SonaS11
@sonakshis11.bsky.social
Senior Writing Fellow@Ashoka University/Translation Fellow@SouthAsiaSpeaks/Translations Editor@Usawa/Educational Arm Assistant@Asymptote.
🔎 Discard Studies, Ecocriticism, Reading Pedagogies, Critical Theory.
🔎 Discard Studies, Ecocriticism, Reading Pedagogies, Critical Theory.
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SonaS11
@sonakshis11.bsky.social
· Aug 26
Got the brilliant opportunity to read and review Lomasko's latest for Asymptote.
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...
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www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...
@nplusonemag.com
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Baby Barthes! 🤟
12 November. Roland Barthes was born on this day in 1915. Here he is with his mother in Cherbourg (the city of his birth) in January 1916.
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Baby Barthes! 🤟
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@bodleian.ox.ac.uk 24 hours to go to my Photo Oxford talk at the Weston Library or online, exploring the life of Constance Talbot. Join me to hear about her witnessing the birth of #photography and her lifelong love of art. Wednesday 1-2pm Weston Library, Oxford:
photooxford.org/events/const...
photooxford.org/events/const...
Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
photooxford.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk 24 hours to go to my Photo Oxford talk at the Weston Library or online, exploring the life of Constance Talbot. Join me to hear about her witnessing the birth of #photography and her lifelong love of art. Wednesday 1-2pm Weston Library, Oxford:
photooxford.org/events/const...
photooxford.org/events/const...
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RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.
October 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.
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*FRANKENSTEIN SPOILERS *
As someone who teaches frankenstein every year, I had SO many thoughts about this film. I am a fan of GTD’s movies. Loved the nested doll structure and how freaky Elizabeth was. Loved the costumes, acting, and music
Was very ? about the time period shift by 50 years+
As someone who teaches frankenstein every year, I had SO many thoughts about this film. I am a fan of GTD’s movies. Loved the nested doll structure and how freaky Elizabeth was. Loved the costumes, acting, and music
Was very ? about the time period shift by 50 years+
October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
*FRANKENSTEIN SPOILERS *
As someone who teaches frankenstein every year, I had SO many thoughts about this film. I am a fan of GTD’s movies. Loved the nested doll structure and how freaky Elizabeth was. Loved the costumes, acting, and music
Was very ? about the time period shift by 50 years+
As someone who teaches frankenstein every year, I had SO many thoughts about this film. I am a fan of GTD’s movies. Loved the nested doll structure and how freaky Elizabeth was. Loved the costumes, acting, and music
Was very ? about the time period shift by 50 years+
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'Faith, though often unfashionable in the arts, emerges in Aboulela’s work not as an oppressor, but as a source of solace – a well of deep knowing.'
In #PENTransmissions, Sabrina Mahfouz’s encomium for #PENPinterPrize 2025 winner Leila Aboulela.
pentransmissions.com/2025/10/24/b...
In #PENTransmissions, Sabrina Mahfouz’s encomium for #PENPinterPrize 2025 winner Leila Aboulela.
pentransmissions.com/2025/10/24/b...
Between Worlds: Sabrina Mahfouz’s Encomium for Leila Aboulela
Sabrina Mahfouz’s 2025 PEN Pinter Prize encomium.
pentransmissions.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
'Faith, though often unfashionable in the arts, emerges in Aboulela’s work not as an oppressor, but as a source of solace – a well of deep knowing.'
In #PENTransmissions, Sabrina Mahfouz’s encomium for #PENPinterPrize 2025 winner Leila Aboulela.
pentransmissions.com/2025/10/24/b...
In #PENTransmissions, Sabrina Mahfouz’s encomium for #PENPinterPrize 2025 winner Leila Aboulela.
pentransmissions.com/2025/10/24/b...
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Something for all you Big Rebels to get behind!
A callout to UK indie booksellers to amplify Day of the Imprisoned Writer / 15th November.
A callout to UK indie booksellers to amplify Day of the Imprisoned Writer / 15th November.
Calling all indie bookshops... 📣
Take part in our #PENWrites letter-writing campaign in solidarity with writers in prison for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November.
Find out more & sign up ⬇️
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Take part in our #PENWrites letter-writing campaign in solidarity with writers in prison for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November.
Find out more & sign up ⬇️
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
PENWrites x Day of the Imprisoned Writer - English PEN
Bookshops: join us to send messages of solidarity to imprisoned writers around the world
www.englishpen.org
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Something for all you Big Rebels to get behind!
A callout to UK indie booksellers to amplify Day of the Imprisoned Writer / 15th November.
A callout to UK indie booksellers to amplify Day of the Imprisoned Writer / 15th November.
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At English PEN’s #PENPinterPrize event on Friday, Leila Aboulela, winner of the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize, announced writer, journalist and human rights activist Stella Gaitano as this year’s Writer of Courage.
Congratulations to both writers!
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Congratulations to both writers!
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Leila Aboulela shares PEN Pinter Prize 2025 with Stella Gaitano - News & Events - English PEN
www.englishpen.org
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
At English PEN’s #PENPinterPrize event on Friday, Leila Aboulela, winner of the 2025 PEN Pinter Prize, announced writer, journalist and human rights activist Stella Gaitano as this year’s Writer of Courage.
Congratulations to both writers!
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Congratulations to both writers!
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
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‘Five musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic are thought to have taken their instruments to the camps or ghettos, where they played music before they were liquidated. Then there was silence.’
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?
Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
‘Five musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic are thought to have taken their instruments to the camps or ghettos, where they played music before they were liquidated. Then there was silence.’
