I am now strangely consumed by the desire to know my number…

Friday night lights à la great white north 🔥

Spent some time playing with xsl:merge and its children yesterday, and am both certain that this is one of those functions that's going to make life a whole lot easier and embarrased not to have toyed with it sooner. #diary_of_a_DH_neophyte

Congratulations to Brendan Haug, author of "Garden of Egypt," on winning the 2025 American Society of Papyrologists inaugural Book Prize!

I learned gobs from Elisa and David at DHSI, and continue to apply those lessons on a regular basis wrangling XML for papyri.info. Cannot recommend highly enough.

🚨 SAUVONS LES ÉTUDES CLASSIQUES ET MÉDIÉVALES À L’UNIVERSITÉ DE CALGARY ! 🚨 L’administration universitaire a rejeté un programme innovant élaboré de bonne foi par le corps professoral, invoquant des contraintes budgétaires. Cette décision supprimerait la majeure en lettres classiques à Calgary!

🚨 SAVE CLASSICS AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY! 🚨 University leadership has rejected an innovative new program developed by faculty in good faith, citing budget constraints. This decision would eliminate the Classics major at Calgary! Read more : 👉 www.cac-scec.ca/2026/01/supp...

Exceptional discoveries in the latest campaign of the Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission - Current events - University of Barcelona web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

Dr. No Job works for this, too.

New issue of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, edited by @sofiatorallas.bsky.social , with contributions on literary papyri from @theonash.bsky.social and myself.

‘Snow days are way more fun for kids than for grownups’, he realized to his dismay.

I ❤️ the first four items on this list so, so much — what I’d give for a proper glimpse at Republican tragedy

Great news for any undergraduates excited about manuscripts, palaeography, and reconstructing ancient texts! There is a funded MA opportunity at the University of Manitoba working on new critical editions of Plato’s dialogues. Check our full post for more details! www.cac-scec.ca/2025/12/uman...

Parental achievement unlocked: eight-year old now knows how to use an Index, and is busy at work independently researching for a school project. Also took the opportunity to provide an important lesson in the indispensability of librarians FTW

Schrödinger's costume: Kids think I’m a cowardly lion; colleagues think I’m Herakles. Happy Halloween, y’all! 🎃

The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa

This is a monthly event, and if the EpiDoc maintainers can’t answer your encoding questions, I’m not sure who can.

Gaudium boreale.

I just renewed my membership! We can’t take critical DH tech for granted, and TEI is foundational for things far more important than my little sandbox!

Winter is coming 🍂🍁 🇨🇦

We face this problem all the time curating the XML in papyri.info, but it is sometimes a hard sell to a user who wants something to appear in a particular way to learn that the optimal encoding doesn’t quite have the XSLT in the stylesheets to handle it, yet.

In the woods this week, exploring Riding Mountain National Park.

My first day as Acting Head. So far so good? Or is it because today is 🇨🇦 Day?

OMG 😍

Manually scrubbing data that was machine-processed from a non-machine-readable source is a special kind of experience. It's all edge-cases...

Funded PhD opportunity at Leiden University on Greek papyrology! Application deadline in August. Check out all the details here: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/_z7-CYQEkc...

For the 30th anniversary, the Summer Institutes are not only still going strong, but will also be coming to 🇨🇦. papyrology.org/summer_insti...

What a gorgeous postdoc - for a moment I thought they were looking for a papyrologist with Latin AND Greek AND Demotic, which seemed like a LOT for 34k, but there are TWO jobs on this great project - phew! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL359/p...

Xenophanes approves of this cartoon.

Marco beat me to the punch! In all seriousness, I'm happy to field inquiries from prospective applicants; the Summer Institutes are one the American Society of Papyrologists' most important initiatives, and I can't wait to get to work with Mohamed and others in Winnipeg.

Another papyrological pilgrimage checked off the bucket list...

Spotted in the wild, as I was en route to a meeting with the proprietor…

There’s a lot on the agenda this week, but the setting couldn’t be more agreeable.

The annual meeting of the @cacscec.bsky.social is underway @uwinnipeg.bsky.social! 160 Classicists, ancient historians, and archaeologists are gathered on campus for a week of interesting papers and conversations.

Some long-awaited good news arrived today, which prompts me to offer a visual metaphor.

As my colleagues and I are hard at work on the task of finalizing volume 62, the appearance of volume 61 provides welcome succour and reinvigorates the will to persevere.

This one appeals to me on so many levels. www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

This cat, who enjoys warmth so much that naps atop radiators are not unheard of, would probably crawl into the fireplace if it weren’t for that pesky screen.

Normally, perusing the morning news has the goal of keeping informed of current events. But I’m glad to see this papyrus get some attention. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/s...

Guidelines for editing #papyri aip.ulb.be/PDF/Guidelin... Presented to the General Assembly of the Association Internationale de Papyrologues at the end of the XXXth International Congress of Papyrology (July 30, 2022).

Done. (Granted, I don’t have far to go)

I did this last year, and cannot recommend studying with Elisa and David enthusiastically enough.

Coming to the @cacscec.bsky.social annual conference in Winnipeg? The preliminary program is now online: www.uwinnipeg.ca/classics/cac...

My cat is spoiled.

Great scholars, a lovely place, and a wonderful opportunity. Apply!

In May 2024, I posted elsewhere that P.Oxy. 14 1767 was up for auction, and expressed the hope that it would be rescued and given a home in a public institution. It turns out a generous benefactor heeded the call, and today I got to say hi, in person. x.com/samosafuz/st...

No, really — it’s the best. Scores of papyri in need of caring editors, and plenty more where these came from.

I have the best job.

This is a wonderful opportunity. Apply!