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

Carbono@carbonoufrgs.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Vol. 16 no ar: entrevista com Elizabeth Povinelli sobre o geontopoder; artigo de @wanderinggaia.bsky.social sobre mudança climática; de @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social sobre ciência e ChatGPT, de Bogna Konior sobre a internet; e resenha de C. Kammsetzer sobre Richard Powers. Leia 👇 ufrgs.br/carbono

"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...

Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco

The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...

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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

Doug Mack@douglasmack.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...

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!

Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Michael Barron on "What Remains": "The trip to Ernes is too experiential, its characters too quotidian and carefree, to be fecund for a novel. It is the book’s great strength that it doesn’t have to behave as one." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-remains-lamela-review-autofiction/

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...

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

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#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

Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research

Abstract. Artificial intelligence chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to increase public science literacy and support scient

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Matt Grossmann@mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Because AI models are trained on current research practices, they may exacerbate our tendencies like overselling results from limited data, overinterpreting statistical significance, & quickly claiming causality, especially because they are even better at generating interpretations of any results

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.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Mamdani plans to take the oath of office on New Year’s Eve in a disused subway station beneath city hall… “It was a physical monument to a city that dared to be both beautiful and build great things that would transform working peoples’ lives,” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social said. Encouraging.

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

‘From her pen sprang unforgettable females’: 16th-century Spanish author’s knight’s tale given reboot

Beatriz Bernal’s pioneering novel features brave, chivalrous women who ride dragons and her adapter wants his illustrated version to reach young readers

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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

Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono

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...

Michèle Champagne@michelechampagne.com · 8mo ago

These assignments encourage people to become DIY detectives, exacerbating a boom in conspiracy theories. The “permission structure of doubt” normalises suspicion as a default setting and suggests that another algorithm (like Google’s search) can discover the truth. By @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social:

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.”

Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend

Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I  was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…

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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...

Black Knights

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...

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Aaaaand this is why he’s my favorite

Comunidade Cultura e Arte@comculturaearte.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A lenda da música britânica Paul McCartney vai lançar uma faixa silenciosa em dezembro, por ocasião da reedição de um álbum, também silencioso, em protesto contra um projeto de lei sobre inteligência artificial que enfraquece os direitos de autor. Sabe+: comunidadeculturaearte.com/paul-mccartn...