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Dr Sophie Whittle

@sophiewhittle.bsky.social

Linguist & Research Associate @dhishef.bsky.social. PhD in historical linguistics and language change. Currently researching the impact of machine learning and critical AI on medieval studies, linguistics, digital editing and pedagogy. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler@hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📖 After six years of work, my @royalhistsoc.org Camden edition of 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' is now available online! bit.ly/4opx9V4 @universitypress.cambridge.org have kindly made the entire edition freely accessible for the next few months!

Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series: Volume 70 - | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series - Volume 70 -

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Dr Sophie Whittle@sophiewhittle.bsky.social · last yr.

Really enjoyed writing a paper for Volume 42 of Scholarly Editing: scholarlyediting.org/issues/42/di.... Thank you to the reviewers and editorial team for their insightful comments! And be sure to check out the other fantastic contributions. 🤩

Digital Chaucer Pedagogy and Editing

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Noelle Baker@noelleabaker.bsky.social · last yr.

Volume 42 of Scholarly Editing is here! This issue dives into inclusive, boundary-pushing editorial work—from digital experiments to archival recoveries. #InclusiveArchiving #FeministEditing #DigitalEditingPedagogy #IndigenousArchives #GamingHistory #ApertureScience #TheCakeIsALie #EditingEmpathy

Dr Sophie Whittle@sophiewhittle.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very much enjoyed talking to the folks at the Animating Text series today! If anyone in the audience (or beyond) wants to chat about LLMs and medieval text/literary criticism, or share their own projects, hmu 😊

James Cummings@jamescummings.bsky.social · 2y ago

Reminder: @sophiewhittle.bsky.social's ATNU virtual talk (2025-01-15) on "Probing LLMs’ interpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Reflections on the use of generative AI for digital scholarly editing and the university classroom". Info and registration: research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 2y ago

Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.

Lauren Donovan Ginsberg@laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hearing the president of KU say that the way the humanities can protect itself - a question asked by a humanities professor of Spanish - is that her field should direct its public voice to how the Spanish language can impact AI versus the third study of an obscure play…. Just sigh.

Dr Ursula Kania@instantlinguist.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy National Linguistics Day! I love doing linguistics because language is everywhere, and we use it both to make sense of and shape the world around us. Check out the piece I wrote earlier this year for The Conversation on thingamajigs🙂 theconversation.com/whatchamacal... #NationalLinguisticsDay

‘Whatchamacallit’, ‘gizmo’ and ‘thingamajig’: what we say when we can’t find the right word – and why

You know that thing with the name? the whatsamajig? the whozeewhatzit?

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Ranjan Sen@ranjsen.bsky.social · 2y ago

National Linguistics Day (UK) - Tue 26th Nov! www.linguisticshq.co.uk/national-lin... Spread the word about what an exciting discipline it is to study! Some ideas on how to participate at awareness-days.co.uk/awareness-da... #NationalLinguisticsDay #Linguistics please share!

National Linguistics Day - November 26th. Let's get people thinking, talking and learning about the science of language!
James Baker@jwbaker.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fully-funded Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship at Southampton Digital Humanities in "Queer Data and Resilience" with my ✨ colleagues Lexi Webster and Kristen Schuster. Full details at pirs.soton.ac.uk/apply/. Deadline 31 January. Do please pass on to any amazing MA students you know.

Description of opportunity reads: Crisis narratives about privacy, creativity and automation have come to dominate techno-centric discourses about data. These crisis narratives, however, often overlook the very human vulnerabilities (re)produced by cis-hetero-patriarchal socio-technical infrastructures. This research will explore how queer data offer unique forms of resilience through attentiveness to plurality, mutability and intersectionality. Then a link to the scholarship in more detail.
Nelson Flores@nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2y ago

Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here: demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...

Language is Not the Problem, Racism is the Problem – Demystifying Language Project

Students of color are always being told that they need to change the way they speak. But what if, instead, educators changed the way they listen?

demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu

Dr Sophie Whittle@sophiewhittle.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited to be talking to the folks at the Animating Text series at Newcastle University, about generative AI and Chaucer (two things I never thought would be in the same sentence 🫠) - it's free and online, you can register below!

James Cummings@jamescummings.bsky.social · 2y ago

Register for the next free ATNU Talk: @sophiewhittle.bsky.social talking on 2024-12-11 about "Probing LLMs’ interpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Reflections on the use of generative AI for digital scholarly editing and the university classroom" See research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...

Dr Sophie Whittle@sophiewhittle.bsky.social · 2y ago

Now that it’s all confirmed, I’m excited to be staying on at Uni of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute for another three years as an RA! I’ll be continuing research in machine assisted scholarly editing and Chaucer studies 🤩📜👩‍💻

Laura Bailey@linguistlaura.bsky.social · 3y ago

If you would like to support us, there will be a petition to sign very soon, and in the meantime if you're in a linguistics department or organisation, or you're a former student, please do write to my VC to express your feelings.

Laura Bailey@linguistlaura.bsky.social · 3y ago

For the second time in nine months, I find myself at risk of redundancy as University of Kent proposes to cut nine subjects, including Linguistics, affecting 58 staff. If you have a magic solution to this please do let me know. t.co/wH6P0K2G7x

Laura Bailey@linguistlaura.bsky.social · 3y ago

For the second time in nine months, I find myself at risk of redundancy as University of Kent proposes to cut nine subjects, including Linguistics, affecting 58 staff. If you have a magic solution to this please do let me know. t.co/wH6P0K2G7x

Nine courses could be ‘phased out’ at university facing financial problems

Nine courses, including journalism and art history, could be phased out at the University of Kent as a consultation is launched.

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