N. Olya
@nsolya.bsky.social
Classical Archaeologist | Greek vases, ethnicity, & otherness in Mediterranean antiquity | Likes/Follows/Reposts =/= endorsements
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"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
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surreal times
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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“You didn’t get a high paying job right after graduation because you got a Humanities degree instead of learning to code”
Same people: “too bad, so sad, AI can do your job and no one cares about cultivating future leadership in the field.”
Same people:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Same people: “too bad, so sad, AI can do your job and no one cares about cultivating future leadership in the field.”
Same people:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Stanford graduates spark outrage after uncovering reason behind lack of job offers: 'A dramatic reversal from three years ago'
"That has changed."
www.yahoo.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“You didn’t get a high paying job right after graduation because you got a Humanities degree instead of learning to code”
Same people: “too bad, so sad, AI can do your job and no one cares about cultivating future leadership in the field.”
Same people:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Same people: “too bad, so sad, AI can do your job and no one cares about cultivating future leadership in the field.”
Same people:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
I went to the Worcester Art Museum a few years ago when I was in town to give a lecture at Holy Cross. While I was primarily interested in seeing the Antioch mosaics there, I was pleasantly surprised that the collection is geographically and chronologically very broad. Definitely worth a visit.
Hello from the @worcesterartmuseum.bsky.social, where we are spending a lovely Christmas Eve looking at medieval and early modern armor from Mughal India, Sudan, and medieval Europe in the newly reopened armor galleries. Truly, this is the way. ⚔️
December 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I went to the Worcester Art Museum a few years ago when I was in town to give a lecture at Holy Cross. While I was primarily interested in seeing the Antioch mosaics there, I was pleasantly surprised that the collection is geographically and chronologically very broad. Definitely worth a visit.
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My sister got me a building set of Anubis and I spent about 8 hours straight on it to complete him. Look how cool he is!! I’ve placed him beside my senet set and he will probably get destroyed by cats
December 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
My sister got me a building set of Anubis and I spent about 8 hours straight on it to complete him. Look how cool he is!! I’ve placed him beside my senet set and he will probably get destroyed by cats
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Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads
Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology
www.cambridge.org
December 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads
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Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
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This is much more comprehensive than my own list, and reassuringly familiar from my experience of marking. I’ll be sharing the list with my students, both to think about writing for different audiences (encyclopaedia articles) and being aware of the weakness of LLM generated text.
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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September 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is much more comprehensive than my own list, and reassuringly familiar from my experience of marking. I’ll be sharing the list with my students, both to think about writing for different audiences (encyclopaedia articles) and being aware of the weakness of LLM generated text.
I participated in this excellent conference a few years ago and I encourage anyone interested to submit an abstract!
🚨CFP for #ResDiff7 is now available!🚨
Res Difficiles 7 will take place on 13th March 2026 with Dr Samuel Agbamu as our keynote speaker.
Submit an abstract by 12th January 2026:
resdifficiles.com/cfp/
Res Difficiles 7 will take place on 13th March 2026 with Dr Samuel Agbamu as our keynote speaker.
Submit an abstract by 12th January 2026:
resdifficiles.com/cfp/
CFP: Res Diff 7
CALL FOR PAPERSRes Difficiles 7Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics Organizers: Hannah Čulík-Baird and Elke Nash Date: Friday March 13, 2026Platform: Webinar Since 2020 Res D…
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September 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I participated in this excellent conference a few years ago and I encourage anyone interested to submit an abstract!
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companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat
they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box
they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box
September 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat
they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box
they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box
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the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks
September 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks
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There are so many unforgivable actions of capitulation being taken by the institutions most well-positioned to stand up to Trump’s authoritarianism if they wished to do so.
A must-read from @samtlevin.bsky.social:
A must-read from @samtlevin.bsky.social:
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
There are so many unforgivable actions of capitulation being taken by the institutions most well-positioned to stand up to Trump’s authoritarianism if they wished to do so.
A must-read from @samtlevin.bsky.social:
A must-read from @samtlevin.bsky.social:
"The president's laws"...they really aren't sending their best!
Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"The president's laws"...they really aren't sending their best!
Academics love to pretend to be busy as an excuse not to respond to emails but will constantly be posting on Instagram, Facebook, and the like. Get serious!
September 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Academics love to pretend to be busy as an excuse not to respond to emails but will constantly be posting on Instagram, Facebook, and the like. Get serious!
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The University of Chicago “lost tens of millions investing in crypto around 2021” Hahahahahahaha
UChicago Lost Money on Crypto, Then Froze Research When Federal Funding Was Cut
While Stanford responded to the federal funding research freeze by halting administrative hiring and protecting research, the University of Chicago panicked.
On January 28, hours after the Trump admi...
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August 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The University of Chicago “lost tens of millions investing in crypto around 2021” Hahahahahahaha
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When unis say “we won’t fire you humanities professors, we’ll just take your majors away and merge your department with two others and rename it all,” what they’re doing is they’re making humanities expertise increasingly invisible and inaccessible…
August 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
When unis say “we won’t fire you humanities professors, we’ll just take your majors away and merge your department with two others and rename it all,” what they’re doing is they’re making humanities expertise increasingly invisible and inaccessible…
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An R1 without languages programs isn't a research university, it's a joke.
August 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
An R1 without languages programs isn't a research university, it's a joke.
Wake up babe, people are posting on the Liverpool Classics Listserv that the destruction of the Humanities in the age of the neoliberal university has nothing to do with politics
August 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Wake up babe, people are posting on the Liverpool Classics Listserv that the destruction of the Humanities in the age of the neoliberal university has nothing to do with politics
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Others have more robust comments, but UChicago deciding to forgo language education—the literal thing they’re known for—and hoping that GenAI can teach grad students Akkadian and Homeric Greek is horrifying
August 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Others have more robust comments, but UChicago deciding to forgo language education—the literal thing they’re known for—and hoping that GenAI can teach grad students Akkadian and Homeric Greek is horrifying
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The kids are alright! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
EDITORIAL: Shared governance is dying while our Board prospers
The self-serving actions of the Board are not just harmful to students and faculty today, but they are harmful to our institution as a whole and the future president who will be invited to lead it.
www.cavalierdaily.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The kids are alright! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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The core role of the university in society is the generational transmission of knowledge and rare skills. This has been already long forgotten by administrators who have prioritised rebranding universities as publicly-funded job-training centres in recent decades.
3 crucial roles for the university: to preserve, transmit, and create knowledge.
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The core role of the university in society is the generational transmission of knowledge and rare skills. This has been already long forgotten by administrators who have prioritised rebranding universities as publicly-funded job-training centres in recent decades.
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3 crucial roles for the university: to preserve, transmit, and create knowledge.
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
3 crucial roles for the university: to preserve, transmit, and create knowledge.
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fwiw, Virginia Tech isn't an impoverished school either and yet here they are, the dean of the college, cutting a signature interdisciplinary PhD program without giving a reason other than "bad vibes"
August 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
fwiw, Virginia Tech isn't an impoverished school either and yet here they are, the dean of the college, cutting a signature interdisciplinary PhD program without giving a reason other than "bad vibes"
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U Chicago "has undertaken extraordinary quantities of leveraged spending in ways that benefit select units, while others, who have achieved high international ranking with little aid, have instead suffered from a withdrawal of operational in order to finance those endeavors"
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
U Chicago "has undertaken extraordinary quantities of leveraged spending in ways that benefit select units, while others, who have achieved high international ranking with little aid, have instead suffered from a withdrawal of operational in order to finance those endeavors"
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Announcing our new forum, RHEA RECEPTIONS!
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
August 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Announcing our new forum, RHEA RECEPTIONS!
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.