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🖼️🎩 Oh, look at , casually reinventing as a "quick report" because who has time for that, right? Let's all marvel at his groundbreaking of an 18th-century artist's *totally obscure* tricks, previously known to literally every historian ever. 👏📚
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🔴 **Qaryat al-Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl**

“_Despite his name being recorded in various texts and inscriptions on numerous objects that confirm his role as the city's patron god, scant information exists regarding his attributes or sphere of influence. Nonetheless, clues on some of his characteristics can be gleaned from coins bearing his likeness._”

de Lara, J. (2024). Qaryat al-Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 35, 136–154. doi.org/10.1111/aae.12249.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Arabia #Mythology #Academia #Academic @archaeodons

Does anyone here know if there is an easy way to find donation links for #OpenSource software we use?

At @odissei_soda we have a whole #GitHub organization with (mostly #python and #rstats) projects, is there an easy way to:

- auto-extract dependencies / usage
- for each dependency, find donation link
- put all of this in a data frame

I'm toying with the idea of reserving #academic grant / material budget to donate to software we use.

Does anyone do this already?

The map shows very clearly the scale of the industry of universities. Yes Walmart is massive but the amount of states/area covered by universities as lead employer is vast. When we think about edtech, and now AI apps sold as standard process for 'digital transformation', we can visualise the billions of dollars generated by this sales pitch. It just prints mountains of money.

🔴 **The Persistence of Tychonism**

“_In conclusion I will suggest that the historical longevity of
Tychonism has been considerably underestimated and also that Tychonists were not generally restrained from public endorsement of heliocentrism by religious pressure. On the contrary, I suggest that the continued acceptance of Tychonism was conditioned by its congruence with scientists’ religious beliefs._”

Barker, P. (2025) ‘The Persistence of Tychonism’, in Philosophical Readings. Zenodo, pp. 11–23. doi: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1503506.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #HistSci #EarlyModern #Science #Religion #Academia #Academic @science @religion

ZenodoThe Persistence of Tychonism

I have a question about naming my . Currently I have my professional site which is just my nameand my fun / site. It would be nice to have a non-work related site that using my name but for blogging and hosting. I especially want to have my name attached to my blogs and selfhosting write ups but I don’t want that connected to work.

I do like that my ActivityHub accounts are not connected to my name so I can be more open though.

What should I do?

Ran into this in a random visit to the other place. I feel the sentiment, not sure I fully agree with it... but ECRs have been in a stressed ecosystem for a while now.
(Also, wow, my feed there is a desert, mostly the big names with thousands of followers still around).
#Academic | #Academia