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Nathan Steinmeyer

Nathan Steinmeyer

@InDaWilderness

- Dad - Assyriology Ph.D. - Tel Aviv University alum - Hebrew U alum - Hillsdale College alum

Israel Katılım Mart 2013
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Tristin Hopper@TristinHopper·
If I was Israeli, anytime I received slightly poor government service I'd be like "so you can blow up the Iranian leadership in two weeks but you're late with my library card?"
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arenmaeir@arenmaeir·
It is quite something to see how little it has been reported in the media and the little public attention to the fact that 2 days ago, Iranian missiles hit the Temple Mount (including right next to the el-Aqsa Mosque), and also right next to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?!
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Nathan Steinmeyer@InDaWilderness·
@tropicalDUBSAR Yeah, they definitely have the closest and is what I end up using most of the time. But it still has a lot of limitations as it only takes into account exact matches in the first or last strokes.
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Nathan Steinmeyer@InDaWilderness·
Can someone please make a "looks like" list for Cunieform signs? So often I come across a sign that looks a lot like X, but not quite and it would be so helpful to be able to look up X ans have a list of "signs that look a lot like X..."
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Nathan Steinmeyer@InDaWilderness·
Personally best Avg. Pace for this route! I might not run fast, but im getting better all the time. Having gone through 5 seperate knee surgeries during my undergrad, I'll take whatever I can get.
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Nathan Steinmeyer@InDaWilderness·
@JanaMynarova Yori and I did this too. 😂 went all the way to a butcher and asked for them to cut according to Mesopotamian specifications and then took the entails back to the office for 3d scanning and "reading."
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Jana Mynářová
Jana Mynářová@JanaMynarova·
@InDaWilderness Well, Luis Siddall told me about a time when they used to tell fortunes using sheep's entrails. Just what you'd expect from Australians :)
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Nathan Steinmeyer@InDaWilderness·
@JanaMynarova Do it! One day in a lesson on astrol omens, Yori pulled out a solar system set made for elementary school kids. I'll always remember that lesson. Hand on learning!
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Nathan Steinmeyer@InDaWilderness·
@JanaMynarova Went down a rabbit hole today looking at ancient Mesopotamian recipes, and some of them really reminded me of a few dishes that my Arab family eats... but I assume part of that is just having similar native ingredients today as they did back then.
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Nathan Steinmeyer@InDaWilderness·
I don't know if it's an Israeli or TAU thing, but I never had a defense/viva. I simply got two outside peer reviews on it and that was that...
Zachary Wagner@ZacharyCWagner

As someone who did their PhD (DPhil) in the UK, I absolutely do not understand how/why US vivas have like 4, 5, or even 6 examiners and one of them is your supervisor. This seems wrong-headed on so many levels: 1. Your supervisor being is (or should be) redundant. They should have already given you all their feedback and critical questions. In fact, they’re kinda doing a bad job if they haven’t? 2. Likewise, the student should have already addressed/integrated all their feedback into the submitted version. So there shouldn’t be anything left to talk about that hasn’t already been talked about in supervision meetings/emails. 3. If you’re going to ask the student a question you’ve already asked them, it’s kinda like giving the questions for the test ahead of time? Which is very much not the point of a viva. So what’s the point here? Performing something you and your supervisor rehearsed or being able to think on your feet, defend your views, and engage with critical feedback in real time. The former tests your ability to memorize a script. The latter tests whether you are actually an expert in your field and can defend your arguments. 4. Again, on the supervisor, there is a clear conflict of interest here. When you supervisee’s work is being assessed, so is the supervisors’. Vivas are an opportunity for colleagues at the same institution to evaluate and hold each other accountable to high standards of research and argumentation. 5. Similarly, there will always be a temptation for a supervisor to subtly (or not so subtly) come to a student’s defense during a difficult line of questioning, or one where their view is aligned with the student’s perspective over and against one of the other examiners. Not saying this always happens (it shouldn’t) but the incentive structure allows for it. 6. Too many cooks in the kitchen. Vivas can go very fast (mine was little over two hours, but felt to me like half that time). Oftentimes, additional assessors are brought in to give an interdisciplinary perspective. Well and good––and outside-of-discipline feedback can be very helpful. But I’m not convinced that the viva is the right context for this. The other edge of the disciplinary sword is that you risk bringing in folks who do not know the main discipline’s field very well and can lead the conversation down rabbit trails that are less relevant to the central argument being evaluated for the purposes of the degree. 7. Too many assessors means each one of them gets a limited time to engage with the thesis and ask questions. You can end up only have one or two questions per committee member; not enough for deep engagement with the argument or details of the thesis. 8. Relatedly, having lots of examiners disincentivizes the examiners from careful, close reading and engagement with the thesis. When you know others are going to be there to ask questions, you feel less responsible for the examination and thus are more likely to be underprepared for the conversation. Anyway. No system is perfect and UK/Euro-model vivas can also go poorly. But to sum up I think the incentive structures are all out of whack in the US system. And it seems liable to produce shoddier work where the UK system, at least ideally, seems set up to incentivize everyone doing their best before, during, and after the viva. Would love to hear others’ thoughts on this.

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Nathan Steinmeyer@InDaWilderness·
Never felt better about being on an El Al flight... heading home.
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Hillsdale Collegian
Hillsdale Collegian@HDaleCollegian·
🚨BREAKING🚨 Erika Kirk will address the class of 2026 as commencement speaker on May 9, Hillsdale College announced today.
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Nathan Steinmeyer@InDaWilderness·
@Chris_K_Eames Yes... but maybe we could not come across as having a bunch of college interns running our socials... that would be nice. 😂
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Nathan Steinmeyer@InDaWilderness·
I am currently helping edit an article for a sociology prof and I got to say... it is painful to see how scholars of more modern periods just kind of go along with the notion that all things civilized began with ancient Greece...
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Nathan Steinmeyer@InDaWilderness·
@JanaMynarova Almost as if governmental systems created under hyper specific cultural contexts don't always work forced upon a civilization with a different cultural context... shocking.
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Jana Mynářová
Jana Mynářová@JanaMynarova·
Export demokratických hodnot do zemí Blízkého východu mi vždy přišel poněkud naivní. Na druhou stranu, aspoň za tím stála nějaká hlubší myšlenka či přesvědčení. Teď už ale není ani to 🤷‍♀️
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jimothy burglary@JimothyBurg1ary·
200,000 years of human warfare and we have landed on the 3 platonically ideal weapons. AR15, rc plane with a lit stick of dynamite taped to it, and Machine That Rips Apart The Fabric Of The Fucking Universe
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Mike Burnham
Mike Burnham@ML_Burn·
AI will free academics from the burden of research so we can focus on the work that matters: cyberbullying each other on social media.
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