SN Yeager (kill your heroes)
@yeagersn.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Classics at UMich || clinging to faith || labor organizing to fight existentialism || thinking about magic, Evagrius, and demons || vegan, queer, & tired (they/them)
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The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists
March 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists
You're laughing. Some people don't know the plot of the Odyssey and you're laughing.
December 25, 2024 at 5:54 PM
You're laughing. Some people don't know the plot of the Odyssey and you're laughing.
A lot of #sblaar is choose your own adventure, so I've almost exclusively been around great people and great scholarship/discipleship, but it's always jarring to walk past a display of books proudly declaring that I cut the image of God out of myself by accessing gender affirming care
November 24, 2024 at 7:03 PM
A lot of #sblaar is choose your own adventure, so I've almost exclusively been around great people and great scholarship/discipleship, but it's always jarring to walk past a display of books proudly declaring that I cut the image of God out of myself by accessing gender affirming care
First stop of #sblaar 2024 is the coffee shop where I worked on a seminar paper during SBL 2019 - maybe I should come back later and work on another paper (one that I'm definitely not presenting on Tuesday)
November 23, 2024 at 3:56 PM
First stop of #sblaar 2024 is the coffee shop where I worked on a seminar paper during SBL 2019 - maybe I should come back later and work on another paper (one that I'm definitely not presenting on Tuesday)
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We have a sensory lounge located in CC-21! You can find more information about lounges under the More > Important Information tab in our app or desktop planner: eppro01.ativ.me/appinfo.php?...
SBL & AAR 2024 Annual Meetings
eppro01.ativ.me
November 22, 2024 at 9:23 PM
We have a sensory lounge located in CC-21! You can find more information about lounges under the More > Important Information tab in our app or desktop planner: eppro01.ativ.me/appinfo.php?...
I should get hazard pay for being a straight cis woman's Classics TA, double for when she talks about queer theory or casts Kate McKinnon as Lysistrata
November 12, 2024 at 2:28 PM
I should get hazard pay for being a straight cis woman's Classics TA, double for when she talks about queer theory or casts Kate McKinnon as Lysistrata
So what do you do when you have a draft of a single chapter of your dissertation and you're already out of ideas?
February 25, 2024 at 10:31 PM
So what do you do when you have a draft of a single chapter of your dissertation and you're already out of ideas?
There's a Nestorian church in Assassin's Creed Mirage - is this how it felt to be a Classicist when AC Odyssey came out? Now that they're talking about heresy, nestorius, and the church of the east, I'm pretty sure I can count this as my research.
November 1, 2023 at 12:51 AM
There's a Nestorian church in Assassin's Creed Mirage - is this how it felt to be a Classicist when AC Odyssey came out? Now that they're talking about heresy, nestorius, and the church of the east, I'm pretty sure I can count this as my research.
Petition to make Syriac letters look less like each other in fonts (unfortunately this has been done but not before the Margoliouths typed up the texts I'm using)
October 31, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Petition to make Syriac letters look less like each other in fonts (unfortunately this has been done but not before the Margoliouths typed up the texts I'm using)
Of course genderqueer and I were born in the same year (also jorts and mom jeans)
Plan on doing something productive? Don't do that! Look up which words were "born" the same year as you! www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler
October 5, 2023 at 12:00 PM
Of course genderqueer and I were born in the same year (also jorts and mom jeans)
My DND notes or my dissertation?
"The monk's bodily experience is not confined to the material plane alone."
"The monk's bodily experience is not confined to the material plane alone."
October 4, 2023 at 5:56 PM
My DND notes or my dissertation?
"The monk's bodily experience is not confined to the material plane alone."
"The monk's bodily experience is not confined to the material plane alone."
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it’s sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing “OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers”… man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
September 27, 2023 at 8:32 PM
it’s sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing “OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers”… man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
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Is there a reason for results on the library website coming up as "search only (no full text)" other than to frustrate me? At this point I think I might be Tantalus
September 2, 2023 at 2:16 PM
Is there a reason for results on the library website coming up as "search only (no full text)" other than to frustrate me? At this point I think I might be Tantalus
I've been working on a project that requires me to skim & curate a lot of late antique sources, and I think I've spent at least five hours a day on e-clavis!! Highly recommend this to everyone (& thanks to all the contributors for their work!!)
My entry for On the Star by Pseudo-Eusebius is live on the NASSCAL e-Clavis this morning. The e-Clavis is a truly wonderful resource if Christian Apocryphal Literature is your thing!
On the Star by Pseudo-Eusebius of Caesarea
Standard abbreviation: On the Star Other titles: none Clavis numbers: ECCA 280; CPG 3507 Category: Infancy Gospels Related literature: Protevangelium of James, Revelation of the Magi Compiled by: E…
www.nasscal.com
September 11, 2023 at 1:27 PM
I've been working on a project that requires me to skim & curate a lot of late antique sources, and I think I've spent at least five hours a day on e-clavis!! Highly recommend this to everyone (& thanks to all the contributors for their work!!)
