Dr Victoria Austen

Mass mails from the university be like…
FEDERAL UPDATES.
Upcoming extreme weather.
Sexual assault on campus.
We’re suing the government.
Prepare for potential measles exposures this Fall.
FEDERAL UPDATES.
There is no funding.
“Summer of AI”
MORE FEDERAL UPDATES.
Sign up for a wellness seminar.
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Photo of author’s copies of my minimonograph _Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature_.

they’re here! i only need like 3 of these. CUP sent me 10. so, how about this: i’ll mail the others to the first 7 contingent faculty and/or grad students who email me their mailing address.

Listening now with my morning coffee! Love it when my favourite podcast worlds collide 🤩

Oooo SAME!

I too have very low expectations of this so it’s almost a nice little surprise when everything actually works.

Horrifying.

New fear unlocked 😳

A painting of a woman sitting at a desk with the words: “I just finished reading a book about Oedipus and Midas. Mother-fucking gold.”

One of my high school teachers posted this. I never had a chance of being anything but what I am.

I say send whatever you feel comfortable with. I still recycle the same selfie I took in my bedroom during lockdown in 2020 for everything 😅

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

Listening to @indyfromspace.bsky.social on the latest Betwixt the Sheets with @k8lister.bsky.social on my evening walk - great episode on Cleopatra!

I actually whipped this fact out in the last 72 hours 😂

Me whenever anyone in my vicinity even whispers about Clueless: BUT DID YOU KNOW IT IS AN ADAPTATION OF EMMA!!!

My experience of it was made even better by the guy in the row in front full on belly laughing every 30 seconds.

YES YES ALL OF THIS

For context: The coal industry employs about 40,000 people.

My Instagram went through a phase of this and some of the content was just… horrifying.

The historians can give everyone lots of examples of this

SpiderMan pointing meme

*me, negotiating between my past and future self to figure out who needs to do all this work someone scheduled to get done before the semester begins

If I were in charge of a small liberal arts school, I would start thinking about aggressively marketing my institution as a "knowledge-first" college. One where students can escape the intrusion of constant AI and focus on deep learning and engagement.

I remember once astonishing a colleague’s husband when he naively asked why we (historians) couldn’t just look something up on the internet and we had to explain that WE are the ones who find the stuff and add it to the internet

Headline AI is coming for the consultants. Inside Mackinsey, this is existential If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?

Honestly, this one I'm okay with

In sum, yes, this is where I was going

Girls and women put up with all kinds of shit that is vaguely socially unacceptable now and what we are seeing is a *reaction* to the gain of making that stuff socially unacceptable

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He died as he lived — accepting JSTOR’s terms and conditions.

I chatted with the good colleagues of the @peoplingthepast.bsky.social on decoloniality, the politics of archaeology in the current moment, Palestine of course, and even our fieldwork efforts at Koutroulou Magoula!

What a great way to bring season 4 to a close! Take a moment to listen to our conversation with @yannisham.bsky.social about ethical futures for archaeological practice from the field to the classroom. #CulturalHeritage #archaeology #PeoplingThePast #ColonialLegacies

Study and learn mode sounds like something where you can ask questions and get answers, which means students might assume that the answers are accurate--but it's just regular ChatGPT with a slightly different system prompt and the same confidence when it gets things wrong. Short thread:

So excited that my book has a cover. Michigan's design people have outdone themselves in their styling of Mr. Murder Mittens (a massive Roman temple key from Switzerland). Full details here (the e-version will be open access come the publication date): press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stea...

This.

Evaluations by students have never produced actionable items for teaching improvement and they were never meant to. They provide post hoc justifications for personnel decisions (whether positive or negative) and encourage students to think of education as a transactional activity.