for its money. Was the Roman empire really 'split in half'? How did Christianity become the official religion? And when did Rome *actually* fall?

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Nigel Holmes @nigelholmes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We finished work on the R volume of the Thesaurus months ago. The last two parts are now in print and reached us today.

The last two parts of the R volume of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae.

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

📢 Ebook sale! We've dropped the price of our ebooks to £9.99/$14.95 for this week only. Yes, that's right: ALL of them! 😍 So if you've had your eye on something, now's your chance. Happy shopping: edin.ac/3m0FGgU

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Modal Foundation @modalfoundation.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Learn more about the SPRIND.social project and check out a very handsome portrait of @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social and @sebastian.eurosky.social as bonus content! www.sprind.org/en/sprind-so...

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Modal Foundation @modalfoundation.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Pleased to share that our flagship @eurosky.social project is collaborating with Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) to explore algorithms to improve online conversations and increase understanding. eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...

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Eurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - Eurosky

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 16/07/2026

Do you like your social media less toxic? Yeah, we do too. @eurosky.social and Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) just signed an agreement to collaborate on precisely that: eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...

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Eurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - Eurosky

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 07/07/2026

A message to all Eurosky members and friends We need your help - can you support Eurosky with a monthly or one-off donation? If you can, please visit whydonate.com/fundraising/...

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Title: A message to all Eurosky members and friends

We need your help - can you support Eurosky with a monthly or one-off donation?

We are building Eurosky on the principle that it is possible to build better social tech that also prioritize people’s interests over corporate greed. Since the beginning of the year we’ve taken big steps towards our mission of building independent infrastructure and experience for social media in Europe.

In April we launched a fundraiser to help accelerate our roadmap, in particular:

- Building a European microblogging app backend, to support European apps
- Growing our PDS capacity
- Supporting up to 100k users

Since then, we have raised nearly €15,000 Euros that have directly contributed to:

- Upgrading our PDS servers, which are now used by more than 22,000 people, up from around 10,000 when we launched the fundraiser - with plenty of room to grow.
- Deploying a high availability Eurosky relay in Europe serving Atmosphere apps, so apps can access Atmosphere data easily from a European source.
- Deploying a PLC mirror in Europe serving Atmosphere apps, to ensure that people’s identities also have a European server.
- Kicked off building the microblogging backend (“app view”) with a deployment planned for the end of July.
- Developed and launched mu, our microblogging application with wildly cool features, hitting 100k active users in its first month, to rave reviews.

Whilst all of this costs more than the 15k we raised, it would not have been possible without it.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 18/06/2026

20,000 on Eurosky and growing! Switch to @eurosky.social, try out @mu.social — the future of social is coming and we're barely getting started.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

For #SpaceX Day, the Brits have a very fitting message to Elon

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New Iliad Book XXIII Green & Yellow, edited by Adrian Kelly. Out now in paperback www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026

The first sentence is crucial: @mu.social works with any #atproto account. Apps or platforms that require you to migrate your account to their infrastructure to use their app are a huge red flag 🚩

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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 04/06/2026

We zijn deze week in Amsterdam voor de PublicSpaces Conference — dus wat is een beter moment om onze website in het Nederlands te lanceren? 🎉 eurosky.tech/nl/

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Eurosky - Bouwen aan een bloeiend open sociaal web voor Europa

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

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PAX @paxvoorvrede.nl · 02/06/2026

Teken vandaag nog tegen Israëls E1-project ❌ Deze grootschalige nederzettingenuitbreiding dreigt de Westelijke Jordaanoever in tweeën te delen, Palestijnse gemeenschappen verder te scheiden en maakt een vreedzame toekomst in Palestina en Israël nog moeilijker. paxvoorvrede.nl/acties/breek...

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Breek de West Bank niet doormidden! - PAX

Teken tegen Israëls E1-project. Deze grootschalige nederzettingenuitbreiding dreigt de Westelijke Jordaanoever in tweeën te delen. Dat mag niet gebeuren.

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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wir gratulieren unserem Autor @markschies.bsky.social ganz herzlich zur Zuwahl in den Orden Pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste – eine der höchsten Ehrungen für Wissenschaftler*innen und Künstler*innen in Deutschland. @bbaw.bsky.social

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Joop van Waarden @wardenj.eurosky.social · 01/06/2026

www.propylaeum.de/themen/sidon... Bookmark this page with current information about the Sidonius 'Green & Yellow': updates, reviews and more.

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Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters

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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026

This is one of the ideas behind @eurosky.social: shared European social infrastructure operated as a commons, providing a foundation on which hundreds of different applications and businesses can grow. We need the infrastructure that allows the next generation of European social media to emerge.

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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026

2 days ago I had the opportunity to participate in the European Commission‘s workshop on the future of social networks in Europe, together with researchers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, investors and civil society representatives.

A group photo of all the participants of the workshop

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Joop van Waarden @wardenj.eurosky.social · 16/05/2026

The first review of my Green & Yellow Sidonius Apollinaris Selected Letters is in: classicsforall.org.uk/reading-room...

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SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS: Selected Letters

CUP (2026) p/b 306pp £28 (ISBN 9781009087629)

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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

ICS Acting Director, Dr Kathryn Tempest will present "Locating the Landscape in Cicero’s Letters" at the upcoming Roman Society AGM and Colloquium on Saturday 6 June. Full details here: www.romansociety.org/Events

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Roy Gibson @gibsonroyk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Ideally let us know by the end of August!

