Dr Caitlin Burge
@caitlinburge.bsky.social
PostDoc Researcher with STEMMA at University of Galway 📜 working on manuscripts and early modern poetry 🪶 probably somewhere talking about Thomas Cromwell
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“I think fun is a cop-out sometimes.” (11/16/2025)
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“I think fun is a cop-out sometimes.” (11/16/2025)
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November 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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?
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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🗣️ 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
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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September 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🗣️ 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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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?
But how better to start than to learn more about STEMMA from @erinannmcc.bsky.social herself?
August 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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?
But how better to start than to learn more about STEMMA from @erinannmcc.bsky.social herself?
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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...
stemma.universityofgalway.ie/stemma-hacka...
a cat wearing a blue shirt is sitting on a laptop computer
ALT: a cat wearing a blue shirt is sitting on a laptop computer
media.tenor.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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...
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
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
July 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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
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
July 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Apparently we now get personalised coke cans at the hackathon too? @erinannmcc.bsky.social #STEMMAhackathon
July 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Apparently we now get personalised coke cans at the hackathon too? @erinannmcc.bsky.social #STEMMAhackathon
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STEMMA at @dariaheu.bsky.social 's annual event in Göttingen! @caitlinburge.bsky.social @dariahie.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
STEMMA at @dariaheu.bsky.social 's annual event in Göttingen! @caitlinburge.bsky.social @dariahie.bsky.social
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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
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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...
stemma.universityofgalway.ie/dead-men-tel...
a scooby doo cartoon with the caption looks like we got ourselves a mystery !!
ALT: a scooby doo cartoon with the caption looks like we got ourselves a mystery !!
media.tenor.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is what happens when I find things in the archives and then go on unrestrained rabbit hole adventures
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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...
stemma.universityofgalway.ie/dead-men-tel...
a scooby doo cartoon with the caption looks like we got ourselves a mystery !!
ALT: a scooby doo cartoon with the caption looks like we got ourselves a mystery !!
media.tenor.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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...
stemma.universityofgalway.ie/dead-men-tel...
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If nothing else, Dracula captures the point in a career when the shine really starts to come off travelling for work.
the best thing about Bram Stoker's Dracula is that it starts with the narrator being like 'i am going to Count Dracula's house. his name is Count Dracula. he's probably just a guy.'
April 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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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Reality imitates meme.
(This is superb reporting, making visible the consequences of a failing funding model.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(This is superb reporting, making visible the consequences of a failing funding model.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
March 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reality imitates meme.
(This is superb reporting, making visible the consequences of a failing funding model.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(This is superb reporting, making visible the consequences of a failing funding model.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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"I would much rather you just come punch me. I wanna fight. I would love to fight." (3/27/2025, per Jayson Tatum)
March 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"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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Our fearless leader @erinannmcc.bsky.social speaking about STEMMA and 'AI and Early Modern Poetry' this morning at RSA! #RSA2025
March 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Our fearless leader @erinannmcc.bsky.social speaking about STEMMA and 'AI and Early Modern Poetry' this morning at RSA! #RSA2025
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ME: self-care saturdaaaaay!
HUSBAND: it is Tuesday
ME: [margarita machine whirrs awkwardly] well in that case I have some phone calls to return
HUSBAND: it is Tuesday
ME: [margarita machine whirrs awkwardly] well in that case I have some phone calls to return
March 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ME: self-care saturdaaaaay!
HUSBAND: it is Tuesday
ME: [margarita machine whirrs awkwardly] well in that case I have some phone calls to return
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
March 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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
February 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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
"TL;DR — Network visualization is often done in the wrong way: first a network layout is produced using a heuristic, and then follow-up analyses are performed and evaluated according to the layout...."
Also introduced me to the very useful term "ridiculogram."
Also introduced me to the very useful term "ridiculogram."
February 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Please expect 'ridiculogram' to appear in every network analysis talk / paper I do from now on
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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.
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.
February 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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.
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!
February 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Sassy talent runs in the blood #earlymodern
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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!
February 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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!
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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
📷 Oliver Dixon
February 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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
📷 Oliver Dixon