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Maíra Mendes Galvão

@mmendesgalvao.bsky.social

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Translator. PhD candidate @ UMass Amherst. Early Modern Iberia, Translation Theory, Premodern Women. FLAD/BNP Summer Fellow 2025.

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · Nov 17

By way of proper intro: it is very nice to connect with all of you here. I’m a Brazilian PhD candidate working at an intersection between the seas of Translation Studies and Premodern Iberia, and some other promontories. I’m at UMass Amherst, advised by the excellent @albertlloret.bsky.social.

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Elwin Hofman @elwinhofman.bsky.social · 14h

You might have seen pictures from booklets depicting sins (including 'I drank so much I had to vomit'). But what was the purpose of these booklets and how many of them are there? Tine Van Osselaer and I sought it out in a new article that is now published: journals.lub.lu.se/STK/article/...

Two hand-drawn images from a booklet. On the left page, a woman lies passed out next to a table with drinks and the text 'Ebria fui'. On the right page, a woman is vomiting, with an interested pig next to here and the text: 'Ebria fui usque ad vomitum'

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 10h

The pervasive reduction of human knowledge & understanding to 'information' in GenAI discourse is astounding. Trying to explain why we don't just need 'information' to AI zealots is like playing chess with a pigeon except the pigeon is the size of Texas & uses more electricity than a small country.

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 22h

eu nem consegui ver tudo hahaha

Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 1d

socorro

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Logeion Greek-Latin @logeiongklat.bsky.social · 1d

New translation for ‘exeunt omnes’ is ‘exit in unison’ I see..

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 1d

A coat of arms has to be impressive, full of symbolism, it's important, it represents an powerful family or person, so you have to think long and hard about its design and take it very seriously.

Or just put some underpants on it.
Like Lord Jan van Abbenbroeck did;

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 1d

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 2d

I just love palestrina. can’t get enough. almost makes me a believer.

Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 4d

some of us have no choice. as I got older, I worked my way out of being too personally affected, but still am sensitive to what people say in that I feel like I can see deeply through them and it isn’t pretty.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 4d

also, for me and I’m sure many more, the uncanny effect of history being somewhat undead is a key element in that tension between recognizability and mystery that makes exploring the past so appealing.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4d

No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4d

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 8d

I’d wear versions of kelce’s and mahomes’s outfits, by the way. well, versions of all of those outfits. in different colors, probably. no gray + red for me.

Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 8d

Dynamic Equivalence, Ecocritical Translation, Queer Translation

Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 8d

Historism, Annales School, Cultural History

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 13d

Barcelona = Figuig

I knew it!

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · May 5

Who can forget the Swiss-Austrian Union, or its famous capital - Istanbul.

AI generated ad by a company called Travello showing the 10 most visited cities in Europe, except the cities are hilariously poorly placed. London is in Wales, Paris is in Ireland, Rome is in France, Rom (yes like Rome but without an E) is in Spain, Barcelona is in Morocco, Prague is in Germany, Vienna is in Italy, Istanbul is in Austria, Milan is in Libya, and Antalya is correctly shown as in Turkey but is in the wrong place. Also a few of the borders like Switzerland and Austria or Hungary and Slovenia are missing.

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 14d

congrats from a stranger! on tenure & the lovely moment with the therapist. I get an extra kick when my therapist celebrates my (so far, not so big, but still) successes with me.

Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 14d

That looks incredible! Food in Mexico City is so, so good. In all price points, too.

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Chanequa Walker-Barnes @drchanequa.bsky.social · 14d

We are definitely not meant for this. And our nervous systems aren’t meant to be constantly exposed to global trauma, violence, and grief, either.

Nathan Daniel Hernandez @natedhernandez.bsky.social · 14d

I don't think people were meant to hear the opinions of hundreds of strangers within a few scrolls and swipes

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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · Aug 31

Our department is hiring! Join us and be part of a wonderful community of faculty, students, and staff. Apply here and/or please share: www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

Assistant Professor - Modern Languages (Spanish Peninsular) - New York, NY - Indeed.com

The City University of New York (CUNY)

www.indeed.com

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 16d

thank you qobuz, now I also know there’s a new gwenno album and it is indeed divine as well

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16d

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 16d

million things to do but they’ll wait – I’m drinking spearmint tea and listening to the new cate le bon album and it’s exquisite.

Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 16d

we’re experimenters!

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 16d

thank you for talking about her, marisa. I’m not sharing because I’m also a brazilian living in the US, so I don’t feel free to post what I want. but I appreciate all the work you do, and I’m glad you’re getting the word out about her (although this shouldn’t be happening to anyone, obvi).