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Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social · 20h

Early for #MosaicMonday, but a progress update on my edible Theodora mosaic (made out of fondant on wafer paper)! Think it is almost done ☺️

Photo of sheet of water paper with lots of differently colored pieces of fondant that I colored and cut tesserae out of, and made a mosaic of the empress Theodora with a gold background; I attached the tesserae with edible ‘food glue’

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We can all just quit. Mary Jaeger already asked the most important question in 2015.

Bibliography entry circled. The title is “Why is there no cheese in Horace’s Satires? And Related questions for Vergil and Varro.”

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ah man, Chicago Pope is making it REALLY hard for me to not like him.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A very minor example of this: when I'm travelling by myself, I almost always have dinner close to where I'm staying so I'm not out by myself at night in an unfamiliar place for too long. When travelling with my (male) partner, we get to choose based on the restaurant, not the location.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can I just gush about the amazing students in the course I'm teaching right now? They're engaged. They're sharp. They critically engage with the material. They speak up and they listen to each other. Their attitude is positive, kind and open. 10/10 would teach again.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Open sollicitatie om mij dit jaar de oudejaarsconference te laten geven. Ik heb tenminste een uur materiaal voor het afzeiken van dit kabinet in het algemeen en D66 in het bijzonder.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wat mij betreft zat dit stupide idee eraan te komen, maar dat maakt het natuurlijk niet minder stompzinnig. Ik heb heel wat krachttermen in mijn hoofd om dit te omschrijven, waarvan er tenminste 30 gericht zijn op de kauwgum-esque ruggengraat van 'onderwijspartij' D66. nos.nl/artikel/2633...

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Coalitie denkt aan bezuinigen op onderwijs als sociale zekerheid niets oplevert

Zo wordt de druk op D66-minister Vijlbrief opgevoerd om tot bezuinigingen in de sociale zekerheid te komen.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Teaching book 10 of Pliny's Letters tomorrow

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026

I think this is a key part of why historians are mad, yeah. Because it’s a dunk, and it’s one that like. We all know that scientists and engineers think themselves better and smarter than humanities students. There’s always an assumption that they could do our job but we couldn’t do theirs.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Brown butter and pecan cinnamon rolls.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the time of enshittification of, well, everything the role of higher education is not to teach students how to enshittificate more efficiently. It is to provide them with hard skills like source criticism, languages, writing or critical reading that will allow them to survive all of this.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's proofs time! Coming up in Classical Quarterly soon.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Am I somehow going to insert Asterix and Obelix into my class on Roman provincial administration? Yes, yes I am. Will I use my favourite Roman side-character from all of the comics to do so? Of course.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

anyone know academic indexers interested in work coming up imminently (it’s a multi authored handbook style publication)? self promo welcome!

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For the weekend crowd 👇

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

20 y/o me would have a bit of a crisis about how her levels of perfectionism were not, in fact, entirely reasonable and/or impossible to let go of. I'd like to think she'd be pleased though.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

www.bbc.com/news/article... I do see why it would be a good idea to break the hold that social media have over children, but this idea that we should "put parents back in the driving seat" concerns me. It assumes that parents are always safe and reliable - and unfortunately, that's just not true.

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EU announces plan to restrict social media access for children

Under the plans, only children over 15 would be able to set up their own social media accounts.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good book club read? It'll be my turn to pick soon and I have a ton of books I'm personally looking forward to, but I'm feeling a bit insecure. We have no specific requirements, but none of us are romance readers and we all enjoy 'deeper' themes.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Frankly, I'm relieved to be in the ranking at all.

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Tom Louwerse @tomlouwerse.nl · 16/09/2026

Box 3. Is dat waar je het kabinet in opsluit totdat het heeft uitgevogeld hoe je een begroting maakt die wél de steun van het parlement geniet?

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Teaching on Augustus and representations of power tomorrow, and becoming increasingly tempted to try to relate to 'the youths' by declaring that Rome did, in fact, stan a problematic king.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Had a similar experience recently - two students absolutely ripping one of their peers to shreds (in absentia) because 'if you're too stupid to read the article yourself, you're too stupid to see if AI has made a decent summary, GREG'. All names have been changed for privacy purposes.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wat leuk dat Esmee deze week @historicivertellen.bsky.social beheert! Naast haar specialisatie in cultuurgeschiedenis en erfgoed weet ze ook heel veel over de Romeinse oudheid, dus hou de account deze week extra goed in de gaten!

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A very important point! I don't like this line of thinking either (although I do think there's a good case for viewing artifacts in their historical context), and what I was attempting to do was highlighting a prevalent argument, while also showing that it is very unevenly applied.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As happy as I am that people are visiting museums and showing an interest in history, it does strike me that this rush on tickets to see the Bayeux tapestry may in fact make an interesting case for returning contested artifacts from the British Museum's collection. www.reuters.com/world/uk/bay...

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Bayeux mania peaks as 1,000-year-old tapestry exhibition opens in London

The first visitors to the British Museum's blockbuster ‌Bayeux Tapestry exhibition spoke of their excitement at seeing with their own eyes the 1,000-year-old embroidery many remember from school lesso...

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Bayeux mania peaks as 1,000-year-old tapestry exhibition opens in London

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Mathijs Bouman @mathijsbouman.nl · 11/09/2026

fd.nl/opinie/16118...

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible: Pink (ice cream) Float

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"De studenten [benadrukten] dat ze naast vreugde en vrijheid, ook angst, verdriet en woede moeten kunnen uiten". Heel begrijpelijk. De strijd voor LHBTQ+-rechten is helaas geen gelopen race en gedwongen apolitieke positiviteit doet daar wat mij betreft geen recht aan. Voor wie is Pride eigenlijk?

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yesterday, I saw a man carrying a black cat on his arm as if it was a giant bird. I didn't want to take his photo for privacy reasons, but it was too funny not to want to illustratie.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yesterday, I saw a man carrying a black cat on his arm as if it was a giant bird. I didn't want to take his photo for privacy reasons, but it was too funny not to want to illustratie.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Such interesting and valuable research. And all of this work is unpaid.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Van @jonalendering.bsky.social kreeg ik de leuke vraag om aan de hand van zes vragen iets te vertellen over wat oudheidkundigen nu eigenlijk echt doen. Hierbij mijn antwoorden - en kijk ook vooral naar de andere bijdragen in de reeks!

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oof, I hate this. Mispronunciations are very common among those who learned new words by reading, so there's a good chance that all you're doing is bullying people whose mummy and daddy didn't regularly serve hors d"oeuvres before dinner, but who are delightful to chat to while eating them.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

English professor here. Just a reminder.

Meme of Klingon saying “Mispronounced words are honorable. It means you read it in a book somewhere.”

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The first spam email ever to truly make me nervous: "Dear Renske Janssen, we learned about your work in the performing arts..."

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I recently co-taught a MA course on Ancient Apocalypses at @unileiden.bsky.social. Each student wrote a blogpost on an Apocalypse (past/present/future) of their choosing, and a selection of their work is now published - third and final one out today! www.leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl/articles/con...

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Contemporary Preppers in the Light of Ancient Apocalypticism

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Contemporary Preppers in the Light of Ancient Apocalypticism

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Beauty in all. Good morning Blue Sky

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Officially started at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social! I'll be continuing my research project on 'Anchoring Change in Roman Legal History' (edu.nl/yfr3j), as well as being involved in teaching. Many thanks to the people at @unileiden.bsky.social for 2 great years, and to the VU team for a warm welcome.

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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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