Wake up with a painful throat. Oh dear, here we go again. Air conditioning in this hotel? People in the train yesterday? People in the audience on Monday? A. had mentioned on Monday evening, as she reminds me, that my glands looked as if they might be up, which would then suggest that this started […]| Sphinx
On the one hand, what’s happening in the University of Chicago – the (supposedly temporary) suspension of recruitment to PhD programmes in Classics as well as other disciplines that require s…| Sphinx
It is of course distressing to realise that demand for my opinions on Thucydides is limited… Just over a fortnight ago I embarked on one of those “One like, one X” social media things on Bluesky, and was initially quite overwhelmed – just as I thought I was starting to catch up with the number […]| Sphinx
“Generative AI tools offer significant opportunities to improve teaching and student learning.” Uh huh. The key question about the new American Historical Association guiding principles on the use of Generative AI in history education is whether they have signed up to the idea that this is the inevitable, irresistible Future in a spirit of fanatical […]| Sphinx