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Julia M Perroni

@juliamperroni.bsky.social
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She/her, writer among other things. Classics grad: UBC ➡️ KCL ➡️ UWisc. I like epic and tragedy and queer stuff of all kinds! Co-Host of Classically Trained Podcast.

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A poet versed in Greek and Latin being praised, a speech in front of the acropolis, public executions of criminals, and a delegate to Greece faces bribery charges. Please check in on your ancient historians as time itself appears to collapse.
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Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Part-time job in LGBTQ+ community archiving. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Invisible Histories 2027 Part Time Position
Title: Public Services Coordinator Location: Charlotte, NC (in-person only) Salary: $35,000 annually for 20 hours per week Benefits: $200/month insurance stipend; 5 days paid sick & vacation tim...
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In India the leaders of the Cockroach youth movement have been arrested, along with more than 1,000 protesters, opposition politicians, journalists, student union leaders & lawyers; New Delhi is in lockdown. The police have prevented mass protests against the country’s election chief taking place.
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India’s ‘Cockroach’ leaders detained; New Delhi in lockdown
Indian police crackdown appears to have prevented mass protests against the country's election chief from taking place.
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Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📢Immediate opening for a Latin teacher in Chicago📢 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44... Please forward widely!
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Chicago Public Schools hiring Whitney Young HS: Latin & English Teacher - Immediate Vacancy (0.5 FTE, ISBE: 9-12 Latin & English) in Chicago, IL | LinkedIn
Posted 6:28:16 PM. ABOUT CPS: We are an urban district on the rise. The support and resources we provide to our staff…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
clifford ando’s essays in the maroon have no doubt ruined admins’ days. many days, i bet.
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FGLIF - First-Generation Low Income Federation @fglif.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FGLIF is launching a new Mentorship Program! We’re creating more opportunities for FGLI members to connect, share experiences, exchange advice, and support one another across career stages. Interested in participating as a mentor, mentee, or both? Read more and sign up at fglif.org/mentorship
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
yes I AM tired of reading theory. yes I DO believe I will be rewarded in the kingdom of heaven for reading theory. yes I am VERY worried the reward will be more theory to read
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I was in charge of an educational institution and learned that a technology fostered “cognitive surrender” in young people, I’d like to think I would do everything in my power to keep it away from the young people who pay my institution to educate them. But I guess I’m just a weirdo.
Students are using artificial intelligence for everything, including cheating, and a recent M.I.T. report said the technology was creating
"cognitive surrender."
Philip Cheung for The New York Times
Many university leaders are embracing A.I. anyway. →
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well, every time somebody posts this, me & my drummer get tagged, so, preemptively: mountain goats are wild, majestic animals. The Mountain Goats are a band. Out of respect to our namesake, we do lick pee from rocks when we’re in a national park, but nobody ever airlifts us anywhere. We walk home
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/09/2026
HOMER “This guy gave his job talk in dialects. We need someone who can teach Freshman Greek 100.” buff.ly/FvJc3bA
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Faculty Search Committee Feedback on Applications from Founding Figures of the Fields for Tenure-Track Positions
Homer “This guy gave his job talk in dialects. We need someone who can teach Freshman Greek 100.”
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Excellent 🧵
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🙃
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Finally some good video game news www.gamespot.com/articles/bli...
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Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract That Could Set A New Standard For Game Developers
Blizzard workers have secured AI guardrails and new protections against layoffs.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/09/2026
The chant you're hearing is "FIRST! DO NO HARM!" Huge high five to everyone who came out to the protest at Mount Sinai over the hospital's deal with Trump to end gender-affirming care for trans youth. 🧵 of photos to follow!
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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ok, this is hysterical; I think that we all need to buy one for our favorite friend or family member: jdandkateindustries.com/products/lba...
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Late Bronze Age Collapse-Scented Candle
Finally, someone (us) has made a candle commemorating everyone’s favorite late 13th century widespread societal collapse.
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Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Another day, another "why don't they let us add comments to footnotes in Microsoft Word" rant. #amwriting
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’d like to get hired in my home country!
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I was once in a room where an American prof reassured a group of mostly-American grads that they can still apply to jobs in Canada even though they say they prioritize Canadian candidates because the requirement is loose and I was sitting there like I Wish It Wasn’t Though.
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Or they could, y’know, hire a Canadian.
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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I just got called out on not caring about this by my diss. supervisor, so I’m going to have to learn I guess! But no, I usually go on vibes.
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
hey.
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Tony Keen @tonykeen58.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Opinion: Postdocs aren't burger flippers, because if they were they'd be treated better. Opinion: If your mentorship is disrupted by unionisation, you're probably a bad mentor. Opinion: It is actually possible to advance science without being exploitative.
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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Also please note that this is absolutely Canadian for "Fuck that guy"
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Greetings, non-Jews in academia! As we start another semester, here's your regularly scheduled reminder that the Jewish High Holy Days are coming up. If you wouldn't schedule an important meeting or exam on Christmas or Easter, don't schedule one on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Part of the reason a lot of super rich people are so awful is that when normal people get an absurd amount of money, they immediately start looking around for who they can help.
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh its search function is a nightmare, but I encounter a lot of links organically, and there’s a high level of trust in who you follow to be posting stuff you want to click on, because there’s no algorithm.
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Tumblr! And (anecdotally) I've heard that the way Tumblr scrubs links means that no one ever knows when a click comes from there, which makes it bizarrely invisible to advertisers. Good for us, honestly.
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Reminder as semester starts up to all profs: AI detectors are not a reliable way to know whether someone's writing is AI, and furthermore professors are not police. If the writing is bad, it's bad. If the sources are fake, they're fake. Otherwise: no cop shit. jeffreymoro.com/blog/2020-02...
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Against Cop Shit / jeffrey moro
Jeffrey Moro's Homepage
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Marcie Sundaram @alliterative.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
August 18th is #HeliumDiscoveryDay, so the #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is SUN/SOLAR/HELIUM #wotd #sun #solar #helium #eclipse
During a solar eclipse in 1868 astronomer Joseph N. Lockyer (among others) discovered the element helium by studying the light of the sun, and etymologically this makes sense. Sun comes from Old English sunne, from Proto-Germanic *sunnon (related to *sunthaz “sun-side” eventually giving us the word south), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(u)wen- a variant form of *sawel- “sun”. The variant form *s(e)wol- led to Latin sol “sun” from which we get solar. The suffixed form *sawel-yo- led to Greek helios “sun”, and it’s from that Greek word that Lockyer coined the term helium.
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
What a phrasing 😆 he’s right though!
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I feel like perhaps the Times averages an embarrassing headline about once a day of late and everyone should just unsubscribe.
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I actually think it’s a sign of a good translation—good in the sense of interesting, genuinely new in perspective and approach—if you don’t like everything! Means the translator was really going for it. We’re never gonna agree on every single choice, etc. (Yes this is a Tired Homerist opinion lol)
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Impressive work! Ouch!
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The CAC-SCEC conference was in QC a couple years ago (held in a monastery just down the hill from that view!) and it was one of my favourite cities to visit! So beautiful.
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thank you!! Glad to know we’ve got company in our excitement 😄
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Spooky McSpookyface the Third 9th of Her Name, Lass of Terror. @lulz.network · 15/08/2026
There you have it.
so, (barely) reading between the lines of what Twitch's staff said:

1) they were forced by Amazon to add the AI training setting and to make it opt-out, because the overlords know perfectly well there's no reason anyone would ever opt-in

2) the actual Twitch staff who run Twitch do not like this and are of the same mind about it as all of you

3) Taking the time to opt-out, even if you don't really stream, gives them data to take to meetings with their overlords to prove that Twitch users dislike AI and pushing it too hard will drive people from the site. 

Settings > Security and Privacy > Training for Generative AI
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Now that Classically Trained is back, we want to start broadening our scope a bit, specifically doing more guest eps. If you’re a classicist (at any career stage!) with a favourite piece of reception and you’d like to be on a relaxed, conversational podcast, hmu!
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Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Classically Trained is back, baby! Voila, ~2ish hours of my and Allison's opinions about Nolan's Odyssey, aka why I've refrained from opining extensively before now. I think this is one of our better episodes, but of course it was in my wheelhouse so I'm biased... www.podbean.com/eas/pb-52f5w...
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Episode Twenty Two: Nolan's Odyssey
In this episode, we discuss the film The Odyssey (2026), dir. Christopher Nolan. The movie of the summer! In this one, we talk production ethics, Tumblr literary theory, and Sea Peoples.   Content war...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
1. Democratic socialist Francesca Hong lost the Wisconsin primary for governor. In reaction, the Times ran this headline: "A Stunning Loss in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Left." And the lede: "The Democratic establishment finally struck back at the surging populist left." Yeah, maybe.
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A Stunning Loss in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Left
Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 15/08/2026
It is undeniable and factually true that transition today is easier, more accessible, and more acknowledged and understood than it's ever been. That's what conservatives are reacting to, what's driving them absolutely mad. The "foundation" of sex as "fixed" and "immutable" crumbling in real time.
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
About to publish an investigation into stolen art that is the greatest possible demonstration of this core research principle:
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is the same old "you can't solve weightlifting with a forklift" thing that happens again and again with current consumer uses of AI: the point of reading a book is not to finish the book easily, it's to READ the book, especially if the book asks you to do something that feels difficult
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🌱 ⓥ Francisco Robles ⓥ 🌱 @franciscondine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hi Bluesky! Please share this Postdoctoral Fellowship, which is from 2027-2029 & housed in the English Department at the University of Notre Dame. Salary is $75,000 for each year, & the fellowship carries a $15,000 research budget for its duration. Mentorship & an individual office, too!
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