That time of year again: send UGA your students looking for an MA in Latin and Classics! The home of Wheelocks' Latin textbook, and according to MLA the biggest Latin program in USA, we are a bastion of rigorous Latin pedagogy. Fully-funded assistantships available. Email me with questions, please!

i do not have the energy for self promotion anymore -- thanks, tenure -- but LinkedIn seems to be where the strivers are congregating these days

Have been slightly obsessed with this for a while now youtu.be/PJ9PMydTVYE?...

Learned yesterday that a recent MA grad from our department had manuscript for new edition of a fairly important and substantial Late Antique Latin text accepted by Brepols. Wow. 😮

Time for another adventure...

Time for another adventure...

A lot of the justifications point to the number of Religious Studies majors—but is this really how a dept’s value should be judged? In many RS departments in which I’ve taught, our courses have enormous enrollments & student interest +

Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/) www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

i need a cloud cluster / super-computer for photogrammetry.. sh*t's getting too big even for my gamer laptop at 300+ gb

Re: plague studies youtu.be/y-qjnzqnqKM?...

Sardis and Bin Tepe have been officially inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List: news from today trt.global/world/articl... whc.unesco.org/en/list/1731

NSF FY 2026 Budget Request: eye-popping summary tables on pages 6 and 12 include 70% cut in budget and personnel involved (researchers, grad students, etc) nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Massive cuts and mergers at my alma mater, Indiana University in Bloomington -- 408 degree programs across the state Full list: www.in.gov/che/files/In... Indy Star write up from 30 June: www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

find the kitty cat

Pas de documents, pas d'histoire.

Would appreciate guidebook / bib suggestions for gansu and xinjiang provinces in western china.. found out the other day i'll be going to Dunhuang in september, which is pretty wild.

monsterpiece theater full of gems - www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvvI...

Not bad for an office.. also comes with a well-mannered anatolian sheep dog

Full moon the other night from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Used ChatGPT today to help write batch scripts for Cloud Compare (correcting inverted normals error in laser scan data taken from 150 scan positions, model is 300gb), Agisoft Metashape (changing file path structures), and OxCal for phased radiocarbon calibration. I learned stuff. Am i a bad person?

Breakdance, Roman style

Lego Hagia Sophia rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-219...

Grades are done. Just set my auto email reply for summer. ✌️

NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

Most excellent thread

Because a linguist will go abroad to enjoy local etymological connections, here's my tribute to La Serenissima – twelve everyday English words that have travelled from or through Venice! dannybate.com/2025/05/04/t...

New issue of Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Vol. 14, No. 1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54736 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Big Data & Manuscript Studies: Some Reflections on a Methodology @leoba.bsky.social @danielsawyer.bsky.social @julialilinoe.bsky.social

shared from friends: PDF of Kalliope Theoharidou's (1988) *The Architecture of Hagia Sophia, Thessaloniki: from its erection up to the Turkish Conquest* = BAR Intl Series 399 (Oxford: BAR, 1988) fromsmash.com/PBo_G2.KJA-f... eleven plates and ninety-some photos? quite interesting.

how had i missed this one, quite fun! [open access] PRZEMYSŁAW MARCINIAK, "Byzantine Cultural Entomology (Fourth to Fifteenth Centuries): A Microhistory of Byzantine Insects" in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 77 (2023): 177-194 www.jstor.org/stable/27254...

While I agree with much of this article, it's limited by its Anglophone focus (it's also missing some key works in English). Archaeology/material evidence is the fastest growing area of the field, but there has been important work on other aspects too (e.g., textual sources, theoretical frameworks)

New volume of Archaeology of Western Anatolia Vol. 1 (2025) dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/awa/i... #openaccess

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

Visiting CDC Headquarters and Museum in Atlanta today. Worth a visit.

Who else got another email from this guy today?

Joseph Patrich et al's seven-year project for new digital corpus "Churches of the Holy Land" dig.corps-cmhl.huji.ac.il

I'm so glad these are getting more recognition from anc. historians! Language, cultural assimilation/repulsion, etc.. all engage with anc.hist. truisms. I want to put these in dialogue with @kateelliottsff.bsky.social's Alex tG space opera Unconquerable Sun, @rfkuang.bsky.social 's Babel, & #Andor.

headphones, please youtu.be/MiKPJbpg4gQ?...

After seeing the set in Philly bookstore two weeks ago, was reminded again today of Werner Jaeger's *Paideia* and -- poking around a bit -- found this old but very spicy BMCR review of a "Werner Jaeger Reconsidered" conference's proceedings at U of Illinois in 1992 bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1992/1992.05...

Congratulations to Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia and their contributors on the publication of their new #OpenAccess book Classics and Race today. Read and download free at: uclpress.co.uk/book/classic... #Classics #Race #IntellectualHistory