Natasha F.
@natashaf.bsky.social
🇿🇦 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Greek Literature. Also on a mission to inspire younger students to read more widely than their assigned novels and textbooks.
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"Students are highlighting the same sentences in the same passages and writing down the same main ideas and details, producing identical written responses."
But will spend tens of millions of dollars on a standardized reading curriculum and PD around standardized teaching. #TeacherSky
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The Cost of Standardization
What We Lose When Every Classroom is the Same
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November 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"Students are highlighting the same sentences in the same passages and writing down the same main ideas and details, producing identical written responses."
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Farewell to Textual Criticism? | Bible & Interpretation article by Ronald Hendel
Farewell to Textual Criticism? | Bible Interp
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November 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Farewell to Textual Criticism? | Bible & Interpretation article by Ronald Hendel
Still can't believe there was a time when I thought ancient Greek vase paintings were boring.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Still can't believe there was a time when I thought ancient Greek vase paintings were boring.
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The German word ‘Pferd’ and its Dutch cognate ‘paard’ are horses of mixed breed parentage.
Their common ancestor came from Latin ‘paraverēdus’ (substitute post-horse), a word composed of an Ancient Greek element and a Gaulish one.
Zoom in on my new infographic to learn everything about it:
Their common ancestor came from Latin ‘paraverēdus’ (substitute post-horse), a word composed of an Ancient Greek element and a Gaulish one.
Zoom in on my new infographic to learn everything about it:
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The German word ‘Pferd’ and its Dutch cognate ‘paard’ are horses of mixed breed parentage.
Their common ancestor came from Latin ‘paraverēdus’ (substitute post-horse), a word composed of an Ancient Greek element and a Gaulish one.
Zoom in on my new infographic to learn everything about it:
Their common ancestor came from Latin ‘paraverēdus’ (substitute post-horse), a word composed of an Ancient Greek element and a Gaulish one.
Zoom in on my new infographic to learn everything about it:
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“I tell my students, who believe passionately in explaining the work they’re sharing, ‘You know, when you’re dead, you can’t go around explaining this thing—it has to be right there on the page.’ ” —Louise Glück buff.ly/uXAASEg
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“I tell my students, who believe passionately in explaining the work they’re sharing, ‘You know, when you’re dead, you can’t go around explaining this thing—it has to be right there on the page.’ ” —Louise Glück buff.ly/uXAASEg
Few authors do epigraphs as well as Ali Smith does. Pictured here, the first epigraph from the novel The Accidental.
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Few authors do epigraphs as well as Ali Smith does. Pictured here, the first epigraph from the novel The Accidental.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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How did artists of the early modern period depict African people?
Join our online course (13 Nov–11 Dec) to explore how these images shaped ideas about race and ethnicity in Europe — from saints and magi to portraiture and decorative arts.
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#ArtHistory
Join our online course (13 Nov–11 Dec) to explore how these images shaped ideas about race and ethnicity in Europe — from saints and magi to portraiture and decorative arts.
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#ArtHistory
The Representation of African People in Early Modern European Art & Culture
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November 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
How did artists of the early modern period depict African people?
Join our online course (13 Nov–11 Dec) to explore how these images shaped ideas about race and ethnicity in Europe — from saints and magi to portraiture and decorative arts.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#ArtHistory
Join our online course (13 Nov–11 Dec) to explore how these images shaped ideas about race and ethnicity in Europe — from saints and magi to portraiture and decorative arts.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#ArtHistory
"Yet education’s vocation has never been speed. Its vocation has been the cultivation of reflective freedom, the ability to pause before conclusion." - Sandy Leaton Gray
I wrote a blog post on AI and the need for sapience. Pause. Enjoy.
"If AI will one day become the infrastructure of knowledge, then the role of educational institutions is to ensure that knowledge remains tethered to meaning". #AI #HEI #EduSky @drleatongray.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
November 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
"Yet education’s vocation has never been speed. Its vocation has been the cultivation of reflective freedom, the ability to pause before conclusion." - Sandy Leaton Gray
I was a bit nervous about joining the Septuagint Society of South Africa in 2024 - but the first paper I delivered there has just been published in the Journal of Early Christian History!
Susanna Cries: Attending to the Auditory Dimension of the Susanna Narrative www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Susanna Cries: Attending to the Auditory Dimension of the Susanna Narrative www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Susanna Cries: Attending to the Auditory Dimension of the Susanna Narrative
Since antiquity, the story of Susanna has inspired interpretations that focus on its visual dimensions. The auditory dimension of the narrative has received much less attention. While some scholars...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I was a bit nervous about joining the Septuagint Society of South Africa in 2024 - but the first paper I delivered there has just been published in the Journal of Early Christian History!
Susanna Cries: Attending to the Auditory Dimension of the Susanna Narrative www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Susanna Cries: Attending to the Auditory Dimension of the Susanna Narrative www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Visited the Kgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretation Centre yesterday. 10/10 - truly a fantastically curated exhibition. Paleontological insight and evidence perfectly balanced with Basotho legends and proverbs.
Also spotted @amayor.bsky.social's The First Fossil Hunters in the museum café!
Also spotted @amayor.bsky.social's The First Fossil Hunters in the museum café!
October 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Visited the Kgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretation Centre yesterday. 10/10 - truly a fantastically curated exhibition. Paleontological insight and evidence perfectly balanced with Basotho legends and proverbs.
