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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Run, don’t stop, etc. High recommend! 🗃️

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Once more for the morning “this side of the Atlantic” folks 😊🗃️

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Reposting for those who recovering from the WC semi final! 🗃️

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#Skystorians! What are your favourite articles on the early modern Caribbean (anything up to and including the Haitian Revolution) for undergrads? Style and form as important as content (it's for a writing seminar). Please and thank you! 🗃️

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My column this week. In the face of unprecedented attacks on academic independence from Alabama politicians, the leaders of the University of Alabama and Auburn University have been weak. And they're allowing their schools to become another tiresome extension of state politics.

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Academic excellence suffers when Alabama college leaders shrink from fights | Alabama Reflector

The official reason Auburn’s Board of Trustees dissolved its faculty senate and took power over curricula? To “advance academic quality, transparency, consistency and institutional alignment while pre...

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Colman O'Sullivan @colmanos.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Loved this from first page to last.

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

And for those who'd rather listen than watch (that would be me!) head here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🗃️

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The Women of Rendezvous with Jenny Shaw

Podcast Episode · Revolutions in Retrospect · April 22 · 59m

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Huge thanks to @lynnprobbins.bsky.social for the great conversation and the whole REVOLUTIONS IN RETROSPECT team for putting the final product together. It was such fun! 🗃️ cc. @sonyabonczek.bsky.social; @uncpress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPvS...

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The Women of Rendezvous with Jenny Shaw I Revolutions in Retrospect

YouTube video by Primary Source Media

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Gotta love some Ben’s Bread!!! Had a fab time learning how-to with @playingcleo.bsky.social For those in the Tuscaloosa area (or willing to travel) who want the real thing prepped and baked by Ben and Nanda go here: www.bensbreadtuscaloosa.com (Pro-tip: if you want to be sure, do the preorder!)

Tarragon and red pepper flake focaccia with hella rose

Seeded wholewheat sliced in half, sitting on a wooden board with a stand mixer, orange and yellow jug, a flour canister, and a board with a beet on it and the legend “turn up the beet” in the background

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Willi Morris @williesha.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Reminder to non-Alabamians that the ICE surge is still happening, but it's quietly happening in red states.

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AAUP Alabama @alabamaaaup.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

HB 580 made it out of committee. Call your senator NOW and tell them to vote no! Tomorrow will be too late. #protecthighered #aaup #voteno

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A terrible solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Never change, Alabama GOP!

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AAUP Alabama @alabamaaaup.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

HB580 would effectively remove tenure, end faculty governance, and give control of curriculum over to the Board of Trustees--threatening the integrity of our curriculum and accreditation. We think curriculum should be designed by experts in the field, not politicians. What do you think?

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Two of my absolutely favorite book things together: @sonyabonczek.bsky.social and @draftingthepast.bsky.social Match made in heaven! 🗃️

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Great listen - bonus pen chat was an unexpected delight!

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

OMG, congratulations @melkatrey.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! So deserved!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Hot juice in the @draftingthepast.bsky.social insulated travel cup to get through this election night #Mamdani #onceaNewYorker… (and do yourselves a favour and go listen to the podcast while you wait for the results to come in) 🗃️

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Thank you @slaveryarchive.bsky.social! This is very unexpected - I had no idea!

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Thank you, Alyssa! (I'm trying to take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical, but then I miss very kind posts like this one...)

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

@csschmitt.bsky.social - it’s here, and it’s gorgeous! Looking forward to getting stuck in. Congratulations! 🥳 🗃️

Casey Schmidt’s book, THE PREDATORY SEA, resting on a brown wooden table

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

So, @profkfh.bsky.social, this is what happens when you preorder, forgot you preordered, and preorder again! Twice as nice 😆 @pennpress.bsky.social

Two copies of Kim Hall’s fabulous book THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE on a white table with part of a green Xmas cactus visible in the background

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This will be soooooo good! 🗃️ Pre-order available now www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

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Archival Irruptions

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Huge sale! @uncpress.bsky.social is letting their amazing catalogue go for 50% off to celebrate their new website. But don’t dither - it’s 48 hours only! You can get all kinds of great books including THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS at half price with code 01NEWSITE50 🗃️ uncpress.org

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Home - The University of North Carolina Press

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

@profkfh.bsky.social look what finally arrived - I cannot wait to dig in!!! 🤩

Kim F. Hall’s book, THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE, sitting on a wooden table partly on top of a purple, yellow, blue, and white table runner

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Who could possibly have predicted this?

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Some must-read follow-ups on yesterday’s stories on so-called race science at Edinburgh University from @theguardian.com This one by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social covers the Chris Brand of it all but does so much more 1/2 🗃️

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Glad that Edinburgh has done this, but couldn't help thinking that when I arrived in 1996 "racist scientific theories" were still being taught by Chris Brand in the psychology department, and had been for twenty-five years. 1/3 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds

Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Columbia just expelled or suspended 80 students for protesting in favor of Palestinian rights. Suspended students can only be readmitted if they "apologize"--otherwise the suspension converts to an expulsion. www.axios.com/2025/07/22/c...

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Columbia punishes students involved in pro-Palestinian protest

It comes as Columbia seeks a deal with the Trump administration to reinstate millions in federal funding.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

“The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable, and I do not want to spend another day operating on children who have been shot and starved by a military our government supports.” Devastating reporting.

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I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard

A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Thank you, Cate, for posting this because I missed this excellent piece the first time around! “For me, in the process of writing, you formulate your ideas, and by rewriting and editing, it really crystallises what you want to say. Having a machine do that is not what it’s about.” - Steve Royle

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Come for the very apt comparison of Musk to all four of the Golden Ticket winners in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; stay for the thoughtful and insightful review!

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

First attempt at gluten free focaccia for mum and I’m pretty impressed with the results! #BreadSky

Bowl of risen dough in a clear glass bowl sitting on a glass shelf in the fridge

Proved unbaked focaccia in a dark grey metal pan dimpled with yellow and red baby tomatoes halves and scattered with chopped green rosemary and salt sitting on a white and grey veined counter

The same foaccia now baked so more golden brown and resting in the pan on a metal silver cooling rack

A cross section of focaccia showing the rise and crumb with a bread knife laid across it and a tomato flipped on its side from the cut. The focaccia is sitting on a white chopping board

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Ummmm, file under "No shit, Sherlock." Just add to the "reasons AI is the devil's scourge, and has no place in the classroom" list that no higher ed admin appears able to comprehend.

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

There’s no place like home ❤️

Sunlight on rippling water with white clouds and hills in the background

Two shipbuilding cranes against a blue sky with tarmac in the foreground and in the immediate foreground the edge of a plane cabin window

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Like hundreds of other people I stood on Argyll Street last night to hear Rachel Zegler perform “Don’t Cry for me Argentina” and I’m so glad I did. Brilliant!

A crowd at dusk on Argyll Street in London looking up at the balcony of the Palladium theatre where a woman in a white dress is just visible with her left hand outstretched

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