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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.
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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 · 24d
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 · 24d
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 · 10d
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
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donnalanclos.com
When they abolish anthropology departments there will be even fewer places for a certain kind of white person to learn about things like kin terms and fictive kin.
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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seanwrite.bsky.social
Miles Davis live In concert at Tanglewood in August 1970. Players include Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira and Keith Jarrett. Length: 45:28. #RIPJackDeJohnette m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_JZ...
Miles Davis - Full Concert - 08/18/70 - Tanglewood (OFFICIAL)
YouTube video by Blues Rock on MV
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October 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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bhgross144.bsky.social
#ICYMI: The application deadline for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 fellowships is Nov. 3--just one week away!

Learn about our incredible #humanities collections & submit a research proposal by visiting www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/

#RareBooks #Literature #Film #Art #Photography #Theatre 🗃️📜
October 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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siga.spainculture.us
🌍 CFP: Decentring Europe—Nordic & Iberian Histories

How have the Nordic and Iberian worlds shaped each other across centuries? This conference invites us to rethink Europe’s map and explore the rich diplomatic, political, and cultural ties linking these regions from the late Middle Ages to today.
October 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
am now on mastodon as @plurabel
October 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
cancer patients who get treatment via the brazilian public health system (which is free) will now also receive a per diem and a transport stipend for their chemo days, ensuring they never skip treatment because they can’t afford food and transport. it includes a +1. that’s how it’s done.
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
só nomes nota dez esse aí
avesbrasil.bsky.social Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 19d
🇧🇷Tem-farinha-aí
🌎Myrmorchilus strigilatus
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante

O tem-farinha-aí é uma ave passeriforme da família Thamnophilidae.

Também conhecido como formigueiro-pintalgado, tovaca, tem-farinha-aí, piu-piu, farinheiro e farinha-seca.

📷 Thiago Tolêdo (IBFN)
Um pássaro de porte médio com plumagem complexa, pousado em um galho espinhoso. Seu dorso exibe um padrão listrado em tons de castanho e preto, enquanto o peito é predominantemente branco com manchas pretas. A cabeça apresenta um intrincado mosaico de cores, com listras marrons e brancas. O bico está aberto, como se estivesse cantando, e a cauda é longa e avermelhada. Ao fundo, folhagem verde desfocada cria um ambiente natural. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.
October 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
neko case’s new album is bringing my back to life after I read the news
October 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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bjornlarssen.com
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
if anyone’s aching to know, you can translate “contraflecha” in portuguese and spanish into “precamber(ed)” in english & vice-versa. I work hard & even read chunks of technical papers just to find the thing that sparks. cannot simply keep those gems buried. got me a trove of architecture vocab btw.
October 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
I wish ‘usufruct' was used in English as it (‘usufruto') is in Portuguese, that is, outside of legal lingo as well. it fits so well in certain contexts. it is a good counterpoint of usage and enjoyment, or at least benefit.
October 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM