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Stop the search folks: we have this year's model sentence for explaining the contrary to fact conditional. x.com/drdonnayates/status/88…

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Finishing your Canadian Ph.D. in Classics? Write those last chapters while gaining teaching experience and a full-time salary at our small, energetic department! mta.ca/about-mta/work-at-mta…

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21 Nov 2022
"Elsewhere in his Vancouver scrum, Poilievre properly accused Justin Trudeau of ignoring provincial jurisdictions. Is he [P] planning to take over health care and municipal policing?"
Paul Wells with a timely piece… open.substack.com/pub/paulwe…
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Fancy trying Latin or Greek? Here are some of our recommendations when it comes from learning solo. bit.ly/3Bmqphm

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19 Nov 2022
"ἡ Ἀρτεμισία"!
φαίνεται ἡμῖν ἐνταῦθα ἡ Ἀρτεμισία ἐπιδεικνύουσα ὅπως δέοι ἂν διδάσκεσθαι τόν τε ἀόριστον καὶ τὰς μετοχὰς ἑλληνιστί.
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Really fabulous talk today by @melissaterras, including wish list of AI tools for hums research, recording available
A big day (again) at (free, online, global) #BuildingDH2022 - Can't wait for keynote address: Melissa Terras on 'Searching for AI's Killer Ap in the Humanities' - in just 13 hour's time. Register @ web.cvent.com/event/811e389e… @melissaterras @ADHOrg @Gale_ANZ @tully_barnett @ARDC_AU
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15 Nov 2022
Please don't be AI ... please don't be AI ... It's epigraphy, not AI!!!!
The Basque language has always been surrounded by mystery with regards to its origin. Today, there has been a massive breakthrough on its history and origin 🧵
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Debt charges headed for $53B/year, now the fastest growing fed program & twice the spending on children's benefits says Budget Office. blacklocks.ca/debt-charges-b… #cdnpoli @CaFreeland @PBO_DPB
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14 Nov 2022
This UNGA vote will haunt Russia financially for decades. Large sums, which can be retrieved for reparations, are already frozen on Western bank accounts, around 300 billion USD. That vote gives legal basis in those countries (all of them voted yes) to impound it. #Russia
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13 Nov 2022
Congratulations to our @TheMapleLeague neighbour, @kmpenner, on this important second edition.
Lexham #English #Septuagint, 2nd ed. with Reverse Interlinear Rick Brannan; Ken M. Penner; Michael Aubrey; Israel Loken; Isaiah Hoogendyk @LexhamPress @kmpenner @michaelgaubrey #Bible lexhampress.com/product/2290…
Well, how about that: the Intermediate LSJ doesn't list "LXX" among its abbreviations, suggestion that the Septuagint's vocabulary isn't in the book. But "LXX" is cited throughout nonetheless.
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RT @nevenjovanovic@scholar.social CW: Query Wikidata in natural language Sparklis: filter, drill down, see what is there... works for any SPARQL endpoint, not only for wd. Learned about it from Wikidata Status Updates (1/2)
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8 Nov 2022
Many people should update their views on deworming based on this big study, and the many other reasons to believe it has large benefits. And also consider – which other treatments are we underestimating because mortality benefits are difficult to identify? I think many.
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8 Nov 2022
Important update to 'the worm wars'... This major new study, which is a 23-year follow up of an RCT, finds that deworming reduced mortality in under-5s in Kenya by 24% (!) 🪱 editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin…
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RT @drsueoosthuizen@mastodon.social Newly-discovered inscription engraved on a #BronzeAge ivory comb c.1700BC reads ‘May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard’. Could the owner read it? How widespread was #literacy in the #prehistoric Near East? Source: (1/2)
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"It is distressingly obvious that while so many were tricked into believing this was the most progressive Canadian government ever, it is in fact, a slave to the status quo" theline.substack.com/p/peter…