Andrew Connor

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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Top work as always-- thanks for solving the solids crisis! 😄

An image of the game Sewerdle, with solid marked as the right answer, but given as incorrect in the game.

(Sorry, screenshot now with alt text)

Hopefully unlike the Sewer District, I think something has gone wrong with the solids.

Edizioni Ca' Foscari Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Venice University Press

A new volume, edited by Klaas Bentein, on the framing of everyday communication in ancient documents, esp. papyri. Some really interesting chapters: given my own interests, I'd note Cattafi and Bruno's chapters in particular!

A new volume from the excellent William J. Johnson, on "Punctuation, Iota Adscript, and Nu-movable in Ancient Literary Bookrolls," published in the Trismegistos Online Pubs series (scroll to the bottom). Plus he has plans for a more open-access website with a lot of the data (and more)!

Detroiters Quote Database Database of 'Detroiters' quotes with screenshots, season and episode info, and episode names. Search by text or by episode. Save shareable memes.

There's a Frinkiac for Detroiters now: l

For the 30th anniversary, the Summer Institutes are not only still going strong, but will also be coming to 🇨🇦.

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L'archivio di Patermouthis | Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura L’archivio di Patermouthis (fine V-inizi VII secolo), che coinvolge numerosi soldati dell’unità militare dislocata a Syene non solo come attori delle transazioni registrate ma anche come scribi e sott...

Interested in how things were written on papyrus? Briasco and Skalec's new work on writing, symbols, and layout in the Patermouthis Archive from Late Antique Syene will be right up your alley!

MIKIS MANOS The soundtrack of Greece in the 20th Century Two 50-minute sets with a 20-minute interval Performed by: Achileas Yiangoullis, Jacob Papadopoulos, Nick Koutsaliotis, Stav Thomopoulos, Tony...

If you're going to be around Melbourne on July 6, this sounds really fantastic: two hours of music from Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Hatzidakis, in the friendly environs of the Greek Centre.

Papiri da Tebtynis pubblicati dal Seminario di Papirologia dell’Università di Parma (P.Tebt. VI) Editor(s): Reggiani, Nicola | Abstract: Stemming from a seminar held at the University of Parma during the past years, this volume offers 69 editions of papyri belonging to the Center for the Tebtunis...

New papyri from Tebtunis! Every volume in the P.Tebt. series is a gem (though I'm unsurprisingly partial to volume 2) and this one has some great stuff for the literature, Ptolemaic, and Roman enthusiasts alike.

Trevor Barker Beach Oval with women playing Australian rules football.

Beautiful afternoon to see the women of the mighty Borough come down the coast to take on the Sandringham Zebras!

The Antarctic - an extension of Australia? - ABC listen Australia had ambitions of creating an Empire that included the Southern Ocean, a new book argues. This explained Australia's willingness to fund Antarctic exploration and rescues, as a demonstration ...

I've got some great colleagues with smart things to say. Here's Rohan Howitt on his new book and Australia's Antarctic aspirations over the years

Literary Papyri from the Bodleian Library and Other Collections (P.Lit.Var.) This volume collects 20 Greek and Latin literary papyri, mostly unpublished, which are housed in several collections: some belong to the Bodleian Library, Oxford; others are kept in Institutions scatt...

Editions of twenty literary papyri (mostly from the Bodleian but also Florence, Geneva, Columbia, and Cairo), representing a pretty wide range of types of literature, with plenty of Homer for the Homerists, all the way over to a couple of treatises on medical astrology!

Sonja Dahlgren, Martti Leiwo, and Marja Vierros, eds.
"Scribes and Language Use in the Graeco-Roman World"

A bunch of interesting papers. I really enjoyed Ruth Duttenhofer's look at a bilingual scribe from Roman Elephantine.

Digital Papyrology III In the ever-growing and evolving field of Digital Papyrology – intending both the set of electronic tools for papyrological research and a new way of representing our knowledge of the Greek papyri in ...

Nicola Reggiani, ed.
"Digital Papyrology III: The Digital Critical Edition of Greek Papyri: Issues, Projects, and Perspectives "

A great lineup, and a great topic: how do we (and should we) prepare digital editions of papyri?

Open-access scholarship/books in papyrology (and related fields): a thread I hope to periodically update, as new material comes out.
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Why Do Birds Put Snakeskin in Nests? It May Warn Away Predators Great Crested Flycatcher with a piece of shed snakeskin. Photo by Barbara Taylor / Macaulay Library. From the Spring 2025 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. For decades, ornithologi...

Birds: aren't they great?

Two photos: One shows Zelenskyy in a black quarter zip at the White House meeting, the other shows Elon Musk in a black graphic t-shirt, black topcoat, and black ball cap, also meeting with the Trump cabinet.

One reason why I think respectability is stupid is because it's often used as a mask. Such judgements are rarely about the clothes themselves, but more often about the bodies beneath them. To wit, no one raised an issue when Elon wore a graphic t-shirt and ball cap to meet the Trump cabinet.

Pere Catalá Pic, ‘Crush fascism!’, 1936.

An image of the seal of the "Trumpet of Patriots" party, with part of the head of Clive Palmer to the right. The seal depicts a lion improbably holding up a horn with only its apparently colossal lip strength, as well as a Latin motto "Honor omnia" which they want to mean "Honour above all." But they really should have spoken to someone about that.

So aside from the obvious questions (can a lion even blow a horn? How is it holding up the horn with just its lips?), Clive Palmer's new bunch really, really need to work on their Latin.

I never met him, but he was a scholar whose work I always looked forward to reading, whenever I came across something new (to me)—consistently interesting and thought-provoking, no matter the topic.

A bottle of tap water, from Vestal brand. The tag line is "water with virtue".

The water at breakfast this morning seems like a good omen for the first day of #ascs2025!

The Thebaid in Times of Crisis This collective volume explores societal crises in Hellenistic Egypt, focussing regionally on the Thebaid, from small-scale insurgencies to full-fledged secession. As a result of an international conf...

More open access Ptolemaic scholarship! Really looking forward to getting into this one--the papers sound fantastic!

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An image of part of an apartment building in Australia. In one of the windows, there is the back of what looks like a cardboard cutout of a head, seeming to have Tintin's hairdo. It is probably a few feet tall.

On a happier note: someone in my neighborhood has what I can only assume is a giant cutout of Tintin's head.

I love that accidentally sending mail to Australia is apparently so common a mistake that they printed up stickers for it!

Some encouragement from Copilot in what Google Translate (irony) tells me is Mongolian. The text reads "нунтаглах if not, let’s keep the search going!" with a smiling emoji, a book emoji, and what I assume is a stars emoji though it might be a Pittsburgh Steelers emoji if you don't look too closely.

Also, now it keeps trying out other languages?

I know this isn't breaking news, and is a boring addition to a very long line of posts dunking on AI nonsense, but it is depressing how frequently and cheerfully (and exclusively) it presented confected material as accurate, even after 2+ years of rising concern about that problem.

The text of a made-up quote attributed by Microsoft Copilot to Ernest Hemingway's supposed book The Bells Toll for Thee, discussing "the dauntless, the irresistible, the eternally courageous, the brave, always the emboldened.

I'm working on assessment design at the moment, so I decided to try Copilot in a use that some of my students have said they use it: finding a line (that says what they want a line to say). So far, it has made up lines it attributes to Faulkner, Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Cormac McCarthy.

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