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Erin A. McCarthy

@erinannmcc.bsky.social

Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse@stemma.bsky.social · 5h ago

Don’t let the quiet on the STEMMA blog fool you: it’s been very busy around here! Catch up with us in our latest post (and get ready for more soon). #ERCfunded @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social stemma.universityofgalway.ie/updates-from...

Updates from STEMMA HQ - STEMMA

The STEMMA project has had a busy year, welcoming new postdocs, finishing data cleaning, hosting Manuscripts Week in Galway, and preparing to release a public dataset by end of 2026.

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Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 21h ago

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Naomi Baker@drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today I discovered that a letter attributed to a man was actually written by Ann Bathurst, the 17th-century visionary woman I’m researching. 🤩 Archival work might be slow and painstaking but it’s totally thrilling to be going in search of lost voices from the past and finding them! 📚

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Dot Porter@leoba.bsky.social · 5d ago

Do you use digitized medieval manuscripts in any capacity? Do you have opinions about the metadata that describes them? We want to hear from you! Please take a moment to fill out our very short survey. Please repost and share with anyone you know who might be interested! forms.gle/sBPXAnoRhwe1...

Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: Metadata Preferences

A brief survey about what metadata formats people prefer to go along with their digitized medieval manuscripts. The results of this survey will be used to consider what metadata we make available thro...

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Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 6d ago

Sharing again today since the discourse is about AI companies guillotining books (the horror!). Read the first article to find the real villains...

Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n

Artjoms Šeļa@artjomshl.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s the first paper in a themed issue on computational poetics we’re co-editing with @nmhouston.bsky.social for CHR journal! Lucky to have this contribution from Erin

Erin A. McCarthy@erinannmcc.bsky.social · last wk.

Excited and only slightly terrified to have this accepted manuscript available. The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · last wk.

We've two new volumes in the Society's Camden Series of primary editions: > 'The Correspondence of Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, 1640–91', ed Evan Bourke > 'Francis Slingsby (1611–42) and the Jesuits', ed Brian Mac Cuarta - published next week More on our latest Camdens bit.ly/4wvv9P1

Cover images of six recent volumes in the Royal Historical Society's Camden Series of primary source editions: Francis Slingsby (1611–1642) and the Jesuits, edited by Brian Mac Cuarta The Correspondence of Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, 1640–1691, edited by Evan Bourke A Collector Collected. The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823, edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Akan and Curtis Leung. The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler The Papers of Admiral George Grey, edited by Michael Taylor THE HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS OF ROBERT AND KATHERINE GREVILLE, LORD AND LADY BROOKE, AT HOLBORN AND WARWICK, 1640–1649, edited Stewart Beale, Andrew Hopper, Ann Hughes
Erin A. McCarthy@erinannmcc.bsky.social · last wk.

Excited and only slightly terrified to have this accepted manuscript available. The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core

The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History

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EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

10. Whatever one thinks of the film as a work of art, it's doing some good in the world, by generating big conversations, bringing new audiences to the cinema, and new readers to ancient literature. I hope it helps save the humanities.

Sharon Howard@sharonhoward.bsky.social · last wk.

For #DH and #dataviz people... and if you're not at the conference, go look at the timeline anyway! It's a very clever and lovely visualisation. [disclosure: I may have had a bit to do with the underlying data.]

Alice Thornton's Books@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

If you're at #DH2026 go see Mary Chester-Kadwell and Tiffany Ong's poster 'Human-centred Design in Digital Humanities: Rethinking Timeline Data Visualisation through Software Engineer-Designer Collaboration' re. the timeline they created for our project. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/timeline/

Meghan Kern@meghankern.bsky.social · 4w ago

And on the 24th, an equally open transcribathon, both in person (in the same room), and online, hosted by Prof Joshua Eckhardt, with participants from 3 countries and counting