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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's a rare dry sunny day here in Galway, and I get to close out Friday with the proofs for my very first book appearing in my inbox - off to drink wine and celebrate what is quite frankly a long time dream coming true! The King's Hand - due out with Manchester University Press February next year!

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"When has DH ever let bullies win?" in referring to closing off open-access research and sources and changing our values and approaches as a response to AI / tech-bro / capitalisation bullies will be my war-cry going forth, fair warning

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Melissa Terras with the most relatable opening to a DH keynote at #EADH2026 @melissaterras.bsky.social

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

That's so helpful - thank you!! I do sort of enjoy that JPC doubles down on his forgeries - how else can you convince people that your forgeries are real if you don't forge extra evidence too??

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Because if I'm not finding a way to include John Heywood in everything I write about, what am I doing

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time!

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As promised! The @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social has generously provided support for two days of public-facing ms activities this July. The events will be free of charge, and there is funding for ECR travel (defined as ≤7 years post-PhD, with preference for those not yet in permanent employment). 1/

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Ai is just a tool, its boosters say. But tools are indeed not morally neutral. AI is a mere tool in the way a gun is a mere tool. Both should be closely and fiercely regulated.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Powerful words from University of Pennsylvania students against their university's headlong rush into uncritically embracing AI:

The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education -- it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship.

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The last day for submissions! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, happy to talk about any use of network analysis to advance historical arguments! #cfp #skystorians #digitalhumanities

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DARIAH-EU @dariaheu.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The deadline is this Friday for a call for chapters for history researchers working with network analysis!

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We're looking for more book chapters! For anyone working with network analysis on any period in history: check it out! Deadline Friday 13th March - send abstracts to interlocked.universe@gmail.com #digitalhumanities #cfp #skystorians

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

In today's episode of 'I've actually finished writing my introduction', I have turned to quite literally cutting and pasting the thing to help organise thoughts

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Definitely open to archaeology! Feel free to drop me a DM or email us at interlocked.universe@gmail.com if you want to chat over an idea informally before sending an abstract!

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Friday morning call for abstracts! We're looking for chapters for our historical network analysis edited collection, under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. See the cfp for more! Email us at interlocked.universe@gmail.com #dh #digitalhumanities #networkanalysis

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Mazzullagram @mazzullagram.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

“I think fun is a cop-out sometimes.” (11/16/2025)

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Tracking out the location of different manuscripts I need to see, and which ones I've got / transcribed / have a plan to visit - spot the difference?

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DARIAH-IE @dariahie.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🗣️ Beginning Sept 11th we’ll be publishing a blog series on our website from DARIAH-IE’s 2025 ECR Bursary awardees, Rachel McCarthy (UCC - CASCADE), Dr Caitlin Burge (UoG - STEMMA), Vera Yakupova (TCD - CLSINFRA) and Dr Izzy Fox (MU). Find out more here: buff.ly/tNp7PWE

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ECR Bursary Blogs

Voices from the Irish Digital Humanities Community DARIAH-IE ECR Bursary Awardees talk about their research. We’re excited to present this special four-part blog series featuring insights fro…

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Some of our participants from the hackathon last month sat down to chat with our friends at @portershed.bsky.social about the project and their work during the hack - keep your eyes peeled for the footage! But how better to start than to learn more about STEMMA from @erinannmcc.bsky.social herself?

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This is what I look like when I code, so I figured it was the most accurate representation of the hackathon

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We're still buzzing over our STEMMA hackathon event - can't believe it's been almost a month already! Check out our hackathon event report - including details on our winners and (extra special treat) interviews with our developers! stemma.universityofgalway.ie/stemma-hacka...

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

If that's about Tommy C's son I will be devastated

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Potentially! I was thinking that or Winnington - the problem is the Bulkeley family seem to have dispersed/married into families all over the two counties, and then had children with all the same names, so tracking down who was where when (if records exist!) is becoming a real rabbit hole...

