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R F Kennedy (not Jr.)
@kataplexis.bsky.social
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Ancient Historian and Professor. First gen, public school, state college kid teaching at a SLAC. PhD OSU, BA UCSD. “Come on down here, third string. Let me show you how outclassed you are.” ~Full Metal Alchemist
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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · Mar 23
Help support students w/o the means participate in excavations, summer programs abroad or summer language programs? Help us build our s holarship endowment! We currently have no departmental endowed funds, but our students need financial support that the uni & external scholarships can’t provide.
Red and white square image with photograph of students at the Lion Gate at Mycenae on the right. Text reads “Make a Difference! Donate to the Garrett A. Jacobsen Scholarship Fund Today! We are building an endowed fund to help support student summer study—excavations, language programs, Denison Summer Seminars, ASCSA, and more! Below is QR code with text “Donate Today!”
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bostonglobe.com
Jimmy Cliff, the charismatic reggae pioneer and actor who preached joy, defiance, and resilience in classics such as “Many Rivers to Cross” and “You Can Get It If You Really Want” and starred in the landmark movie “The Harder They Come,” has died.
Jimmy Cliff, reggae giant and star of landmark film ‘The Harder They Come,’ dies at 81 - The Boston Globe
His family posted a message on his social media sites that he died from a “seizure followed by pneumonia.”
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November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
kataplexis.bsky.social
Lots of good stuff in here, including my chapter on how modern scientific race was built from ancient ideas.
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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followinghadrian.bsky.social
Perhaps on #OnThisDay in AD 130, Antinous drowned in the Nile during the festival celebrating the death of their god Osiris. Antinous was immediately deified and associated with Osiris, and Hadrian created a new city, Antinopolis.

Read more 👉 followinghadrian.com/2016/10/02/t...
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
kataplexis.bsky.social
RIP
a man is singing into a microphone with the words say hello wave goodbye below him
Alt: a man is singing into a microphone with the words say hello wave goodbye below him
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October 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
kataplexis.bsky.social
Just saw an ad for a company called Kalshi and they talked about how good they are at calculating odds. They showed the Spartans at Thermopylae and a 1% chance of victory. They aren’t wrong—remember that the Spartans lost that battle. They way it was set it up, you’d think the Spartans won.
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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lizneeley.bsky.social
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.
www.heraldtimesonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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ilclassics.bsky.social
Join us starting tonight for the annual fall meeting in Lincolnshire, IL. On-site registration available!
Talks include keynote by @kataplexis.bsky.social & papers by @vickyausten.bsky.social @magistracohen.bsky.social @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social & many more IL classicists!

#IllinoisClassicsEvents
Program for meeting at https://illinoisclassics.weebly.com/uploads/9/3/8/1/93817632/2025_icc_program.pdf . Program for meeting at https://illinoisclassics.weebly.com/uploads/9/3/8/1/93817632/2025_icc_program.pdf . Program for meeting at https://illinoisclassics.weebly.com/uploads/9/3/8/1/93817632/2025_icc_program.pdf . Program for meeting at https://illinoisclassics.weebly.com/uploads/9/3/8/1/93817632/2025_icc_program.pdf .
October 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
kataplexis.bsky.social
I work at a university that decided to replace two administrative position openings with only one person, saying we did not need both positions. This included getting rid of a VP level position. I really do love my university.
October 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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mcsweeneys.net
Today’s mandatory faculty mental health slideshow, “Going Through the Motions: How to Function Despite the Fact Your Supervisors Hate You and Your Job Is Destroying You Spiritually,” has been postponed again.
The Faculty Mental Health Fair Has Been Postponed Again
Dear Faculty: Due to concerns expressed by the students, parents, and staff, you are invited to attend a mandatory emergency mental health fair in ...
buff.ly
October 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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genevievelakier.bsky.social
The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways.

blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...
The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence
Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.
blog.dividedargument.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
kataplexis.bsky.social
got the new covid shot today, no hassle, at a cvs. getting ahead of campus disease cycles.
September 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
kataplexis.bsky.social
On MWF, I teach ancient Greek for 4 hours, only 1 of those hours is on load teaching. For a dept that supposedly is destroying the discipline because our major isn’t language-centered, we sure do teach the languages a lot.
September 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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kataplexis.bsky.social
Philology: the Best of All Possible Methods? A response to the apology.

