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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 20h

End of summer (at the beginning of October...), in three pictures ❤️‍🔥

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nice to see the Winter School of HTR mentioned as one of the highlights of TUC26 and the Transkribus community in general! Super proud to be part of it since the very beginning! @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @transkribus.bsky.social (also if someone has a better photo, do let me know 💙)

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last HTR conference of the month #TUC2026. Happy conferencing! 💙

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Another week, another HTR conference! September sure is full of them 💪

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today we presented our poster on ICDAR in Vienna! Next week, SCOOP awaits 🫢

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Summer is ending soon, and September will be super busy. ICDAR first - Jan Odstrčilík and I will be presenting in the poster session on Friday, September 4, in the Computational Paleography Workshop ✨ Program here: www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/iwcp2026/pro...

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I turned 30 yesterday! This year has been a whirlwind so far. So much changed, and will keep changing depending on which postdoc position works out... The year I fell in love, finished my PhD, and will move out of Prague after 10 years. Crazy!! But I've never been happier ❤️

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Having a nice one with Czech summer 🌞

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Autograph of Václav Hanka!!!!!! Unbelievable. I'm crying (BRNO MZA G10, Inv. n. 510, fol. 198v)

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is actually in a manuscript written by scribe in 1471, it has some biblical stories, a dream book, something about astrology. Then there is a story of a man who lived near Jičín, had three sons and wrote in the margins of this manuscript about his life. ❤️ (BRNO MZA, Inv. n. 412, fol. 318v)

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh, this is a sad continuation of the story. (Bible of Bočkov, 2nd half of the 15th century, Brno MZA, inv. n. 123/2, fol. 352v)

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A little paleography exercise. Would you manage to read this? 😅 (Bible of Bočkov, 2nd half of the 15th century, Brno MZA, inv. n. 123/1, fol. 347v)

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

There is a story to every manuscript - it's not just a text. This is an Old Czech Bible currently kept in Brno, dated to the end of the 15th century. But who was Elena and what was she doing in Berlin? How did she get her hands on this? 👀 (Lobkowicz Bible, 1479/1480, Brno MZA, inv. n. 122, fol. 92r)

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Or just scroll here to find out. Me and Jan Odstrčilík will be presenting our evergreen problem on methodology of preparding Ground Truth transcriptions for AI training.

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Apolena. Unfortunately, closed 🔒 Nevertheless, I am happy I went 💪

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And of course, the castle of Trosky itself! Or what remained of it. Today we plan on going to Apolena, and with that we will be finished with all locations from the game I wanted to see 😉

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Nebakov mill, the outskirts of Semín, the pond Vidlák. And a lost ham. There is a story here

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

New type of a manicule. Why have a finger when you can have a sword? (Postil of Jan Rokycana, 1503, Brno MZA, inv. n. 117, fol. 170v)

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

On our way to Nebakov ✨ Unfortunately, the fortress is quite gone, rather not there 😅

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I've been looking forward to this for so long. This week I'll spend exploring locations from the first act of Kingdom Comes: Deliverance II 🗡️⚔️

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Me and beer 🍺❤️ Last goodbye to Cluj and Transylvania. Time to spend some quality time in Czechia!

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Thank you all for the wonderful week of the Summer School of the History of the Book in Cluj!! ❤️ I won't lie that I am a bit excited to be finally flying back to Czech Republic after 2 weeks of constant traveling though 😅

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Coming soon to Leeds! I'll be talking on Thursday, July 9 about how HTR & detection of text-reuse can be used in large-scale analysis of vernacular biblical translation. Looking forward to it & maybe see some of you there? 🤗✨

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Both Shiv and Tom live rent free in my head

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It's Thursday night, I am on my second Aperol Spritz and once again it shows Succession lives rent free in my head, some moments you never forget

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I take back everything good I said about Gemini

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

More HTR talk on Medieval Czech incoming soon 💪

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My cute little profile for the Transkribus Users Conference 💛 tuc.transkribus.org/speakers/ann...

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I was talking today with colleagues about IMC Leeds. This will actually be my first year there (I visited Kalamazoo first😅). I will be talking about my dissertation research and what I want to work on in the future regarding HTR and vernacular Bible translations 🔥 I hope to see some of you there? 🌞

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Cyprus vibes, but make it Bratislava. Halloumi salad 🥗 see you in a week, I’m a hard-working woman now 😅

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My Cyprus-office will be ending soon 🥹 Flying back home tomorrow

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Going further through my printscreen folder and a lot of D&D stuff is also there. That's a whole genre on its own. (I remember this scene in our campaign, but I imagine that to other people it will raise some questions 😀)

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Digging through old files and found a screenshot from a Covid-era Young Slavists conference 😅 Never did return to that conference, but at least I made it to Kiel eventually! (Though visiting Germany and somehow completely skipping the beer feels like some kind of archival crime 🫢)

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My new office for the following week 💖

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

From a whole different "soudek" 🙂. I mention in my bio that I also do some book editing from time to time. The last book I worked on was a new edition of a Czech translation of "Young Johannes" (in Czech "Temný anděl") by Mika Waltari. It was quite an honor to work on this 🫀

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I will be present at two more talks 🤗

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I hope you're all looking forward to this year's Transkribus Users Conference #TUC2026 👀 Come and join our roundtable... and don't abandon all hope, ye who enter here!

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Playing with our university system (SIS) and uploading some documents for a seminar I teach, I like how there is that one date before which you could surely not upload this document. It is a bit earlier than you might think. But you can also see there definitely was a thought behind it 😅

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Another talk for me next Friday together with more HTR specialists. Quite a busy Miss Lizzy week ahead 😅 @digilab-imafo.bsky.social

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Presenting next week in my beloved Sudetenland (this time Louny 🚀)

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Guess who is on the picture in the middle 👀 Also who is going to the Transkribus User Conference 26? We might see each other there! tuc.transkribus.org

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I appreciate that according to the COST Grant Application, I seem to be member of every marginalized academia group possible 😅

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

That’s a wrap on HTR Winter School 2025 in Vienna! 🇦🇹 Huge thanks to everyone, and special thanks to the participants in the Medieval Czech group. You were wonderful and hard-working! It was a great experience and an honor to work with you. 📚🩵 @digilab-imafo.bsky.social

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Found a little devil in a medieval Czech bible! Cute 🫀 (Olomouc, Scientific Library in Olomouc, M III 3, f. 223r)

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