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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)May 16

You have been warned! #earlymodern fishies and #seamonsters are the best (fight me!)

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/post/3mkkrvdmdc22a

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)Apr 24

"While ancient sailors may have been afraid of giant tentacled sea monsters, they probably never dreamed the monsters might be smart, too." Jake Currie in @[email protected] As I keep saying, sea monsters are real! 😀 🧪 #monsters #seamonsters 1/

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Massive Intelligent Octopuses Once Stalked the Primordial Oceans

Massive Intelligent Octopuses Once Stalked the Primordial Oceans: Here there be monsters

Colin Beveridge Apr 23

Attention All Shipping

https://makertube.net/w/rRpkBRahGPmBegiKaZbrTB

Attention All Shipping

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ShadowPlay Apr 14

Such a part of my childhood. #HRPufnstuff , #SigmundAndTheSeaMonsters, etc. Hail and farewell #SidKrofft!

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/childrens-tv-pioneer-sid-krofft-dies-at-96/3875180/

#SeaMonsters #Dragons #ChildhoodMemories

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)Jan 14

If almost no one uses a particular #PetPhraseOfYours then probably almost no one will be looking for it here. In the case of #seamonsters people DO use this hashtag and look for them here, so I use it. And you can use more than one hashtag in a post. 14/

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)Jan 6

And an earlier piece in @[email protected] magazine on #seamonsters: 2/2 aeon.co/essays/how-b...

How black holes are like sea m...

How black holes are like sea monsters at the edge of our vision | Aeon Essays

Like sea monsters on premodern maps, deep-space images are science’s fanciful means to chart the edges of the known world

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)Jan 6

This! Especially true of unfamiliar beings e.g. #seamonsters (sometimes illustrated from dead specimens). These illustrations were effectively diagrams, so they look different from, say, photographs in National Geographic. On getting around modern, kneejerk responses to premodern images:

Can the Archive Make a Monster...

Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian?

A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)Nov 26, 2025

I have a personal fondness for #seamonsters - if you only saw them when they were washed up on a beach or leaping in the ocean in the distance, how would you. draw them? aeon.co/essays/how-b...

How black holes are like sea m...