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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excellent essay: The Origin of the Research University open.substack.com/pub/asterisk...
The Origin of the Research University
Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?
open.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
excellent essay: The Origin of the Research University open.substack.com/pub/asterisk...
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How much does an unwell octopus cost?
Sick squid.
Sick squid.
October 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
How much does an unwell octopus cost?
Sick squid.
Sick squid.
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As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”
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Through the mail slot today. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Magadh by Shrikant Verma, translated from the Hindi by Rahul Soni. Both from @andotherstories.bsky.social.
October 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Through the mail slot today. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Magadh by Shrikant Verma, translated from the Hindi by Rahul Soni. Both from @andotherstories.bsky.social.
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"Would this mean we are listening / to the same song / everywhere / all the time?"
Lisa Asagi submerges into dark and resonant waters with her poems and whale sculptures in this month's poetry feature. Explore the depths on our website!
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Lisa Asagi submerges into dark and resonant waters with her poems and whale sculptures in this month's poetry feature. Explore the depths on our website!
buff.ly/uPRTr1X
September 2025 Poetry Feature: Earth Water Fire Poems, a Conversation
LISA ASAGI <br> "No one knows why / water becomes rain / only the how / and maybe the where"
buff.ly
October 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Would this mean we are listening / to the same song / everywhere / all the time?"
Lisa Asagi submerges into dark and resonant waters with her poems and whale sculptures in this month's poetry feature. Explore the depths on our website!
buff.ly/uPRTr1X
Lisa Asagi submerges into dark and resonant waters with her poems and whale sculptures in this month's poetry feature. Explore the depths on our website!
buff.ly/uPRTr1X
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RIP Jane Goodall, you were cool as hell for lots of things, but especially for liking this
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
RIP Jane Goodall, you were cool as hell for lots of things, but especially for liking this
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Registration is now open for the inaugural (hybrid) event of the Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds research network @crasshlive.bsky.social (Oct. 15) with talks by Banu Subramaniam and Stephen Hugh-Jones
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47794/
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47794/
Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Registration is now open for the inaugural (hybrid) event of the Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds research network @crasshlive.bsky.social (Oct. 15) with talks by Banu Subramaniam and Stephen Hugh-Jones
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47794/
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47794/
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER on longlist for National Book Award in Translated Literature! A monumental novel of European history and pleasures + pains of profound love in Anjet Daanje's stunning prose + David McKay's crystalline [email protected]
newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...
newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...
September 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER on longlist for National Book Award in Translated Literature! A monumental novel of European history and pleasures + pains of profound love in Anjet Daanje's stunning prose + David McKay's crystalline [email protected]
newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...
newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...
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Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."
niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/a...
#envhist #archives
niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/a...
#envhist #archives
Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories
Archival outliers—flowers, notes, photos, letters—challenge environmental historians, revealing unruly fragments that resist narrative placement yet inspire future histories.
niche-canada.org
September 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."
niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/a...
#envhist #archives
niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/a...
#envhist #archives
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"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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"Beautiful illustrations bring the animals to life" in NIGHT NIGHT, CHRISTMAS our new #TouchAndFeel storybook www.slj.com/review/night...
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"Beautiful illustrations bring the animals to life" in NIGHT NIGHT, CHRISTMAS our new #TouchAndFeel storybook www.slj.com/review/night...
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Oh this is BAD.
The new TOC from academia dot edu.
You grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness…
The new TOC from academia dot edu.
You grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness…
September 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Oh this is BAD.
The new TOC from academia dot edu.
You grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness…
The new TOC from academia dot edu.
You grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness…
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Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
September 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
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Would love to a publish #envhist response to this research on @nichecanada.bsky.social. DM me if interested.
"In the research published in the journal Earth, Richardson also identified the disappearance of natural words from books between 1800 and 2020, which peaked at a 60.6% decline in 1990."
"In the research published in the journal Earth, Richardson also identified the disappearance of natural words from books between 1800 and 2020, which peaked at a 60.6% decline in 1990."
🌳 Losing touch with nature
A new study finds people’s connection to nature has fallen 60% since 1800, risking an 'extinction of experience' without radical change.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#SciComm 🧪 #Nature
A new study finds people’s connection to nature has fallen 60% since 1800, risking an 'extinction of experience' without radical change.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#SciComm 🧪 #Nature
Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Would love to a publish #envhist response to this research on @nichecanada.bsky.social. DM me if interested.
"In the research published in the journal Earth, Richardson also identified the disappearance of natural words from books between 1800 and 2020, which peaked at a 60.6% decline in 1990."
"In the research published in the journal Earth, Richardson also identified the disappearance of natural words from books between 1800 and 2020, which peaked at a 60.6% decline in 1990."
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Really happy to have a new paper forthcoming at PPR!
Ever wondered if there’s any point in feeling regret? In this paper, I argue that regret is valuable because it helps us overcome temptation. Check it out: philpapers.org/rec/GOHRLA
Ever wondered if there’s any point in feeling regret? In this paper, I argue that regret is valuable because it helps us overcome temptation. Check it out: philpapers.org/rec/GOHRLA
September 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Really happy to have a new paper forthcoming at PPR!
Ever wondered if there’s any point in feeling regret? In this paper, I argue that regret is valuable because it helps us overcome temptation. Check it out: philpapers.org/rec/GOHRLA
Ever wondered if there’s any point in feeling regret? In this paper, I argue that regret is valuable because it helps us overcome temptation. Check it out: philpapers.org/rec/GOHRLA