Grant application in with 38 minutes to spare. And it might not completely suck.

I'm going to go find some sunshine now.

An account of university learning in the 14th century (from a 20th-c scholar):
'Oxford and Cambridge increasingly educated laymen, anxious for a little grammar and a year or two away from home, but not intending to put their university training to serious professional use.' Plus ça change?

I write so much better at 6 am than 6 pm. A blessing and curse. Part of my is overjoyed the words are coming easily now, but a part of me misses my bed.

For those who could not attend or stream this talk, I've posted on my blog both slides and speaking notes. livyarrow.org/2026/04/16/w...

Amazing research presented yesterday at St. Louis! @profyarrow.bsky.social revolutionises all we have ever assumed about AES Rude. Finds from the sanctuary of Diana Nemorense opened the discussion.... #numismatics

THank you so so much!

Is there something out there that serves as a good intro survey of the way metals from archaeological sites can be studied? Something like the Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology maybe???

Not of the top of my head but I really hope someone answers so I can read it.

Sing it to the rafters!

Free speech booth

There must be a story here.

And yet I find it so ominous, even dystopian, to relegate a hallmark of democracy and American society to an empty sterile niche is the regulated bureaucracy of an airport.

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

16 April Divine Currency!? Italic and Roman monetary cultures on the Eve of the First Punic War Liv Yarrow, City University of New York Abstract This paper gives careful attention to archeological contexts of bronze finds within religious sanctuaries especially that of Diana at Nemi; explores comparative epigraphic and iconographic evidence, including recent discoveries for San Casciano dei Bagni; and shares results of recent non-destructive experimental techniques (negative Muonic X-rays). The balance of evidence complicates our long-held assumptions regarding intrinsic value of ‘heavy bronze’.

Do you live in St. Louis?! Do you have coin friends in the area? Or archaeology nerds? Or just lovers of all things Roman. I'm giving a pretty awesome public lecture. Details after the link: classics.wustl.edu/events/divin...

I hate the christian trope of old testament god being cruel and violent.

[I also hate the use of the word bible in the singular to describe a collection of texts written over nearly a 1000 year period in different genres by different people.]

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Teaching Fellow in Classical Language and Literature (Latin) Full-Time, Fixed Term (until 30 June 2028)The Department of History and Classics at Royal Holloway University of London seeks to appoint a fixed-term Teaching Fellow beginning on 1 September 2026. The...

0426-115 Teaching Fellow in Classical Language and Literature (Latin) - Jobs at Royal Holloway
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This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Today's Famous Person with a Cat: Peter Magyar

If you want to walk in #Tolkien's shoes, listen to me reading my audiobook of Tolkien and the Great War – "one of the best books about friendship, war, and the formation and nature of a genius". This and other reviews here: audible.co.uk/pd/Tolkien-a...

#WW1 #genius #friendship #war

My fondest wish is to wake up one morning before I die and check the news and there be absolutely no mention of Tr*mp anywhere.

‘To complain about abuse would be to complain to your abuser or to the colleagues or friends of your abuser, some of whom participated in the abuse, or to the institution that gave your abuser the power they abused, for whom your abuser is likely an investment, a person to be protected.’

oh so there's a lot more to that "foreign steel" point

The whole admissions thing too. Very familiar from other unis and other tutors...

I experienced something similar with a different tutor at a different uni ... I'm so sorry. Being the last to leave was very dangerous indeed and even avoiding that fate was not always easy.

You work in Nottingham! Do you know I've got an ongoing research project with materials from Nemi now in Notthingham?! It means I come through your city fairly regularly. We should get a coffee!

What I hope is that new generations of scholars with power will stay generous and supportive with younger scholars and students, but not feel entitled to cross that line. Plenty did: you can care about people without freaking them out. Pedagogy can be engaged without erotic tension.

Most of us know of "bubblegum" as a FLAVOR, but it's actually banana, pineapple, cinnamon, clove & wintergreen esters blended together, first formulated in 1928 by accountant Walter Diemer for his product, "Dubble Bubble."

He also dyed the grey product pink.

BMCR - during a week when William Harris and Andrew Dyck also appeared

WHere is this review?!
I need to read it all.

Let’s not forget that he wrote this review while under this investigation.

And looking at this again now that I can take in the details better... it took them a *year* to investigate (when he'd admitted it!), he kept teaching for part of that, and all the student got was essentially 'he did it but we won't tell you anything else about consequences, if any'....