Ellen Muehlberger
@emuehlbe.bsky.social
Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
Pinned
I say this enough that I should just make a permanent pinned post, but people: if you're feeling down, just go get yourself a hit of other people's good news---it's the richest espresso, the driest prosecco, the warmest sunshine, the gooey-ist brownie
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i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
Out in SF for a couple days hiking with the big trees, and yowza, the percentage of billboards and ads about AI on the city drive north from the airport? Off the charts
biiiiig boom energy
biiiiig boom energy
December 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Out in SF for a couple days hiking with the big trees, and yowza, the percentage of billboards and ads about AI on the city drive north from the airport? Off the charts
biiiiig boom energy
biiiiig boom energy
My mother-in-law is hilarious and awesome, and today I'm reminded of a great gift she gave me, and I want to share it with you:
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My mother-in-law is hilarious and awesome, and today I'm reminded of a great gift she gave me, and I want to share it with you:
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In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.
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My reflections on Patristics in Canada - just out in SR! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Expanding Patristic perspectives: Thinking with 50 years of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies/Association Canadienne des Études Patristiques - Annette Yoshiko Reed, 2025
Why would anyone wish to found a new society dedicated to Patristics in the 1970s? In conventional historiographies of Religious Studies, the late 20th century ...
journals.sagepub.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My reflections on Patristics in Canada - just out in SR! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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When did Roman women stop having to have legal guardians? An open access article by Antii Arjava argues: “This article combines legal and papyrological sources to show that we can in fact establish the time when tutela was abolished in the reign of Constantine.” I do love late Roman legal history 🔖
The End of Tutela Mulierum | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
The End of Tutela Mulierum - Volume 114
www.cambridge.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
When did Roman women stop having to have legal guardians? An open access article by Antii Arjava argues: “This article combines legal and papyrological sources to show that we can in fact establish the time when tutela was abolished in the reign of Constantine.” I do love late Roman legal history 🔖
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An extremely important article. Small colleges serve students who are not well served by larger institutions and they are huge drivers of social mobility and economic activity in their regions
For a couple of years now, I've been fascinated with what's happening at small liberal arts colleges, which are running out of money for reasons unrelated to Trump funding cuts. Businessweek let me go deep on the problems, and one college that's trying to blaze a new trail.
Why a College Fighting for Survival Is Slashing Econ and Physics Majors
At Albright in Pennsylvania, the new president is cutting programs, selling art and real estate, and vowing not to hire anyone with tenure. Is this the way forward for liberal arts colleges?
www.bloomberg.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
An extremely important article. Small colleges serve students who are not well served by larger institutions and they are huge drivers of social mobility and economic activity in their regions
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NASSCAL, AELAC, and Beyond Canon are collaborating on a conference/workshop to take place in Regensburg, 8-10 July 2025. The theme is "Early Christian Apocalypticism (II-V saec.): Contours, Contexts, and Social Functions." If you are interested in taking part contact [email protected].
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
NASSCAL, AELAC, and Beyond Canon are collaborating on a conference/workshop to take place in Regensburg, 8-10 July 2025. The theme is "Early Christian Apocalypticism (II-V saec.): Contours, Contexts, and Social Functions." If you are interested in taking part contact [email protected].
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all the Best First Article Prize details are here: www.patristics.org/grants-and-p...
NB: the piece does not have to have been published in JECS to be considered!
NB: the piece does not have to have been published in JECS to be considered!
Grants and Prizes – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society
www.patristics.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
all the Best First Article Prize details are here: www.patristics.org/grants-and-p...
NB: the piece does not have to have been published in JECS to be considered!
NB: the piece does not have to have been published in JECS to be considered!
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📣Did you read someone's great first article from either 2024 or 2025? Is the author a NAPS member? Would they like cash money?
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
📣Did you read someone's great first article from either 2024 or 2025? Is the author a NAPS member? Would they like cash money?
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
Going through old NAPS board minutes to make a list of past winners of first article prize, and shocker, we have had the same three issues for the last thirty years:
1) Should our conference be strict or inclusive of papers?
2) Money, what do we do with it/how do we get it?
3) What's our name?
1) Should our conference be strict or inclusive of papers?
2) Money, what do we do with it/how do we get it?
3) What's our name?
December 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Going through old NAPS board minutes to make a list of past winners of first article prize, and shocker, we have had the same three issues for the last thirty years:
1) Should our conference be strict or inclusive of papers?
2) Money, what do we do with it/how do we get it?
3) What's our name?
1) Should our conference be strict or inclusive of papers?
2) Money, what do we do with it/how do we get it?
3) What's our name?
"Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."
can make me weep at the drop of a hat
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."
can make me weep at the drop of a hat
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."
can make me weep at the drop of a hat
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."
can make me weep at the drop of a hat
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Current* conditions near Manistee, MI:
December 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Current* conditions near Manistee, MI:
I don't think people realize how absolutely weird it is to have IU winning football games, like records playing backwards weird
To be winning games against Ohio State---like, am I on mushrooms? What world is this???
To be winning games against Ohio State---like, am I on mushrooms? What world is this???
December 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I don't think people realize how absolutely weird it is to have IU winning football games, like records playing backwards weird
To be winning games against Ohio State---like, am I on mushrooms? What world is this???
To be winning games against Ohio State---like, am I on mushrooms? What world is this???
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I'm an "alum" of this prize and being recognized this way really had a deep impact on me!
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I'm an "alum" of this prize and being recognized this way really had a deep impact on me!
all the Best First Article Prize details are here: www.patristics.org/grants-and-p...
NB: the piece does not have to have been published in JECS to be considered!
NB: the piece does not have to have been published in JECS to be considered!
Grants and Prizes – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society
www.patristics.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
all the Best First Article Prize details are here: www.patristics.org/grants-and-p...
NB: the piece does not have to have been published in JECS to be considered!
NB: the piece does not have to have been published in JECS to be considered!
📣Did you read someone's great first article from either 2024 or 2025? Is the author a NAPS member? Would they like cash money?
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
📣Did you read someone's great first article from either 2024 or 2025? Is the author a NAPS member? Would they like cash money?
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
📣Are you a NAPS member? Did you publish your first article in 2024 or 2025? Do you like cash money?
Send a PDF of that first article to me at [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
Send a PDF of that first article to me at [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
📣Are you a NAPS member? Did you publish your first article in 2024 or 2025? Do you like cash money?
Send a PDF of that first article to me at [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
Send a PDF of that first article to me at [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
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I had a great time talking with Anthony Kaldellis on his Byzantium & Friends pod about Things Unseen
the episode is up here: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-5ccaq-...
first question out of the gate is about the dedication
the episode is up here: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-5ccaq-...
first question out of the gate is about the dedication
145. Seeing into the minds of others, with Ellen Muehlberger
A conversation with Ellen Muehlberger (University of Michigan) about how some people in late antiquity tried to model, confirm, or interpret what they thought was going on in the minds of others. We b...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I had a great time talking with Anthony Kaldellis on his Byzantium & Friends pod about Things Unseen
the episode is up here: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-5ccaq-...
first question out of the gate is about the dedication
the episode is up here: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-5ccaq-...
first question out of the gate is about the dedication
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this is crucial. broligarchs need data, they've stolen most of what they can, there's virtually no business use case, student data capture is the whole bag
December 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
this is crucial. broligarchs need data, they've stolen most of what they can, there's virtually no business use case, student data capture is the whole bag
I need two permanent copy-pastes, accessible on any device:
my zoom room URL
and
"Ellen (which you should call me if you're comfortable with that)
my zoom room URL
and
"Ellen (which you should call me if you're comfortable with that)
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I need two permanent copy-pastes, accessible on any device:
my zoom room URL
and
"Ellen (which you should call me if you're comfortable with that)
my zoom room URL
and
"Ellen (which you should call me if you're comfortable with that)
that day when one bibliographic entry leads you to another, and another, on high alert, like "has *this* piece already done what I want to do with this chapter I'm writing?" and it's high stakes until you work through the German, or the Spanish, or whatever and finally learn: no, not this one!
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
that day when one bibliographic entry leads you to another, and another, on high alert, like "has *this* piece already done what I want to do with this chapter I'm writing?" and it's high stakes until you work through the German, or the Spanish, or whatever and finally learn: no, not this one!
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I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
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Looking for an MA in Classics and Ancient History? Look no further! We are very excited about the launch of our new MA in Classics and Ancient History, now open for applications for a September 2026 start.
For more information and to apply, please visit:
courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...
For more information and to apply, please visit:
courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...
Classics and Ancient History MA | University of Leeds
The Classics and Ancient History MA is unique to Leeds and explores the ancient Mediterranean world, spanning literature, history, philosophy, religion and material culture.
courses.leeds.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Looking for an MA in Classics and Ancient History? Look no further! We are very excited about the launch of our new MA in Classics and Ancient History, now open for applications for a September 2026 start.
For more information and to apply, please visit:
courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...
For more information and to apply, please visit:
courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...