If you’re teaching #Greek, #palaeography, #manuscripts, #textcriticsm etc. this coming year, consider adding my website to your course assignments or resources. It’s free, I don’t collect/sell your info, and it’d be nearly impossible to cheat with AI. See 🧵 for details

Jacob W. Peterson@jacobwpeterson.com · 7mo ago

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

Successful weekend already. Bought 3.2kg of focaccia for £10

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

- Vienna (was almost home) - Edinburgh (is home) - San Francisco (was home) - Athens (practically home for a couple years) - Seoul B-themed also rans: Basel, Berlin, Boston, Bratislava, Budapest

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3w ago

QUESTION: What are your FIVE favourite cities anywhere in the world? Bonus points for persuasive explanations why your choices are “right.” Mine (in no order) are: Paris Barcelona New York Montreal Vancouver

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Very helpful free tool

Jakub Sypiański@sypianski.bsky.social · last mo.

I built a free scholary converter for 20 premodern calendar systems — Julian, Hijri, Solar Hijri, Coptic, Armenian, Byzantine, Syriac, Athenian and more: kalkal.online

When I was 17, I hung out with Ghostface Killah from Wu-Tang Clan for about half an hour while we listened to Funeral for a Friend perform

Kayla Cromer Official@kaylacromer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake but is 100% true.

Gun Alba, Gun Phàrtaidh!

Haven’t seen anyone posting this yet. Nongbri has a new post (and article) on P15 and P16 brentnongbri.com/2026/05/07/a...

A New Article on P.Oxy. 7.1008 and 7.1009 (P15 and P16)

The latest issue of Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft contains an article I wrote on two papyrus folia from Oxyrhynchus. Here is the abstract: P.Oxy. 7.1008 and 7.1009 (P15 and P16…

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Open Access Publication! My essay. "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans," won this year's DeGruyter-Brill Prize and, as of today, is available open access. I'm really proud of this one. You can download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

More fun news: a paper I co-authored with Pasi Hyytiäinen and Tim Finney is now available as an advance article in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: doi.org/10.1093/llc/.... We investigate the validity of the contested paradigm of text-types using a battery of computational approaches. (1/8)

Comparative computational textual criticism of the Gospel of Mark and the paradigm of textual clusters

Abstract. In New Testament textual criticism, the paradigm of textual clusters has become a controversial subject. Within this paradigm, the traditional pr

doi.org

Hacked our high school’s network to create a private LAN so that we could play Unreal Tournament from any ISD computer. Took admins more than a year to take down. (We could also change grades and, more importantly, adjust cafeteria balances)

Standard Issue Computing@standardissuecomputing.blog · 5mo ago

In a break from academic projects, I’ve created a website with various itineraries for exploring Scotland. MyScotlandGuide.com

My Scotland Guide — Scotland Itineraries, Travel Guides & Expert Trip Planning

Hand-crafted Scotland itineraries for every travel style. Filter by transport, activities, pace, and group type.

myscotlandguide.com

A nice write up of my Xeirographa project in Digital Orientalist (NB: all the bugs had been fixed)

Matthieu Cassin@mcassin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Xeirographa: Learn to Read Greek New Testament Manuscripts digitalorientalist.com/2026/03/06/x...

Open-access scholarship/books in papyrology (and related fields): a thread I hope to periodically update, as new material comes out. 1/?

A bigger athletic event than the Olympics has begun

Keith@keithdunn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The conch was blown at 5:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

When I was a kid, all my tamagotchis died. This raises deep questions about my place among history’s worst serial killers

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 6mo ago

Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg

How did early readers think about the relationship between the gospels? Repost to enter a drawing to win a free book.

*Worst person I know* meme

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Gov Greg Abbott (R-TX) openly criticizes ICE and distances himself from their operations in Minnesota, suggesting he things they are a spectacular failure and that the GOP needs to find someone to blame other than the people of Minnesota. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2...

They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.

If you or your company are looking to migrate from US-based tech services in light of current politics, tariffs, and everything else here’s a list of Europe-based alternatives european-alternatives.eu

European Alternatives

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

european-alternatives.eu

In a world dark with despair, a spot of light and hope for us: our daughter, Eleanor Freya, was born happy and healthy yesterday

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

Xeirographa

A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.

xeirographa.com

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

Xeirographa

A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.

xeirographa.com

For those of you with personal Microsoft accounts you’ll likely have received notice of a large price increase hitting soon (due to AI). If you go through the cancellation flow, they offer a “classic” plan without AI for you to swap to at your existing price

Half convinced these birds at the hospital are speaking Hebrew

The Letter to the Hebrews according to the Oldest Papyrus polumeros.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

The Letter to the Hebrews according to the Oldest Papyrus

I want to thank Jordi Cervera for the gift of this beautiful book:   Rodolf Puigdollers i Noblom and Jordi Cervera i Valls. La Carta als Heb...

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