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New Dirtbag Catullus!!!! Was not expecting this, and it has made my week. Fave line so far: come over bring nose

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:

Slide header: Premises/values: Cards on the table

Bullet points:
* I care more about students’ learning than about the “accuracy” of grades or the prestige associated with a specific degree
* I want to work collaboratively with my students, rather than policing them
* I don’t want to spend any time reading, much less providing feedback on, something nobody wrote
* Science is a human, communal process; there is no knowing without knowers; and our work cannot be autocompleted
* Deep thinking and human connection are always more important than polish, speed, or “productivity”
* Research agendas should not be set by & for industry

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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Applications are now OPEN for 2026-7 AAACC x @mountaintopclas.bsky.social mentorship! Find out more info & sign up here: www.aaaclassicalcaucus.org/mentorship Apply to be a mentor, mentee, or part of an affinity cohort-based group by 9/9. Email aaaccmentorship@gmail.com with any questions!

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Mentorship — The Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus

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Tori Lee @toriflee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

DUE TODAY!! Submit your papers!

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CripAntiquity @cripantiquity.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This past weekend, CripAntiquity board members Alicia Matz (Co-Chair) and Tori Lee (Secretary) hosted a workshop at the 9th Quadrennial Feminism & Classics conference, hosted by the University of Cincinnati. (1/)

Alicia Matz (in a blue shirt with flowers with a grey cardigan over it) and Tori Lee (in a red shirt with a pattern on it) standing in front of a window, smiling.

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Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This was a wonderful conversation!! Thank you @toriflee.bsky.social & @duxfeminafacti9.bsky.social for your leadership and sensitivity. Although it's not seasonal, I posted a prototype inclusive syllabus (def. full of flaws!) inspired by @cjdenial.bsky.social at tinyurl.com/MagistraSharesResources

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Latin Resources - Google Drive

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Society for Classical Studies @scsclassics.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Today on the blog, Jinrui Zhang discusses his public engagement initiative in China, “Echoes of Antiquity,” funded by the Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities initiative. classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/jin...

A black poster featuring orange and blue Chinese characters reading 荷马史诗与气候变化, "Climate Change in the Ancient World." There is a blue wave of the ocean next to a beige drawing of an ancient Greek maiden with a headpiece and handle like those of an amphora.

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

So proud of this journal and all the work that went into it!

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

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Sign the Petition

Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

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Tori Lee @toriflee.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

ADOBE 👏🏼 READER 👏🏼 SHOULD 👏🏼 DEFAULT 👏🏼 TO 👏🏼 ENABLE 👏🏼 SCROLLING 👏🏼. I'm sure there's a reason why someone wouldn't want scrolling enabled at some point, but why on earth would they assume that is the norm?? Don't people typically want to scroll in their PDFs???

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Tori Lee @toriflee.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

High school Latin teacher friends, we'd love to have some of your students at this!

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Tori Lee @toriflee.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Agnes Scott is trying to close its #Classics program, and there will be a faculty vote this Friday to determine its future. The students and faculty would appreciate any additional signatures that the classics community can provide! c.org/gKyQ45QQnJ

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Have you seen this petition yet?

Save Liberal Arts at Agnes Scott

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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The White Pedestal

How white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics It is difficult ...

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Eephus Tosser @eephustosser.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

If you start watching Game 5 of the 2024 World Series at 10:26:37, you can watch the ball drop in New York at midnight.

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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

📢Just in time for holiday shopping, we are thrilled to announce our first ever AAACC merch drop! 📢 Order now and be the first to don our newest AAACC logo, designed by the brilliant @toriflee.bsky.social. Head over to our Redbubble page to order yours today! 🔗: www.redbubble.com/people/AAACC...

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Arum Park @profarumpark.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Check it out! A blurb about a Classics/Asia symposium I hosted earlier this month. @bauerle.bsky.social @youngrichardkim.bsky.social @toriflee.bsky.social @dominicmachado.bsky.social @aaacc.bsky.social

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

A lot of ancient sources blame the fall of Rome on things like sexual deviance and erosion of traditional morals. Those same sources were written by ideologues trying to scare people for political gain. Sound familiar? My latest for Pharos: pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/11/12/m...

Rahm Emanuel speaking to Megyn Kelly on her Sirius XM show

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cameron @famousceleb.co · 29/10/2025

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

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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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*spotfund is the easiest place to create beautiful and free online fundraisers. It takes just minutes to start raising money today.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

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My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 22/10/2025

Banning laptops from your classes is an accessibility issue and *forces* students with accommodations to out themselves to their peers. If you do this, you are not an advocate for disability rights. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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Society for Classical Studies @scsclassics.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Today on the blog, Rachel Philbrick and Zachary Quint of the SCS Data Committee share some of the results of the Census, focusing on a few salient questions and linking to further data. www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...

A bar graph titled "Q16 Do you feel like you belong in the field of Classical Studies?" showing data from the previous paragraph

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!

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New: Braille Resources for Reading Ancient Languages

[Photo by me. Tactile graphic by Crystal Peng.] I recently created a new section of my website, which provides educational resources for anyone who wants to read ancient Middle Eastern and North …

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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

On October 18, from 2–3:30 pm EST / 11 am–12:30 pm PST, join us for a discussion with Thu Truong on her article “Ocean Vuong, Intertextuality, and the Limits of Interpretation,” which was awarded the prestigious John J. Winkler Prize in 2025! Registration link available in bio.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I maintain this list and celebrate each new addition and funding improvement to allow all to access our discipline. It feels equally important to mark the rollback of past successes. Programs at UVa, Columbia, Cornell, and Rutgers, now no longer exist. RT pls. 1/ livyarrow.org/funded-mas-a...

