got the new covid shot today, no hassle, at a cvs. getting ahead of campus disease cycles.

On MWF, I teach ancient Greek for 4 hours, only 1 of those hours is on load teaching. For a dept that supposedly is destroying the discipline because our major isn’t language-centered, we sure do teach the languages a lot.

Philology: the Best of All Possible Methods? A response to the apology. planudes.medium.com/the-best-of-...

Philology: the Best of All Possible Methods? A response to the apology. planudes.medium.com/the-best-of-...

Published last month, after 5 years with editors and press… Volume looks amazing. I am ch 16.

Almost finished with this baby. Only took me 4 years to write. All that is left is a final round of clean up edits, some additional notes, and then some backmatter and the image permissions (I will make my maps when I am back in the US). So happy to be publishing this with @yalepress.bsky.social.

For those who have access, my new entry for “metics” in the Oxford Classical Dictionary (replacing D. Whitehead’s) has gone live. much more thorough and includes non-Athenian metics. oxfordre.com/classics/dis...

Proofs. Chapter 5 of the forthcoming Cultural History of Poverty, edited by Claire Taylor.

Translated primary sources for teaching the history of ethnicity in medieval China. A fabulous resource! #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky www.academia.edu/community/ln...

Help support students w/o the means participate in excavations, summer programs abroad or summer language programs? Help us build our s holarship endowment! We currently have no departmental endowed funds, but our students need financial support that the uni & external scholarships can’t provide.

Think about this and how Fox and the GOP would politicize an Army helicopter crashing into a commercial airplane days after a Black woman president tried to gut air safety & installed the least qualified man ever as Defense Secretary. THAT is the degree to which Dems should politicize this crash.

This. Thank you for sharing, Judy Stack.

On Holocaust Memorial Day, with anti-Jewish crimes at an all-time high, the country needs to remember more than ever

First finished jug of the new clay batch. Switched to a coarser mesh screen when washing, and left more sand in this year, which really seems to be working nicely. Between being off a while, and getting used to the new clay, jug came off an odd shape, so i leaned in. #pottery #wildclay #snake

This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future". We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.

Since the White House pulled the page on the US Constitution, a reminder that THE CONSTITUTION DECODED isn't just for kids. It's a plain language explanation of the text, side-by-side, so you can see for yourself. @workmanpubkids.bsky.social www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-consti...

Passés politisés. Usages politiques du passé antique et médiéval au XXIe siècle / Political Uses of the Ancient and Medieval Past Frontière·s 9 | 2023 journals.openedition.org/frontieres/1... #OpenAccess #History #Archaeology #ArtHistory #Antiquity #MiddleAges #ClassicalReception #Medievalism

So here's what's cool about my job: Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

Finishing another round of revisions on my book and I still believe this may be the finest sentence I have ever written (h/t Max): "I have often joked with my students that Alexander of Macedon’s conquest of Asia was nothing more than the vigorous enforcement of an aggressive anti-pants policy."

Bath time! Such a stunning example of private luxury in #Pompeii. I think we're going to need a lot of bubbles. #AncientRome www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not only is this the loveliest of tributes, it's exactly how I think a lot of us feel about Lynch, even those he didn't pluck from obscurity 42 years ago to star in a movie. When I first discovered it (Twin Peaks, at age 14) his work didn't just touch me, it changed me. I remain forever changed.

RIP to the king

Following this story closely.

“It’s so simple to start tacking ‘if you even care’ onto the end of sentences for effect and so difficult to stop. When I hear myself tell a co-worker that I’m ‘not beating the idiot allegations’ after making a silly mistake, I worry that something has really gone wrong.”

Tytus Fellowships…!

Sooooo excited to share the promo and preview episode for our upcoming #PeoplingPodcast season on Cultural Heritage and the Legacies of Colonialism! We have such an exciting line-up of guests 🤩

just in: a federal judge finds patriot front liable for $2.75mil in damages for a july 2022 assault on a black man in boston storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

explain your username: this is the word used by Thucydides in 8.1 to describe the Athenian response to their defeat at Sicily. It mirrors the ekplexis used by Atossa is Aeschylus Persians in response to learning of the loss of Xerxes to the Athenians at Salamis.

Oh, this looks so good: iexaminer.org/the-mytholog... #mythology #folklore #myth #folkloring #arnoldarre

New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

"At some point, you will be required to dress nicely for a formal dinner. They will say this is a chance for you to relax and enjoy yourself. You will suspect that this, too, is part of the game. You will not enjoy it."

Good thing I opted to drive home yesterday instead of staying until today. Would have hit snow emergencies in the Appalachians and elsewhere. Sometimes I make decent life choices.

To be honest, I probably would have started laughing so hard, I would have to pull the car over to stop myself from crashing while crying and potentially peeing myself.

NEW EPISODE It was an honor and pleasure to speak with John Ma @nakhthor.bsky.social about his new and magisterial POLIS: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity. Have a listen! It’s the perfect Boxing Day soundtrack. On Insta: @leschepodcast

Burt, the giant crocodile from Crocodile Dundee, dies aged 90

All grades (2 classes, advising circle, and 6 directed studies/senior research projects) are submitted! Term is officially OVER.

IO SATURNALIA - an illustration for cambridgeamarantus.com the end of the familia Saturnalia feast, Amarantus in his pileus cap playing panpipes and Coquus enjoying a bit of a rest, and the fabulous fresco background of the real-life triclinium!

retotatototato Or bust.

WATCH: Republicans cut funding for childhood cancer research from the spending bill because Elon Musk told them to. “Let me be clear: The richest man in the world took $190 million away from children with cancer,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

retotatototato Or bust.