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the reason academics should shut out generative AI is not because of handwringing about plagiarism
it's because it's not a moral technology. we know that it's not. and it's not yet so omnipresent that we can't choose to divest
it's because it's not a moral technology. we know that it's not. and it's not yet so omnipresent that we can't choose to divest
September 9, 2023 at 7:29 PM
the reason academics should shut out generative AI is not because of handwringing about plagiarism
it's because it's not a moral technology. we know that it's not. and it's not yet so omnipresent that we can't choose to divest
it's because it's not a moral technology. we know that it's not. and it's not yet so omnipresent that we can't choose to divest
Is there a reason for results on the library website coming up as "search only (no full text)" other than to frustrate me? At this point I think I might be Tantalus
September 2, 2023 at 2:16 PM
Is there a reason for results on the library website coming up as "search only (no full text)" other than to frustrate me? At this point I think I might be Tantalus
My blsky feed (academics mostly not at UM): yay first day of school tomorrow! Here's a cool idea for a syllabus!
My twitter feed (UM academic): Wolverine Access, and canvas are down, my house has no power, and email is also down so I can't tell my students that the apocalypse is nigh
My twitter feed (UM academic): Wolverine Access, and canvas are down, my house has no power, and email is also down so I can't tell my students that the apocalypse is nigh
August 28, 2023 at 3:08 AM
My blsky feed (academics mostly not at UM): yay first day of school tomorrow! Here's a cool idea for a syllabus!
My twitter feed (UM academic): Wolverine Access, and canvas are down, my house has no power, and email is also down so I can't tell my students that the apocalypse is nigh
My twitter feed (UM academic): Wolverine Access, and canvas are down, my house has no power, and email is also down so I can't tell my students that the apocalypse is nigh
Apologies to all the public library goers of Ann Arbor who thought they would take their kids to the library for a nice day before school started only to run across me researching the imagery of hell in public. Please join me in billing therapy hours to UM.
August 21, 2023 at 3:19 PM
Apologies to all the public library goers of Ann Arbor who thought they would take their kids to the library for a nice day before school started only to run across me researching the imagery of hell in public. Please join me in billing therapy hours to UM.
Listen I'm taking the transphobia seriously, but this is also how I learned that chess tournaments are separated by gender? Is there a real explanation for this? And should we start a nonbinary official chess league so that I can become a chess champion despite being terrible at the game?
August 17, 2023 at 7:26 PM
Listen I'm taking the transphobia seriously, but this is also how I learned that chess tournaments are separated by gender? Is there a real explanation for this? And should we start a nonbinary official chess league so that I can become a chess champion despite being terrible at the game?
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Semesterly reminder that I wrote a guide to making your syllabus accessible
https://www.aliciamatz.com/2021/07/you-may-be-unintentionally-telling.html
https://www.aliciamatz.com/2021/07/you-may-be-unintentionally-telling.html
You May Be Unintentionally Telling Students Your Course is Inaccessible to Them
As summer is winding down, academics around the northern hemisphere are beginning to contemplate writing syllabi for their fall courses. And...
www.aliciamatz.com
August 9, 2023 at 8:56 PM
Semesterly reminder that I wrote a guide to making your syllabus accessible
https://www.aliciamatz.com/2021/07/you-may-be-unintentionally-telling.html
https://www.aliciamatz.com/2021/07/you-may-be-unintentionally-telling.html
This fall, I'm neither teaching or really taking classes, just trucking on my diss thanks to fellowship. That being said, I AM starting a new job/internship, and this soft-launch of post-academic life is enough to make me REAL existential rn
August 7, 2023 at 7:35 PM
This fall, I'm neither teaching or really taking classes, just trucking on my diss thanks to fellowship. That being said, I AM starting a new job/internship, and this soft-launch of post-academic life is enough to make me REAL existential rn
I've never cooked with or really eaten beets before, but I got some in my CSA box and pickled them, and my life is CHANGED
July 30, 2023 at 5:09 PM
I've never cooked with or really eaten beets before, but I got some in my CSA box and pickled them, and my life is CHANGED
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Classics feed, see 🧵below + https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyrmsmhhg7vzz4ghj44y5xzq/feed/7cb2f06b13c0 - has anyone made one for Religious Studies yet…?
July 30, 2023 at 12:59 AM
Classics feed, see 🧵below + https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyrmsmhhg7vzz4ghj44y5xzq/feed/7cb2f06b13c0 - has anyone made one for Religious Studies yet…?
Adding a new line to my CV about my incredible ability to pick out a perfectly ripe melon at the farmers market. Of everything already on the CV, this is clearly the most useful
July 30, 2023 at 12:29 AM
Adding a new line to my CV about my incredible ability to pick out a perfectly ripe melon at the farmers market. Of everything already on the CV, this is clearly the most useful
I'm on 3 tw*tter-type apps now, and they've already adapted to fit different parts of my life. This app is mostly cool academics, tw*tter is labor organizing, and thre*ds is a bunch of old Christian friends that I never intended to interact with again but they friended all.
July 28, 2023 at 6:01 PM
I'm on 3 tw*tter-type apps now, and they've already adapted to fit different parts of my life. This app is mostly cool academics, tw*tter is labor organizing, and thre*ds is a bunch of old Christian friends that I never intended to interact with again but they friended all.