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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her)

@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social

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Historian. Monster consultant (documentaries, etc.). Words in LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science. Buy HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Feb 4

Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far.
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
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Launch Day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY!

Welcome back, and hallo, new readers! This is it! The US launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is February 4th. I’m amazed and relieved to get to this...

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 35m

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Various links below. Free trial with Apple podcasts. 2/2

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Listen | Tune In Today — This Guy Sucked

Discover an engaging history podcast available on all major platforms. Enjoy content biweekly, including Patreon-exclusive episodes and public history insights.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 36m

On Indigenous Peoples' Day I'm re-sharing the episode of @thisguysucked.com on which I spoke with host @ceaubin.bsky.social about why, even in his own day, people thought Christopher Columbus sucked.

💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #renaissance #maps #geography #cartography #empire 1/2

Christopher Columbus with Surekha Davies

Podcast Episode · This Guy Sucked · 08/28/2025 · Subscribers Only · 1h

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 51m

"What happened to me wasn’t just a mistake—it was a violation of the very protections that our Constitution guarantees."

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 23h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8h

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 19h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 2h

In her book published in fall 2023, @naomiaklein.bsky.social effectively saw this coming: far-right groups making common cause across what appear, at first glance, to be unprecedented, unthinkable common cause. naomiklein.org/doppelganger/

Doppelganger – Naomi Klein

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Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · 1d

Great interview on LBC this morning with @matthew-wright.bsky.social with @peterjukes.bsky.social exposing the Russian links to cuddly old NiGel's party. More of this!

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 2h

It's up to 81% now, folks!

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11h

This poll in The Times is still open.

Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 2h

a man in a red uniform is clapping his hands

Alt: Captain Picard from Star Trek, in his red and black dress uniform, clapping slowly, shaking his head in approval, against a starry-night background.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 3h

79% now!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11h

This poll in The Times is still open.

Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 4h

“Whiteness” is a flexible bag of metaphors that’s applied exactly as people choose, for a wide assortment of purposes.

After all, as Steven Biko said, “white” people are sort of pink, really.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 4h

I should clarify, because I think people missed my point slightly. What I am saying here is that racism in the UK and indeed most of Europe is based on a tripartite model where a racist will perceive two types of foreign object - "non-white" and "white but foreign" and hate them in different ways.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 10h

One of my least favourite things is when some Anglobrained people will sort of internalise these concepts, but only halfway, so they end up saying things like ACTUALLY FOR INSTANCE IN THE UK THEY DONT EVEN REGARD POLES AS WHITE. THEY SUBJECT THEM TO RACISM THERE.

Those are two different sentences.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 4h

WTH.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4h

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 18h

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 18h

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 4h

The US is also an Indigenous American country. On Indigenous Peoples' Day of all days, that's important to note. Many of the people being racially profiled have Indigenous heritage.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 10h

I deleted a post of me in a frog suit with my 7-yr old daughter because a big account reposted, admonishing us for not being serious enough protestors (or something). I shouldn’t have included my daughter in the image, which was why I deleted it. But I was stunned by the condescension.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 6h

Oh lord; so sorry. *Thank you* for protesting, and *thank you* for wearing a frog suit. At a time when anyone who resists fascism is being labelled a threat to the state, showing up in a frog suit with a 7yo kid in tow is a serious contribution. Sending thanks to your daughter as well.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 1d

The coach, the cataloguer, and the chaos muppet: the three heads that duel in the brain through the years of researching and writing a book:
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The coach, the cataloguer and the chaos muppet: authors are many-headed hydra

On warring headspaces during copy edits, and some books and music I'm enjoying this summer.

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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re in Santa Cruz at 6:30 pm this Wednesday, join Center Director Michael Chemers, Renee Fox and Kim Lau as they talk tales of the dead at the Santa Cruz Public Library’s Downtown Branch. santacruzpl.libnet.info/event/14673822

Talking Tales of the Undead

Get ready for the season with vampires, ghouls and zombies!

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 17h

“You have to be white to be prosecuted under white law, but you do not have to be Black to be prosecuted under Black law”
Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Golden Gulag)

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 18h

If you're not already listening to the Hugo-award-winning @ouropinions.bsky.social, you might just absolutely love it.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 23h

Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to live in 2025.

The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.

A metal head with a mouth wide open as if it is screaming. Inside are a full set of dentures.

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