Patrick Callahan

Director @NewmanInstCTC | Catholic Classicist | Interests: Pindar, Scholiography, Digital Editions, Jesuit Latin

[Patrick Callahan @P_RoryCallahan]

@ae_stallings I have long neglected collection of parallel plot lines and biographical notes about Woodhouse's love of Classics. I remember floating it to Grace Starry West who agreed there was something there but we needed more firm evidence to publish.

[Patrick Callahan @P_RoryCallahan]

It should be mandatory reading for anyone invested in the genealogy of Catholic Great Books programs (K-12 & Higher Ed)

[Patrick Callahan @P_RoryCallahan]

A reprint of the long out-of-print Truth on Trial with new foreward by @bishop_conley, intro by @KyleWashut and two new appendices.

[Josh Hochschild @JoshHochschild]

Heard about a recently published article, lets say generally in the area of Thomism, filled with hallucinated quotations. Easy to identify for someone who knew the scholarly territory.
The journal editor, when offered clear documentation and some standard options for correcting the scholarly record, refused to address it.
I expect something will be published about this eventually, but it is bad enough that "scholars" are polluting the discourse with AI slop. Fabricated quotations in scholarship about the history of ideas are especially insidious. It's somewhat disturbing that the problem wasn't caught during peer review. But since the corrupt article was published, it is much more scandalous that an editor wouldn't take easy and reasonable steps to safeguard the integrity of a journal.

[Katie Prejean McGrady @KatiePMcGrady]

Rose: "Holy Father, can I tell you a joke?"

Pope Leo: "Is it short? Lots of people want to meet me. Yes yes, okay. What's your joke?"

Rose: "What do you give an Italian ghost for dinner?"

Pope Leo: "I don't know...what do you give an Italian ghost for dinner?"

Rose: "Spookghetti!"

Pope Leo: "Oooooohhhhhoooo..." *cue laughter*

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

Every academic press and journal needs a clear ban on AI writing.

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

Good thread on the core questions in the debate about the historicity of the Trojan War.

I'm a touch more sympathetic to a 'historical Troy', but only a touch: on balance I think a 'Trojan War' probably happened, but its details and characters are unrecoverable.

[Fr Dylan Schrader @FrDylanSchrader]

I believe the last time an encyclical letter had a Latin version available on day one was Lumen fidei from the very beginning of Pope Francis's pontificate, having been drafted mostly by Pope Benedict.

[Patrick Callahan @P_RoryCallahan]

@Melchizedek_ @AT_Ancient @Andrew_Levidis Atrocious. To cleanse the timeline, here is my India paper OCT. A three-in-one Euripides, now over a century old.

[Patrick Callahan @P_RoryCallahan]

@PetriOP @CatholicPods As a general guide, quantitative adjectives precede, qualitative are postpositive. Emphasis would explain Magnifica's position. I would also need to see what is going on with the verb "created".

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

I'm grateful to @DouthatNYT for inviting me on his podcast to discuss the fate of the liberal arts and humanities in the age of AI. I hope that all those who follow higher ed and care about the liberal arts will listen.

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[The Point Magazine @the_point_mag]

The Point is pleased to announce, apropos of nothing in particular, the Blue Book Nonfiction Writing Contest, to be administered in-person, on college campuses across the country. The winning essay(s) will be published on our website. But not before an editor has a look!

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

The resistance is starting

[Patrick Callahan @P_RoryCallahan]

@PhilologistGRC @DCComm This may be on the improvements radar but it would be great if the default mobile response for Scaife put the tools to the side and displayed the text. Also "passage reference" on mobile tabs to next input rather than enters and brings up the requested passage.

[Gregory Crane @PhilologistGRC]

a new Latin collection in Scaife: https://t.co/M52RtXsIDg

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

We never needed blackboard or canva.
And we could just stop using them and everything would be fine.

[Fr Dylan Schrader @FrDylanSchrader]

Scholars today recognize that the church bulletin is actually not the product of a single author but is instead an amalgamation of distinct (sometimes contradictory) sources redacted by one or more editors into a loosely-coherent final form.

[Patrick Callahan @P_RoryCallahan]

@W_Poulos @PompeyTrogue This. The binding is inexcusable for the price point.

[Patrick Callahan @P_RoryCallahan]

@AntigoneJournal Lowell Edmunds! not only a Classicist but author of "Martini, Straight Up" a fascinating scholarly work on the cocktail and culture.

[James D Conley @bishop_conley]

We might ask: if A.I. could help us preach better, write better, and communicate more effectively, what is there to lose?

Fr. Jim Morin offers a striking answer: what we stand to lose is love.

Read his full article here: https://t.co/zu8fXgp1QB