Ben Nagy

"Tethyos, innocui carpens alimenta vaporis.
arcanum radiant oculi iubar. igneus ora
cingit honos. rutilo cognatum vertice sidus
attollit cristatus apex tenebrasque serena
luce secat.”

Claudian, Shorter Poems 27 (XLIV).11-20

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵

#LatinForTheDay – 7 March #Claudian

“par volucer superis, stellas qui vividus aequat
durando membrisque terit redeuntibus aevum,
non epulis saturare famem, non fontibus ullis
adsuetus prohibere sitim; sed purior illum
solis fervor alit ventosaque pabula potat...

PhD student grant (3 years) on the evolution of written communication My team recruits a PhD student to work under the supervision of Olivier Morin on the evolution of written communication, within a project jointly led by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, and Marc Allassonn...

CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213

#jobklaxon
Lecturer in #digitalhumanities
Application Deadline: 29.03.2026
Very sensible language policy, B1 after 2 years and B2 after five years.
Maybe of interest to the members of @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social

On this day in 1274, Thomas Aquinas died. His master piece, the "Summa theologiae" (here: IIa-IIae 29) was greatly appreciated by early book binders (Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Rq 75)
www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/...

how's that catullus translation coming? 💜

In the actinic light I saw
ten thousand cyborgs, maybe more
armoured phaser wielding death machines
gleaming ranks who see with laser beams
and they came to wipe out earth and every human being
to hear our screams

it was the sound
of cylons

we got: grilled pork belly with betel leaf and pickled carrot/kohlrabi; minced pork prawn with fresh veg batons and mixed herbs; bean sprout, fried shallot, noodle, and mixed herbs (veg option)

I listened to a lot of The Fauves tonight, and also made about 25 cold rolls, so I am feeling pretty Australian tbh

One Year On: 13 people on the ruling that changed their lives On 16 April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex assigned at birth. Forget the rage-bait headlines and attempts to divide us through...

my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

The ‘male loneliness epidemic’ is entirely self-inflicted

two automatically detected iambic pentameter skeets 1. "it should be harder to approve a war" 2. "with glitter coming out of every pore"

this bot is one of the great treasures of the internet 😍

my course notes on a bayesian workflow for (single agent) cognitive modeling are now fully revised and online: fusaroli.github.io/AdvancedCogn...

Predictive checks, updating checks, sensitivity analyses and simulation based calibration in @mc-stan.org

Feedback is very welcome!

A text worthy of a few notes: the beginning of Homer's Iliad

BL Burney MS 86; Townley Homer: Iliad of Homer, with extensive marginal and interlinear scholia; ?1059 CE; f.1r

Her last white-ball game for Australia. What a champ. Skipper. Gloves. Bat. (And if you've been lucky enough to hear her call the game she is bloody terrific.)

Nothing to see, just very powerful pattern matching. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian, here's the script: [Scene is the inside of a SOUP. Some CARROTS and BITS OF BROCCOLI are floating around and a STOCK CUBE and a BAY LEAF have just been dropped in.]  1 STOCK CUBE: Alright lads - this is Bay Leaf. My colleague from the spice rack. 2 BROCCOLI: Hi Bay Leaf BAY LEAF: Yuh yuh hi 3 CARROTS: You up for getting proper blended with us later, Bay Leaf? BAY LEAF: Nuh mate, getting scooped out before soup stage. 4 CARROTS: Oh! So… you’re not being eaten then? BAY LEAF: Eaten! Haha 5 BAY LEAF: Not allowed mate. I’m afraid I’m a lil’ bit *toooo intense*... 6 BAY LEAF: Just here for the flavour hit. Special forces, y’know. That’s why there’s just one of me. 7 BAY LEAF: Over-deploy and you’d have this whole soup stiiinking of bay leaf… 8 BAY LEAF: You might wanna stand back actually. This place is about to get preeetty bay leafy... 9 [Silent pause] 10 CARROTS: Are you doing something BAY LEAF: Sure am mate. 11 BAY LEAF: Suuuuure am. 12 BAY LEAF [Getting scooped out by chef’s spoon]: You need training to perceive it. CARROTS: OK

I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk

We're smokin' that Argentinian himejoshi catgirl shit out of a puma bone pipe at an altitude of 12,600 feet, concurrent with the third Dynasty of Ur, you stupid shit.

I mean surely *everyone* sensible is having "problems" with it?

good morning everyone project your personal imposter syndrome onto this gif ur welcome

vietnamese/laksa mint, betel leaf, ngo om ("rice paddy herb"), taro stem, sweet basil, sawleaf coriander, red mint

ALL. THE. HERB.

tomorrow I'm doing Vietnamese! (names in alt)

can't have too much sosig if you know what I .. ahem yes I am cooking for more than one person dw 😳

lamb merguez and angus beef sosig, cooking slowly in an unhealthy amount of garlic butter left over from cajun prawns

in Australia in late Summer, but falling back into old Kraków habits... SOSIG!!

'R'(everentissimo) with a dragon

Dijon, BM, 0168; Gregorius, Moralia in Job; 1111 CE; France (Cîteaux, abbaye Notre-Dame); f.4v

In my head, "spangenhelm" is onomatopoeia and nobody can change my mind

AMA A LOS GATOS ODIA EL FASCISMO

idw be harsh but I just can't support attempts to make works & days seem cool

Hank Green | Whatever's Wrong With Me It's Working This product is has two prints. One on the front with a pocket-sized print and one on the back. This shirt is open for pre-order through March 5th. Get it now!

Hey uh, I designed ANOTHER Mola Cult shirt for @hankgreen.bsky.social and you might like it even more than the first one, so check it out! One week only to pre-order: store.dftba.com/products/han...

#CFP #PACRIM34 34th Meeting of the Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar. Theme: #TRAGEDY - Melbourne, July 20-22, 2026 - due by April 1 to pacrimlatin2026@gmail.com

Happy Pokémon Day!

Here’s 10,000 words of Latin keyed to the first 10 chapters of Lingua Latina per se Illustrata

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