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Roy Gibson @gibsonroyk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The Durham/Glasgow Learning from Ancient Letters project is looking for teachers to develop materials for UK schools related to ancient letters. Tell us what might be useful and help us test out materials we create! Contact andrew.morrison@glasgow.ac.uk. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

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University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan - Research in the School of Humanities - Classics Research - Learning from Ancient Letters

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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 08/05/2026

Europe needs independent social infrastructure, not just an app. This is what we're building. eurosky.tech/build/

Screenshot of Eurosky webpage showing progress on building European social infrastructure and showing:
2 of 9 components built – 2 in progress

Personal Data Server — Complete
Where your posts and data live, hosted in Europe, under European law.

Migration Tool — Complete
Move your existing Bluesky account to Eurosky in minutes.

Relay — In progress
Listens to every post across the entire network in real time.

PLC Directory Mirror — In progress
The identity registry that verifies who you are across every app on the network.

Indexer — Needs funding
Indexes and organises network content to power feeds, discovery, and search.

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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🔎 Upcoming Epistolography event: Durham/Edinburgh/Glasgow - Network on Ancient Epistolography - Second Meeting 📅📍 1 May | Ritson Room, Durham 🔗 Learn more and see the full programme: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

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PAX @paxvoorvrede.nl · 09/04/2026

Dit moet stoppen. Financiële instellingen moeten níet investeren in foute wapenbedrijven en duidelijke grenzen stellen in hun beleid. Stop met investeren in oorlog. paxvoorvrede.nl/nieuws/welke...

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Welke Europese institutionele beleggers investeren in oorlog? - PAX

Ontdek hoe Europese beleggers profiteren van wapenhandel en wat jij kunt doen om dit te stoppen. Lees nu ons rapport ‘Invested in War’!

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PAX @paxvoorvrede.nl · 09/04/2026

Terwijl geweld tegen burgers in Palestina en Soedan voortduurt, wordt binnen de EU de defensie-industrie in toenemende mate zelfs als ‘duurzaam’ bestempeld. Wapenleveranties aan hoog-risicolanden verlengen conflicten en vergroten het menselijk leed.

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PAX @paxvoorvrede.nl · 09/04/2026

Uit ons onderzoek blijkt dat de grootste Europese pensioenfondsen en verzekeraars in 2025 samen voor 5,9 miljard euro belegd in wapenproducenten die wapens verkopen aan staten waar een hoog risico bestaat dat deze bijdragen aan mensenrechtenschendingen.

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Gavin Kelly @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

You can find the contents here. There's a lot of it... (3/3) assets.cambridge.org/97811084/763...

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Gavin Kelly @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Here is the programme, with contact details. Please come, even if only for a bit or for a drink at the end. (2/3)

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Gavin Kelly @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Do please come to the launch of The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature in Edinburgh on 20 April. A colloquium runs from 13.30 to 18.00 in Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building (programme on next slide); also online -- just write to one of the editors (1/3)

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hearing that the splendid Dame @averilcam.bsky.social has passed. She was an amazing scholar. She will be missed. Please note her memoir and remember to cite her as one of the pivotal founders of the field we now call Late Antiquity. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

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Brepols - Transitions

Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...

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Joop van Waarden @wardenj.eurosky.social · 04/03/2026

Brand-new: my Sidonius Apollinaris Selected Letters on the shelf at @athenaeum.nl in Amsterdam. #lateantiquity #epistolography #sidoniusapollinaris

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Joop van Waarden @wardenj.eurosky.social · 25/02/2026

Last Monday, 23 February, at the Radboud University, I had the honour of presenting Prof. Daniël den Hengst with the first copy of my Green & Yellow volume of commentary, Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters (www.cambridge.org/nl/universit...).

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Roger Pearse @rogerpearse.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

All the CSEL volumes prior to 2010 now available in PDF online. This is really going to bring the CSEL series right to the front of everyone's minds. Someone over there is being very clever.

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Joop van Waarden @wardenj.eurosky.social · 06/02/2026

Review in Vigiliae Christianae of Christine Schmitz, Mythen und kein Ende: Zum Umgang mit Mythen in der lateinischen Literatur der Spätantike, Stuttgart 2025. #mythology #earlychristianity brill.com/view/journal...

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Brill Companion to Rome, c. 400- c. 1050, co-edited by Caroline Goodson and myself, will be published on 22 January (online) and on 19 February (print). There will be a hybrid book launch on the eve of the online publication. More info here 👇 www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/Bi...

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Mark Saltveit @daoish.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Congratulations! It might be useful to post a list of the letters selected. I had trouble finding one even on the publishers website. This is the best I could find, from the preview's table of contents.

A screen shot of the book's table of contents, listing the 20 letters selected.

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Joop van Waarden @wardenj.eurosky.social · 19/01/2026

Now available: Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters Order at www.cambridge.org/9781009087629 Early birds save 20% off at checkout, code JOOP2026 #sidoniusapollinaris #epistolography #LatinLiterature #LateAntiquity

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Joop van Waarden @wardenj.eurosky.social · 12/01/2026

Sidonius Apollinaris Blogpost Are the 'Blue Rocks' Rio and Antirrio? #lateantiquity #sidoniusapollinaris sidonapol.org/are-the-blue...

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Joop van Waarden @wardenj.eurosky.social · 12/01/2026

Sidonius Apollinaris Blogpost #lateantiquity #sidoniusapollinaris sidonapol.org/van-waarden-...

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This workshop has not been advertised that much, but for anyone interested in Late Antique Latin historiography and recent groundbreaking developments in our understanding of it this looks extremely interesting. I am really sad I will not be able to attend.

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

George and Justin's book has challenged the phantom of Kaisergeschichte, arguing for a big history work of Sextus Aurelius Victor, preserved only through abbreviations and fragments. Bleckmann expressed his scepticism of their thesis in a review of their book, dismissing it as just another model.

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