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Dr Sophie Whittle

@sophiewhittle.bsky.social
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Linguist & Research Associate @dhishef.bsky.social. 2026 Fellow of the Institute for Research Software. Currently researching the impact of machine learning and critical AI on medieval studies, linguistics, digital editing and pedagogy. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈

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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
⬡ Today, we become the Institute for Research Software. For 15 years, we've worked as the Software Sustainability Institute to make research software more sustainable and properly recognised.
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Dr Sophie Whittle @sophiewhittle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s the final week of my maternity leave (😢), but easing myself back into work by attending @dhoxss.bsky.social. Thinking about all things access, transparency and traceability when it comes to AI in research libraries. Generous funding from @softwaresaved.bsky.social for me to attend! #dhoxss2026
A laptop open with the web page ‘AI for Cultural Heritage’ at Cambridge University library. Set against a living room backdrop with children’s toys in the background.
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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🧭 We are happy to announce our new #SSIFellows! Read more about this year's applications and the 2026 cohort at www.software.ac.uk/news/introdu...
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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
📖 After six years of work, my @royalhistsoc.org Camden edition of 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' is now available online! bit.ly/4opx9V4 @universitypress.cambridge.org have kindly made the entire edition freely accessible for the next few months!
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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series: Volume 70 - | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series - Volume 70 -
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Dr Sophie Whittle @sophiewhittle.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Really enjoyed writing a paper for Volume 42 of Scholarly Editing: scholarlyediting.org/issues/42/di.... Thank you to the reviewers and editorial team for their insightful comments! And be sure to check out the other fantastic contributions. 🤩
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Digital Chaucer Pedagogy and Editing
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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🌟 Writing in Hard Times. Coming up soon and earlybird rate available 'til 17 June. 10 weeks with beathacoaching.org.🌟
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Retreats & Courses
Retreats & Courses The Summer Coaching Programme 2025: Writing in Hard Times A ten week coaching course to support writers working in challenging contexts, writing to process hard things, or wr…
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Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
OUT NOW! Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century, edited by @jamesosullivan.bsky.social et al. is now published #OpenAccess 20 chapters reflecting on the current state and future of the scholarly edition 📖 Read and download free: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #DigitalHumanities
The front cover of the book Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century.
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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century This collection offers a range of perspectives on the present and future of digital editing and publishing. Available open access and in print: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #digitalhumanities #openaccess #digitaleditions #digitalpublishing
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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
[Please Repost] Our next ATNU Virtual Speaker is Hannah Busch from CCeH at the University of Cologne who will talk to us about "Matching Medieval Manuscripts with Machine Learning". research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at... Wed 19 February 2025 at 4pm UK time. (Zoom link will be sent to all registered.)
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News | Animating Text | Newcastle University
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Dr Sophie Whittle @sophiewhittle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Very much enjoyed talking to the folks at the Animating Text series today! If anyone in the audience (or beyond) wants to chat about LLMs and medieval text/literary criticism, or share their own projects, hmu 😊
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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Reminder: @sophiewhittle.bsky.social's ATNU virtual talk (2025-01-15) on "Probing LLMs’ interpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Reflections on the use of generative AI for digital scholarly editing and the university classroom". Info and registration: research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...
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News | Animating Text | Newcastle University
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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A reminder that the deadline for the 2025 Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference is fast approaching: submit your abstracts for papers/panels/events by Monday 13th January! To be held at London (KCL) in June. Further information and the CFP: themamo.org/about/
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The Middle Ages in the Modern World
A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Point of View: An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity
A collaboratively developed annotated reading list expands upon core themes in neurodiversity, aiming to enhance understanding and to promote rigorous, destigmatizing, and inclusive practices in resea...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/12/2024
Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.
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Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Delighted to share the cover for SUP's second book ‘Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century’, edited by @jamesosullivan.bsky.social et al. Publishing #OpenAccess February 2025! Find out more about this timely collection here 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/forthcoming-...
The front cover of 'Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century' edited by James O'Sullivan, Michael Pidd, Michael Kurzmeier, Orla Murphy, Bridgette Wessels and Sophie Whittle. It includes an image from the artist Elize de Beer of files in an archive.
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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
On my blog back in 2020 I wrote in passing about the expression ‘preaching to the converted’ & I’ve thinking about it again & about finding chambers where can hear echoes of those we need to hear 💜 feministkilljoys.com/2020/12/07/c...
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Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Happy National Linguistics Day! I love doing linguistics because language is everywhere, and we use it both to make sense of and shape the world around us. Check out the piece I wrote earlier this year for The Conversation on thingamajigs🙂 theconversation.com/whatchamacal... #NationalLinguisticsDay
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‘Whatchamacallit’, ‘gizmo’ and ‘thingamajig’: what we say when we can’t find the right word – and why
You know that thing with the name? the whatsamajig? the whozeewhatzit?
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James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Fully-funded Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship at Southampton Digital Humanities in "Queer Data and Resilience" with my ✨ colleagues Lexi Webster and Kristen Schuster. Full details at pirs.soton.ac.uk/apply/. Deadline 31 January. Do please pass on to any amazing MA students you know.
Description of opportunity reads:

Crisis narratives about privacy, creativity and automation have come to dominate techno-centric discourses about data. These crisis narratives, however, often overlook the very human vulnerabilities (re)produced by cis-hetero-patriarchal socio-technical infrastructures. This research will explore how queer data offer unique forms of resilience through attentiveness to plurality, mutability and intersectionality.

Then a link to the scholarship in more detail.
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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Just got an email from the zombie journal soliciting my submissions so I thought I'd remind everyone that in 2015 the entire editorial board of "Lingua" resigned and created a new independent OA journal (Glossa). Don't submit to the new Lingua. slate.com/human-intere...
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Why the Editors of a Top Linguistic Journal Resigned En Masse
This post originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here: demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
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Language is Not the Problem, Racism is the Problem – Demystifying Language Project
Students of color are always being told that they need to change the way they speak. But what if, instead, educators changed the way they listen?
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Ranjan Sen @ranjsen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
National Linguistics Day (UK) - Tue 26th Nov! www.linguisticshq.co.uk/national-lin... Spread the word about what an exciting discipline it is to study! Some ideas on how to participate at awareness-days.co.uk/awareness-da... #NationalLinguisticsDay #Linguistics please share!
National Linguistics Day - November 26th. Let's get people thinking, talking and learning about the science of language!
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Dr Sophie Whittle @sophiewhittle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Very excited to be talking to the folks at the Animating Text series at Newcastle University, about generative AI and Chaucer (two things I never thought would be in the same sentence 🫠) - it's free and online, you can register below!
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Dr Sophie Whittle @sophiewhittle.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Now that it’s all confirmed, I’m excited to be staying on at Uni of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute for another three years as an RA! I’ll be continuing research in machine assisted scholarly editing and Chaucer studies 🤩📜👩‍💻
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Dr Sophie Whittle @sophiewhittle.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
My first post on here, and it’s dedicated to my evening reading: a mystery fiction book headed by a queer, chain-smoking, punk rock nun. It feels good getting lost in different stories post-PhD!
The cover of the fiction book ‘Scorched Grace’ by Margot Douaihy. The cover features a nun who is wearing a cross around her neck, with a cigarette in her right hand, and a stern/moody face. The colour palette is pink, purple and indigo, with blocks of sun rays extending out from the middle as the background. The book cover also says ‘A Sister Holiday mystery’.
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Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
If you would like to support us, there will be a petition to sign very soon, and in the meantime if you're in a linguistics department or organisation, or you're a former student, please do write to my VC to express your feelings.
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Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
For the second time in nine months, I find myself at risk of redundancy as University of Kent proposes to cut nine subjects, including Linguistics, affecting 58 staff. If you have a magic solution to this please do let me know. t.co/wH6P0K2G7x
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Nine courses could be ‘phased out’ at university facing financial problems
Nine courses, including journalism and art history, could be phased out at the University of Kent as a consultation is launched.
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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 31/01/2024
Stylish enough to wear to conferences, subtle enough to wear to the grocery store, and sure to amaze and delight your colleagues when they realize these aren't just random lines, this tree structure diagram scarf is the height of stealth nerd fashion www.redbubble.com/i/...
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"Tree diagram scarf - light blue and black" Scarf for Sale by Lingthusiasm
Stylish enough to wear to conferences, subtle enough to wear to the grocery store, and sure to amaze and delight your colleagues when they realize these aren't just random lines, this tree structure diagram scarf wraps you in a soft, vibrant hug of stealth • Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your thing.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/02/2024
Oh this journal is going to be FUN to read the examples from
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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
ICYMI #linguistics If you’ve ever taught a syntax class, anywhere, at any level, please take our survey! This is an ongoing project with @bron.bsky.social, @linguistlaura.bsky.social and Caitl Light researching attitudes and methods. It’ll take you about 30 minutes to complete.  bit.ly/teachsyntax
SynTeach - Instructor Survey: Experiences Teaching and Learning - https://bit.ly/teachsyntax
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