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Thank you both, you are saints! That's definitely it - was one of those where I was just staring at it for so long it wasn't making sense 😂

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Going mad with a bit of palaeography here - any help from the hive mind? Unsure on the third and last words - State Paper Calendar Summary says last is 'Wymyngam' but I'm expecting this to be somewhere either in Cheshire or Anglesey and can't find anything? Help please! #earlymodern #transcription

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Apparently we now get personalised coke cans at the hackathon too? @erinannmcc.bsky.social #STEMMAhackathon

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is what happens when I find things in the archives and then go on unrestrained rabbit hole adventures

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Spooky skulls, local landmarks, and deathly doodles - a little bit of everything turns up in our latest blog post as @caitlinburge.bsky.social tries to unpick a manuscript mystery! stemma.universityofgalway.ie/dead-men-tel...

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

If nothing else, Dracula captures the point in a career when the shine really starts to come off travelling for work.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Reality imitates meme. (This is superb reporting, making visible the consequences of a failing funding model.) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gru Has A Plan Meme.
Gru is explaining his plan very excitedly with a whiteboard. On the first white board, he has written "we target international students to get their money." Second whiteboard: "we use their money to build shiny buildings." Third whiteboard: "International students stop coming because humans aren't an infinite resources and international relations are volatile. Empty buildings need to be paid off." In the fourth panel he looks in consternation and realitsation at the text.

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Mazzullagram @mazzullagram.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"I would much rather you just come punch me. I wanna fight. I would love to fight." (3/27/2025, per Jayson Tatum)

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Our fearless leader @erinannmcc.bsky.social speaking about STEMMA and 'AI and Early Modern Poetry' this morning at RSA! #RSA2025

(Right) Prof Erin McCarthy speaking at RSA conference 2025 (left) powerpoint presentation for talk 'AI and Early Modern Poetry'

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

ME: self-care saturdaaaaay! HUSBAND: it is Tuesday ME: [margarita machine whirrs awkwardly] well in that case I have some phone calls to return

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Have you really spent the last four days in archives if you don't have over 1,000 photos to go through after the fact? Looking forward to some quality transcribing time... #earlymodern

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

see 'The Devil's Priest' by Kate Ellis (2006) (no advert, haven't read it, but will be on the hunt)

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Ended up down a rabbit hole on a piece I'm writing about abbesses (Lady Katherine Bulkeley in particular) and Cromwell and discovered a novel about said abbess fighting crime and hunting killers in 16C Liverpool and honestly this is just one of those days where I couldn't love my job more

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Please expect 'ridiculogram' to appear in every network analysis talk / paper I do from now on

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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

Newspaper stand with newspapers all carrying the front page Campaign 'make it fAIr'

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Happy Family Day to all our colleagues in Canada! Did you know that John Donne’s grandfather, John Heywood, was also a poet, as well as a playwright and musician serving in four royal courts from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I? Their poems even appear together in at least one Early Modern Manuscript!

Portrait of John Donne painted by Isaac Oliver

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Dr Owen Emmerson @drowenemmerson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

From 12th Feb to 2nd Nov, visitors to #HeverCastle can enjoy costumes from #WolfHall: The Mirror and the Light! I adored working as an historical advisor on the series, so its a joy to have organised the loan of these treasures, displayed with their portraits. Do come & see! 📷 Oliver Dixon

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Was about to start raging about Oliver Cromwell appearing but no mention of Thomas before I realised this was just about rulers... Basic comprehension skills coming in just in time! Am I allowed to get pedantic about including key advisors that basically ruled though?? 😂

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STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse @stemma.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The STEMMA blog is back! Looking for accidental (or not) similarities in manuscript poetry? Kyle Dase writes on farce and flattery surrounding Donne's work (and just a little bit of Disney's Hercules - an extra bonus!) - check it out! stemma.universityofgalway.ie/echoes-and-i...

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