Ming Panha and Camels
@morethanhuming.bsky.social
A genderqueer scholar interested in nineteenth-century fictions in English, nonhuman studies, ecocriticism, and colonial and postcolonial studies. Now at Thammasat University, Thailand Also interested in the tarot and astrology.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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Bears have attacked about 100 people in Japan since April and killed at least 13.
Now the military has deployed troops to combat the attacks, according to the Japanese Ministry of Environment.
Now the military has deployed troops to combat the attacks, according to the Japanese Ministry of Environment.
Japan deploys troops to combat record wave of deadly bear attacks
Troops from the country's Self Defense Force arrived in the northern Akita Prefecture on Wednesday to combat a crisis that has seen 100 people attacked and 13 killed since April.
nbcnews.to
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Bears have attacked about 100 people in Japan since April and killed at least 13.
Now the military has deployed troops to combat the attacks, according to the Japanese Ministry of Environment.
Now the military has deployed troops to combat the attacks, according to the Japanese Ministry of Environment.
Teaching Vernon Lee, Ambrose Bierce, and Rudyard Kipling this week. Yes. At first I didn't think they can be taught together in the same class. Lol.
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Teaching Vernon Lee, Ambrose Bierce, and Rudyard Kipling this week. Yes. At first I didn't think they can be taught together in the same class. Lol.
เราว่าตลกดีที่เดี๋ยวนี้ชอบวิจารณ์หนังสือหรือหนังว่า "ไม่เหมือนจริง" ทั้งๆที่ความจริงคืออะไรก็ไม่ได้รู้ขนาดนั้น เน้นเอาแต่ใจตัวเอง เช่น ฟังดูไม่เห็นอีสานเลย (ทั้งๆที่อีสานมีหลายสำเนียง) หรือทำไมนำเสนอคนอินเดียแบบนี้ คนอินเดียจริงๆเป็นแบบนี้ๆ ทั้งๆที่คนอินเดียมีหลายแบบ ถ้าเคลมอะไรเป็นจริง เป็น authentic ขึ้นมาเมื่อไร มันก็แทบจะลดทอนความหลากหลายหรือความเป็นไปได้อื่นๆของมนุษย์ออกไป
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
เราว่าตลกดีที่เดี๋ยวนี้ชอบวิจารณ์หนังสือหรือหนังว่า "ไม่เหมือนจริง" ทั้งๆที่ความจริงคืออะไรก็ไม่ได้รู้ขนาดนั้น เน้นเอาแต่ใจตัวเอง เช่น ฟังดูไม่เห็นอีสานเลย (ทั้งๆที่อีสานมีหลายสำเนียง) หรือทำไมนำเสนอคนอินเดียแบบนี้ คนอินเดียจริงๆเป็นแบบนี้ๆ ทั้งๆที่คนอินเดียมีหลายแบบ ถ้าเคลมอะไรเป็นจริง เป็น authentic ขึ้นมาเมื่อไร มันก็แทบจะลดทอนความหลากหลายหรือความเป็นไปได้อื่นๆของมนุษย์ออกไป
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This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
October 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
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Have you ever wanted to study the Gothic with me?
At a British university but online so it's accessible to you anywhere?
For a fraction of a usual university course cost?
With delicious delicious library access?
Come join me Liverpool uni starting October!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
At a British university but online so it's accessible to you anywhere?
For a fraction of a usual university course cost?
With delicious delicious library access?
Come join me Liverpool uni starting October!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
The Rise of the Gothic: 1764-1831 - Continuing Education - University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
August 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Have you ever wanted to study the Gothic with me?
At a British university but online so it's accessible to you anywhere?
For a fraction of a usual university course cost?
With delicious delicious library access?
Come join me Liverpool uni starting October!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
At a British university but online so it's accessible to you anywhere?
For a fraction of a usual university course cost?
With delicious delicious library access?
Come join me Liverpool uni starting October!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
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On 12 August 30 BC, Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, rather than submit to Rome, in the person of Octavian, ended her life through the bite of an Egyptian cobra. This act, immortalised in the later writings of Plutarch and Shakespeare, continues to resonate in popular culture. #Egyptology #Reception
August 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
On 12 August 30 BC, Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, rather than submit to Rome, in the person of Octavian, ended her life through the bite of an Egyptian cobra. This act, immortalised in the later writings of Plutarch and Shakespeare, continues to resonate in popular culture. #Egyptology #Reception
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The bitter feud fuelling the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia
The bitter feud fuelling the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia
Animosity between former friends and political patriarchs Hun Sen and Thaksin Shinawatra is exacerbating clashes
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The bitter feud fuelling the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia
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President Trump's action plan will give AI companies a blank check, with no safeguards to protect our rights.
If the federal government won't act, states and cities must have the freedom to create regulations that protect us from Big Tech.
If the federal government won't act, states and cities must have the freedom to create regulations that protect us from Big Tech.
