C.M. Sampson
@samosafuz.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Classicist and papyrologist @ umanitoba.ca |
papyri.info | papyrology.org | Pylon: Editions and Studies of Ancient Texts
papyri.info | papyrology.org | Pylon: Editions and Studies of Ancient Texts
Parental achievement unlocked: eight-year old now knows how to use an Index, and is busy at work independently researching for a school project. Also took the opportunity to provide an important lesson in the indispensability of librarians FTW
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parental achievement unlocked: eight-year old now knows how to use an Index, and is busy at work independently researching for a school project. Also took the opportunity to provide an important lesson in the indispensability of librarians FTW
Schrödinger's costume: Kids think I’m a cowardly lion; colleagues think I’m Herakles.
Happy Halloween, y’all! 🎃
Happy Halloween, y’all! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Schrödinger's costume: Kids think I’m a cowardly lion; colleagues think I’m Herakles.
Happy Halloween, y’all! 🎃
Happy Halloween, y’all! 🎃
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The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa
Sign the Petition
Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
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October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The petition is LIVE! uOttawa suspended Greek & Roman Studies without consultation ending advanced ancient languages teaching and Ontario's only ancient languages programme in French. Please sign, share widely and follow for updates. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSClassicsUO #SaveHigherEd #ONfr #Ottawa
This is a monthly event, and if the EpiDoc maintainers can’t answer your encoding questions, I’m not sure who can.
#EpiDoc Office Hour: Wednesday Oct 22 at 17:00 BST / 12:00 EDT. github.com/EpiDoc/Tutor...
Feel free to drop in at the open zoom link if you want to know more about EpiDoc, have specific questions, need technical help, are thinking about a project or just want to hear what other people are up to.
Feel free to drop in at the open zoom link if you want to know more about EpiDoc, have specific questions, need technical help, are thinking about a project or just want to hear what other people are up to.
EpiDoc office hour
Online Syllabus for EpiDoc training. Contribute to EpiDoc/Tutorials development by creating an account on GitHub.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is a monthly event, and if the EpiDoc maintainers can’t answer your encoding questions, I’m not sure who can.
I just renewed my membership! We can’t take critical DH tech for granted, and TEI is foundational for things far more important than my little sandbox!
In Kraków for the @teiconsortium.bsky.social conference and thinking about ways to increase sponsorship and membership in this crucial foundational technology to support ongoing development and maintenance. #tei2025
September 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I just renewed my membership! We can’t take critical DH tech for granted, and TEI is foundational for things far more important than my little sandbox!
Winter is coming 🍂🍁 🇨🇦
September 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Winter is coming 🍂🍁 🇨🇦
We face this problem all the time curating the XML in papyri.info, but it is sometimes a hard sell to a user who wants something to appear in a particular way to learn that the optimal encoding doesn’t quite have the XSLT in the stylesheets to handle it, yet.
September 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We face this problem all the time curating the XML in papyri.info, but it is sometimes a hard sell to a user who wants something to appear in a particular way to learn that the optimal encoding doesn’t quite have the XSLT in the stylesheets to handle it, yet.
In the woods this week, exploring Riding Mountain National Park.
August 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In the woods this week, exploring Riding Mountain National Park.
My first day as Acting Head. So far so good? Or is it because today is 🇨🇦 Day?
My first day of Administrative Leave. Some light writing on a grey day with Wimbledon on the telly. Result.
July 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My first day as Acting Head. So far so good? Or is it because today is 🇨🇦 Day?
OMG 😍
New Trismegistos Online Publication No. 10: Punctuation, Iota Adscript, and Nu-movable in Ancient Literary Bookrolls by William A. Johnson www.trismegistos.org/top/ @trismegistostm.bsky.social #openaccess
July 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
OMG 😍
Manually scrubbing data that was machine-processed from a non-machine-readable source is a special kind of experience. It's all edge-cases...
June 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Manually scrubbing data that was machine-processed from a non-machine-readable source is a special kind of experience. It's all edge-cases...
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Funded PhD opportunity at Leiden University on Greek papyrology!
Application deadline in August. Check out all the details here: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/_z7-CYQEkc...
Application deadline in August. Check out all the details here: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/_z7-CYQEkc...
PhD position within the project
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position within the project “What’s wrong? Ancient corrections in Greek papyri from Egypt” (AnCor) (1.0 fte, 4 y...
url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Funded PhD opportunity at Leiden University on Greek papyrology!
Application deadline in August. Check out all the details here: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/_z7-CYQEkc...
Application deadline in August. Check out all the details here: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/_z7-CYQEkc...
For the 30th anniversary, the Summer Institutes are not only still going strong, but will also be coming to 🇨🇦.
papyrology.org/summer_insti...
papyrology.org/summer_insti...
June 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
For the 30th anniversary, the Summer Institutes are not only still going strong, but will also be coming to 🇨🇦.
papyrology.org/summer_insti...
papyrology.org/summer_insti...
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What a gorgeous postdoc - for a moment I thought they were looking for a papyrologist with Latin AND Greek AND Demotic, which seemed like a LOT for 34k, but there are TWO jobs on this great project - phew! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL359/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Papyrology (Demotic Papyri) at University of Exeter
Discover Postdoctoral Research Associate in Papyrology (Demotic Papyri) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What a gorgeous postdoc - for a moment I thought they were looking for a papyrologist with Latin AND Greek AND Demotic, which seemed like a LOT for 34k, but there are TWO jobs on this great project - phew! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL359/p...
Xenophanes approves of this cartoon.
June 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Xenophanes approves of this cartoon.
Marco beat me to the punch!
In all seriousness, I'm happy to field inquiries from prospective applicants; the Summer Institutes are one the American Society of Papyrologists' most important initiatives, and I can't wait to get to work with Mohamed and others in Winnipeg.
In all seriousness, I'm happy to field inquiries from prospective applicants; the Summer Institutes are one the American Society of Papyrologists' most important initiatives, and I can't wait to get to work with Mohamed and others in Winnipeg.
Summer Institute in Papyrology, organised by @samosafuz.bsky.social and sponsored by the American Society of Papyrologists
University of Manitoba, June 29–July 31, 2026. Application deadline August 15, 2025.
papyrology.org/summer_insti...
University of Manitoba, June 29–July 31, 2026. Application deadline August 15, 2025.
papyrology.org/summer_insti...
Summer Institute – papyrology.org Email
papyrology.org
May 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Marco beat me to the punch!
In all seriousness, I'm happy to field inquiries from prospective applicants; the Summer Institutes are one the American Society of Papyrologists' most important initiatives, and I can't wait to get to work with Mohamed and others in Winnipeg.
In all seriousness, I'm happy to field inquiries from prospective applicants; the Summer Institutes are one the American Society of Papyrologists' most important initiatives, and I can't wait to get to work with Mohamed and others in Winnipeg.
Another papyrological pilgrimage checked off the bucket list...
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Another papyrological pilgrimage checked off the bucket list...
Spotted in the wild, as I was en route to a meeting with the proprietor…
May 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Spotted in the wild, as I was en route to a meeting with the proprietor…
There’s a lot on the agenda this week, but the setting couldn’t be more agreeable.
May 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
There’s a lot on the agenda this week, but the setting couldn’t be more agreeable.
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The annual meeting of the @cacscec.bsky.social is underway @uwinnipeg.bsky.social! 160 Classicists, ancient historians, and archaeologists are gathered on campus for a week of interesting papers and conversations.
May 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The annual meeting of the @cacscec.bsky.social is underway @uwinnipeg.bsky.social! 160 Classicists, ancient historians, and archaeologists are gathered on campus for a week of interesting papers and conversations.
Some long-awaited good news arrived today, which prompts me to offer a visual metaphor.
May 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Some long-awaited good news arrived today, which prompts me to offer a visual metaphor.
As my colleagues and I are hard at work on the task of finalizing volume 62, the appearance of volume 61 provides welcome succour and reinvigorates the will to persevere.
New volume of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Vol. 61 (2024) poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?... @irenin.bsky.social @cbzeichmann.bsky.social @richardbott.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
As my colleagues and I are hard at work on the task of finalizing volume 62, the appearance of volume 61 provides welcome succour and reinvigorates the will to persevere.
This cat, who enjoys warmth so much that naps atop radiators are not unheard of, would probably crawl into the fireplace if it weren’t for that pesky screen.
April 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This cat, who enjoys warmth so much that naps atop radiators are not unheard of, would probably crawl into the fireplace if it weren’t for that pesky screen.