A very nice volume coming from an event at LECTIO (@lectio-institute.bsky.social), also featuring my collection of thoughts on prefaces and names. Always strange (but also enjoyable) to think back to the original conference when the publication comes out.

Just found a cool painting and thought I'd share it here. nmwa.org/art/collecti...

Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published. C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.

I still don't have a good way to bookmark cool things on here... so I'll just repost them instead.

"the infernal lecture"!

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Can anyone recommend a tool for creating 'bookmarks' or saving posts on here? Or is there an obvious one which I've missed?

📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research! Read the issue #openaccess here: 📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow #computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social

For #EpigraphyTuesday a Trier black slipped ware motto beaker bearing the Latin inscription: PARCE AQVAM ADIC MERVM - save the water, pour unmixed #wine! Trier motto beakers are frequently decorated with toasts to life and wine. From Trier, dating around 300 AD. 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

One more point on this: dear fellow academics, when you announce conferences or events without a hybrid option [another topic...], please do so at least 1-2 months in advance. This way, those who have it a bit harder to arrange travel/visas/other things can make sure they can attend. Accessibility!

Visa application centres are the greatest scam ever. You cannot opt out, you pay extra, and then they have a website upload system that crashes (but if you don't want to use it, you have to pay to scan your documents there). Well, at least now I don't have to travel for 2h to get to one!

Presented my graphs and tables at #papycongress2025 :)

In Köln for #papycongress2025. Already spotted three people with conference bags at the hotel breakfast and one person studying the programme.

You can turn this off if you go to settings, tab Generative AI, and just uncheck "Enable generative AI features in Acrobat." Though I do still find it mind-boggling that there isn't a good academic-oriented free open-source PDF reader. But that's another issue ...

Even scammers are mocking me...

The top three things driving me mad as I'm finalising the volume edits: 1. OneDrive / SharePoint sync issues 2. Bibliography entries for conference proceedings without editors (n)or traditional publisher 3. [still vacant]

Quick note of appreciation to those who name their files correctly and clearly (not "paper_Leuven.docx" or "fig_1.png" but at least including the last name and the title). They most probably won't read it here, but still!

@yaelrice.bsky.social and I co-authored this piece precisely to combat misguided work like this so people don't have to constantly rehearse the arguments about why it's specious. We laid it all out here for you! hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

A Hedgehog in a French bestiary, c.1270.

Now I can spam from two accounts at the same time! But it's of course a good idea to separate my personal bluesky and the institution's bluesky account, even if I will probably repost a lost between the two.

Hello BlueSky! This is a new account for the LECTIO Institute. We are an interdisciplinary research institute based in Leuven devoted to the study of the intellectual history of pre-modern and early modern Europe. www.kuleuven.be/lectio

This is my first time looking for reviewers, and it has been a nightmare. Nobody has the time. "Ask X?" "Ask me again in May." "No, sorry." I have nothing against people protecting their time: I completely understand (and even admire) them. But how should this work, if it is to work at all?..

📢 Call for Applications: we invite ECRs to apply for a 'LECTIO & Trismegistos+ Visiting Fellowship' at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social ✅ 4–6 week research stay ✅ travel & accommodation covered ✅ collaboration with TM team 🔗 Apply here (due March 16): www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit... #Trismegistos

I don't really know much about Vesalius. But since I am working on authorial practices in antiquity, I am so excited to see what research comes from this!

Inspiring or frightening?

The Stoa: a Review for Digital Classics Call for Submissions: blog.stoa.org/editorial

I have finally prepared everything to send out the next call for Visiting Fellowships in Leuven (www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...). They are non-stipendiary, but we do cover accommodation and travel costs and strive to provide a great academic experience. Check it out? The deadline is 16 March.

With cold and foggy January moving into...cold and foggy February, we're not going to leave the comforts of our snug sofa just yet. Luckily there's TM Sunday Funday to keep you occupied! Don't forgot to enjoy free, unlimited access for 24 hours starting from midnight (CET) tomorrow! trismegistos.org

got to talk to some actual readers (almost certainly the first real readers if we do not count the reviewers)!

On the train to Leipzig to be part of a workshop on DH skills for our MECANO Doctoral Network PhDs. (That is, if we all do not get stuck in Frankfurt, but still, yay trains!) mecano-dn.eu/events/works...

What better news to get when on holiday -- my* first book* is out! *in co-authorship with 10 other amazing people **a smol one It's called "Unprinted: Publication beyond the Press" and discusses all kinds of things, such as inscriptions, carols, or drafts. Check it out :) doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Happy New Year! We are starting 2025 with an entry about the open PhD positions available with the support of @leverhulme.bsky.social via a collab between @memsunikent.bsky.social and @kingsartshums.bsky.social Read all about it here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear... #PhD #cfa #postgraduate

Finally, I broke the Facebook algorithm: I clicked on one video from a hedgehog rescue station, and now I have a feed full of amazing charities saving hedgehogs. 10/10, highly recommend.

My tiny little writing group, which I started as a research manager in an attempt to create some community within the institute, just got a mention in the acknowledgements of a PhD defence. 😶 And I know it sounds trite, but if it has benefitted one PhD candidate, it's already more than enough.

I need Spotify wrapped, but from Outlook. How many emails did I write? Who did I have to chase most often? What is my favourite day to take an email break? All very important questions...

"Files" are now called "Shared", in: updates that do *not* make MS Teams any better to work with in any way whatsoever

the last month of the year is hectic, as always, so of course it's time to get a Canva free trial to try to make a nice conference poster but until I figure it out, here's a link to our LECTIO conference, which is fun (and my first time on the scientific committee): www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...

Okay, now that there is an eXodus going on, I decided to try to revive my presence here. I will probably repost things related to Classics and/or DH, but I also plan to post about my research and my current work as a research manager (if you think 'eh?', follow to find out)—we'll see how it goes!

Work on a Computational Humanities PhD project in Leipzig as part of the MECANO doctoral network. Topic: "Contextual scientometrics – Uncovering and understanding referencing patterns to the ancient canon in modern scholarly discourses". All details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/192590

Pretty sure that multi-factor authentication is behind a significant proportion of my tasks that are delayed or forgotten...

Starting to academically post here: now in Hamburg at a conference about the study of written artefacts (www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/uwa2023.html). Will be speaking about inscribed literary texts and how inscription works as a mode of 'publishing' – outside of my Classics comfort zone!

Hi! I'm Daria, a Classicist currently in Leuven (Belgium), and I will be trying to migrate here. This feels like an odd intro post, so here's a selection of my interests to make it odder: ancient book culture (aka my PhD), traveling on trains, digital things with Gk & Latin, and hedgehogs.