Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaAdam Mahler @lusomedieval.bsky.social · 26/03/2026With the the hundredth anniversary of Camilo Pessanha's death just behind us (1 March 2026), very happy to preview my essay in PMLA, on Camões, Pessanha, and their postcolonial legacies -- proofs just in, and due out soon! 094
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Many thanks to @antbarros.bsky.social for translating my newsletter essay, "Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage," into Portuguese! Link to the original and to a backstory essay about my process are in the thread. 1/ #academicsky 2136
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...paydayreport.comRio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle FrancoThe court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib... 202021712
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaJuan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 22/02/2026We seem to have forgotten that to make great synthesis and all encompassing work. We need historians to get “dirty” doing the kind of work people did back in the day, combing through baptismal or death records, making local projects. 182
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaNicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 09/02/2026One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show 101555423
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaRob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · 09/02/2026This halftime brought to you by the arts and humanities. 09515
Inês Forjaz de Lacerda @inesfl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Incredible day at the Beinecke today! Got to co-lead an object session on early modern materials. One highlight: the oldest Yale College catalogue, dating back to 1742. 020
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaSofía Ruvira @sofiaruvira.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I wrote a little thing about the iconic Blush by GALLIM www.dance-enthusiast.com/get-involved...dance-enthusiast.comAudience Review: Timely and timeless: 17 years of Andrea Miller's BLUSHFreeform Review:by Sofía Ruvira It’s snowing outside, when I walk into the Schwarzman Center at Yale, a multi-purpose venue that hosts among its fluted… 022
Inês Forjaz de Lacerda @inesfl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Muito bom, @braislamela.bsky.social! Parabéns! 110
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaSofía Ruvira @sofiaruvira.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Algo fermoso entre tanta fealdade. Para las amigas de New Haven, nuestra presentación del primer número de Variantes. Arte da maravilhosa Thay Kleinsorgen❤️🔥 052
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 08/01/2026“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...lithub.comRenee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s… 5751112410
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaNick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 04/01/2026#AI may indeed exacerbate our bad academic habits: #LLM science summaries were nearly five times more likely than human-authored science summaries to contain broad generalizations (95% CI [3.06, 7.70], p < 0.001). And newer models over-generalized more; not less! doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #philScidoi.orgGeneralization bias in large language model summarization of scientific researchAbstract. Artificial intelligence chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to increase public science literacy and support scient 29250
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de Lacerdapam lach @plach.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Here it is! All of my sleep/insomnia visualized for 2025. One Z for each night. The thread colors represent the amount of sleep while the beads signify types of wakefulness. All tracked and coded manually in my sleep journal and stitched over the course of the year. #DHmakes 1023338
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaMike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Do you swear to yell “cowabunga” when you and the other ninja turtles leap into battle? I do. 932350
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 01/01/2026zohran will fail us many times because that is what politicians do. but what a change it is to have a little bit of hope about the place you live 941143
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaDe Gruyter Brill Language, Literature & Culture @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social · 02/01/2026The new edited volume "Paisajes del subsuelo" examines the dynamics and contradictions of Venezuela as a “modern oil nation,” offering critical perspectives on petromodernity and petroculture as a planetary superstructure. 📖🔗: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... 055
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/12/2025'Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalián de España, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.' 1/2theguardian.com‘From her pen sprang unforgettable females’: 16th-century Spanish author’s knight’s tale given rebootBeatriz Bernal’s pioneering novel features brave, chivalrous women who ride dragons and her adapter wants his illustrated version to reach young readers 5388141
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaAmerican Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Are you a recent humanities PhD with a background in Buddhist Studies? Learn how you can work with a museum or publisher as a Buddhism Public Scholar to share knowledge of Buddhist art, thought, and traditions: bit.ly/3RYbaXS 014
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaJuan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Many of you may be interested in this. guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-sympo...guides.uflib.ufl.eduGuides @ UF: Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium: LACDH SymposiumGuides @ UF: Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium: LACDH Symposium 033
Inês Forjaz de Lacerda @inesfl.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Happy to report I’ve been accepted to ACLA 2026! Will be presenting on a dissertation chapter on East Timorese literature. Exciting! 040
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaCésar Domínguez @drcesarpdp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Meu novo livro sobre literatura mundial/mundo já está disponível, gratuitamente, aqui: www.edicoesmakunaima.com.br/2025/12/01/m... 064
