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Maíra Mendes Galvão
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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.
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
reading brazilian papers a lot lately because of recent glorious developments, and came across one piece of news that had all the verbs that should be in the simple past as “ended up doing x...” and “x ended up happening...” and so on. all of them. I wonder who the culprit is. could it be...sAItan?
low quality still from saturday night live’s church lady, played by dana carvey. the actor is characterized as a woman with a stiff blonde coiff, wearing glasses and a blue and purple twin set.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
Clássicos Greco-Latinos Traduzidos por Mulheres no Brasil (Cadernos de Tradução USP) revistas.usp.br/clt
Cadernos de Literatura em Tradução
O propósito da revista Cadernos de Literatura em TRadução é publicar literatura em tradução de ou para o português, especialmente poesia, ficção curta, comentários e artigos sobre a literatura traduzi...
revistas.usp.br
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
“sabe qualé, eu tava entediado, com insônia, daí saí brincando com o ferro de solda, escrevi j & m na cabeceira da cama, fiz uns furim na cortina, abri uns carrinho de controle remoto, aí já viu né, fiquei curioso com esse trem aqui..."
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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avesbrasil.bsky.social
🇧🇷Tucão
🌎Elaenia obscura
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

O tucão é uma ave passeriforme da família Tyrannidae. Também conhecido por guaracava, guaracava-de-óculos, guracava, maria-tola e tonto.

📷 José Silvio Abras
Um pequeno pássaro de plumagem esverdeada, com nuances de oliva e cinza, empoleirado num galho seco. Possui um bico fino e escuro, olhos atentos e asas com barras discretas. A cauda longa e estreita aponta para baixo, enquanto as patas pretas agarram o galho com firmeza. O fundo mostra uma vegetação exuberante e desfocada, com tons de verde que contrastam suavemente com a ave. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Wonderful tribute to a teacher: young Sofonisba Anguissola paints herself being created by Bernardino Campi -- yet at same time, she is of course creating him! Today is her day.
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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rebpaf.bsky.social
Do you research early #bookhistory?
Come to our #REBPAFConference : 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin!

📚 Key details:
• Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
[Abstract (max 300 words) + short CV]

• Themes: Selection,Value,Accessibility & Survival in book culture

Follow the link for more info!

#REBPAF
CFP: Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures
Keynotes: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University Date & Location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Re-mediat…
rebpaf.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
www.flad.pt/candidaturas...
Para professores de Ciências Sociais ou História (portugueses ou residentes em Portugal). A grande área temática é Portugal contemporâneo.
Candidaturas Abertas: Professor Visitante na Universidade de Brown 2026/2027 - FLAD
Vão ser selecionados dois professores para lecionar durante um semestre cada. Candidaturas até 30 de novembro.
www.flad.pt
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
ooooh sarah kirkland snyder has a new opera about hildegard von bingen! <3
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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scilicetblog.bsky.social
Making a medieval manuscript was an artful process that required many types of specialised knowledge.

Our latest article by @guyfassler.bsky.social is a catalogue of everything you need to know about making medieval books that would last a millennium.
scilicet.org.uk/everything-y... #skystorians
Medieval manuscript
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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lc-beguines.bsky.social
The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025.

www.rsa.org/general/cust...
www.rsa.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
haven’t been able to see a single aurora borealis occurrence in MA in the 3.3 years I’ve been here. it’s overcast right above our neighborhood every time. (also, our area is always muggier in the summer and browner in the fall... what gives?)

I’m leaving in 1.5 month... come on, weather!
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Flaws and glitches are minor concerns easily dismissed. Being “mid” is fine because someone can promise this will get less mid and plenty of people are willing to believe. GenAI isn’t mid. It’s linear algebraic sociopathy.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
This is why this is a problem for democracy. See my full piece on this here www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
= Art in America But the problem is not skepticism. Nor is it only that anyone can create and widely distribute a faked image. It's that this ability has given everyone a permission structure to doubt. Everyone, in other words, has been granted license to choose which images they will and will not believe, and they can elect to unsee an image simply because it doesn't confirm their priors: the mere possibility of its algorithmic generation opens it to suspicion.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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kanav28.bsky.social
Please sign and share as widely as possible: c.org/WxNbqBS9g2
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
www.change.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Remember, folks. We took one for the team. "affect recognition" is so bad it's beyond the realm of wrong and you might give yourself an ulcer having to debate it. SO WE MDE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE TO! Here's that link to our piece once again.

hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
How Scientists Use and Abuse Portraiture
Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.
hyperallergic.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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chapps.bsky.social
How often can you say that you've seen a kantharos-rhyton? This cup has a bridled donkey head attachment, usually seen only on rhyta. It mirrors the donkey seen on the reverse of the cup, ridden by Dionysos. When you drank from this vessel, you looked like an ass! 🏺 1/

