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Heads up #ancientsky and please RS: ReMeDHe is accepting nominations for the Heidi Marx Prize for the best article published in the last 3 years on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean Deadline is firm at March 1 Details here: www.remedhe.com/the-heidi-ma...

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This was my very first contribution to @digitaltolkien.com (can you tell I like names? :) ). It was so much fun, and hopefully there is more to come!

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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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Jennifer Guiliano & I are happy to share our October issue of #ReviewsInDH: “Digital Archaeology,” a special issue edited by @sarahebond.bsky.social and Hannah Scates Kettler. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v5-10

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📣 We are hiring! Research Assistant for digital data acquisition and data management (100% position until 31 December 2028) in the Oldenburg team in Germany. Become part of our team and help shape the future of the Prize Papers Project! Deadline: 15 January 2025. #earlymodern #history #DH 🗃️

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ANNOUNCING... A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉 📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now) 🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales.bsky.social ✍️ 117 different writers 🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @corabeth.bsky.social 👇 Read more...

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I'm Helen, founder of an online school teaching classical Greek, Latin & short courses on a variety of themes relating to ancient Greece & Rome. Our students are from all walks of life in every continent around the globe. We start classes again soon. Join us! helenmcveigh.co.uk/shop Ancientbluesky🏺

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In awe…. The long, slow work of identifying and disambiguating and conceptualising structures too often goes unrecognised and yet it’s fundamental to how we work with each other and build on each others’ work. Discussion of p-lod in the link

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Welcome to Bluesky, @lab1100.bsky.social !

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There are some brilliant people in this team!

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We're hiring! VUW Classics is looking for a generalist and particularly encouraging specialists in Greek history and Roman art and archaeology to apply. Full details here: ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

Credit where credit is due, this is what we need to see from all our institutions where attacks on research are occurring 🧪

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Are you interested in doing a PhD with me? I'm looking for a student to complete a project on race, translation & tragedy. I am particularly interested in a First Nations candidate looking to do a creative writing PhD, but welcome all inquiries: study.uq.edu.au/study-option....

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finished the year with a round up of myths on wall paintings - data avail via zenodo for those that can use it (cc-by) www.manto-myth.org/blog/pompeii... With thanks to @sebhth.bsky.social @epoehler.bsky.social @euuanxcvi.bsky.social @pompei79.bsky.social and a crack team of Macquarie Uni interns

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

"Find something you can hold onto and make an island for yourself" - The Thin Red Line. Find something meaningful and make a world out of it. #MECFS #LongCovid

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I promise you this. I promise it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.

submitted 85 days ago • 24 comments

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

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The official #PleiadesGazetteer social media account is now in the Fediverse at botsinbox.net/@pleiades. If you don't have a Mastodon or other ActivityPub-capable account on a federated server, you can follow it here in Bluesky via bridgy: @pleiades.botsinbox.net.ap.brid.gy. Reposts appreciated.

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Classics at the University of Otago is now offering Ancient Greek and Latin by distance. These classes are open to anyone interested in studying the languages by distance. For further information or details about how to enrol as a non-Otago student, visit: otago.ac.nz/classics/lan...

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There is still time to apply for 4 doctoral fellowships at Cardiff University, as part of the Marie Curie StoryPharm project, on Storytelling as pharmakon in premodernity and beyond. Deadline 16 December. Details on the individual posts in the thread. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/277190

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Including academics - all articles published in UK-based journals are eligible, as well as books. If you’re not already a member, join! - the ‘fee’ comes out of your first payment so no upfront costs:

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#MALS Macquarie Ancient Languages School 2025 Summer Week - online, 6-10 January 2025 - Program mals.org.au/current-prog...

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Now we’re onto the big families!

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Greek myth genealogies require A0 printouts

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Murder of crows Parliament of Owls Local council of Gallahs Bingo night of kookaburras Mardi Gras of Parrots Punk Band of Cockatoos And a swoop of swallows

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Macquarie PACE intern Anika Campbell recounts her work to add artefacts described in Pausanias into MANTO, with an assist from data from Brady and the Digital Periegesis team www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-x...

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Postdoc opportunities! The Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute has a new postdoc program! We’re looking for candidates across data science and AI, including science, health, medicine, the humanities, engineering, policy, and ethics. Spread the word and apply! ai.jhu.edu/postdoctoral...

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While I’m still finalizing details, I will be offering a $15000 ($5000/term) research assistantship in the MA in Cultural Studies at the U of Winnipeg for 2025-26. The student will help on my project on the influence of Ancient Greece and Rome on the development of modern physical fitness 1/3

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Far be it from me to tell you what you should be reading, but... shepherd.com/best-books/p...

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Colleagues, applications for the 2025 Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome are now open! Deadline of December 20 (with possible extension). Please let me know if you or your students have any questions! Please spread the word! aarome.org/apply/2025-c...

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