Dr. Ellen Bauerle
@bauerle.bsky.social
🏺Executive Editor, Univ. of Michigan Press. My UMP colleagues are all people, no bots. Views my own. #LeavingAcademia.edu #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
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Oxford University Press and Hum sign agreement to pilot Alchemist Review
Oxford University Press partners with Hum to pilot Alchemist Review, an AI-based editorial assistant that will enhance manuscript assessment while reducing a...
www.alpsp.org
This AI bot removes one of the entry-level publishing jobs for recent college grads, and it removes the option for human editorial assistants to learn how publishing works.
Often sign work emails 'best,' but a keyboard slip has revealed an alternative is 'beset.' Possibly of universal use at term-end, when maybe 'very beset' is more fitting.
December 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Often sign work emails 'best,' but a keyboard slip has revealed an alternative is 'beset.' Possibly of universal use at term-end, when maybe 'very beset' is more fitting.
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I talk about this sometimes to folks not in academic or archival spaces and they scoff, then they get 👀👀, then they drink
One of the books in my office is 290 years old. It’s still in excellent condition and easy to read. I wonder how easy it’ll be to read electronic texts 290 years from now. I expect it’ll be rather trickier.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I talk about this sometimes to folks not in academic or archival spaces and they scoff, then they get 👀👀, then they drink
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👥 We've only got a couple of weeks of term left, but it's never too late to #MeetOurStaff
💥 Log on to our website to see interviews with Dr Giulia Bonasio and others, as they talk about their research projects and teaching
🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
💥 Log on to our website to see interviews with Dr Giulia Bonasio and others, as they talk about their research projects and teaching
🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
👥 We've only got a couple of weeks of term left, but it's never too late to #MeetOurStaff
💥 Log on to our website to see interviews with Dr Giulia Bonasio and others, as they talk about their research projects and teaching
🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
💥 Log on to our website to see interviews with Dr Giulia Bonasio and others, as they talk about their research projects and teaching
🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Trump : Venezuela :: Putin : Ukraine
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Trump : Venezuela :: Putin : Ukraine
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Authors win discovery ruling in lawsuit against Open AI that could help prove willful copyright infringement (over the use of pirated datasets for AI training)
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Authors win discovery ruling in lawsuit against Open AI that could help prove willful copyright infringement (over the use of pirated datasets for AI training)
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We can read 4000 year old texts. We can't open 20 year old digital documents
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We can read 4000 year old texts. We can't open 20 year old digital documents
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OK, who narced?
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
OK, who narced?
Dear #SCS/AIA: look how Leeds helps its accepted attendees advertise the conference and their participation in advance. Food for thought, eh?
#AAACC maybe something for you here as well.
#AAACC maybe something for you here as well.
In good news today, our four Medieval Fragments sessions have been accepted!! #imc2026
So happy we’re back for a second year of fragmentary goodness.
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
So happy we’re back for a second year of fragmentary goodness.
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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An author-signed book is one of the most affordable gifts you can give a friend or loved one.
The American Museum of Natural History shop stocks a dozen of my books, pre-signed by me. You’ll pay near-list price or a Black-Friday price, but proceeds go to the Museum.
shop.amnh.org/catalogsearc...
The American Museum of Natural History shop stocks a dozen of my books, pre-signed by me. You’ll pay near-list price or a Black-Friday price, but proceeds go to the Museum.
shop.amnh.org/catalogsearc...
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
An author-signed book is one of the most affordable gifts you can give a friend or loved one.
The American Museum of Natural History shop stocks a dozen of my books, pre-signed by me. You’ll pay near-list price or a Black-Friday price, but proceeds go to the Museum.
shop.amnh.org/catalogsearc...
The American Museum of Natural History shop stocks a dozen of my books, pre-signed by me. You’ll pay near-list price or a Black-Friday price, but proceeds go to the Museum.
shop.amnh.org/catalogsearc...
Or, roughly, staff for 29 university presses (not counting the always much higher salary for directors), figuring avg sal of $60k and 30 FTs per press. Regional variations, of course, and staff-size variations. But food for financial thought. Btw LSU has an excellent press.
