Dr. Ellen Bauerle
@bauerle.bsky.social
🏺Executive Editor, Univ. of Michigan Press. My UMP colleagues are all people, no bots. Views my own. #AAACC #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
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Oxford University Press and Hum sign agreement to pilot Alchemist Review
Oxford University Press partners with Hum to pilot Alchemist Review, an AI-based editorial assistant that will enhance manuscript assessment while reducing a...
www.alpsp.org
This AI bot removes one of the entry-level publishing jobs for recent college grads, and it removes the option for human editorial assistants to learn how publishing works.
Also, it’s a black cat. Black kitties are excellent. 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
Ooooooohhhhhhh… 🤩
Ancient Egyptian bronze head of a cat with amber eyes, c. 600 BC.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
January 19, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Also, it’s a black cat. Black kitties are excellent. 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
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Egypt court hands life sentence to antiquities inspector over major artifact smuggling - EgyptToday
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Egypt court hands life sentence to antiquities inspector over major artifact smuggling
The ruling comes in one of the largest antiquities smuggling cases to hit Egypt’s cultural heritage sector, with three defendants charged with conspiring with an unidentified accomplice to smuggle the...
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January 18, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Egypt court hands life sentence to antiquities inspector over major artifact smuggling - EgyptToday
www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/14...
www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/14...
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Regional names for alleyways…
January 17, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Regional names for alleyways…
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Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Best fact learned at AIA/SCS: Alexander is buried in Peoria, IL. Tho tomb location not known precisely. Presumably collaborative dig among UC / UI will find it, for display at Art Institute. Can’t wait.
January 12, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Best fact learned at AIA/SCS: Alexander is buried in Peoria, IL. Tho tomb location not known precisely. Presumably collaborative dig among UC / UI will find it, for display at Art Institute. Can’t wait.
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(548) Reading the Ancient Library from Herculaneum with Digital Unrolling - Richard Janko - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXM...
Reading the Ancient Library from Herculaneum with Digital Unrolling - Richard Janko
YouTube video by Hellenic Society
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January 12, 2026 at 8:19 PM
(548) Reading the Ancient Library from Herculaneum with Digital Unrolling - Richard Janko - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXM...
As @carlosfnorena.bsky.social says, another AIA/SCS for the books. Great to see those who attended. Hope everyone is getting home safely. Afterthought for the SCS officers: some therapy cats in the exhibit hall. Just saying. 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
January 12, 2026 at 2:33 AM
As @carlosfnorena.bsky.social says, another AIA/SCS for the books. Great to see those who attended. Hope everyone is getting home safely. Afterthought for the SCS officers: some therapy cats in the exhibit hall. Just saying. 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
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Derrière l’apparente profusion de maisons d’édition en France, trois groupes seulement maîtrisent les deux tiers du marché. Notamment Hachette, racheté il y a un peu plus d'un an par Vincent Bolloré.
➡️ https://www.altereco.media/KpM
➡️ https://www.altereco.media/KpM
January 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Derrière l’apparente profusion de maisons d’édition en France, trois groupes seulement maîtrisent les deux tiers du marché. Notamment Hachette, racheté il y a un peu plus d'un an par Vincent Bolloré.
➡️ https://www.altereco.media/KpM
➡️ https://www.altereco.media/KpM
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I signed up for this — it’s free
Free webinar explaining Anthropic copyright settlement with the Authors Guild and the law firm involved. Learn, whether your books are involved or not. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 11, 2026 at 4:47 PM
I signed up for this — it’s free
Hadn’t previously noticed that the wallpaper behind the Mother Superior singing “Climb Every Mountain“ depicts Yoda.
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Hadn’t previously noticed that the wallpaper behind the Mother Superior singing “Climb Every Mountain“ depicts Yoda.
