Sam Barber

@barber-samj.bsky.social

Art, architecture, material culture | Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages

🐈 At a Roman villa In Adramytteion (Turkey) 🐕 the owners put the name of their cat and dog in a mosaic—I am reading σμαράγδιη (“emerald”) for the cat. (I am a little bit mystified by the eta on the end unless it is a nu, but this is cool). Dog is named ὠκεανός (“ocean”) arkeonews.net/1800-year-ol...

Mosaic depiction of a cat from the Roman villa at Adramytteion, accompanied by an inscription giving a name interpreted as meaning “Emerald.” Credit: AAMosaic depiction of a dog from the Roman villa at Adramytteion, identified by an inscription with the name “Okyanos” (“Ocean”). Credit: AA

The media’s defenders say the editorial / oped side of a newspaper is completely separate from the reporting side, so you shouldn’t blame the news side for bad takes on the editorial side. But when it comes to the @nytimes.com / @nytopinion.nytimes.com coverage of higher ed, there is no separation.

Screenshot of transphobic bigot Jesse Singal’s NYT opinion piece on ArdayScreenshot of NYT article “Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · last mo.

Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?

“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

Nolan has adapted the stories The Odyssey is based on more than he’s adopted the text itself. There’s a smoothing out of the text‘s complication that inevitably unwinds it a little. It’s also a puzzle box movie where whats in the box is Trauma, but the Trauma of learning where you are in history.

*whispers* hey, if you're a grad-level educator of conscience, you should probably warn PhD students off of coming here at this point and offer to help them make favorable contacts in other of the many excellent international universities if you're invested in their success

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this