Happy new year from me and also a dog who doesn't particularly being posed for photo ops and REALLY doesn't appreciate that this is one of those fireworks holidays!

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

Publication news! Very excited to share that this special issue of Mouseion, with a focus on "Breaking New Ground with Comics and the Ancient Mediterranean World," was just published! Natalie Swain deserves so much credit for organizing this and I'm really excited about all the pieces here!

Please enjoy our department's annual "who wore it best" contribution!

I'VE NOTICED YOU'RE TRYING TO WORK INSTEAD OF GIVING ME TREATS I'M SURE THIS WAS AN HONEST MISTAKE PLEASE REMEDY IT AT YOUR EARLIEST CONVENIENCE THOUGH

STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND LOOK AT THIS VERY GOOD BOY WHO GOES TO COLLECT THE TEE AFTER DAVIS KICKS OFF!! I NEED AN ENTIRE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THIS PERFECT DOG

After a long day of cooking and drinking and watching football, it's food time! Happy Thanksgiving, friends! I hope your day is full of delicious food and loved ones!

Dude, The Fountain absolutely wrecks me

🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇 www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...

Back home from a wonderful visit to speak at Pitt about Greek tragedy, in conjunction with Pitt States' wonderful production of Ellen McLaughlin's Iphigenia and Other Daughters. I adore Pitt's classics department so much and it was great to get to spend time with everyone there!

There is no difference between these two, as far as I care to find out

Happening TONIGHT (6pm PT), my colleague, the fantastic Dr. Nora Donoghue, will be giving a lecture about Poggio Civitate’s Etruscan Workshop and you can join via zoom! Zoom deets in the flyer and alt text www.spokaneaia.com/event-detail...

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

Absolute s-tier hating here to write an obituary for a bad person that you know will outlive you so that you can make sure they don't get the hagiography treatment once they're gone. And hoo boy, Watson's racism sure needs to be mentioned in the same breath as co-discovering DNA's structure

Always super fun to get to chat with you, @antiquitypod.bsky.social!!

New website, new podcast episode and new post at the site! Our friend @apistone.bsky.social stopped by for a wide-ranging talk about higher ed, ancient Greek drinking habits and Odysseus. I hope you enjoy it! classicalantiquitypod.com/2025/10/25/s...

Y'all, my colleagues are so fun! Last week classics, history, and religious studies celebrated the start of spooky season with a historical seance We played the ghosts of Sappho and Julius Caesar and joined our colleagues, Stalin, Teddy Roosevelt, Saint Lucy, Maggie Fox, and Otto von Bismark.

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Yet again, the cursed monkey paw strikes classicists who idly wished for more contemporary relevance . . . www.npr.org/2025/10/16/n...

GO BEAAAAARRRSSSSS!!

Minoan octopus fit, courtesy of @greekmythcomix.bsky.social!

As Hoo-dith Butler always says, gender is perfor-molt-ive

Today is Gonzaga's Homerathon (ft. Virgil)! Sorry in advance for all the Aeneid content that I'm going to be churning out today, since I have 12ish hours of marinating in the Aeneid and I need SOMEWHERE to share all my dumbest, weirdest reflections...

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Very excited to be part of a panel talk-back after a screening of this documentary tomorrow -- this will be an exciting opportunity to have a conversation among Classics, Religious Studies, and our LGBTQ+ center!

My review of @sarahebond.bsky.social's latest book, Strike, just came out in the Classical Journal! It was a pleasure to read and review and I really hope everyone will check it out!

YESSS

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

This is horrible. Attacks on the humanities are another way to destroy our future. Now is when we need the humanities the most.

Um EXCUSE ME???

Yes. Once you start seeing this (Institution X probably wanted do this conservative thing anyway but now can blame it on Trump), it's everywhere. It's not capitulation, it's agreement. "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2014-2020 because of woke/progressive/anti-racist pressure."

THIS IS PERFECT I WILL BUY 200 ITEMS OF CLOTHING FOR A TEAM THAT ISN'T EVEN MY TEAM AS SOON AS I HAVE THE OPTION

Well that escalated quickly

Tomorrow! Join me and @ellenleephd.bsky.social for an animated conversation with great people!

Our AI Workshop for People Who Hate AI is tomorrow!!! I promise @apistone.bsky.social and I won't spend *too much* time ranting about the AHA's new guidelines. Don't forget to register! #TeachAncient

Y'ALL, ZOE IS A DOCTOR NOW!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈🎉🎉🎈🎉🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉

Re last re-skeet. Anyone have a rec for a good undergrad reading on use (pros and cons) of reconstructions in teaching ancient cultures? Preferably Greek/Roman but anything would be great. Been thinking more about this since I started teaching video games and antiquity purse.

Good and important thread -- thanks for this, ‪Lauren!

Come hang out with us for this upcoming workshop (August 12)! It's led by the brilliant @ellenleephd.bsky.social (with me as her trusty sidekick) who is so smart and thoughtful about language pedagogy and I am so excited to learn from her! Register here! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...

Come hang out with me and @ellenleephd.bsky.social to talk about AI and teaching on August 7! Register here! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...

Did an AI write this?

Me and @apistone.bsky.social, back at it again! This year, we're designing the kind of workshop we've desperately wanted to attend over the past few months, but haven't found: an AI workshop for people who hate AI. Come chat with us about the plagiarism machine!

Teaching beginning language students this year? Join me and @apistone.bsky.social for a conversation about how *hard* it is to teach ancient languages right now and what we can do about it.

The WCC invites you to the workshop, An AI Workshop for People Who Hate AI, facilitated by @ellenleephd.bsky.social and @apistone.bsky.social Thursday, August 7, 2025 - 1-3 PM ET Register here! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...

The WCC invites you to the workshop, Why Are You Taking This Class? Student-Centered Strategies for First-Year Language Instruction, facilitated by @ellenleephd.bsky.social and @apistone.bsky.social Register now! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...

Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/) www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

I realize "people are still racist just in private" isn't the end goal but a society where there was more of an agreed upon sense that you shouldn't just spew racist shit in polite company feels like it was better than the world we're in. If you don't see it as immoral, at least as tacky and crass

This is a fascinating read. Worth noting that @ufw.bsky.social fights for shade, water, and rest breaks for farm workers regardless of where they came from -- everyone deserves a human work environment. www.npr.org/sections/the...

Did some classicist wish on a cursed monkey's paw for more contemporary relevance of ancient history? Between Zuckerberg and his Roman emperors thing and whatever this metaphor is supposed to be, I just . . .