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Thinking about the various scandals in academia regarding data fraud and broken peer review. First, I’m incredibly grateful for the network of friends and colleagues who read my work, improve it, and save me from errors. A good editor is an amazing gift.

Bakewell, "Mining Plato's cave: silver mining, slavery, and philosophical education," Polis 2023

Finally the article that I'd been hoping someone would write on the Allegory of the Cave has appeared...

A first: I autographed a book, its owner eventually put it back in circulation :), a student bought it as a used copy ... and I autographed it again. The ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiircle of life.

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I will take 5584 (the collection of short biographies) and the Manetho (5588-90) if it's not too tedious to scan... this is delightful

Yes. Progressive voices trained in antiquity have been talking about this for *years* and *years*. There are unfortunately still folks in Classics that will jump on any bandwagon that gives Classics as a field more attention in the hopes of helping “save” Classics +

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If anyone already has a hard copy of Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. LXXXVII and wants to scan me a few pages, let me know...

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/oxyrhynch...

And here’s the schedule of speakers: uclaclassicsgradconference.wordpress.com/2023-confere...

Great review of S. Derbew's UNTANGLING BLACKNESS IN GREEK ANTIQUITY by @opietasanimi.bsky.social!! Just ordered a copy for our library. 📚 bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.09...

do it, do it, do it...

First post on blue sky to say my new book is here!

Looking forward to some sleuthing in Mainz on Monday! Tune in to find out whodunnit!

Cover of Seth Bernard's Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy (Oxford 2023)

@profbernard.bsky.social has left the empire for the blue blue skies! welcome him and get a hold of his latest:

INEED$, from Melania Luisa Marte's "Plantains and Our Becoming"

Today's reading: Melania Luisa Marte's "Plantains and Our Becoming." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707145...

Interesting new article by Jessica Clark on the very curious affair of Publius Salonius in 342 BC in *Classical World*: muse.jhu.edu/article/905241

The cover of the book, showing a human figure made up of gears and cogs.

The contents page of the book showing my chapter among others.

I have a new publication out! My chapter on automata, cyborgs & hybrids is now available in Maria Geromelou & George Kazantzidis’ brilliant book Body & Machine in Classical Antiquity from CUP! The proceedings of an amazing conference in Cyprus in 2018 🤖🦾🦿

Bowser: "Pain is the best teacher"

πάθει μάθος / I am made to watch this movie almost on the daily:

oh this is a must-read: thanks!

Ulpian Ed bk 24 = Digest 25.4.10: dispute ensues when a husband alleges that his (now-ex) wife is pregnant, but she denies; imperial rescript summarizes case and disposition.

"Prospective" I'm not sure, but on gynecological examination of wives there's Ulpian Ed bk 24 = Digest 25.4.10: a rescript issued in response to a striking request:

*chortles*

Shackleton-Bailey footnote on Martial 11.16.8: "Uda does not refer to drinking."

New candidate for most entertaining (?) footnote in a Loeb:

It's department newsletter official (TM), so I'm excited to share that Duke Classical Studies has started a Bridge-to-the-PhD-Fellowship for students from underserved populations who want to pursue PhD level work but who need more language training. classicalstudies.duke.edu/.../duke-has...

huge congrats!

Heat is Not a Metaphor As the hottest summer on record draws to a close, how do we make sense of the images of a climate in crisis?

Please read this, from Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

"The sinking ship is no longer a metaphor. The broken heart is no longer a metaphor. Who needs a metaphor in times as hot and blunt as ours? Let’s make it plain."

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44819303/climate-crisis-maui/

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I Graduated From West Virginia University. The Travesty Unfolding There Is Breaking My Heart. The student population got smaller and smaller while fancy new buildings appeared.

This is it, this is the definitive essay on WVU's current situation. It's written by the brilliant, furious, and clear-sighted Myya Helm, recent WVU graduate, first-gen student, Black West Virginian, and now Marshall Scholar.