If universities think AI can and should replace faculty and the basic skills students used to be taught, then why not replace all varsity athletes with robots?
Who needs humans to play varsity football when robots can do it for us?
Jacobin's podcast, The Dig, did a great interview with Peter Linebaugh, in which he talks about the importance of the Charter of the Forest and why it always gets forgotten (capitalism).
The cover and a spread of History Today. The cover story is Servants on the Grand Tour. An early modern engraving shows a man, standing next to some ruins and gesturing up at a statue.
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New job:
Visiting Assistant Professor, Greek Literature or History
Yale University
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We're inviting applications for two Associate Lecturers (education focused) in Ancient History and Archaeology, to start on 1 September 2026. One post will be for two years, and the other for one year.
We're holding two information sessions on 21 April.
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50% from the federal government; 25% from corporations and private donors; 25% from tuition and state funding given based on per-student allocations roughly.
It subsidizes scientific research that corporations want done.
I really enjoyed recording this podcast! Listen on to learn how to use a pig‘s bladder in early medieval medicine! #medievalsky
📢 Please share, and join us THIS SATURDAY for our archaeology and natural heritage Open Day at Govan Old's 1,500-year-old churchyard, which surrounds the Govan Stones museum.
Everything is free to visit and experience, from 11am to 4pm!
Latin 2 student gave a presentation on Seneca the Younger today, which led to a discussion of famous people dying in bathrooms and me inevitably telling them to look up Arius of Alexandria.
I think you are absolutely right. You only have to notice how most academics scoff at management's priorities then dutifully implement them even when not asked to do so. This will result in the same old group of institutions with money dominating through infrastructure.
Possibly my all-time favourite Onion post. #Archaeology
Frankish rivers styled as a tube-map.
This morning's lecture on the vikings in Francia was enhanced by this graphic of Frankish rivers, taken from @ccooijmans.bsky.social's admirable book.
With 200+ tickets claimed for my public lecture on the Bayeux Tapestry on 30 April, there are only a few spaces left! Get your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec.... When they’re gone, they’re gone!
We know that individualized attention for creative learning works best. Wealthy universities provide that to the minority. We can afford that for everyone.
Modern universities based on that model are absolutely sustainable! It would be much more economical than blowing through the resources consumed by data centers. The war budget of the US is over a trillion dollars. That wealth is literally vaporized.
It happened the other way round. Cuts happened because the wealthy attacked the public good. Loans are a way to extract more wealth from people whom the wealthy have hurt by attacking government.
Oooh and with a focus on gender history! 👇👇
I guess my main suspicion is that if HE admitted that online teaching is inferior, it would have to discount it on a permanent basis.
I've never understood uni responses to these complaints. Unis should give them some of their money back and reduce the credits the students earned proportionately. Then, students will have to return to finish their degrees if they complain.
Gonna spam some of my own writing here again because AI industry people are bringing out that “black box” canard again www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...
When I experienced sight loss, my perspective on the experience of blindness changed. This post discusses blindness and cataract surgery in the Middle Ages. wellcomecollection.org/stories/reve...
Awesome work from one of our PhD students Vera! Check out this mega isotope dataset! 🧪 ⚛️ 🦷🦴
I like Rosenwein's because of the way it grapples with the "clash of civilizations" thesis.
