Classics Librarian
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Actual name: Phoebe Acheson. Blogging the intersection of Classics and Librarianship.
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⚠️Earthquake relief fundraiser⚠️ A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Turkey & Syria, killing 1000s and leaving more stranded. My old boss and coworkers' families are among the affected, and I am raising some money ASAP to contribute to their relief funds😔 (1/) bit.ly/3DWFWbI
Happy Public Domain Day! Today works from 1927 are in the US public domain: Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes stories, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, an epic pie fight, a song about ice cream, Puttin’ on the Ritz. See what’s on tap for 2023 web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdom…
Classicists, the day has come! The Digital Loeb Classical Library (loebclassics.com) has added a long-awaited navigation tool. You can now navigate ancient texts by typing book and section number! 🙌
My partner pulled off the most wholesome, archaeologically adjacent, bamboozling act of kindness and I had to share it. 🧵 When I was in Rome this summer, somehow my trowel ended up in my carry-on. I was mortified when it was discovered in the TSA line, because I knew (1/?)
17/ Steep prestige hierarchies are ubiquitous: 🪜 Upward mobility says a lot: how often do profs move from a lower prestige PhD to a higher prestige faculty job? 5%↑ - Classics 6%↑ - Econ, Finance 7%↑ - Art History, Stats [see tables...] 21%↑ - Entomology 23%↑ - Agronomy
![hneutr's tweet image. 17/ Steep prestige hierarchies are ubiquitous:
🪜 Upward mobility says a lot: how often do profs move from a lower prestige PhD to a higher prestige faculty job?
5%↑ - Classics
6%↑ - Econ, Finance
7%↑ - Art History, Stats
[see tables...]
21%↑ - Entomology
23%↑ - Agronomy](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdMEho4agAES6AP.jpg)
Time for medieval Yoda! #MayTheFourthBeWithYou From the Smithfield Decretals, Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 30v blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…
He was apoplectic about it--mentioning that the frogs had all gone, and many kinds of birds as well. They had had all kinds of experts and machines trying to figure out where the water had gone! This is an ecological disaster that should be fixed! Please retweet! (3/3)
But were horrified when we arrived to see that the riverbed was absolutely dry! We spoke to the site manager who told us that some private building site had disrupted the river, which no longer ran through the site! (2/3)
(Attention Athenian journalists!) For Mayday we went to the #Kerameikos site to see a bit of #UrbanNature among the ruins--usually there are tortoises, frogs, dragonflies, etc. near the reedy banks of the #Eridanos river, that briefly runs above ground here (1/3)...
Newly available at the MA Digital Commonwealth: the Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection of photographs of Greece (originals at Boston Public Library.) digitalcommonwealth.org/collections/co…
Happy Valentine’s Day! Thank you to the @baltimoresun for this special valentine. ;)
Staff overhearing students attempt to reach a book from a high shelf, then... excitedly - "look, you can use this little dalek".
How do I type(set) Ancient Greek in #TeXLaTeX? If this is a question that has been bothering you, fear not and read today's blogpost! #digiclass #AncientGreek #digitalclassicist #ClassicsTwitter #phdchat latex-ninja.com/2022/01/16/how…
OPEN ACCESS📢Vol.1 of the Manual of Roman Everyday Writing is out! Written by Alex Mullen @UniofNottingham Alan Bowman @CsadOxford. Find out all about the scripts Romans used to write their everyday texts! We even put videos in the book.. bit.ly/MREW1 @ERC_Research 1/6
Linked Pasts 7 will run as an online only event with activities taking place remotely over two weeks (December 13-17 and December 20-21, 2021). Interested scholars, GLAM-sector professionals, and Linked Data folk should register at bit.ly/322lGW1
BRB considering a name change…
The “new” route without a transfer, for my kid in Clifton gaslight to Walnut, includes 33 minutes of walking for 10 minutes in a bus. Not an improvement!
Attention, parents: New Metro route information is now available in Google Trip Planner (and soon Transit app!). Be sure to enter Aug. 19 as your trip date to view route information for your student's first day of school.
Archaeology at Sheffield is under attack. We've made an information pack explaining what is happening and how you can help (including a petition, who you can email and a template letter to use) at bit.ly/savesheff #SaveSheffieldArchaeology #ArchaeologistMadeInSheffield
This is TERRIBLE news. I learned environmental archaeology and zooarchaeology at Sheffield @sheffielduni @UniShefArch is one of the top archaeology departments in the UK & worldwide with top scholars, great students, and a vibrant environment Please do what you can to help! /1
Email forwarded to me, I suspect I will be seeing more of these. - 'University of Sheffield Archaeology Department are under current review over the future of their department. One of the options on the table for this is the complete closure of the department...'
Thread for some solutions. My grandmother used to read JAMA to my sight-impaired grandfather in the 1990s!
It would be really awesome if audiobooks existed for scholarly articles.
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