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Or, roughly, staff for 29 university presses (not counting the always much higher salary for directors), figuring avg sal of $60k and 30 FTs per press. Regional variations, of course, and staff-size variations. But food for financial thought. Btw LSU has an excellent press.
Greaves for cricket. Hellenistic Greece ahead of us all once again.
Richard Burton playing cricket on the set of Alexander The Great during filming in Spain in the summer of 1955
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Greaves for cricket. Hellenistic Greece ahead of us all once again.
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Happy Thanksgiving from all of your wild friends at Zoo Boise! 🍂🥧
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from all of your wild friends at Zoo Boise! 🍂🥧
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November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Are you an early career researcher in the humanities, arts, or social sciences? Check out the opportunities offered by the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network:
🔗https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career-researcher-network
🔗https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career-researcher-network
Early Career Researcher Network
An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Are you an early career researcher in the humanities, arts, or social sciences? Check out the opportunities offered by the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network:
🔗https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career-researcher-network
🔗https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career-researcher-network
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In times of uncertainty, independent bookstores are a constant — and we’re thankful for them today and every day. 🧡
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In times of uncertainty, independent bookstores are a constant — and we’re thankful for them today and every day. 🧡
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Need a break from watching the parade or prepping another pie? Here’s a new kind of quiz for you — I’ve given you tiny closeups of famous artifacts. Can you figure out what they are? 🤠🏺🧪
Archaeology Fragments Quiz: Can you work out what these mysterious artifacts are?
Break out your best magnifying glass to solve these visual archaeology puzzles.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Need a break from watching the parade or prepping another pie? Here’s a new kind of quiz for you — I’ve given you tiny closeups of famous artifacts. Can you figure out what they are? 🤠🏺🧪
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Since the question came up: It’s real - not AI!
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Since the question came up: It’s real - not AI!
An excellent quiz; must bone up on Sutton Hoo evidently
Need a break from watching the parade or prepping another pie? Here’s a new kind of quiz for you — I’ve given you tiny closeups of famous artifacts. Can you figure out what they are? 🤠🏺🧪
Archaeology Fragments Quiz: Can you work out what these mysterious artifacts are?
Break out your best magnifying glass to solve these visual archaeology puzzles.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
An excellent quiz; must bone up on Sutton Hoo evidently
Papyri, for those interested
‘By his own estimate, Jonathan Tokeley-Parry smuggled three thousand antiquities out of Egypt in 65 trips over six years. His success was down to his skill as a “fabricator”.’
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson | Fake it till you make it
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Papyri, for those interested
TIL the 1970 USC PhD diss by Robert Vaughn, Mr. "Man from UNCLE," "The Influence of HUAC on the American Theater 1938–58," is per Kirkus (!) "the most complete and intelligent treatment of the virulent practice of blacklisting now available." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_... See n.6. Still in print.
Robert Vaughn - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
TIL the 1970 USC PhD diss by Robert Vaughn, Mr. "Man from UNCLE," "The Influence of HUAC on the American Theater 1938–58," is per Kirkus (!) "the most complete and intelligent treatment of the virulent practice of blacklisting now available." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_... See n.6. Still in print.
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For anyone who has been confused by the disappearance of the official Anthropic Settlement website, it's back online: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
It was temporarily removed thanks to concerns by the judge in the case, who stipulated a number of changes that had to be made.
It was temporarily removed thanks to concerns by the judge in the case, who stipulated a number of changes that had to be made.
Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
For anyone who has been confused by the disappearance of the official Anthropic Settlement website, it's back online: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
It was temporarily removed thanks to concerns by the judge in the case, who stipulated a number of changes that had to be made.
It was temporarily removed thanks to concerns by the judge in the case, who stipulated a number of changes that had to be made.
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Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Looking good, AAACC!
📢Just in time for holiday shopping, we are thrilled to announce our first ever AAACC merch drop! 📢
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Looking good, AAACC!
Yay!
MERCH IS HERE
📢Just in time for holiday shopping, we are thrilled to announce our first ever AAACC merch drop! 📢
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today!
🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Yay!
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A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!
Please spread the word: the 2026 application cycle for the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome is now live! (Yours truly as Director for my final year). www.aarome.org/apply/2026-c...
Classical Summer School
This five-week program is designed to provide participants with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary ...
www.aarome.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!