Maíra Mendes Galvão

A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.

It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.

ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.

permit me to add that 'we can destroy the physical, as well as the learning, environment while doing so' 😑

There are zero accommodations on the faculty side for disability in academia; and, with more faculty becoming disabled due to COVID and the simple fact that living through our current hellscape is a debilitating context, this is going to get real bad, real fast.

But hey, accommodations, right?

We have universities capitulating to federal shakedowns, professors being chased from their jobs, and AI functioning as the very antithesis of thought and intellectual development. But the real crisis is that some students get more accommodations on tests to express more fully what they've learned?

This! Also, if you truly believe that accommodations (or reasonable adjustments, as we'd call them) have gone too far, there's an excellent method to ensure you never have to do any ever again. It's called inclusive learning, teaching and assessment design (or Universal Design for Learning).

Foot of 1646 broadside with imprint Bologna, herede del Benacci. Below this, border decoration with scrolled vegetation.

Imprint at foot of broadside (Barcelona, Rafael Figuerò, 1683). Below this, woodcut border decoration with bird and flowers. A wide blank margin below this.

Broadside Borders: Bologna & Barcelona.

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

what a sweet face <3 I’ve had a boxer as a teen... aw. lots of love and comfort for him and his humans from this internet stranger.

El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped

Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages” This is not YET another article on why calling the early middle ages the dark ages is iffy, it’s a list of sources & references. These days most historians no longer use the term “D…

In stead of sending a link to old threads every time someone uses the term "Dark Ages", I decided to put it all in an article.

Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.

Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...

Sargon would nevah

today was a great day for brazil. <3 ainda bem que sou brasileira, graças a endovelicus.

I kept thinking it’s impossible to work in academia if you are hungover all the time... even more so if you're also a middle-aged woman (I’d know)! cinema should be confident in its parallax view of reality, ofc, but also I couldn’t not find it funny just how off it all was. stylish movie, though.

low quality still from saturday night live’s church lady, played by dana carvey. the actor is characterized as a woman with a stiff blonde coiff, wearing glasses and a blue and purple twin set.

reading brazilian papers a lot lately because of recent glorious developments, and came across one piece of news that had all the verbs that should be in the simple past as “ended up doing x...” and “x ended up happening...” and so on. all of them. I wonder who the culprit is. could it be...sAItan?

Clássicos Greco-Latinos Traduzidos por Mulheres no Brasil (Cadernos de Tradução USP) revistas.usp.br/clt

“sabe qualé, eu tava entediado, com insônia, daí saí brincando com o ferro de solda, escrevi j & m na cabeceira da cama, fiz uns furim na cortina, abri uns carrinho de controle remoto, aí já viu né, fiquei curioso com esse trem aqui..."

for a split second, I really thought zoey deutch there was jean seberg

Um pequeno pássaro de plumagem esverdeada, com nuances de oliva e cinza, empoleirado num galho seco. Possui um bico fino e escuro, olhos atentos e asas com barras discretas. A cauda longa e estreita aponta para baixo, enquanto as patas pretas agarram o galho com firmeza. O fundo mostra uma vegetação exuberante e desfocada, com tons de verde que contrastam suavemente com a ave. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Tucão
🌎Elaenia obscura
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

O tucão é uma ave passeriforme da família Tyrannidae. Também conhecido por guaracava, guaracava-de-óculos, guracava, maria-tola e tonto.

📷 José Silvio Abras

Wonderful tribute to a teacher: young Sofonisba Anguissola paints herself being created by Bernardino Campi -- yet at same time, she is of course creating him! Today is her day.

CFP: Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures Keynotes: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University Date & Location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Re-mediat…

Do you research early #bookhistory?
Come to our #REBPAFConference : 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin!

📚 Key details:
• Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
[Abstract (max 300 words) + short CV]

• Themes: Selection,Value,Accessibility & Survival in book culture

Follow the link for more info!

#REBPAF

Candidaturas Abertas: Professor Visitante na Universidade de Brown 2026/2027 - FLAD Vão ser selecionados dois professores para lecionar durante um semestre cada. Candidaturas até 30 de novembro.

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Para professores de Ciências Sociais ou História (portugueses ou residentes em Portugal). A grande área temática é Portugal contemporâneo.

this is so horribly insidious.

Review: Hildegard of Bingen’s Extraordinary Life, on Operatic Scale

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/a...

ooops, that’d be snider, with an i

ooooh sarah kirkland snyder has a new opera about hildegard von bingen! <3

Medieval manuscript

Making a medieval manuscript was an artful process that required many types of specialised knowledge.

Our latest article by @guyfassler.bsky.social is a catalogue of everything you need to know about making medieval books that would last a millennium.
scilicet.org.uk/everything-y... #skystorians

The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025.

www.rsa.org/general/cust...

haven’t been able to see a single aurora borealis occurrence in MA in the 3.3 years I’ve been here. it’s overcast right above our neighborhood every time. (also, our area is always muggier in the summer and browner in the fall... what gives?)

I’m leaving in 1.5 month... come on, weather!