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MJ Pardon

@pardon-mi.bsky.social

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late medievalist, AI-hater, assistant prof at a SLAC in rural KY

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Rüssell. He/Him/Y’all @ayestretchaye.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Happy St Guinefort Day to all who celebrate. Thanks to @pardon-mi.bsky.social for teaching me about this when I first wandered on to TikTok.

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MJ Pardon @pardon-mi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Call for Papers -- ICMS Kalamazoo 2026 Session Title: "The Low Countries and Beyond" Abstracts due September 15!

Call for Papers -- ICMS Kalamazoo 2026
Session Title: The Low Countries and Beyond
This regionally-oriented session invites proposals from any disciplinary or methodological approaches that focus on the medieval Low Countries and/or Middle Dutch texts. As suggested by the “and beyond” in the title, we would welcome papers that draw comparisons to other regions or examine connections to and influences on/from the wider world.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted via the Confex portal by September 15, 2025.
This session will be held in-person.

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MJ Pardon @pardon-mi.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

playing dress up for summer teaching 😝

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MJ Pardon @pardon-mi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

💯💯💯

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

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MJ Pardon @pardon-mi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

you know you've made it as a medievalist in the (semi)public eye when you start getting unsolicited messages from people who claim to have deciphered the Voynich . . .

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MJ Pardon @pardon-mi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I was on a podcast! Always a delight to chat about Eleanor Rykener, reading medieval criminal records, and queer history 🌈 open.spotify.com/episode/1C8S...

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Eleanor Rykener: Trans Sex Worker of Medieval London? (feat. Dr. Mireille Pardon)

Historical Homos · Episode

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Anita Hoffmann @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Ahem... my first acedemic article just went live on the BMJ/STI website. What can 'hidden' cures in handwritten family recipe books tell us about how people dealt with STIs in the long 17th century? doi.org/10.1136/sext... #17thC #earlymodern