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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h

President Trump is considering a triumphal arch at Memorial Circle in D.C. for America’s 250th anniversary.

It would represent Trump’s most audacious effort to remake the landscape of D.C.

Trump eyes a triumphal arch to mark America’s 250th anniversary

The arch would be constructed across from the Lincoln Memorial, on a small patch of federal land currently occupied by a traffic circle.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 1d

Worcester.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 1d

New reality show idea: love is blind but instead of pods, people’s dogs meet first and they choose the dog they most want to cohabitate with. Then you date that person.

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 1d

Are Roman hippopotami the best hippopotami? Below a Roman token showing a lizard and one delightful rendered hippopotamus (the tail! 😍) Now in the British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · Aug 14

succinct, clear, and timely, both on jobs for humanities students and the place of the humanities in a school's financial structure: Lauren Donovan Ginsberg's "Myth of the Useless Humanist" at Pasts Imperfect.

pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...

Pasts Imperfect 8.14.25

This week, Mellon Leadership Fellow and Nero scholar Lauren Donovan Ginsberg busts the myth of the useless humanist. Then, new ancient world scholarship, new journal issues for a global antiquity, upc...

pasts-imperfect.ghost.io

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 2d

(Also probably good you didn’t have a Ripper/demon summoning phase)

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 2d

That’s still pretty great tho.

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 4d

Required my juniors to use em-dashes and semicolons, which I taught them how to use last week, in an in-class essay today. They were showing each other their em-dashes and semicolons. Monsters officially created.

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 3d

& also in not noting precipitous decline in state funding for state institutions which certainly doesn’t lower tuition costs. Defunding higher ed & making tuition higher as a result was & is a choice. And one being made by one political party in particular in states where it controls such things.

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly this. People act like it’s entirely Higher Ed’s fault for losing public trust. And overlook how persistent and coordinated the PR campaign against higher ed has been for decades.

Curiously starting JUST at the time when it became more available to non-white men as an option.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 3d

it's weird how several decades of organized assault on higher education has led to a cratering of American public opinion on higher education

news.gallup.com/poll/695003/...

Perceived Importance of College Hits New Low

The percentage of Americans who consider a college education "very important" has slipped below the majority level.

news.gallup.com

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 3d

Or if @wmarybeard.bsky.social would share :-)

Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone subscribe to the TLS and able to send me a pdf of this? Please and thank you! www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Perils of biography

This week I did a big lecture (big for me, anyway) at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. It was in a way Daniel in the lions' den, for – though I do

www.the-tls.com

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 5d

We invented graduated drivers licenses for teens. They worked. But we leave 80-year-olds to “see how it goes.” Every family suffers on their own. But this is a shared social problem, not a personal one. We need conditional licenses for older drivers. Daylight. Local. Annual medical check-ins.

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 4d

"Universities and colleges have one mission: to advance knowledge. Faculty carry out the mission by conducting research and teaching students. The knowledge they produce and circulate is independently assessed by professional peers."

www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

www.acls.org

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 5d

Abstract: submitted.

Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 6d

Was trying to figure out whether I could pull a good CAMWS abstract together by Monday. Then realized last Spring I did the weekly writing assignments alongside my grad seminar & had several CAMWS-able ideas right there with a rough structure and major argument/evidence. Past Lauren deserves a hug.

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 5d

One of my favorite things in the Spring here is how many teen girls and their families do Quinceañera photo shoots w the big gorgeous gowns in the botanical gardens by campus. It’s wonderful.

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 6d

Was trying to figure out whether I could pull a good CAMWS abstract together by Monday. Then realized last Spring I did the weekly writing assignments alongside my grad seminar & had several CAMWS-able ideas right there with a rough structure and major argument/evidence. Past Lauren deserves a hug.

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dgschwendtner.bsky.social @dgschwendtner.bsky.social · 6d

Teachers in NC have to buy their own supplies

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 6d

I am so very excited for this book.

Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 6d

Super-excited to see that Katharine Huemoeller's first book will be out in March!

The Child Follows the Womb - Yale University Press London

A new and incisive exploration of female slavery and reproduction in ancient Rome One of ancient Rome’s most significant legacies is a legal framework...

yalebooks.co.uk

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 6d

Super-excited to see that Katharine Huemoeller's first book will be out in March!

The Child Follows the Womb - Yale University Press London

A new and incisive exploration of female slavery and reproduction in ancient Rome One of ancient Rome’s most significant legacies is a legal framework...

yalebooks.co.uk

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 7d

Yup.

Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 7d

I spend the whole dang first part of my career saying that comparisons between the modern United States and the late Roman Republic are often misleading and facile, and then...he just mints it right out...

Silver coin of Julius Caesar, which caused major controversy during his lifetime because only dead people were supposed to be on coins.

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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 8d

I’m reading about academic integrity for Humanist and came across this ethics curriculum. Many students don’t know what counts as cheating, which should be something institutions address, but they often don’t. This is a free tool to help address cheating out of ignorance:

givingvoicetovaluesthebook.com

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 10d

Remember when ppl tried to make like Musk didn’t know who Sulla was and wasnt thinking about the Proscriptions when he called for a new modern Sulla? Lol. He knows. It’s their primary appeal. I bet he thought he was playing Sulla during the DOGE purges.

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 10d

Musk’s recent retweet of his old Proscriptions with a new Sulla’s Proscriptions comment isn’t helping.

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 10d

Trump has really been ramping up the ‘enemies within’/hostis rhetoric in a way that makes this Roman civil war scholar pretty twitchy.

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