With the the hundredth anniversary of Camilo Pessanha's death just behind us (1 March 2026), very happy to preview my essay in PMLA, on Camões, Pessanha, and their postcolonial legacies -- proofs just in, and due out soon!

Many thanks to @antbarros.bsky.social for translating my newsletter essay, "Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage," into Portuguese! Link to the original and to a backstory essay about my process are in the thread. 1/ #academicsky

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

We seem to have forgotten that to make great synthesis and all encompassing work. We need historians to get “dirty” doing the kind of work people did back in the day, combing through baptismal or death records, making local projects.

One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show

This halftime brought to you by the arts and humanities.

Incredible day at the Beinecke today! Got to co-lead an object session on early modern materials. One highlight: the oldest Yale College catalogue, dating back to 1742.

I wrote a little thing about the iconic Blush by GALLIM www.dance-enthusiast.com/get-involved...

Muito bom, @braislamela.bsky.social! Parabéns!

Algo fermoso entre tanta fealdade. Para las amigas de New Haven, nuestra presentación del primer número de Variantes. Arte da maravilhosa Thay Kleinsorgen❤️‍🔥

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

#AI may indeed exacerbate our bad academic habits: #LLM science summaries were nearly five times more likely than human-authored science summaries to contain broad generalizations (95% CI [3.06, 7.70], p < 0.001). And newer models over-generalized more; not less! doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #philSci

Here it is! All of my sleep/insomnia visualized for 2025. One Z for each night. The thread colors represent the amount of sleep while the beads signify types of wakefulness. All tracked and coded manually in my sleep journal and stitched over the course of the year. #DHmakes

Do you swear to yell “cowabunga” when you and the other ninja turtles leap into battle? I do.

zohran will fail us many times because that is what politicians do. but what a change it is to have a little bit of hope about the place you live

The new edited volume "Paisajes del subsuelo" examines the dynamics and contradictions of Venezuela as a “modern oil nation,” offering critical perspectives on petromodernity and petroculture as a planetary superstructure. 📖🔗: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

'Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalián de España, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.' 1/2

Are you a recent humanities PhD with a background in Buddhist Studies? Learn how you can work with a museum or publisher as a Buddhism Public Scholar to share knowledge of Buddhist art, thought, and traditions: https://bit.ly/3RYbaXS

Many of you may be interested in this. guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-sympo...

Happy to report I’ve been accepted to ACLA 2026! Will be presenting on a dissertation chapter on East Timorese literature. Exciting!

Meu novo livro sobre literatura mundial/mundo já está disponível, gratuitamente, aqui: www.edicoesmakunaima.com.br/2025/12/01/m...

A marvelous thread of textile designs! Makes me think of a possible assignment for next year's Data Visualization with Textiles: put together a selection of patterns/stitches/etc. and have students pick some and think about how they'd work them to represent data. #DHmakes

Thanks to Champagne for linking to another article of mine, which offers further justification as to why telling students to audit a ChatGPT essay for errors is also ill advised. bsky.app/profile/mich...

New Book! Dr. Reena Goldthree's "Democracy's Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean" examines how Afro-Caribbean soldiers fought for racial equality, economic justice, and political rights during and after WWI. 30% off Princeton University Press: code PUP30

Boo, Ronaldo. Boo.

@thrasherxy.bsky.social remembers writer, advocate, and friend Alice Wong: “Alice helped decolonize disability communities of their (often) white-centered nature and acted as a bridge between so many interdependent related struggles.”

Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾 Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Aaaaand this is why he’s my favorite

In Albis by Beatriz Milhazes, 1995 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137884

Took my students to the Beinecke last week to look at contemporary materials of the Asian diaspora in Latin America! Pictured: contracts of indentured servitude for Chinese migrants in Cuba.

The Carnation and the Rose by Beatriz Milhazes, 2000 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137364

Saramago. É isto, amigos, é isto cada vez mais.

Bolo de cenoura, a carrot cake often found in Portuguese and Brazilian bakeries, is thrilling in its simplicity. It doesn't require any grating. nyti.ms/493y3Si

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

Next week, Rosario Hubert of @trinitycollege.bsky.social at Yale!

Untitled by Tadaaki Kuwayama, 1962 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137225

After some research and experiments I came to the conclusion that it was feasible to design a computational-robotic system, without AI, capable of automatic drawing. In my practice I started producing various experimental drawings with pen plotters and algorithms,... 1/5

In an oven pan, put two pounds of of tomatoes or tomatillos or a mix , half a sliced onion, five garlic cloves in husk and if using, fresh jalapeños or serranos or habaneros. Or you can instead use toasted dry árbol. Remove garlic when roasted. Let everything else char, and blend, process or mash.

Great opportunity at my alma mater!

New Special Issue on Black People in New Spain 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 "Negros, mulatos y pardos en Nueva España y sus regiones, Vol. 46 Núm. 183 (2025): (Otoño) Link: revistarelaciones.colmich.edu.mx/index.php/re...

Com passagens pelo Porto e pelo Fólio, o professor brasileiro Caetano Galindo dá-nos em Latim em Pó uma visão do português a partir do Brasil, onde ele foi moldado pelas línguas locais e dos escravos.

"Berghain" — Rosalía (2025)

Delayed flight through SFO means I got to check out their exhibit on Chinese woven baskets. Silver linings @sfomuseum.bsky.social

Since I can do absolutely nothing because AWS has made virtually every system I need right now inaccessible, I get the day off, right?

I forgot to add @cleahy.bsky.social will be there! This will certainly be a provocative conversation about the field of early modern studies and race!

Forthcoming (April 2026): The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics - Edited by Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh Thiam | Duke University Press | More information can be found here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-essentia...

Excited to be in conversation with Koichi Hagimoto next week—stop by if you’re in New Haven!

Feira de arte contemporânea decorre no Regent’s Park até 19 de Setembro. A Galeria Francisco Fino, presente pela primeira vez, vai mostrar trabalho dos anos 70 de Helena Almeida.