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IRCI_ACU@irci.bsky.social · 4w ago

IRCI PUBLIC LECTURE: Prof. Matthew Crawford, FAHA "The Emperor of the Romans against the King of the Jews: Julian the Apostate in the Propaganda of National Socialism" Wed. 9 Sept. 2026, 6:00, Mercy Theatre, ACU Fitzroy (Melbourne).

A new version of teiphy (v0.1.27) is out! Thanks to contributions by Rob Turnbull, the process for converting TEI collations to various phylogenetic software input formats now makes better checks for malformed inputs. Check it out on github.com/jjmccollum/t... or get it with pip install teiphy

GitHub - jjmccollum/teiphy: A Python package for converting TEI XML collations to NEXUS, BEAST 2.7 XML, and other formats

A Python package for converting TEI XML collations to NEXUS, BEAST 2.7 XML, and other formats - jjmccollum/teiphy

github.com

Something fun's going on in the bottom margin of GA 2675 (Holy Monastery Panagia Kato Xenia MS 14, 14th century) on this page of Ephesians, but I'm not quite sure what! I thought it might be a practice alphabet, but it doesn't look like the Greek alphabet to me. Any ideas?

The open-cbgm library (github.com/jjmccollum/o...) and open-cbgm-standalone utility (github.com/jjmccollum/o...) have both been updated to v2.1! In both cases, dependencies and build settings have received a needed update. (Thanks to Daniel Ridings for reporting build issues!) (1/2)

GitHub - jjmccollum/open-cbgm: Fast, compact, open-source, TEI-compliant C++ implementation of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method

Fast, compact, open-source, TEI-compliant C++ implementation of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method - jjmccollum/open-cbgm

github.com

If you’re teaching #Greek, #palaeography, #manuscripts, #textcriticsm etc. this coming year, consider adding my website to your course assignments or resources. It’s free, I don’t collect/sell your info, and it’d be nearly impossible to cheat with AI. See 🧵 for details

Jacob W. Peterson@jacobwpeterson.com · 9mo ago

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

It's good to see that the latest paper by @jbcamps.bsky.social and other members of the @lostma.bsky.social team is already making an impact!

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How do we calculate loss of written works? A depressing but important new study notes that "the loss was far greater than scholars once thought. Researchers estimate that up to 60% of medieval literary works and more than 95% of the manuscripts that once carried them have disappeared over time." 📜🖋️

Requesting help from anyone out there with a good eye for Latin paleography! In the Latin side of GA 628 in Eph 3:1, there is a marginal note/correction and a supralinear correction, both pictured in the screenshot below. My questions about these two features follow in order.

Exciting work by a great team!

Jean-Baptiste Camps@jbcamps.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Freshly out in @pnasnexus.org: "On the transmission of texts: Written cultures as complex systems" The first major publication of project @lostma.bsky.social , where we lay down our methodology for studying the transmission, evolution or disparition of texts. /1 #science 🧪

#linguistics

Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics@koine-greek.com · 2mo ago

We are pleased to announce that our article, “Force Dynamics, Image Schemas, and Constructional Polysemy in the Prepositions ἐπί and κατά in Postclassical Greek,” has been published in the Journal of Translation.

I dunno if this is offensive to say because I seem to upset people when I say this, but humanities people should consider joining us, or at least join us in decoupling from Word and other MS products where we can... and @acollierastro.bsky.social says it more convincingly than I can!

We are excited to announce that our forthcoming book, Greek Prepositions in the New Testament: A Semantic Description, is officially listed for preorder.

Forthcoming: Greek Prepositions in the New Testament: A Semantic Description

We are excited to see that our forthcoming book, Greek Prepositions in the New Testament: A Semantic Description, is officially listed: Baker Publishing Group Amazon Logos Bible Software We are in the midst of the laborious process of reviewing galleys right now, but hope to see proofs in the coming months. Originally, the hope had been that the book would be available this fall in time for conferences, but we took some extra time this past January to add visual figures and image schemas for each preposition article with the hope of improving its usefulness for students.

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My first couple weeks on the BICROSS project at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social have been great! Check out this warm welcome from the LEMMA Research Centre: theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

Our move to Leuven is underway, and we're about to board the flight to Brussels! Looking forward to seeing folks at the GA 629 conference in Leuven starting tomorrow!

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 41, No. 2 (2026) academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/41/2 @eadhorg.bsky.social @adho-org.bsky.social @joeymccollum.bsky.social @gmpala.bsky.social @agnieszkaz.bsky.social

Volume 41 Issue 2 | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities | Oxford Academic

An official journal of the European Association for Digital Humanities. Publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities including, but not limited to, the fiel...

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It's been available as an advance article for a while, but my paper with Pasi Hyytiainen and Tim Finney, "Comparative computational textual criticism of the Gospel of Mark and the paradigm of textual clusters," has just been published in the latest print issue of DSH: doi.org/10.1093/llc/...

