iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

While we obviously miss the child's hairy big sister terribly, I would prefer not to subject a new, poor unsuspecting hound to grabby face cuddles

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A lot of toddler life is just wondering whether I am allowed another greyhound yet (I am not)

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This evening in the middle of her dinner (fish fingers, peas and potatoes) the toddler demanded her "phone" (an oblong plastic cutlery case with a cartoon lion face on), held it to her ear and said "hello, potato?", so frankly anything else that happens today can just pack up and go home

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Terrible dilemma because the toddler biting daddy's toes *is* in fact funny, and surely telling her it *isn't* is lying and thus setting a bad example? So morally speaking I think I am covered for laughing at that

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sounds that don't wake my sleeping toddler 1) neighbouring car alarms 2) dramatic thunderclaps 3) loud music outside Sounds that do wake my sleeping toddler 1) the creak of my bra strap as I straighten up after putting her down in her cot 2) hot water hitting a teabag several rooms away 3) vibes

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

At least you didn't commit the heinous crime of singing the wrong made-up bedtime song!

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(standing in front of the "not getting a lot done" factory) i hope i get a lot done today

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was chuffed to be asked to write the entry for Mary Hamilton (1756-1816)in the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing. Do check it out (or contact me) if you want a bang up to date overview of Hamilton's life, writing, & relevant scholarship. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

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Mary Hamilton (1756–1816) was one of the most well-connected and highly cultured women in late eighteenth-century British polite society. She was a courtier, diarist, antiquarian, and active member of the Bluestocking circle. Although her writing was never published during her lifetime, she was a prolific writer in several genres. She kept detailed diaries of her daily life, social engagements, and travels, wrote probably thousands of letters to her friends and acquaintances, compiled manuscript books of poetry and prose, and made catalogues of the collections of her eminent friends. A careful archivist and antiquarian, she left behind a vast and valuable archive of over 3000 written items, which has recently been fully digitized as The Mary Hamilton Papers. Hamilton was a pivotal figure in the dynamic manuscript culture of the Bluestocking circle during the 1780s, and was herself a skilled life writer across a range of forms and media. In particular, her extant correspondence reveals a wily, adroit, and flexible epistolary artist, capable of adopting different voices, techniques, strategies and personae to achieve specific ends. In the past, her reputation as an author has suffered from a critical presumption that print publication is a prerequisite for literary significance. However, if we accept manuscript culture and life writing as crucial elements of the literary landscape of late eighteenth-century Britain, Mary Hamilton emerges as an important and often innovative figure whose achievements invite us to re-scope our understanding of literature itself.

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#Northern #DH pals, come and join us in lovely LEEDS next April 🎉

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have such strong feelings about the latest educonglomeration bollocks news re my former employer but mainly just really really sad for my wonderful ex colleagues who have been holding back the tide of anti-intellectual bullshit from on high, for the sake of the students, for years now

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Recovered from Hand Foot and Mouth just in time for the Noro to hit (while on holiday!) 💖 parenting

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Julie should prioritise the needs of her future biographers, and scribble away! Some manicules wouldn't go amiss either. Also, "lol" is valid critical commentary

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I cannot BELIEVE you haven't seen this before! I feel like I aged with them across three films! But it really evokes that pre-phone era, gosh, I am wistful now

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Oh this movie always makes me feel like I am 21 and everything is VERY SIGNIFICANT

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh this is a great idea, I always have multiple changes but they are always a chaotic combo! Although I also feel like chaotic combos are one of the joys of toddler dressing 😂

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tomorrow I have to not only dress myself for a wedding in the heat but also a toddler (which means at least three outfits for when she gets covered in tomato/cottage cheese/unidentified green) and I'm thinking - maybe we are a mumu family now?

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Last chance to apply to become our Galleries Student Engagement Intern! 📢 If you love galleries, event planning, community building, and accessibility, this role could be for you.❤️🤝🌍🖼️ Applications close Sunday 9 August, for more information click here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

A photograph of a girl reading at a desk in a sunny library. Overlaid the text in pink reads: Hiring! We're looking for our next galleries student engagement intern.

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Whoa there, nothing wrong with making a career out of a digital accident!

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I hear you're DH now, father

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Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

JOBS! We’re currently looking for two people to join us in the School of English @universityofleeds.bsky.social: Lecturer in Creative Writing jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1086; Lecturer in English Language (with interests in DH) jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1087 Both are FT ongoing appointments

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Totally reinforces my belief that answering an incomprehensible question by feigning understanding and interest WITH ANOTHER QUESTION is bulletproof conference technique: Toddler: mummy blah blee blah bloo blah? Me: I'm not sure, what do you think? Toddler: yeah!!!!