Also spotted @amayor.bsky.social's The First Fossil Hunters in the museum café!
Also spotted @amayor.bsky.social's The First Fossil Hunters in the museum café!
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An old military maxim often attributed to Napoleon is “an army marches on its stomach” and I feel the same way that a university thinks via its library. The slow and steady financial diminution of research libraries and the librarians who staff them is, to me, a slow-rolling higher Ed catastrophe.
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
An old military maxim often attributed to Napoleon is “an army marches on its stomach” and I feel the same way that a university thinks via its library. The slow and steady financial diminution of research libraries and the librarians who staff them is, to me, a slow-rolling higher Ed catastrophe.
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Don urges African Scholars to embrace Classics as Africa’s heritage - Tribune Online
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Don urges African Scholars to embrace Classics as Africa’s heritage
By Eniola Shobiye A professor in the Department of Classics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Olakunbi Olasope, has urged African scholars to stop viewing Classics only through the lens of Gr…
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September 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Don urges African Scholars to embrace Classics as Africa’s heritage - Tribune Online
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(21) The Silence of the Frogs - by Armand D'Angour
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The Silence of the Frogs
Tacitly poking fun at Dead Poets
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September 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
(21) The Silence of the Frogs - by Armand D'Angour
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It’s the Autumnal Equinox in the UK today.
Persephone’s Katabasis, Demeter’s goodbye.
Persephone’s Katabasis, Demeter’s goodbye.
September 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It’s the Autumnal Equinox in the UK today.
Persephone’s Katabasis, Demeter’s goodbye.
Persephone’s Katabasis, Demeter’s goodbye.
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My modest proposal for how to acknowledge AI work is to use the Latin phase "Fieri Iussit," which means "commanded to be made." It acknowledged the Emperor's orders on Roman buildings.
You didn't make the thing, but you commanded it be done, so the proper acknowledgement is "Ego hoc fieri iussi."
You didn't make the thing, but you commanded it be done, so the proper acknowledgement is "Ego hoc fieri iussi."
September 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
My modest proposal for how to acknowledge AI work is to use the Latin phase "Fieri Iussit," which means "commanded to be made." It acknowledged the Emperor's orders on Roman buildings.
You didn't make the thing, but you commanded it be done, so the proper acknowledgement is "Ego hoc fieri iussi."
You didn't make the thing, but you commanded it be done, so the proper acknowledgement is "Ego hoc fieri iussi."
"It’s true that scholars no longer have the exclusive claim to territory that they once had. But it’s what you do with what you find."
Eliot Weinberger, interviewed by Srikanth Reddy for The Paris Review's 'The Art of the Essay'
Eliot Weinberger, interviewed by Srikanth Reddy for The Paris Review's 'The Art of the Essay'
“We’re stuck with a certain vision of what an essay should be when in fact its possibilities seem limitless. That’s what attracted me to it—it was this kind of unexplored territory.” —Eliot Weinberger buff.ly/PIJNDC7
September 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"It’s true that scholars no longer have the exclusive claim to territory that they once had. But it’s what you do with what you find."
Eliot Weinberger, interviewed by Srikanth Reddy for The Paris Review's 'The Art of the Essay'
Eliot Weinberger, interviewed by Srikanth Reddy for The Paris Review's 'The Art of the Essay'
Trying to channel my inner Yeats: "Months of re-writing. What happiness!"
August 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Trying to channel my inner Yeats: "Months of re-writing. What happiness!"
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No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.
-Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.
-Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy
August 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.
-Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.
-Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy
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#Bluesky has become preferred platform for researchers www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #researchmatters #academia #highered
X’s Altmetric Hegemony Ceding to Bluesky
The alternative social media platform is matching engagement of Elon Musk’s X in ways that “would have seemed unthinkable until recently,” says study.
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August 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Translator's note by Cecelia Luschnig on the necessity of reading aloud in the translation process:
"In an earlier version of my translation of Alcestis, I used the word 'pusillanimity,' which is literally unspeakable, as became apparent in a classroom reading."
#greektragedy #classicsbluesky
"In an earlier version of my translation of Alcestis, I used the word 'pusillanimity,' which is literally unspeakable, as became apparent in a classroom reading."
#greektragedy #classicsbluesky
August 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Translator's note by Cecelia Luschnig on the necessity of reading aloud in the translation process:
"In an earlier version of my translation of Alcestis, I used the word 'pusillanimity,' which is literally unspeakable, as became apparent in a classroom reading."
#greektragedy #classicsbluesky
"In an earlier version of my translation of Alcestis, I used the word 'pusillanimity,' which is literally unspeakable, as became apparent in a classroom reading."
#greektragedy #classicsbluesky
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I’m facilitating a (free! Open to public!) reading group in September on Euripides. Register here: libertyfund.circle.so/c/events-ann...
September 2025 VRG: Tragedy and Politics on Stage: An Encounter with Euripides | Liberty Fund Portal
with Ella Street
Wednesdays September 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT
Join us for a four-week discussion of ancient Greek tragedy. Together, we will read four plays by Euripides, the play...
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July 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I’m facilitating a (free! Open to public!) reading group in September on Euripides. Register here: libertyfund.circle.so/c/events-ann...
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The latest issue of Akroterion, Journal of the Classics in South Africa, Vol. 69 (2024), is now available.
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Akroterion
Journal of the Classics in South Africa
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June 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The latest issue of Akroterion, Journal of the Classics in South Africa, Vol. 69 (2024), is now available.
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