Caroline Bishop
@doctorepiscopa.bsky.social
All Cicero memes WILL be reposted. Views are mine, not my employer's.
This is especially funny because the two times I know that a committee was split about hiring me, a female classicist, they hired a white man--because the white man who was retiring didn't want to be replaced by a woman.
I’m sorry, this white guy who got a campus visit to Brown and was taken seriously by the committee thinks the only reason he didn’t get the job was because they only cared about race?
I think I can come up with another reason…
I think I can come up with another reason…
![Ethan made it to the final interview round at Brown. After a long back-and-forth with the search committee—a sign, he believes, of internal dissension—he lost out. “They wanted everything through the prism of race,” Ethan recalled. “Unless you place [race] squarely at the center of your research, you’re vulnerable, especially if your identity doesn’t fit the desired profile.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreifkhjwks4newrjgctdlmljukbrtlhsqatgdlfhjjhup7ciuqccfjm@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is especially funny because the two times I know that a committee was split about hiring me, a female classicist, they hired a white man--because the white man who was retiring didn't want to be replaced by a woman.
Reposted by Caroline Bishop
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
This boy shouting "I need you!" as he performed CPR on his dead mom broke me. His mother died for the crime of being pregnant in Texas. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This boy shouting "I need you!" as he performed CPR on his dead mom broke me. His mother died for the crime of being pregnant in Texas. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
If you were looking for the classical content in the Epstein emails, here it is. Terence, not Catullus!
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
If you were looking for the classical content in the Epstein emails, here it is. Terence, not Catullus!
This is heartbreaking.
“As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is heartbreaking.
Classics folks: is there a list somewhere of which grad programs aren't accepting applications this year? I want to be able to advise my students accordingly!
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Classics folks: is there a list somewhere of which grad programs aren't accepting applications this year? I want to be able to advise my students accordingly!
Re-upping this thread on classical studies under fascist regimes.
Just finished a fantastic chapter by Philippe Rousselot on Cicero's reception among totalitarian regimes ("Cicéron face aux dictateurs, 1920–1945"), available open-access here: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
I'm going to do a short thread since its lessons seem unfortunately pertinent now.
I'm going to do a short thread since its lessons seem unfortunately pertinent now.
Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics
Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona , his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on th...
www.degruyter.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Re-upping this thread on classical studies under fascist regimes.
Any recent PhDs still looking for something for this coming academic year should apply to our postdoc! Its inaugural holder was a classicist!
More info here: www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/huma...
More info here: www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/huma...
July 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Any recent PhDs still looking for something for this coming academic year should apply to our postdoc! Its inaugural holder was a classicist!
More info here: www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/huma...
More info here: www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/huma...
This.
Part of resisting fascism is resisting the normalization of cruelty and lack of empathy. We are surrounded by horrific cruelty and tragedy. We can’t normalize it. We can’t blame victims without losing our own humanity.
July 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This.
It is truly upsetting that a senior scholar in classics, with the protections and stature of tenure, would openly gloat about the US denying visas to people (often nontenured) due to their political views. Maybe the worst thing I've ever seen on the Classics listserv, and that's saying something.
July 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It is truly upsetting that a senior scholar in classics, with the protections and stature of tenure, would openly gloat about the US denying visas to people (often nontenured) due to their political views. Maybe the worst thing I've ever seen on the Classics listserv, and that's saying something.
This includes #classics, by the way. I spent a year at Indiana as a VAP - it was a wonderfully supportive place for me and all the classes I taught were highly enrolled. This is a tragedy.
Bloodbath in Indiana higher ed as public colleges and universities ordered to eliminate 20% of all degree programs, apparently based purely on student demand (=enrollments) and not any rational calculation of need or value.
www.ipm.org/news-section...
www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This includes #classics, by the way. I spent a year at Indiana as a VAP - it was a wonderfully supportive place for me and all the classes I taught were highly enrolled. This is a tragedy.
Have biked over it many times. Something about crossing state lines on a long bike ride makes it feel extra epic.
The Chain of the Rocks Bridge; an iconic abandoned span over the Mississippi River between Illinois and Missouri, just north of St. Louis, Missouri; once part of Route 66, now open for pedestrians and bikes, with one hell of a view!
#abandoned #urbex #architecture #Missouri #Illinois #photography
#abandoned #urbex #architecture #Missouri #Illinois #photography
June 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Have biked over it many times. Something about crossing state lines on a long bike ride makes it feel extra epic.
Reposted by Caroline Bishop
Revealing quote in this article about the MN assassin.
