Tom Elliott
@paregorios.bsky.social
Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Works for NYU's https://isaw.nyu.edu, but lives near Huntsville, Alabama. Editor/PI of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org).
Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
A student is working on detecting gaps in text transcriptions. Does anyone in #DigiClass or beyond know of open transcriptions of ancient Greek inscriptions, in EpiDoc or otherwise, similar to papyri.info ? I've worked with literary texts and papyri, but I'm stumped on this.
papyri.info
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Apparently the online form is saying that booking is closed. It shouldn't be! Please contact me privately if you need a zoom link to join us.
Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure, a public seminar by @sebhth.bsky.social (Sebastian Heath, NYU), at the @dh-researchhub.bsky.social this coming Tuesday, 25th November at 17:00 GMT.
Sign up in person or online: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Sign up in person or online: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure
www.sas.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Apparently the online form is saying that booking is closed. It shouldn't be! Please contact me privately if you need a zoom link to join us.
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Last Week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (17-24 November 2025), the editorial college published 14 new and 286 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee and Enes […]
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November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Last Week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (17-24 November 2025), the editorial college published 14 new and 286 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee and Enes […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
"That's no moon, Charlie Brown"
"He's dead, Jim, Charlie Brown"
I find your lack of faith disturbing, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"That's no moon, Charlie Brown"
I would recommend against upgrading to the latest KeypassXC version. It's left me dead in the water. github.com/keepassxrebo...
2.7.11 breaks existing database connection to Firefox on macOS Sequoia · Issue #12713 · keepassxreboot/keepassxc
Have you searched for an existing issue? Yes, I tried searching and reviewed the pinned issues Brief Summary Upgraded to latest KeyPassXC. Existing database connection in Firefox is gone. Can't get...
github.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I would recommend against upgrading to the latest KeypassXC version. It's left me dead in the water. github.com/keepassxrebo...
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Yeah, my 'hours' as an adjunct have always been carefully calculated so that I didn't get health benefits and the one time the department slipped up and put me over the line they 1) didn't notice until I told them and 2) have been cutting back my teaching bit by bit ever since.
I'm only halfway through the video, but...YEAH.
My favorite* part of adjuncting was how they deliberately, contractually classified us as not working more than 29 hours a week so that not only were we not eligible for any benefits...
but we can't count that time towards PSLF bc it's not full-time.
My favorite* part of adjuncting was how they deliberately, contractually classified us as not working more than 29 hours a week so that not only were we not eligible for any benefits...
but we can't count that time towards PSLF bc it's not full-time.
This (youtu.be/2AvfOhtmCZY?...) is an older @acollierastro.bsky.social video I must have missed, but it is brilliant in explaining the intensity of the bullshit of the adjunct system, for students and instructors.
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Yeah, my 'hours' as an adjunct have always been carefully calculated so that I didn't get health benefits and the one time the department slipped up and put me over the line they 1) didn't notice until I told them and 2) have been cutting back my teaching bit by bit ever since.
As United States Air Force cadets in the Reserve Officer Training Corps while in college in the 1980s, we were formally taught in ROTC classroom session about the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including our legal obligation to defy and report illegal orders.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As United States Air Force cadets in the Reserve Officer Training Corps while in college in the 1980s, we were formally taught in ROTC classroom session about the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including our legal obligation to defy and report illegal orders.
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Ah yes, nooses and swastikas, famous symbols of brotherly love. The flag of the slaver's treason isn't any better, but is sometimes thought so, but the nooses and swastikas really puts the point on it, huh?
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Ah yes, nooses and swastikas, famous symbols of brotherly love. The flag of the slaver's treason isn't any better, but is sometimes thought so, but the nooses and swastikas really puts the point on it, huh?
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Happening TONIGHT (6pm PT), my colleague, the fantastic Dr. Nora Donoghue, will be giving a lecture about Poggio Civitate’s Etruscan Workshop and you can join via zoom! Zoom deets in the flyer and alt text
www.spokaneaia.com/event-detail...
www.spokaneaia.com/event-detail...
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Happening TONIGHT (6pm PT), my colleague, the fantastic Dr. Nora Donoghue, will be giving a lecture about Poggio Civitate’s Etruscan Workshop and you can join via zoom! Zoom deets in the flyer and alt text
www.spokaneaia.com/event-detail...
www.spokaneaia.com/event-detail...
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Join us online or in person for a talk from MAHSA’s Vaneshree Vidyarthi: ‘Mapping the Indian Palaeolithic’, part of the London Centre for the Ancient Near East’s Autumn seminar series.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcane-autu...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcane-autu...
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Join us online or in person for a talk from MAHSA’s Vaneshree Vidyarthi: ‘Mapping the Indian Palaeolithic’, part of the London Centre for the Ancient Near East’s Autumn seminar series.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcane-autu...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcane-autu...
