Theo Nash
@theonash.bsky.social
Classicist and Archaeologist. PhD student IPCAA, MA and BA Victoria University of Wellington.
A hazard of cross-media screenshotting. No hard feelings!
October 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A hazard of cross-media screenshotting. No hard feelings!
This would be the end of international PhD students in America: www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...
September 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This would be the end of international PhD students in America: www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...
The American School of Classical Studies seems to have removed the traditional exam for the Regular Year, opting instead to interview students: www.ascsa.edu.gr/programs/reg...
August 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The American School of Classical Studies seems to have removed the traditional exam for the Regular Year, opting instead to interview students: www.ascsa.edu.gr/programs/reg...
Well at least it’s obvious why you’re making apologies for it.
August 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Well at least it’s obvious why you’re making apologies for it.
This is reasonable, but at least at Michigan the reality is that we’re simply in bed with them: record.umich.edu/articles/u-m...
August 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is reasonable, but at least at Michigan the reality is that we’re simply in bed with them: record.umich.edu/articles/u-m...
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.
August 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.
I fear that this may be relevant:
August 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I fear that this may be relevant:
magnanimously? munificently?
August 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
magnanimously? munificently?
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
Hence my favourite opening sentence in a preface, from Woodman’s commentary of the latter half of Velleius Paterculus’ second book:
June 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Hence my favourite opening sentence in a preface, from Woodman’s commentary of the latter half of Velleius Paterculus’ second book:
Her fingerprints are, quite literally, everywhere.
June 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Her fingerprints are, quite literally, everywhere.
More Vesuvius Challenge sorcery: they got the title of P.Herc. 172. ΦΙΛΟΔΗΜΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΚΑΚΙΩΝ Α. More here: scrollprize.substack.com/p/60000-firs...
May 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
More Vesuvius Challenge sorcery: they got the title of P.Herc. 172. ΦΙΛΟΔΗΜΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΚΑΚΙΩΝ Α. More here: scrollprize.substack.com/p/60000-firs...
I imagine some combination of 1 and 3, though it's rather hard to overstate how much it is a book about Obbink.
April 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I imagine some combination of 1 and 3, though it's rather hard to overstate how much it is a book about Obbink.
Back to real life, soon.
March 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Back to real life, soon.
ἄστρων κάτοιδα νυκτέρων ὁμήγυριν
February 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
ἄστρων κάτοιδα νυκτέρων ὁμήγυριν
It was a haze which overcame one as one walked on the stones of the first court, touched the panelling in a room such as mine, looked over the roofs to King’s: all these had been so long the same.’ - C. P. Snow, The Masters.
February 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It was a haze which overcame one as one walked on the stones of the first court, touched the panelling in a room such as mine, looked over the roofs to King’s: all these had been so long the same.’ - C. P. Snow, The Masters.
‘But those were small things: a sixteenth-century member of the college, dropped in the first court now, would be instantaneously at home. And we felt it. However impervious one might be to the feeling of past time, there were moments when one was drugged by it…
February 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
‘But those were small things: a sixteenth-century member of the college, dropped in the first court now, would be instantaneously at home. And we felt it. However impervious one might be to the feeling of past time, there were moments when one was drugged by it…
Sigh — another bridge…
February 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Sigh — another bridge…
(I will admit that the current snow in Michigan is rather more picturesque.)
February 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
(I will admit that the current snow in Michigan is rather more picturesque.)
Sometimes, life is good.
February 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Sometimes, life is good.
The state of archaeology: excavations completed in 1950, no major publications until the 1990s, and significant work is still needed in the 2020s.
January 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The state of archaeology: excavations completed in 1950, no major publications until the 1990s, and significant work is still needed in the 2020s.
I do enjoy Bluesky, but the iPad experience is… a little bit wanting.
January 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I do enjoy Bluesky, but the iPad experience is… a little bit wanting.