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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

& 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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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.

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 1d

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

Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

"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 · 2d

Abstract: submitted.

Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

Teachers in NC have to buy their own supplies

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 3d

I am so very excited for this book.

Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

Yup.

Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 8d

This week Historians At The Movies talks abortion rights, Jewish summer camps, the 1960s, and THAT SOUNDTRACK. Join us on Netflix at 8pm eastern this Sunday, October 5 for DIRTY DANCING.

Make #HATM the time of your life be sharing and we’ll see you soon! 1

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 9d

Recovering from a miscarriage:
"We aren’t even going to answer that. Women are not allowed to have a miscarriage."

The Trump Administration’s Recommendations for Managing Pregnancy Discomfort

“For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically necessary. That’s, for instance, in...

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 22d

As part of my administrative role in the graduate school, I wrote a thing about the need for high quality mentor training for faculty & the challenge for humanities faculty in finding mentor training built for our different environments & challenges. It starts with a story about crying in my office.

A Humanist’s Very Human Perspective on the Realities of Mentoring | Office for Faculty Advancement

When it comes to mentoring best practices, humanities programs have not been studied nor have humanities programs had access to the sort of grants that could fund both st

facultyadvancement.duke.edu

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 11d

When Augustus exiled Pylades for singling out a powerful elite man in the audience for popular disdain, the Roman ppl protested so loudly that he eventually had to bring him back and be seen to celebrate him … even when he mocked Augustus on his return.

Collective voices matter. They’re powerful.

Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 18d

The firing of Jimmy Kimmel due to government pressure has rightly shaken those committed to free speech. Entertainers have always criticized politicians. The sign of a good politician who values free speech is to let them; only authoritarians take revenge - just ask the Romans./1

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 11d

Sinclair Ends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Boycott, Says Its ABC Stations Will Resume Airing Show Immediately variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Sinclair Ends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Boycott, Says Its ABC Stations Will Resume Airing Show Immediately

Sinclair’s ABC stations will resume airing 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after preempting the late-night TV show in protest over Kimmel's comments about Charlie Kirk's killer.

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Lauren Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 12d

Matidia Minor. Because why put a statue of yourself in pudicitia pose above the porta regia of a theater when you CAN HAVE THIS.

A polychrome statue of an imperial woman in white marble with her body in a flowing windswept dress or black marble that clings to her body as she moves.

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