Just got a request for an interview about Roman migration, I think especially (though they don't use the word) the (non-)integration of "barbarians" in the later Empire. The outfit seems legitimate, but for that reason I'd like to suggest someone with more actual expertise than me. Suggestions?

After reindexing the Roman Republican coins in the ANS database, there are 350 (up from 123) objects featuring architecture, after NLP-derived concepts in descriptions like 'temple' link to Wikidata. The 123 previous objects contained the word 'architecture' explicitly in the textual description.

Excited to see this happening, and a huge THANK YOU to @drewjakeprof.bsky.social for seeing this through!!

Thinking about the figures in the Price Edict. a) an at least plausible guide to absolute prices? b) an at least plausible guide to relative prices? c) not even that? And if (a) or (b) 1) pretty close tied to the late 3rd century? 2) usefully generalizable to other times? (and if so, when?)

Kat is very smart. 👇👇👇

Humans being good humans. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/n...

Willis has...thoughts...about your "happy holidays."

I'm not invested in historical (whatever that would even mean) accuracy of technology, but this suggests a huge tonal failure. Like Nolan is reaching for "gritty" that makes no sense in the Lake Wobegon world of epic, where bronze is always "shining" or "sharp" etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2...

Please enjoy our department's annual "who wore it best" contribution!

Some highlights from the Torlonia show currently at the Kimbell in Ft. Worth. Note particularly Cerberus puppy.

This was my last year on the committee, and we were once again hit with an overwhelming wave of great contenders. Very happy with the results. www.classicalstudies.org/scs-news/202...

My student @javalac.bsky.social just advanced to doctoral candidacy. He's writing on how the existence of human property inflects the ideas of both "human" and "property" in Roman lawmaking (broadly understood).

A New Yorker fact-checker contacted me with some questions about my 1st book, so I was curious what the article was going to be about. Turns out it’s a review of Letteney and Larsen’s exciting new book (including a nice little look back at mine near the end). www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

⭐ The inaugural RAFFAELLA CRIBIORE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TRANSLATION from the Society for Classical Studies has just been announced ⭐ C. Luke Soucy, *Ovid's Metamorphoses* (University of California Press, 2023).

From the email from ASPROM, I read the sad news of the passing of Professor Roger Ling, Emeritus Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at University of Manchester. Anyone engaging with the archaeology of Pompeii should read his two volume work on The Insula of the Menander - a superb study.

A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!

Finished the individual research presentations in my graduate seminar this afternoon. #TheKidsAreAlright

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...

Please spread the word: the 2026 application cycle for the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome is now live! (Yours truly as Director for my final year). www.aarome.org/apply/2026-c...

As semesters start and you find yourself repeatedly answering emails with the same questions from students, this is my annual reminder that you can make all your frequent responses email signatures and just select them from your signature list to respond. You're welcome. #academicsky

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

This (Classics prof.; former Army officer) may be relevant to your interests @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social

I don't know the podcast, but perhaps of interest?

Just signed a contract with Academic Studies Press for them to publish a Russian edition of my Roman information technology book. (Which is scheduled to appear 24-36 months hence. This is my amateur cover mock-up; I have no idea what it will actually look like.)

CFP sure to be of interest to many: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience (for the Symposium Vesuvianum at the Villa Vergiliana) www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium-ve...

Including a chapter of mine I wrote in large part for the last footnote: "Dissent in Terminello v. Chicago, 337 US 37 (1949)."

My paper "Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities" (PhilTransB) addresses a whole class of questions around the role that semiotic modality, and specifically number words vs. number symbols, plays in the structure of numerical systems.

Christmas came before Halloween!

This fellowship changed the trajectory of my career and my time on its committees is the most worthwhile professional service I have ever done. Please apply and help us spread the word

I hadn't realized Daniel Kahneman had dedicated his final years to cooking.

This is very interesting to me from a differences-between-disciplines point of view. I can't imagine these numbers (either the y-axis or the # of data points) in language or historical fields. And I would have guessed (wrongly) that she is a hard scientist.

Please tell me this is true, @carlosfnorena.bsky.social !

Ok. If someone had three nights in Dublin and had never been to Ireland, what neighborhood should they book for accommodation?! RTs welcome.

Is this for Alan, @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social ?

Come work with me at the University of Arizona! www.classicalstudies.org/placement-se...

Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!

Knowledge Commons question. I created an account long ago, and just went to check in on it. I then tried an upload, but it (a) asked me to re-login, then (b) gave me a “bad gateway” error. This happened on two different machines/operating systems/browsers. Anybody else seeing anything like this?

Me on cognitive models in Roman land-surveying (OA): www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...

Excellent opportunity here (both the Institute specifically and time in Budapest more generally)!

This seems important here.

Best reviewer comment I ever got was a complaint that my MS was too critical of Riggsby (1995).

Please tell me that you are doing 'Mosaics of Knowledge II: Late Antiquity's Revenge'.

Question about the proposed Anthropic settlement. The news reports all talk about payouts to "authors," but I (for instance) don't hold the copyright to any of my books. So would potential payments go the the respective presses instead?

New podcast episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviews Monika Amsler about The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture. newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...

Check out this excellent new article by Ekstrom et al., "The Phoneme as a Cognitive Tool", in the special issue of Topics in Cognitive Science, "Cognitive Technologies and their Histories", which I'm co-editing with @helenamiton.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I was just trying to log in to the jobs wiki (the data one, not FV or whatever it's called now), and the usual credentials didn't work. The instructions on the page itself (referring to Austin) don't appear to have changed. Anybody else having any trouble?