searching shit like “HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL” in the early hours of the day hunched over coffee by the SAD lamp
Dr. Torie Burmeister
@mercurywitch.bsky.social
VAP in Classical Studies at Wesleyan. PhD on witches/space in Latin lit (BU). “If I had to describe Torie’s interests in one word: Dark.” - my advisor have written here: https://mercurywitch.wordpress.com/ She/her
I didn’t get any photos at Ned Lamont’s victory party but I did get audio of the governor singing along to Bob Marley’s “Get Up Stand Up.” Listen for it on tomorrow’s Morning Edition on Connecticut Public Radio
just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards
Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · last yr.Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision
hey #classicsbluesky I am in this! If you don’t have access to the volume—which includes many great pieces besides my own—consider asking your library to add Arion to its collection! It’s such a cool journal for more experimental forms of scholarship. You can also DM me for more info on my piece.
Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 4mo agoArion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics Vol. 34, No. 1 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55479 @projectmuse.bsky.social @mercurywitch.bsky.social
This framed photo just fell and the glass broke. @pftompkins.bsky.social should avoid any zoos with hippo habitats.
the golden ratio really is everywhere in nature. beautiful
From the night of July 18 to the morning of July 19, 64 CE, Nero’s fire began in Rome. It killed and displaced thousands. I wrote about it for Forbes a few years back, along with a timeline of the events (and myths). 🔥 Fire was and continues to be a devastating event for ancient and modern cities.
July 18, 64: The Great Fire Of Nero And The Ancient History Of Firefighting
On the night of July 18 in the year 64 CE, a fire began within the city of Rome that would rage for over a week. The threat of fire was a regular and real one in the ancient city, but the use of fire ...
forbes.com
"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras
batman or halo@milesklee.bsky.social · 11mo agoAcademics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
fwiw i thought Nolan’s /Odyssey/ was a banger and i’m happy to talk about the stuff i had a gripe with off main but i want you to see it i think you should see it everyone go see it
odyssey this, odyssey that. some of you fellas odda see a dang therapist
thanks to whoever left this awesome giant sheep outside the museum! we're sure nothing bad is going to happen
Saturn devouring his son by Peter Paul Rubens / photo of TV screen from @chrispolansky.bsky.social of world cup (ARG v. SUI) @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
hey #classicsbluesky / #antiquitystudies folks, I am wondering if something like a discord (or w/e) exists for undergraduate summer opportunities AND summer/small project funding opportunities that is not institutional-specific. If there is, i want to be able to share it! If not maybe i’ll make it!
hey #classicsbluesky / #antiquitystudies folks, I am wondering if something like a discord (or w/e) exists for undergraduate summer opportunities AND summer/small project funding opportunities that is not institutional-specific. If there is, i want to be able to share it! If not maybe i’ll make it!
Knicks turbo mode is great. They’ll be dead, and then Spike Lee coughs on them, and then Jalen Brunson starts rehanging the sun in the sky
If someone put Nico in one of these boxes I might … well, I might be denied bail after. The idea makes me hurt. If you live in NY, you better call your representatives, or I don’t even know you. www.npr.org/2026/05/14/n...
Native kids with disabilities were held in wooden boxes. Sweeping reforms are coming
State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.
npr.org
if you want to write a good poem you have to make peace with the idea of writing a bad poem and you also have to accept that editing your good poem will make it a better poem and you also need to step away from the poem for a minute and then an hour and then a day and then a long long long time
you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,
On the one hand: Really cool to have married someone who sings stuff like The Smiths when doing stuff around the house. On the other hand: Hearing your partner loudly go “I am human and I need to be loved-“ from across the house makes me wonder if we’re okay.
excellent night to be a knicks fan on the internet
please send me your recs for podcasts that are just like within the wires i need to listen to within the wires but i want it to be new within the wires that i haven’t heard yet and that does not exist
please send me your recs for podcasts that are just like within the wires i need to listen to within the wires but i want it to be new within the wires that i haven’t heard yet and that does not exist
excited to announce that the album of the summer is MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION by ANIMAL COLLECTIVE. Congratulations, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE.