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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 10h

Amusing things discovered in the archives today: in the early 1900s the university had admins titled simply “Dean of Men” and “Dean of Women”. (The Dean of Women was, of course, a man).

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 12h

you should be able to call in "suffering under the weight of another round of campus rape discourse" to work

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 13h

Looks like this would interest lots of @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social and #wccwiki people!

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Isabella Lewis @irvlewis.bsky.social · 18h

On Saturday, 7 November, I will be running a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon around the theme of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints. I hope that this workshop will help to improve the coverage of women and LGBTQ+ history on Wikipedia. To attend, follow this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wiki-edit-...

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Wiki Edit-a-Thon: Byzantine Women & Genderqueer Saints

An in-person edit-a-thon that aims to improve the coverage of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints on Wikipedia. No prior experience needed.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17h

lol right? Has NYT opinion ever published a higher ed essay from a community college prof? Even one?

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 30/09/2026

It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal: Res Diff 3.1 (2026) With contributions from Jody Valentine, Sarah Cullinan Herring, Joy Woolley and Paul Robertson, and Sally Mubarak #OpenAccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-3-1...

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Res Diff 3.1 (2026)

Jody Valentine, What is a Classic? Experimenting with Engaged Scholarship Keywords: classical tradition, critical self-reflection, reflexive antiracism, Sappho, subjectivity, White privilege. Abstr…

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 20/05/2025

I was put on this earth to do one thing mainly, and that is eat bread

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Researching a university museum collection has taken me into the world of modern archival research for the first time and MY GOD is it fun to read other people’s (sassy) correspondence 👀🤭

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What... you thought us Classicists were done with Odyssey content?! OUTRAGEOUS!

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Re-wrote the same paragraph 29474838 times this morning and hated all versions. ChatGPT could never.

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Harvey Manfrenjensenden @whipchatterly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All prose composed since 2009 has striven to reach the heights achieved here and fallen well short.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

THOSE THREE TERMS ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE!!! (Speaking as a Brit in America, I actually find myself having to explain this A LOT 🙃)

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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Welcome back to another academic year over here at Peopling the Past! In our first #PeoplingBlog of the season, Kevin Wong examines the history of online gaming in a bid to trace the cultural & commercial uptake of “epic” as an ideology for digital entertainment: peoplingthepast.com/2026/09/18/b...

Peopling the Past graphic featuring photo from an online game platform, surrounded by text that reads “Online Gaming Culture and the Epic Ideologies of Digital Entertainment” Graduate Student Feature with Kevin Wong”

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It will never not be a sign of ridiculous bureaucracy that I have to send copies of my visa back to the very same government WHO ISSUED THE VISA 🙃

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Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We’re back!

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I was in charge of an educational institution and learned that a technology fostered “cognitive surrender” in young people, I’d like to think I would do everything in my power to keep it away from the young people who pay my institution to educate them. But I guess I’m just a weirdo.

Students are using artificial intelligence for everything, including cheating, and a recent M.I.T. report said the technology was creating
"cognitive surrender."
Philip Cheung for The New York Times
Many university leaders are embracing A.I. anyway. →

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The trade association of barbers and hairstylists announces multi milllion dollar effort to study how barbers can more safely use (much faster and more efficient) chainsaws to cut their customers’ hair. (Funding provided by the chainsaw manufacturers association).

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The UK is being gifted a post-Brexit opportunity here (which we probably don’t deserve) with this new associate member category… FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TAKE IT BURNHAM.

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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Check out the latest episode of @eorientalism.bsky.social’s podcast with our very own @archaeologuest.bsky.social 👇🏻

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A 9/11 thought: I must be a rare(ish) example of a Brit my age to have seen things unfold live on tv. It was lunchtime, I was off school sick, watching daytime tv. It was interrupted by a BBC breaking news broadcast after the 1st plane. I then watched the 2nd plane and the collapses happen live.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is a man near me on this plane wearing an obnoxious amount of some sort of cologne 🤢😷

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Omg nerds ftw

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why I am not surprised to learn that some of our university archives are now housed in what used to be the “Horticultural Field Lab”? This news brought to you live from a land-grant institution in the Midwest!

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hey @pthibodeau.bsky.social… just read your piece on “The Tormented Master” in the Georgics… thought it was great (and what an interesting collection of articles in the special issue as a whole) 😄 bravo!

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Moment of appreciation for this Classics-themed bookmark a crafty friend made me for my birthday! 🤌🏻

Holding a card bookmark in the shape of a little Latin Loeb edition

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sorting out image permissions and obtaining the correct DPI files has to be in my top 3 least favourite parts of a research project.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good. It's a start. Too many school & college administrators can't see through the AI marketing hype. It's way past time to slow down — to stop — and think things through in partnership with teachers, professors, and education researchers.

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jacob galapagos @jacobgalapagos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s think for yourself thursday

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reading something published in the late 90s on the Mausoleum of Augustus that ends with “the new area is expected to be open to the public by 2009” Lolzzzzzzzz.

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Terry(spooky owl sound) @terryleopard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Unless they are going to be trained to just YOLO themselves into traffic those busses aren't going anywhere.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I truly hope the courthouse is just called Zeus’ law.

Water tower as I drive through Xenia Ohio

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Also, since the Parthenon is back in the news, I’ll take this as a shameless opportunity to plug my “Parthenon at Illinois” project, which studies the long history of replication through the lens of historic plaster casts of the Parthenon friezes at UIUC sites.google.com/view/parthen...

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Parthenon at Illinois

Parthenon at Illinois studies the long history of replication through the lens of historic plaster casts of the Parthenon friezes at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Spurlock Museum of Wo...

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Parthenon at Illinois

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Chris @cperez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Principal investigators need cheap grad and postdoc labor to boost their own research profiles. Treating them like workers by allowing them to unionize disrupts the feudal lord-serf relationship that exists in most labs." There I fixed it for you

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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

More breaking news from 800 AD.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Every single piece from the Parthenon belongs in the Acropolis Museum.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

All I’m going to say is… they obviously just chose to ignore my building in their assessment 😅

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today’s fun research factoid is that in the early 19th century (when it was being used as a amphitheatre-type space), the Mausoleum of Augustus hosted a re-enactment/production of the fall of Troy in which fireworks were used to give the impression of the burning citadel!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A good reminder that when you enjoy something someone has done -- a book they wrote, a performance they gave, a speech they made, whatever -- it is incredibly powerful to just reach out and tell them directly.

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