14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

This thread!

As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work. (2/?)

I will be staying with my dad for a couple of months (phd rich, job poor) as basically a chef. First meal out of the gate is "Australian style Green Chicken Curry"

🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51: 'Quid gloriaris in malitia qui potens es in iniquitate?' BL Add MS 36929; The 'Psalter of Cormac'; 1275-1325 CE; Ireland; f.60r

Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse! Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️ 📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

horrible, horrible, flight, but I am back in Australia, I have a Coopers Dark Ale, and I am about to watch England lose an Ashes test

5 hour layover in Dubai has turned into 15. I am jealously guarding the only live power point on the concourse. Strangers are begging me for access to one of my USB charger ports. Had 1.5 hours sleep on a bare marble floor. It's 0800 now and I'm considering paying another $30 for a bad beer.

Country #93 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is LATVIA 🇱🇻 Frikadeļu Zupa is a soup of chicken broth with onions sautéed in butter, carrots, & potatoes, spiced with bay leaves & fresh dill, plus meatballs made of ground beef, milk, breadcrumbs, eggs, & marjoram. Served with dark bread.

someone on this flight bought Johnnie Walker Red Label in a gift box from duty-free and I know I am a snob but I am judging them so hard

I am so happy to see this finally come to light! Digital Classicists are making enormous progress towards a better understanding of Pausanias, which was sorely needed for so long. Exciting work @charlespletcher.org!

KRK -> DXB -> ADL. Last time I flew this (in reverse) we went the long way around because the airspace between Iran and Israel was full of Shahab

I am currently acletic. I do not possess any keys to anything.

*sigh* I channeled twitter vibes again 😞 I suck

flying 9.5 timezone hours forward is always tricky, right? do I just maximally mess up my clock? do I try to pre-adjust? or, do I make the worst possible decisions and hope it will all work out? I don't think there's any objective way to judge, tbh

It is the so-called Grothendieck prime mathoverflow.net/questions/32...

A wonderful friend of mine wrote this essential guide to being neurodivergent in the festive period, without ripping branches off the tree in an overstimulated rage (my words, not hers): www.elephascounselling.co.uk/post/navigat...

(apropos nothing, I personally think a 'meritocracy' is a shit idea 🤷 the really talented people should be doing research or writing poems or playing the bassoon, I want to be 'ruled' by competent, empathetic, and well-meaning spreadsheet enthusiasts)

📣 Competition Launch Alert! Deep Past Challenge: Translate Akkadian to English hosted by Deep Past AI 🎯 Build an AI model that translates 4,000-year-old Old Assyrian business records into English 💰 $50,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: March 23, 2026 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

playstation is unplugged and packed. this is no longer my home.

like.. "chatbots suck" I am probably onboard. "Burn All LLMs" I am not 🤷

this is related to what the "Never AI" folks find uncomfortable. We will, I swear, never be able to teach Akkadian to enough students to translate the tablets we have....so what now

Do you have a #digitalhumanities project that could use a hand from our smart students in a from of an internship? Reach out to the director of MA in digital technologies applied to history Emmanuelle Bermès of @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social

i need a guitar. i think i am in my bad guitar era again....

doing tab pruning, and.. wtf was I *really really* drunk?? Like I am drunk now. I just can't imagine how drunk I would need to be to not be able to answer this question, and yet still be able to type

there are absolutely people who will ruthlessly ride the "anti-AI" sentiment bus to enhance their personal prestige, and maybe a lot of the time we should think about critical analysis independent of the source

a) I have not observed a conclusive age bias in terms of who uses chatbots, and maybe "boomers can't think" is kind of uncool to say? b) I sincerely believe that Claude, or whatever, can teach non-programmers things about programming

it is possible that I will look back on tonight and conclude that I should have spent more time packing and less time dancing and singing along to bad australiana but that's a problem for future ben

I sign my reviews. (if you're chatbotting a scientific review it should be a lifetime ban, imho)

while we're throwing things out, I deleted this poem about "I never want to talk about dating" from a couple of nights ago, but only because I rewrote some parts to scan better.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DxW... here is a band that peaked in the 90s, vanished, then came back last year with this absolute fucking banger

obscure, ancient, Australian alternative is on loud for packing

(I'm probably going to be skeeting weird tonight, sorry, there are Feelings and possibly alcohol)

all of the clothes I own I brought here in a check-in, and I just threw out half the clothes I own. feels good, man... plus I needed the space for my PS5.

An absolutely superb podcast from my colleague @tom.risky.biz and @thegrugq.bsky.social featuring Hamid Kashfi discussing the evolution of Iranian APTs. 10/10 risky.biz/BTN148/

I hate winter, and I can't wait to be back in Australia (leaving tomorrow), but also I am super sad to be leaving.

sometimes I feel like the basic function of poetry is to keep the writer sane, and all of this reading we do of other people's poems is just training

gotta say, the szechuan tom yum Polski flaki kimchi jigae is even better on day 2

Just a shocking missed opportunity that this paper (a) develops a Bayesian approach to network community detection, tested on (b) Sampson’s Monastery Data—which is about conflict amongst a group of monks—but (c) is somehow *not* titled “Updating Your Prior”. www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~teh/researc...

I found the perfect meaningful and emotional souvenir from Poland and I will treasure them always 🥰

Ok the Clair Obscur craze is going pretty far now

When I take train journeys, I sometimes write things. Things that I probably shouldn't publish

I swore that I would not even open my print PhD before my defence, and for good reason!! I just found this absolute HOWLER that happened in press (my camera-ready on screen) 🤦

Reflecting on a landmark year for 'Computational Humanities Research' (#CHR), the journal editors’ first retrospective highlights how methods-forward, discipline-agnostic scholarship is reshaping inquiry. 🔗 https://cup.org/4pC57WH #computationalhumanities #digitalhumanities

On my way today to Göttingen to examine @benkawam.bsky.social for his phd defense. I request your digital prayers (likes) to the BAHNGODS so that I may travel to and from on schedule. Ben is trying to get animal social network folks to do formal causal modeling. See e.g. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Have a chapter on "quantitative dialogism" in this open-access Brill volume on »Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic« brill.com/display/book...