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Hidden Worlds II 24″ x 48″ canvas, painted with oils and varnished. Painting is ready to hang as is or can be framed

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Student being so rude: “I’m a freshman, class of 2029”

I’ve survived a lot in my life butttt I might not survive that attack.

The Humanness of Whizardry That Pi Day a 2nd grader beat out 12th graders in the school-wide recitation contest and left the auditorium with a mouth full of pie. I’d known of the child–a whiz with numbers, his Lo…

New piece on precocious children seeing beauty through STEM up on my blog. Math whizzes are humans too and elementary school teachers need to see that in them. #2e #gifted #teaching #neurodivergent

Realizing I like writing that doesn’t have an explicit point. I suspect this is one reason I’m drawn to translation & commentary over thesis-driven aca writing.

in that vein: been drafting stuff for my blog’s revival lately! Here’s an old (2020!) piece in that “story, not message” trad #polyglot

FWIW, I’ve got an archive of self-created, self-hosted, open-source, non-extractive, non-surveillant class websites going back 22 years! wordsinspace.net/classes/

I saw this news and was SO pleasantly surprised and excited! (I’m in Classics at the GC)

Pasts Imperfect (4.17.25) Saving, Celebrating, and Defending the work and the workers behind the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the NEH Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)

A must-read about the cuts to the NEH and their impact on the study of the ancient world. open.substack.com/pub/pastsimp...

Be your students’ coach and cheerleader, not a cop.

Applies at ALL levels and settings.

A huge problem with the way we discuss politics is that polite society abhors words like “racist” as impolite slurs rather than viewing them as analytical terms - which is why we are constantly asked to please not call those pursuing a political project of re-segregation racists or segregationists.

Helping someone do an original Greek prose comp for a class like “oh there’s a cute cheeky (idiomatic) way to do this”…meanwhile I can’t think of a standard way to say it, so good thing they vibe sass 🤣

Hoo boy this timeline (see quoted article too)

For how annoying Seneca is in the ethical phil & many of the letters, I’m both disarmed and irritated that I love his tragedies & the Natural Investigations so much.

I have SO MANY poetry collections to read but, like my (dark-chocolate-specific) desert stomach, I’ll always take more when need moves….

Excited to show folks the wacky range of Neo-Latin themes & genres! A little NASA, a little cannibalism (Swift-style)…

Wooof yeah. As a post I saw ages ago put it, “the inconsistency is the [ADHD] disability.” and it’s consistency that builds trust.

sources are richer than talking points. Ovid has the most accurate to me desc of being non-binary as I revisit myth of Hermaphroditus & his (sic) lover merging into one!

“a double form, it can’t be said woman or boy, but seems both neither and both” (Ovid Met 4.378-9 - yep just TWO lines!)

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Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of Early Modern Natural Philosophy Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, June 26, 2025 - June 27, 2025 Deadline for submission/application: March 3, 2025 Contact email: WomensScientificLiteratures@gmail.com The international AHRC/DFG research consortium, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Anglia Ruskin University; University of Bayreuth; University of Marburg; University of York), invite proposals for their second conference. Plenary speakers Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin) Helena Taylor (University of Exeter) Confirmed speakers Liza Blake (University of Toronto) Sajed Chowdhury (Utrecht University) Johanna Luggin (Innsbruck University) Whitney Sperrazza (Texas A&M University) Elizabeth Swann (Durham University)

CFP: Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of #EarlyModern Natural Philosophy

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 26-27 June
Deadline for submission: 3 March

all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/womens...

Have been focusing on shitposting & queer venting on social media since election, but here now as profesh me too going fwd, excited to learn the ly of land & reconnect w Latinists, translators & teachers!

Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.

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with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS

Inventing the Renaissance An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age. From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawni...

I just learned of and am SO excited for @adapalmer.bsky.social ’s book Inventing the Renaissance out next month!

Psyched bc my research interests in Early Modern & commitment to Latin as a chosen-family lang that belongs to no-one—

& also her novels are great & she is generous!

except my ADHD’s bullshit detector is too sharp 😩

Great pleasures of life: Making a student’s life easier by quick granting a request that’s no work for me & big diff for them!

I don't have my students do the full revision, but I do an abbreviated version of this exercise and the students basically reach the same conclusion.

Social Emotional Check-in as we start orbits in AP Physics 1 tomorrow: Which 3 body orbit are you?

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One of the many joys of grad school is learning that any time I think something is simple because I've had an intro class on it, that just means the intro class simplified things enormously to make it accessible to me.

It's always more complex than an outside view sees it as.

I’d take it! (Online)

Maia Lee-Chin and I made a Classics directory to keep track of everyone and their social media profiles as we all migrate and jump between platforms. Please share! Check out our "Classics Connects" directory: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oVqhqDjaRVUw5KoF_Zin_uA2LyhuQi-nUUfis_HCbh0/

The series of four lectures Max Müller delivered at the Royal Institution during February and March 1870 has often been regarded as the founding gesture of the comparative study of religion (see, for example, Sharpe 1986: 35). Defining religion broadly as ‘the faculty of apprehending the Infinite,’ Max Müller attempted to place the study of religion on a scientific foundation (1873:20). A science of religion had to be based on a comparison, since, as Max Müller insisted, ‘all higher knowledged is acquired by comparison, and rests on comparison’ (1873: 12). In adopting a global scope for the science of religion, Max Müller argued that comparison had to be guided by classification. “Let us take the old saying, Divide et impera,” he declared, “and translate it som

lately I've been working on a project relating to role of ancient thought (esp. Cicero) in 19th c. racializing discourses; came across this chilling use of "divide et impera" by 19th c. philologist Friedrich Max Müller: