⚡ DRAMA EDITIONS: Call for Reviews
Contribute a review to a special RIDE issue on digital scholarly editions of dramatic and theatrical works. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis and published throughout 2026.
ride.i-d-e.de/reviewers/ca...
02.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Detail of a black mosaic with a white skull, the boney arm of the skeleton raised, and a few ribs.
Mosaic with black background, reclining skeleton with cup of wine in hand with two loaves of bread and an amphora upright in a stand.
Happy #Halloween!
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’
31.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 551 🔁 195 💬 13 📌 14
a black and white cartoon of mickey mouse sitting on a set of stairs with a skeleton in the background .
ALT: a black and white cartoon of mickey mouse sitting on a set of stairs with a skeleton in the background .
Just in time for #Halloween, my article on the uncanny in #Plautus’ “Ghost Play” is now available open access on Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Find out how the scheming slave Tranio creates the perfect haunted house on stage to scare his master and... (1/2)
#ClassicsBluesky #RomanComedy
13.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
PM Berufstätiger Vater nach Bagdad abgeschoben – Sohn in Ausbildung bleibt allein zurück
In der Nacht zum 28. Oktober wurde in Gröditz (Landkreis Meißen) eine irakische Familie von der Polizei aus dem Schlaf gerissen und nach Bagdad abgeschoben. Die Familie lebte seit 2021 in Deutschla…
Berufstätiger Vater nach #Bagdad abgeschoben – Sohn in Ausbildung bleibt allein zurück. Unsere menschenverachtenden Politiker schieben ab, wessen sie habhaft werden, egal, ob in Arbeit, gut untegriert, in Ausbildung oder mit Haft und Tod bedroht. Ich schäme mich.
#Abschiebung #Irak
30.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 430 🔁 196 💬 22 📌 8
"Auf EU-Ebene hatte Deutschland im vergangenen Jahr eine Richtlinie blockiert, die die "Nur Ja heißt Ja"-Regel zum europaweiten Standard machen sollte." 🤡
Dennoch: Good job, Frankreich! 💪🏼
30.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
AI is beginning to acquire a negative default in my head, so I presume that whatever it is claimed it can do should be followed by the word 'badly'.
28.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 160 🔁 43 💬 5 📌 0
Today is the day! Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination is now widely available. I will be giving my first book talk at the University of Pittsburgh, with a specific focus on domestic violence. press.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover
23.09.2025 12:39 — 👍 332 🔁 65 💬 16 📌 6
#MedicalGaslighting #MedHum #Frauengesundheit
23.10.2025 08:55 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
How We’ve Misunderstood Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" received mixed reviews from fans and critics. But it may be, Stephanie Burt argues, the singer's mot honest work…
“The Life of a Showgirl” received mixed reviews from fans and critics alike. But it may be Taylor Swift’s most deliberate—and honest—work yet, Stephanie Burt writes in our Essay of the Week.
20.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover showing classical column with title and author's name above it
My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
20.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 295 🔁 97 💬 13 📌 12
Nur noch einmal schlafen und ihr könnt unser Interview mit Teilen des @dracor.org Teams sowie einigen O-Tönen hören. Wir waren auf dem DraCor Summit unterwegs und schauen uns an, wie die DraCor-Plattform eigentlich hilft, Barrieren abzubauen. Stay tuned!
#Podcast #DigitalHumanities #WissKomm #CLS
19.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
14.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 6053 🔁 3414 💬 586 📌 1540
@nnwiss.bsky.social
@hist4dem.bsky.social
@andreageier.bsky.social
14.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 33 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
... how #Heywood, #Fielding, and #Holberg adapted the Roman model for their contemporary audiences. (2/2)
#ClassicalReceptionStudies #ClassicsBluesky #servuscallidus
13.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a black and white cartoon of mickey mouse sitting on a set of stairs with a skeleton in the background .
ALT: a black and white cartoon of mickey mouse sitting on a set of stairs with a skeleton in the background .
Just in time for #Halloween, my article on the uncanny in #Plautus’ “Ghost Play” is now available open access on Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Find out how the scheming slave Tranio creates the perfect haunted house on stage to scare his master and... (1/2)
#ClassicsBluesky #RomanComedy
13.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Danke schön!
07.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Leaving academia.edu. AI and information oss.
Academia[dot]edu recently updated its Terms of Service, leading researchers to reconsider their presence on the platform. From the beginning, "its business model consisted in harvesting free labor from academics", writes @petertarras.bsky.social. On leaving academia[dot]edu:
medisi.hypotheses.or...
22.09.2025 12:35 — 👍 27 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 3
You may now find my presentation slides of today's NeoLatDraCor talk on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
@ianls.bsky.social @dracor.org #NeoLatin #DraCor #DH
25.09.2025 14:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I am very much looking forward to presenting approaches to building a digital Neo-Latin Drama Corpus (NeoLatDraCor) at the "Digital Neo-Latin studies: ideas and perspectives" event this morning. Here is the programme: ianls.com/wp-content/u...
#DraCor #NeoLatin #DH
@ianls.bsky.social @dracor.org
25.09.2025 06:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
I am very much looking forward to presenting approaches to building a digital Neo-Latin Drama Corpus (NeoLatDraCor) at the "Digital Neo-Latin studies: ideas and perspectives" event this morning. Here is the programme: ianls.com/wp-content/u...
