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

Yay! Found it. It was R. M. Cook. It's usually him.

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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 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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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

I'm shopping for a baby gift but even though the mother is awesome, I don't want to risk offending. I love this though.

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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 · 28/11/2023

*waves from Melbourne* Everyone here got derailed by varying degrees, but those in my cohort are starting to stagger past the finish line. I hope to join them eventually. Anyone who managed to start and finish during that time, well, that's amazing. Hats off, etc.

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

We could both be wrong, but if two people came to the same conclusion using slightly different evidence, well, perhaps there is something to it.

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

I do approach things from a different angle because we were both making that connection for different reasons. It's not a huge, huge thing, but it was nice to be the first person to discover something.

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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

I'm old, I will happily write beautiful essays under exam conditions. Put a computer in front of me and I start looking for a distraction. My ability to write lovely cursive in an exam is an obsolete skill and was pretty irrelevant when I was young too. I do like nice pens though.

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

Some interesting symmetry there.

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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 · 06/11/2023

I will report back on how it all works out. Fingers crossed, etc.

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

I've got a formal withdrawal letter ready to fire off so that I can try to be professional and not dripping with bitterness. I'll give it a tiny little bit longer though, people get sick and things go wrong. Perhaps I can track down someone else in the editorial team... or is that overstepping?

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

I only have one too. Weird. I don't recognise the handle.

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

I figured that would be the way to go. I'm really disappointed, it's a good article (if I do say so myself) and I know it will find a home somewhere. Is there some kind of guide for interacting with journals so that you avoid nuking your career? I think I need that.

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

He likes digging holes so he can roll in the dirt

Black and white cat sitting on a lawn. The cat has dirt smudges on his white fur.

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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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Lauren Murphy @ouroboros81.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

My family is subject to my gardening whims, so I have seeds for those and a few other melons. Growing heirloom fruits and veggies becomes a whole thing, good luck to you if he jumps on board that, or enjoy the strange looking tomatoes.

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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

Yeah, voynich it. Make those future scholars cry.

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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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