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Daniel Osland
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Claim to be a Roman archaeologist, actually work on late Roman Iberia, very interested in Portuguese soccer, NZ politics, California Nü Punk, and tertiary education. Personal views here, none endorsed by my employer (the University of Otago).
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Daniel Osland
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The Otago-Consorcio de Mérida excavation is in full swing now, super hot and super dusty! We've had many interesting small finds thus far, not so many wonderful contexts yet. Here's a winner from yesterday: a bone six-sided die. Still dreaming of hitting a D12 someday, halfway there!
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Even made the Canal Extremadura news cast, skip ahead to 20:56 for some interviews with the team: www.canalextremadura.es/video/extrem...
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We're all over the news! In Mérida, anyway. 🏺
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We've made it into all the local news outlets, they even sent a videographer to film us. #MéridaFamous merida.es/14-estudiant...
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Kicking off tomorrow, this is it, don't get scared now! #meridaotago2024 🏺
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Aaaaaand we're off (sort of)!!!
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On Monday kicks off the second Otago University - Consórcio de Mérida excavation of "something Roman we hope." My team includes 14 Kiwi-ish volunteers and some local pros, so this project is going to be awesome. I'll post here occasionally because pictures of archaeology are cool. ClassicsBlueSky 🏺
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I've never liked the popular theory that ancient seafarers always hugged the coastline, most boaties know that's where the danger lies. Maybe this is relevant? LBA Canaanite amphoras (and probably shipwreck) discovered 1,800m deep in the Mediterranean. www.bbc.com/news/article... ancientbluesky 🏺
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My program just posted a job at for a two-year Teaching Fellow, with a focus on Greek and Latin instruction. Full details in the link. AncientBlueSky
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Archaeological fieldschool people, I've had an unexpectedly enormous level of interest in a project I'm designing, what are the most important criteria for vetting applicants? Adulting is hard work! 🏺
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Very sad :(
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This is sad news, so sorry to hear that John Hayes has passed away, he was always very kind to me in our correspondence despite my being an ignorant nobody.
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Also, is the ipad option perfectly adequate if I'm already happy with my Androidism?
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Hi archaeologists, anyone out there with experience using the scanning/photogrammetry functions on the stupid apple iphone 14 pro and 15 pro, is there a superior version that is preferable, or should I do the Dan thing and get the cheapest one I can find? 🏺
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How does this compare to the Anemospilia scene? More or less compelling evidence? Maybe we'll have to wait for a more thorough publication on this one to get a better sense?
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I know the one, a pretty good example of how people at the top can get away with a whole lot of stuff and never be held to account in any meaningful way. Probably part of the reason so few academics ever feel safe speaking up when they see shady business from the leadership.
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We often hear about "nice-to-haves" needing to go away when things are tight, but that same line doesn't seem to apply when the Big Bosses are looking at their budgets...just cut things they don't understand to keep from having to spend responsibly.
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Yes, I may be old-fashioned and out of touch, but in these cases the Central Administration needs to be much better at cutting its own costs, even reducing non-essential services to students, rather than cutting teaching and research, which are the core focus of any serious institution.
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Oh, look, yet another Classics/Archaeology Department under threat because the university leadership doesn't know how to budget properly! This is not ok. Some links at the bottom: tell your friends, tell the Queen's University leadership it's just not good enough from them. 🏺ClassicsBluesky
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We lost our friend and colleague, John Garthwaite, last week. It says he "retired in 2014" but he was still teaching a Humanities Medical Selective right up until 2024, when he was scheduled to run another one. Brilliant lecturer, wonderful human being. ave atque vale
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Grim.
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Nice to see some tourist access to the Domus Tiberiana restored after a long time - remember that Humble Augustus lived in a shabby little hovel on the Palatine, and it was only with later emperors that lavish displays became normal. Here's a great example. AncientBlueSky 🏺
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AI is so much fun, here's what it came up with when I was looking for s detail on the life of Bernabé Moreno de Vargas (d. 1648)
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"a specter haunts the college campus. It is neither the specter of communism, of course, nor that of corporatization (which has already arrived on campus). Instead, it is the specter of what we might call, mouthful though it is, “consultization,”"
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Julius didn't make it into the first two, and I haven't seen the third movie so I can't say anything about that, except that I really do need to see it.
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Agree that it would be unwise to hold one's breath on that!
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This makes sense, but Napoleon was done so well in Bill and Ted, and they still went and did whatever that new thing is, so?
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I've cast Edward Norton as Julius Caesar, hope it doesn't ruin his career.
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Is this even an AncientBluesky topic?
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Anyone want to talk about why there isn't a reasonably recent, lavishly fictionalistic epic on Julius Caesar? Is it because "we" already "know" too much about him to keep it interesting? I figure if they can do this with a nutter like Napoleon and sell a zillion tickets, Julius should be a goer?
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Just came across this exciting PhD opportunity in Roman glass on that other place. So much great material! sussexpast.co.uk/phd-fishbour... Ancientbluesky 🏺
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If you don't want to click through, here's just about the whole story.
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Since I got all "political" earlier and probably offended half of society, here's this. Hope for humanity.
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Chris Bishop 🤮 who runs his mouth so much even Luxon finds him off-putting. We expect this sort of thing from a paid shill, but when we get it from a medic, we know we're in real trouble...
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And since many of you will be unfamiliar with British American Tobacco, here's the Wikipedia entry. TLDR? They're the biggest tobacco company in the world. So their submission that the government has taken onboard is probably in everyone's best interest...
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Incoming Health Minister, Dr (medical) Shane Reti has indicated that our current top tool for combating smoking is vaping. True story. We plan to lean really hard into that one. Here's Johns Hopkins on the "benefits" of vape products: www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/welln...
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The new New Zealand Government is reversing some rules, due in part to concerns tobacco products might slide over into the black market and reduce the tax take - this possibility was raised in a submission by British American Tobacco. True story. edition.cnn.com/2023/11/28/a...
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New Zealand's new coalition government has decided to try to replicate one interpretation of Rome's famous Republican era power-sharing system: two Deputies Prime Minister. Not at once, mind you, but 18 months each. An innovative take on "strong and stable", they'll be "sharing" by taking turns.
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Good thing academic authors earn so much and/or are independently wealthy so they can spread it around to these struggling publishers!
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Just staggered across this little gem on that other place, shared by @christophersmith.bsky.social
"we estimate that globally authors paid $1.06 billion in publication fees to these [big five commercial] publishers from 2015–2018".
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Found this one on the BBC, probably some food for thought in there. "Museum reclassifies Roman emperor as trans woman." (Elagabalus, d. 222). Ancientbluesky
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I sort of think I kind of agree - from a back up resource to the central "product" without any meaningful change? I get that access is important, but for content not meant (primarily) for online delivery, the shift will shallow students' learning/experience.
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I don't know how closely the researchgate version aligns with the published journal version, but they claim to have inserted the published page numbers in the uploaded OA version.
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Is that this one? www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Yummm, seaweed in the ancient European diet! 🏺 My kid likes a bit of seaweed in his lunch now and again, probably because of the salt...
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No reason the pot people should be left out, I speak to the universal human experience, even while acknowledging that Greene Daeye are not to everyone's taste. 🏺 One might consider a musical alternative, but there's an enormous pile of marking left before the full-time admin/research window hits...
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Staring down the barrel of the last lecture - Archaeology, History, and the Fall of Rome - for the semester (yeah, our semesters are like that). Vaguely relevant music video below, I usually stash a tissue or two in my pocket just in case my allergies act up... AncientBluesky
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Disaster. Complete and horrible disaster.
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