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Lucas McMahon

@chrysoboullon.bsky.social

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PhD Princeton. The logic and logistics of empire. Foreign affairs, information security, and digital spatial history. Byzantium, sometimes the Komnenoi. British Academy International Postdoctoral Fellow @ University of Exeter. 🇨🇦

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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 5d

Fascinating talk yesterday at UOttawa Dept. of Classics & Religious Studies / Conférence fascinante hier : Prof. Nick Hedley (SFU) on digital humanities research in Egypt / recherche en humanités numériques en Égypte. #ottawa #DigitalHumanities #AncientEgypt #EgypteAncienne #AncientBluesky

Academic presentation in a modern conference room showing a digital 3D reconstruction of an ancient Egyptian temple (Temple of Isis at Philae) on a large wall-mounted screen. The aerial view shows pink-toned stone temple structures beside the Nile River at sunset. Attendees sit around wooden tables watching the presentation, with a presenter standing at the right side of the room gesturing toward the screen.

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Krisztina Ilko @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social · 6d

Book cover plan, now complete with the blurb on the back! 📕

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · 6d

This will come as a surprise to approximately no one, but Grokipedia's source for this is *me* and my article totally does not say that.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 7d

In 2023, I was a Visiting Fellow at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. Got to experience the department as a world class center for our discipline (especially Late Antiquity). University management now wants to axe their honours programme.

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Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · 6d

I'm curious about where the bigotry and anger on the internet starts and where it ends. As a Canadian in the UK, every time I walk into a grocery store I am consistently shocked by the rack of newspapers where half of them have "evil foreigners!" as the cover story, every. single. day.

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · 7d

I don't want to get your hopes up, but the rest of it is just as good.

www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/978147...

A Physician on the Nile

Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thi...

www.libraryofarabicliterature.org

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · 7d

Back in the late twelfth century Al-Baghdadi saw your post about how ancient aliens built the pyramids and is embarrassed for you.

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Antiquité | Religions | Classics - Ottawa @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social · 11d

Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote something. Also made some maps for it.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · 15d

I dunno what you think, internet, but this 19th c. printer in Naples had a very pleasing Greek typeface.

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Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 20d

Book launch TOMORROW at @bplmaps.bsky.social!!! 🏠

Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 20d

Boston followers: Don't miss author @m-r-glass.bsky.social discussing his new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS, about how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities, tomorrow 10/15 at @bplmaps.bsky.social! Register now to reserve your spot.

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · 25d

Always good to hear some positive-ish things about a weird computational spatial analysis paper one wrote for a volume on Nikephoros II.

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Georgios Theotokis and Mamuka Tsurtsumia (eds.) Nikephoros II Phokas and Warfare in the Tenth Century Byzantine World (Reviewer- Mark Fissel) » De Re Militari

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · 25d

Not a thing, I'm afraid, but I don't really have anything to do with manuscripts.

Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · 29d

Just some reckless adventurism in the hemisphere... would sleep a lot better if we had a couple of SSBNs out there.

Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · Oct 4

Anything with annona in the title definitely piques my interest.

Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · Oct 4

Who ever said that nothing is made in America anymore? The wackadoodle industry is going strong, cranking out new models ever other day, it seems.

Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · Oct 4

"... Canada’s billionaires are siphoning off for themselves an ever-larger share of the nation’s wealth, at the expense of the rest of us."

Exciting to see a new @lindamcquaig.bsky.social book on the horizon!

www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...

Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us - Dundurn

With over 2,300 books in print, Dundurn Press is recognized for producing high quality, award-winning books across multiple genres.

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Krisztina Ilko @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social · Sep 23

Just a quick reminder that we are still eagerly awaiting your paper proposals for the next IMC! ⏰🎓👇 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · Sep 21

An excellent thing to read while I procrastinate actually reading the Byzantine land surveying manuals that I promised I would read.

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · Sep 18

It's on safe ground when the basic line is "evil gonna' evil".

Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · Sep 18

That those conspiracy theories might be right.

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · Sep 18

You see, this is why I despise humanity.

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · Sep 18

Only a thousand years late! archive.org/details/Bind...

The History of Caucasian Albanians: By Movses Dasxuranci : Movses Dasxuranci : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The History of Movses Dasxurantsi.

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · Sep 17

Plus the enshittification curve, so in two years the price will double, the AI's quality will drop, and you'll have to watch an ad for cat food every second essay.

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Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social · Sep 16

I can never just not associate the car in Ottawa with the stupid movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dsg...

Rat Race (8/9) Movie CLIP - Hitler's Car (2001) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

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