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The Best of All Possible Methods
The Gold and Katz Defense of Philology
planudes.medium.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
kataplexis.bsky.social
Philology: the Best of All Possible Methods? A response to the apology.

planudes.medium.com/the-best-of-...
The Best of All Possible Methods
The Gold and Katz Defense of Philology
planudes.medium.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
kataplexis.bsky.social
Published last month, after 5 years with editors and press… Volume looks amazing. I am ch 16.
Book. Black with white text and red trim. Title: Identities in Antiquity. Image in the center top is a Fayum (burial) portrait of a man. Brown skin, black short hair, shadow beard and mustache. picture of first page of book chapter 16. Title:Race and the Athenian Metic. Author: Rebecca Futo Kennedy
August 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
kataplexis.bsky.social
Almost finished with this baby. Only took me 4 years to write. All that is left is a final round of clean up edits, some additional notes, and then some backmatter and the image permissions (I will make my maps when I am back in the US). So happy to be publishing this with @yalepress.bsky.social.
On top and center is a printed out manuscript with the title "Ancient Identities" on the first line. Second line says "Race and Ethnciity in the Greco-Roman World" Lower on the bottom of the page it says <logo> followed by "New Have and London". Beneath the manuscript sits the top portion of a book contract with Yale University Press. Name of press and author "Rebecca Futo Kennedy" and date are visible. Address is blocked out.
July 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
kataplexis.bsky.social
For those who have access, my new entry for “metics” in the Oxford Classical Dictionary (replacing D. Whitehead’s) has gone live. much more thorough and includes non-Athenian metics.

oxfordre.com/classics/dis...
oxfordre.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
kataplexis.bsky.social
Proofs. Chapter 5 of the forthcoming Cultural History of Poverty, edited by Claire Taylor.
Chapter 5 Gender and poverty Rebecca Futo Kennedy The Covid-19 pandemic that began in 2020 has led to an unprecedented rise in poverty among women and children worldwide, according to recent reports released by the United Nations. Across the world, millions of women have been forced out of the workforce and, because of the decline in available support for childcare, are unable to return. As short-term economic supports put in place to help alleviate increased unemployment are not renewed poverty among those who were already at, or below, economic and social sustenance levels has only become more dire.1 Such stories are not new but have been around for millennia. Women and children seem always to bear the brunt of economic and social distress during times of crisis because poverty has an inherently gendered impact, whether it is defined through economic access or through social networks. This chapter explores the way poverty in antiquity affected women. Even though we know from almost every measure in the modern world that women disproportionately feel the effects of poverty, it is rare to see women appear as a topic in scholarship on ancient poverty, or, really, in ancient economic histories generally. Typically, this is a result of assuming that the male experience is the default and that this is neutral and generalizable, but it is not. Women were subject to very different economic, social, and political restrictions than men, which means that we can never assume that a male viewpoint or position applies to women. We know our sources come from and reflect the experiences and prejudices of mostly wealthy men; we tend to (wrongly) assume their position as scholars of, rather than participants in, their own societies, which perpetuates the erasure of women, especially non-wealthy women, from our field of vision. To discuss poverty without explicitly addressing its effects on women is to not speak of “poverty” at all, but only of (mostly wealthy) men’s views and ex…
May 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
Translated primary sources for teaching the history of ethnicity in medieval China. A fabulous resource! #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky www.academia.edu/community/ln...
Shao-yun Yang sharing his primary source translations on Ethnic Identity in Imperial China: An Online Sourcebook, on Academia.edu.
April 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
kataplexis.bsky.social
Help support students w/o the means participate in excavations, summer programs abroad or summer language programs? Help us build our s holarship endowment! We currently have no departmental endowed funds, but our students need financial support that the uni & external scholarships can’t provide.
Red and white square image with photograph of students at the Lion Gate at Mycenae on the right. Text reads “Make a Difference! Donate to the Garrett A. Jacobsen Scholarship Fund Today! We are building an endowed fund to help support student summer study—excavations, language programs, Denison Summer Seminars, ASCSA, and more! Below is QR code with text “Donate Today!”
March 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
Think about this and how Fox and the GOP would politicize an Army helicopter crashing into a commercial airplane days after a Black woman president tried to gut air safety & installed the least qualified man ever as Defense Secretary.

THAT is the degree to which Dems should politicize this crash.
juddlegum.bsky.social Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Jan 30
The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough.

The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023.

No acting FAA head has been appointed.
January 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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davidaburnett.bsky.social
This. Thank you for sharing, Judy Stack.
January 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM