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Rachel McVeigh 魏瑞秀
@remcveigh.bsky.social
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Medieval Chinese poetry and poetics: genre, form, animals | currently working on cranes, sometimes filmic dogs | PhD candidate at Harvard | formerly Oxford/PKU | she/her
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tedunderwood.com
Well, I went ahead and wrote it. An attempt to work through the discomfort people feel with AI agents on social media by reframing it as an aesthetic problem.
The marionette theater of AI
Is it funny, or painful, when bots talk about their inner lives?
tedunderwood.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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caenhillcc.bsky.social
It’s toast time for donkey George and a run with Caroline & Kirsty Kirsty Clinch #toasttime @carolineartist.bsky.social @kirstyclinch.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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erinaceus.fr
Je suis un animal très souple 😝
January 30, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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moudhy.bsky.social
May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.
November 13, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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casntweets.bsky.social
TRANSPOSITIONES: Journal for Transdisciplinary and Intermedial Culture Studies, an English- and German-language journal, invites submissions for a special issue "Animals, Ethics, and Cultural Difference: Conflict, Coexistence, and Representation." Abstracts due 10 February, more at link below 🌿🐎🐂
CFP - Transpositiones
Transpositiones Vol. 5, No. 2 (Deadline: 10.02.2026)
transpositiones.uw.edu.pl
January 29, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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caenhillcc.bsky.social
Throw back to 2021 #BabyAnimals
January 28, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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chrisbrockett.bsky.social
This one is for my Chinese lit scholar friends...
benseyedit.bsky.social 勉誠社編集部 @benseyedit.bsky.social · 23d
山崎藍『中国古典文学に描かれた厠・井戸・簪　民俗学的視点に基づく考察』（オンデマンド版）(bensei.jp/index.php?ma...)
古代中国の人々が厠や井戸、簪といった場所・道具・行為をどのように認識し、如何にその象徴性を詩歌に反映させたかを綿密な資料調査と分析から考察する。
#中国古典文学
#民俗学
January 26, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
The populist politician
#Resistance
BL Stowe 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.84r
January 25, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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peterbozhang.bsky.social
When AI algorithms start watching rivers and dolphins. My latest for @thediplomat.com on how China’s AI systems are becoming environmental infrastructure—and what that means
January 25, 2026 at 7:59 AM
remcveigh.bsky.social
Passed my qualifying exams - now time to sleep for a minimum of three weeks…
January 22, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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kmichaelwilson.bsky.social
Baoyu was right about gender

many are now seeing this
April 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social
Taipei's National Palace Museum is offering a set of horse-themed digital wallpapers, including a #jade dagger helm from the Mughal Empire, and a rubbing of an illustrated brick from the Three Kingdoms period: www.npm.gov.tw/Media-Downlo...
蒙兀兒帝國 帶鑲嵌短劍柄 三國吳黃武元年馬畫像塼拓片
January 9, 2026 at 9:23 AM
remcveigh.bsky.social
New article on dog stars just dropped! Not my main field, but a really fun topic to explore 🐕🐾

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Pet Pride: The Reception of Hollywood Dog Stars in Republican-Era China
“People are lesser than dogs!” This refrain, often repeated in Republican-era publications with a mix of humor and bitterness, encapsulates the ambivalence at the heart of reactions to American “dog s...
www.degruyterbrill.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
remcveigh.bsky.social
translations of Chinese poetry are so often sinologese, but such immense beauty in the simplicity of parts of Meng Jiao’s lament for his infant son as translated by Owen – the first line here especially:
My son and the moon stole each other away, and thus my son's life could not last long.
January 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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chinarhyming.bsky.social
The Drum and Bell Towers seen from Beihai Park in a snowy Beijing day c.1930s
December 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
remcveigh.bsky.social
a different problem for Chinese specialists: seeing words like this and immediately thinking of them in pinyin (idk 東樂 or sth)

Other culprits: mingling, Bianchi, so many more
elimgarak240b.bsky.social Elim Garak @elimgarak240b.bsky.social · Dec 25
I hate when they try to make a hilarious sounding word a legitimate part of the vernacular that you're supposed to say with a straight face. Case in point:

Dongle.

That shouldn't be a real word.
December 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
remcveigh.bsky.social
Also cites this piece by my advisor on the future of “global medieval studies”, which will be of interest to medievalists beyond the E Asia sphere:

xtian.scholars.harvard.edu/publications...
December 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
remcveigh.bsky.social
This article is really wonderful, and articulates many of my unformed thoughts having infiltrated some medieval studies spaces this year—
Screenshot reading: Perhaps you could read our work in medieval studies and maybe even attend our conferences. The most recent issue of the journal Early Medieval China has a lengthy section titled "Forum: In the Middle of What? On Periodization and the Global Medieval."23 And a recent issue of the journal Al-'Usur al-Wustã: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists offers a roundtable on the Global Middle Ages.* After all, we are curious about your work—if we are thinking about the medieval at all, we've already met you halfway. Meet us in the middle—make our time count!— and work with us to create a better global medieval studies.
December 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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wapplehouse.bsky.social
Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP
December 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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tobbinatorscw.bsky.social
What in racialisation www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
December 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!

Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️

📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology
My photo shows a small Roman flask made of translucent cobalt blue glass in the form of a fat little mouse, 14.6 cm in length. The body of the vessel is rounded and stands on four feet made from tooled trails of glass. A separate blob of glass forms the head with eyes, ears, and a pointed nose. The neck of the flask is funnel-shaped and slightly up-turned to look like a tail. The flask surface is decorated with trails of glass which have been flattened and notched. Modern scholars refer to this type of trailed decoration as ‘snake thread’. On display at the Met Museum in New York
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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csmc-hamburg.bsky.social
Sources are the raw material of historical analysis, but their evidence is often qualitatively or quantitatively lacking – and sometimes entirely absent. The new volume of SMC explores the vast territory of missing evidence in the study of ancient cultures:
uhh.de/csmc-smc-50
December 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
I have a weird question for the #bird people on here. Do you think someone could tell that a book was pooped on specifically by a sparrowhawk (or perhaps hawks generally) just from the feces? I'm looking at a 16th c. case where witnesses claim books were pooped on specifically by sparrowhawks!
December 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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oewordhord.bsky.social
pynding, f.n: dam. (PUEN-ding / ˈpyn-dɪŋ)
Image: Lambeth Apocalypse; England, 13th century; @lampallib.bsky.social MS 209, f. 7v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Medieval manuscript illustration of a beaver making its way through water, gripping a piece of wood in its forefeet and mouth.
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM