Dr. Ellen Bauerle

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The American Friends of Herculaneum sponsors annually scholarships of up to $3,500 for undergraduates & graduate students who are pursuing the study of ancient Herculaneum.
The deadline is 1 March. For more information, consult this link:
cal.byu.edu/macfarlane/h...

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement Updated February 18, 2026 IMPORTANT: The Claims Deadline Is March 30 Background  Bartz v. Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits brought by authors against an AI company for using books with...

The deadline to file an Anthropic claim is fast approaching. Here’s everything you need to know before the March 30 cutoff:

Broke: Cat Owner

Woke: Cat Dad

Bespoke: αἰλουροβοσκός, ailouroboskos ("herder of the sacred cats") *

*A position for slaves of a temple of Bastet attested to in a Ptolemaic document.

Curious what Ghislaine Maxwell bought for $13.751.93 at the December 9, 2004, Sotheby's NY Antiquities sale, but of course I can't find the lot listings online :(

source: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
relevant catalog in the currently closed MMA library: library.metmuseum.org/record=b1501...

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

an in kind donation from Brendan Carr to @jamestalarico.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

To look at this doc on the .gov website, I had to confirm I’m at least 18. Ironic.

The University of Michigan’s archeology museum has a gorgeous, nearly full scale watercolor reproduction of the Villa of the Mysteries done in the 1920s.
Never noticed the ornate faux stone panels above the figural scenes before!

Interesting. Not sure I’ve seen one before—thanks!

I should have included @beebrookshire.bsky.social, apologies.

Speaking of rare moths, @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social, I see that the Entomological Society of America is here on bsky: @entsocamerica.bsky.social I bet they have many professors of rare moths.

Stonewall 2.0. ❤️

Quite a few head-scratchers here. PR representatives? Hosts and hostesses? Personal financial advisors? All are jobs that can require considerable human judgment.

A pied peacock fanning its tail, standing centee inside the dark of an open garage door.

If a door gets left open here for any length of time it summons the elusive but impressive garage peacock.

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Not wrong!!❤️

That halftime show was astounding. Wow. One for the ages.

Photo of the described owl art. It looks like muddy scratch marks on a mottled brown cave wall. The head is very round with two upright lines for ears and a line in the center for a beak. Numerous parallel lines suggest plumage on the wings.

The oldest known image of an owl:

More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...

Faculty at the University of Calgary report potential room for compromise with administration to save Classics and Medieval Studies. They thank everyone for support and request a temporary pause in the letter-writing campaign.

Read more: www.cac-scec.ca/2026/02/ucal...

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This is perhaps not the argument she thinks it is. If it's possible to "write" that fast, why do publishers need her to press the buttons? They will be able to "write" books to their own specs, without spending overhead on human authors. But other houses will publish good books, by good authors.

A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Event poster for UNESCO World Greek Language Day celebration. Header shows three logos: Embassy of Greece Ottawa (Greek flag in wreath), uOttawa Faculty of Arts (red banner with Tabaret Hall icon), and Parnassos Hellenic Cultural Society (blue circular logo). Main text announces lecture titled 'Το γράφειν Ἑλληνιστί: The Origins of the Greek Alphabet' by keynote speaker Professor Richard Burgess. Opening remarks by Ambassador Ekaterina Dimakis. Reading program includes excerpts from Sophocles' Antigone, Carole Fréchette's Ismene, and Dionysios Solomos' The Free Besieged. Event details: Monday, February 9th, 2026 at 7:00 PM, DMS 12102, 55 Laurier Avenue East. Cocktail reception follows.

Tomorrow! Celebrate Unesco's World Greek Language Day with us. Feb, 9th, 2026 at 7pm. With the ambassador of Greece to Canada and Keynote lecture by our own Professor Richard Burgess on "The Origins of the Greek Alphabet". #WorldGreekLanguageDay2026 #Ottawa #uOttawa #Greek

Yeah, I get that; maddening to be caught both ways.

Newcastle? Neoclassical? Chuck Norris? Cynthia Nixon?

I see nothing whatsoever wrong with this picture, with the possible exception that there seem to be no cat toys on the dog bed. Disturbing, really.