Corinne Shirley
@coshirle.bsky.social
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Classicist in the Ozarks
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I've just started here. Looking to connect with fellow Classicists, especially those off the tenure track, cat people, readers, gardeners, and other anxious folk.
about 1 year ago
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Words are just sort of jumbled in my mind at today's news, not forming a coherent thought: horror, grief, anger, sadness, solidarity, justice.
2 days ago
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
7 days ago
The biggest obstacle we face as a society in getting people to accept reality about Trump is that it requires people to face reality about themselves and about ourselves as a society.
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We do not read enough Danish literature. Let's start with Hans Christian Anderson's "The Emperor 's New Clothes."
7 days ago
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Has anyone read "Sour Cherry" by Natalia Theodoridou?
#booksky
9 days ago
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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave')
13 days ago
Etruscan Kitty!!
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Evergreen
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8 months ago
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If anyone knows of a coalition of Classicists who are pro-vaccine, please let me know.
20 days ago
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Dr. Jeremy Swist
21 days ago
5 years since the undertakings that Jupiter sure as hell wasn’t nodding at.
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Marco Rubio looks really scared. Which he should be, but it's unnerving.
22 days ago
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Is there someone out there preparing a syllabus for Latin American politics? How are you doing?
24 days ago
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Is anyone doing a word of the year?
24 days ago
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This headline! Where do I even begin?
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30 days ago
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Joel
about 1 month ago
it is going to be a long, long year
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Jens Notroff
about 1 month ago
And now, the
#Pope
, in an apostolic letter on … the importance of
#archaeology
: "It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV on the importance of Archaeology on the occasion of the Centenary of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (11 December 2025)
APOSTOLIC LETTER OF THE HOLY FATHER POPE LEO XIV ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE OF CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/apost_letters/documents/20251211-nel-centenario-piac.html
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When I broke my foot while travelling I requested a wheelchair on the way back. Because of delays we were rerouted and 24 hours delayed. Wheelchair service was uneven and I ended up walking through ORD and DFW on my broken foot. Stop complaining people! You're lucky if you don't need one.
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about 1 month ago
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Bronchitis during finals week. It wasn't pretty but I made it.
about 1 month ago
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For some reason this made me think of Dante's Inferno.
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about 2 months ago
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Isabel Köster
about 2 months ago
More bad news a liberal arts college... "[A]fter a review of 'student enrollment data and student interest'... Cornell College will halt its [majors in] more than 10 areas, including classical studies, French and Francophone studies, German studies, religion..."
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Cornell College to cut programs after review of enrollment, student interest • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Cornell College will halt "major courses of study" in different languages, music studies and more in the next academic year.
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/briefs/cornell-college-to-cut-programs-after-review-of-enrollment-student-interest/
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Is the word "whilst" in undergraduate writing a dead giveaway that something was written by AI? Or have people absorbed it from AI writing and now using it on their own?
about 2 months ago
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My Latin students ritually purified their pencils today. My favorite part was pouring a libation of ink. I'm calling it a stylolustrium.
2 months ago
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Trigger warning: I saw a Molon Labe tattoo yesterday on a fellow motorist as I was stopped at a red light.
3 months ago
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Congratulations to all Virginians tonight. These wise citizens have elected a decent and experienced person as their governor. What a concept!
3 months ago
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Anne O'Brien
3 months ago
2 charmingly medieval black cats for
#Halloween
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I feel like those K pop demon hunters could be doing a better job tbh.
3 months ago
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I have so many thoughts...not coherent ones, but thoughts
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3 months ago
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I really enjoyed "The Names" by Florence Knapp. A thought provoking read on coping with and healing from trauma. Also appreciated the reference to Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son."
#booksky
3 months ago
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So what are some signs that a construction project is a front for financial crimes?
3 months ago
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I keep thinking about my intro to Roman archeology class in which we had to write an essay on how the building projects of each of the Julio-Claudian emperors reflected their personalities. Then I heave a heavy sigh.
3 months ago
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Oliver Schopf
3 months ago
The Golden Age and a new Forum Romanum
dst.at/cartoons
@derstandard.bsky.social
@cartoonmovement.com
#Trump
#arch
#triumph
#ballroom
#gold
#WhiteHouse
#ForumRomanum
#cartoon
#satire
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Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA
3 months ago
The so-called Aula Regia of the Flavian palace on Rome's Palatine Hill was a showy, monumental complex employed to help a paranoid, bigly insecure monster feel superior to others (sketch by J.C. Golvin)
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Go Hoosiers! And Boilermakers I guess.
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3 months ago
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So I have just learned that Stephen Miller has been living about a mile away from where I grew up in a neighborhood I knew well. Now I feel dirty. Thankfully he's selling.
3 months ago
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What text do you recommend for undergraduates reading Homer in Greek?
3 months ago
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Is anyone else being triggered by the use of the word "underbabied" today?
3 months ago
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Jess Calarco
3 months ago
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
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Olga Nesterova
4 months ago
Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”
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Nick Seaver
4 months ago
nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them
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Who is celebrating National Spinning and Weaving Week? How are you celebrating?
4 months ago
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I organized my first ever declension flash mob for our Noun-Adjective Agreement Awareness Week celebration. Feeling very satisfied.
#naaaw25
4 months ago
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I wonder what it would be like to have a representative like this...
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4 months ago
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A little poetry for Noun-Adjective Agreement Awareness Week
#NAAAW25
4 months ago
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Ordinarily you would only know one of the stupidest people in the country, tops, but now it's like you know them all because they are in high government positions and all they know how to do is be on TV. It's very tiring.
4 months ago
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Noun-Adjective Agreement Awareness Week off to a great start with our poster making session. I also sent a bunch of greeting cards to campus dignitaries.
#NAAAW25
#truthjusticeandbettergrammar
4 months ago
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Jen Rea
4 months ago
Taking an AI course that is reinforcing the value of a Classics degree for me. Today's takeaway: we are preparing students for a future where, as AI continues to evolve, creativity, adaptability, and critical thinking skills will be essential.
#OsprAI
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#UNFAI
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Tyler, from the Internet
4 months ago
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Nathan Porter
4 months ago
Lux Patrum is hiring! We are looking for people to produce bilingual editions of texts. Required: - a reasonably strong command of Greek or Latin - competence in Microsoft Word. Reach out to
[email protected]
if you're interested.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
4 months ago
RFK Jr. being stuck between Scylla and Charybdis was a major linchpin of my concerns for him being HHS Secretary. I believed and still believe that his primary concern is maintaining his influence at all costs, including attempting to change everyone else’s reality to fit his own.
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"Too much liquid in the babies" is going to be a chapter title in a book about the Trump era some day. Maybe it could also be the title of a paper about the Nereids?
4 months ago
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Two things for which I am grateful: Tylenol and children's tylenol.
4 months ago
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"Memorial Service" is a much broader term than I realized.
4 months ago
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