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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 13h

"The heart wants what it wants" Not my heart. My heart hates tautologies. It contributes to the sum of human knowledge through synthetic judgement

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British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Apply for our Translators-in-Residence scheme 📢 We are offering 2 x translation residencies for UK-based literary translators, to run from 1 February 2027 to 31 May 2027. 💼 £3,200 stipend 📅 Apply by Monday 2 Nov 2026 Find out more and apply 👉️ www.bclt.org.uk/translators-...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our newest On the Playlist track is out! In this interview, Mina Khanlarzadeh answers our questions about epistemic #translation, the fokoli, and the relationship between translation and modernization, cultural alienation, and decolonization. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/10...

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 21h

New literary scams emerge every few days. Who’s behind them? Snigdha Poonam explains the inner workings of the highly organized industry, and why authors are a coveted target. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

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The Lucrative World of Literary Scams — The Dial

Why writers are the perfect target.

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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · 23h

In their autumn trips to the park, Rachel Bordeleau and her daughter replenish their collection of seeds. Today on Edge Effects, Bordeleau explores how seeds tell stories of evolution, adaptation, and intelligence helpful for navigating our complex, multispecies worlds.🌳 🍂

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The Evolutionary Dance of Seeds - Edge Effects

A walk through Albuquerque’s parks becomes an exploration of acorns, mast years, and the remarkable ways plants adapt and survive.

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Piece in Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social by Ashia S. Ajani - Tending the Vines: Black abundance and reclaiming plant kin "Invasive plants, depending on whose hands they are in, can be catalysts for decolonial world-building." orionmagazine.org/article/tend...

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Tending the Vines - Orion Magazine

Black abundance and reclaiming plant kin

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 20/12/2017

"By hacking away at the learned language of academic defence in which I was trained." -Anne Carson, interview, The White Review (July 2017)

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

An incredible essay on how the Indigenous knowledge of controlled burns transformed the pre-contact landscapes of Native North America and how it will change forest management in the years to come, evidence from fire scars in tree rings #envhist Archived link: archive.is/202610121154...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

George Eliot, the staunchest and most consistent critic of marriage in the nineteenth century, spinning like Simone Biles in her grave

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out.

I am, Sir, your faithful Servant.
Charles Dickens".

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Environment and History Vol. 32 No. 4 is out now, available to read for subscribers. This special issue, entitled 'Our Burning Landscapes', explores the politics of fire in the modern world. Read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... #envhist #history

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I have a new paper out 👇 I argue that there is a lot of potential for collaboration between environmental history and the sustainability sciences. The #envhist of forests offers some telling examples.

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Finally, inviting non-star academics/early career people helps instill in people a culture of solidarity and one that does not celebrate *only* the big names. I know we're all ultra busy, but it's worth going to a talk for the sake of it, not because of the cache of the speaker.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I had the opportunity to speak with Jennifer de Mooy about her new book, Water Carbon Time: Exploring Peatlands in a Warming World ( @uminnpress.bsky.social 2026) You can find the full interview on @nichecanada.bsky.social here: niche-canada.org/2026/08/25/l... #envhist #climatechange #book

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Exploring Peatlands in a Warming World
LANGUAGE, LANDSCAPE, AND LONGEVITY
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"PEATLANDS ARE FOUND ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND WHILE THEY VARY BOTH ECOLOGICALLY AND GEOGRAPHICALLY, WHAT THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON IS THEIR ABILITY TO FORM PEAT: ORGANIC MATTER THAT BUILDS OVER TIME AS PLANTS GROW AND DIE." - JENNIFER DE MOOY

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"PEATLANDS COVER ONLY ABOUT THREE OR FOUR PERCENT OF THE EARTH'S LAND SURFACE, BUT THEY STORE MORE CARBON THAN ALL THE WORLD'S FORESTS." -
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"PEATLANDS HAVE AN INCREDIBLE CAPACITY TO ENDURE-IF WE GIVE THEM THE TIME AND SPACE TO DO SO."
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...

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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The 2024 election coverage fixated on the BJP’s northern and central heartlands. Our series ‘Modi’s India from the Edges’ looked outward: nine pieces from Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Tamil Nadu and the Northeast on what a decade of Modi meant : ow.ly/pKSJ50ZWz13

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Southasian eyes on the 2024 Indian election

A special series on what Narendra Modi’s decade in power has meant for Southasia, with perspectives from neighbouring countries as well as Indian territories beyond the BJP’s power base

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/10/2026

Were public toilet walls the @Twitter of the 18th century? Maximillian Novak on how a little-known book of “latrinalia” offers a unique and fascinating window into Georgian life: publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8301060...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We interviewed Ravinder Kaur: "The govt has sought to create what’s known as the “one nation” model—one nation, one tax, one market. This entails greater centralization of economic and political power in Delhi & the weakening of the regional power structures" phenomenalworld.org/interviews/b...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Something I think about often is how the reward for promptly responding to emails is receiving more emails.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nothing exists in itself.

