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Andrew Riggsby

@antiquethought.bsky.social

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Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 19d

Me on cognitive models in Roman land-surveying (OA):
www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...

www.mdpi.com

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 3h

I generally don't either, and certainly no one owes that labor, but I will confess that I've benefited from following social media discussions of topics that are not precisely in my areas of research and with whose protagonists I'll likely never have an occasion for that coffee.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I think so.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 2d

Part of the issue here is some ambiguity in “top-down”? There is one conventional usage that refers to individuals along a vertical scale of power (or whatever). The other is a scale of abstraction/generality, in which ANY individual is at the bottom.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 2d

True and important.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 5d

Please tell me this is true, @carlosfnorena.bsky.social !

Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 6d

The potential Mexican cross-over here intrigues me.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 6d

Strigine gender theory?

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 6d

I eat ants and I eat yoghurt, so in principle yes.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 8d

I was still using this technology for research more recently than that!

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social · 8d

Ok. If someone had three nights in Dublin and had never been to Ireland, what neighborhood should they book for accommodation?! RTs welcome.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 11d

See also the work of the late Jean-Baptiste Piggin on the origins of this form of diagram:

www.piggin.net/index.htm

PLOLD and Macro-Typography

www.piggin.net

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 13d

Partial counterpoint: I don't actually know the politics of the bulk of my colleagues in the field.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 14d

I think that for me (a) there is no systematic difference, but (b) to the extent that I occasionally imagine one, "discipline" is more institutional and "field" more conceptual.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15d

Do it, Carlos. You know she's right.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15d

Pre-photographic-slide era cast collection, it looks like.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15d

Is this for Alan, @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social ?

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 15d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15d

And a fine choice it was!

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15d

Agreed.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 15d

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Nathaniel S. Katz @nathanielskatz.bsky.social · 15d

Come work with me at the University of Arizona!

www.classicalstudies.org/placement-se...

Assistant Professor, Roman Archaeology (Tenure Eligible) | Society for Classical Studies

The Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona invites applications for a full-time, tenure-eligible position in Roman Archaeology at the rank of Assistant Professor, to...

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 16d

Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!

Publisher's Marketplace screenshot: DATA EMPIRE
By Roopika Risam
Imprint: Harper, Transworld
Associate professor at Dartmouth College Roopika Risam's DATA EMPIRE, a
history of 11,000 years of data collection, from ancient cave markings and
knotted strings to colonial censuses and modern digital surveillance, showing
how it has always been used to shape civilizations, uphold empires, and
control lives, to Sarah Haugen at Harper, in a pre-empt, for publication in July
2026, by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency (NA).
Rights also to Alex Christofi at Transworld (UK).

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 17d

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 17d

FWIW, while I gave up on like the fourth screen of a single document upload, it did seem to be working perfectly well from a technical point of view, so hopefully you’ll be good once you get back into your account.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 17d

Me, too! Maybe I will now try again.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 17d

Is the average height in Peru really the same as in Australia?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 17d

I do that in a chapter, but it’s embedded in a lot of the concrete history you don’t want. Maybe go back to Goody?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 17d

Interesting. My experience in Hungary was more soup than stew (and so not served over anything).

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 18d

Knowledge Commons question. I created an account long ago, and just went to check in on it. I then tried an upload, but it (a) asked me to re-login, then (b) gave me a “bad gateway” error. This happened on two different machines/operating systems/browsers. Anybody else seeing anything like this?

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 19d

You are hard core.