one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Teaching Fellow in Roman History in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment Team View details and apply for this Teaching Fellow in Roman History vacancy in Leicester. An exciting new post has arisen for a Teaching Fellow in Roman History to join the University of Leicester...

Please share: we have a Teaching Fellow in Roman History post available! I want to be up front: 0.4 FTE for basically 10 months. We know what that means, but we are supportive, friendly & not cruel taskmasters. Applications close June 30.

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Got to be a Clawdius pun in there somewhere!

Had to be him...

“Even so, demand for humanities majors is on the rise, and with good reason. “At a conference last year, Robert Goldstein, the chief operating officer of BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, said the firm was adjusting its hiring strategy for recent grads. “We have more and more conviction that we need people who majored in history, in English, and things that have nothing to do with finance or technology,” Goldstein said. “This demand for liberal arts degrees is due in part to the rise of artificial intelligence, which drives the need for creative thinking and so-called soft skills.”

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Very sad to hear of the passing of Prof. John North. A phenomenal historian and wonderfully supportive colleague. 25 years after its publication, his little book on Roman religion remains *the* best introduction to the subject. He will be missed by so many.

A cartoon of a very old mam with thick glasses talking about his age

I appear to have turned 40. No idea how that happened!

“The God-Emperor would like a 9,495th term. And also a cheeseburger”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

James Dyson: Reeves' inheritance tax hike 'is killing the geese that lay golden eggs' Dyson hit out at Chancellor Reeves, saying she will "kill off" British family businesses with a "vindictive" budget and tax hikes.

If it refuses to share eggs with anybody else, a goose that lays golden eggs is absolutely worthless.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again... Not only is this pulling of support for Latin in the maintained sector bloody stupid and short-sighted, but also the timing of it seems needlessly cruel.

The teaching term starts tomorrow. I'm so glad I still get excited about this! Looking forward to introducing my final year students to Justinian and my first years to Pliny.

Volume 78 (2024) All of the articles in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 78 (2024).

Want to see Agathias in a whole new (unclean) light? Of course you do! My new article, 'The role of pollution in Agathias's Histories', co-written with my old friend Nick Wilshere, is out now in the new volume of Dumbarton Oaks Papers.

www.dopapers.org/for-readers/...

British Academy Calls for Greater Role of Archaeology in School Curriculum

🏺 British Academy & heritage orgs push for archaeology in UK schools! Prof Collins: "It bridges STEM & humanities while teaching crucial skills." Heritage sector's £15.3B impact shows growing career opportunities. Proposal includes new modules & assessment frameworks 🔍📚
#Education #Heritage #UKNews

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🍿 Prepare the popcorn. SAAH is going to be Time Team famous!

🔥Get cosy and tune in at 7pm tonight on YouTube to find out more about the short film we've been making with @timeteam.bsky.social about our first year fieldschool excavating a Roman villa last May.

🎥: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTCK...

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📢Job Klaxon! We're recruiting a zooarchaeologist and a database officer for a new AHRC project “Many New Worlds” working with Alice Samson, Roberto Valcarcel & Jago Cooper. Closing date January 6th.

Email Alice (avms1@le.ac.uk) for info.
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Volume 78 (2024) All of the articles in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 78 (2024).

Want to see Agathias in a whole new (unclean) light? Of course you do! My new article, 'The role of pollution in Agathias's Histories', co-written with my old friend Nick Wilshere, is out now in the new volume of Dumbarton Oaks Papers.

www.dopapers.org/for-readers/...

🎉Our very own Kathryn Tempest was today elected Chair of the Council of University Classical Departments.🎉

🔎Her current research focuses on a collection of letters attributed to Marcus Brutus & if she could travel back in time she'd go to Tarsus in 41BC to hang out with Antony and #Cleopatra!

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I feel seen

That would definitely be a factor, but I'd focus more on the criminal gangs / circus factions of Constantinople. The costumes alone would be stunning!

Mostly blue-gray book cover. Title reads “The Reputation of the Roman Merchant” above an image of a Roman funerary relief of a wool worker, below “Jane Sancinito.”

The proofs have come! The Reputation of the Roman Merchant is coming January 2024!

With all the praise/criticism of Gladiator II going around, I still can't believe nobody has done a really good tv series set in the reign of Justinian. I'm sure someone's pitching it somewhere, but I have such a great idea for how to do it!

sometimes I feel like lecturing is the time I come closest to true mindfulness or meditation. sometimes something just takes over and my own consciousness seems to be set aside while it happens