an important point is that if you do not teach chemistry, religion, fine arts, classics, french, or african american studies (among others listed here) you are not actually a university

Whenever I see the work of real academics, who go and actually investigate and explore forgotten and neglected areas, letters, sources and raw material, I feel like such a fraud with my baby lit reviews of things I found on JSTOR

It’s getting cold, but rather than turn the heating on, I’ve resorted to working from bed today as the bedroom is south facing.

See, this is another reason why I’m against political violence, especially against those despise and disagree with. Because when they’re targeted, they transcend from someone I barely heard about to some lionised martyr that only fuels their agenda. Stop saying his name and get him off my feed.

No one talks about the paradox of not wanting to exercise because you hate exercise clothes. Fitness wear is tight, & draws attention to all the lumps and bumps you hate about your body. But then, if you wear baggy t-shirts, you feel frumpy and messy and don’t want to go out in that either.

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

this exists it is called thinking

I think for the first time in my life, I’ve actually found myself at a loss regarding research. I’ve been desperately trying to find a book on a subject, and after two months of searching, I came away from the library and said, ”fuck, guess I’ll have to write it.”

Has anyone got any book recommendations for someone looking to read more about medieval manuscripts? To be fair, anything to do with medieval period really, like a fun introduction!

My phone screen time has come up to over seven hours on a daily average! At first I was like, “Jesus!! What the hell am I doing on my phone?!” But then I saw the number one app using said screen time was @hankgreen.bsky.social’s focus friend. For once, increased screen time equated to more work.

Antifa Professor, member of a Major Terrorist Organization

The fact a lecturer openly proclaimed that the term genocide has been watered down from “the extermination of peoples“ to, and I quote “the tragic brutalities of urban warfare by a country we strongly dislike" just reminds me how naive I was to think I wasn’t intelligent enough for a doctorate.

Spent the whole day getting my paper down by 600 words. Still 300 over, but not too painful. Added the missing bibliographic information. Now back to 1000 words over the word count. Fuck my life.

What the hell is wrong with me regarding bibliographies?! I'm on it with citation, yet for some reason I never add the data to the bibliography and end up spending an hour searching for the bibliographic records. In my head I tell myself I've saved the info, but 23 cited papers beg to differ

Wow, the Republicans really love their first amendment, provided they're the only ones who get to use it. As someone who's read a decent amount about the history censorship, this is wild to see play out on the stage of the most powerful country in the world and mainstream media is eerily ambivalent

The ability for independent scholars, like me, to get their work noticed, while also standing firm against gross copyright infringement (AI theft, etc) is shrinking fast.

“I’m so sick of this stupid, hateful bigot who won’t shut up, and I’m not even on the email list.” — my partner, who is not a Classicist or in academia at all. I wonder how many other households in which his name has become an unwelcome utterance.

I’ve gotten to a point in life where not having professional headshots really matters. Ironically, not for my job in social media, but for academic events.

Huh. It's almost as though churches are abiding by the Christian principles which condemn and eschew idolatry...

I've been admittedly incredibly low the past few months, with it hitting an extreme low point this pat week. However, I just looked over at a book signed by A.C. Grayling. As I shared my concerns, he smiled over his glasses at me, held his fist up triumphantly and said, "just keep going, Cinzia."

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Who bets G****** D***** hunts down each one of the Archaeologists working on this and calls them all pro-Hamas propagandists

'Analysis of almost 45,000 courses in Times Higher Education’s Courses 360 databases found that roughly 3,900 had shut down between 2024-25 and the upcoming academic year.' 1/2

Ok, so YouTube NEEDS to get rid of the "hover your mouse over a thumbnail and it plays a random section of the video" feature. I just loaded Youtube My mouse was just on the screen, but it landed over a video which immediately played the up close, graphic video footage of Charlie Kirk's death

My supervisor told me my chapter is shaping up 'so well'. SO WELL. After four years, I am finally getting it.

Everyone celebrating or jeering at the irony of political violence disturb me, and for me seem to be incredibly shortsighted. Violence doesn't only travel one way. Political violence is an extremely disturbing reality. I'm a leftist because I stand against all violence and hatred. No exceptions.

we need to talk about the Wuthering Heights movie youtu.be/j58h6k0Nks0?...

I was 2000 words over the word count (damn you inclusive endnotes and reference section), so I rewrote the chapter. I cut out sooooooooo much. I'm now 1967 words over the wordcount. I don't know how that happened, but I'm angry and baffled at the same time.

Nothing breaks your trust more than asking your hairdresser for a light "dusting trim" and she then proceeds to chops off three and a half inches that you just spent two and a half years growing because of stress.

After reading that poetry book all I can say is... I wish I had a fraction of the unjustified confidence Walt Whitman had.

My phone has been sent off for repair. I was looking forward to potentially two weeks without a phone, until bloody Microsoft authenticator reminded me I need to receive a text EVERY DAMN TIME I want to check my email or JSTOR. My iphone from 2015 will have to do.

I’M SO FUCKING HAPPY IT’S SEPTEMBER

At 33 years old, I finally heard the entirety of the song 'Copacabana'. I never realised that chirpy little chorus was nestled amongst the darkest and most depressing of lyrics...

Lord of the Rings would have been a very different story if Frodo had ADHD.

cooking the world so our students can turn in papers that say “delve” and “rich tapestry”

Took my partner to see Laura Bates talk at Edinburgh book festival this evening. She was phenomenal, though my partner, who had no idea what her work was about, is officially traumatised. I believe he’s experiencing female rage as a dude for the first time, & that’s why I love him

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

An entire universe of near-magical knowledge and endeavor is getting obliterated, quickly, and most university leaders are standing silently because it helps them destroy faculty and staff labor power and keep left-wing students in line

A Philosopher's Guide to Self-Hatred youtu.be/p_icvgGo06A

Can someone PLEASE make sure this comment from Trump is read by a particular arsehole of a Classicist who just last week blamed the agenda of “woke agitators”, not MAGA, for the cutting the humanities departments, specifically Classics, from universities.

With all the lefties profiting off this genocide, crying for revolution whilst sat on their arses safely behind their computers in mansions, it's great to see someone actually willing to use their huge influence to make a real-world impact instead of passive virtue signalling tinyurl.com/mwhw8dbt

Sally Rooney, the author of Normal People, will dedicate the proceeds of her book sales in Britain and the fees the BBC pays her to adapt her works to support Palestine Action

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

As if I didn’t feel more pathetic in life having fallen seriously behind my PhD and unsure I can complete it in just two years, this insanely incredible woman pops up on my newsfeed to really rub in how badly I’m doing in life (she got all A*s and As at A-level and had 34 GCSEs)

If you have published or had a story in an anthology there is a good chance your work will show in this list of pirated works here

Everyone has become a giggly, obsessive, excitable literature student over Taylor Swift and I feel left out. I feel as though I should also be excited, but I don’t know what I’m actually meant to feel excited about (I know 5 songs). But the vibe is giving me the last HP books before JK unmasked.

"but conservatives like Classics, actually" harks the professor who published a book on conservative humanism. No shit, Sherlock. We've seen the garish neoclassical decor of Trump's penthouse. The Nazis also loved Classics. That's the problem: elitism & gatekeeping are motives of the powerful.