This is how he his human draft up a conference abstract… by looking cute and fluffy

happy bday! ❤️😘

pa ja brojim i mislim se jel moguce 😩

jesi ovo tyyyyy

ah yes, what I missed besides my husband and our cat - my husband’s food 😩
really no one makes smoked mandi better than him ❤️

dobro da ne traze i pionirsku iskaznicu

As per tradition already, things are escalating in the ME just as I'm packing my bags to go back to Jordan. I just hope this time I manage to reach the country without rescheduling or canceling my tickets 🥲

yeee hvala ❤️

Thanks!

❤️

wait wait you toooo 😭 sretnooo! Ma to nije ni upola problem ko sta se cini, najgore je proslo

Thank youuu ❤️😊

That’s it then! 🎓
With just a slight sense of relief because I’m jumping right from my PhD to a scientific project. I’m genuinely thrilled that I’m continuing my scientific career and not going into academia, because I honestly wouldn’t change my current job for anything.

I’ve very much unplanned consumed a large amount of Žižek videos in the past couple of days and now I fear he might materialize as my sleep paralysis demon

well I got an extension until next week, the administrator sounded surprised that I thought delivering strictly on time was necessary 🙃

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

slide containing book covers of: A cultural history of race in antiquity, ed. Denise McCoskey (2021) Untangling blackness in Greek Antiquity, Sarah Derbew (2022) The West, a new history in fourteen lives, Naoíse Mac Sweeney (2023) Critical Ancient World Studies, eds. Mathura Umachandran and Chella Ward (2024) - open access How the world made the west (2024), Josephine Quinn Epic events, Sasha-Mae Eccleston (2024) The Routledge Hnadbook ofClassics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial theory, eds. Ben Akrigg and Katherine Blouin (2024) Classicism and Other Phobias, Dan-el Padilla Peralta (2025) The White Pedestal, how nationalists use ancient Greece and Rome to justify hate, Curtis Dozier (2026) The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race, edited by Rosa Andujar, Elena Giusti, Jackie Murray (2026)

here's a slide with recent publications relating to race and postcoloniality in Classics. this is not exhaustive (and there are several exciting books still on the horizon), but it does represent a significant groundswell in recent years

Waiting for my mentor to give me a green light to print out the final version of my thesis…honestly this is makin me more nervous than my viva (mainly because it’s already Wednesday and the deadline is Friday) 🥲

ups Vlaho upstaged Duje, točno

baca na Marqueza i njegova horor rodoslovna stabla di su svi bili José, Aurélio ili Aureliano ili kombinacija toga. kapa dolje Tolkienu još jednom što je imao nepresušan fond imena ❤️

In case you want a reminder of the last time we went through this conversation…

For those with academic library access, I’ve also published Kennedy, Rebecca Futo. "Racist Reactions to Black Achilles." Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City (2022): 79-96.

@benrimeshortall.bsky.social this might be interesting to you

still kicking! 😂

The meanings of seven different types of animal poop in English…

7. Apeshit = angry
6. Batshit = unhinged
5. Bullshit = lies (or unfair)
4. Horseshit = bigger lies (or totally unfair)
3. Chickenshit = cowardly
2. Dogshit = inferior quality
1. Catshit = what you do when someone throws a ball at you

I'd read it 😂

WORD FACT

“Sidereal”—of or pertaining to stars—comes from Latin sidus (“star, constellation”).

From the same root, we get “consider”: to examine by observing the stars.

The root is also linked to “desire”, interpreted as “away from the stars”—to feel the lack of a star, to long for it.

Not sure if najbolji ili najgori kolegiji, could be both 🥲

Diane Rayor's translation is great 👏

okay but those nails, madam 💛

the first thing I wondered about the series was who was the hist. consultant. it's great to read these snippets and your opinions on the show. congrats for contributing on the project 👏