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Joshua Shaw
@joshuashaw.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, #USask College of Law | Legal theory and history | Medical law, ownership and use of bodies and biomaterials | He/him

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I ate a Saskatoon berry doughnut.
A man holds a plate with a doughnut.
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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We are Saskatchewanians now.
Two men and their dog stand in front of a sign which reads, “Welcome to Saskatchewan - Land of Living Skies”.
July 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I’ve been told the sign to my office has gone up at @usask.bsky.social! 🥲
A photograph of black sign on a white wall which reads “Professor Joshua Shaw”.
June 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Multitasking once again: I am marking and bed.
A human is seated in a reclined position on a couch, with a Yorkshire Terrier curled up, asleep on his stomach.
May 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Prudence was waiting for me to finish a meeting.
A three-legged Yorkshire Terrier lies down on a bed. Her one front leg reaches out in front of her, holding her chest upright. She watches the camera.
May 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I get all the kisses after a bike ride.
An out of focus photograph of a Yorkshire Terrier’s face, very near to the camera. The dog’s tongue is out.
May 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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As my farewell present, Kent Law School gifted me this cute lapel pin made by a Kent artist. It is a snail for the tort law case, Donoghue v Stevenson [1932]. It’s so precious.
A small jewellery box is opened, and set inside is a silver lapel pin in the shape of a snail.
April 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Votes from our household are sent. 🇨🇦
An envelope addressed to Elections Canada is held in front of a red mail box.
April 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Prudence hates selfies.
A selfie including a man (me) holding a Yorkshire Terrier (Prudence).
April 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Prudence says the sun agrees with her.
A Yorkshire Terrier sunbathes on a doormat.
April 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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The convenience (and beauty) of living 5 minutes from Canterbury Cathedral’s library.
A view of Canterbury Cathedral from the cloister.
April 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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The packages arrived for my and my partner’s first mail-in-votes from overseas! (Now just need our list of candidates to be finalized.)
There are two envelopes on a wooden table. The envelopes are addressed to the author of the Bluesky post and another person, respectively. The addresses are digitally blacked out, except for the city of Canterbury, county of Kent, and country of United Kingdom. On the top left corner of each envelope’s face is the branding for Elections Canada.
March 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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In the Canadian election, it is alarming to see that the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party is campaigning on ending federal research funding for scholarship that is “woke ideology.” Federal funding forms an integral part of the research ecosystem in Canada.

See: www.instagram.com/p/DHr3zJpRas7/
A screenshot of an Instagram post, which includes the following relevant text: “LUTTE CONTRE L'IDÉOLOGIE WOKE Un gouvernement conservateur mettra fin à l'imposition de l'idéologie woke dans la fonction publique fédérale et dans l'attribution des fonds fédéraux pour la recherche universitaire.”
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Prudence on the @ucukent.bsky.social picket line.
A Yorkshire Terrier in a black jacket is held next to a sign that reads: “On strike today. UCU and Proud.”
March 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Please God, if my scholarship makes any impression at all, let me not be remembered as Robert Greene (1678?-1730) was in the Dictionary of National Biography (1900):

“[Greene’s] book is a monument of ill-digested and misapplied learning.”
An extract of the dictionary entry for Robert Greene. The relevant portion reads: “Greene, while taking an active part in college and parochial work, was convinced that the whole field of knowledge was his proper province and devoted many years’ leisure to the production of his next work, a large folio volume of 980 pages, entitled ‘The Principles of the Philosophy of the Expansive and Contractive Forces, or an Enquiry into the Principles of the Modern Philosophy, that is, into the several chief Rational Sciences which are extant,’ 1727. In the preface, Greene, after being at some pains to prove himself a Whig, declared his intention of proposing a philosophy, English, Cantabrigian, and Clarensian, which he ventured to call the ‘Greenian,’ because his name was ‘not much worse in the letters which belonged to it than those of Galileo and Descartes.’ The book is a monument of ill-digested and misapplied learning.” The final sentence is underlined.
March 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Prudence loves to help me read.
A Yorkshire Terrier looks up at the camera whilst she lies in my lap. The corner of my tablet, which I am holding in my left hand, is just visible in the shot.
March 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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A portrait of Prudence.
A three-legged Yorkshire Terrier in a raincoat sits nicely on the boundary of a field.
March 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Tripawds (like my sweet booboo) are beautiful.
A three-legged Yorkshire Terrier sits.
March 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I finished reading so now I am a bed.
Me (a human) lounging on the couch with my daughter (a small Yorkshire Terrier) sleeping on me.
March 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Prudence decided not to sleep on her blue blanket last night. Instead, she curled up right beside me.
A Yorkshire terrier is curled up, asleep, on a bed, nestled in right beside her human.
February 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Reading and cuddling.
Backside of a dog’s head is visible, as the dog snuggles the shoulder of a human.
January 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Prudence had a groom. She is feeling beautiful.
A three-legged Yorkshire Terrier stands on pavement. She is well groomed. She licks her nose, possibly annoyed by her pawrent insisting on the photograph.
January 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The natural order is restored.
A dog lies in the crook of her parent’s arm.
January 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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My partner resumes working out of the home tomorrow after an extended period of not doing so, which means I have to leave the dog alone for longer than we usually do (thankfully just on Mondays and Tuesdays, whilst I am in the classroom), and I am anxious for my booboo.
January 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Trabsky, Marc (2024) Death: New Trajectories in Law. Routledge.

(Now in paperback!)
A hand holds a book entitled “Death: New Trajectories in Law” by Marc Trabsky. The book is held over a leather cushion. The bottom right corner of the cover is imprinted with Routledge Focus’s insignia.
December 19, 2024 at 2:48 PM