1. Feeling unduly proud of myself. 2. If there is any substance more disgusting than what you find when cleaning out a slow-draining sink, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT

Public transport isn't just for Middle Earth. Narnia's getting in on the act! I've drawn a subway map covering all 7 books of The Chronicles of Narnia. Follow the plots lines, but don't touch the third rail! #Narnia #Maps #Subway You can buy prints on my Etsy store: www.etsy.com/listing/4345...

I DO have a pie ranking: 1. Hittite 2. Vedic Sanskrit 3. Tocharian B Anyone who puts the Sabellic dialect continuum in the top 3 is kidding themselves.

New Acquisition! This one is particularly special because the author is an old friend-- I remember reading Thucydides with her on frozen Minnesota mornings when we were undergrads together.

Well, it worked for Sarah Palin.

Question for classicists: was Cornelia ("mater gracchorum") the first Roman figure to circulate their letters publicly? Was there anyone earlier? (Apart from the fragments, the letters are mentioned by Cic. Brut. 211 and Quintilian IO 1.1.6)

Dear Nerds: I have just learned that Smith's "Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary" is now available in a searchable online format (thanks to Johan Winge and Latinitium): latinitium.com/latin-dictio...

Looks like a party!

Sometimes I wonder if, in the white house, anyone is ever like "Whatever happened with Greenland?"

I want a tool like Adblock that blocks all AI tools and content from my browser

There's so much cool stuff happening on Latin and bilingualism lately. www.italianisti.it/news/congres...

Writing books.

I didn't know it until I breezed through the table of contents, but I WAS looking to spend my evening reading about ancient Greek lexical semantics, with a case study on the color-word "chloros."

How did oral and written traditions influence the transmission of sacred texts in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam? A new volume uncovers the complex interplay between spoken word and manuscript culture in the medieval Middle East: uhh.de/csmc-intersame Open access!

Does anyone know: where do you go to complain about AI intrusions into Word?

Well, these emails will surely mean consequences for the man who faced no consequences for a recording of him bragging about sexual assault, and no consequences despite being held liable by a court for a different(!) sexual assault.

Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...

You had me at "Polybius" www.simonandschuster.com/books/Polybi...

The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising a panel on career opportunities for PhDs and early career researchers as part of our AGM at the Warburg Institute on Friday 14 November! All are welcome and attendance is free! Registration is encouraged via this link: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren...

Announcing the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2025! 🏆 We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC. Apply by 6 February 2026! uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025

Starting Nov 26 (4pm CET) - online Prolepsis Research Network seminar series "#NeoClassica: Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition" listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Link: email [email protected]

Me, looking at a stack of ungraded papers: "Well, looks like I should get started on doing the dishes."

Fair enough.

Every time I hear someone say a given "crisis" is really an "opportunity," I think of Littlefinger saying "Chaos is a ladder!"

Incredible that they've rediscovered the phrenology (the appeal of which was always its scientistic bells and whistles)

Johannes Kepler (1608) describing what he thinks it would feel like to be launched into space. The Somnium should totally be taught in Latin classes.

Signs of aging: first it was the olympic athletes who all started seeming so young. Now it's the mayors.

Summer program on Greek/Latin bilingualism (antiquity to early modern europe): ianls.com/wp-content/u...

At least half of the clutter on my desk is incomplete to-do lists.

Well, I voted. So now I guess I just sit around for the next 12 hours?

It's so heart-breaking to hear of the death of the worker buried in the collapse of the Torre dei Conti. I've been thinking all day of the tower (once an apse in the temple of peace) and Octay Stroici (who was working to restore it). www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Longshot: does anyone know where to find old copies of Latinitas magazine?

If anybody wants to pitch a good Neo-Latin text to DCC, please do! dcc.dickinson.edu/contribute

Do YOU have any Neo-Latin teaching materials? Seriously, do you?

I'm sorry, you're right, that's not a Flux Capacitor. You will not need any plutonium...

My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

New issue of Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures No. 11 (2025) jolcel.ugent.be/issue/26536/... Latin-Greek Code-Switching in Early Modernity III #openaccess @relicsresearch.bsky.social @adendros.bsky.social

It would smell like a book, *but an older book*

On the various chatgpt news, it feels like the goal is "How fast can we turn the world into a real-life episode of Black Mirror?"

Favorite library: Bibliotheca Incognita

Sometimes, it is so so helpful going back to my notes. Other times:

Hot off the presses: New edition of the Latin works of Elizabeth Jane Weston (with vocabulary and commentary for students). Do you want the book but not want to pay for it? PDF is free: pixeliapublishing.org/westonia/

🎓Call for Papers🎓 A longtime friend of and contributor to the SNLS, Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social, is organising a symposium on “Teaching with Ovid,” with a call for papers open until 16 January 2026! See the flyer below and follow the link for more information: shorturl.at/RiviU

Had a book published before mid-2021? Take 5 minutes to see if it's listed here and if so another 5 to enter info. And look up your grandma's book, the book of your friend, etc. and let them know

Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead: mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

This is just a bunch of fake news

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

The yearly update of the Supplementa tertia (v. 6.7) is out! Additions and corrections to the three published volumes of Aristoteles Latinus Codices, with plenty of hyperlinks to digital images! If you know or own other MSS of the medieval Latin Aristotle, please reach out! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Happy Monday! A reminder that we're seeking new committee members for Ceræ's 13th volume, including editors, a social media manager, and a fundraising officer. Postgraduate students welcome! See link below for details: ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c... #medievalsky #academicsky #earlymodernsky

Booklist found in a will from 837 CE. Kind of notable that the daughters are all given books (the sons too, though that's less notable).