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Appropriate day for it!
Definitely agree (my work on ancient tattoos was a surprise to everyone during my PhD, me included). I find it also helps me ask questions nobody has ever answered before. It is also why I never get bored of it - each tangent fuels my love of the topic.
We have two PhD studentships at Birmingham Newman University. If you know anyone interested in doing history, medical/health humanities, veteran studies, or reception studies - happy to chat.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRF392/p...
I came here to tag in @belovedofoizys.bsky.social but I should have guessed you were already on the case!
We have two PhD studentships at Birmingham Newman University. If you know anyone interested in doing history, medical/health humanities, veteran studies, or reception studies - happy to chat.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRF392/p...
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Turkish translation of my book is out! 🥳
Light blue book cover with a Turkish title in white text. There are three globes partially visible in the top left, right hand side, and bottom of the cover.
Turkish translation of my book is out! 🥳
Talk alert! I am doing an 'in conversation' with the Humanities Society at Wolfson College, Cambridge - all about my book The Far Edges of the Known World!
📅 9th June from 5.30pm 📅
It is free to attend and can be watched via Zoom too.
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events...
I wrote this is a furious fugue state after reading Owen's skeet this afternoon. How I learned I can't trust academic online resources anymore, and what happened when I asked ChatGPT for some sources...
Academia is cooked.
www.ancientalexandra.co.uk/p/ai-lies
Oh ffs. I don't know if it is worse that they tell is or not. Like are we meant to be impressed by this?
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Had this email appear in the Bad Ancient inbox, which is a bit depressing. Reader numbers have sunk in the past year due, in no small part, to GenAI and this email kind of sums it all up really.
I wonder too. Similar to how we have accepted enshittification in other areas of life
Long live research!
Talk alert! I am doing an 'in conversation' with the Humanities Society at Wolfson College, Cambridge - all about my book The Far Edges of the Known World!
📅 9th June from 5.30pm 📅
It is free to attend and can be watched via Zoom too.
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events...
I thought similarly!
Screen shot of an email - white background with black text. It is to BadAncient.com and says: why should I ask you and not directly the AI?
Had this email appear in the Bad Ancient inbox, which is a bit depressing. Reader numbers have sunk in the past year due, in no small part, to GenAI and this email kind of sums it all up really.
Ancient Warfare Magazine (the parent mag) were the only publication who gave me a shot at paid writing when I was an MA student. Letting me make my mistakes and learn how to write for the public. They're also the reason I got my first book deal, long before I did my PhD. Historians, check them out.
This May, I have an interview coming out where we cover the concept of the Spartan Mirage. Now that people are happily spotting and calling out the misuse of Spartan history on the internet, it is time cover some of the historical theory!
1. The Spartans were famously stoppable. They were defeated numerous times.
2. The Spartans did not invent military strategy ... that is just silly.
3. Just no.
They definitely lost-lost there ... but then it was only a few men so maybe a small lose, not a bigly lose.
The evidence base is a big part of it - more so the lack of Spartan writing. But you are right: if you look at the greatest Spartan commander ever, Brasidas, his entire story is told by Thucydides, the Athenian commander he defeated... which might explain why Brasidas comes across so well!
If anyone is interested - I have an interview coming out next month introducing the concept of the Spartan Mirage, with @ancienthistory101.org:
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Apropos of nothing: we have a Spartan Mirage episode coming up in May...
Yep. They are as subtle as a brick.
Don't forget simple manliness - these are held up (with no real evidence) to be very manly men. Which obviously relies on a very specifc idea of what manly men look like and do ... which us leads back to your point.
Yeah but the won-lost, not lost-lost. Only losers lose-lose. 🙄
I had a very similar thought! Decided to keep the critique simple, but yes!