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaQuinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 30/11/2025A marvelous thread of textile designs! Makes me think of a possible assignment for next year's Data Visualization with Textiles: put together a selection of patterns/stitches/etc. and have students pick some and think about how they'd work them to represent data. #DHmakes 0436
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Thanks to Champagne for linking to another article of mine, which offers further justification as to why telling students to audit a ChatGPT essay for errors is also ill advised. bsky.app/profile/mich... 312632
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaDanielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 20/11/2025New Book! Dr. Reena Goldthree's "Democracy's Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean" examines how Afro-Caribbean soldiers fought for racial equality, economic justice, and political rights during and after WWI. 30% off Princeton University Press: code PUP30 061
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaFREEBROOKLYN❌👑 @freebklyn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Boo, Ronaldo. Boo. 191
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 18/11/2025@thrasherxy.bsky.social remembers writer, advocate, and friend Alice Wong: “Alice helped decolonize disability communities of their (often) white-centered nature and acted as a bridge between so many interdependent related struggles.”buff.lyRemembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, FriendThough we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi… 0104
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaMonica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾 Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...press.uchicago.eduBlack KnightsA new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe... 316047
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaGuggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 11/11/2025In Albis by Beatriz Milhazes, 1995 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten… 1333
Inês Forjaz de Lacerda @inesfl.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Took my students to the Beinecke last week to look at contemporary materials of the Asian diaspora in Latin America! Pictured: contracts of indentured servitude for Chinese migrants in Cuba. 010
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaGuggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 07/11/2025The Carnation and the Rose by Beatriz Milhazes, 2000 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten… 0319
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/11/2025Bolo de cenoura, a carrot cake often found in Portuguese and Brazilian bakeries, is thrilling in its simplicity. It doesn't require any grating. nyti.ms/493y3Si 1211715
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com 1344537348032
Inês Forjaz de Lacerda @inesfl.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Next week, Rosario Hubert of @trinitycollege.bsky.social at Yale! 012
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaGuggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Untitled by Tadaaki Kuwayama, 1962 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten… 0152
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaIgnacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 04/11/2025In an oven pan, put two pounds of of tomatoes or tomatillos or a mix , half a sliced onion, five garlic cloves in husk and if using, fresh jalapeños or serranos or habaneros. Or you can instead use toasted dry árbol. Remove garlic when roasted. Let everything else char, and blend, process or mash. 181
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaDanielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 31/10/2025New Special Issue on Black People in New Spain 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 "Negros, mulatos y pardos en Nueva España y sus regiones, Vol. 46 Núm. 183 (2025): (Otoño) Link: revistarelaciones.colmich.edu.mx/index.php/re... 063
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaPúblico @publico.pt · 30/10/2025Com passagens pelo Porto e pelo Fólio, o professor brasileiro Caetano Galindo dá-nos em Latim em Pó uma visão do português a partir do Brasil, onde ele foi moldado pelas línguas locais e dos escravos.publico.ptCaetano Galindo: “Só agora se começa a perceber que não estamos falando português errado”Com passagens pelo Porto e pelo Fólio, o professor brasileiro Caetano Galindo dá-nos em Latim em Pó uma visão do português a partir do Brasil, onde ele foi moldado pelas línguas locais e dos escravos. 011
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaTracklist @tracklist.com.br · 27/10/2025"Berghain" — Rosalía (2025) 09831
Inês Forjaz de Lacerda @inesfl.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Delayed flight through SFO means I got to check out their exhibit on Chinese woven baskets. Silver linings @sfomuseum.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Since I can do absolutely nothing because AWS has made virtually every system I need right now inaccessible, I get the day off, right? 5725
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaMonica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social · 19/10/2025I forgot to add @cleahy.bsky.social will be there! This will certainly be a provocative conversation about the field of early modern studies and race! 141
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaCaribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Forthcoming (April 2026): The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics - Edited by Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh Thiam | Duke University Press | More information can be found here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-essentia... 0167
Inês Forjaz de Lacerda @inesfl.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Excited to be in conversation with Koichi Hagimoto next week—stop by if you’re in New Haven! 021
Reposted by Inês Forjaz de LacerdaPúblico @publico.pt · 14/10/2025Feira de arte contemporânea decorre no Regent’s Park até 19 de Setembro. A Galeria Francisco Fino, presente pela primeira vez, vai mostrar trabalho dos anos 70 de Helena Almeida.publico.ptSeis galerias lisboetas vão à feira Frieze em LondresFeira de arte contemporânea decorre no Regent’s Park até 19 de Setembro. A Galeria Francisco Fino, presente pela primeira vez, vai mostrar trabalho dos anos 70 de Helena Almeida. 011