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Curator of Material Culture at Powell-Cotton Trust An opportunity for an academic position as a Curator of Material Culture is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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This is a major reason why I'm on Bluesky 🤩

I am offering two doctoral positions (65%) in the Junior Research Group “Sustainability in Translation” (buff.ly/HULoKXy) at the University of Würzburg in Germany.
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(both until 06.01.2026)
Please share widely.
#TranslationStudies #ClassicalReceptionStudies #DH

The Harvest Will Come I spent most of my twenties believing that purpose was something you found once and then held onto. A winning lottery ticket you kept in your wallet forever. The self-help industry reinforced this: find your passion. Discover your why. Land on the thing that makes you leap out of bed

A message much better stated than I could say it, but which I try to give to ECRs I work with. There are seasons in research and sometimes it is harvest time, but sometimes the seeds are just sitting in the ground resting and waiting for Spring. www.joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest-...

als ik zeg stem met je hart dan bedoel ik stem met de hele wereld in je handen stem met een hart zo standvastig dat het in tegenspoed geen slag mist als ik zeg stem met je hart dan bedoel ik stem met de artritis van je oma met haar eenzame buurman dan bedoel ik stem met je dochters en zussen met de rechten van de vrouwen die je leerden rekenen de mannen die je favoriete snacks nog vlak voor sluitingstijd in de olie laten zakken als ik zeg stem strategisch dan bedoel ik stem met jezelf in gedachten als iemands favoriete voorouder stem met een volgende ochtend voor ogen waarop we eindelijk van onze eilanden af kunnen stappen we elkaar weer zullen treffen en we niet meer die, dit of dat zullen zijn aan de ene of de andere kant maar waarop we ons geloof in elkaar herstellen stem met je knokkels op de deur van een ander met een hallo in je mondholte met je gezicht naar het licht

Zullen we allemaal naar Babs Gons luisteren voordat we gaan stemmen?

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!Thank you for your attention to this matter.

"To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of government*; they make a wasteland and call it peace."

*we usually translate 'imperium' as 'empire' for various reasons but it is worth remembering that in ancient Rome it meant a type of official, legally defined, government authority.

Wilders breekt met coalitie, trekt PVV-ministers terug uit kabinet-Schoof Na kort overleg maakte Wilders op X bekend dat hij niet verder wil als de coalitiegenoten niet tekenen voor een strenger asielbeleid.

#TinyJoys but if the most rightwing political party leaves the government for very strict immigration measures their own Secretary didn't manage to execute, there is some hope in dark days!

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Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.

Here goes a mindful joke for the fellow WORRIERS out there! 📷 by the awesome
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😞 It's here...it's real... Dutch cuts to HE will increase, with redundancies and closures equal to the horrors elsewhere.
If you're seeking refuge, the Netherlands is no longer the place to look. If it ever even was.

That's a wrap, finally!

Now summarizing everything into a feedback email accompanying the results AND into the course evals. Better teaching = better learning, so some points of improvement for me and my colleagues next year.

Still going strong!

x. A site is a sight is a side.

xi. Forget radiocarbon, it's isotopes all the way! Bones, pottery, bronze, ...

ix. I thought talking about poo and pee a lot was a developmental phase, but apparently it lasts well into university. So many answers discussing fecal matter 😶

Not sure, it was too common to be a translation thing I think. Neutral pronouns featured too, but not as much as I'd expect, and definitely no female pronouns.

viii. Radiocarbon dating for EVERYTHING!

This is for an archaeology course in The Netherlands, but has many international students as well.
And it clearly gave me marking brain, because the agricultural practitioners were not thát abundant...

vi. Farmers are also known as practitioners of agriculture.

vii. Researchers/archaeologists = man & he/him pronouns.

iv. Don't assume students will answer in English, even if the entire course, all lectures, seminars, readings, communications, and exam questions are in English.

Things I learned while marking archaeology exams.

i. The Netherlands and Germany are in Central Europe.

ii. Punctuation matters, or Asia is in northern Europe. Not sure which one...

iii. Farmers are also known as 'practitioners of agriculture.'

iv.

If this were a postdoc, I'd jump at the opportunity immediately - it's such an interesting project!

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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I might make one of those for my university here in the Netherlands - we're not far off...

Four panel comic from Pizza Cake Comic (on Patreon as pizzacakecomic). First panel: A shoulder demon says, "I just had a Zoom meeting with my boss and he said empathy is a sin now." Second panel: Hapless Soul: ...What? Shoulder Demon: Yeah. Third panel: Shoulder Demon: So I guess I'm supposed to tempt you to... care about others? Fourth panel: Hapless Soul: I'm confused. Shoulder Demon: Me too.

Gooood morning sinners~! 🙃

Comic showing Marge Simpson and it says "beware the eyes of marge"

We all know what day it is...

We did it, and it was good 💪

No sunshine, but passionate support nonetheless.

Now we pass the flag in solidarity to Nijmegen #Radboud

Morgen wij, UU!

#WOinActie

Almost all Dutch universities will go on strike next week, against the budget cuts. Join us!

10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht