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Ethan Gruber
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Interested in archaeology, linked open data, #OpenAccess, #LODLAM, cycling. Charlottesville, VA
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Congratulations to 2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award recipient Brett Bobley, former director @neh-odh.bsky.social. This award recognizes his decades-long leadership that empowered university presses to use digital technologies to experiment, collaborate & reach new audiences. https://bit.ly/3XJ3ydj
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Interested in architecture on Roman Republican coins? All you have to do is keyword search. Using python natural language processing to reconcile descriptive concepts to Wikidata. These are results of temples, columns, altars, gates, etc. Expect more NLP results throughout our projects soon.
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Saturday night I was in the car scanning through AM radio looking for any college football game to listen to (found UVA-Duke), but also barely picked up a Windsor, Canada Spitfires junior hockey team game. I've always been amazed how far these signals travel.
December 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Principal Curator of Collection Development (Archaeology)
National Museum of Wales
Salary: Grade F £44,793.83 - £47,360.00
Closing Date: December 23, 2025
Based in Cardiff

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Principal Curator of Collection Development (Archaeology) - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: Grade F £44,793.83 - £47,360.00Closing Date: 23/12/25Location:
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December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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SOURCES: Louisville head coach Jeff Brohm has signaled to the school he plans to remain with the Cardinals and is not exploring other jobs, @theathletic.com has learned.

Brohm is a Louisville alum and talked to Penn State earlier in the process. UL is working on a new contract.
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Lmao at the Ivy League's first-ever playoff trips. What's up nerds
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I made a bot that will post "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," clip by clip, between now and Christmas Eve. That's 12–13 clips daily, 24/7, just so you know what you'd be getting into. (Clips will auto-delete a few days after being posted.) It starts now.
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
lol
remember, folks,
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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QUADRENNIAL NUMISMATIC PRIZE 2026
The Royal Belgian Society for Numismatics is pleased to announce the next edition of its quadrennial Numismatic Prize. This prize of €2.000 rewards an original scholarly work in the field of numismatics.
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Awesome post-doc alert! Apply to join the 3rd cohort of our distinctively awesome multi-disciplinary lab
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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just saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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“Things happen.”

Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and Washington Post columnist who was literally murdered and dismembered by agents of the Saudi government inside a Saudi consulate.

Shameful. So shameful.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Related to this, I have a pending FOIA request with UVA for the retainer agreement and billing records/invoices from McGuireWoods regarding UVA’s interactions with DOJ. It was filed on *July 2* and I still haven’t received a substantive reply. (The deadline is a maximum of 12 working days.)
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM