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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 · 23d

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 · 19h

My on-going thanks to an anonymous donor in memory of Lucy Shoe Meritt.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 20h

Christmas came before Halloween!

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 2d

I hadn't realized Daniel Kahneman had dedicated his final years to cooking.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 3d

!!Qui volet!!

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 3d

This is very interesting to me from a differences-between-disciplines point of view. I can't imagine these numbers (either the y-axis or the # of data points) in language or historical fields. And I would have guessed (wrongly) that she is a hard scientist.

Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 6d

Here are my published articles in each year and the number of times each was rejected before publication

A scatterplot of the number of rejections (y axis) by year (x axis)

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 3d

Ready to delete account.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 3d

I was there during roughly peak Celtics, and I don't know that the fanbase had a really distinctive character.
I do wonder if there isn't lurking proto-entitlement in the general feature of Boston culture of imagining the city to be more important to the country than anyone else thinks of it?

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 4d

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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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 6d

Here are my published articles in each year and the number of times each was rejected before publication

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, I think so.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

True and important.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 10d

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

Micah @rincewind.run · 10d

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 · 10d

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 11d

The potential Mexican cross-over here intrigues me.

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 11d

Strigine gender theory?

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 11d

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

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social · 13d

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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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 13d

The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applicants to its 2025 cohort of Junior Fellows.

Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.

For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025

A vertically oriented rectangular graphic is split into an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper half shows a photo of a woman with pulled-back dark brown hair wearing a dark dress jacket and scarf. To her left, bold black text reads “I feel no hesitation saying that joining the SoFCB fully transformed my academic life and research.” Below the woman, smaller text in white reads, “Elizaveta Strakhov, Past President, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB)”. The lower portion of the graphic has a mostly white background with a couple of horizontal bars in gray and black. Text in white, black, red, and yellow reads, “Apply now! The SoFCB Junior Fellows Program. Application Deadline: Wednesday, 19 November 2025. Learn more & apply at tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025.”

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 18d

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 · 18d

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 · 19d

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

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 20d

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

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 20d

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

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20d

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 · 20d

And a fine choice it was!

Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 20d

Agreed.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20d

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Nathaniel S. Katz @nathanielskatz.bsky.social · 20d

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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