New in Reflections: Mirela Ivanova Mirela Ivanova and Benjamin Anderson @BunyaminAnders on 'The Politics of Byzantine Studies: Between Nations and Empires'. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-ar… Uni of Shef History CornellHistory

Truly remarkable. Sasanian silver found in Scotland. theguardian.com/science/articl…

The Chancellor of University of Canberra is Lisa Paul, who Bill Shorten hired to co-author the NDIS review. Now he’s about to be Vice-Chancellor, hired by panel led by the Chancellor Lisa Paul.

A median income earner with a $50k Arts degree will likely never fully repay their debt, according to Andrew Norton

All of them in one sanctuary of Mithras. A discovery of the ages.

Good to see that Dai Le is introducing a bill calling for the abolition of the Job Ready Graduates fee hikes. She's putting the Labor government to shame on this issue:

Here’s an article about Rome’s inflation crisis that I just published in The Conversation. There were a lot of editorial changes so please be gentle! theconversation.com/skyrocketing-p…

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An article I wrote for The Conversation about tariffs and Ancient Rome has just published. Macquarie University Macquarie University History and Archaeology theconversation.com/ancient-rome-u…

The LNP don't like their own words repeated back to them, which is why they're infuriated by this ad. Which is also why you should share it.

Frequently Roman inscriptions on stone and coins feature abbreviations intended to shorten the long titles of political offices. This readable shorthand for information was known as a SPQR code.

Fun tariff fact of the week via Dr Peter Edwell on BBC Worldservice Newshour bbc.co.uk/programmes/w17… (at 30 minutes in): tariffs in Ancient Rome on luxuries like pepper & incense funded about 30% of Rome's military expenditures.

I wrote a book about a group of Parthian royalty who lived at the court of the Roman emperor in the first century CE. Today, finally, it is an object in the world. You can read the open access PDF here and it would mean the world to me if you did! ucpress.edu/books/the-arsa…

Excessive, frivolous spending on non-core business led to financial mess at ANU, it appears. Why on earth a university with expertise out the wazoo needs $$ consultants is beyond me. Don’t even get me started on the lavish spending on + by executives. canberratimes.com.au/story/8954111/…

An article I’ve just published in The Conversation. “Which Roman Emperor was most like Donald Trump?” theconversation.com/which-roman-em…

ANU trying to avoid public scrutiny by pushing the media out of their restructure/job cut gatherings.

HOW MUCH did Julie Bishop cost the ANU in 2024?

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.