A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

<Sue Sylvester face> I am going to create a workplace that is so ruined

Thinking of ruining my workplace today, tbd. Will depend on whether I have time between meetings

Oh I am not linking that amazingly misogynistic thing by that predictably misogynistic man, but good lord---why does anyone, anywhere, take him seriously? If you do, or you're like, "oh, he's got some good points, he's just conservative" please know that I judge you an absolutely unserious person

That man earns a wage with this.

Reminded of Gisèle Pelicot in France asserting "shame must change sides."

Included is a state-of-the-field piece about disability in antiquity (open access), which I co-wrote with @horusofnekhen.bsky.social and @tibg1312.bsky.social. See where we're at with this subfield!

Every time discover a new piece on the dangers of LLMs, particularly for research and teaching, I add it to a Zotero library. I figure that I might as well share it, so here's my library of Cautionary AI Tales: www.zotero.org/groups/62758...

I love/hate that I cannot go an election cycle in the US without learning an unnecessary amount of information about counties in Virginia 😅

Virginia/ New Jersey understood the assignment

Nerd life is L I F E

Don’t you threaten me with a good time Universal 🙏

I cannot

In honor of the gathering season, November's #ImageOfTheMonth is dedicated to a prominent element of Greek gatherings: a red-figure kylix (a drinking cup) that played a starring role in ancient festivals and symposia 🧵 /1

This morning’s sunrise was a real treat #TinyJoys

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

A disaster for a magazine that has produced some outstanding political journalism over the past few years. Guess that’s over.

WTAF. This is an absolute travesty. Teen Vogue has consistently been a light in the dark and once again the corporate overlords just end it all.

Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup: - ancient & medieval history and/or - histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe Pitches to: [email protected] 🤗🤗🤗

Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa: please sign and share! www.change.org/p/save-greek...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Grateful for getting Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the mail today! I’m looking forward to having more time to read through the other contributors’ chapters on the centrality of slavery to Roman literary culture

Half of all Americans live in just 20 places in the country. That means the median American lives in a metro area with 3.3 million people. The median American lives in San Diego.

Finally, someone talking about the fuel poverty that matters

"Platforms like Twitter (X) offered a vibrant, informal commons: a single, global space where researchers could build reputations, collaborate across borders & participate in real-time scholarly debate ... that clarity has gone. The digital landscape for academics is fragmented, tiring & uncertain."

Terrifying!!!

Please read and share widely. We are so honoured to host this content - available in both English and Arabic.

Our friends from Egypt's Dispersed Heritage, along with Millennial 3al A5er and and the Horniman Museum and Gardens have written a 🔥 post on the treatment of mummified remains for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social . Find it here (including the Arabic version): peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b...

You know how literally every time you check the news or social media right now there's some new horror? I don't like that.

For the final throwback on our countdown to Halloween we return to our series on the presence of the Undead. Melissa Cradic guides us through the complexities of excavating ancient graves and relationships between the living & the disembodied dead in the Near East peoplingthepast.com/2022/10/21/b...

The first author copy has arrived!! The official publication date is Jan. 7th (and the open access— i.e., free— electronic version will become available on that date as well). I’m planning to be at the SCS in San Francisco to hold Mr. Murder Mittens’s paw. press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stea...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Please consider signing this very important petition to keep Greek & Roman Studies at uOttawa 👇🏻

Augustus, in the Res Gestae:

📣 Sign the petition TODAY to support @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social! #SOSClassicsUO Share widely!

Our countdown to Halloween continues with today’s look back to our series on monsters and demons in the ancient world! Check out #PeoplingBlog #35 Researching Monstrosity in Greek Literature with Fiona Mitchell here: peoplingthepast.com/2021/10/08/b...

This was a no-brainer to pre-order for me. Tara is such a perceptive reader of ancient culture with such an acute sense of why it all matters. Gonna be 🔥. And of course this topic matters more than ever in an age of restriction, censorship, and violence around reproduction

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up to this man is a cowardly and suicidal calamity

It's that time of year again, and if you're visiting a pumpkin patch before Halloween, make sure to bag an extra one to make this belter of a Roman recipe, adapted by moi for modern cooks. This is the perfect autumnal recipe, and dangerously addictive. www.workingclassicists.com/zine/eating-...

A hill I will gladly die on.

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

CFP sure to be of interest to many: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience (for the Symposium Vesuvianum at the Villa Vergiliana) www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium-ve...

It's useful to recognise that, just 3 years ago, the UK government made it a specific CRIMINAL OFFENCE to procure a live person to complete university coursework for a student, but that government, and all major institutions, are now saying the use of a machine to complete such work is inevitable.

Day 2 of our countdown to Halloween! 🎃 👻

As we approach Halloween, it’s time to dig into the archives to highlight some of our spooky content! 😱 Today, we look back to our series on “Cursing in the Ancient World” with Blog #87 The Perils of Love: Love Spells in Coptic Magic with Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin peoplingthepast.com/2023/10/20/b...

Terrible news from our colleagues at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. We will continue to boost their updates. See their full notice: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/save... #AncientBlueSky #SOSÉtudesanciennesUO #SOSClassicsUO

I particular like the colours of Vesuvius looking as though someone has fashioned it out of a lump of smooshed-together-different-coloured Play-Doh.

Some personal news, I am going to eat ice cream for dinner.

And if you enjoyed these episodes, you can check out all #PeoplingPodcast episodes and so much more at peoplingthepast.com/category/pod... #Ancient #Mediterranean #Podcasts /end