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Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · Nov 11

I've just started here. Looking to connect with fellow Classicists, especially those off the tenure track, cat people, readers, gardeners, and other anxious folk.

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Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 18h

I keep thinking about my intro to Roman archeology class in which we had to write an essay on how the building projects of each of the Julio-Claudian emperors reflected their personalities. Then I heave a heavy sigh.

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Oliver Schopf @oliverschopf.bsky.social · 1d

The Golden Age and a new Forum Romanum

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#Trump #arch #triumph #ballroom #gold #WhiteHouse #ForumRomanum #cartoon #satire

Trump intends to build a new bigger ballroom and an arch. The beginning of a Forum Romanum in Washington DC.

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Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA @serviliusahala.bsky.social · 1d

The so-called Aula Regia of the Flavian palace on Rome's Palatine Hill was a showy, monumental complex employed to help a paranoid, bigly insecure monster feel superior to others (sketch by J.C. Golvin)

J.C. Golvin's sketch of a reconstruction of the Aula Regia, a high-ceilinged columnar hall with elaborate marble pavement. Tiny emperor for scale in apsidal niche at the center.

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Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 4d

Go Hoosiers! And Boilermakers I guess.

Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 4d

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus

The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.

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Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 4d

Just thinking about how Trump's arch might be decorated makes me shudder.

Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 5d

So I have just learned that Stephen Miller has been living about a mile away from where I grew up in a neighborhood I knew well. Now I feel dirty. Thankfully he's selling.

Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 5d

What text do you recommend for undergraduates reading Homer in Greek?

Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 6d

Is anyone else being triggered by the use of the word "underbabied" today?

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8d

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 13d

How strange to find so many lying, disingenuous, and dishonest people all in one meeting.

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 13d

nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them

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Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 15d

Who is celebrating National Spinning and Weaving Week? How are you celebrating?

Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 18d

JD Vance oozes more contempt than any vice president in my lifetime. Dick Cheney oozed contempt, but that was nothing compared to Vance.

Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 19d

Don't forget the bronzer. It is already spreading.

Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 19d

I organized my first ever declension flash mob for our Noun-Adjective Agreement Awareness Week celebration. Feeling very satisfied. #naaaw25

Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 21d

I wonder what it would be like to have a representative like this...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 21d

A little poetry for Noun-Adjective Agreement Awareness Week #NAAAW25

Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 22d

Ordinarily you would only know one of the stupidest people in the country, tops, but now it's like you know them all because they are in high government positions and all they know how to do is be on TV. It's very tiring.

Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 22d

I'm a Latin teacher. It was really cool when Agrippa took a boat through the Cloaca Maxima to inspect it when he was second in command to Augustus. If only we could get JD Vance to do the same.

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Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 22d

Noun-Adjective Agreement Awareness Week off to a great start with our poster making session. I also sent a bunch of greeting cards to campus dignitaries. #NAAAW25 #truthjusticeandbettergrammar

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Jen Rea @profjenrea.bsky.social · 24d

Taking an AI course that is reinforcing the value of a Classics degree for me. Today's takeaway: we are preparing students for a future where, as AI continues to evolve, creativity, adaptability, and critical thinking skills will be essential. #OsprAI | #UNFAI

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Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 25d

We did listen to "the mothers." The question was thoroughly studied and it was determined that vaccines do not cause autism.

Corinne Shirley @coshirle.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you for this important work.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 27d

An ancient Egyptian relief that depicts the male human cast of Star Trek tng, like they time traveled back then. Lots of hieroglyphs and one of them is the enterprise d

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