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Funded MAs and More

Additions and Corrections Welcome esp. for Fall 2025 applications! How to use this list. The organizational principles is application closing date. I have grouped by month–the later in the cycle th…

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Tori Lee @toriflee.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I put this off until the very last minute, but I now have a generative AI statement for LAT 201. I'm sharing bc I have really appreciated seeing colleagues' examples (s/o @metalclassicist.bsky.social @thedancinggrad.bsky.social) & would like to contribute, but also bc I would love any feedback!

5. Generative AI is a powerful tool whose potential can be undermined by the harms it has caused and continues to cause (to the environment; by perpetuating racism, sexism, ableism, and other biases; by exploiting labor and intellectual property). Sometimes, it can be a useful study tool, while other times, it hinders the development of our own critical thinking skills (via hallucinations and misinformation). It is up to you to determine whether using generative AI in your daily life accords with your personal ethics; in this course, however, we will abide by some guidelines.
- If you use generative AI, you must use Davidson’s licensed versions (Amplify, Google Gemini, and others), which protect our data from being scraped for training publicly-accessible models.
- Your AI use must still follow the Honor Code, which means it must be clear whether work is generated by AI or by you. Passing off AI-generated work as your own constitutes plagiarism in this course.
- You may use generative AI for clarification or explanation only after you have already consulted the dictionaries and grammars listed in our course resources.
- You may use generative AI for formatting bibliographies for your projects.
- You may not use generative AI to translate Latin or to parse or provide grammatical forms.
You all have more experience with and understanding of generative AI than I do! Have you used it in the past in your Latin classes? How has it helped or hurt? I am open to reevaluating any of these guidelines after class discussion. If you are considering using generative AI in a way that is not listed here, or you are uncertain whether a usage would be allowed, please ask me! I strive to assume your best intentions, and an honest conversation is preferable to an ethically ambiguous decision. (Plus, I am happy to grant extensions!)

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Ppl who’re surprised about cuts to higher ed in blue states seem to think that disdain for humanities in particular & highered in general is limited to one side of the aisle. This isn’t true./1

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 18/08/2025

Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

One of the big lessons I try to leave audiences with is, on average, the humanities subsidize STEM fields. This is true across the country. Of course, it's an average, so there are exceptions. But the typical college uses humanities money to prop up STEM.

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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Forget your triremes, the strongest ship is mentorSHIP! Applications are now open for the 2025–26 AAACC + Mountaintop Coalition Mentorship Program! Sign up to be a mentor and/or a mentee by September 8! (You can be both!) Head to our website for details.

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Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Broken record, I know, but I do have to say one thing re: this otherwise excellent piece. Ando is right to lament the increased % of teaching done by “lecturers.” But framing them as “people with no formal contact with research” is misleading, and obscures a crucial piece of the puzzle. /1

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CripAntiquity @cripantiquity.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It has been a big month for CripAntiquity! Early in the month, three of our board members hosted a panel at the CA conference (pictured below), and just this last weekend we had our first ever annual conference, which was a great success! (1/2)

Three CripAntiquity board members in front of a lecture hall posing with the CripAntiquity contact information.

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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Announcing our newly-elected officers for 2025-2027! Co-Chairs: Tori Lee & Chris Waldo Financial Officer: Ryan Masato Baldwin Mentorship Coordinator: Dominic Machado Outreach Officer: Allie Pohler Programming Officer: Katherine Lu Hsu Secondary Education Liaisons: Annie Huynh & Ethan Ganesh Warren

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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Ballots for the 2023-2025 AAACC steering committee are now open! Please cast your vote by July 15. Read more about the nominees: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Vote: forms.gle/p4B9JHimetQL...

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2025 AAACC Elections: Ballot

The AAACC is holding its 2025 elections for new officers. Members may submit one ballot each. Candidates for open positions are listed below. The candidate statements are available here. The position...

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The terrorist in MN who murdered Melissa and Mark Hortman named his security company "Praetorian Guard Security Services." It's just a small piece of the picture, but when so many representations of ancient Rome idealize violence, a certain number of people are going to take that to heart

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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Positions are for two-year terms and include: co-chairs (2), a financial officer, a programming officer, an outreach officer, a secondary education liaison, and a mentorship coordinator. Find out more about positions here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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AAACC Officer Descriptions

AAACC Officer Duties Last updated April 2021 Co-chairs (2): Organizing meetings with the other officers (every other month) and the Board of Directors (trimesterly w/ Board; once a year with both off...

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Society for Classical Studies @scsclassics.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Today on the blog, Michael Taylor reflects on the Roman army as a multi-ethnic force, where the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion underpinned its effectiveness in the field. www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/mik...

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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

AAACC Board member Suzanne Lye's new book, "Life/Afterlife: Revolution and Reflection in the Ancient Greek Underworld from Homer to Lucian" is featured in UNC's Bookmark This series! Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Congratulations, Suzanne! college.unc.edu/2025/05/book...

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Bookmark This - College of Arts and Sciences

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni, published each month. The May featured book is "Life / Afterlife: Revolution and Reflection in the Ancient Greek Und...

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Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus @aaacc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

If anyone will be in Providence this Wednesday, check out outreach officer @toriflee.bsky.social on this panel on Trauma-Aware Pedagogies for Ancient Pasts!

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