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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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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
How Latin American researchers suffer in science By Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro & Mariana Viglino (2021) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How Latin American researchers suffer in science
It’s time to tackle the cumulative barriers and biases faced by scientists who aren’t from wealthy countries.
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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
being back in brazil is crucial for my wellbeing, but I miss the academic exchange at umass and in traslation conferences. I’m so grateful for travel grants that allowed me to go to turku, galway (2x), philly, boston... and to FLAD for my research fellowship in portugal. I’m no natural networker.
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Albert Lloret @albertlloret.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
My first foray into disciplinary reflection coming up soon in this volume: brill.com/display/titl...
First page of the proofs of the article "The Place of Medieval and Early Modern Literature in Iberian Studies: the Catalan Case"
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/02/2026
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 24/02/2026
#OTD: Jocelyn Bell Burnell made the first discovery of a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star, on 24 February 1967 - but it was her supervisor who won the Nobel. Read about her at infinite-women.com/women/jocelyn-bell-burnell #science #history #sciencehistory #physics #astronomy #astrophysics
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Infinite Women
Astronomer who discovered pulsars
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Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
If you are interested in queenship, gender studies, or the history of death and grief, please join us on 4 March for an online only talk at 4 pm GMT. Please register at forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d #medievalsky #earlymodern #historyofemotions #historyofdeath #queenship #kingship
Poster for a talk that includes the following text: University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies and the Centre for the History of Ibero-America (CHIA) present: Núria Silleras-Fernández (University of Colorado, Boulder): ‘When the Political is Personal: Gendering Mourning in the Royal Courts of Castile and Portugal’
Wednesday 4 March, 4 pm GMT (online only via zoom). Please register at https://forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d 

The image background is of an elaborate monastic cloister - specifically the one at Batalha in Portugal dating to the 15th century (author Raph)
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
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five commas a pound, can't say fairer @commamonger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Loving that "as little as 0%". Such a gentler way of saying zero. Except it's beyond zero, isn't it, because when the crash comes, the negative effect on growth will be off the scale. Will we accidentally get the anti-growth economy that our overheating climate desperately needs from us?
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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
report shows that the building where our TA offices are (+ many other classrooms & offices) has detectable asbestos in multiple spots. admin won't do zip about it. I knew moving to the US was a hazard, but I had in mind shootings, savage capitalism & anti-intellectualism. not asbestos and fascism.
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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
blastóporo-wannabes! tom zé did it better.
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Final-final-final-draft-at-last-usethisversion.doc
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 18/02/2026
“The merging of humanistic work and activism represents a surrender to the utilitarian logic that measures the worth of knowledge by its direct impact on “the real world.”” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Multibillion-Dollar Foundation That Controls the Humanities
Is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation the last best hope for American arts and letters—or is it killing them?
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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
snagged it! ✨
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Yes to this thread. AI “creates a permission structure” designed to concentrate power at the top, dramatically enhance the power of disinformation by destabilizing images and information, and hollow out the power of labor through deskilling while providing cover and impunity.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Two perforated altar reliefs from the Mithraeum at Mundelsheim. One depicts Sol, the sun god, with the radiant. the other shows Luna, the goddess of the moon, with the crescent. In Roman times, they were illuminated from behind, creating a striking play of light and shadow that must ...🧵1/2
Close-up of a stone altar featuring the bust of Luna with a serene facial expression, and draped cloak. Perforated crescent moon above her head.Close-up of a stone altar featuring the bust of Sol with long curly hair, serene expression, and draped cloak. Perforated radiant above his head. The upper part of the altar is missing.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies Deadline to submit: 12th April 2026 We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
If you’ve been waiting to read a comprehensive, well-researched piece on Heathcliff’s ethnicity and the Brontës’ own experience of race and identity, it’s finally landed. This is really impressive, hats off to @yorkshirebylines.co.uk 👏🏼
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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
post a tree you photographed
picture of a section of the trunk of a big ol’ yew at the bussaco national forest in central portugal, taken in august 2025.
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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
happy caturday! our lovely pizzicato sleeps peacefully while my valentine takes care of the car outside. we don’t really celebrate the date. it’s our 1st v-day since we thankfully moved to my home country and away from a dictatorship. the house is still full of possibilities. it’s a good one today.
a cat sleeps on a thin sleeping mat that’s in a still empty living room. outside and visible through one of theee vertical, fixed pane windows is a man removing too-dark film from car windows. but back to the cat: his name is pizzicato, aka pizzi, aka pizziboy, aka pizzicat. he is dark gray with white patches in his undercarriage and paws. he is wearing a newborn-sized tropical print tee. are we extra? never. he really loves his tees and gets calmer and more cuddly when wearing them.
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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
New book by Prof. Jessica Barr, who I’m lucky enough to have in my dissertation committee.
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Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Rapidly becoming an account that shares cool books I find: #medievalsky
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Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death
Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about union with God and as the end of life on ...
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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Including mine on developing software to build structural models of medieval manuscripts! Much DEI. Another reason for me to hate ChatGPT.
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Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gay · 20/12/2024
Do not use AI, even for funny joke. Its Theft, its wasteful, its trash.
A screencap of a panel from Frank Miller's Dark Knight (don't know enough about each comic to know which one exactly sue me). It shows Batman breaking a shotgun which is labeled "AI (even if you're making fun of it)." Batman is saying "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it"
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
So they're creating a Department of 'We' Studies (Europe) and a Department of 'Other' Studies where the latter includes Africa, the (Central, South and Indigenous) Americas, and Women. Like...pardon me...but come the fuck on.
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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Storm at sea 🌊 This 1614 book includes a beautiful engraving depicting the hazardous sea journey of Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł. The print shows his ship caught in a violent night storm. Look at how marvelous the engraver visualized darkness and the wind through an interplay of straight lines!
Detail of an engraving depicting a 17th-century ship out at sea during a night storm. The scene is very dramatic with large waves, wind, and thunder.Another detail of an engraving depicting a 17th-century ship out at sea during a night storm. The scene is very dramatic with large waves, wind, and thunder.Another detail of an engraving depicting a 17th-century ship out at sea during a night storm. The scene is very dramatic with large waves, wind, and thunder.An engraving depicting a 17th-century ship out at sea during a night storm. The scene is very dramatic with large waves, wind, and thunder.
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Jimmie Wright @theartanchor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
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Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent
When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
🏛️ An Ottoman Sıbyan School (Primary Education) with a Birdhouse, Istanbul, 1800.
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.
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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I knew we had Hrabanus Maurus manuscripts that looked like this @theul.bsky.social, but no idea we had this equally amazing printed edition of 1503 highlighted by @liamsims.bsky.social. Gosh. Completely wonderful.
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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
How do you transform a fragile book into carefully maintained digital images & provide free, round-the-clock access for anyone, anywhere in the world? On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library