Everyone with strong anti-abortion beliefs is, in fact, a "fanatic." They all constantly fantasize about killing, whether through abortion bans or murders; they've just been normalized as "religious and conservative."
apnews.com/article/minn...
Everyone with strong anti-abortion beliefs is, in fact, a "fanatic." They all constantly fantasize about killing, whether through abortion bans or murders; they've just been normalized as "religious and conservative."
apnews.com/article/minn...
June 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Revealing quote in this article about the MN assassin.
Everyone with strong anti-abortion beliefs is, in fact, a "fanatic." They all constantly fantasize about killing, whether through abortion bans or murders; they've just been normalized as "religious and conservative."
apnews.com/article/minn...
Everyone with strong anti-abortion beliefs is, in fact, a "fanatic." They all constantly fantasize about killing, whether through abortion bans or murders; they've just been normalized as "religious and conservative."
apnews.com/article/minn...
Really sad that the SCS' TLL fellowship has been defunded. I guess it must have been all the work that it entailed on gender. (/s)
I had forgotten that the postdoc I did at the very start of my career was NEH funded. It’s been canceled. It funded people to write articles on Latin words, in Latin. Lexicography is very woke. 😞
May 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Really sad that the SCS' TLL fellowship has been defunded. I guess it must have been all the work that it entailed on gender. (/s)
Hard to top this nugget from Cicero's Orator: "I have often used [pathos] with so much emotion that I held a baby boy in my hands while delivering the close of a speech; another time, by making my noble defendant stand and picking up his small boy, I filled the forum with wailing and lamentation."
May 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hard to top this nugget from Cicero's Orator: "I have often used [pathos] with so much emotion that I held a baby boy in my hands while delivering the close of a speech; another time, by making my noble defendant stand and picking up his small boy, I filled the forum with wailing and lamentation."
Hey #classics folk--I've finally found something that I've wanted for over 15 years: a spellchecker for Latin and Greek in Microsoft Word that actually works! Check it out here: drouizig.org/en/spellchec...
To the team who made this, you are my heroes.
To the team who made this, you are my heroes.
Latin Spellchecker - Kevredigezh An Drouizig
Titivillus is a Latin and Greek spellchecker. It points out possible errors, and gives suggestions for possible corrections.
drouizig.org
May 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Hey #classics folk--I've finally found something that I've wanted for over 15 years: a spellchecker for Latin and Greek in Microsoft Word that actually works! Check it out here: drouizig.org/en/spellchec...
To the team who made this, you are my heroes.
To the team who made this, you are my heroes.
My four year old just wanted to play "lockdown drill" with mommy and daddy, so I'd say we as a nation are doing great.
April 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My four year old just wanted to play "lockdown drill" with mommy and daddy, so I'd say we as a nation are doing great.
Dumbest possible timeline.
April 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Dumbest possible timeline.
This guy's going to be devastated when he learns what the ancient Greeks were like.
April 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This guy's going to be devastated when he learns what the ancient Greeks were like.
If you've ever wondered what "Lucilius" was thinking when he kept getting letters from Seneca in the mail, now's your chance to find out: www.letterjoy.co/products/wee...
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March 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
If you've ever wondered what "Lucilius" was thinking when he kept getting letters from Seneca in the mail, now's your chance to find out: www.letterjoy.co/products/wee...
I will never not repost this one. Happy Valentine's Day, hope you don't have to spend hours searching for the verb!
February 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I will never not repost this one. Happy Valentine's Day, hope you don't have to spend hours searching for the verb!
Very sad to learn of the passing of Malcolm Heath. His scholarship was second to none, and his ability to make sense of very recherche topics (and I use this word as a classicist!) has helped me understand them more than once. Sit terra tibi levis.
February 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Very sad to learn of the passing of Malcolm Heath. His scholarship was second to none, and his ability to make sense of very recherche topics (and I use this word as a classicist!) has helped me understand them more than once. Sit terra tibi levis.
Reposted by Caroline Bishop
“My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.”
Adrienne Rich, Natural Resources in Dreams of a Common Language
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.”
Adrienne Rich, Natural Resources in Dreams of a Common Language
February 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.”
Adrienne Rich, Natural Resources in Dreams of a Common Language
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.”
Adrienne Rich, Natural Resources in Dreams of a Common Language
The number of people responding to this with complete earnestness makes me realize that there are now several generations of people younger than me who didn't grow up watching the Naked Gun trilogy every time it aired on basic cable. Sad.
Disgusting: angry Canadian sports fans BOO opera singer performing national anthem
February 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The number of people responding to this with complete earnestness makes me realize that there are now several generations of people younger than me who didn't grow up watching the Naked Gun trilogy every time it aired on basic cable. Sad.