iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This is a wonderful project and I am so glad to be a part of it. I look forward to seeing my entry about Scylla alongside the work of so many other passionate classicists.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

This is exciting news (and I'm a part of it!).

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thedzarina.bsky.social @thedzarina.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

You guys, I was teaching the Aeneid today, and I mentioned how Vergil used condere as the verb for planting the sword in Turnus' chest and how the verb was used for founding a city in book one. One of my students then wrote in the chat eSTABlished. I am dead 💀. #classicsbluesky

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Someone, at some time, said something about ancient vases being too primitive for collectors during the Early Modern period. Don't mind me while I spend the next few days fixated on it.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

You'd have to be *very* careful about who you gifted it to, but whoever came up with the idea of putting the frontispiece of Swift's Modest Proposal on a babygro was having a *day*.

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A Modest Proposal Babygro

A Modest Proposal is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of t...

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Scare-a Anderson @magneticsara.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

If you're poor, you probably have more of your stability coming from your social capital than your monetary capital. If you "just move," you throw a lot of it away.

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

'Despite frequent remonstrations, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go".

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

This observation aside, I helped run a session on time management for PhD students last week. A quick summary thread of the big discussion points, in case others might find them useful: 1/

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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!

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John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

I will never recover from this student email.

Image of an email from a student asking if sources "from the late 1900s" are acceptable.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

See if you can avoid thinking about it. Sometimes research is... uncomfortable.

quote that reads: Art for Jean de Berry was not a means of sublimating his otherwise inexpressible sexual feelings. It would be quite wrong to imagine Jean having a private orgy of objects, feeling the flesh of the parchment page, fingering the bony relic, jiggling his joyaux until he arrived at jouissance.

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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

You can't write without a cat. This is just a fact. Even if you don't think you like cats or don't think you have a writing cat you actually do. It's out there, watching, waiting, stalking. It will find you. It can't be bargained with, t can't be reasoned with and it absolutely will not stop.

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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

gimme yule gimme fire don me now with gay attire

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Francis Bacon, 1605. Epitomes are bad, detailed study of the relics of history is good.

Snapshot of a text from an old book that read:

Antiquities, or Remnants of History, are, as was said, tamquam Tabula Naufragij, when industrious persons by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of Monumets, Names, Wordes, Proverbes, Traditions, Private Recordes, and Evidences, Fragments of stories, Passages of Books, that concerne not storie, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of times.
In these kindes on unperfect Histories I doe assigne no deficience, for they are tanquam imperfecte Milla, and therefore any deficience in them is but their nature. As for the Corruptios and Mothes of HIstorie, which are Epitomes, the use of them deserveth to be banisht, as all men of sound judgement have confessed, as those that have fretted and corroded the found bodies of many excellent Histories, and wrought them into base and unprofitable dregges.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

In very, very late realisations: I've been researching the antique vases owned by Niccolo de Niccoli and saw a note that he tilted the writing when he made copies from ancient texts. When printers used it, it became 'italics'. I never connected that with being Italian because I am an idiot.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

One day I will back on my post history here and this stupid thing will be behind me. One day.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

In today's thesis gripe, it took me five hours to find the original texts for quotes I had in translation from secondary sources. They were all from the sixteenth century: two in Latin and one in Italian. My word count has actually gone down but perhaps someone will appreciate the original words? :(

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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Me. *Misses one day of duolingo.*

Pointing Donald Sutherland with Duo from duolingo overlain really badly.

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

The greatest story ever told

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Boo to the French scholar who independently made the same discovery and attribution as me, only in 1996. Off to correct that section in my thesis now. Sigh. It serves me right for feeling smug when I worked it out last year.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Okay, now I know why so many people are talking about skydiving Christian babies on bsky.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Some of my research process involves cursing long-dead scholars who have footnotes like 'so-and-so informed me that he read about this super interesting thing that happened' and then there is nothing about the text they saw it in, who wrote it, where is it, how do I find it? I am a tired scholar.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Vale Groot, our beloved crowned stick insect. She was a very good bug.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

What do you do when a journal you've submitted to ghosts you?