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"(NEH) grant funds appear to have been put towards supporting two awards at nearly 10 percent of the agency’s annual $207 million budget" bit.ly/48asUWt
Ten Percent of National Endowment for the Humanities Budget Will Support Two Grantees
'The agency’s ability to conduct grantmaking has been seriously damaged,' Representative Chellie Pingree of Maine, explained.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"(NEH) grant funds appear to have been put towards supporting two awards at nearly 10 percent of the agency’s annual $207 million budget" bit.ly/48asUWt
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In Chapter 7 of #ComputationalHumanities, Crystal Eddins asks whether archives created for the purpose of enslaving and dehumanizing can be used to humanize and liberate. Can we reclaim records -- and the people memorialized in them -- digitally?
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In Chapter 7 of #ComputationalHumanities, Crystal Eddins asks whether archives created for the purpose of enslaving and dehumanizing can be used to humanize and liberate. Can we reclaim records -- and the people memorialized in them -- digitally?
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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GAERHF talk happening November 25th at 5PM in London. "Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure" www.history.ac.uk/digital-huma... . It will be on Zoom as well. Link will be sent after registration (I think).
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
GAERHF talk happening November 25th at 5PM in London. "Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure" www.history.ac.uk/digital-huma... . It will be on Zoom as well. Link will be sent after registration (I think).
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Accessible color palette coming online at GAERHF. Reactions from all welcome.
Working on color palette for GAERHF that's more likely to be discernible by more people. The light-ish purple circle on map is current figure whose details are shown. Brown marker borders show which figures have "ivory" as a keyword. Input at top-left to select that. gaerhf.org#ivory-female...
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Accessible color palette coming online at GAERHF. Reactions from all welcome.
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Am looking for PhD students to supervise under this particular call! And v interested in Home student applicants - please share with any ambitious DH/LIS students you know who are on the technical side…
The call for PhD applications for the Centre for Doctoral Training in Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing is live - deadline 7th January 2025! We have webinars for potential applicants to ask us questions and seek advice. www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student...
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Am looking for PhD students to supervise under this particular call! And v interested in Home student applicants - please share with any ambitious DH/LIS students you know who are on the technical side…
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Our work, led by @dl-arch.bsky.social and Miljana Radivojević on the Bronze Age site at Semiyarka (NE Kazakhstan) published today in @antiquity.ac.uk
Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Our work, led by @dl-arch.bsky.social and Miljana Radivojević on the Bronze Age site at Semiyarka (NE Kazakhstan) published today in @antiquity.ac.uk
A Wikipedia page for the Alabama Political Reporter was deleted in 2022 for "lack of notability". I have offered up a new one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama...
Alabama Political Reporter - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
A Wikipedia page for the Alabama Political Reporter was deleted in 2022 for "lack of notability". I have offered up a new one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama...
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Last Week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (10-17 November 2025), the editorial college published 12 new and 227 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Ilaria Cristofaro, Dan Diffendale, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Last Week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (10-17 November 2025), the editorial college published 12 new and 227 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Ilaria Cristofaro, Dan Diffendale, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
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Huge congrats to @platanoclassics.bsky.social! And really, huge congrats to ASU for this huge hire. news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
Dan-el Padilla Peralta joins humanities faculty at ASU | ASU News
In August 2026, the esteemed historian and professor of classics, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, will join the stellar faculty of internationally acclaimed humanities scholars at Arizona State University. Co...
news.asu.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Huge congrats to @platanoclassics.bsky.social! And really, huge congrats to ASU for this huge hire. news.asu.edu/b/20251112-d...
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"Keyword Highlighting" in GAERHF more robust. Type "go" in top-left input field and you'll see options. Hover over options and relevant figures will be highlighted with green border. Click on a keyword and those markers will stay green. Current selected object is gaerhf.org#bimaran-casket
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"Keyword Highlighting" in GAERHF more robust. Type "go" in top-left input field and you'll see options. Hover over options and relevant figures will be highlighted with green border. Click on a keyword and those markers will stay green. Current selected object is gaerhf.org#bimaran-casket
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November 13, 1956: the Supreme Court officially desegregates the buses in Montgomery, Alabama after a long boycott initiated by Jo Ann Robinson and Rosa Parks.
Browder v. Gayle | History of the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court’s affirmation of a district court decision to outlaw segregated bussing in Montgomery, Alabama that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
civics.supremecourthistory.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
November 13, 1956: the Supreme Court officially desegregates the buses in Montgomery, Alabama after a long boycott initiated by Jo Ann Robinson and Rosa Parks.
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Our libraries are cutting staff so that Elsevier can have its 32% profit margin
A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:
a 🧵 1/n
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
a 🧵 1/n
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Our libraries are cutting staff so that Elsevier can have its 32% profit margin
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very happy to see my PBSR article on female token issuers in Rome and Ostia is now live! If anyone would like a copy, let me know. :-) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
REPRESENTATIONS OF ROMAN WOMEN ON THE TOKENS OF ROME AND OSTIA | Papers of the British School at Rome | Cambridge Core
REPRESENTATIONS OF ROMAN WOMEN ON THE TOKENS OF ROME AND OSTIA
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
very happy to see my PBSR article on female token issuers in Rome and Ostia is now live! If anyone would like a copy, let me know. :-) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
Cambridge University Press
view.updates.cambridge.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
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The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.
Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.