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We’re not snowed in, but it is choofing cold - even down here in the Severn valley where the Malvern Hills protect us from the worst excesses of the prevailing westerlies - and that’s all the excuse we need to settle down with some great @pottedhistory.bsky.social content. Go on, treat yourself 👇
1/2 🏺 If like us you're snowed in, you may like to catch up on some of Potted History's ancient pottery videos, like youtu.be/oR1Qwa_E0nA?...
What Did The Romans Do For Us? The introduction of the potter's wheel into Britain
YouTube video by PottedHistory
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January 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
We’re not snowed in, but it is choofing cold - even down here in the Severn valley where the Malvern Hills protect us from the worst excesses of the prevailing westerlies - and that’s all the excuse we need to settle down with some great @pottedhistory.bsky.social content. Go on, treat yourself 👇
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Anyone out there making podcasts, blogs, art, or other good things and fancy collaborating with Colchester Museums this year?
We like history, creativity, and people who get excited about both.
Let’s chat!
We like history, creativity, and people who get excited about both.
Let’s chat!
January 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Anyone out there making podcasts, blogs, art, or other good things and fancy collaborating with Colchester Museums this year?
We like history, creativity, and people who get excited about both.
Let’s chat!
We like history, creativity, and people who get excited about both.
Let’s chat!
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Well folks ..........tonight's the night for another 12 wonderful potters to enter @gladstonepottery for @potterythrow . Its funny how it seems so long ago when we filmed it . They are such a great bunch of potters . 😊 #Sunday at 7.30pm on @channel4 #studiopottery #feelthefearanddoitanyway
January 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Well folks ..........tonight's the night for another 12 wonderful potters to enter @gladstonepottery for @potterythrow . Its funny how it seems so long ago when we filmed it . They are such a great bunch of potters . 😊 #Sunday at 7.30pm on @channel4 #studiopottery #feelthefearanddoitanyway
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It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.
January 4, 2026 at 1:31 AM
So much wrong.
huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun
January 2, 2026 at 2:22 AM
So much wrong.
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An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it.
This painting is missing. Do you have it?
An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it.
n.pr
December 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it.
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I asked GenAI for biblio on a topic of Hellenistic hsitory, esp non English. Out came the titles ! Some familiar, plus some very promising German titles of the 1990s and 2000s. I had no idea Prof. X had worked on this ! 1 min later, I asked the GenAI: do any of these exist ? Reply: actually no.
December 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I asked GenAI for biblio on a topic of Hellenistic hsitory, esp non English. Out came the titles ! Some familiar, plus some very promising German titles of the 1990s and 2000s. I had no idea Prof. X had worked on this ! 1 min later, I asked the GenAI: do any of these exist ? Reply: actually no.
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Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
Loving the raccoon-and-slinkies metaphor.
"Much like the forlorn skull of the horse left in a ditch without context, these articles offer little more than what they are. And for that, I’ll continue to enjoy them." mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/m... @billcaraher.bsky.social
More on Corinth, Northeast of the Theater
Whenever Chris Pfaff and the Corinth Crowd publish one of their preliminary reports in Hesperia, it is a fucking event. These things are massive, baffling, intriguing, and much like an accident bet…
mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Loving the raccoon-and-slinkies metaphor.
Did not have Klearchos on my bingo card for today.
"Having flatterers is typical of tyrants" (Klearchos of Soloi fr 19 Wehrli).
December 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Did not have Klearchos on my bingo card for today.
I see the Bronze Age posture of beseechment is still alive and well.
December 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I see the Bronze Age posture of beseechment is still alive and well.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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10/10 for effort, wow.
My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.
December 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
10/10 for effort, wow.
My worry: a ms. from someone with an expiring tenure clock. They are out of time, panicking, and they either finished or wrote their ms. with AI.
Ban all use of AI in academic publishing. If there's a useful aspect to it, carve it out, make it reliable, and rename it. Until then, ban it all.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My worry: a ms. from someone with an expiring tenure clock. They are out of time, panicking, and they either finished or wrote their ms. with AI.