"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

Anyone within striking distance of Lansing are welcome to attend this tomorrow. I'll read some selected passages from my book and do a Q&A. There's also free cake! 🎂

I know everyone and their (very manly, no doubt) brother has already dunked on this framing but the "girly" jobs that ostensibly need to be made palatable to men are care work. We associate care with women and with a lack of masculinity because implicitly women DO the caring and men are cared FOR

Deeply relieved that the bombs will stop—for now. But threatening the destruction of an entire civilization has repercussions. Republicans must call Congress back NOW, pass a war powers resolution, & stop this unauthorized war. And Trump must be removed from office immediately.

The John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series will present Diet as Medicine in Greco-Roman Antiquity, by Dr. caneweb.org/rouman-lectu...

Long shot that this will get seen in time, but in about an hour CripAntiquity is doing our semesterly meet up. This time, we're hoping to discuss disability/neurodivergence and the job market. If you are free and are interested in joining, DM me for Zoom info

People forget, it’s not about the stabbing, but rather the co-conspirators we make along the way. #IdesOfMarch

Here’s my obligatory #IdesOfMarch post- a dramatic reading by me (in #Latin!) of Suetonius, Vita Caesaris, 82 in a restaurant built into the bowels of the theater of Pompey in Rome (Da Pancrazio), just steps away from where the senate was meeting that fateful day! youtu.be/mf3bnx8-Rw8?...

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no. people.com/new-dime-coi...

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT 15 years ago, a group of us started The Pericles Group (periclesgroup.org) in order to formally work on our games & learning endeavors. It has been an amazingly fulfilling ride creating Operation LAPIS, successful Kickstarters (CARD-tamen, VERBA, Underlings of Underwing), (1/7)

Check out these amazing cakes my Latin students made this year for #WorldLanguageWeek! Sheep are the most “imperfect” of animals! Baaa! Roman emperor cake pops! A broken column! Pompeian bread!

Do you want to improve your knowledge of medieval manuscripts from England? Book now for this summer school course, in person, in London, 8-12 June. 👇☀️📚 #medievalsky please repost! palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Masterful Troll, TCM.

Ok real question though- doesn’t this have potential to go the complete opposite way? As in on the off chance he does somehow send out refund checks they will certainly have his name all over them and he can claim (falsely) “I made foreigners pay you money through my tariffs.” A lie of course but…

Very proud to be a part of the Classics Association of New England (CANE) where we not only rejected any attempt to retreat from our DEI initiatives, but in fact doubled down on them and further enshrined them in our mission and scholarships.

On Thurs, Feb. 19, I'll be speaking at UC Davis about my recent co-authored project, a late 6th century BCE statue of a dwarf woman that was dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis. A recording of the talk from the Fall is available on YouTube, if you're interested! classics.ucdavis.edu/events/disab...

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0 www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

I made another blog post for the Pliny haters. This one's about his omissions of esse, which are neither very unusual nor very challenging for students, but people need something to complain about I guess magisterconway.blogspot.com/2026/02/comi...

Raskin to Bondi: "You're not showing a lot interest in the victims. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as AG you're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims."

Curling might have the largest gap of any sport between “That looks so easy - I could do that!” and reality. Here I am in Quebec 2 years ago trying for the first time 😂 #Olympics

The AAACC is excited to host its first ever virtual Book Club for high school students on Sunday, February 22nd at 10am PST/1pm EST. This is a great opportunity to meet and engage with other passionate Latin/Greek students across the country. Registration details can be found at our website!

High school Latin teacher friends, we'd love to have some of your students at this!

I'll be offering a follow up online class on Pliny, specifically those Suggested Letters for AP Latin - 1.6, 2.6, 7.5, 7.24, 9.6, 10.33, 10.34, 10.38, 10.39, 10.40 and includes materials & strategies to ease your workload! #LatinTeach #ClassicsSky thepatrologist.com/product/lati...

Does anyone know if @sportula.bsky.social is still active? They haven’t posted here in over two years and I can’t seem to find any recent info anywhere else.

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Back with another instalment of Pliny genius, @gregorystringer.bsky.social teaching Pliny's Letters for #SeumasU thepatrologist.com/product/lati... starts Mon 23rd Feb

I got bingo watching Shaolin Wooden Men for #Chanuary at the brand new Chanuary.com!

All the Pliny haters in the AP Latin teachers Facebook group got me so worked up that I started a multi-part blog entry series on the unique features of Pliny's style. Because someone needs to stick up for Pliny boi magisterconway.blogspot.com/2026/01/plin...

If you don’t yet know about #SeumasU and the classes offered by @jeltzz.bsky.social there is, IMHO, no better way out there to improve your Ancient Greek and Latin! thepatrologist.com

The new term at #SeumasU has just begun, and it's a pleasure to be in classes again speaking ancient Greek and Latin with students, reading classical and medieval texts, and generally having fun with languages.

so I'll be in Boston (Cambridge actually) to give a talk next month and I'm delighted by the poster they designed #medievalsky

All historians, regardless of gender, do “gender stuff,” all the time. It’s just a question of do they work using lenses that are inclusive or exclusive. Many (most?) men have unknowingly been doing “gender stuff” their whole career by reading and writing everything’s through an exclusionary lens.

I made a #Chanuary bingo board. 😂

My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Hey home adults, If there’s a teacher in your students’ life who is making a positive impact on their learning, please send them an email, class dojo message, Remind, etc It’s REALLY hard to keep going right now and a little kindness can go a long way.

Little peek at my latest Latin reader project 👀

Jackie Chan’s Armor of God (aka Operation Condor) is especially notable for its historical accuracy. I’m really surprised I never learned about the Sword of God or King Arthur’s role in Crusades during my Master’s in Medieval History. 🤪 #Chanuary

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

Publius Rutilius Lupus. Roman consul, jurist, orator, and historian. 158-78 B.C.

BEARS!! 🐻 Amazing!

#Chanuary Wheels on Meals! 🚗

Five years ago.

Secretly taken photo of financier of this film published, identity not yet revealed:

This term I'm teaching with "Classics and Race: A Historical Reader" (2025), edited by Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, and Phiroze Vasunia. An incredible achievement: global sources from 14th-20th translated, and given commentaries by expert scholars. And OPEN ACCESS! uclpress.co.uk/book/classic...

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

Dr. Bashir knows more about “AI” than the average bear.

“Intelligent and beautiful and proud.” @spottedgiraffe.bsky.social reflects on her life and how Nichelle Nichols has been an inspiration as we remember her on her birthday. www.strangenewpod.com/blog/intelli...

These ornaments are pretty great! #RIPMichaelHutchence