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"OK but only 20% voted nazi" was not something I ever expected to be put forward as an attempt at positive spin

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Happy Birthday to WEB Du Bois, who wrote about the wildly important concept of psychological wages of whiteness in the first history of Reconstruction, Black Reconstruction in America, which he messily dedicated to his mistress, Dr. Virginia Alexander, and not his wife, Nina Gomer #BookSky

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Week 7 of my Bayes stats course, now deep in multilevel models, correlated effects, centered and non-centered parameterizations, diag(σ)LZ ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn (link to lectures: github.com/rmcelreath/s...)

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Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !

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Stand down, Thucydides people; it looks like we’re into Tacitus/Suetonius territory now.

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Same energy. (Aen. 4.206ff)

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.. oh it's Würzburg, I've actually been here before

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oh cool I am in the famous German city by the river with the castle on the hill

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anyway hello from "Aschaffenburg" "Hbf"

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Dear SNCB: wild idea, given you have my email and phone number, maybe let me know if one of my booked connections has changed time

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if anyone @s me from Pönk i will riot

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Missed my connect in Frankfurt because ongoing train was preponed by 25 minutes. Now doing a weird end-run through Nürnberg and "Schwandorf" which I'm pretty sure is not a real city. Concerned that I will miss my connection and be re-routed through fractally more-made-up Germany. Britzkügen. Pönk.

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Jaunty dragon... BL Royal MS 13 B VIII; ; Various including Gerald of Wales, Expugnatio Hibernica; c.1196 CE-1223 CE; England; f.34v

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#academicvalentines

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Week 6 in my Bayes stats course, we finally arrive at multilevel models. For those who know the basics, there is also a BONUS lesson on group confounding and Mundlak Machines, incl a latent Bayesian variety. Lecture link set to start of BONUS content: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVq...

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As "people who study the ancient world" we get a long lens, and one of the useful things to do with that is draw parallels with similar situations where things went wrong. But hey we also have the chance (duty?) to remind people that, with a long lens, things _have_ got hugely better over time

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It is my pleasure to announce the program for #ResDiff6 (March 21, 2025), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. Keynote: Sarah Derbew. resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...

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Crazy day at work and I don’t care that I’ve posted this before; I need cheering up. So here’s a mosaic of a rabbit driving a chariot pulled by ducks. Good day to you all.

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It hurts...

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I honestly feel weird and dirty working on prose, but it's for Reasons

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Livy never saw a subjunctive he didn't like. Suetonius likes perfective aspect. But here's a weird one - Suretonius is mad for a conjunction followed by an adverb?! Check out this Suetonius-ass sentence (neque tamen, aut statim, etc.)

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I have made a DISCOVERY. Suetonius is more fond of "A stem" verbs (first conjugation and many deponents) than Livy. In fact it is one of the most useful features to tell them apart at a syntactic level. I assume someone will notify the Nobel committee on my behalf, I am far too modest.

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Probably no-one except me uses my R tutorials in their teaching, but if you do, I'm re-writing them over the next 6-9 months. My goal is to streamline them based on 5 years of using them in class, but if you have (polite) requests/suggestsions let me have them. www.discovr.rocks/discovr/

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The real hierarchy of needs

submitted 15 days ago • 54 comments

Page populated with P's! Pretty! Not because the scribe imitated the p-language: the text is from Aristotle's Problems, in which every section opens with "Propter quid..."! (Admont, Benediktinerstift, Cod. 345, f. 79r) manuscripta.at/diglit/AT100...

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Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

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Change over time is often depicted as a trendline. But what does shape a trendline? Which forces? Our new paper presents a method allowing to “decompose” trendlines into constituent forces. Also, we tackle an old puzzle: Does culture change “one funeral at a time”? 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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If you read/and or write fanfiction in English but English is not your native language I would love to know a) what your native language is b) why you choose or chose to engage with fanfic in English instead. It's for science! #fanfiction #research #fic #fandom

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💜💙❤️😻 WELCOME 2032 ASTEROID!!! 😻❤️💙💜

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#OnThisDay - 5 February - in 2 BC the Roman Senate decreed a public holiday to celebrate Augustus taking the title of 'Pater Patriae' - 'Father of the Fatherland'. This marked the culmination of his imperial identity. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Augustus 206. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

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March 1 - the deadline for Plotting Poetry conference is approaching! Come to Prague in June to talk about the weird, misshapen, misplaced, broken, forgotten or sticking out. To talk about poetry.

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