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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

1 year

I did that 😭😭😭

Bloomsbury Classical Studies & Archaeology

@BloomsburyClass

1 year

Happy publication day to @Vicky_Austen and Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden (new in our Ancient Environments series)! This is a study of the relations between ‘garden’ and ‘not-garden’ in Rome (c. 100 BC–AD 150). Find out more:

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

2 months

Email received from student: “I was planning to come to office hours today but on my way I found myself in a situation of saving a baby duck so can I schedule another time to meet?”. They then attached picture of said baby duck. 10/10. No notes.

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The academic urge to download another PDF you will never read.

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For all those asking: here is the photo of the duck!

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Also, the email subject line was “Whoops and Ducks”.

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2 months

My notifications are out of control because of this duck email story. I will never leave this hell site. 🥹😅

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Dr Victoria Austen

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3 years

Just because Cicero wrote a lot, doesn’t mean we have to read it.

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3 years

Classics people: what’s an opinion you hold that inevitably receives this reaction?

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The SCALE of the Domus Aurea had me *shook* today 🤩

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Am I even teaching if I don't receive myth memes on a weekly basis from students? 🤔😅 Here's a painfully accurate creation from one of my current students....enjoy!

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One year into this pandemic, and I finally managed to run my feelings... 😉🤫

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Turns out, I’m in this American adventure for the long haul… 🇺🇸 Absolutely thrilled to share the news that the ink is dry and I have accepted an offer to be an Asst Prof in Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 🥹 TENURE-TRACK HERE I COME BABY!!! 😁😁😁

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Feel like it’s important to note that statues are not, in fact, photographs.

Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

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1 year

Statues of Queen Cleopatra confirm that she had Hellenistic (Greek) features, distinguished by light skin, a drawn-out nose and thin lips. 2/2

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Woken up to someone calling me a “leftist propaganda female history major” because I noted that statues are not photographs. Lads, I’ve finally made it!

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Dr Victoria Austen

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9 months

My high school Latin teacher repeatedly told us that “Virgil never wasted a word”. I would like to retroactively respond with this screenshot 🙃😭

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Dr Victoria Austen

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2 years

Happy April 25th to those who celebrate!

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MY BOOK ARRIVED!!! 🤩🤩🤩

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@kmkraynick Oh 100%!

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3 years

*screams in Classicist*

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3 years

WTAF “When the Roman Empire fell, it was largely as a result of uncontrolled immigration. The empire could no longer control its borders, people came in…and Europe went into a dark ages that lasted a very long time. The point is that it can happen again”

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

9 months

Found this on my office door this morning 🤌🏻😂

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Dr Victoria Austen

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It’s even better than I remembered 😭😭😭

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Dr Victoria Austen

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4 years

Just finished a great Catiline Conspiracy chat with my Plebs and Politics class! Here's a topical meme thanks to one of my students ☺️

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

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Siri, show me the audience of a final panel at an academic conference.

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Dr Victoria Austen

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9 months

Classics Twitter dealing with Iliad translation discourse, Roman Empire bros discourse, and El*n reinventing Aeneid discourse all at the same time…

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

3 years

I have no job security, no health insurance, and had to teach 10 courses last year to make a liveable salary as a single person. Today 3 students all told me how sad they were to realize I was leaving next year, and I had to tell them to why. /1

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

4 years

We’ve all been there.

Kara Schlichting

@KaraSchlichting

5 years

This is truly the craziest footnote I have ever seen #twitterstorians

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The perfect shirt does not exi—

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Dr Victoria Austen

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Ok...but... why does this terracotta votive portrait bust from 100BCE look like Mike Pence? 🤔

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Dr Victoria Austen

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4 years

It’s official. The Dr is in. 😁

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FIRST PROOFS!!!!😁😁😁😁😁

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Dr Victoria Austen

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3 years

Sooo.... MY BOOK PROPOSAL WAS JUST ACCEPTED.... 😳

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2 years

Today I have unlocked “footnote longer than the text on the page” level of academic writing.

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@HoldenFatheree Added to the thread now!

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

3 years

I cannot recommend this CRT episode enough. Not only do @HC_Richardson & @jbf1755 clearly explain what CRT *actually is*, but they also situate current debates within the broader context of what it means to ‘do’ history AND who has been excluded from writing such narratives 👏🏻

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

3 years

So, I have news - following a a three-week period of many twists and turns - I am absolutely thrilled to be able to say that, as of NEXT September (2022), I will be the Oden PostDoctoral Fellow in Innovation in the Humanities within the Classics Department at Carleton College! /1

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

4 years

Subject to a few corrections.... I HAVE HAD MY FIRST ARTICLE ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION!! 😁😁😁

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

2 years

I HAVE AN ACTUAL OFFICE for the first time ever.