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

oh my God. this is all so fucking dystopian. this bit in particular really got me:

screencap from the article I'm quote-posting:

In August, Michael Reynolds, executive publisher at Europa Editions, an independent press in New York best known for publishing Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet of novels, told a room full of booksellers at the New Voices New Rooms conference in Baltimore he was excited about the possibilities for AI in translation and “seemed baffled by critiques of it,” according to attendees. Europa Editions is already controversial among literary circles for leaving the names of its human (for now) translators off the covers of its books.

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History Today @historytoday.com · 09/10/2026

Philosopher Charles Fourier died #OnThisDay in 1837 The belief that you are what you eat emerged in #19thcentury France, where the pleasures of the table were sautéed with philosophy and medicine. 🔓 This article is free for 7 days buff.ly/rRjmJ4h

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The Birth of Gastronomy

The belief that you are what you eat emerged in 19th-century France, where the pleasures of the table were sautéed with philosophy and medicine.

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Please share widely!

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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In this edition of Southasia Weekly, we focus on CJP protests in India, a review which looks at why land reform has failed in Nepal’s Tarai along with what the Makkah Pact could mean for Bangladesh. If you only read one email from us all week, this should be it: ow.ly/yVGM50ZWfLz

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 09/10/2026

For our 10th anniversary, we're rejecting doomscrolling and chasing the algorithm and going extra analog Make or share a zine with a real person in meatspace and we'll send you real physical meatspace prizes!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cholera ‘demons’, anti-spiritualist magic tricks, a threatening advertisement, and a mouse as medicine: more archival gems from the @uoscollections.bsky.social ✨

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

US artist Hillary Waters Fayle, known for creating fine embroideries on real leaves #womensart #AutumnWeek 🍂

A photo of a line of the same species of green leaf each with a botanical embroidery of the same flowering plant

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Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And as usual, there are some interesting changes regarding #ParasiticPlants

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Pooja Bhatia @bhatiap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was thrilled to write about one of the best places in the world for one of the best magazines in the world. @equatormag.bsky.social cc: Haiti-heads, Graham Greene lovers, New Wave music fans, anyone who's danced till dawn

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#ThursdayTales - This poem #poem 📖 Anne Carson - Nobel Prize Winner Literature 2026 📚 #silicasun 🍂📙🧡

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Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人 @webwight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm reading New Grub Street, by George Gissing (who was very handsome and a bit of a cad). It's very good but its denunciation of the popular novels and journals of the time makes me nostalgic for the days when everyone read them for fun instead of watching and scrolling.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The perfection of this.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'In response to the era of artificial intelligence, and the questions it raises about culture, copyright and corporate power, the academics behind the Stuart Hall Archive Project have barred AI bots from accessing the data.'

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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Always appreciate it when our #botany books come with inserted examples (Newman, 1844)

Open book with a fern-looking portion of a plant placed between the pages

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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This is Nobel Week and, like clockwork, people are speculating about Can Xue 残雪 again -- so reposting this little thread in French about a very deserving contender who remains vastly undertranslated in the Francophone world

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

increasingly I think it's not useful to tell students to prove their points with quotes, as if quotation is self-evident instead, they have to shift to prove the quotes with their points

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Earlier this year, I got to chat with Will Wright about his new book Borders of Biodiversity. You can read the interview on the @nichecanada.bsky.social web, watch it on YouTube, or listen on Spotify: niche-canada.org/2026/07/23/c... #envhist #borders #conservation #biodiversity #book

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

About three months ago Tavia Nyong’o & I conceived of a collection of essays on The Epstein Class and the University meant to consider the ubiquity is sexual violence in the university & the fundamental fact that access to young women has long been a side perk of university employment & attendance.

A photograph of an art exhibit from the Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein library showing a shelf of redacted Epstein files

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Did you miss excerpts from the finalists for, and winner of, the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation? Read translations from Tamil, Sinhala, Kashmiri, and more, including an excerpt by prizewinner Mehdi Khawaja: wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thankfully, @reparrishcomics.bsky.social assures us there is nothing to worry about

r. e. parrish cartoon, entitled FOUND THE LOOPHOLE. 1. A man in a hat with a monkey’s paw says “THIS ... IS THE
CURSÉD MONKEY'S PAW. IT WILL GRANT THREE WISHES...”. Another man gasps. 2. “BUT I MUST WARN YOU- THERE MAY BE UNFORESEEN C-”. 3. The man who gasped says “SHUT IT, OLD MAN!” and snatches the paw off him. The first man says “BUT!” 4. The man with the paw says “I WISH FOR THE REST OF THE MONKEY”. 5 “POOF!” The monkey appears in his arms, smiling. 6. The man’s head and the monkey’s head appear in a star shape with the words “NEW BEST FRIENDS! NOTHING BAD HAPPENED!”

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