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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

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Susanne Hakenbeck@shakenbeck.bsky.social · yesterday

I’m so happy that this book is finally coming out. It’s been my passion project over many years. It also gave me the opportunity to visit places along the entire length of the Danube, including by bike (though I didn’t manage to cycle the whole distance sadly).

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · yesterday

In Crossing the Danube, @shakenbeck.bsky.social offers a new account of the peoples who lived along Europe’s greatest river—the nearly 2,000-mile-long Danube—during the dramatic centuries leading up to the end of the Roman Empire in the West. Out Nov 17 (12 Jan UK pub). Learn more: buff.ly/OoKmZHS

Crossing the Danube: Life Along a Frontier at the End of the Roman Empire by Susanne E. Hakenbeck. A richly illustrated history that reveals how the peoples living along the Danube frontier helped transform the Roman Empire.
Susanne Hakenbeck@shakenbeck.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

theguardian.com

Susanne Hakenbeck@shakenbeck.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

The curator Benjamin Outhwaite stands at the end of a long table that is covered in manuscripts. He holds up a letter of Jewish merchants from India. Bible from Iran Two leaves from a small codex of the Hebrew Bible, written in an Abbasid style horizontal format. It was written in 903-4 in Gunbad-i-Mallgān. It is the earliest dated copy of the Hebrew Bible. TS NS 246.26.2
Nigella Lawson@nigella.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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 ...

nigella.com

Susanne Hakenbeck@shakenbeck.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Ok, but the time-honoured solution to this problem is to actually read what one cites?

OSHA Inspector at the Cheesecake Factory@milesklee.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Academics 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.

Rivkah Brown@rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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 🧵

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Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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