Kate Sheppard

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Just in time for your drive home. @k8shep.bsky.social @colincolbourn.bsky.social talking about one of the greatest romcoms ever made. NOTTING HILL drops right now on Reckoning with Jason Herbert. Tune and subscribe below.

This Thursday, online public lecture Manchester Egyptology Seminar Series - Dr Kathleen Sheppard @k8shep.bsky.social Prof. of History at Missouri University of Science & Technology: ‘“How Winning a Woman of Study Can Be” in Early American Egyptology’
Oct 2nd, 5pm UK: zoom.us/j/91521871294

Saw a guy in a shirt today that read: G*ns don’t fill the hole in your soul. You need bullets, too.
In case you’re wondering how deep red rural areas are doing and what it’s like to live in one.

Some questions simply should not be asked.

Peacock interrupted coverage of the women’s marathon in Tokyo for a heat of the men’s 1500. Bloody typical.

Do join us!!

Don’t forget my pirate joke—that goes in the PROMO, FLETCHER

Yes we are the first blind match up!! Can’t wait!

Our dean of libraries and our registrar were both fired this week with no (revealed) plan for replacing them.
Everything seems fine. It’s all okay over here.

Hahahaha! Every time I shop I come home with at LEAST 4 annoyed stories

Situational awareness challenge: grocery store addition.
Maybe the WHOLE FAMILY doesn’t need to stand in front of the milk cooler, chatting.
Carts go on one side or the other of the aisle. NEVER in the middle!
Hi did you know you came to a COMPLETE STOP in the entry and no one can get around you??

When I was a grad student she told me always to have library access, so I could keep working no matter what. Her impact on history of science is truly mind-boggling.
If you’re going to #HSSNOLA2025, be sure to come to our reception and panel about her legacy.

Corrosive Conformity: Evil Banalities Are the Building Blocks of the Trump Administration's Fascist Architecture DHS’s social media is at it again, and while I'm looking forward to more deep dives into DHS speechwriter Eric Lendrum’s personal life, it’s the posts themselves—on a verified government account!—that...

I have a short piece up @religiondispatches.org today on fascist architecture and the Trump Administration. I hate the guy running that account, but he's the (white supremacist) gift that keeps on giving.

religiondispatches.org/corrosive-co...

Whoopsies!!

a man in a suit is holding a cup of coffee and saying you 'd better believe it . ALT: a man in a suit is holding a cup of coffee and saying you 'd better believe it .

It was difficult to explain to my 11yo the cultural hold that the Seinfeld episode that revealed Kramer’s first name held on all of us in the winter of ‘95.

Omg let’s DO THIS. If reckoning isn’t the place then WHERE.

ME TOO. I saw you on the pod cuts @herberthistory.bsky.social posted and I was like WHY NOT INVITE ME GUYS????

Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.

I was threatened with SA in two different semesters. My campus offices? “Oh just ignore them.”

You know it’s not the heat so much as it is the unyielding atmospheric stress and relentless legacy pressure to feel the same way you did 30 years ago when the things you were promised for a lifetime of hard work still existed

Sorry I meant humidity” I hate autocorrect 🙄

Oh my gosh. Thank you SO MUCH!! Your drink and next read both look fab. ❤️

Call for papers: Artificial Influence and the Engineering of Mass Persuasion Conference The Artificial Influence and the Engineering of Mass Persuasion Conference, co-hosted by the Center for Science, Technology and Society, the Kummer Institute Center for AI and Autonomous Systems and M...

The Center for #STS at Missouri S&T is co-hosting a conference this fall called Artificial Influence and the Engineering of Mass Persuasion.
Are there too many #AI themed things? YES. Will this one be different? YES. Should you check it out? Also YES. #CfP
econnection.mst.edu/2025/07/call...

Muahahahahaha!! So glad you have jumped fully in! 😊

Dear Dr! Do you have a manuscript to publish??

Oh!! The foundation of that collection came from Robert Hay’s collection in 1872 (as you well know). It’s a great collection! Hay married a 14 year old girl who he purchased from a slave auction in Alexandria when she was 8. He was 29 when he married her. (There’s ALWAYS a story.)

You can get WOMEN IN THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS from your library! #ILoveLibraries

Something tells me this guest essay author is being snubbed by their family…

I hope you both get rest and enjoy the book!! I hear you on perimenopause everything. ❤️

On the 4th, my kid & his cousin debated why we saw the flash before the bang in fireworks.
My kid (11 yo): Mom, will you tell her about the speed of sound and light?
Me: Sure! [explains]
My sister’s friend: …whyyyyy do you know that? …what do you do for a living?!
Me: I’m a historian of science
😎