Dr Victoria Austen
Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Public Engagement Coordinator for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social
Gif Enthusiast.
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- Zero regrets about buying a house in the suburbs where all my neighbours are retired.
- Is that your property? It's like a regional park! You can host the town carnival or have a full-scale reconstruction of the Battle of Cannae in your back yard!
- Yes and no. All the houses in this little section back on to this open green space with a little walking path so it basically feels like my deck just extends out into a mini almost private park.
- I don’t know what size I thought this mosaic was… but it definitely wasn’t *this* size 🤯
- Same.
- Makes it even better knowing it’s life-size, though.
- Big fan of Heba’s use of “strategic narcissism” in this important discussion 👇🏻
- On today’s new #PeoplingPodcast, we are joined by the wonderful Dr. Heba Abd el Gawad to discuss the legacies of colonialism in the field of Egyptology, and the importance of community-based research in anti-colonial action. Listen in here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/13/p...
- Pope Pokebowl VI.
- I thought on seeing this that this was the polyamory betting market. I am very disappointed.
- Same 😅
- I meet a student for 20 minutes and suddenly we have an AMERICAN POPE FROM CHICAGO!
- Nobody warns you how hard it is to make up fake answers for multiple choice quizzes 🤪
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View full threadTotally get this! Someone wrote "Prof. P!" next to 'femina multae sapientiae est' on a Latin test and yes, I do still have a pic of it <3
- To join in on the AI discourse, I have purposefully utilized wrong answers that ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini provided for my quiz questions. While it doesn't prove use, those answers were regularly selected by ~30% of students. That response is much higher than when I produced my own fake answers.
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View full threadInteresting. Has there been any discussion about making it closed book? These are not the only form of assessment in my class but I do use some timed and closed-book quizzes for fact-retention and to avoid AI interference in this exam process.
- I see why you went with your method, but this feels a little bit like a “gotcha” tactic - which seems more harsh than simply taking out even the opportunity to look things up.
