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Ellen Bauerle

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Executive Editor, Univ. of Michigan Press. UM PhD, Classical Studies. Believer in the rule of law. UNIX is the bomb. Coffee, knitting, DIA.org . Views my own.

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Ruth Scodel has a similar story, involving a bibliographical combo of her work and Suzanne Said's, creating works neither of them ever wrote.

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Maybe it can't cite sources, but it can create sources to cite: I recently learned from UM's own AI engine that I've apparently written a diss. on Juvenal as well as my actual, on Roman bribery. Mind you, it's looking at UM's own data, and it still gives this result.

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A piece in the July 2024 issue of AJA presents an inscription from a shepherd at Vari, with a drawing of a temple, and textual evidence suggesting that the Hekatompedon was a freestanding building. Article by Merle Langdon and Jan van Rookhuijzen.

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>:| Sorry and annoyed to hear this.

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Death of Spock?

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Happy author! Happy editor!

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Sharon was one of a kind. I miss her.

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It's notable how many people, on learning the news, mention that they had been talking with her in recent days or weeks about their work, her work, her students' work, issues in classics. So many lives touched by her.

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Book peer review is single-blind; often authors try to guess the referees. It's interesting that in years on this job, I've seen authors guess right maybe four times (not that I confirm the guess). Correct guesses have been in fields where there are few people. Everyone else guesses Bob Kaster.

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Putting this in the panel next week on peer review: "...doesn't require sociopathy." Hoping to encourage those unduly worried about "Reader 2."

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So sad to learn of Sharon James' death. She was an amazing person and an exacting scholar. I'm grateful I got to know her in recent years.

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Further comparanda: UMP's editorial board sometimes offers a jesting 'award' for the longest reader's report at a given board meeting. I can't count the number of times a Classics report has won that award. And these aren't hostile reports, mind you, they're just extremely thorough and careful. /3

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So on the evaluation end, for deans or dept. chairs, how to get classics reports, which often include a list of errata at the end, onto the same page with disciplines that might turn in a page and a half and call it done. At divisional evaluation time, it would be really tough, I'd think. /2

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The further problem is that different disciplines handle book reviews (and readers' reports) differently. Some really dig in, and produce multiple pages single-spaced. Some send what I'd call 'polite comments' and not much more. /1

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Probable neolithic shipwreck found near Capri, carrying obsidian cores.

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Today on FB, a British classicist noted: "I just rode in an UBER to go out for dinner. Our driver was called Agamemnon. One of our party asked him "How's business, Agamemnon?", and I was expecting him to give us an update on the Trojan War." Maybe more to this classical Uber plan than we thought.

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Not wanting to lose sight of #lecterngate, while the state audit goes on. Fantasizing what my $19k lectern would have: IV drip coffee; quality sound system; foldout comfy chair; Hermione Granger's Extension Charm so she could have her library always with her. www.ualrpublicradio.org/local-region...

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In a talk Michigan's provost reported that while people initially thought undergrads taking a term abroad would delay their time to degree, the opposite was true: such students had greater on-time rate of degree completion. I heard that as a plug for foreign language study, among other things.

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African Studies Association has a big dance party the last evening, in the exhibit hall after the book people have packed up. Kazoo also has a midnight dance party the last night; used to be quite boozy until it became clear that was the path to behavioral perdition.

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If there were a flavor of Uber that involved quality ancient historians as the drivers, I would happily pay a premium. If that whole professor gig doesn't work out, Carlos, I'm your new best friend, ride-wise. A few copies of JRS or JHS in the back seat pocket, offprints of recent articles...

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15/15 but a couple lucky guesses.

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On the other hand, any picture w/ headlines is an ad and easily avoided, so there's that. Whenever I think Elmo has gone as far as possible in wrecking his own company, wait, no, there's another level of destruction he's found.

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Thanks, Carlos. I agree -- so many new books in one place can be overwhelming, and that's only the book part of the room. People walk in, say "Crivens!" and head to the bar, I suppose.

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A piece I wrote for the SCS's Amphora some years ago, for early-career attendees at the annual conference (though generally true for most academic disciplines) -- what to do in the exhibit hall other than -- or in addition to -- buying books: www.academia.edu/20811146/Usi...

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Hmn. Red Panda Every Hour doesn't seem to have migrated from that other place just yet. Sad.

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Hmn. Unsatisfactory presentation. Try this:

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Are those the Lantern Moon needles? I love those.

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That vase (lid?) on the right side is intriguing. The bronze duck is pretty nice but my heart belongs to pottery.

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Welcome to the world of knitting! Got a good yarn store near you?

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I know, right? The obvious comparison.

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Not a shocking turn of events, all in all.

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Strong agree with you both. Hugely useful, and intermittently funny. Chronicle less funny.

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A multi-tool for the well-prepared Roman on their travels - containing a spoon, & a three-pronged fork, spatula, pick, spike, & knife, which all folded into the main body. It is quite like a Swiss Army knife in form (if more culinary in nature), & was made about 1700 years ago.

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Our coins would be better if they had cool names like cistophorus, or denarius, or tetradrachm.

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