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Dr Victoria Austen

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Student email: “Hi Dr Austen, I was just curious how accurate the movie Troy was to the Iliad?” • Me:…

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

2 years

So, I guess I just sent off my manuscript 😳 brb, just crying happy tears 😭

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

3 years

“Brad Pitt was such an awesome Achilles in that Troy film”

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens

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3 years

You're on a date, you mention you like Classics so they tell you their favourite 'fact' about Classics which ends up in a 30 minute lecture from you. What was it?

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Dr Victoria Austen

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Academics *really* need to understand that this is STILL not common knowledge. I assigned this article as a reading for my Race&Ethnicity class on polychromy - 90% of my class had no knowledge of ancient statues potentially being painted.

The New Yorker

@NewYorker

2 years

Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth.

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Dr Victoria Austen

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More sightings of my book in the wild (this one from my mum)! I still can’t believe I have a book. A WHOLE BOOK. 🤯

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

4 years

Happy Friday! My students have now activated coronavirus-themed myth memes and I am LIVING FOR IT.

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

5 years

Subject to some minor corrections, YOU MAY NOW CALL ME DR Austen-Perry 🙋🏼‍♀️😁😁😁😁

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

3 years

So... now that this has happened for the second time recently... can definitely confirm that getting to the very final stages of a job search and THEN hearing ‘no’ really sucks. I know eventually I’ll be able to take away positives but right now it feels so.... ergh.

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

1 year

Hear me out… what if, instead of whatever this ⬇️ is, we stop framing education as transactional. Radical, I know.

Rishi Sunak

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1 year

Too many students are being sold a university education that won't get them a decent job at the end of it. So I'm cracking down on rip-off degrees and boosting apprenticeships to ensure students get the best deal possible. Widening access. Boosting jobs. Growing the economy.

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Getting reacquainted with my bestie.

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*screams in Classicist*

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You know I’m not teaching when the pink hair makes an appearance 💖

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2 months

Happy April 25th to those who celebrate! Don’t forget your light jacket…

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5 years

Guess who just submitted their PhD?! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

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Dr Victoria Austen

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3 years

So... I’ve been nominated for the Arts faculty teaching award 😊 in a pandemic year in which I taught a 3-4 course load (6 of those as new preps), this feels pretty damn good #tinyjoys

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Dr Victoria Austen

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@JonathanFoye The best part is that there never was a scheduled meeting to begin with! They were just going to drop into office hours, but emailed because now they would need an alternate time to come by.

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Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

4 years

So @chrissyteigen enters #ClassicsTwitter - name a more ambitious cross over... I’ll wait....

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4 years

helloooooo severus

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Speechless 🥹

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Hands up if you’re both one of the “train people” AND the “library people” 🙋🏼‍♀️

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3 years

Pretty excited about being able to teach Statius in the Fall 🤩🤩🤩

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Happy as a clam with my front page feature 🙋🏼‍♀️

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3 years

@cmclymer I mean... the coat, the party pony, the scrunchie, the support for local business. I can’t get enough.

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2 years

I have *several* questions.

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Guess who just submitted their final manuscript revisions?! 🙋🏼‍♀️

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3 years

Mood.

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Hey @mythsbaby , I've got a new meme for you (courtesy of one of my current students)....

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Celebrating my first publication with Oreo cheesecake 😋

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3 years

The resurfacing of this appears now to be very temporary, but the complete lack of accountability from the creator yesterday felt like peak gaslighting. His absence was nothing to do with being busy. He does not get to frame it like a vacation. /1

Dr. Jeremy Swist

@MetalClassicist

3 years

CW: sexual harassment The creator of The History of Ancient Greece podcast announced yesterday that he’ll resume production of episodes. He has harassed multiple women, and his misdemeanors are well documented. There are other podcasts on Greece out there you can listen to.

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Dr Victoria Austen

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2 years

Finally had a chance to see the London Mithraeum 🤩 super cool immersive experience!

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3 years

33 years around the sun 🎂

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These tweets bought to you by an extremely tired adjunct professor in the 12th week of a 4-course-semester. /end

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Dr Victoria Austen

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4 years

Hey #ClassicsTwitter 👋 I’m teaching a new Race and Ethnicity in the Ancient World course this coming semester @UWinnipeg_CLAS - would you be interested in me doing weekly threads on weekly readings/class discussions/my general thoughts on the topics and materials?? #TeachAncient

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2 years

If there is one thing that will make me read the catalogue of ships again, after years of avoidance, it’s an Emily Wilson translation.

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I'm into the first full week of summer teaching, and you know what that means?! MYTH MEMES! Student submissions are coming in already and this one gave me a good laugh this morning.... the accuracy....

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Dr Victoria Austen

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2 years

And in an academic world with increased adjunctification and precarity, such non-traditional communities are increasingly important. This is why the potential death of Twitter feels like such a gut punch to those of us who have benefitted from building our profile in this way.

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Twitter allows people in academia outside of the traditional ladders of power and prestige to build community and a voice and following and profile in new and interesting ways, and that was and is good.

