Jenny Shaw
@profjennyshaw.bsky.social
Historian in Roll Tide country. All things early modern Caribbean. The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery out now with UNC Press. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸 Views are my own etc.
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Jenny Shaw
@profjennyshaw.bsky.social
· Dec 3
Today is the official pub date for The Women of Rendezvous! It still feels surreal to hold it in my hands. It would not have happened without the amazing friends who got me over the finishing line nor the fab crew @uncpress.bsky.social
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Great listen - bonus pen chat was an unexpected delight!
What a pleasure to talk with @kawulf.bsky.social about her love of all aspects of her work for this episode! You'll hear about the making of her new book, Lineage (@oxfordunipress.bsky.social), and how she keeps writing as director of the @jcblibrary.bsky.social. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Episode 76: Karin Wulf Keeps Her Brain Humming Along - Drafting the Past
In this episode, Kate is joined by Karin Wulf, the director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, to discuss her new book, Lineage, and her research and writing process.
draftingthepast.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Great listen - bonus pen chat was an unexpected delight!
OMG, congratulations @melkatrey.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! So deserved!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
This year, the John Ben Snow Prize is awarded to Melissa Reynolds for her book Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print. Congrats @melkatrey.bsky.social !! 👏 @uchicagopress.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
OMG, congratulations @melkatrey.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! So deserved!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
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November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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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) 🗃️
(and do yourselves a favour and go listen to the podcast while you wait for the results to come in) 🗃️
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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) 🗃️
(and do yourselves a favour and go listen to the podcast while you wait for the results to come in) 🗃️
Thank you @slaveryarchive.bsky.social! This is very unexpected - I had no idea!
We are happy to announce the three finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024! The winner will be announced at the end of September. To know more about the three finalists, visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...
September 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thank you @slaveryarchive.bsky.social! This is very unexpected - I had no idea!
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...)
(I'm trying to take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical, but then I miss very kind posts like this one...)
And congrats too @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on this super review of your book in the AHR, which calls it a "methodological tour de force"! 🗃️
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
Jenny Shaw. The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery.
In the summer of 1686, a “great and numerous family” sailed from Barbados to London. They included 2 enslaved African women, an English female servant, 11
academic.oup.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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...)
(I'm trying to take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical, but then I miss very kind posts like this one...)
@csschmitt.bsky.social - it’s here, and it’s gorgeous! Looking forward to getting stuck in. Congratulations! 🥳
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August 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@csschmitt.bsky.social - it’s here, and it’s gorgeous! Looking forward to getting stuck in. Congratulations! 🥳
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So, @profkfh.bsky.social,
this is what happens when you preorder, forgot you preordered, and preorder again! Twice as nice 😆
@pennpress.bsky.social
this is what happens when you preorder, forgot you preordered, and preorder again! Twice as nice 😆
@pennpress.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So, @profkfh.bsky.social,
this is what happens when you preorder, forgot you preordered, and preorder again! Twice as nice 😆
@pennpress.bsky.social
this is what happens when you preorder, forgot you preordered, and preorder again! Twice as nice 😆
@pennpress.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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
uncpress.org
Home - The University of North Carolina Press
uncpress.org
August 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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
uncpress.org
@profkfh.bsky.social look what finally arrived - I cannot wait to dig in!!! 🤩
August 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
@profkfh.bsky.social look what finally arrived - I cannot wait to dig in!!! 🤩
Who could possibly have predicted this?
'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2
AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds
Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Who could possibly have predicted this?
Reposted by Jenny Shaw
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! 🗃️
August 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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! 🗃️
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 🗃️
This one by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social covers the Chris Brand of it all but does so much more 1/2 🗃️
More on that here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #Edinburghracereport
July 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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 🗃️
This one by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social covers the Chris Brand of it all but does so much more 1/2 🗃️
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...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Reposted by Jenny Shaw
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...
www.axios.com/2025/07/22/c...
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.
www.axios.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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...
www.axios.com/2025/07/22/c...
Reposted by Jenny Shaw
“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.
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
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:06 AM
“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.
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
“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
“They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years – to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies – to write that for you.” - Justine Bateman www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home
Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it
www.theguardian.com
July 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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
“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
Reposted by Jenny Shaw
Not great, Bob
How Are Students Really Using AI?
Here’s what the data tell us.
www.chronicle.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Not great, Bob
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!
Grateful to @contingent-mag.bsky.social and patient editor @marcus1984.bsky.social for giving me the chance to wrestle with this review!
"I am less interested in what motivates Musk to inflict misery on so many other people. I want to understand how a person like Musk was able to inflict so much misery in the first place."
Our latest, from @katecarp.bsky.social
Our latest, from @katecarp.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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!
Brilliant opportunity! 🗃️
Our posting is up for the @jcblibrary.bsky.social Associate Director -- please share! It's a good place to work, imho. 😀 brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
July 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Brilliant opportunity! 🗃️
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St Mary’s Children’s Home — Tuam:
“How hundreds of Irish babies came to be buried in a secret mass grave”
“How hundreds of Irish babies came to be buried in a secret mass grave”
Tuam: How hundreds of babies and toddlers came to be buried in an unmarked mass grave
Excavators are to begin a full investigation at the site of a former children's home.
www.bbc.com
July 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
St Mary’s Children’s Home — Tuam:
“How hundreds of Irish babies came to be buried in a secret mass grave”
“How hundreds of Irish babies came to be buried in a secret mass grave”
Sure would you be anywhere else?!?! #theresnoplacelikehome
July 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sure would you be anywhere else?!?! #theresnoplacelikehome
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.
Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” @chaykak.bsky.social writes.
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
nyer.cm
July 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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.