Big day! I finally got my own copy of Crossing the Danube. Ten years in the making and it’s now real and in my hands! You can preorder it here press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Susanne Hakenbeck
@shakenbeck.bsky.social
Archaeologist I global late antiquity and beyond I writing a book about the Danube I also like to ride my bike a long way
Great journalism and long overdue that these networks are brought to public attention giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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I have a new paper out: 'The Emperor's Gift: Power and Legitimacy across the Late Roman Frontier' @cam-archaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S095...
The Emperor’s Gift: Power and Legitimacy across the Late Roman Frontier | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
The Emperor’s Gift: Power and Legitimacy across the Late Roman Frontier
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Moodle can be clunky, but it's free and open source. Why would institutions go for a commercial platform? And why is Canvas so dominant in the US?
Ein Sieg für die Demokratie! Und damit wünsche ich eine gute Nacht. 😴
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
Life with a cat with chronic constipation involves a lot of time watching a cat shit. The plant pot isn’t my preferred place, but better out than in.
I've been so disgusted by everything that's come out about Epstein that I can only handle it in small portions, but this article is such a good survey of the times we live in. It's really worth reading www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club
Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services
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Yesterday I arranged a trip to the Cairo Geniza unit with students. The earliest dated copy of the Hebrew bible, next to a shopping list of the Chief Rabbi (lemon chicken and molokhia), and at the other end of the table a letter from merchants in India. Such wonderful collection! @theul.bsky.social
And now consider this happening across the country.. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
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Contemporary campus novel in which a professor from the US pitches up at a British university for a year and realises that no one told them that they had to set their readings and their coursework five months earlier.
First day of the worst month. But we can get through it! youtu.be/38PB3sBZxf4?...
Whole 'nother Story - February
YouTube video by KMOX
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It's a slippery slope. Give them a fire station, and they'll want a national health service. Give them a library, and they'll demand free higher education.
Steve Chambers@planningtransport.co.uk · 9mo ago1903: Don't build a fire station! It will arouse desire for a library.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Midweek Treat: #RecipeOfTheDay is Sticky Toffee Pudding, the dark empress of desserts! I can’t even write its name, let alone gaze at this photograph, without wanting to eat it, frankly. www.nigella.com/recipes/stic...
Sticky Toffee Pudding
There is very little that can compare with the glory of a sticky toffee pudding. My STP is altogether deeper and darker than the original version: it is still sweet, but the muscovado sugar and black ...
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Please watch this video of the tool-using cow Veronika www.cell.com/current-biol...
Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow
Osuna-Mascaró and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities in livestock.
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Something gnawed your oak tree? Sink hole in your road? How Zurich’s beaver hotline is reassuring residents
Something gnawed your oak tree? Sink hole in your road? How Zurich’s beaver hotline is reassuring residents
As the number of the semi-aquatic creatures soars so can tensions. But the Swiss have a tried and tested system to calm the neighbours and restore harmony
theguardian.com
Ok, but the time-honoured solution to this problem is to actually read what one cites?
the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 10mo agoAcademics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
Last week, the media declared a “partial victory” for Sandie Peggie, who sued the NHS for letting a trans colleague use the women’s changing room. In fact, the case was a flop. The gender-critical movement might be persuading journalists, but it’s failing with judges 🧵
Norfolk has a beaver on the loose – and every reserve in the area insists “it’s not ours”! The mystery deepens.
Beaver ‘escape artist’ mystery
A mysterious beaver has appeared in Norfolk, prompting excitement and an investigation into which enclosure it escaped from
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Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute
‘Most challenging natural disaster in our history’: 1,300 dead after SE Asia floods www.channel4.com/news/most-ch...
‘Most challenging natural disaster in our history’: 1,300 dead after SE Asia floods
Sri Lankan President’s stark warning as Indonesia and Thailand also hit by destructive cyclones and devastating floods, leaving at least 900 missing.
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild: 1. fox (my street) 2. grass snake (in the river Cam) 3. eel (river Cam) 4. peregrine falcons (Cambridge city centre) 5. kingfisher (by the river) Bonus because not really native: muntjac deer (my garden)
Dr Jo Edge 🏴@hagenilda.bsky.social · 11mo agoIntroduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild: 1. Spectacled bears (Aguas Calientes, Peru) 2. Mooses (Ontario, Canada) 3. Green-and-white hummingbirds (Cusco, Peru) 4. Grey seals (Strumble Head, Pembs) 5. Welsh Mountain ponies (Preselis, Pembs) (Last 2 regular parts of my childhood)
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