Thomas Hendrickson
@thomashendrickson.bsky.social
Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
Me, looking at a stack of ungraded papers: "Well, looks like I should get started on doing the dishes."
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Me, looking at a stack of ungraded papers: "Well, looks like I should get started on doing the dishes."
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Every time I hear someone say a given "crisis" is really an "opportunity," I think of Littlefinger saying "Chaos is a ladder!"
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Every time I hear someone say a given "crisis" is really an "opportunity," I think of Littlefinger saying "Chaos is a ladder!"
Incredible that they've rediscovered the phrenology (the appeal of which was always its scientistic bells and whistles)
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Incredible that they've rediscovered the phrenology (the appeal of which was always its scientistic bells and whistles)
Johannes Kepler (1608) describing what he thinks it would feel like to be launched into space. The Somnium should totally be taught in Latin classes.
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Johannes Kepler (1608) describing what he thinks it would feel like to be launched into space. The Somnium should totally be taught in Latin classes.
Signs of aging: first it was the olympic athletes who all started seeming so young. Now it's the mayors.
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Signs of aging: first it was the olympic athletes who all started seeming so young. Now it's the mayors.
Summer program on Greek/Latin bilingualism (antiquity to early modern europe): ianls.com/wp-content/u...
ianls.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Summer program on Greek/Latin bilingualism (antiquity to early modern europe): ianls.com/wp-content/u...
At least half of the clutter on my desk is incomplete to-do lists.
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
At least half of the clutter on my desk is incomplete to-do lists.
Well, I voted.
So now I guess I just sit around for the next 12 hours?
So now I guess I just sit around for the next 12 hours?
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Well, I voted.
So now I guess I just sit around for the next 12 hours?
So now I guess I just sit around for the next 12 hours?
It's so heart-breaking to hear of the death of the worker buried in the collapse of the Torre dei Conti. I've been thinking all day of the tower (once an apse in the temple of peace) and Octay Stroici (who was working to restore it).
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Worker dies after being rescued from Italian medieval tower collapse
A Romanian worker who was trapped for hours under rubble in Rome after the partial collapse of a 787-year-old medieval tower near the Colosseum has died, according to local media.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
It's so heart-breaking to hear of the death of the worker buried in the collapse of the Torre dei Conti. I've been thinking all day of the tower (once an apse in the temple of peace) and Octay Stroici (who was working to restore it).
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Longshot: does anyone know where to find old copies of Latinitas magazine?
October 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Longshot: does anyone know where to find old copies of Latinitas magazine?
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If anybody wants to pitch a good Neo-Latin text to DCC, please do! dcc.dickinson.edu/contribute
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If anybody wants to pitch a good Neo-Latin text to DCC, please do! dcc.dickinson.edu/contribute
Do YOU have any Neo-Latin teaching materials?
Seriously, do you?
Seriously, do you?
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Do YOU have any Neo-Latin teaching materials?
Seriously, do you?
Seriously, do you?
I'm sorry, you're right, that's not a Flux Capacitor. You will not need any plutonium...
Okay folks, what helpful advice is ChatGPT going to hallucinate for Brad and Janet here?
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm sorry, you're right, that's not a Flux Capacitor. You will not need any plutonium...
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My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
October 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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New issue of Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures No. 11 (2025) jolcel.ugent.be/issue/26536/... Latin-Greek Code-Switching in Early Modernity III #openaccess @relicsresearch.bsky.social @adendros.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
New issue of Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures No. 11 (2025) jolcel.ugent.be/issue/26536/... Latin-Greek Code-Switching in Early Modernity III #openaccess @relicsresearch.bsky.social @adendros.bsky.social
It would smell like a book, *but an older book*
What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?
October 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It would smell like a book, *but an older book*
On the various chatgpt news, it feels like the goal is "How fast can we turn the world into a real-life episode of Black Mirror?"
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On the various chatgpt news, it feels like the goal is "How fast can we turn the world into a real-life episode of Black Mirror?"
Favorite library: Bibliotheca Incognita
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Favorite library: Bibliotheca Incognita
Sometimes, it is so so helpful going back to my notes.
Other times:
Other times:
October 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Sometimes, it is so so helpful going back to my notes.
Other times:
Other times:
Hot off the presses: New edition of the Latin works of Elizabeth Jane Weston (with vocabulary and commentary for students).
Do you want the book but not want to pay for it? PDF is free: pixeliapublishing.org/westonia/
Do you want the book but not want to pay for it? PDF is free: pixeliapublishing.org/westonia/
WESTONIA
Select Works of Elizabeth Jane Weston Buy Paperback ($12.99) | Download PDF (free) Elizabeth Jane Weston (1581-1612) was born in England, but spent most of her life in the intellectual hub of early…
pixeliapublishing.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hot off the presses: New edition of the Latin works of Elizabeth Jane Weston (with vocabulary and commentary for students).
Do you want the book but not want to pay for it? PDF is free: pixeliapublishing.org/westonia/
Do you want the book but not want to pay for it? PDF is free: pixeliapublishing.org/westonia/
Reposted by Thomas Hendrickson
🎓Call for Papers🎓
A longtime friend of and contributor to the SNLS, Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social, is organising a symposium on “Teaching with Ovid,” with a call for papers open until 16 January 2026!
See the flyer below and follow the link for more information: shorturl.at/RiviU
A longtime friend of and contributor to the SNLS, Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social, is organising a symposium on “Teaching with Ovid,” with a call for papers open until 16 January 2026!
See the flyer below and follow the link for more information: shorturl.at/RiviU
October 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🎓Call for Papers🎓
A longtime friend of and contributor to the SNLS, Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social, is organising a symposium on “Teaching with Ovid,” with a call for papers open until 16 January 2026!
See the flyer below and follow the link for more information: shorturl.at/RiviU
A longtime friend of and contributor to the SNLS, Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social, is organising a symposium on “Teaching with Ovid,” with a call for papers open until 16 January 2026!
See the flyer below and follow the link for more information: shorturl.at/RiviU
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Had a book published before mid-2021? Take 5 minutes to see if it's listed here and if so another 5 to enter info. And look up your grandma's book, the book of your friend, etc. and let them know
PSA: Get Your AI Money, Authors
The Anthropic settlement has been preliminarily approved, which means people can join in to be a member in this class action suit.
notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Had a book published before mid-2021? Take 5 minutes to see if it's listed here and if so another 5 to enter info. And look up your grandma's book, the book of your friend, etc. and let them know
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Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead:
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead:
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
This is just a bunch of fake news
New issue of Illinois Classical Studies Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring 2025 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55694 @projectmuse.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social Fake News is or as Invective in Ancient Texts
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is just a bunch of fake news