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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 12h

I love this poem. You can hear the teenage "ugh!" eye rolls all the way from the ancient countryside.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 22h

And not a single Telegraph profile between us 😂

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 23h

lol my super niche academic monograph has sold more copies than that.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Truly iconic behaviour from the editorial team at the time.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Perhaps my fave part of my article is that I opened it with this banger of a quote from the Illini in 1876.

The rare art products of the old World, although zealously guarded from American vandalism, are being abundantly transported in representative copies and casts, and the age no doubt is rapidly approaching when foreigners will no longer cry out against the supremely disgusting taste of Americans.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Illinois Classical Studies Vol. 51, No. 1 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/57754 @projectmuse.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social @vickyausten.bsky.social @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social , Classical Reception in the Midwest

Front Cover: Plaster Cast Reproduction of Greek Statue of Laocoön and His Sons (1900.13.0001) Courtesy of The Spurlock Museum, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Whiplash day emotionally because YAY the special section of Illinois Classical Studies I guest-edited is now published! My own contribution is 'Re-Casting the Gregory Collection: Plaster Cast "Antiquities" and the Formation of "Taste" at the University of Illinois' ☺️ muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah I’ve got my PERM now (after 11 months of processing) so am moving towards adjustment of status for green card so… thats good. The constant background noise and anxiety on top of just the “regular” admin of it all is just… a lot. Oh and did I mention it will cost me thousands of dollars. Sigh.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A leaving thought… (with so much acknowledgment of how many “privilege points” I have in my corner)… Being an immigrant is fucking exhausting right now.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Opened app. Saw H1-B visas (my category) come up in another speech. Closing app now.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Always love when my current visa-category pops up in the speeches 🙃

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But I agree that frats just need to go.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s not a fraternities thing, though. This mentality is society-wide.

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wonderful! (Also, what a year for Team Classics: the cinema blockbuster and a Nobel?!)

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah we need them to survive and thrive for spring semester!

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Because my colleagues are cool… I’m currently in charge of one of our department’s experiment papyrus plants (for a class next semester). Pretty happy with how it’s doing in my sun room! And DAMN these things are THIRSTY!

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Re-inventing thinking as “gyms for our brains” is quite the… flex 💪🏻 (Derogatory)

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And if you don't know about the Gardens of the Roman Empire project, you can check it out here: roman-gardens.github.io/home/

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Gardens of the Roman Empire

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thrilled to share an interview with my amazing graduate student Amelia, who worked tirelessly on the Gardens of the Roman Empire project over the summer to help publish over 100 gardens on our project website: classics.illinois.edu/news/2026-10... YAY for collaborative digital humanities projects!

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Working with the Gardens of the Roman Empire Project | Department of Classics | Illinois

Over the summer, third-year graduate student Amelia Lamis completed a research internship with the Gardens of the Roman Empire Project, a digital humanities initiative that aims to bring knowledge of ...

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I believe the fish is meant to be a nod to Poseidon, as the father of Polyphemus, and the overall maritime context of Odysseus’ adventures.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Catch up on Friday’s new blog post here👇🏻

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

This is a super exciting time for the GRE project and I am THRILLED to shout from the rooftops about my amazing graduate student Amelia Lamis who worked tirelessly over the summer to get 131 of these gardens digitally published!

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

Our countdown to Halloween continues with more "scary" Odyssey content! 👇

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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

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Isabella Lewis @irvlewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Truly, we are not designed to live in these circumstances.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m so glad to hear it’s not just me that feels this whenever I try to step back a bit from “being online”. I feel like there’s no mentally-healthy way to be informed 🙃

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alas, there’s no perfect solution (but I really like your activity idea in general!). We just have to do the best we can under the circumstances.

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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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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I once tried to explain conker-culture to American friends. Was met with very confused looks.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s so frustrating that they keep parroting this one view/conception of higher ed. Solidarity.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, even at my R1 state school, that is completely unfeasible for large intro lecture classes. They just have no clue.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I received a similar email this week and it truly made my day/week/month!

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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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