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Maíra Mendes Galvão

@mmendesgalvao.bsky.social

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Translator. PhD candidate @ UMass Amherst. Early Modern Iberia, Translation Theory, Premodern Women. FLAD/BNP Summer Fellow 2025.

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · Nov 17

By way of proper intro: it is very nice to connect with all of you here. I’m a Brazilian PhD candidate working at an intersection between the seas of Translation Studies and Premodern Iberia, and some other promontories. I’m at UMass Amherst, advised by the excellent @albertlloret.bsky.social.

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 2d

I’d wear versions of kelce’s and mahomes’s outfits, by the way. well, versions of all of those outfits. in different colors, probably. no gray + red for me.

Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 2d

Dynamic Equivalence, Ecocritical Translation, Queer Translation

Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 2d

Historism, Annales School, Cultural History

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 7d

Barcelona = Figuig

I knew it!

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · May 5

Who can forget the Swiss-Austrian Union, or its famous capital - Istanbul.

AI generated ad by a company called Travello showing the 10 most visited cities in Europe, except the cities are hilariously poorly placed. London is in Wales, Paris is in Ireland, Rome is in France, Rom (yes like Rome but without an E) is in Spain, Barcelona is in Morocco, Prague is in Germany, Vienna is in Italy, Istanbul is in Austria, Milan is in Libya, and Antalya is correctly shown as in Turkey but is in the wrong place. Also a few of the borders like Switzerland and Austria or Hungary and Slovenia are missing.

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 8d

congrats from a stranger! on tenure & the lovely moment with the therapist. I get an extra kick when my therapist celebrates my (so far, not so big, but still) successes with me.

Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 8d

That looks incredible! Food in Mexico City is so, so good. In all price points, too.

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Chanequa Walker-Barnes @drchanequa.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Nathan Daniel Hernandez @natedhernandez.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think people were meant to hear the opinions of hundreds of strangers within a few scrolls and swipes

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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Assistant Professor - Modern Languages (Spanish Peninsular) - New York, NY - Indeed.com

The City University of New York (CUNY)

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 10d

thank you qobuz, now I also know there’s a new gwenno album and it is indeed divine as well

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 10d

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.

Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 10d

we’re experimenters!

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 10d

thank you for talking about her, marisa. I’m not sharing because I’m also a brazilian living in the US, so I don’t feel free to post what I want. but I appreciate all the work you do, and I’m glad you’re getting the word out about her (although this shouldn’t be happening to anyone, obvi).

Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 10d

even though I am an out of work translator, I will never not be be a translator, I will always think about translation, and I know that she will deliver

Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 11d

Happy International Translation Day!

Here’s part of my translation manifesto, which can be found in full at the end of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation.

(Written out in replies)

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Michelle Bastian @mhbastian.bsky.social · 13d

Ive seen LLMs pushed a lot to fellow #adhd students and scholarship to "help" them with things like detail work and structuring work. Ive also seen many punished for trusting this offer of help too. Here's what to use instead:

#academicsky

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 12d

I like it when people post very short, 3-4 word things and for a second I don’t know what the post’s language is. this is not sarcastic: I enjoy reading them in a tentative nothing and everything imaginary accent a few times until I land on the intended language.

Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 12d

same!

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 12d

This was great fun and a privilege to be part of. And doing it with one of my closest friends was the icing on the cake.

Goes live tomorrow and I’ll share the link.

Early Career Researcher Podcast @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social · 14d

Today, @rosiebonte.bsky.social and @rozierhistorian.bsky.social enjoyed talking to the amazing Jo and Ben on ‘Neurodiversity in Academia’: challenges faced, benefits gained, and their amazing work for @ucu.org.uk

Released Monday, links in bio
#academia #neurodiversity

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 13d

Interviewer: Can you explain that gap in your resume?
Translation Studies: The gap is not an accident, it’s a feature — without it, there is no translation to be studied.

Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 13d

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Specialist in Julian: This was a part that Hypatia's murderer didn't bother quoting in his attempt to refute it.

Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 13d

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Archaeologist: Well yes, there is a gap in middle Iron Age; woodland regeneration, difficult to identify forms of settlement, possible population decline, radiocarbon dates, also fewer Iron Age specialists compared to Bronze Age, early medieval?

Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 14d

exquisite! bravissimi :)

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 14d

amazing piece; gorgeous performance!

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 14d

This is one of those pieces where I am not sure the audience can ever understand the satisfaction we get in performing it successfully, but even so, I hope it's lovely to listen to.

Concinnity | "and the swallow" by Caroline Shaw

YouTube video by Consonare Choral Community

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 15d

"Our final defenses are more diffuse, working at a level of norms and attitudes. Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI." (finally reading this)

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social · 15d

been watching hamish macbeth and it is so sad that the captions say [speaking foreign language] when they’re speaking gàidhlig. there should be a translation following something like [in gaelic].

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Russ Wilcox @russwilcox.bsky.social · 17d

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · Jun 30

Reconstructing animals from their fossilized remains requires meticulous artistry and scientific rigour.

What was done to bones partly of a woolly rhinoceros discovered in Germany in 1663 arguably involved neither.

Behold the 'Magdeburg Unicorn' in all its tea-spitting glory.

(Yes, it's real.)

The Magdeburg Unicorn, a truly ludicrous "reconstruction" with two legs, no torso or neck, and one enormous horn projecting from its horse-like skull.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 17d

We have just launched our new application cycle for long- and short-term fellowships at the JCB!

Details at jcblibrary.org/fellowships/...

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