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Daniel Libatique

@thedancinggrad.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. of Classical Studies @ Fairfield University. Ovid, narratology, gender. He/him 🏳️‍🌈. Twitch and Instagram: TheDancingGrad. Oxford comma enthusiast.

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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Stoked to announce that the Spring 2026 issue of the New England Clasiscal Journal (53.1) is published! Featuring an article on atē and women's pain in Sophocles' Trachinian Women, the @caneweb.org 2026 Katz Prize and Student Writing Contest winners, & 4 book reviews! crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/
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New England Classical Journal | College of the Holy Cross
A publication of the Classical Association of New England, New England Classical Journal is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles, notes, and reviews on all aspects of classical an...
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
My latest review is out in @rheaclassical.bsky.social ! Celia Campbell’s RIVAL PRAISES: OVID AND THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE HYMNIC TRADITIONS (Wisconsin 2024) was an exciting and productive read that explores a new angle of interpretation for Ovid’s best-known work.
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Do itttttttttttt our panel will be so cool 🥺🥺🥺
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Aren’t we lucky that universities haven’t gotten carried away with the hype and taken a careful approach to AI? Imagine if they had decided to push AI into our teaching and work life! All praise to our leaders in higher ed for not falling for hype, hallelujah and praise the goddess
5. The US economy’s dependence on AI may have been overstated, experts say. In 2025: it became conventional wisdom that AI was a major driver of growth. But some prominent economists estimate that it contributed as little as 0% to economic status
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 04/01/2026
In 2024, we founded a new open access, peer reviewed journal. I'll be at the #AIASCS in San Francisco with a stack of #ResDiffJournal postcards, and as submissions editor I'd be happy to chat with anyone looking to submit their work. resdifficiles.com #AIASCS26
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Res Difficiles | Difficult conversations in classics
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 17/12/2025
We “are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.” Thanks for this, @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and Christopher Nygren.
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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Happy to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of the New England Classical Journal (52.2) is now published! Featuring an article on felicitas in late antiquity, two book reviews, and an in memoriam for Gil Lawall. Check it out at the link! crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/ AncientBlueSky ClassicsBlueSky
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New England Classical Journal | College of the Holy Cross
A publication of the Classical Association of New England, New England Classical Journal is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles, notes, and reviews on all aspects of classical an...
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The official issue that contains my review of the Cambridge Metamorphoses commentary is out! Thanks @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social for posting, and thanks again to @gretahawes.bsky.social for the chance to spend some quality time with this enormously important resource for Ovidian studies.
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Friends, please check out this amazing and important fundraising campaign from @chancebonar.bsky.social to compensate an Arabic translator for his vital sourcebook of ancient voices in Gaza and consider making a donation! spot.fund/klk26smsc
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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making. www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...
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Hell with other people
Video games are often the first and most common way that many people now encounter the classical world. Hades, a critical hit following its release in
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/09/2025
For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )
Infographic titled "AI Isn't a Ticket To an A," explaining how chatbots work, what the data show about the prevalence of these technologies and how they're used, what we know about the quality of their output, and what we know about the impact that frequent use of these technologies has on their users and on content creators, low-wage workers, and the environment.
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Teaching a new course this semester focused on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and our first assignment is pondering this marvelous talk by @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social on (the politics of) translating Ovid and how a feminist lens resists contemporary gender and sexual stereotypes. youtu.be/FHT8twAy7zk?...
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Morse Lecture 2024: 'Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses' with Professor Stephanie McCarter
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Greta Hawes @gretahawes.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Now out - open access - in Classical Review. Thanks, @thedancinggrad.bsky.social for taking this one on.
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Latest review just dropped! I had the pleasure of reviewing the new English translation of the Valla commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and I unsurprisingly found it the most definitive English-language commentary on the Metamorphoses out there. Check out the review here! doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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THE DEFINITIVE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE COMMENTARY ON OVID’S METAMORPHOSES | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
THE DEFINITIVE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE COMMENTARY ON OVID’S METAMORPHOSES
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Decreased public funding for state schools is not a red state vs blue state issue. It isn’t a Trump issue. It’s symptomatic of a bipartisan disinvestment in higher ed as a foundational public good. It’s been happening for decades. It doesn’t have to be this way. www.opb.org/article/2024...
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Oregon lags most states in public higher education funding, report finds
An annual report from a prominent higher education association ranks Oregon 44th in the nation for public higher education funding.
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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
“P.S. You’re probably thinking of the en dash. That whore has always been suspicious.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Classics friends, we're searching for an adjunct to teach two in-person courses, intro Latin and a Roman lit in translation course, at Fairfield University this fall. Please see details in the attached screenshot, and let me know of any questions or interest! ClassicsBlueSky AncientBlueSky
screenshot of Facebook post advertising the search for an adjunct to teach an introductory Latin course and a Roman literature in translation course at Fairfield University in Fall 2025
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Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New paper alert! 📢 In this article, I explore how different game design motivations impact mythological characters in video games, based on interviews with the people behind Apotheon, Hades, and Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island: academic.oup.com/crj/advance-...
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Where was Apollo in Supergiant’s Hades? Developer motivations and mythological characters in video games
Abstract. Academic interest in classical reception and video games is thriving, but one dimension that has so far escaped scholarly attention regards the v
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Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Time for panel 2 #MythGames2025, "Myth, Culture, and Heritage (1)" with papers on "mythroidvanias", Etruscan ritual in Lex Arcana, and counterintuitive ontologies in Black Myth: Wukong & Tchia!
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Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Starting with our first panel, "People, Emotions, and Mythological Games" #MythGames2025 Papers on personal myth and Tchia, the therapeutic power of mythology & games, and a queer close reading of Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical!
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Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The online Mythological Game Studies Conference #MythGames2025 starts in about an hour! @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social I'll be opening the conference with an introduction on the theme of the conference, mapping current approaches to the study of mythology and games
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I'm so excited for #MythGames2025 this week! I'll be presenting my paper on Patroclus' dark skin color in Supergiant Games' Hades amongst some excellent company and great topics. Hope to see everyone there! mythgamescon.wordpress.com/schedule/
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Schedule
All times are listed in GMT+2 = Central European Summer TimePlease calculate the according time in your individual timezone. Day 0 – Pre-Conference, Wednesday May 21st 21:00-23:00 – Special Event A…
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Rerum Novarum 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Things I learned at CAMWS: Illinois Classical Journal now has no backlog and ALSO they have started publishing short form notes in addition to regular length articles. So let that be widely known!
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Tell your libraries (and wealthy humanities-supporting philanthropists) that my book _God, Slavery, and Early Christianity: Divine Possession and Ethics in the Shepherd of Hermas_ can be pre-ordered!🏺 www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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God, Slavery, and Early Christianity | History of religion
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Society for Classical Studies @scsclassics.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities initiative provides mini-grants of up to $2,000 to support public engagement projects. The next deadline is May 16, 2025! To learn more about the initiative, please visit: classicalstudies.org/outreach/anc...
Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Mini-grants of up to $2,000 for public projects that engage individuals, groups, and communities in critical discussion of and creative expression related to the ancient Mediterranean, the global reception of Greek and Roman culture, and the history of teaching and scholarship in the field of classical studies. Next Deadline: May 16, 2025. Scan QR Code to learn more.
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 01/04/2025
It is my pleasure to share the recordings from #ResDiff6, an annual digital conference on inequity in the field of classics which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. All videos from #ResDiff6 (as well as all past conferences) can be found here: resdifficiles.com
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Res Difficiles | Difficult conversations in classics
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
NECJ 52.1 is live! Some amazing articles on topics ranging from denials of Terence's blackness to age in Vergil's Georgics and Eclogues to a Myrina-type aulete figurine, with two book reviews, @caneweb.org's 2025 Katz and Student Writing Contest Prize winners, and some cool ads -- check it out!
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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Digital Classicist London 2025 call for papers (just a few days left!) ics.sas.ac.uk/news/digital... #DigiClass #DigitalHumanities #AncientSky #Archaeology
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Digital Classicist London 2025 call for papers
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Having a great @caneweb.org Annual Meeting so far! This morning, I'll be presenting my paper "Dark-Skinned Patroclus", an analysis of Patroclus' portrayal in the video game Hades, in the 10:30am panel. Hope to see you there! #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky #CANE2025
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A full house for @sarahebond.bsky.social’s plenary address to the @caneweb.org Annual Meeting, “A History of Ancient Rome in Five Strikes”! #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky #CANE2025
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Lucky to have been part of this great tour of the Beineke’s Classics-related holdings, including a papyrus fragment of Hesiod’s Catalogue of Women and an editio princeps of Sophocles! Thanks @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social !! @caneweb.org #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky #CANE2025
Five people stand around a table with pieces of paper and books on it, one man on the right gestures at the tableA fragment of a papyrusAn old book with Ancient Greek print
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Off to a great start with welcomes to the 119th Annual Meeting from President TJ Howell and Yale liaison James Patterson! Fun fact: @caneweb.org was founded at Yale in 1906! #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky #CANE2025
A lecture hall with individual student desk/seats, cylindrical lighting fixtures hanging from the ceiling, and wood paneling
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Herodotus Helpline @herodotushelpline.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The Herodotus Helpline is delighted to share details of its spring/summer 2025 edition of talks! All talks are freely open to everybody. Just register at herodotushelpline@gmail.com #Herodotus @classicsforall.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social
Programme of talks for the April-June 2025 Herodotus Helpline series:
2 April Tom Harrison (British Museum) 
Divinity and History – 25 years on

