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.

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

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

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

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 [email protected] #digitalhumanities #cfp #skystorians

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

Super Bowl Sunday who? #bookcollecting #librarytrips @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social

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 [email protected] #dh #digitalhumanities #networkanalysis

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

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?

🗣️ 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

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?

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...

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

Two DH icons at once ❤️ #STEMMAhackathon @erinannmcc.bsky.social @ruthahnert.bsky.social #ERCfunded

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

STEMMA at @dariaheu.bsky.social 's annual event in Göttingen! @caitlinburge.bsky.social @dariahie.bsky.social

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Sassy talent runs in the blood #earlymodern

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!

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

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?? 😂

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...

It's Tuesday. Do we want to do a bit of Tudor? Yes, we think so too. Here's a close up of the vine and grape decoration on the bargeboards of the Hall's 1601 extension. We've thrown in a Tudor rose for good measure too.

Today's the day! Come along for a bit of early modern flirting... 12pm in the Hardiman Building! @millie-ran.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social

We are happy to announce the first CAMPS lab of the new year: Millie Randall @millie-ran.bsky.social @stemma.bsky.social Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies Friday 31 January 12 noon THB G010

Coming to the SAA/RSA jamboree this March? Why not arrive one day earlier and build your own database with @caitlinburge.bsky.social and me at the RSA Day of Digital Learning? rsa2025ddl.hcommons.org/main-page-2/

Funded PhD Studentship @UCL History and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on project titled 'Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in #earlymodern England and France'. Deadline Jan 31st 2025. Project & application info: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/oppo.... #histmed #histsci #HSTM #bookhistory

In a decidedly non-academic venture, I made my first wreath this weekend and I’m alarmingly pleased with it?! If only book writing felt this rewarding 😂

I'm working late, 'cause I'm a singer

My eternal favourite find in the Privy Council registers: Someone brought before the council for running across bridges in London at night knocking down lanterns and waking people up, before sticking a fish on the end of a sword and slapping people in the face with it. 10/10, no notes.

Finally finished getting up to date with Wolf Hall over lunch and although Mark Rylance is incredible as always, can't help feel that there's something missing from this series - some distinct Mantel-ness? Is it just me? Or am I just really missing Claire Foy saying 'Cremuel'? #earlymodern

It's happening: my ERC Consolidator project 🪶#FEATHERS🪶is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture & manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. See Call for Papers (deadline for abstracts 20 Dec): student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Oliver Cromwell's house festooned with Christmas lights. The man would be spinning in his grave, if he hadn't already been exhumed and dismembered.

I don't want to cast doubt on the impeccable dependability of google AI, but I don't remember this particular plot twist in du Maurier's REBECCA

📣 2 PhD positions at Leiden - book- and/or art historians to join the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)" Deadline 8 December. #BookHistory #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #PhD www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Early modern music people - a (probably) dumb question, but dabbling in a heretofore unfamiliar field: are there recommendations for EM manuscript music EEBO-esque databases? Have been using RISM and think I have found something interesting but want to be sure I'm not missing anything obvious! 🎵🎶🎵