Trump's AI Action Plan revives regulation showdown between states, feds
President Trump's AI Action Plan sounds a lot like the AI moratorium that was rejected by the Senate. Here's what is says.
mashable.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
President Trump's action plan will give AI companies a blank check, with no safeguards to protect our rights.
If the federal government won't act, states and cities must have the freedom to create regulations that protect us from Big Tech.
If the federal government won't act, states and cities must have the freedom to create regulations that protect us from Big Tech.
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@britt-kathryn.bsky.social on why Amy Heckerling’s Clueless is one of the greatest films in the canon of Jane Austen adaptations.
Why Clueless is still the best Austen adaptation to ever do it.
Thirty years ago this week, Amy Heckerling’s Clueless hit theaters and brought us all one of cinema’s most perfect creations—Cher Horowitz. Based on Emma Wodehouse, of Jane Austen’…
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July 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@britt-kathryn.bsky.social on why Amy Heckerling’s Clueless is one of the greatest films in the canon of Jane Austen adaptations.
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@laurapoppick.bsky.social explains why glacial ice isn’t just a product of climate, but a force that shapes it.
How an Ancient Ice Age Froze the Entire Earth—And Helped Humanity Flourish
When you think of ice, maybe your mind first goes to an object. An ice cube, an icicle, a slushy. Something inert, a thing that can be handled. At a certain scale, ice does behave this way. But pil…
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July 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@laurapoppick.bsky.social explains why glacial ice isn’t just a product of climate, but a force that shapes it.
July 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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At 17, Nedzad Avdic stood on a gravel plateau, hands tied, facing death. He was among the thousands of Bosnian Muslim men targeted in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
Now, as denial of war crimes spreads online, Avdic is committed to speaking out.
nbcnews.to/455fTfe
Now, as denial of war crimes spreads online, Avdic is committed to speaking out.
nbcnews.to/455fTfe
July 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
At 17, Nedzad Avdic stood on a gravel plateau, hands tied, facing death. He was among the thousands of Bosnian Muslim men targeted in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
Now, as denial of war crimes spreads online, Avdic is committed to speaking out.
nbcnews.to/455fTfe
Now, as denial of war crimes spreads online, Avdic is committed to speaking out.
nbcnews.to/455fTfe
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Writing a keynote paper for @vpfa.bsky.social's annual conference about encounters with prehistoric animals in nineteenth-century fiction, and as I write Colossal Biosciences can't stop announcing that they're resurrecting extinct creatures. I prefer Jules Verne.
July 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Writing a keynote paper for @vpfa.bsky.social's annual conference about encounters with prehistoric animals in nineteenth-century fiction, and as I write Colossal Biosciences can't stop announcing that they're resurrecting extinct creatures. I prefer Jules Verne.
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Julia Jorati, Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2024, 338pp., $39.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780197659243.
Reviewed by Peter K. J. Park, University of Texas at Dallas
#HistSTM #Slavery
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Reviewed by Peter K. J. Park, University of Texas at Dallas
#HistSTM #Slavery
https://buff.ly/4jbJSbG
January 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Julia Jorati, Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2024, 338pp., $39.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780197659243.
Reviewed by Peter K. J. Park, University of Texas at Dallas
#HistSTM #Slavery
https://buff.ly/4jbJSbG
Reviewed by Peter K. J. Park, University of Texas at Dallas
#HistSTM #Slavery
https://buff.ly/4jbJSbG
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The august facades and impeccable decorum of our great institutions arise from fortunes built on slavery and murder. As WH Auden noted of Oxford: "Knowledge is conceived in the hot womb of Violence".
This ritual cannibalism is perfectly symbolic of the whole.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
This ritual cannibalism is perfectly symbolic of the whole.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals
Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The august facades and impeccable decorum of our great institutions arise from fortunes built on slavery and murder. As WH Auden noted of Oxford: "Knowledge is conceived in the hot womb of Violence".
This ritual cannibalism is perfectly symbolic of the whole.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
This ritual cannibalism is perfectly symbolic of the whole.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler'
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'
www.rollingstone.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
Chanang Amparak argues that birdwatching requires multi-sensory epistemologies, in the case of Calidris Pygmeae. Knowledeges about birds are contested among formal ornithologists with visual technology and workers on the salt field. #animalstudies #socioecology
July 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Chanang Amparak argues that birdwatching requires multi-sensory epistemologies, in the case of Calidris Pygmeae. Knowledeges about birds are contested among formal ornithologists with visual technology and workers on the salt field. #animalstudies #socioecology
The Military Road Between Sevastopol and Simferopol in the Time of the Crimean War by Konstantin Nikolayevich Filippov shows camels in the Crimean War!
June 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The Military Road Between Sevastopol and Simferopol in the Time of the Crimean War by Konstantin Nikolayevich Filippov shows camels in the Crimean War!
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#OnThisDay, 28 June 1491, a baby boy was born to Elizabeth of York and Henry VII of England, a brother to their eldest son and heir Arthur.