#DraCor #NeoLatin #DH
@ianls.bsky.social @dracor.org
25.09.2025 06:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Screenshot of the Ibsen Drama Corpus in action.
The idea to attach an Ibsen corpus to #DraCor is almost 10 years old. Thanks to our colleagues at the Centre for Ibsen Studies (University of Oslo) 🇳🇴, we are delighted to announce today the official release of #IbsDraCor with 37 plays:
dracor.org/ibs
#DigitalHumanities
22.09.2025 09:05 — 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Title slide from the presentation.
Another slide from the presentation.
Next up at #TEI2025: @danja.bsky.social presents our work on the Ukrainian Drama Corpus 🇺🇦
So far, we encoded 47 plays (1810s–1920s) by Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka & others.
Explore the corpus here:
dracor.org/u
#DraCor @dracor.org @teiconsortium.bsky.social @schwindt.bsky.social
17.09.2025 10:32 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
RUB DH Day #7
Der #DHDayRUB ist gerade gestartet, der mittlerweile 7. #DHDay an der @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Und zugleich ein Jubiläum: Der 5. Geburtstag des Digital Humanities Center DHC. Ein wirklich schönes Programm für die nächsten zwei Tage: https://dhday.rub.de/
15.09.2025 08:21 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of the "ToolFindr" landing page.
✨ Check out #ToolFindr: A Lightweight Explorer for Discovering Research Tools in the #DigitalHumanities
furesh.github.io/toolfindr/
Blogpost (in German):
blogs.hu-berlin.de/furesh/?p=683
#Wikidata #TaDiRAH
05.09.2025 14:25 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Equivalent characters from parallel plays (source and translation) tend to speak at similar length at similar moments — Lucas van der Deijl (@rug.nl) presents a computational method to align characters from parallel plays in different languages
#DraCorSummit #DraCor
Read: zenodo.org/records/1693...
03.09.2025 12:54 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Title page of the conference reader.
We're kicking off the Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis at #DraCorSummit 2025 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social!
Exciting line-up of 11 presentations, full programme here:
summit.dracor.org/computationa...
The 195-page conference reader was uploaded to Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#DraCor
03.09.2025 07:46 — 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Officiel konto for Aarhus Universitet.
Find en ekspert fra AU 👉 https://www.au.dk/om/presse
News about Classics, Antiquity and Religious Studies in Ottawa and beyond.
Actualités sur les études anciennes et les sciences des religions à Ottawa et ailleurs.
Research Fellow in Digital Humanities @digitsut.bsky.social
research, reading, recreation - post human anthropology, urban space, multisensory mixed methods
The Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS) is an interdisciplinary research centre operating at the University of Tartu, Estonia. DigiTS is a 5-year project funded by the European Union.
Wesbite: http://digits.ut.ee / LinkedIn: utartu-digits
prometheus ist ein verteiltes digitales Bildarchiv, das fast 4 Mio. Bilder aus Kunst, Kultur, Geschichte für Forschung & Lehre aus 129 Bilddatenbanken unter einer Oberfläche recherchierbar macht, vertreten durch den prometheus e.V.
CompLit PhD at Harvard, yiddish and digital humanities
Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • #PhilSci #HistSci #philsky • Escribo y edito • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com
Old enough to know better. Retired digital humanist and TEI editor currently obsessed by 19th c. Theatre. Anyone here heard of thomas hailes lacy?
Literature prof, Eastern Michigan U // Anticolonial internationalisms, Cold War, and migration studies // Author, Narrating Post/Communism; Uncommon Alliances; Nonaligned Imagination.
www.emich.academia.edu/NatasaKovacevic
#DH, #LIS, #Linguistik #Annotationsnerd & mehr | Mitarbeiterin im DKZ QUADRIGA am IBI der HU Berlin | Doktorandin am IBI | Hrsg. & Co-Convenorin @publicDH.bsky.social | Host @radihum20.bsky.social #Podcast
M.Ed. Germanistik, PhD-Studentin Literaturwissenschaft und Digital Humanities, WiMi, Universität Hamburg
An online, open access book review journal that prioritizes emerging and underrepresented scholarly voices in Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Website: rheaclassicalreviews.com
It's about books, not baseball--Simonides, not The Simpsons. This is the Homer Hotline, a podcast featuring discussions with scholars of ancient epic and related issues, scheduled to release its first season in 2026.
Herzlich Willkommen auf der offiziellen Seite der #FakultätPhilologie!
https://www.dekphil.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/dekphil/index.html.de
https://philolotsen.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
12. Jahrestagung des Verbands »Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum« 23.–27. Februar 2026 in Wien @univie.ac.at
https://dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de
#DHd2026
•🇮🇹 in 🇳🇱
• Classicist/Italianist/Neo-Latinist in training
• Bibliophile/thalassophile
• #GiovanniPascoli enthousiast, handle at your own risk
PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, King’s College London. Studentship from BAJS. Memory and space in post-war Austrian and Japanese literature. New to Bluesky 😶🌫️
News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Psychologist, stress research and interindividual differences, open science
