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Professor Elton
@eltonteb.bsky.social
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Prof of Greek Literature & Culture at The Open University | working-class Classicist | still delighting in Homer | dabbling in the digital | grappling with the politics of form & linked data | Pelagios partnership sec | hello to Jason | love the show Steve
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Professor Elton @eltonteb.bsky.social · Aug 29
Greetings all, I'm a classicist at the Open University with a passion for Homer, tragedy and historiography. I'm also helping to develop digital methods and tools to map texts with recogito.pelagios.org, and link data with pelagios.org. Always happy to give school talks on any of these topics!
Welcome to Pelagios Network
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d
Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 2d
Provost Joel P. Christensen (@sentantiq.bsky.social) explains what Odysseus’s violent homecoming reveals about autocracy, memory, and the impossibility of resolution neoskosmos.com/en/2025/10/0...
When kings return: Homer's lesson for divided societies - Neos Kosmos
What Odysseus's violent homecoming reveals about autocracy, memory, and the impossibility of resolution
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d
Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 6d
Hard to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when you're in charge of all 3 branches of government, plus the Supreme Court.
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Sing, O Muse! @singomusezine.bsky.social · 7d
Sing, O Muse! Chthonic Visions is officially here! Featuring 38 amazing artists depicting figures from the spookier side of Greek mythology.

You can obtain a digital copy for free or, for a limited time, a print copy through the link in our bio!
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God @thegodpodcast.com · 19d
Goodbye, Disney+!
Bless All The People Boycotting Disney
Thou shalt defend free speech.
www.thegodpodcast.com
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 21d
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 24d
The sold-out Brian Eno-curated Together For Palestine charity concert on September 17 will be livestreamed togetherforpalestine.org
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BrooklynVegan @brooklynvegan.bsky.social · 21d
Watch Brian Eno's Together For Palestine benefit w/ Damon Albarn, Portishead, Sampha, Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry, Paul Weller & more www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-brian-...
Watch Brian Eno's Together For Palestine benefit w/ Damon Albarn, Portishead, Sampha, Jamie xx, more
The benefit at Wembley Arena also features performances by Paul Weller, Neneh Cherry, James Blake, King Krule, Pinkpanthress, and many more.
www.brooklynvegan.com
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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 22d
EpiDoc office hours currentepigraphy.org/2025/09/15/e...

One hour a month will be set aside for anyone and everyone to drop in with questions about epigraphic/papyrological encoding, or any other aspect of #EpiDoc. No booking or advance notice required, just join the zoom link and say hi.
EpiDoc Drop-In Sessions - Current Epigraphy
Starting in September 2025, the EpiDoc maintainers will be hosting a monthly online drop-in session (1 hour per month). During these sessions, some of the maintainers will be available to answer EpiDo...
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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 27d
Work is coming together. The GitHub repo is being populated. Follow along here github.com/pelagios/llm...
GitHub - pelagios/llm-lod-enriching-heritage: A repo containing a PythonBook containing recipes created by the Lorentz Center workshop 'Enriching Digital Heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data' (Leid...
A repo containing a PythonBook containing recipes created by the Lorentz Center workshop 'Enriching Digital Heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data' (Leiden, September 8-12, 2025) - pelagio...
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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Sep 8
In Leiden right now we've just begun a weeklong workshop on exploring the transformative potential of combining Large Language Models (LLMs) & Linked Open Data (LOD) to enrich cultural heritage metadata in ways that foster FAIR usage www.lorentzcenter.nl/enriching-di... Watch this space for outcomes
Center for Scientific Workshops in All Disciplines - Enriching Digital Heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data
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Professor Elton @eltonteb.bsky.social · Sep 6
I don't think that it's simply a northern vs. southern thing. It's more of a Loxbridge thing (a new form of RP?). Bedfordshire is hardly a winning accent in academic circles.
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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · Sep 5
"He doesn't see the irony in pleading to Trump that 𝘸𝘦 have a problem."

Why is Farage is begging America - a country at odds with democracy - to help bring the UK back from the brink of its so-called ‘free speech problem’?

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
The shameless hypocrisy of Nigel Farage | The News Agents
Nigel Farage has been branded a “Putin-loving free speech impostor and Trump sycophant” during his visit to the US to plead for help with Britain's so-called ‘free-speech problem.’ But will slagging…
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Professor Elton @eltonteb.bsky.social · Sep 4
In case this is of interest @kermodemovie.bsky.social @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · Sep 2
Right now there’s a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. It’s mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people want…
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 22
NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.”

UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.

The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.

(🎥 BBC News)
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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · Aug 19
Pleiades Co-Working Day (16 September 2025)

More info and to register: hcommons.social/@pleiades_ga...

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #HGIS #gazetteers

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Pleiades gazetteer (@[email protected])
Pleiades Co-Working Day (16 September 2025) Register by 7 September to collaborate online with other community members to improve and expand the Pleiades gazetteer. You'll sign up for one or more two...
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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · Aug 18
Last week the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college published 9 new and 294 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 5 people. Get all the details on the blog at: pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la...
A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map covers the area from the Iberian peninsula in the west to the Ganes delta in the east and from the British Isles in the North to the Horn of Africa.
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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · Aug 14
"London lives rent free in their heads as it's living proof of how completely wrong their politics is - they 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 to lie about it!"

As the far-right push a thinly veiled anti-immigrant narrative by branding London a "crime-ridden hellhole" - Jon and Lewis push back.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Aug 14
Following our earlier investigation into the effectiveness of LLMs for geolocation, we've tested some of the latest LLM updates to see if they're even better.
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Aug 13
(7/7): The insights from this survey will help guide our approach to the evolving landscape of AI and publishing. Many thanks to all who shared their perspectives. Read the full report by Press Director Amy Brand and co-authors at @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social:
Guest Post - Who Controls Knowledge in the Age of AI? Part 1 - The Scholarly Kitchen
The MIT Press surveyed book authors on attitudes towards LLM training practices. In Part 1 of this 2 part post, we discuss the results: authors are not opposed to generative AI per se, but they are…
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Aug 11
On Saturday, 86-year-old Jacob travelled from Norfolk to join hundreds in Parliament Square who opposed the government’s proscription of Palestine Action. They gathered calmly and peacefully to commit a criminal act.

Read about this rare moment in British history ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Why I sat in Parliament Square and risked arrest for Palestine Action
On Saturday, I joined hundreds provoked by government arrogance into peacefully defying the proscription of Palestine Action
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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · Aug 13
The "LOD People" activity of the @pelagios.bsky.social Network (pelagios.org/activities/p...) has been collecting samples of data from digital datasets that record historical persons (whether in LOD, TEI XML, CSV, or any other open format.

(Do you have any such data we could look at?)
People
Works towards consensus and standards for common representation of historical people in structured Linked Open Data
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Aug 10
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Aug 9
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries

The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.

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