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

I was recently made aware that Garth Marenghi's second book, Incarcerat, has just come out. I didn't even know about Terrortome. I'm listening to the audiobooks tonight and every night, of course.

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Delphine Demelas @delphinedemelas.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

The Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, a manuscript that documents the culture, politics, natural science, and history of the Mexica (Aztec) is online, after seven years of work! Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Coco Pops being $10 a box is bothering me a lot more than it should. I like cereal in the early hours of the morning when I'm writing all night and I'm just too tight to buy that.

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Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺 @katetopper.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Choc-lates, with three syllables. (Ugh, there's no way to make this joke work in print.)

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

If you're the kind of person who writes letters or keeps a diary or handwritten notes - pretty please use your neatest and most legible handwriting. After an evening of more scrawly letters from 16th-century Florence, well, I think crying is an appropriate reaction. Voynich ms.-style is also okay.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

I have made all these faces today (sans ciggie).

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

I think there could be a market for Wall-E-style floating beds for visiting Renaissance palazzi and museums. I could float around and enjoy all the paintings on the ceiling without cricking my neck. It's a myth that Michelangelo painting on his back, btw. Though even standing at an easel can hurt.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

I can't sleep. I made a discovery that is super exciting for me and now I just want to research and write. Also, I may need to go to Arezzo. Yay for research pulling me out of the funk it dragged me into.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Yay! @resaustrales.bsky.social is here - Bluesky is complete! I can go and kill my account at the bad place now.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 15/10/2023

I like feeds an all but what I really want is LINKED HASHTAGS. This is how people find each other, this is how we have conversations - especially time-limited ones, for for conferences and ongoing world events. And more robust and customisable muting options. @support.bsky.team

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

I just want to research the vases owned by the Medici family in the 15th century and most of my search results are about Giacomo Medici, the much more recent antiquities smuggler. It's only a slightly better problem than when I search for something innocuous and all the results seem to be porn.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I've long felt that 'Potato Jesus' has not received the respect he rightly deserves, so I have immortalised him in a medieval stained-glass window... "For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his spud?"

'Potato Jesus' as a stained-glass window

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I'm checking the proofs of an article I wrote a while back and past me was a much better writer than my present incarnation. It reads so well, and my thesis reads so shit-ly. Oh well, I suppose the ability to write goodish articles is a useful academic skill. Onwards and onwards.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I just counted the entries in my bibliography (top-notch procrastinating). There are 506 texts there so far - no wonder my poor brain is so fried all the time. P.S. Whatever anyone might say about the rest of the thesis, the bibliography is beautifully formatted.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 06/10/2023

Excellent! xkcd does classical reception. xkcd.com/2837

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Odyssey

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

As I'm currently headphone-less, how does everyone else work? Do you listen to music or podcasts? Is silence your thing? Or perhaps some degree of ambient noise works for you? How do you stay on task?

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Someone broke my headphones in a not-possible-for-a-cat-to-do-it way. Nobody will admit to it, everyone immediately volunteered that it wasn't them before I asked. I could try a sleuth-and-reveal kind of thing, but I'm sad :(

Gif from Ted Lasso of Jamie Tartt saying "I feel like I've lost me wings, Roy".

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

I'm having one of those mornings where I play on my phone in bed for a bit because the moment I get up all my entire day will revolve around my thesis. I'm a bit drained and have given up on work/life balance as I get closer to submission. I can have some life after that.

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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Fingers crossed for a Collingwood win. All my neighbours will be drunk and loud tonight anyway and I'd prefer that they were happy rather than sad and/or angry.

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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

This line alone earned it an immediate share: "Maybe the Domus Aurea is the original Mojo Dojo Casa House."

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Legonium @legonium.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Iocus Graecus mihi praedilectus : my favourite Greek joke

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