There really is no football team I find quite as disgusting in their attitude and behavior as Argentina's national team and which I enjoy seeing lose more.
Christian Rollinger
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I am so happy Paraguay got eliminated. South American men seem to be too emotional to play.
Und dann auch noch vom König von Gondolin... I can retire now.
I was today years old when I googled the etymology out of interest and learned that it comes from the Middle English for „feather“ and that little fledgling birds are thus naturally not fully fledged. Learned something!
Rabea Rittgerodt-Burke@rabeari.bsky.social · 2mo agoI was today’s years old when I learned that it’s actually *fully-fledged* and not, wait for it, fully-fleshed 😳 🫣😂🤷♀️
🎧NEUE FOLGE🎧 Die Schlacht von Pydna (168 v. Chr.) veränderte die antike Welt. @drcrollinger.bsky.social c/o @unitrier.bsky.social erklärt,wie es zum römischen Sieg über Makedonien und dem Wendepunkt der Geschichte des gesamten Mittelmeerraums kam.
Something sad, something cute, something iconic from Kocaeli Museum.
tfw when somebody decides to move his rebuilt 4th c. Roman sailing vessel in front of you but you're still vibing (sound on)
Now out in paperback (GBP 23.99) and best when dramatically lit! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
As a late antique historian, hearing/seeing „dominate“ still being bandied about as if it were an even slightly useful term is…exhausting.
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin
Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...
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After years' work, this 👇 has just now appeared as an e-book, w/ print version soon to follow: chock-full with excellent chapters by excellent people, anything (almost) you ever wanted to know about the Athenian Empire, and a pretty owl on the cover to boot. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The Attic Empire. The Athenians and their Allies in the Fifth Century
This handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the polity known as the Delian League, or the Athenian Empire. Founded under the leadership of Athens in 478 BCE and dissolved in the aftermath of the Pe...
degruyterbrill.com
Aus Gründen: Wieso schreiben österreichische Universitäten Professuren nach §99 UG aus? Sind das in jedem Fall Tenure Track-Stellen? Sind das Stellen für Interne? Ich blicke gerade nicht durch.
Die Vorstellung, dass Department-Strukturen (oder JProfessuren) das Panakeia der deutschen Universität sein sollen, finde ich ehrlich gesagt naiv. Würde man den Sparkurs der vergangenen Jahrzehnte revidieren und wieder die Räte als regulären, verstetigten Mittelbau einführen, wäre schon viel getan.
Netzwerk für Gute Arbeit in der Wissenschaft@ngawiss.bsky.social · 6mo agoFür alle, die gestern die Sitzung im Wissenschaftsausschusses des Bundestags veprasst haben: www.bundestag.de/dokumente/te... Mit dabei: Tilman Reitz von @nnwiss.bsky.social und Lisa Niendorf @frauforschung.bsky.social
Always excited when new work on the Great Palace comes out - this is based, as far as I can see, on an extensive (Spanish) PhD the author submitted in Madrid in 2023. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Great Palace
Cambridge Core - Middle East History - The Great Palace
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I don‘t think „history“ can help us much to understand or navigate the current situation; on the other hand: the current situation very much can help to understand history. I‘m never reading Suetonius or Tacitus in the same light again as I did pre-2016.
One not inconsiderable annoyance of the current batshit political situation is the glut of hastily written „Why this is actually like Roman/Greek/Persian/Mongol imperialism and what history can teach us“ opinion pieces. History teaches us nothing; we refuse to learn.
Least surprising headline ever - and with that: a happy new year all round.
Arguing about the merits of a filmed retelling (!) of a work of fiction that has gone through multiple retellings already, based mostly on "accuracy" of armour and ships in screenshots and a trailer, is high up there among the things that makes me dislike my profession.
Beamtenstatus ist in D ja gerade in der Diskussion... denkt jemand wirklich, wir würden nicht auch so 3-Welt-Verhältnisse in D haben, wenn eine Partei an der Macht wäre, die nicht der demokratischen Mitte zugehörig ist? If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. wset.com/news/nation-...
OU grad assistant to no longer have instructional duties after grade dispute with student
A graduate teaching assistant at theUniversity of Oklahoma who gave a student a zero on an essay will "no longer have instrctional duties at the Univesrity", a
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I just saw a 60 Minutes segment on Bundeswehr-financed robocockroaches as weapons of war and maybe it's time that 2025 ended already.
The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.
Christmas PSA: "Empresses-in-Waiting" will be out in pb in January but you can order it now with 50% discount! Use discount code 27WINTER when buying through LUP!
I just learned the word "mouthfeel" for food and the brainfeel isn't good.
Sometimes, even in these bleak days, the EU institutions manage to produce good news. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland
Couple who married in Germany had their right to a ‘normal family life’ impeded, court of justice finds
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