Maarten Kossmann

I remember a MA thesis where the student devoted 30 pages to their positionality (it was about rap in a francophone African country), but did hardly reflect on the fact that they knew little French and nothing of the local language - the language of the songs that were analyzed. I was not impressed.

is just bad - even though some ways of being readable may add irrelevancies that are to be avoided (like students explaining their personal trajectory and feelings towards the subject without this being sth demanding a positionality statement)

Playing advocate of the Devil. Some of this is in the end about communication. Citing certain articles may show knowledge of things that may considered to be needed regardless direct relevance. Probably something similar with the unnecessary maths (not a problem in what I do). Obfuscating writing…

Die Kongressteilnehmenden hatten Gelegenheit, eine kleine Sammlung samaritanischer Handschriften zu betrachten, die in der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky aufbewahrt werden.

Was Viele nicht wissen: die Stabi hat auch samaritanische Handschriften. Die Teilnehmenden am #Samaritaner -Kongress an d. @uni-hamburg.de hatten Gelegenheit, eine kleine Sammlung samaritanischer Handschriften zu betrachten, die wir in d. Stabi Hamburg aufbewahren:
www.evangelisch.de/inhalte/2458...

I think I kind of made it 😁

zgh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%B5%...

❗FUNDING DEADLINE APPROACHING: 15th of August

NINO offers a variety of fellowships, grants, and prizes, in support of researchers and students working on the ancient Near East (incl. Egypt) in the Netherlands and abroad.

(although I think the term "hamsteren" is not really adequate in this specific context)

Buurt hamstert verloren puddingtoetjes na ongeluk met vrachtwagen in Tilburg Door het ongeluk lag de straat besmeurd met yoghurt en pudding. Niet alles van de lading bleef heel, maar wat nog bruikbaar was, werd maar wat graag meegenomen.

Dutch media have been a bit lacking in light-hearted news coverage lately (we had to cover cycling 🤷‍♂️), but this may be a bit for @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social

(also good for learning the terms for the major cultural phenomena "hamsteren" and "puddingtoetje")

nos.nl/l/2577509

Sabiha Kasimati posing for the photographer Kristaq Sotiri in 1942. A black and white photo of a young woman wearing a nice outfit with delicate floral embroidery.

Sabiha Kasimati (1912-1951) was a professor of biology and ichthyologist, one of the earliest known women scientists in Albania.
She was arrested by the communist regime in 1951, and a few days later was executed without trial along with 21 other intellectuals.
#WomenInSTEM

I’ve always been fascinated by cart dogs (like used by bakers for delivery carts). When my mother was young, they were still on the road in the big cities. Did you have them in the UK too?

𝔾𝕖𝕓𝕠𝕖𝕚𝕕 𝕕𝕠𝕠𝕣 𝕘𝕖𝕓𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕟

@onzetaal.bsky.social sprak met Gebarentaalonderzoeker Victoria Nyst @unileiden.bsky.social over haar onderzoek naar de oorsprong en verwantschap van gebarentalen, met een extra blik op Afrika & NL.

“Het dient meer dan een maatschappelijk belang”

✊ onzetaal.nl/tijdschrift/...

Nubian-Coptic ostracan

Nubian Coptic

ⲁⲡⲉⲛⲧⲓ ⲃⲩⲛⲉ "date"
/apenti/

ⲉⲣⲡⲉⲕⲉ ⲏⲣⲡ "wine"
/erpeke/

ⲁⲥⲕⲟⲩ ⲡⲟⲉⲓⲕ "bread"
/asku/

ⲉ̄ⲧⲧⲱ ⲙⲟⲟⲩ "water"
/ettō/

* Database of Medieval Nubian Texts (DBMNT)

Text 1148
www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl/texts/1148/

And ebooks (not their carriers) are less in danger of being ripped apart by two-years-olds

2 Ph.D. positions (48m/100% FTE) in the project "Description of the endangered Mönpa language of Bhutan” headed by Tim Bodt at Trinity College Dublin
www.tcd.ie/media/tcd/sl...

Masjid Ton Sen with a green dome

Masjid Phadung Tham Islam Mosque

Wat Kanyalamit

Santa Cruz Catholic Church

Today we visited

A 350-year old Sunni mosque founded by Thai Cham people

A centuries-old Shi'a mosque founded by Thai Persians

A 200-year old Buddhist temple founded by Thai Chinese

A 250-year old church founded by Thai Portuguese

All within walking distance

Only in Bangkok, baby

Henriette Petronella Matroos (1848-1953)

Uit 'Het nieuws : algemeen dagblad", Paramaribo, 21 juni 1952: "104 jaren wordt Henriette Matroos maandag a.s. deze foto- is gisteren van' haar ge maakt in het prinses beatrix tehuis voor ouden: van dagen aan) de wanicastraat. (...)

Fine, fine - 1 like = 1 #egyptology opinion 🏺

Der Aufsatz (neben der späteren Monographie) gehört aber zur Königsdisziplin in den Geisteswissenschaften. Mdl. Prüfungen und Klausuren halte ich hier nicht für sinnvoll, denn sie haben mit wissdnschaftlicher Arbeit fast nichts gemein.

Wondering if it is also about which vowels can come before the two. My guess would be: short before ŋ, long before w (I know the English terms tense/lax are the right terminology, but I can never remember which one is which - same in Dutch brw)

NB a conditioning like this happens (but only with θ) in some Tarifiyt dialects and, morphologically conditioned it seems, with t- in adjacent Arabic varieties; aspiration contrasts are not really a thing in that part of the world

Very good choice to have two girls as the lead image 👌

“Everything is political”

The regretted Wilfred van Soldt wrote about this in his book on the Akkadian of Ugarit back in the days iirc (van Soldt 1991 I think)

Yes, good stuff indeed!

Getting four PhD theses in (in different phases) was surely a pleasant surprise, but it did lead to some minor adjustments to my own plans for the summer 😁

Or was RB original? *BR would have ended up as br or wr (depending on the language) if the two consonants were adjacent (outside Ghadames and Awjila). But I am not sure what verb type it belonged to, so maybe there was a short vowel in between 🤷

A photograph of a fossil insect in a rock. The rock is beige fossil black, and kinda patchy in colour. It has a head towaerds the top, and the majority of the fossil is two easy to spot wing cases, which is how we know this little dude(tte) is a beetle.

Beetles are the most speciose animal order: 25% of described animal species are beetles. Everything has to start somewhere, though, and for #FossilFriday, here is the earliest known 'beetle' - the 297 million year old Coleopsis, found in Freisen (Saarland, Germany).

⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

Grappig om de Engelse vertaling te geven in een draad waar iedereen goed Duits kent. Linguïstische continuïteit > code-switching - zelfs in links!

Interessant! Ik ga er op letten!

Tussen Mönchengladbach en Venlo rijden geen treinen. De dienstregeling wordt gehandhaafd door een bus. De bus codeswitcht: een monitor waarop staat „de bus hält“.

Tussen Mönchengladbach en Venlo rijden geen treinen. De dienstregeling wordt gehandhaafd door een bus. De bus codeswitcht