Erin A. McCarthy
@erinannmcc.bsky.social
Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."
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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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This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
I bought a fancy, now sold-out, advent calendar months ago. I’ve now reached a point where I need an Advent calendar to manage my excitement about the Advent calendar.
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I bought a fancy, now sold-out, advent calendar months ago. I’ve now reached a point where I need an Advent calendar to manage my excitement about the Advent calendar.
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Look upon my works ye mighty and despair
Sometimes Jimmi Pickles gets bored when I’m working and I’ll look up and she’s just in some random place
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Look upon my works ye mighty and despair
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Out now!
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Out now!
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
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a movie so sharp and funny that it basically killed the musical biopic for a decade
Coming soon to 4K UHD
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) 4K UHD
MORE INFO TBA
#WalkHard #walkhardthedeweycoxstory #JohnCReilly #JakeKasdan #Bluray #physicalmedia
#FilmCommunity #Bluray #4K #4KBluray #4KUltraHD
#DVD #VHS #physicalmedia #physicalmediaforever #bluraycollector #FilmSky
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) 4K UHD
MORE INFO TBA
#WalkHard #walkhardthedeweycoxstory #JohnCReilly #JakeKasdan #Bluray #physicalmedia
#FilmCommunity #Bluray #4K #4KBluray #4KUltraHD
#DVD #VHS #physicalmedia #physicalmediaforever #bluraycollector #FilmSky
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
a movie so sharp and funny that it basically killed the musical biopic for a decade
Sorry, Innovation Office, but "TRL" means something very different to me and my fellow millennials.
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Sorry, Innovation Office, but "TRL" means something very different to me and my fellow millennials.
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OMG. Apple is Catholic.
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
OMG. Apple is Catholic.
I have found this list of Folger manuscript shelfmarks. I’m sure it meant something to me when I wrote it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I have found this list of Folger manuscript shelfmarks. I’m sure it meant something to me when I wrote it.
The BL has the largest number of manuscripts relevant to @stemma.bsky.social, but even yesterday, I found myself saying, “Let’s just skip them for now.” This would have been unthinkable for me during my postdoc.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The BL has the largest number of manuscripts relevant to @stemma.bsky.social, but even yesterday, I found myself saying, “Let’s just skip them for now.” This would have been unthinkable for me during my postdoc.
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I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!
Should also have tagged organiser @mlcoolahan.bsky.social!
Very much looking forward to the Irish Renaissance Seminar here in Galway this Saturday, featuring a keynote by @fredschurink.bsky.social, a panel by our @rebpaf.bsky.social friends, and a surprise visit from @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social.
cc: @stemma.bsky.social, @uniofgalway.bsky.social
cc: @stemma.bsky.social, @uniofgalway.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Should also have tagged organiser @mlcoolahan.bsky.social!
Very much looking forward to the Irish Renaissance Seminar here in Galway this Saturday, featuring a keynote by @fredschurink.bsky.social, a panel by our @rebpaf.bsky.social friends, and a surprise visit from @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social.
cc: @stemma.bsky.social, @uniofgalway.bsky.social
cc: @stemma.bsky.social, @uniofgalway.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Very much looking forward to the Irish Renaissance Seminar here in Galway this Saturday, featuring a keynote by @fredschurink.bsky.social, a panel by our @rebpaf.bsky.social friends, and a surprise visit from @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social.
cc: @stemma.bsky.social, @uniofgalway.bsky.social
cc: @stemma.bsky.social, @uniofgalway.bsky.social
Electric Ireland is once again making the deeply unserious suggestion that I, a person who grew up in Arizona and spent years living by the beach in Australia, lower my thermostat to 18 C (64 C).
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Electric Ireland is once again making the deeply unserious suggestion that I, a person who grew up in Arizona and spent years living by the beach in Australia, lower my thermostat to 18 C (64 C).
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Actual poets/novelists on this committee: "Our priority is getting someone w/ a national publication profile who is good at teaching / won't shirk service"
Me: "my main priority is getting someone who will recover ancient liberty to heroic poems, from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming"
Me: "my main priority is getting someone who will recover ancient liberty to heroic poems, from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming"
November 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Actual poets/novelists on this committee: "Our priority is getting someone w/ a national publication profile who is good at teaching / won't shirk service"
Me: "my main priority is getting someone who will recover ancient liberty to heroic poems, from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming"
Me: "my main priority is getting someone who will recover ancient liberty to heroic poems, from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming"
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November 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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with all due respect
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
with all due respect
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Thanks to Erin for such a thorough and generous review. It’s lovely when someone really gets the spirit of what you were trying to create! Made my week!
It was a pleasure to review @ruthahnert.bsky.social and Sebastian E. Ahnert's latest book for Kritikon Litterarum. Glad this is finally out! doi.org/10.1515/kl-2...
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Thanks to Erin for such a thorough and generous review. It’s lovely when someone really gets the spirit of what you were trying to create! Made my week!
It was a pleasure to review @ruthahnert.bsky.social and Sebastian E. Ahnert's latest book for Kritikon Litterarum. Glad this is finally out! doi.org/10.1515/kl-2...
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It was a pleasure to review @ruthahnert.bsky.social and Sebastian E. Ahnert's latest book for Kritikon Litterarum. Glad this is finally out! doi.org/10.1515/kl-2...
Accidentally played a voiceover I recorded for a class I taught while I was still in Newcastle and genuinely didn’t recognize my own voice for at least ten seconds 😳
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Accidentally played a voiceover I recorded for a class I taught while I was still in Newcastle and genuinely didn’t recognize my own voice for at least ten seconds 😳
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There is still time to apply for one of our 50+ Visiting Fellowships @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the 2026-27 academic year! A vibrant interdisciplinary research centre in the heart of one of the world’s great libraries!
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
There is still time to apply for one of our 50+ Visiting Fellowships @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the 2026-27 academic year! A vibrant interdisciplinary research centre in the heart of one of the world’s great libraries!
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I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
I don't know, I used to fold the crossword puzzle from the student newspaper so it would fit into my Norton Anthology. How can we be sure this student isn't doing the same? 🧐
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I don't know, I used to fold the crossword puzzle from the student newspaper so it would fit into my Norton Anthology. How can we be sure this student isn't doing the same? 🧐
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Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
Among other things, this gives me occasion to be newly sad about the movers taking all of my VHS tapes when I moved to Australia
Pixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same.
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Among other things, this gives me occasion to be newly sad about the movers taking all of my VHS tapes when I moved to Australia