Shannon McSheffrey
@medievalmcsheff.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal; president of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 2024-26. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
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Free child care for 5-18 year olds is one of the most significant and obviously beneficial developments in human history, but you seek to expand it to 1-4 year olds and its wild eyed socialism.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Free child care for 5-18 year olds is one of the most significant and obviously beneficial developments in human history, but you seek to expand it to 1-4 year olds and its wild eyed socialism.
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every time some prominent man is like ‘but all men want to fuck 17 year olds! every last one!’ i feel just fucking empty man. because there’s no way to confirm it isn’t true is there? i can’t prove that all of civilization isn’t just an elaborate cover for men’s supposed desperation to fuck children
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
every time some prominent man is like ‘but all men want to fuck 17 year olds! every last one!’ i feel just fucking empty man. because there’s no way to confirm it isn’t true is there? i can’t prove that all of civilization isn’t just an elaborate cover for men’s supposed desperation to fuck children
Yes! Mind you, this is only American academia, not a universal practice. Canadian unis used to go straight to shortlist on-campus interviews, which at least had the merit that candidates did not have to fund the expensive conference on the off-chance of those interviews leading to something
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Yes! Mind you, this is only American academia, not a universal practice. Canadian unis used to go straight to shortlist on-campus interviews, which at least had the merit that candidates did not have to fund the expensive conference on the off-chance of those interviews leading to something
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If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
Fantastic news from @themedievaldrk.bsky.social and from my university’s press @concordiapress.bsky.social ! So glad to see this out!
Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Fantastic news from @themedievaldrk.bsky.social and from my university’s press @concordiapress.bsky.social ! So glad to see this out!
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Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...
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my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
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"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
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'... Final 😀', '... Finally final, absolutely no more amendments, v. 11 😭'
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
'... Final 😀', '... Finally final, absolutely no more amendments, v. 11 😭'
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No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
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University of Cambridge - Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400:
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University of Cambridge - Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400 | MEMOs
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400 (Cambridge, UK)
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November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
University of Cambridge - Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400:
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memorients.com/news/univers...
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Fun day in Prince Albert National Park, where a herd of elk crossing the road is a nice change from regular traffic.
Fun day in Prince Albert National Park, where a herd of elk crossing the road is a nice change from regular traffic.
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Fun day in Prince Albert National Park, where a herd of elk crossing the road is a nice change from regular traffic.
Fun day in Prince Albert National Park, where a herd of elk crossing the road is a nice change from regular traffic.
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Really disturbed seeing my high school do this.
Last week an indigenous student at my local high school was suspended for an Insta post strongly criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Read & sign if you think the school has no business policing students’ political views (or language on social media…)
openletter.earth/petition-to-...
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Petition to revoke the suspension of Sunny Picard
openletter.earth
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Really disturbed seeing my high school do this.
Last week an indigenous student at my local high school was suspended for an Insta post strongly criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Read & sign if you think the school has no business policing students’ political views (or language on social media…)
openletter.earth/petition-to-...
openletter.earth/petition-to-...
Petition to revoke the suspension of Sunny Picard
openletter.earth
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Last week an indigenous student at my local high school was suspended for an Insta post strongly criticizing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Read & sign if you think the school has no business policing students’ political views (or language on social media…)
openletter.earth/petition-to-...
openletter.earth/petition-to-...
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Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
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One of the main architects of our present descent, and just because he didn’t like where things headed doesn’t mean the he ever took responsibility, much less faced justice for his crimes.
Dick Cheney, one of the most polarizing vice presidents in US history, has died. bloom.bg/4oqCbR4
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
One of the main architects of our present descent, and just because he didn’t like where things headed doesn’t mean the he ever took responsibility, much less faced justice for his crimes.
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I have never in my life encountered a more bespoke internet meme.
#CalvinAndHobbes #VoynichManuscript #Medievalsky
#CalvinAndHobbes #VoynichManuscript #Medievalsky
November 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have never in my life encountered a more bespoke internet meme.
#CalvinAndHobbes #VoynichManuscript #Medievalsky
#CalvinAndHobbes #VoynichManuscript #Medievalsky
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You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
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If our economic system is so brittle that it can be destroyed by free buses, maybe we should try for something more resilient.
Holy crap, WP. “The young politician was born into a life of wealth and privilege, and from that perch he adopted a worldview centered around destroying the economic system that made his adopted country thrive.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Zohran Mamdani’s success is a warning
How did a socialist with almost no governing experience become New York’s mayoral frontrunner?
www.washingtonpost.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
If our economic system is so brittle that it can be destroyed by free buses, maybe we should try for something more resilient.
Il est encore temps de vous inscrire pour écouter Laura Moncion parler des reclus médiévaux !
Mercredi à 11 h EST sur Zoom, 👇
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La SCM en ligne : le mercredi 5 novembre 2025 à 11 h (heure de l'Est) on écoute Laura Moncion, lauréate du prix Boyle 2025, parler de sa thèse intitulée « Being a Recluse is No Small Thing: Late Medieval Women’s Reclusion in Theory and Practice ».
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On 5 Nov. 2025 at 11h00 (EST), the Canadian Society of Medievalists will hold its second annual Boyle Prize Online Presentation, when Laura Moncion, the winner of the Society's Leonard E. Boyle Prize ...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Il est encore temps de vous inscrire pour écouter Laura Moncion parler des reclus médiévaux !
Mercredi à 11 h EST sur Zoom, 👇
Mercredi à 11 h EST sur Zoom, 👇