They called him Henry - we do think he had something to do with a ship, quite a famous one too...
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They called him Henry - we do think he had something to do with a ship, quite a famous one too...
maryrose.org/discover/his...
June 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#OnThisDay, 28 June 1491, a baby boy was born to Elizabeth of York and Henry VII of England, a brother to their eldest son and heir Arthur.
They called him Henry - we do think he had something to do with a ship, quite a famous one too...
maryrose.org/discover/his...
They called him Henry - we do think he had something to do with a ship, quite a famous one too...
maryrose.org/discover/his...
#นินทานิทาน กลับมาแล้วค่ะ เราปิดจบซีรีส์ไอยคุปต์ของเราด้วยโอเปราเรื่อง ไอดา (Aida) ของจูเซปเป เวรดี (Giuseppe Verdi) คุณเอิร์ธพามาดูเรื่องราวในดินแดนไอยคุปต์โบราณ อันว่าด้วยเจ้าหญิงไอดา แห่งเอธิโอเปีย ผู้กลายเป็นคนรับใช้เจ้าหญิงอัมเนริส แห่งอียิปต์ เมื่อไอดารักราดาเมส ขุนพลแห่งแผ่นดินไอยคุปต์ผู้กำลังเดินทางไปยึดครองเอธิโอเปีย ความขัดแย้งระหว่างความรักและการเมืองปะทุ
June 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#นินทานิทาน กลับมาแล้วค่ะ เราปิดจบซีรีส์ไอยคุปต์ของเราด้วยโอเปราเรื่อง ไอดา (Aida) ของจูเซปเป เวรดี (Giuseppe Verdi) คุณเอิร์ธพามาดูเรื่องราวในดินแดนไอยคุปต์โบราณ อันว่าด้วยเจ้าหญิงไอดา แห่งเอธิโอเปีย ผู้กลายเป็นคนรับใช้เจ้าหญิงอัมเนริส แห่งอียิปต์ เมื่อไอดารักราดาเมส ขุนพลแห่งแผ่นดินไอยคุปต์ผู้กำลังเดินทางไปยึดครองเอธิโอเปีย ความขัดแย้งระหว่างความรักและการเมืองปะทุ
James Joyce's Ulysses and the nonhuman: Nestor (A thread)
[I'm a beginner for Joyce's writing, and I want to make a thread of quotes from Ulysses and pictures I think quite related to the quotes, sometimes not so directly.)
[I'm a beginner for Joyce's writing, and I want to make a thread of quotes from Ulysses and pictures I think quite related to the quotes, sometimes not so directly.)
June 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
James Joyce's Ulysses and the nonhuman: Nestor (A thread)
[I'm a beginner for Joyce's writing, and I want to make a thread of quotes from Ulysses and pictures I think quite related to the quotes, sometimes not so directly.)
[I'm a beginner for Joyce's writing, and I want to make a thread of quotes from Ulysses and pictures I think quite related to the quotes, sometimes not so directly.)
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This week was the 50th anniversary of Jaws, and I spoke to a lot of journalists about it.
I’ve rounded up my media outreach here for you, the people
www.southernfriedscience.com/a-roundup-of... 🧪🌎🦑🐠🦈
I’ve rounded up my media outreach here for you, the people
www.southernfriedscience.com/a-roundup-of... 🧪🌎🦑🐠🦈
A roundup of my media outreach for Jaws’ 50th anniversary
Jaws turned 50 this week, and I spoke with a lot of journalists about it. I wrote about what’s happened to sharks in the 50 years since Jaws came out- some of the worst years in these animals…
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June 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This week was the 50th anniversary of Jaws, and I spoke to a lot of journalists about it.
I’ve rounded up my media outreach here for you, the people
www.southernfriedscience.com/a-roundup-of... 🧪🌎🦑🐠🦈
I’ve rounded up my media outreach here for you, the people
www.southernfriedscience.com/a-roundup-of... 🧪🌎🦑🐠🦈
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Avengers Academy. Justin Jin/Marcus Wetherell. 🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month, babes 🏳️🌈
If you're not reading this series, you should be. It just keeps getting better and better. 🎨
If you're not reading this series, you should be. It just keeps getting better and better. 🎨
June 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Avengers Academy. Justin Jin/Marcus Wetherell. 🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month, babes 🏳️🌈
If you're not reading this series, you should be. It just keeps getting better and better. 🎨
If you're not reading this series, you should be. It just keeps getting better and better. 🎨
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Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
Columbia graduate and legal US resident was targeted by White House for speaking out against the Israeli war in Gaza
Mahmoud Khalil – the Palestinian rights activist, Columbia University graduate and legal permanent resident of the US who had been held by federal immigration authorities for more than three months – has been reunited with his wife and infant son.
Khalil, the most high-profile student to be targeted by the Trump administration for speaking out against Israel’s war on Gaza, arrived in New Jersey on Saturday at about 1pm – two hours later than expected after his flight was first rerouted to Philadelphia. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention