Dave Addison
Historian of Late Antiquity. British Academy Postdoc at University of Liverpool. Hispanophile, Leodensian.
liverpool.ac.uk/people/david-addison
- Reposted by Dave AddisonLooking forward to reading this new book by Conor O'Brien. academic.oup.com/book/61836?l...
- Reposted by Dave AddisonNew volume of Traditio Vol. 80 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56113 @projectmuse.bsky.social @xuthal.bsky.social @jmharland.bsky.social @daveaddison.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dave AddisonThis report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
- Reposted by Dave AddisonMy new article has now been published in the 2025 volume of Traditio. I use a little examined episode on the lower Rhine in the late 350s with the aid of agricultural archaeology to reveal fiscal dependency relations between the Empire & Barbaricum, & the consequences of their rupture. #medievalsky
- I'm very happy to see that my new article on the martyrs of Zaragoza is out in this year's Traditio. Many thanks to the Traditio team, who were wonderful to work with! doi.org/10.1017/tdo....
- Wild stat in the FT: Coventry University spend 12% of *all* annual expenditure paying fees to middle-men who recruit international students 🤯
- I genuinely don't understand who this kind of messaging from Kyle is for. Do red wall voters dream of Silicon valley in the fens? Are Economist subscribers a major voting bloc? Or does he just spend too much time talking fifteen or so guys from a handful of think tanks?
- Hmmmmm. www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
- Ditto
- I've deleted my academia.edu. The new ToCs were totally unacceptable.
- Would be easier to imagine journalism surviving the AI threat if certain journalists weren't equally, or rather more, prone to hallucination.
