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Frederico Freitas

@fredericofreitas.org
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Historian NC State. DH, Environment, LatAm. PhD: Stanford. BA: USP. Book www.cambridge.org/9781108844833. Brasileiro e Paulista. New project on Brasília (PT and EN)

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Humanistic AI conference at Duke (9/25-6), full schedule forthcoming but speaker/title list is up! We have an amazing line up - @tedunderwood.com @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social @hoytlong.bsky.social @eduede.bsky.social + others; if in area, please come! sites.duke.edu/humanisticai...
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Speakers – Humanistic AI Conference at Duke
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 11/09/2026
E teve mais ataques além dessses. Só de memória aqui, carro bomba no WTC em 1993, Pinochet explodindo carro em DC em 1976, nacionalistas porto-riquenhos atacando o congresso americanoem 1954, Pancho Villa atacando o Texas em 1916, os britânicos ocupando Washington em 1812.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New open-access book: Marco Armiero's Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster. This is a translation of Armiero's 2023 book in Italian, finally available in English. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal! Courtesy of MIT Press. #envhist #envhum @mitpress.bsky.social
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Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster
Full open-access volume Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster (2026) by Marco Armiero.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 29/08/2026
Dwarf star guerrilla
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 27/08/2026
How are they going to do field research from the office?
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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Galleys! I have been waiting for **years** to review this book-- since I met the translator in Brazil in 2014. She's been working on it since then. This translation will be published in January- a few months before my book on translated Latin American lit, in which this novel features prominently.
Cover of João Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas in a new English translation by Alison Entrekin
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 11/08/2026
Isso aconteceu na minha universidade estadual aqui nos EUA também.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 22/07/2026
tem mais bsky.app/profile/quin...
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 17/07/2026
European and Brazilian/Argentine leagues were not that different at the time.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 12/07/2026
Temos dois sulamericanos na semi.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 12/07/2026
A Guiana Francesa deveria estar vermelha também.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 07/07/2026
And Belgium played well wearing a great jersey. www.instagram.com/p/DaeV1yjDnU...
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 07/07/2026
We can even go further back in time. nationalfootballmuseum.com/stories/1978...
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Protest and the 1978 World Cup   | National Football Museum
Beth Williamson looks at one of the most politically controversial World Cup tournaments: Argentina 1978.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 07/07/2026
Their reputation has been in the gutter for decades. michaeljamescox.substack.com/p/the-5-bigg...
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The 5 Biggest FIFA Scandals of All Time
Bribery, kickbacks, arrested officials. How world football’s governing body became one of the most investigated organisations on the planet.
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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We noticed how the concept of “Global South” has been turned into a handy word to lazily designate two-thirds of the world’s earthly area and 90% of its population, thus flattening the millions of specificities that characterize this grouping.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 06/07/2026
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Trespassing — Sidecar
Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026).
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 01/07/2026
Eu li quando saiu nos anos 80, era adolescente (13) mas não entendi várias referências do quadrinho, incluindo essa do relógio dessa capa. Só fui entender melhor relendo mais velho nos anos 90.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 01/07/2026
youtu.be/paKjqBsqWi0?...
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"No Era Penal" — A deep dive into Arjen Robben’s infamous penalty against Mexico
YouTube video by The Stony Brook Press
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 30/06/2026
Nine, including the US. All the nine countries are in the Americas, as birthright citizenship is a New World thing.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 30/06/2026
Eu morei no edifício Escócia.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 18/06/2026
Exatamente. www.iguiecologia.com/veredas-o-oa...
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Veredas: o oásis do Cerrado - iGUi Ecologia
As veredas são um importante subsistema do Bioma Cerrado, possuindo, além do significado ecológico, um papel sócio-econômico e paisagístico que lhe confere importância regional. São espaços brejosos o...
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 18/06/2026
Veredas é mais difícil de traduzir do que Sertão. E olha que Sertão é extremamente rico de significados históricos.
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Mickaël Wilmart @mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...
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Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano
Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 06/06/2026
One of my students this last semester was going to play in this game for NC State. He was very excited, even learned some phrases in Portuguese. Too bad it was cancelled.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 04/06/2026
O pior que tem caixa eletrônico aqui nos EUA em todo canto, inclusive drive thru. Não sei por que alguém se sujeitaria a isso.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 08/05/2026
Just this morning I got an email from IT asking for volunteers to test Canvas as we all are scheduled to migrate to it from Moodle in the next year or so at my University.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 21/04/2026
A little late on this, but this is an excellent review of Nationalizing History by @smunozar.bsky.social, who put me in conversation with María de los Ángeles Picone (@mapicone.bsky.social), Heather Roller, John Soluri, Juliet Wiersema, and Jeffrey Erbig. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Spatial Histories of the South American Borderlands | The Americas | Cambridge Core
Spatial Histories of the South American Borderlands - Volume 82 Issue 4
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“Vision Language Models don’t just make transcription faster or cheaper - they will (hopefully) expand the kinds of sources we can access and work with” Very good post by @cblevins.bsky.social that perfectly captures my own experience.
