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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her)
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
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Historian. Monster consultant (documentaries, etc.). Words in LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science. Buy HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Feb 4
Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far.
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
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Launch Day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY!
Welcome back, and hallo, new readers! This is it! The US launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is February 4th. I’m amazed and relieved to get to this...
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Customer Care Skeleton @ccskeleton.bsky.social · 2h
Doc's book is a great read. One of my favorite non-fiction reads, tying really well together a series of topics across history, all connected to the theme of perception.

Monster making is now part of my vocab. 10/10.
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 17h
It's the anti-prime sale on @bookshop.org, with free shipping Oct 7 & 8!

If you have a nerd with a conscience on your "need to buy them a gift soon" list, perhaps HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY might be it? Or perhaps this is just the book for you for #spookyseason / #monstertober?

💙📚 🗃 #histsci
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Feb 4
Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far.
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 1h
Muito obrigada! So pleased to hear this and many thanks for sharing my post! Feeling very behind on things I’m writing at the moment, so it’s good to hear that people like the final results.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2h
Not to mention performing arts! The UK has some of the best talent in the world in film and TV. Not just actors but producers, lighting, ADs, makeup, costume, casting. High-end production companies come from around the world to make stuff here. Performing arts is a *massive industry for Britain*.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2h
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2h
If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.
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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10h
I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17h
“we’ve got a good relationship with the developer” you are the LABOUR PARTY you have got NO BUSINESS having a “good relationship” with a private developer
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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 17h
Vandals and crooks
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 10h
The current paradigm of "AI" encodes & recapitulates eugenicist, fascist, and generally bigoted tendencies— but previous paradigms did, too, & if these facts had been addressed, then, in the culture of technology specifically and our sociotechnical culture writ large, it might not still be like that
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 8h
"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 15h
Even the bear on the flag is furious.
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · 6d
Only 2 weeks before the Festival of Monsters! Keynote 10/15 by David Livingstone Smith, conference 10/16-17, and a day of events including a panel with @almakatsu.bsky.social Nat Cassidy, and @gretchenmcneil.bsky.social at @bookshopsantacruz.bsky.social on 10/18. Details monsterstudies.ucsc.edu
A skeletal monster with a skeleton bird on its tongue is the poster image for the 2025 Festival of Monsters, Oct. 15-18 in Santa Cruz, Calif.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 16h
Whoever it was that tried to silence me with this whole debacle botched it big time because I’ve picked up 1,200 new followers in 24 hours which is pretty fucking hilarious.

Streisand in FULL effect.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d
Unlike Jesus, I have returned.
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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d
The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 17h
It's the anti-prime sale on @bookshop.org, with free shipping Oct 7 & 8!

If you have a nerd with a conscience on your "need to buy them a gift soon" list, perhaps HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY might be it? Or perhaps this is just the book for you for #spookyseason / #monstertober?

💙📚 🗃 #histsci
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Feb 4
Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far.
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Launch Day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY!
Welcome back, and hallo, new readers! This is it! The US launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is February 4th. I’m amazed and relieved to get to this...
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 17h
@ucscmonsters.bsky.social something for your folks!
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 28d
Readers in North America can get 30% off by ordering HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY (and almost any other @ucpress.bsky.social book!) directly from the press. Enter UCPSAVE30 at this checkout: 2/ indiepubs.com/cart
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 26d
If you've been thinking about getting HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, the audiobook narrated by the magnificent @christinadelaine.bsky.social is also available via @libro.fm. 💙📚 🗃
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 26d
When you find out about Libro.fm, an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible that’s 100% employee owned, a Certified B Corporation, and shares profits with 4,000+ independent bookshops 😍
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 1d
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Translating the Violence of the Iliad: 2025-26 S. J. Stubbs Lecture in Classics | Department of Classics
In the 2025-26 S. J. Stubbs Lecture in Classics, Translating the Violence of the Iliad, Professor Emily Wilson of the University of Pennsylvania will assess the challenges of interpreting and translat...
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 1d
Through Oct. 31st, @princetonupress.bsky.social has a 70% off sale on a wide range of titles -- Susan Dackerman on Albrecht Dürer, Judith Herrin on Ravenna, Jed Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz on the Rosetta stone, James Costa on Alfred Russel Wallace, and more: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off
Book cover for Susan Dackerman, Dürer's Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East. Book cover for Judith Herrin, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. Book cover for Jed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Book cover for James Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 15d
I have likewise joined the exodus from academia-dot-edu in the wake of their new terms of service. For more on my background and work, you can now find me at Knowledge Commons: hcommons.org/members/karl...
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 18h
Ohhh, thanks!
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 18h
The "Policia" label on the shields was a clue, but the thing about stupid, lazy people is that they're stupid and lazy. So here we are, having to debunk photoshops that the Right is gleefully meming and sharing. "A lie can travel around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," as they say
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 18h
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 18h
😱 I had no idea - almost never watched them.
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 18h
Wrote a thing about using plagiarism-ecocide machines for anything communicative or qualitative - an excerpt from HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY: lithub.com/were-already...
We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI
Machines It’s 2019. I’m in a bar in Providence, Rhode Island, chatting with graduate students and researchers with PhDs. One of them, who holds a PhD in Latin American literature, observed approvin…
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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 19h
American Media outlets have a bias about reporting about religion as though it is anathema to critique the theocratic leanings of the current administration. I get more intelligent questions about how Christian Nationalism is operating in America right now from the foreign press.
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