Cory Taylor

Data Scientist. Digital Humanist. Ancient Mediterranean historian.

[Cory Taylor @CoryTaylor_]

It's something I want to shout from the rooftops: A scholar is a scholar, no matter where they work. #AltAc #PostAc

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@jamesstout The Toyota Hilux: for regime changes on a budget

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Ok, Loeb give-away number 3: all 5 volumes of the lovely Greek Anthology, Propertius on the thrills & spills of love, Lucan on civil chaos, Cicero on the meaning of life, & Gellius on trivia worth knowing. Draw will be on Wed 3 July. Just retweet & follow us to be in the running!

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@rogueclassicist So it's a Caligula-ula?

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@JamesLucasIT The photo itself is dated Jan 11, 1919, not 1921.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

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@Christy_SpaceHW Yeah! It's been, what, five or six years? Congrats on landing a tenure-track job!

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@magpiekilljoy A propos of your Battle of Negro Fort episode of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff--if you do an episode on the Great Dismal Swamp, you should talk to @Christy_SpaceHW. She's a great Black scholar who did her dissertation on the Great Dismal Swamp.

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This is the way

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@SethLSanders @bee_are_ Having trouble not reading that as Middle Egyptian, ngl

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And why, if ~50% or more of the class misses a question on a test, I throw the question out. It's fairer to assume that I wrote the question poorly or didn't cover the topic well enough in class.

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This is why I try to grade every class like it's a grad seminar.

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Also why I don't really give homework.

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@eduardo_garcmol But hey, at least you're not sending your telemetry data straight to Google!

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@jaheppler My wife converted me to this. But when she first told me about it, I thought they literally ladled chili on top of the cinnamon roll. I was mystified and disgusted at the same time.

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@electricarchaeo @wragge Ahh--didn't realize it was a thing. Cheers!

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@electricarchaeo @wragge Definitely going to steal "datasette". Hope you don't mind.

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@MetalClassicist I didn't know that Alcestis and Theseus were inappropriately involved in a trial...

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@MetalClassicist Too bad you couldn't have started with Caesar.

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

I’m realizing I often stay up late as a way of trying to take back control from the days I can’t control