Greek, 520-500 BCE. 📸 me
This black-figure terracotta kantharos-rhyton has a sculpted donkey-head attachment and Dionysian figures around the body of the vessel. In fact, on the rear of the cup Dionysos is shown riding on an ithyphallic mule or donkey, so the head on the cup is Dionysos' own steed. The fun part is that when you grasp the cup by both handles and raise it to your mouth to drink, you look like you’re wearing a donkey mask, providing a great deal of chuckles from your fellow symposiasts. This appears to be the earliest preserved Attic rhyton (a vessel for wine, frequently with animal head pouring spouts), and this rhyton-kantharos as a whole is a rare preserved example of an Athenian plastic vase with black-figure decoration. In design, the donkey's tall, outward-flaring ears are echoed by the kantharos' tall looping strap handles. In order to assemble this vase, the potter cut a hole in the kantharos' bowl and precisely inserted the donkey's head, thereby forming a dual-chambered wine vessel with a large capacity. But the resulting rhyton-kantharos is overweighted toward the donkey's head, which extends down so far that the donkey's lips set the vessel off kilter, and it rests unstably on the kantharos' foot. Greek, Attic, about 520-500 BCE, possibly found in Athens. Black-figure terracotta with some pigments (purple on the Dionysian figures and red inside the donkey's mouth). Height: 21.59 cm (8.50 in.) Diameter: 13.65 cm (5.37 in.) British Museum, London (1876,0328.5)
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
• Genesis
• Nick Drake
• Jordi Savall
• Alice Coltrane
• Milton Nascimento
• Robert Fripp
maximejaz.bsky.social Maxime Jaz🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @maximejaz.bsky.social · Oct 18
Define your music taste with 8 artists (only 8!! sighs...):
-Placebo
-Metallica
-George Michael
-Sade
-Guns n' Roses
-George Brassens
-Jacques Brel
-Madonna
danifinnwrites.bsky.social Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · Oct 17
Define your music taste with 8 artists:

• Pomme
• Chris aka Redcar aka Christine and the Queens
• LEJ
• Clara Luciani
• Georges Brassens
• Alex Montembault
• Zaho de Sagazan
• Youssoupha

(yes they’re all French sue me)
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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hesgen.com
"Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact"

When AI is touted as a tool in medicine and law, among other things, this speaks volumes.

#AI 🧪
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence
Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
8. Evil city / pure countryside is an example of what Jeremy Lent calls a “root metaphor”: an idea so deeply implanted in our minds that we don’t even recognise it as an idea.
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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sebnemsaraeva.bsky.social
And check out our introduction 'Making the leap: embracing the more-than-human in feminist and queer translation' available for free access at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@olgacastro80.bsky.social
@ftnetwork.bsky.social
@womenintranslation.bsky.social @drpaulinehenry.bsky.social
Making the leap: embracing the more-than-human in feminist and queer translation
Intersections between gender, feminism, and ecological issues have been explored for more than fifty years. Scholars have demonstrated that ecosystems and life forms are oppressed by the same syste...
www.tandfonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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katiehowland.bsky.social
Can you imagine what our ancestors thought of these? Pure magic.
alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 24d
Something lovely for the weekend!

Magical amber animals from the Mesolithic. Carved between 10,000-7,000 years ago.

Amber can generate static electricity⚡️ For their ancient owners, these small animals could give off sparks in the dark and make hair stand on end, as if by magic✨
📷 me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four images of small animal figurines carved from amber during the Danish Mesolithic period. Top left: profile photo of the head, neck, and part of the front torso of an animal (bear?) facing left. Carved from deep orange amber. Found at Bølling Sø (lake) Central Jutland, Denmark. Top right: small almost complete figurine of an amber bear seen in profile facing right. The lower legs are incomplete. The ears, muzzle and mouth are defined. Carved from translucent orange amber. Washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark. Bottom left: small figurine in the shape of a bear(?) carved from dark orange amber. It is known asvthe Resen Bear. There is fine incised geometric ornamentation on the body. Found in a bog at Resen, Denmark. Bottom left: bright orange amber animal head shown in profile facing left. Found in 1952 at Egemarke in Denmark, it is known as the Egemarke Elk. It is decorated with incised bands of closely aligned parallel zig-zag lines. There are two circular perforations at the bottom of the neck. All on display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.
November 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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avesbrasil.bsky.social
🇧🇷Tuiuiú
🌎Jabiru mycteria
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante

O tuiuiú é uma ave ciconiiforme da família Ciconiidae.

📷 Leonardo Casadei
Uma ave grande, com plumagem predominantemente branca, pescoço alongado e preto, destacando uma faixa vermelha na base. Seu bico é longo, robusto e ligeiramente curvado. A ave está em pé na água, com as pernas finas e escuras parcialmente submersas. O ambiente ao redor consiste em água turva e vegetação rasteira, criando um cenário natural e pantanoso. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.
October 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
I’m quite sure I had deleted my academia.edu account a while ago, but I just received an email from them saying they had an AI-generated podcast of my paper. so my account was still there and I had to disable the AI function and delete my account again. nasty website.
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
I miss translating literature so much. last week I read a chapter from henry berlin’s “alone together” for @albertlloret.bsky.social’s class and couldn’t resist trying to translate the ausiàs march excerpts into portuguese.
here’s one example (lines 9-12) from poem XIII.
image of lines 9-12 of poem xiii by ausiàs march in the original catalan and a translation into portuguese. original: Cascú requer e vol a son semblant; per ço no·m plau la pràtica dels vius. D’imaginar mon estat són esquius; sí com d’om mort, de mi prenen espant. translation: Toda gente gosta de quem lhe é irmão; por isso não m'apraz a parla dos vivos. De imaginar meu estado são esquivos; assim como a um morto, me têm aversão.
October 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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oswaldsraven.bsky.social
📗New project publication📗

"Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages" is now available #OpenAccess from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social

Free download here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

#MedievalSky
Book cover
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM