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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.

A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."

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Jasper Bos @jasperbos.bsky.social · 1d

Er liggen bladeren in de tuinen. Als je die niet weghaalt met een bladblazer, bereik je vier dingen:
– Het is hartstikke goed voor je tuin en de dieren
– Het bespaart je een hele hoop werk
– Je verziekt niet het klimaat
– Je buren hebben geen last van je herrie #LaatZeLiggen

#JaarlijksePost

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 1d

Ok. Deep breaths.

a close up of a woman 's face wearing earrings

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face wearing earrings

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 11d

#HermitLife

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Mare @mareonline.nl · 14d

BREEK: Alle Nederlandse universiteiten, ook Leiden, stappen naar de rechter vanwege de bezuinigingen op starters- en stimuleringsbeurzen. ‘Wat is een bestuursakkoord waard als het met een pennenstreek weer weg is?’
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Universiteiten gaan bezuinigingen aanvechten bij de rechter: ‘Minister kan akkoord niet zomaar verbreken’

Alle Nederlandse universiteiten, ook Leiden, zijn een juridische procedure gestart tegen het ministerie van Onderwijs vanwege de bezuinigingen op starters- en stimuleringsbeurzen. ‘Wat is een bestuurs...

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 14d

Wat is de situatie die in dit stuk beschreven wordt schrijnend, zeg. De formulering 'waar redelijk en mogelijk' in de toezegging van (aan)gepast onderwijs lijkt eerder voor meer dan minder willekeur te zorgen, en ik vind het zeer dubieus dat sommige collega's blijkbaar niet willen meedenken.

Mare @mareonline.nl · 19d

Dichte deuren, bijeenkomsten op onbereikbare plekken en docenten die zich weigeren aan te passen: studenten met een beperking stuiten nog op de nodige blokkades, ondervindt Avalon Leiman. ‘Het is een heel naar gevoel dat ik permanent ben buitengesloten.’

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Overal drempels voor rolstoelgebruikers: ‘Ik voel me niet welkom’

Dichte deuren, bijeenkomsten op onbereikbare plekken en docenten die zich weigeren aan te passen: studenten met een beperking stuiten nog op de nodige blokkades, ondervindt Avalon Leiman. ‘Het is een ...

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 16d

Red Grape and Walnut Tarte Tatin

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 16d

I'd be happy to! It might take me a few days to write it out, but once I've done that I'll send it to you. Would a DM be ok?

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 16d

Red Grape and Walnut Tarte Tatin

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 17d

Oh hoho no. No no no no no.

Screenshot from article "A holistic view of the relevant evidence points to the opposite conclusion, one which has now been corroborated by Al analysis, which is objective, unlike the subjective opinions of scholars which can get in the way.
The Badminton version is an astonishing painting. It takes your breath away when you see it."

The part about ai being objective is highlighted

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 19d

#AncientLaw - early November. Good line-up.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 20d

Oh no migraine

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks so much! They're both more or less the same - the one on the left is the PhD thesis as I defended is, the one on the right is the published version, with Oxford University Press.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 21d

Today marks the fifth anniversary of my PhD defense. My baby is all grown up! A lot has happened in the meantime, but working on this project and getting to defend it in front of family, friends, and some very eminent colleagues is still one of the most beautiful things I've ever done.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 21d

Today marks the fifth anniversary of my PhD defense. My baby is all grown up! A lot has happened in the meantime, but working on this project and getting to defend it in front of family, friends, and some very eminent colleagues is still one of the most beautiful things I've ever done.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 21d

The question is not if tomorrow!you is a nice person (although I'm sure she is). The point is that *you* are, and helping her is the kind thing to do.

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Sara Ghaleb @saraghaleb.bsky.social · 24d

We’ve been in a recession my whole adult life, and it’s like… At what point does that term stop applying?

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Sara Ghaleb @saraghaleb.bsky.social · 24d

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Derk Boswijk @derk.cda.nl · 24d

Schriftelijke vragen ingediend over de aangenomen motie om ‘antifa’ te bestempelen als een terroristische organisatie.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 25d

As such, the motion is senseless, and opens itself up to dangerously broad interpretations of not only what 'terrorism' means, but also of what Antifa membership would entail. It allows any expression that the authorities don't like to be construed as being linked to Antifa - and therefore terrorism

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 25d

Not only does opposing fascism, as I understand it, have the exact opposite goal, but Antifa is not even an organisation that one can be a member of. It is a blanket term for a collection of unaffiliated groups that in one way or another oppose fascism.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 25d

Motions like this, in my view, do something similar to the word 'terrorism'. As I understand it, the term is used to designate violence or threats thereof to pressure populations and/or governments, or destabilise society, out of political, religious and/or ideological motives.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 25d

The law on treason, thus Tacitus, at first covered only concrete actions that posed a severe threat to the safety of Rome as a whole. Gradually, however, the term came to refer to anything that might threaten (or even just offend) the emperor and his family - not just in deed, but also through words

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 25d

Not to be all 'ancient history is relevant!!!' about this, but the Dutch parliament adopting a motion designating Antifa as a terrorist organisation strongly reminds me of this passage from Tacitus (Ann. 1.72), describing how Augustus and Tiberius stretched the law on treason to its breaking point.

Yet even so he [that is: Tiberius] failed to inspire belief in himself as a citizen among citizens, since he had resurrected the law against treason (lex maiestatis) which previously bore the same name but applied to a more restricted range of offences; betrayal of the army, inciting sedition among the masses, in short any official misdeed threatening the majesty of the Roman people: actions were denounced, words were immune.

Augustus was the first to recognize that the statute seemed to cover libel, prompted to do so by the impudence of Cassius Severus, the orator, who had defamed illustrious men and women in his scandalous writings. Then Tiberius, asked by the praetor Pompeius Macer whether a similar judgement could be returned under that same statute, replied ‘that the law must take its course’. He too had been exasperated by certain notorious verses of unknown authorship satirizing his cruelty, his arrogance, and his disagreements with his mother, Livia.

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