Dr Victoria Austen
Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Public Engagement Coordinator for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social
Gif Enthusiast.
My own unique mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸
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- Zero regrets about buying a house in the suburbs where all my neighbours are retired.
- I don’t know what size I thought this mosaic was… but it definitely wasn’t *this* size 🤯
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- Big fan of Heba’s use of “strategic narcissism” in this important discussion 👇🏻
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- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenThinking about the gender-neutral language of "parents" here
- Reposted by Dr Victoria Austeni can’t get enough of the chicago pope jokes
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- Pope Pokebowl VI.
- Reposted by Dr Victoria Austengonna start saying “is the pope from Chicago?” when someone asks me an obvious question
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- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenI can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.
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- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenA Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
- Reposted by Dr Victoria Austen“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
- Reposted by Dr Victoria Austen“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc
- I meet a student for 20 minutes and suddenly we have an AMERICAN POPE FROM CHICAGO!
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- Reposted by Dr Victoria Austenfilling time on air until the new pope is announced is known as "pontiffication"
- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenWow is this how I found out I didn't get the job? A fucking chimney?
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- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenWould it have killed the @nytimes.com to ask their readers to identify the type of ablative? #WastedOpportunity
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- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenThe conclave is now longer than Conclave
- Nobody warns you how hard it is to make up fake answers for multiple choice quizzes 🤪
- Reposted by Dr Victoria Austen“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment
- I feel like this is the best compliment after a student takes a GenEd class with you 🥹
- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenThis episode has everything: smuggling, scandal, Sappho, a disgraced Oxford prof, & a 🔥 takedown of everyone's least favorite 'hobby' store. Check out our AWESOME episode on the extreme & illegal lengths collectors go through for papyri #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #AntiquitiesTrade #Papyri
- New #PeoplingPodcast alert! Today, we are joined by @robertamazza.bsky.social to discuss the antiquities trade in both the past and the present, the ethics behind papyrology, and the illicit papyrus trade in academia. Listen in to “Fragments and Falsehoods” here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/06/p...
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- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenThis will be well worth a listen.
- New #PeoplingPodcast alert! Today, we are joined by @robertamazza.bsky.social to discuss the antiquities trade in both the past and the present, the ethics behind papyrology, and the illicit papyrus trade in academia. Listen in to “Fragments and Falsehoods” here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/06/p...
- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenI was dreaming of being a guest of #PeoplingPodcast @peoplingthepast.bsky.social and then it finally happened! Follow them NOW 🔥❤️👇
- New #PeoplingPodcast alert! Today, we are joined by @robertamazza.bsky.social to discuss the antiquities trade in both the past and the present, the ethics behind papyrology, and the illicit papyrus trade in academia. Listen in to “Fragments and Falsehoods” here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/06/p...
- HOBBY LOBBY KLAXON 👀
- New #PeoplingPodcast alert! Today, we are joined by @robertamazza.bsky.social to discuss the antiquities trade in both the past and the present, the ethics behind papyrology, and the illicit papyrus trade in academia. Listen in to “Fragments and Falsehoods” here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/06/p...
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- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenI’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
- Reposted by Dr Victoria Austen"The days of unaccountable ivory tower are over," says someone who clearly has slept through the past quarter-century of UK higher education policy. Not one word about research, or really education as such. Universities are there to "deliver good jobs" to students.
- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenBizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- Artificial intelligence when I was a kid.
- Moment of appreciation for my new home-office chair 🩵🩷
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- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenAnd this chart from @jessicaelgot.bsky.social piece this am rather emphasises the point. Confront populism don't accommodate it. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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- Spent a wonderful hour this afternoon recording with @lexie-henning.bsky.social and @digital-hammurabi.bsky.social. Any guesses which movie we were discussing? 🤭
- Reposted by Dr Victoria Austen“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing
- FFS just do the right thing.
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- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenThis gender split is troubling but not surprising. As girls have started out-achieving boys academically, school and related things like reading have come to be seen as "feminine." Which becomes a self-perpetuating cycle, leading some people to view school--and thus reading--as too "girly" for boys.
- *immediately adds to itinerary for London visit in the summer*
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- Reposted by Dr Victoria AustenThis statue of Lincoln at L.A.'s federal courthouse proves that he could, in fact, get it.
