What I saw as a rather strident disagreement among colleagues -- because I view Prof. Beard as a colleague -- she saw as a pile-on. I'm sorry she felt that way, but sometimes, when you dig in your heels and refuse to budge, a pile-on happens. 9/
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I can imagine that Prof. Beard thinks that her intent was clear in our conversation -- that she didn't mean to denigrate my two decades of expertise in the topic under discussion -- but that's not how it felt. That's not how it was received by others either. 10/
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I've been following Prof. Beard for years. Since I was an undergrad, honestly. But on social media, she tends to privilege authorial intent over audience reception. This, in my book, is a major misstep. Twitter doesn't care about intent -- only reception. 11/
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When an idea, a news piece, research, etc., is received poorly, a clever scholar will ask why & will fix the issue. I've run into this with my public scholarship -- I've screwed up when writing for Forbes. But I've owned up & fixed it when new info or ideas were presented. 12/
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This is all by way of saying, as an anthropologist who is trained to see multiple sides to any discussion, I was fully willing to put myself in Prof. Beard's shoes and consider authorial intent. But then... this: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/when-did-vesuvius-erupt/ … 13/
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In this blog post, Prof. Beard both details her original thoughts about the Vesuvian inscription (that it doesn't change anything) but also brings in Neville Morley's blog post abt why seasonality matters in research into these sites, a post in which he prominently cites me. 14/
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Prof. Beard, of course, does not cite me in her TLS blog post, instead choosing to cite a more senior male scholar, someone who has much more name recognition in her part of the field of classics than I do. 15/
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This is not how senior scholars should deal with discussions, whether on Twitter or at a conference or in print. Since we're talking reception, a topic current in all subfields of classics, Prof. Beard's blog post, to anyone who read yesterday, is very poorly received. 16/
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Erasure of a junior female scholar, of someone with direct expertise in the topic at hand, of someone who also navigates the utter dumpster fire that is social media most days in the hopes of educating people about the ancient world... this is shocking to me. 17/
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It’s been interesting in the last 36 hours to see where I stand as a bioarchaeologist in the Roman world... and to see who supports my ideas openly, secretly, not at all... and only when a more senior man says it. 18/
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Support and I am sorry. I have had many eyebrows raised on various previous interactions she has had with other scholars, particularly BIWOC. That has not gone well.
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I remember seeing at least one of those discussions play out here and in blogs. :-/
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