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Coming up in a future issue of Mnemosyne: my article on "Miscarriages of Justice. Enforcing the Law in the Works of Tacitus"! brill.com/view/journal...

Noooo, don't throw out the garum!!!! nos.nl/artikel/2624... (Headline translation: Canadian village finally to be liberated from a million litres of intensely smelly fish sauce)

Canadees dorpje wordt eindelijk verlost van miljoen liter intens stinkende vissausHet opruimen van de saus is geen kwestie van een doekje en een emmer sop. De saustanks moeten worden opengesneden. In een andere plaats is een speciale afvalput gecreëerd.nos.nl

I haven't talked a lot about my current research project on here (see anchoringinnovation.nl/projects/leg... for details), but if there's one thing I've learned from the (for me) very new experience of conducting interviews, it's that our field is full of amazingly helpful people.

Legal Innovation. Anchoring Change in Roman Legal History | Anchoring InnovationDespite its long, influential history within both classical and legal studies, scholarship focussed on Roman law and admanchoringinnovation.nl

Blueberry muffins! The six with walnut (on the left) are flavoured with rose water, and the six with almond (on the right) are made with lemon zest.

Sidenote: I've noticed that people who are not able-bodied, cis, straight, white and/or male are (generally) more nervous about time travel thought-experiments. If, however, I am there only to see and not be seen, I want to know what the hell people in Roman Gaul did with these funky little guys:

The only type of divination I'll except - the kind that involves watching birds.

Do you think they're finally going to realise that actually reading the stuff you use, you know... matters?

Today is a 'computer says no' sort of day - both because my actual computer started the day by refusing to computer, and because my brain does not want to brain. One of these problems has been solved.

The end-of-contract sadness of having to take your carefully un-curated pile of books back the library.

I'm going to say one thing about Nolan's Odyssey and one thing only, and that's that Elliot Page did an amazing job and lifted that film to a much higher emotional plain than it could otherwise have achieved. Also the film was fine.

Academics on temporary contracts: how do you choose the email address that you list on publications? In general, journals seem to prefer the more 'professional' institutional addresses a personal one, but does that make sense if it's likely to be expired by the time people actually read the piece?

Ik snap dit, en het is ook niet onterecht. Aan de andere kant was die tas ook wel een fijne barrière tegen de incidentele creep die in een verder bijna lege coupé toch direct naast je komt zitten. Gelukkig is er nu een telefoonnummer voor wie zich onveilig voelt, maar toch... nos.nl/artikel/2622...

Tas moet op schoot in de trein, ook als het niet druk isNS past de regels in de trein aan waardoor reizigers niet meer een andere stoel bezet mogen houden met hun handbagage.nos.nl

I feel deeply icky for saying this, but... 300.

I hope Count Binface knows that he has the ardent support of a lovely retired Dutch couple who absolutely do not live in the UK, do not ever plan to live in the UK, and only learned about him last night.

Truly incredible that we still don't know what causes migraines, and more importantly: How To Stop It.

Behold, my cheese and jalapeño scones.

I recently co-taught a MA course on Ancient Apocalypses at @unileiden.bsky.social. Each student wrote a blogpost on an Apocalypse (past/present/future) of their choosing, and a selection of their wonderful work will be published - first one out now! www.leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl/articles/the...

The End in 112 Steps: Counting Down the PopesThe world was supposed to end after the 112th pope. Following Pope Francis’ death, an obscure prophecy attributed to Saint Malachy went viral once again. This post explores the prophecy’s origins, exa...www.leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl

Just finished reading A Monster Calls. It was amazing to read a book meant for young readers that is so completely honest, and takes its audience so intensely seriously. Every school library should have a copy - even if it did destroy me emotionally and reduce me to open weeping.

Baby coots in the canal next to my office

We have a strawberry plant!