Corinne Shirley
@coshirle.bsky.social
Classicist in the Ozarks
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Corinne Shirley
@coshirle.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I've just started here. Looking to connect with fellow Classicists, especially those off the tenure track, cat people, readers, gardeners, and other anxious folk.
I posted about Thomas Hubbard on Threads and I might have accidentally incited a small mob. Oh well.
February 15, 2026 at 2:55 AM
I posted about Thomas Hubbard on Threads and I might have accidentally incited a small mob. Oh well.
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🐰 Happy Bad Bunny Day!
In this Roman mosaic a rabbit rides a chariot pulled by geese, 2nd c. AD.
#mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #Roman #mosaic
In this Roman mosaic a rabbit rides a chariot pulled by geese, 2nd c. AD.
#mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #Roman #mosaic
February 9, 2026 at 9:32 PM
🐰 Happy Bad Bunny Day!
In this Roman mosaic a rabbit rides a chariot pulled by geese, 2nd c. AD.
#mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #Roman #mosaic
In this Roman mosaic a rabbit rides a chariot pulled by geese, 2nd c. AD.
#mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #Roman #mosaic
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Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
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Just in case you were skeptical that discussions about Nolan's Odyssey are proxy conversatioms here's Charles Murray pronouncing the choice of Helen as a "deliberate assault on western civilization"
February 3, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Just in case you were skeptical that discussions about Nolan's Odyssey are proxy conversatioms here's Charles Murray pronouncing the choice of Helen as a "deliberate assault on western civilization"
@sentantiq.bsky.social We had a great discussion about your article on narrative therapy in my Homer class today.
January 30, 2026 at 12:26 AM
@sentantiq.bsky.social We had a great discussion about your article on narrative therapy in my Homer class today.
Words are just sort of jumbled in my mind at today's news, not forming a coherent thought: horror, grief, anger, sadness, solidarity, justice.
January 24, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Words are just sort of jumbled in my mind at today's news, not forming a coherent thought: horror, grief, anger, sadness, solidarity, justice.
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The biggest obstacle we face as a society in getting people to accept reality about Trump is that it requires people to face reality about themselves and about ourselves as a society.
January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
The biggest obstacle we face as a society in getting people to accept reality about Trump is that it requires people to face reality about themselves and about ourselves as a society.
We do not read enough Danish literature. Let's start with Hans Christian Anderson's "The Emperor 's New Clothes."
January 20, 2026 at 2:37 AM
We do not read enough Danish literature. Let's start with Hans Christian Anderson's "The Emperor 's New Clothes."
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Etruscan Kitty!!
January 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Etruscan Kitty!!
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Evergreen
I feel like whenever something really fascist happens, Kristi Noem is there.
June 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Evergreen
If anyone knows of a coalition of Classicists who are pro-vaccine, please let me know.
January 7, 2026 at 1:58 AM
If anyone knows of a coalition of Classicists who are pro-vaccine, please let me know.
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5 years since the undertakings that Jupiter sure as hell wasn’t nodding at.
January 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
5 years since the undertakings that Jupiter sure as hell wasn’t nodding at.
Marco Rubio looks really scared. Which he should be, but it's unnerving.
January 4, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Marco Rubio looks really scared. Which he should be, but it's unnerving.
Is there someone out there preparing a syllabus for Latin American politics? How are you doing?
January 3, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Is there someone out there preparing a syllabus for Latin American politics? How are you doing?
Is anyone doing a word of the year?
January 2, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Is anyone doing a word of the year?
This headline! Where do I even begin?
December 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This headline! Where do I even begin?
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it is going to be a long, long year
December 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
it is going to be a long, long year
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And now, the #Pope, in an apostolic letter on … the importance of #archaeology:
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV on the importance of Archaeology on the occasion of the Centenary of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (11 December 2025)
APOSTOLIC LETTER OF THE HOLY FATHER POPE LEO XIV ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE OF CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
www.vatican.va
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And now, the #Pope, in an apostolic letter on … the importance of #archaeology:
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
When I broke my foot while travelling I requested a wheelchair on the way back. Because of delays we were rerouted and 24 hours delayed. Wheelchair service was uneven and I ended up walking through ORD and DFW on my broken foot. Stop complaining people! You're lucky if you don't need one.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
When I broke my foot while travelling I requested a wheelchair on the way back. Because of delays we were rerouted and 24 hours delayed. Wheelchair service was uneven and I ended up walking through ORD and DFW on my broken foot. Stop complaining people! You're lucky if you don't need one.
Bronchitis during finals week. It wasn't pretty but I made it.
December 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Bronchitis during finals week. It wasn't pretty but I made it.
For some reason this made me think of Dante's Inferno.
December 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
For some reason this made me think of Dante's Inferno.
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More bad news a liberal arts college... "[A]fter a review of 'student enrollment data and student interest'... Cornell College will halt its [majors in] more than 10 areas, including classical studies, French and Francophone studies, German studies, religion..."
Cornell College to cut programs after review of enrollment, student interest • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Cornell College will halt "major courses of study" in different languages, music studies and more in the next academic year.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
More bad news a liberal arts college... "[A]fter a review of 'student enrollment data and student interest'... Cornell College will halt its [majors in] more than 10 areas, including classical studies, French and Francophone studies, German studies, religion..."
Is the word "whilst" in undergraduate writing a dead giveaway that something was written by AI? Or have people absorbed it from AI writing and now using it on their own?
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Is the word "whilst" in undergraduate writing a dead giveaway that something was written by AI? Or have people absorbed it from AI writing and now using it on their own?