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We kind of already have one 😂

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Feeling left out because you're missing the major disciplinary conference all your mates are at? Consider being woken up by a toddler at 5AM then answering a series of incomprehensible but very insistent questions to get that authentic sleep-deprived conference feel

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Subcategory of ECR BARS 2010 at which we stayed up til dawn and Alys (with whom I was bunking) got in a shouting match with a Geordie seagull

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Nottingham was the year that I ill-advisedly gave four papers at four conferences (one of which I was running) in the space of a fortnight but also the year I gave a paper called "Weekend at Burney's" so it was a banner year for many reasons

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's ten years since the inaugural #BarsOfBARS so particularly sad that for the first time in *more than a decade* that I will be missing #BARS2026 💔 ...fellow dinosaurs, what is your fondest BARS memory? Mine: DIY hairbrush karaoke at Nottingham in 2019

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My baseball caps: Unaffiliated tiger cap & Toronto BlueJays cap: left in childhood Isle of Wight cap: stolen by a Frenchman while playing petanque Italy cap: left at a Red Chilli Red Stripe cap: missing at Uni of Leeds open day Boston Red Sox 1: stolen by a Dublin gravedigger BRS 2: left on Eurostar

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

For any baseball cap aficionados out there wondering, @arry-k-arry.bsky.social is sporting a Melbourne Tigers 2009/10 members cap and no we don't know why either and actually I have now remembered third interest which is HAT

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Our toddler has two main interests currently and those are planes and cricket so congratulations to me on giving birth to a retired accountant anyway we're back at the airport cafe this morning

View from behind of man holding toddler, both with hats on, looking through a chain link fence towards and airstrip

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When your GUI jumps around a lot and the "reply-all" and "report phishing" buttons on your email app are dangerously close together, you can really kick off some hilarious misunderstandings in the institutions you supply

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yes my own parents did do a hollow laugh when I told them that why do you ask

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Failed to mark the boss's half birthday at the weekend because we were busy fulfilling her various demands, my favourite recurrent one of which is "mummy no help" which is more actual work for me than it sounds like. 18 months has passed in the blink of an eye!

View from behind of a toddler wearing checked green romper and sunhat, on a beach, carrying a disproportionately large bucket, surrounded by discarded trowels

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today I took my Carrefour bag and went to buy some little stubby beers. Vive la France!

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Bastille day-ready! (aka the day the Easter decorations finally came down 🙃)

Interior of room with window and chimney-breast festooned with French flag bunting

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Recently found out what all the staff at my child's nursery abbreviate the name of her room to (she's in the butterflies room)

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

@davidhiggins.bsky.social just checking you are aware of this bsky.app/profile/jert...

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Brilliant to see the Hamilton edition continue to grow and update, and a fascinating blog post from my wonderful former colleague David on how this iterative digital edition just *keeps* iterating!

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The Mary Hamilton Papers is much refreshed: full details & blog on our project website. New transcriptions, improved personography, more x-refs, many corrections. A striking example is the letter HAM/1/9/116, whose interpretation, authors, recipients and places have all been revised! #18thC #langsky

Harriet Bandinel's humorous report of Anna Maria Clarke's behaviour in HAM/1/9/116

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🚨Last chance to join us for the DMSI 2026 at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Gain hands-on experience in #digital methods adapted to medieval texts and images. 📆Jul 10 2026 📍Leeds, UK ▶️ tinyurl.com/5cm6ymn7 And if you have already registered for the IMC, you can still add DMSI to your registration.

Flyer advertising the DMSI 2026 at Leeds IMC.

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

One of the highlights of my job is supporting great people who do great work. Delighted to see @ninawardleworth.bsky.social 's fabulous project on Colonial French Resistance fighters featured by @stbslam.bsky.social on @france24.com today! 🇫🇷 bsky.app/profile/stbs...

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The online edition of the Mary Hamilton Papers is finally getting its long-expected major refresh on 5 June: numerous corrections to transcriptions and mark-up, revisions to person identifications and improved tooltips, plus about 100 items newly transcribed. Watch for announcement! #18thC #langsky

Example of tooltip for 'Miss Boyle' in HAM/1/15/1/20

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

And by "a whole new degree" I obviously mean, the money involved, not studying as a mature student which is absolutely what I would do if I had infinite cash

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I genuinely considered retraining as a vet at one point but have realised it's a bit late in life for a whole new degree! Eyeing the local wildlife management course though 👀

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Cassie Ulph @crulph.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If anyone wants to know my general WFH vibe, the child just pointed to the Gruffalo in her bedtime story and said "mummy!"

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