Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
Professor Elton
@eltonteb.bsky.social
Prof of Greek Literature & Culture at The Open University | working-class Classicist | still delighting in Homer | dabbling in the digital | grappling with the politics of form & linked data | Pelagios partnership sec | hello to Jason | love the show Steve
📷 Salonica ( #Thessaloniki, Greece), 1863 — The Oldest Known Photograph of the City (Colorized Photo)
A new volume of IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities is out! With a wonderful special issue on "Digital Futures: Archives, AI and Access in Indian Digital Humanities". Check it out! From Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/20/2
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - ijhac: Vol 20, No 2
euppublishing.com
'Amanda Spielman, who previously led education watchdog Ofsted from 2017 to 2023, warned too many people are being misled by the allure of university courses that fail to result in improved economic and life outcomes.' Ofsted has such a sterling reputation.
Bad degrees ‘eating up’ young people’s lives – shadow minister
Students left underoccupied and ‘kicking their heels’ at university, according to former Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman
timeshighereducation.com
I'm running another round of "Getting Started" training in November for the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. Details below. Please boost for visibility!
Pleiades gazetteer@pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · last wk.Free, three-part "Getting Started" #PleiadesGazetteer online workshop now taking registrations for November 2026. Details via the events page for the first of the three sessions: https://pleiades.stoa.org/events/getting-started-workshop-1-finding-and-using-november-2026 This is a linked […]
#TEIFriday Can anyone give examples of magical texts (spells/curses...) encoded in TEI XML? Any language, date, etc. #digitalhumanities #ancientmagic
'At least eight universities have announced industrial action for the coming year'. Edinburgh: 5 weeks, £140m cuts, 90 degree programmes, 1,800 potential job losses. Dundee, Essex, Exeter, Glasgow Caledonian, Heriot-Watt, Nottingham, Sussex and where next?
UK Universities Set to Strike in ‘Last-Ditch Fight Over Existential Cuts’
'It is carnage'.
novaramedia.com
The ICS Autumn Newsletter is now live! Learn more about the news, upcoming events, and new Fellows of the Institute alongside ways to get involved: mailchi.mp/sas/ics-news... Sign up to receive future editions: mailchi.mp/sas/ics-news...
Cataloging and digital collections bluesky: Anyone migrated special collections into Bibframe yet? I'm interested in looking at the underlying LOD.
Geographical & Spatial Data in the Digital Classicist Wiki Mon 5 Oct, 5pm shorturl.at/hQK8L Expanding & updating coverage of digital resources on geographical & spatial data on the ancient world, including gazetteers, mapping tools, analysis of spatial information, and infrastructure initiatives.
Geographical and Spatial Data in the Digital Classicist Wiki
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The Perseus Digital Library has been hard at work on Minimum Viable Perseus (Perseus MVP). Designed as a static site and heavily inspired by the beloved but faltering P4 (and its awesome users), please check out our efforts here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates) and try it out: beta.perseus.tufts.edu
MakerSpace Taster Sessions Join the Digital Humanities Research Hub for a series of ‘Taster Sessions’ at the Senate House MakerSpace. These will provide introductions to various topics and technologies, and encourage discussion in an open, collaborative environment: shorturl.at/t9ZML
Choose made-for-Netflix movies and Spotify playlists. Choose matching towel sets and easy answers from the magic autocomplete machine. Choose letting your brain rot away in endless scrolling. I chose something else. Who needs reasons when you’ve got Thucydides? thesphinxblog.com/2026/09/29/t...
Take It Easy
An academic friend on Facebook posted a link to a news story this morning and commented, “I’m feeling extremely low, as if everything noble and good I’ve devoted my life to is meaningle…
thesphinxblog.com
"More than 100 Jewish settlers went on the rampage in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank on Monday night, torching buildings and cars, stoning Israeli security forces and preventing the return of a Palestinian family displaced by previous settler attacks." www.ft.com/content/4f56...
More than 100 Israelis go on rampage in Palestinian town
Jewish settlers blocked roads, set tyres ablaze and prevented the return of a Palestinian family in latest surge of violence in occupied West Bank
ft.com
Yes, it's that time again when the Fascism scene returns to London and this year black is very much in vogue. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
αἰαῖ! The latest Pasts Imperfect is out. @sentantiq.bsky.social discusses new work on Homer & a book on the Iliad's gendered voices. Then, Jefferson's children with Sally Hemings, mapping coin circulation in the Roman Empire, new ancient world journals via @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more. ἄγετε!
Pasts Imperfect (9.24.26)
This week, noted ailurophile and Homerist Joel Christensen sings to us about new scholarship helping us to make sense of Homer and highlights a new book on lamentation and glory in the Iliad. Then, re...
pasts-imperfect.ghost.io
Chis Nicholson (Executive Director of Digital Antiquity / tDAR) and I wrote an article with a critique of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) use of #AI for #culturalHeritage conservation policy. See: mydigitalpublication.com/publication/... #LLM #AIagents #Democracy #archaeology
The SAA Archaeological Record • September 2026, Volume 26 Number 4 • Page 19
The SAA Archaeological Record
mydigitalpublication.com
'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org
If you're interested in digital heritage/preservation, read this report on 3D heritage data. Like so much digital data, this material is "archived nowhere in particular & managed, in the majority of cases, by a single person without succession planning, dedicated budget, or institutional mandate"
UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk (H3DAR) Final Report August 2026
UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk: Developing a Strategy for Long Term Access & Storage (H3DAR) Final Report By Thomas Flynn, supported by Wikimedia UK, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. About t...
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
while everyone is still talking Odyssey, excited (and relieved) to report that @eltonteb.bsky.social and I submitted a completed introduction to the Iliad to Routledge today here's the ToC
Why the sour puss? A woman he can’t lunge at or insult? Holding it in is a real bitch, eh?
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
Some exciting news! We've teamed up with Art Fund to offer bursaries for Early Career Professionals to attend Museums+Tech 2026 this November. If you're new to the UK museums and heritage sector, or know someone who is, find out more here: museumscomputergroup.org.uk/art-funds-ea... #MuseTech2026
Art Fund's Early Career Professional bursaries for MuseTech26 - Museums Computer Group
Applications are open to Early Career Professionals currently working in the museums and heritage sector within the UK and will cover tickets to this year's Museums + Tech conference for up to 10 part...
museumscomputergroup.org.uk
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
