Wonderful tribute to a teacher: young Sofonisba Anguissola paints herself being created by Bernardino Campi -- yet at same time, she is of course creating him! Today is her day.

Do you research early #bookhistory? Come to our #REBPAFConference : 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin! 📚 Key details: • Deadline: 15 Dec 2025 [Abstract (max 300 words) + short CV] • Themes: Selection,Value,Accessibility & Survival in book culture Follow the link for more info! #REBPAF

www.flad.pt/candidaturas... Para professores de Ciências Sociais ou História (portugueses ou residentes em Portugal). A grande área temática é Portugal contemporâneo.

ooooh sarah kirkland snyder has a new opera about hildegard von bingen! <3

Making a medieval manuscript was an artful process that required many types of specialised knowledge. Our latest article by @guyfassler.bsky.social is a catalogue of everything you need to know about making medieval books that would last a millennium. scilicet.org.uk/everything-y... #skystorians

The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025. www.rsa.org/general/cust...

haven’t been able to see a single aurora borealis occurrence in MA in the 3.3 years I’ve been here. it’s overcast right above our neighborhood every time. (also, our area is always muggier in the summer and browner in the fall... what gives?) I’m leaving in 1.5 month... come on, weather!

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.

This is why this is a problem for democracy. See my full piece on this here www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

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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 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

• Genesis • Nick Drake • Jordi Savall • Alice Coltrane • Milton Nascimento • Robert Fripp

"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 🧪

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.

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

Can you imagine what our ancestors thought of these? Pure magic.

🇧🇷Tuiuiú 🌎Jabiru mycteria Conservação:Pouco Preocupante O tuiuiú é uma ave ciconiiforme da família Ciconiidae. 📷 Leonardo Casadei

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.

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.

📗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

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.

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...

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🌍 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.

am now on mastodon as @plurabel

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.

só nomes nota dez esse aí

neko case’s new album is bringing my back to life after I read the news

“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.”

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.

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.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

You might have seen pictures from booklets depicting sins (including 'I drank so much I had to vomit'). But what was the purpose of these booklets and how many of them are there? Tine Van Osselaer and I sought it out in a new article that is now published: journals.lub.lu.se/STK/article/...

The pervasive reduction of human knowledge & understanding to 'information' in GenAI discourse is astounding. Trying to explain why we don't just need 'information' to AI zealots is like playing chess with a pigeon except the pigeon is the size of Texas & uses more electricity than a small country.

New translation for ‘exeunt omnes’ is ‘exit in unison’ I see..

A coat of arms has to be impressive, full of symbolism, it's important, it represents an powerful family or person, so you have to think long and hard about its design and take it very seriously. Or just put some underpants on it. Like Lord Jan van Abbenbroeck did;

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

I just love palestrina. can’t get enough. almost makes me a believer.

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

also, for me and I’m sure many more, the uncanny effect of history being somewhat undead is a key element in that tension between recognizability and mystery that makes exploring the past so appealing.

No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.

Dynamic Equivalence, Ecocritical Translation, Queer Translation

We are definitely not meant for this. And our nervous systems aren’t meant to be constantly exposed to global trauma, violence, and grief, either.

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When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

million things to do but they’ll wait – I’m drinking spearmint tea and listening to the new cate le bon album and it’s exquisite.