Sebastian Heath

Depose Prince Andrew.

This isn’t a conspiracy anymore. This is just a total breakdown.

Or just don’t do anonymous evaluations? Or any evaluations? (Not that I’m against unionizing! Just noting a perhaps plausible reading.)

Now published at dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/is...

Now published at dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/is...

Now published at dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/is...

Screenshot of ISAW Papers 29

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New Publication: P. Dilley and K. Tachau, eds. 2025. The Manuscript Across Pre-Modern Afro-Eurasia: Papers Relating to a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar at the University of Iowa. ISAW Papers 29. dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/is... . CC:@isawlibrary.bsky.social, @isawlibrary.bsky.social @babelalexandria.bsky.social

A bit of tagging: @isawlibrary.bsky.social @isawnyu.bsky.social @babelalexandria.bsky.social . Likely could have been done "in-thread". Any other authors have bsky accounts? Tag if you know them.

A. Benkato & P. Dilley. (2025). "Towards a Comparative Manichaean Manuscriptology." ISAW Papers 29.4. "we seek to establish the foundations for a comparative study of Manichaean manuscripts which integrates them into the broader study of ancient and medieval textual cultures." #OA #AncientWorld 4/4

A. Luijendijk & B. Nongbri. (2025).
"The Codicology of Early Christian Books from Oxyrhynchus: Insights from a Papyrus Codex of Matthew (P.Oxy. I 2) and a Miniature Parchment Codex with 6 Ezra (P.Oxy. VII 1010)." ISAW Papers 29.3. "... a rewarding window on the production and use of books..." 3/4

W.A. Johnson. (2025). "From Bookroll to Codex." ISAW Papers 29.2. From abstract: "The first part of this overview of ancient books in the Graeco-Roman world focuses on the details of scribal production for papyrus rolls containing ancient literary texts (‘bookrolls’)..." 2/4

A while back I posted that ISAW Papers volume "The Manuscript Across Pre-Modern Afro-Eurasia: Papers Relating to a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar at the University of Iowa."
Dilley & Tachau, eds. was nearing publication. Now imminent. Really, it is! 🧵with initial titles (others will publish when ready): 1/4

Low sun over kayak bow.

Also getting in some paddling.

Also picked up this little cute af 2tb external drive from Newegg. To which I’m currently rsyncing my Documents. These are all very necessary gadgets. (Really, this is for backup resiliency. See earlier in my feed…)

Portable lcd monitor to right of MacBook Air.

Bought a sub-$50 14” portable monitor on sale. Ergonomics work. But screen quality not great so I may spend a bit more now that concept seems to be proven. Fits in my backpack so really could play a role for travel.

Screenshot of the gaerhf-bot bsky feed.

I've started a bsky account for "Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure". @gaerhf-bot.bsky.social . My thread skills need work but I'll look to add groups of figures to that feed on a semi-regular basis. As well as ask for help. I have one query in mind. #ArtHistory #DH

And when they drive back in to go to the world's best restaurants, museums, and plays along with all those galas, they'll pay congestion pricing. The Mamdani wins pile up.

Anybody here use rclone in their backup strategy? rclone.org If yes, with a cloud-based storage provider?

Uganda vote for him. I-ganda vote for him. A-lot-of-us-ganda vote for him. #NYC (And fine with me if you don't. That's how democracy works.)

Trump's inability to answer basic questions about foreign policies raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental fitness.

Computer died. Posting from the new one. Gonna find out how effective my backup strategy is. I think only a few hours of work lost. tl;dr: Hey y'alls, back up now! #JustDoIt #BackupNow

Has the NYT done a single piece profiling the voters who voted for Mamdani? Or just the people who are lining up against him?

Crud. There’s a lot of terrible policy in the #BigBadBill. It’s going to hurt people. And there’s also the terrible funding of a militarized police state more able to abduct citizens and others. That may tear us apart. So yeah, look after each other and offer help to those in need.

The Declaration of Independence is read out loud in my community on/around July 4th (this year on the 6th). Item-by-item crowd response of “Check”, “That sounds right”, “He’s done that.” seems likely this go round. At least by me/others. We’re a politically mixed village. #WhenInTheCourse

Clouds over harbor.

Clouds over harbor. Wider angle.

The sun had just dipped below horizon to right when I took these pics facing more or less south (SSW). The world still turns as it churns.

Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections We present Digital Collections Explorer, a web-based, open-source exploratory search platform that leverages CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) for enhanced visual discovery of digital col...

With @yh-huang.bsky.social, I'm excited to share our Digital Collections Explorer, an open-source, multimodal viewer for digital collections! Users can search with both natural language inputs and reverse image search.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961
Public demo: digital-collections-explorer.com

Many thanks. Makes sense. If one counts particles, uncountable. Something like that. And at the other end, let's hope no galaxies pass through anytime soon. Again, thanks. #WeAreNotAlone

Not meaning to be a jerk: third *known* interstellar object passing thru? Serious question: What is estimate of how many have come through. Age of solar system * (non constant?) estimated number per year? So billions of objects have visited from far away? #A11pl3Z Not my area so no doubt prior work.

Page from "Small anthropomorphic figurines in clay at Ģipka Neolithic settlements" showing two illustrations of figurines.

First page of the article "Small anthropomorphic figurines in clay at Ģipka Neolithic settlements".

I hadn't happened to know that there are neolithic figurines from Latvia. See journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPra... . Now on the hunt for online images. #GAERHF #ArtHistory #Neolithic

Here's our images of interstellar object #A11pl3Z from Deep Random Survey's 0.43-meter scope @ Chile. The telescope was following A11pl3Z's motion, so stars appear smeared. Weather got worse by the end, so still hard to tell if it's a comet.

600-sec exposures, from 2025 Jul 2, 00:42-01:23 UT

🔭☄️