Jenny Shaw

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

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A green metal insulated mug with the logo for the Drafting the Past Podcast sitting on a white counter

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) 🗃️

Congratulations, Randy! 🥳

Oh wow! (this is what happens when you try and take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical...)

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

Thank you Lou, I had no idea! (sabbatical-ing from social media while on sabbatical...)

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...)

They do! The cover is 🔥
(I'm going to make sure that the extra goes to a good home 😊)

I love this reframing! 😭

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

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

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

This will be soooooo good! 🗃️

Pre-order available now
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

Amazing!!! So many congratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Home - The University of North Carolina Press

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

The same thing happened to me! It was probably only a few days until I got mine, but it felt like FOREVER 😆

Ummm of course!

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

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

Who could possibly have predicted this?

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! 🗃️

Oh amazing! Thank you!

Thank you! 🙏🏻

Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science Skulls were collected from all over the world because of some academics’ fascination with the discredited belief that skull shape denoted intelligence

And this one by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social and @severincarrell.bsky.social discusses the grim history of Edinburgh University’s “skull room” which includes those of two mixed-race brothers from Barbados. Difficult reading but great reporting 2/2 🗃️

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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 🗃️

Oh will do! A friend and I were messaging about it this morning (she actually did Psychology) and we were wondered if there was something more in the works!

I should say students protested, boycotted, and raised hell with Edinburgh administrators for years about the survey and about his racist views. And not much changed until 1997. Plus ça change... 3/3🗃️

It wasn't the purview of this report, but Edinburgh might take a look at more recent faculty like Brand. Who also made his students take the "Edinburgh Sociosexual Style Survey" for over a decade (and it is exactly as gross as the title suggests). 2/3 🗃️
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

“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.