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Andrew Riggsby

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Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social

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Very interesting. Reading through that thread (plus a little googling) makes me lean towards “genuine, if exploitative” rather than “phishing.”

11.03.2026 21:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Any of my UK colleagues know anything about this? I’m pretty sure it’s not fake, but I’m a little hesitant about government interventions in humanities research (there or here).

11.03.2026 20:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And unlike the AHA site, the SCS doesn't seem to be able to recall my past transactions.

11.03.2026 17:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That I can't recall.

11.03.2026 17:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I don't with AHA.

11.03.2026 17:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That’s a very interesting set.

11.03.2026 01:46 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Maybe you and Paul should remarry overseas, and you might get to use an apostille?

09.03.2026 20:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was coming here to ask what the mechanics of this could be. Thanks!

08.03.2026 23:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ditto.

03.03.2026 01:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I knew, but I don’t think super-common knowledge.

03.03.2026 00:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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We’re delighted to welcome three new fellows joining IAS CEU this March: Rajshree Chandra, Michael Robinson, and Benedek Totth.

02.03.2026 14:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Auguri!

01.03.2026 12:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Been a while since I’ve used it. Maybe a little rough going in that case.

27.02.2026 16:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pliny the Elder: The Natural History Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34) Pliny the Elder's Natural History is a vast encyclopaedia, surveying natural phenomena from cosmology to biology, medicine to magic. Direct observation, informe…

www.bloomsbury.com/us/pliny-the...

27.02.2026 15:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fair.

27.02.2026 14:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My understanding is that they're still working on the underlying search. I'll be interested to see where it ends up.

27.02.2026 13:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve been using it some, and once you get used to it, the underlying effect seems pretty much the same.

27.02.2026 11:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes, but that’s always been their abbreviation.

26.02.2026 17:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Many Minds: Seven metaphors for AI If you wanted a petri dish for understanding metaphors—how they emerge and evolve and jostle with each other—it would be hard to do better than the world of AI. We talk about AI systems variously as c...

I enjoyed talking with @kensycoop.bsky.social on the Many Minds podcast about the metaphors we use to conceptualize AI.

manyminds.libsyn.com/seven-metaph...

26.02.2026 16:27 👍 69 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 2
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Wilful Imprecision – Irregular Measures in Graeco-Roman Antiquity / L'imprécision volontaire - L'irrégularité des mesures dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique) (French version follows) Call for Papers: Wilful Imprecision – Irregular Measures in Graeco-Roman Antiquity We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the international conference Wilful Impre...

I didn't realize this was already out, and the deadline is near, but here's the CFP for a really interesting conference on "Willful Imprecision" (aka non/failure/gap standardization) in Louvain in September.
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

26.02.2026 15:55 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The God and the Bureaucrat Podcast Episode · Ius Commune Podcast · February 25 · 51m

@zacharyherz.bsky.social explains his new book in this engaging conversation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

25.02.2026 20:59 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Our more senior "professional track" faculty are now on 3-year rolling contracts.

25.02.2026 01:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think what that ad does is allow us to hire the genuine part-timers, who are employed full time elsewhere in the university, e.g. a former PhD student of mine who's now a senior administrator in the honors program, who occasionally picks up a class for $$$ on the side.

25.02.2026 01:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hey, you and Mommsen. Could happen.

24.02.2026 22:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

and do this for $$$ on top of their existing salary and benefit. Unfortunately, to do this the University requires us to run this ad periodically, but it is pro forma, and rogue classicist is not serving anyone's interests by highlighting it every year. 2/2

24.02.2026 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is a place where UT is better than it looks. We have three "professional track" colleagues who are in fact in full-time, on-going (and promotable) positions. The people who pick up individual courses are (to the best of my knowledge) all people who have full-time non-academic positions 1/2

24.02.2026 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Have you had a chance to see the glorious new installation of the FUR?

24.02.2026 16:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@deromaaliisque.bsky.social

24.02.2026 14:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@turhansbeycompany.bsky.social

24.02.2026 11:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think “progress” is complicated because you need some of it, but not so much as to call into question the presumption of an underlying essence. The essence/incidental distinction is very powerful for sweeping inconvenient facts under the rug.

23.02.2026 23:23 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0