Jen Ebbeler

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Classics Prof at flagship university in Greg Abbott’s state. Author of Disciplining Christians. Augustine. Write a lot about Latin Epistolography, esp Late Antique. Working on Cyprian and Roman African cultural history. Chronic illness turned me into an advocate for Disability. Severely immunocompromised.
Non-Academic InterestsCats, politics, random smart people and ideas
Severely ImmunocompromisedNot a fan of people who don’t believe in science and indulge in conspiracy theories
Jen EbbelerDec 24, 2022
Sara Anne WilletteDec 23, 2022

Nationwide SARS2+ & Influenza Update: 12/23/2022

In your holiday festivities over the next few weeks, please stay home if you are sick and wear an N95 respirator whenever in shared indoor spaces.

Jen EbbelerDec 23, 2022
Hey @scottrstroud I am a UT colleague in Classics. I am moving to a different server and it is faster to just refollow ppl. But search doesn’t bring up you or the media initiative. Please follow [email protected]. So I can follow back! Thanks!
Jen EbbelerDec 23, 2022
Hi folks! I was having a lot of trouble finding academic friends—history, classics, medieval studies, religious studies—on other servers. When I figure it out, I’ll move this account. In the meantime, I’ve tried to follow a bunch of you from the other instance. I’m [email protected] Feel free to follow that account (I follow back).
Jen EbbelerDec 22, 2022
Eric TopolDec 22, 2022
At a 25-year low, US life expectancy continues to fall with Covid as the main driver https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-life-expectancy-fell-to-lowest-level-since-1996-11671667059?mod=Searchresults_pos2&page=1
U.S. Life Expectancy Fell to Lowest Level Since 1996

Covid-19 and opioid overdoses contributed to a 5% rise in death rate last year

The Wall Street Journal
Jen EbbelerDec 22, 2022
Tuija AinonenDec 19, 2022

What is #MarcoOxford?

- New search functionality enabling search across(!) #manuscripts and #archives at Oxford
- New online descriptions from special collections for #OrientalMSS #EarlyModernMSS #MedievalMSS
- New online #TEI catalogue for #MedievalCharters and #MedievalSeals

FAMOUS (Finding Archives and MSS Across Oxford’s Unique Special Collections) is funded by #MellonFoundation

Project:
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/libraries/our-work/famous

MS Image:
Bodleian Library MS. Pococke 400, fol. 99a
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8face4cc-d7dc-4ec6-8315-64b8c171dd76/surfaces/62554176-a1a4-45e8-a165-431570d13125/

FAMOUS: Finding Archives and Manuscripts Across Oxford’s Unique Special Collections

Jen EbbelerDec 22, 2022
I last seriously used Twitter in 2015. I completely missed the explosion of users, and everything else, that Trump’s Presidency produced. I’ve spent the last few months studying the social media landscape and trying to decide what I think. Twitter is fine for academic stuff (if people are there). Most large communities won’t leave Twitter until it is literally offline, from what I can tell. Mastodon has strengths and weaknesses. I am going to try to use this for academic stuff only.
Jen EbbelerDec 19, 2022
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Dec 19, 2022
Think he’ll actually step down now as Twitter’s CEO? I actually think so, but only because he’s miserable trying to do that job and failing so badly at it.
Jen EbbelerDec 19, 2022
I might have done all but stocking stuffers Christmas shopping in 90 minutes this morning. Too bad I have work to do for the rest of the day.
Jen EbbelerDec 19, 2022
Yeti cat says it’s bedtime.
Jen EbbelerDec 18, 2022
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-business-playbook-boss-visionary-jerk-spacex-tesla-twitter-2022-12 A useful overview of why Twitter is doomed.
Elon Musk was always a visionary jerk, bad boss at SpaceX, Tesla. But it won't work at Twitter.

Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.

Insider