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Bottlenecks, Side Quests, and the Calculus of Historical Research | Cameron Blevins
Personal website for Cameron Blevins (University of Colorado Denver)
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 05/04/2026
A NASA editou as imagens sim, mas são duas imagens diferentes, com abertura e velocidade de obturador diferentes. Parece que a intenção da fotografa/astronauta, Christina Koch, era fazer uma com as luzes noturnas urbanas em destaque e a outra clareada. bsky.app/profile/astr...
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 01/04/2026
I am certain it does, and beautifully. Can’t wait to read it.
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026
Book cover shows an alleyway in a Rio favela, the black and white photo has been given a bluish tinge; my name is upper left, the title of the book "Poverty of the Imagination" is at lower left and at right, in reddish text is the subtitle "The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America"
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 01/04/2026
I needed this book, thank you for writing it.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 31/03/2026
Dorothea Dix, Raleigh.
A picture underneath a circular brick structure with a blue sky on the background.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 30/03/2026
Uma das coisas que desenvolvi migrando da lusofonia para a anglofonia foi uma alergia à voz passiva. O texto desse menino quase me causou um choque anafilático.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 19/03/2026
Santa Cruz, CA
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social: "Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc... #dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️
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Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World
Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental DH Seminar for a talk and discussion with Jim Clifford and Jacob Polay (Saskatchewan)​.
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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1817
Paddington in The Secret Agent (2025)
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 12/02/2026
Oh yes.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 09/02/2026
Look it up OAS and FTAA. They are not a EU version for the Americas, but their complicated history show how hard it t would be to implement such a thing.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 06/02/2026
You are probably right about the effect of the pandemic.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 06/02/2026
Source: transparencia.metrosp.com.br/sites/defaul...
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 06/02/2026
The São Paulo metro area, the largest in the Americas, went from 269 transit rides per capita in 2017 to 216 in 2023, a decline primarily due to the growing use of ride sharing options, despite solid subway and bus line growth in the period.
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 04/02/2026
If you care about nature in urban areas, you'll want to read this new roundtable at @tnoc.bsky.social on how we can "give wildlife a place as stakeholders in decisions about urban planning", which has essays from 22 contributors (incl me) from 18 cities around the world! Come join the conversation.
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Can we give wildlife a place as stakeholders in decisions about urban planning? – The Nature of Cities
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 02/02/2026
Brazil has named açaí a national fruit to push back against biopiracy. The move is mostly symbolic, but aims to reinforce açaí as part of Brazil’s biodiversity heritage and make it harder for foreign companies to claim exclusive rights as global demand grows.
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Brazil declares açaí a national fruit amid biopiracy concerns
Brazil recently passed a law to recognize açaí, a berry endemic to the Amazon, as a national fruit, citing concerns about biopiracy — the commercial exploitation of native species and traditional…
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 31/01/2026
It actually originated with the Spanish crackdown to the Cuban independence movement in 1896, a few years before the British set up their own camps in South Africa.
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ncstatehistory.bsky.social @ncstatehistory.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We had an incredible time at the "Envisioning Urban Futures" event at Hunt Library! Dr. Matthew Booker spoke on the intersection of history, food production, and ecology in our cities. Dr. Tate Paulette gave a crowd-favorite expo presentation. Dr. Fred Freitas joined the fun!
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Marco Aurélio @marcurelio.jesusmechicoteia.com.br · 25/01/2026
O bico do carcará muda de cor conforme o estado de espírito. Quanto mais calmo, mais amarelo. Quanto mais irritado ou estressado, mais chega perto do vermelho. Esse aí tá claramente irritado vendo como carioca dirige.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
gah look at this! Look at the photos! and then read the interview because it's also amazing: globalvoices.org/2026/01/08/w...
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Where myth turns to form and fragility to power: An interview with Turkish artist Melis Buyruk
“Porcelain lives in our collective memory — we grow up with it in our homes and daily rituals — so it already carries meaning before I touch it.”
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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“No vemos ningún intento, ni siquiera un tema de debate, el desmantelamiento de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana. Esto sería una tarea mucho más difícil para Estados Unidos. Realmente parece que Trump solo quería atrapar a una persona, Maduro,” le digo a @eldiario.es
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El exasesor de Sanders para América Latina analiza la operación en Venezuela: "El interés de Trump es el petróleo, no la democracia"
El analista y profesor de la Virginia Commonwealth University Michael Paarlberg cree que el escenario más probable es que el chavismo no caiga, sino que elija a un sucesor. "No parece haber ningún int...
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