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Erin A. McCarthy

@erinannmcc.bsky.social

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Professor of English Literature and Computational Humanities. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop.

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hello new followers! I’ve published on early modern English poetry in manuscript and print, women writers, and quant approaches. I’m currently running a project where we are computationally modeling the circulation of verse in MSS. We’re working on an exciting application of AI to support that work.

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 4h

Asking Mistral the tough questions

A chat window in which I sadly confirm that Mistral.AI's Le Chat is not a cat.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 10h

Exciting book out early next year! It will be open access 6 months after print publication. I have a chapter in there on shadow libraries as infrastructure.

Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...

Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities

How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our worldCritical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines...

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Very nearly quoted this at practice last night but thought better of it

Mazzullagram @mazzullagram.bsky.social · 1d

“I don’t see five guys rebound. So then I go get five, and they rebound. It’s that simple. Doesn’t matter about wings, bigs, it doesn’t matter. Find five guys that will rebound, rebound. Go. It’s that simple.” (10/13/2025)

Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine starting an academic book this way now

Shakespeare's Dark Lady

Shakespeare's Sonnets have been regarded, quite unnecessarily, as offering an insoluble problem. In fact, their problems have now been solved, with complete consistency, dating and all, and the answers cannot be questioned. If these answers were not correct, and the problems solved, they could easily be shown to be wrong. But they will not be, for they are the answer, obvious and definite — in a way, conservative for they are in keeping with all the known facts about Shakespeare, with tradition and common sense.

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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · 2d

Hey! We have two new draft chapters of the Living with Machines book up online for your delectation! One on Mapreader and one on the Environmental Scan. read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/liv...

Living with Machines | University of London Press

*Living With Machines* is a data-driven history of the coming of the machine age in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Featuring an innovative open access edition enhanced with interactive maps, ...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2d

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 2d

More on the double play that astounded the baseball world ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

Brewers pull off jaw-dropping double play to stun Dodgers and fans in NLCS Game 1

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts gave the crew its due: "The guys on the field got it right. They nailed it."

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 2d

This makes me think of the week earlier this year when, on two separate occasions, I was shooting around by myself on a small court at the uni and teenage boys challenged me to pick-up games. I suspect "school the youth in one-on-one basketball" would not be an approved strategy either.

Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 2d

I think the University-mandated answer is taking a walk, but I like to do all of these and that seems okay?

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Keith Byrne @keithinkrakow.bsky.social · 2d

“You had me at ‘Supermacs’!”

Renee Zellweger in Jerry Maguire, about to say “You had me at hello”

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 2d

I do appreciate the specificity of this one 😍

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Join me (virtually) next Tuesday for a talk about @stemma.bsky.social and our ongoing data cleaning efforts.

rih.cuhk.edu.hk/news-and-eve...

Cleaning and Reconciling Literary Historical Data with AI: Reflections from the STEMMA Project - Research Institute for the Humanities

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 3d

Come and work with us! We have a two-year, half-time postdoctoral research associate position working on the @storymachine-ht.bsky.social project www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... If you’re interested in #DigitalHumanities and/or folklore, we’d love to hear from you. Closing date 27 October.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project StoryMachine:London Senate House - Hybrid

The School of Advanced Study (SAS) comprises eight internationally renowned research institutes as well as centres in Digital Humanities and Public Engagement. It has four nationally and internationally recognised specialist research libraries. An important component of the humanities national infrastructure and part of the University of London, this is a really exciting time to join the School of Advanced Study as we are at the start of a new strategic plan.

www.jobs.london.ac.uk

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I'm definitely not answering any of those "After" texts (or even opening them if I can help it).

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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 3d

Today on the blog: a female owner of Charles I's popular Eikon Basilike, a book cherished by women readers, who used their ownership marks to express their political affiliations during and after the Civil Wars earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c... #HerBook #EarlyModern

Charles I, Eikon Basilike (1648)

It has long been known that the famous Eikon Basilike, attributed to Charles I and published shortly after his execution, was popular with seventeenth-century women readers. So far, our blog has fe…

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Look, I know people have all kinds of problems with GenAI, but it helped me make a song to remember the réamhfhocail shimplí, which is pretty much the only way I'm guaranteed to remember anything.
www.udio.com/songs/wyJ55K...

Erin M. - The Seimhiú Crew | Udio

Listen to The Seimhiú Crew by Erin M. on Udio. Discover, create, and share music with the world. Use the latest technology to create AI music in seconds.

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Ditto!

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Ooh, me too!

Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 3d

In which Candace Parker talks about how her all-time favorite teacher was an English teacher and Aliyah Boston sings the praises of her college writing tutor 🫶
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Napheesa Collier Blasts WNBA Leadership, Indiana Fever Season Recap & Aces-Mercury Finals | Ep.10

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 3d

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 6d

Okay, not feeling too bad about missing this by being at work. I'm hearing Yakety Sax just reading about it. 🙄

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 7d

Academia rewards resilience, by which I mean the ability to rewrite the same sentence forever

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 7d

This is even worse than seeing a verb meaning "to smear with dung" in my Irish Verbs book last night (which I obviously don't remember because I hope that I never need to discuss such as scenario as Gaeilge).

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 7d

Hello, this is your unsolicited reminder that EEBO has images of both states of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum but neither contains everything that appears in most copies of the book.

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 9d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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