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I wrote an op-ed: "[President Kotlikoff] should correct the record and accept responsibility for his dangerous driving. … A Cornell student who intentionally drove their car into someone else and then lied about it would be subject to disciplinary action … ." 1/ www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Slightly diminish a book For Whom the Bell Dings

And here is a link to the video! youtu.be/L0WLcBYavLo

Better than the Joy of Cooking -

Very much looking forward to this conversation! “Rome-Tenochtitlan: Nahua Encounters with Ruined Cities in the 1520s” February 26, 2026, 12 PM EST 300S Buell Hall and online Byron Hamann Response by Benjamin Anderson

Congratulations 🎉 to Andrew Griebeler & Botanical Icons 🌱 on winning the 2025 ICMA Book Prize!

Happy holidays from our doodle to yours! 🐩

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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

I’m thrilled to share my new article, online and open access in Medieval Encounters! It’s called “Beyond Belief: Byzantine Statue Stories and their Absent Objects,” but it could be called “A Tale of Two Boars” 🐗 🐗

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

What a thrill to read Jess Plant’s article on “Plastic Approaches to Roman Design” - open access, in the new issue of Art History!

Our Hagia Sophia book is now out in paperback! 30% discount with the code PAPER30 -

My latest book, on open access! Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617

Beginning soon! (In person & online) -

Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin

It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship! We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉

i hope the rapture is tomorrow bc i have mad deadlines

(Deadline is 31 October.)

As if we could ever forget the Floriculture War -

This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.

New book alert! 📕 Congratulations to Berin Gür, can’t wait to read this.

We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...

Unfair to doodles 🐩

Fire at Arthur's Seat #photography #edinburgh #wildfire

We are hiring a postdoc in ancient art! “The successful candidate will adopt a comparative approach to the study of art history and visual culture pre-1000 AD. Geographic specialization is open….” academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30300

We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.

Please consider signing this petition against the construction of a cable car (!) in Monemvasia -

Sardis & Bin Tepe are newly inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Many congratulations to all involved!

Guess that musical! #musicals

Did you know Brecht was a Bloomsbury author? (Did he?)

Here’s Murphy with his favorite toy -

First quote: proprietor of upstate dog spa

Good one @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

This is the animal that never was. Not knowing that, they loved it anyway: its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny— right down to the still light of its gaze… —Don Paterson, “Unicorn” after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus” It’s #NationalUnicornDay! 🦄 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

In truth I am always thinking with images in later Greek epigram. But next week, Friday, April 18, I’ll get to indulge in public, here in Ithaca & with a wonderful group of fellow speculators. More info, including a link to the schedule, on the event page, here -

Died (alas!) on this day 1614 in Toledo, Spain, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco.

This Athenian kitty just snagged a tasty bug in the Agora 🐜

Had a brilliant time at the Gennadius last night! Here is a link to the video - www.youtube.com/live/X8NjnVh...

En route!

So erschien damals (1906) etwas wissenschaftlich doch auf Deutsch -

April 1 - in Athens & online!

Way to lean into the subtext -

Na ja -

Happy Valentines Day from De Gruyter 💘

Donald Trump is the first leading US politician to suggest that Ukraine might lose its independence and be reintegrated with Russia. He tells Fox News: “They may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday.”

Murphy paws 🐾 / bunny paws 🐰

Is this a book review or a delicious sandwich?

Obviously my favorite piece in the Barnes Foundation is -