Comparative computational textual criticism of the Gospel of Mark and the paradigm of textual clusters

Abstract. In New Testament textual criticism, the paradigm of textual clusters has become a controversial subject. Within this paradigm, the traditional pr

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Joey McCollum@joeymccollum.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More fun news: a paper I co-authored with Pasi Hyytiäinen and Tim Finney is now available as an advance article in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: doi.org/10.1093/llc/.... We investigate the validity of the contested paradigm of text-types using a battery of computational approaches. (1/8)

An excellent read about an important manuscript and the scarred history that it and witnesses like GA 02 have in common.

Mina Monier@mmonier.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Murder. Theft. Tischendorf. Codex Alexandrinus. GA 81. What brings those together? A journey to Alexandria, a trail of manuscripts, and a mystery with more twists than expected, hidden in the story of a grieving library: futureofthepastlab.com/2026/05/27/c...

Question for #Phylogenetics folks: SSE models are designed to address situations where character states influence speciation and extinction, but are there any models for influence in the opposite direction? I'm interested in scenarios where branches' mutation rates depend on birth/speciation rates.

Proofs have arrived. Looking forward to the end product in early July!

The slides for my talk at KU Leuven's upcoming GA 629 conference are coming together nicely! I made a few tweaks to the KU Leuven LaTeX presentation style at gitlab.kuleuven.be/campus-geel/... to match some more recent official PowerPoint templates better. Check out this title slide!

Upcoming conference: Scribes, Transmission, and Bilingual Traditions: A Fresh Examination of GA 629 theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

Scribes, Transmission, and Bilingual Traditions: A Fresh Examination of GA 629

Programme

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Some Greek NT scribes would expand common nomina sacra like υς (for υιος, "son") and πνς (for πνευματος, "spirit") to their full forms when they did not have a divine referent. But this might be the first time I've seen a nomen sacrum corrected to this end! Here's Eph 2:2 in GA 1956:

teiphy v0.1.26 is out with another requested feature! If your collation contains many correctors and you only want to fill in the extensive ones (presumably so you can drop out the rest as fragmentary), you can do so with the new --fill-correctors-threshold option. github.com/jjmccollum/t... (1/3)

GitHub - jjmccollum/teiphy: A Python package for converting TEI XML collations to NEXUS, BEAST 2.7 XML, and other formats

A Python package for converting TEI XML collations to NEXUS, BEAST 2.7 XML, and other formats - jjmccollum/teiphy

github.com

A great introductory post on how the CBGM works and why it was developed for NT textual criticism, including a bibliography of helpful resources for further reading! (Thanks for the shout-out to my work on the open-cbgm library, @criticaltexts.bsky.social!)

Critical Texts@criticaltexts.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For anyone who wants to understand the CBGM a bit better, here’s a post on what it is, what it isn’t, and why it matters for New Testament textual criticism and beyond. criticaltexts.com/the-one-with...

📢 CfP for #CHR2027 is out! Submissions on all aspects of computational humanities research welcome; all details available here: 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ And yes, CHR2027 will take place a little later than usual. So you *could* start later… but we suggest starting now!

More additions and improvements for matrix outputs have arrived with teiphy v0.1.25 (github.com/jjmccollum/t...)! As usual, you can install teiphy easily via pip install teiphy Here's a thread with more details. (1/5)

GitHub - jjmccollum/teiphy: A Python package for converting TEI XML collations to NEXUS, BEAST 2.7 XML, and other formats

A Python package for converting TEI XML collations to NEXUS, BEAST 2.7 XML, and other formats - jjmccollum/teiphy

github.com

Very happy to see that the Athos Digital Repository of Manuscripts is working again! There are currently 3321 MSS digitized. repo.mountathos.org/en

someone recently called poetree "an essential DH infrastructure", and it was the best award we could ever asked for. but! it's a standardized collection of poetry corpora in 11 languages and counting, with regular processing and annotation, API, R and Python access points, fully open, has a map..

Versification Research Group@versification.bsky.social · 5mo ago

PoeTree has been nominated for the DH Awards! We’d be really happy if you dropped us a vote here: forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1... More on DH Awards: dhawards.org

Still time to vote in #DH Awards 2025, the #DigitalHumanities Awards awareness event. Anyone can vote (once) up until 2026-04-17. Anyone? Yes, anyone. Your aunt can vote, your highschool friend can vote, anyone! dhawards.org/dhawards2025... (or secure form directly at forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...)

DH Awards@dhawards.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The voting form for DH Awards 2025, after some delay, is up! It will shut on 2026-04-17. dhawards.org/dhawards2025... If your browser warns you that this is 'http' rather than 'https' be assured that the Google Form is the latter. Indeed, you can go directly there at forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...

There's just one week left to vote in the 2025 Digital Humanities Awards! If you've already voted, please spread the word!

Joey McCollum@joeymccollum.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Exciting news! Voting for the 2025 Digital Humanities Awards has officially opened, and the teiphy software I co-developed for converting TEI XML collations to inputs for various phylogenetic analysis programs is a candidate for Best DH Tool or Suite of Tools! Please spread the word and vote!

teiphy v.0.1.24 is out at github.com/jjmccollum/t...! I've made some Dependabot-informed dependency updates (which unfortunately required me to drop Python 3.9 support); conversion methods now include a progress bar; and BEAST 2.7 XML outputs are more streamlined to reduce unnecessary computation.