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The other Dr. (C.C.) Manning, an ocean scientist headed towards the Arctic on CCGS Amundsen, has a microblog at https://twitter.com/carabonate/ en français and in English #scicom #oceanScience #chemistry

New Post: Slavery in Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman World https://bookandsword.com/2019/07/13/slavery-in-mesopotamia/
#slavery #babylonia #citizenship #worldHistory

Science for the People #podcast has another excellent episode on what really happened at the Robber's Cave and Stanford Prison experiments http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/episodes/a-shock-machine-and-the-lost-boys #psychology #conflictCommunication #anthropology #scicom #cancon

I collected my first payment from #patreon this month https://www.patreon.com/bookandswordblog Thanks to Christian C and Jonathan D! Patreon has issues but until December 2017 they did build a system which people were actually willing to use.

@JubalBarca In their efforts to do world history, the British Library has an Ottoman manuscript open to the page celebrating the conquest of Georgia in 1582. I guess Georgians are not a large enough group to complain ;)

Updated an old post: the stone throwers of Onomarchos, and when historians have a duty to indicate that the original language of their source leaves something unclear https://bookandsword.com/2014/02/04/409/ #ancient #catapult #polyaenus #ancientWarfare #Philip_of_Macedon

Oh my, my paper I got live tweeted at the #ClassicalCitizen birdsite hashtag

The American Historical Association will no longer be supporting job interviews at its annual January convention https://www.historians.org/jobs-and-professional-development/statements-standards-and-guidelines-of-the-discipline/guidelines-for-first-round-interviews #history #academicJobMarket

Academic travellers! Don't forget that phones and laptops and social media accounts are increasingly likely to be searched when you cross borders. Those 2000-eras laws are still on the books and often being reinforced. I travel with a special travel laptop and phone that just has the things I need, no full password manager, 20 years of personal documents, etc. #academic #travel #privacy

X. wasn't given to abstract theory, but put one of his academic critics in his shoes and I expect they would be banished, knifed, or just shunned within a year ... he was very good at pleasing his latest patron without betraying himself.

Found another academic who calls #xenophon "not the sharpest knife in the drawer." If someone who amuses Socrates as a teenager, invents a whole genre and writes major works in half a dozen others, and fights for every power in the Aegean without ever getting trapped when his latest patron fails is "blunt" I'd be terrified to meet a sharp mind! #ancient #philosophy

AlchemEast, a project on ancient and medieval Near Eastern #alchemy #chemistry #naturalPhilosophy #italy at https://alchemeast.eu/

New Post: The Key Question in the Fall of the Roman Empire https://bookandsword.com/2019/06/24/the-key-question-in-the-fall-of-the-roman-empire/ #ancient #lateAntique #politicalPhilosophy #whatToASlaveIsYourRomanCivilization

I don't know what is happening in the background on Mastodon, but thanks to @socrates for moderating so its not visible here

New Post: some thoughts on Niven's "A Gift from Earth" https://bookandsword.com/2019/06/22/some-thoughts-on-nivens-a-gift-from-earth/ #bookReview #scifi #niven

I like Maciej Ceglowski's vision of avertising companies like Alphabet and Facebook as dragons sitting on hoards of personal data and promising that its ok because nobody else will be allowed to take a single ring https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm #privacy #stateOfTheWeb

A terracotta of a soldier on the march sometime in the age of Alexander and the successors (Myrina-in-Aeolis, Turkey) #art #sculpture #dailyLife

Wow, Contingency Magazine has an article explaining panbabylonianism! http://contingentmagazine.org/2019/05/18/in-memoriam-panbabylonianism/ That is a movement which has been written out of the history books in English, except among Near Eastern specialists. #ancient #methodology