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Jen Ebbeler Dec 24, 2022

Sara Anne Willette Dec 23, 2022

Nationwide SARS2+ & Influenza Update: 12/23/2022

In your holiday festivities over the next few weeks, please stay home if you are sick and wear an N95 respirator whenever in shared indoor spaces.

Jen Ebbeler Dec 23, 2022

Hey @scottrstroud I am a UT colleague in Classics. I am moving to a different server and it is faster to just refollow ppl. But search doesn’t bring up you or the media initiative. Please follow [email protected]. So I can follow back! Thanks!

Jen Ebbeler Dec 23, 2022

Hi folks! I was having a lot of trouble finding academic friends—history, classics, medieval studies, religious studies—on other servers. When I figure it out, I’ll move this account. In the meantime, I’ve tried to follow a bunch of you from the other instance. I’m [email protected] Feel free to follow that account (I follow back).

Jen Ebbeler Dec 22, 2022

Eric Topol Dec 22, 2022

At a 25-year low, US life expectancy continues to fall with Covid as the main driver https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-life-expectancy-fell-to-lowest-level-since-1996-11671667059?mod=Searchresults_pos2&page=1

U.S. Life Expectancy Fell to Lowest Level Since 1996

Covid-19 and opioid overdoses contributed to a 5% rise in death rate last year

The Wall Street Journal

Jen Ebbeler Dec 22, 2022

@EdwardOvercoat interestingly, before Trump, Twitter was ok. It was nothing like it is now. I left it in 2015, returned in August. I was shocked. I’ve spent a few months figuring out how and why Twitter turned into a toxic, ugly antisocial place full of conmen and other grifters scamming their followers.

Jen Ebbeler Dec 22, 2022

@EdwardOvercoat this is my concern. It has some nice features but has a lot of red flag issues. Post has other problems. And Twitter is Twitter. There seems to be no great option. I would be more willing to be patient with Mastodon if I thought it was going to improve, be easier to break out of a silo. But it’s not. Algorithms are not always evil.

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Jen Ebbeler Dec 22, 2022

@michaelmeckler @antiquidons thanks for this tip. Keep passing them along. I have found some by name searching but I know I’m missing people. I also think classics and RS is pretty diasporic right now, nobody quite ready to leave Twitter. I am because I’d been off of it for 7 years anyway. Barely back and horrified even before Musk.

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Jen Ebbeler Dec 22, 2022

@michaelmeckler interesting question. Augustine famously was appointed co-Bishop of Hippo (very unconventional) because he spoke Berber. Valerius was Greek and not even very good at Latin (we are told). One huge feature of North African Xianity was the need for Berber speakers as clergy. This meant a lot of unqualified bishops. I’ve never thought about this from a linguistic pov. But that’s a great approach.

Jen Ebbeler Dec 22, 2022

@Academicats ooh, this looks interesting!

Jen Ebbeler Dec 22, 2022

Tuija Ainonen Dec 19, 2022

What is #MarcoOxford?

- New search functionality enabling search across(!) #manuscripts and #archives at Oxford
- New online descriptions from special collections for #OrientalMSS #EarlyModernMSS #MedievalMSS
- New online #TEI catalogue for #MedievalCharters and #MedievalSeals

FAMOUS (Finding Archives and MSS Across Oxford’s Unique Special Collections) is funded by #MellonFoundation

Project:
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/libraries/our-work/famous

MS Image:
Bodleian Library MS. Pococke 400, fol. 99a
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8face4cc-d7dc-4ec6-8315-64b8c171dd76/surfaces/62554176-a1a4-45e8-a165-431570d13125/

Non-Academic Interests	Cats, politics, random smart people and ideas
Severely Immunocompromised	Not a fan of people who don’t believe in science and indulge in conspiracy theories

U.S. Life Expectancy Fell to Lowest Level Since 1996

FAMOUS: Finding Archives and Manuscripts Across Oxford’s Unique Special Collections