Wayne Torborg, Dr. Catherine Walsh, and John Meyerhofer

January 28 from 11 a.m.–12 p.m. (CT)
Free, virtual Winter Lecture Series
RSVP at HMML.org
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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Translation Studies before ‘Translation Studies’ Nothing happened? Kathryn Batchelor (Editor), Iryna Odrekhivska (Editor) Open Access PDF uclpress.co.uk/book/transla...
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Translation Studies before ‘Translation Studies’
Translation Studies before ‘Translation Studies’ challenges the established historical narratives of ‘translation studies’ by showcasing some of the rich traditions of debate, research and theorising ...
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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
joining the choir of lamentations about students using AI... oh boy.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:
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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
3.5 years in the US, still baffled by ads. the food looks disgusting, pharma is shameless and triggering, ROTC looks like a cult, and the whole thing with gifting is... a major cultural shock. plus, where do people find the money to give gifts to everyone every year??? ...that isn’t a thing, is it?
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I want to add to Daniel's excellent points here bc I've been arguing against these uses of "AI" by historians for years. What's important is this, as ever: the tech isn't the central issue; the surrounding political & economic project of its deployment is. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The rising prominence of attributional paleography has coincided with an empirical turn in the humanities, when ever more demonstrable outputs are in demand by the neoliberal university and when funding bodies are exuberant about the possibilities of proof.'73 In our own post-postmodern moment, the application of "objec-tive" and "morphological" paleography to attributional ends with the assistance of the latest digital technologies promises reportable discoveries as well as a safe harbor from the storm-tossed seas of critical theory: visible evidence, facts, truth.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
What we call "digital literacy" or "digital hermeneutics", basically a reflection about our practices dealing with digital sources and the used and established environments of such activities, is simply not present when uploading our documents to Google (and others). We are losing the game this way.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Why on earth are we leaving all good criticism of privately owned data behind for this? Offering AI-fueled accesses to handwriting of the past is a data trap. We pay with the data we are providing, i.e. mostly archival documents, plus a few privately owned letters etc. Also,
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
To make myself more clear: AI-fueled transcribing of "old" human handwriting is becoming a market these days, and will grow in the near future. As a historian reading such texts often, I generally welcome more help and future faster assistance. But, and this is a mighty "but" ...
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aline @tdbem.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Não me conformo com a leviandade ao se falar da tentativa de golpe de Estado. Nós ainda estamos mergulhados em problemas decorrentes da ditadura militar, como a truculência policial. Ainda não sabemos o paradeiro dos corpos de vários desaparecidos. Ainda estamos elaborando esse trauma.
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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
wish I was 10 years younger. writing a dissertation, feeling the pressure to start publishing more & finding jobs in my mid 40s is brutal. but I didn’t have what it takes then. is it a feature of neurodivergent burnout that it happens during your most intellectually capable phase, thus canceling it?
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed. It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it. ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
permit me to add that 'we can destroy the physical, as well as the learning, environment while doing so' 😑
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 02/12/2025
There are zero accommodations on the faculty side for disability in academia; and, with more faculty becoming disabled due to COVID and the simple fact that living through our current hellscape is a debilitating context, this is going to get real bad, real fast. But hey, accommodations, right?
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We have universities capitulating to federal shakedowns, professors being chased from their jobs, and AI functioning as the very antithesis of thought and intellectual development. But the real crisis is that some students get more accommodations on tests to express more fully what they've learned?
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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This! Also, if you truly believe that accommodations (or reasonable adjustments, as we'd call them) have gone too far, there's an excellent method to ensure you never have to do any ever again. It's called inclusive learning, teaching and assessment design (or Universal Design for Learning).
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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 29/11/2025
Broadside Borders: Bologna & Barcelona.
Foot of 1646 broadside with imprint Bologna, herede del Benacci. Below this, border decoration with scrolled vegetation.Imprint at foot of broadside (Barcelona, Rafael Figuerò, 1683). Below this, woodcut border decoration with bird and flowers. A wide blank margin below this.
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 29/11/2025
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
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Miguel Martínez @fusonegro.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado
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