Jason Nethercut
@jasonnethercut.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Classics, author of Ennius Noster: Lucretius and the Annales (OUP, 2021), all opinions are mine
Do yourself a favor and read this obituary for Ozzy O by @themountaingoats.bsky.social, who has consistently returned to Ozzy as a subject of his own art.
The voice of Ozzy Osbourne was unlike anything before it. John Darnielle of @themountaingoats.bsky.social reflects on the loss of the singular frontman
Ozzy Osbourne Obituary: For the Back Street Kids
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats reflects on the loss of the singular frontman.
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July 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Do yourself a favor and read this obituary for Ozzy O by @themountaingoats.bsky.social, who has consistently returned to Ozzy as a subject of his own art.
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You know you are just about done with the manuscript review part of book writing when you are so tired of your book that you don't care anymore what's in it and don't ever want to see it again.
July 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Just finished up a deep dive on Lucretius reception for a forthcoming digital encyclopedia, which naturally culminates with John Darnielle and NASA @themountaingoats.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Just finished up a deep dive on Lucretius reception for a forthcoming digital encyclopedia, which naturally culminates with John Darnielle and NASA @themountaingoats.bsky.social
A great example (if anyone needed one) of why Kendrick is the best active poet: in “TV off” he rhymes prophetic/cosmetics/aesthetics/plyometric/highest metric with “just made it sweet; you could die, I bet it”, using half-rhyme and content to imply what should have been there: “diabetic”
February 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A great example (if anyone needed one) of why Kendrick is the best active poet: in “TV off” he rhymes prophetic/cosmetics/aesthetics/plyometric/highest metric with “just made it sweet; you could die, I bet it”, using half-rhyme and content to imply what should have been there: “diabetic”
Official publication of the 120 million year-old bird I helped name. Introducing …novavis pubisculata
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A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation with unusually short pubes
We describe a partial skeleton of an enantiornithine from the Changma locality of the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation in northwestern China. The spe…
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January 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Official publication of the 120 million year-old bird I helped name. Introducing …novavis pubisculata
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RIP, Nikki G. How are we to navigate this world without her voice?
December 10, 2024 at 3:17 AM
RIP, Nikki G. How are we to navigate this world without her voice?
🎶There goes Mr. Asshole! There goes Mr. Bitch🎶
December 7, 2024 at 3:00 PM
🎶There goes Mr. Asshole! There goes Mr. Bitch🎶
Same!
Most insane moment on the new Kendrick was at the very end when he said my full legal name, thanked me for listening, and said I'm the only one who truly understands what he's saying
November 24, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Same!
This will spawn a whole new generic discourse akin to figuring out what a Satyr play is
I should do this. Have a Father Halloween persona and if I’m credited as FH the songs are weirder and have no clear moral grounding just thorny situations and if I’m credited as JD then it’s sad songs about trying to live life such that saying “I tried” at the moment of death won’t be a lie
Will you step up to the plate? Will you become the terribly eerie Father Halloween this divided world so sorely needs?
November 24, 2024 at 5:17 PM
This will spawn a whole new generic discourse akin to figuring out what a Satyr play is
Cf. Athenaeus’ assessment of Aeschylean tragedy, generated 2 centuries or so after the Odyssey, as “slices from the banquet of Homer”
This is super true, and it’s true in music, too; the industry relies heavily on first week sales to stay afloat in both cases, so it’s great for authors and musicians if you buy stuff in the first week. But the idea that you have to have something to say about it right away or even soon, absurd!
You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
November 23, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Cf. Athenaeus’ assessment of Aeschylean tragedy, generated 2 centuries or so after the Odyssey, as “slices from the banquet of Homer”
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I am devastated by the news that Sharon James passed away yesterday. Her invitation to me to write a paper on Ovid in the #MeToo era set me on the path that I'm on today, and her confidence in my voice, seen in the email below, has been invaluable to me as a scholar and a person. Requiescat in pace.
December 29, 2023 at 6:17 PM
I am devastated by the news that Sharon James passed away yesterday. Her invitation to me to write a paper on Ovid in the #MeToo era set me on the path that I'm on today, and her confidence in my voice, seen in the email below, has been invaluable to me as a scholar and a person. Requiescat in pace.