30 April Ian Oliver (Regis)
Audiences of Herodotus 

14 May Round-table: Teaching Herodotus 

28 May Matteo Zaccarini (Bologna/Ravenna) 
Herodotus’ women 

11 June Rosalind Thomas (Balliol College, Oxford) 
Herodotus in Context – 25 years on
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Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Hope to see you all at the CANE conference at Yale tomorrow! The inimitable Jacqui Carlon and I are presenting on teaching the letters of Pliny the Younger for the new AP Latin curriculum! Don’t stress! We’ve got you covered! 😉 #CANE2025
Cover slide of our presentation on teaching the letters of PlinySlide showing the New AP Curriculum UnitsSlide showing the New AP Test BreakdownSlide identifying the Required letters of Pliny on the new AP
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Gearing up for a nice weekend at the CANE Annual Meeting hosted at Yale this weekend! I'm presiding over a panel tomorrow, delivering my presentation "Dark-Skinned Patroclus" on Saturday, and annoying everyone about submitting to NECJ the whole time. Make sure to say hi if you see me!
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Check out my newly-published review of Sarah Nooter’s How to Be Queer in BMCR! I found it an excellent sourcebook with broad potential applications in the classroom and in research. 1/2 bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.03... ClassicsBlueSky AncientBlueSky 🏺
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How to be queer: an ancient guide to sexuality – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Dan Stewart @drdanstewart1.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Great (and timely) review of Nooter's "Ancient Guide to Sexuality" by @thedancinggrad.bsky.social in BMCR (bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.03...). The closing paragraph in particular I found quite moving. #AncientBlueSky 🏺
A screen capture of text that says: "The hopeful note sounded by Nooter at the end of the introduction frames for this queer reviewer the stakes of a volume like this: “Reader, whatever your own sense of your own identity, sexuality, or place in the world, I hope that you will find this volume by turns buoyant, playful, and passionate. If there is one thing the Greeks can teach us, it is that the erotic and the queer are a source of life and a cause for celebration” (xi). In an era where queer identities are increasingly under threat, including but not limited to legislation aimed at disenfranchisement of trans people and court cases aimed at curtailing LGBTQIA+ rights more generally, the celebration of “non-normative” identities and practices works towards demystifying the other, bridging the gap to make those who identify as “normative” realize that the distance between “us” and “them” is perhaps not quite so large."
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/02/2025
1. Major news: Remember those "Biological men"/"Biological Women" signs at University of Cincinnati? They have come down thanks to MASSIVE student protests at the college, which have continued. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/university...
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University of Cincinnati Protests Lead to "Biological" Bathroom Signs Reversal
“Deny, delay, fight back.”
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Daniel Libatique @thedancinggrad.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Pleased to announce that my article on an Ovid-Lucretius intertext has just been published in Ovidius! I'd been working on this for so long that it was a topic for conversation with my now-husband on one of our first dates in 2019. Life, amirite? Anyways, enjoy! ovidiusjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Finite Atoms and Infinite Violence: Lucretius 2.500–507 and Ovid Met. 6.576–83 | Ovidius: Journal of the International Ovidian Society
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Society for Classical Studies @scsclassics.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Upcoming deadline! Sunday, February 16 is the deadline to apply for the David D. and Rosemary H. Coffin Fellowship, which supports travel for secondary school teachers of Greek or Latin. Learn more about the application process: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...
Society for Classical Studies, David D. and Rosemary H. Coffin Fellowship for Travel in Classical Lands for secondary-school teachers of Greek or Latin
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 01/02/2025
For #BlackHistoryMonth this year, I’m going to be posting daily about: representations of blackness in Greco-Roman antiquity, the history of scholarship by Black classicists, and the history of Africana receptions using the hashtag #AncientBlackness. Join me.
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Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I'm speaking about the Women's Classical Committee initiative, #WCCWiki, at 'Classics Beyond the Canon' Workshop & Editathon, Cambridge University, this Friday 16.00-18.00. Editathon on Saturday. All welcome! Further details here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/44331...
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Classics Beyond the Canon | A Wikipedia edit-a-thon - CRASSH
Convenors Claudia J.M. Cornelissen (Faculty of English) Sólveig Hrönn Hilmarsdóttir (Faculty of Classics) Ashley Lance (Faculty of Classics) Frances Myatt (Faculty of Classics) Speakers Emily Hauser (...
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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I've long thought that one of the most valuable things students can take away from my courses is to leave thinking just a little more critically about things they previously took for granted about the world and their place within it.
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...
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AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates the relations...
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Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
REMINDER: CfP Mythological Game Studies Conference (May 2025, online) Send @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and me your abstracts on everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies before February 2!
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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
ANNOUNCING... A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉 📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now) 🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales.bsky.social ✍️ 117 different writers 🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @corabeth.bsky.social 👇 Read more...
A book cover for A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology showing a classical painting with a superimposed periodic tabel element styled square with athena's head and name on it.
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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Submissions are open for the 2025 Conference on BIPOC Game Studies, taking place at The Strong in Rochester, NY! conference.blackgamestudies.com
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The 2025 Conference on BIPOC Game Studies The Strong National Museum of Play
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