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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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

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Christmas came before Halloween!
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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I hadn't realized Daniel Kahneman had dedicated his final years to cooking.
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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!!Qui volet!!

by Andrew M. Riggsby

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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.
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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 7d
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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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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Ready to delete account.
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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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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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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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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by Mirya R. Holman — Reposted by Andrew M. Riggsby, Lisa W. Fazio, Seth Masket , and 2 more

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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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by Andrew M. Riggsby

antiquethought.bsky.social
Yes, I think so.
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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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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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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True and important.
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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Please tell me this is true, @carlosfnorena.bsky.social !
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11d
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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Reposted by Andrew M. Riggsby, Lisa W. Fazio

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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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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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The potential Mexican cross-over here intrigues me.
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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Strigine gender theory?
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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

by Andrew M. Riggsby

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I was still using this technology for research more recently than that!
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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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Reposted by Andrew M. Riggsby, Kathleen Kennedy

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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
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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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
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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Partial counterpoint: I don't actually know the politics of the bulk of my colleagues in the field.
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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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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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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Do it, Carlos. You know she's right.
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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Pre-photographic-slide era cast collection, it looks like.
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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Is this for Alan, @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social ?
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 21d
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 🧵)
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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And a fine choice it was!
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by Andrew M. Riggsby

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Agreed.

Reposted by Andrew M. Riggsby, Lisa W. Fazio, Rebecca Solnit , and 24 more

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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 🧵)
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