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7km 🏃🏼‍♀️ doing it for the Manitoba Mascara 💁🏼‍♀️

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Dr Victoria Austen

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2 years

FULL EXTERIOR COVER PROOFS 😁🤩 Countdown to March 9th 2023 is now on! @BloomsburyClass @BloomsburyBooks

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Dr Victoria Austen

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5 years

Joined a run club last night and, when I said I was a Classics prof, a fellow runner recommended I look at the goddess poetry of @nktgill - and, seriously, WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING WITH MY LIFE TO MISS THIS 🖤🖤🖤

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Dr Victoria Austen

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I finally have a couch and have now completed the home purchases. Every single item of furniture in this apartment - paid for and constructed 100% by me. Proud of my progress 😊

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Dr Victoria Austen

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1 year

Apparently “humanity’s common heritage” can only be enjoyed in Bloomsbury though 🙄

If the British Museum loses its marbles, nationalism triumphs over humanity’s common heritage

The friezes were lawfully acquired by the UK. Ignoring their rightful ownership for political expediency will set a dangerous precedent

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Dr Victoria Austen

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3 years

1) History shows us it is not this simple. 2) Violence against people & ‘violence’ against an inanimate object are VERY different things - we need to distinguish between them. 3) Manitoba literally has a statue to commemorate ‘violence’ against an inanimate object (a street car).

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Pallister says the most effective protests don't involve violence.

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Student take on Medea: “It’s the classic tale of boy meets girl, girl kills for him, has children for him, and uses her magic for him. What is left for a boy to do, but dump her for another woman? Naturally she kills their children and his future wife in retaliation.”

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I have just received an email in response to a petition I signed and I simply do not have the vocabulary to articulate my rage.

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Two years ago today I was at the Met 😭😭😭

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@Vicky_Austen

3 years

*Screams in Classicist* 😱😭🤬

Andrew Bridgen

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3 years

I am very proud to be a member of the Spartans. “Molon Labe” is what the Spartans replied to the Persians when they demanded the Spartans surrender their weapons. It translates as “Come and get them!”

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It's TROY week in #CLAS2500 Ancient World Through Film....

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1 year

Turns out I am now preview-able on Google Books! 😁😁😁 less than 2 weeks to go until publication day!!!

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Started my work day by SIGNING MY BOOK CONTRACT!!!!

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I AM NOW A PUBLISHED AUTHOR 😁 You can read my article, "Columella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 10" over at Syllecta Classica!

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@Vicky_Austen

4 months

Happy First Birthday to my book! 📚 🥰

Bloomsbury Classical Studies & Archaeology

@BloomsburyClass

1 year

Happy publication day to @Vicky_Austen and Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden (new in our Ancient Environments series)! This is a study of the relations between ‘garden’ and ‘not-garden’ in Rome (c. 100 BC–AD 150). Find out more:

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We should all be drowning in rapid test kits at home.

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Your periodic reminder that MB is still sitting on near $400 million in unspent pandemic response funds.

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Update: 🇨🇦😁🇨🇦😁🇨🇦😁🇨🇦

Dr Victoria Austen

@Vicky_Austen

3 years

Letter received today: “We are at the end of the process for your application for permanent residence in Canada… To confirm your PR status….” 😁😁😁😁

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LADS… I have important news… I saw my favourite Etruscan Mike Pence ancestor in real life today at the Villa Giulia!!!!

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9 months

Just cited myself for the first time. Seems like a big deal.

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Final gelato 🥺

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2 years

Hot Pink for the Holidays 💖

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1 year

Happy Ides of March to those* who celebrate! (*not Caesar, obvs).

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Dr Victoria Austen

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2 years

So, you can now pre-order my book! ☺️ coming March 2023! ⁦ @BloomsburyClass ⁩ ⁦ @BloomsburyBooks ⁩ 👇🏻

Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden

www.bloomsbury.com

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@Vicky_Austen

3 years

I’m teaching two spring classes this year - Myth and Roman Society, both with a cap of 60 students, both of which are offered every semester at Winnipeg. Enrolment has been open less than 2 weeks and they are both full, and myth has a waitlist of FIFTY THREE students 😳

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@Vicky_Austen

4 years

This is for all the people who seem to think policing student exams with surveillance software is conducive to proper learning.... 👇 #openbookforthewin

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@Vicky_Austen

1 year

As an example - the amount of courses I taught at UofW was the equivalent of two (if not three) TT/tenured faculty, and I was paid half of one of them.

Matthew Chalmers

@Matt_J_Chalmers

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While we’re on the topic, the existence of contingent faculty reveals how much the idea of an oversupply of PhDs is a smokescreen There’s clearly plenty of *work*. There’s not enough good *jobs*. So the problem is not in supply but in division of labour and working conditions +

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“Just act natural”….. 🙈

Theo Nash

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3 years

@DrPeterJMiller @Vicky_Austen @WinnipegNews @uwinnipeg @UWinnipeg_CLAS Full page!

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Today’s Latin 101 class descended into an existential debate about what actually constitutes a small island. If you know what this debate refers to, you are my people.

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