Tenure-earning Hellenist at USF (where I work):
September 26, 2023 at 5:48 PM
Tenure-earning Hellenist at USF (where I work):
September 19, 2023 at 12:39 AM
I’ll be presenting a paper called “Were the Earliest Latin Poets Hellenistic?” tomorrow @ 14:30 in Groningen/8:30 EST. Program and registration info for online participation are here: www.classicsconferences-groningen.nl/programme-be...
Programme - Beyond Alexandria | Classics Conferences in Groningen
www.classicsconferences-groningen.nl
September 14, 2023 at 4:30 PM
I’ll be presenting a paper called “Were the Earliest Latin Poets Hellenistic?” tomorrow @ 14:30 in Groningen/8:30 EST. Program and registration info for online participation are here: www.classicsconferences-groningen.nl/programme-be...
Final Programme for the upcoming (hybrid) Hellenistica Groningana “Beyond Alexandria.” Register at the link here, especially if you want to see me pick a fight with at least four generations of Classicists who think Catullus invented Callimachus: www.classicsconferences-groningen.nl/programme-be...
August 30, 2023 at 4:16 PM
Final Programme for the upcoming (hybrid) Hellenistica Groningana “Beyond Alexandria.” Register at the link here, especially if you want to see me pick a fight with at least four generations of Classicists who think Catullus invented Callimachus: www.classicsconferences-groningen.nl/programme-be...
I saw someone asking who was the best pitcher of the steroid era (Maddux, Randy Johnson, or Pedro), so I’ve thought about it all day, and I just can’t see how anyone beats Pedro’s peak (esp. the 2000 season when his ERA was 1.74 and he averaged almost 12K/9). This is what Fridays are for btw.
August 25, 2023 at 9:07 PM
I saw someone asking who was the best pitcher of the steroid era (Maddux, Randy Johnson, or Pedro), so I’ve thought about it all day, and I just can’t see how anyone beats Pedro’s peak (esp. the 2000 season when his ERA was 1.74 and he averaged almost 12K/9). This is what Fridays are for btw.
Just learned that my seven year-old thinks that the 7ft, Hall-of-Fame NBA Center and lead actor of the Kazaam franchise is named “Jack”
August 22, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Just learned that my seven year-old thinks that the 7ft, Hall-of-Fame NBA Center and lead actor of the Kazaam franchise is named “Jack”
Rude that my kids are now old enough to remind me: “it’s your fault for using language in front of children who shouldn’t say ‘fuck’”
August 19, 2023 at 2:25 PM
Rude that my kids are now old enough to remind me: “it’s your fault for using language in front of children who shouldn’t say ‘fuck’”
Latin people/Romanists: who among you has what I need to get up to speed on the Lapis Satricanus (CIL 2832a)?
August 16, 2023 at 4:14 PM
Latin people/Romanists: who among you has what I need to get up to speed on the Lapis Satricanus (CIL 2832a)?
Not my five year old calling Pinocchio’s friend Jimothy the Cricket
August 16, 2023 at 12:51 AM
Not my five year old calling Pinocchio’s friend Jimothy the Cricket
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T-T job opening in my department for Roman history in a global context (empire studies, citizenship, reception, comparative approaches, post-colonial approaches, or migration & mobility). Please spread the word!
ClassicsBluesky
https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=120254
ClassicsBluesky
https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=120254
August 4, 2023 at 1:57 AM
T-T job opening in my department for Roman history in a global context (empire studies, citizenship, reception, comparative approaches, post-colonial approaches, or migration & mobility). Please spread the word!
ClassicsBluesky
https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=120254
ClassicsBluesky
https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=120254
Trying to educate my offspring about Radiohead, and it’s clear you had to be there to understand what it was like when Ok, Computer came out and was immediately followed by Kid A and then W was elected: absolute whiplash
August 2, 2023 at 10:54 PM
Trying to educate my offspring about Radiohead, and it’s clear you had to be there to understand what it was like when Ok, Computer came out and was immediately followed by Kid A and then W was elected: absolute whiplash
Pretty harrowing to find out that their plan was to stage a coup then use the military to suppress the inevitable public backlash that ensued
August 1, 2023 at 10:47 PM
Pretty harrowing to find out that their plan was to stage a coup then use the military to suppress the inevitable public backlash that ensued
Just had to take my entire family to school over their insistence that Voldemort would beat Vader
July 31, 2023 at 2:39 AM
Just had to take my entire family to school over their insistence that Voldemort would beat Vader