Dr Sophie Whittle
@sophiewhittle.bsky.social
Linguist & Research Associate @dhishef.bsky.social. PhD in historical linguistics and language change. Currently researching the impact of machine learning and critical AI on medieval studies, linguistics, digital editing and pedagogy. She/her. 🏳️🌈
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📖 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!
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@universitypress.cambridge.org have kindly made the entire edition freely accessible for the next few months!
bit.ly/4opx9V4
@universitypress.cambridge.org have kindly made the entire edition freely accessible for the next few months!
Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series: Volume 70 - | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series - Volume 70 -
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August 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
📖 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!
bit.ly/4opx9V4
@universitypress.cambridge.org have kindly made the entire edition freely accessible for the next few months!
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. 🤩
June 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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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🌟 Writing in Hard Times. Coming up soon and earlybird rate available 'til 17 June. 10 weeks with beathacoaching.org.🌟
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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June 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🌟 Writing in Hard Times. Coming up soon and earlybird rate available 'til 17 June. 10 weeks with beathacoaching.org.🌟
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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
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
April 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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
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
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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
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
April 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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
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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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.)
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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February 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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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.)
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.)
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 😊
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...
research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...
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January 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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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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...
research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...
News | Animating Text | Newcastle University
research.ncl.ac.uk
January 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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...
research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...
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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/
To be held at London (KCL) in June.
Further information and the CFP:
themamo.org/about/
The Middle Ages in the Modern World
A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages
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January 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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/
To be held at London (KCL) in June.
Further information and the CFP:
themamo.org/about/
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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.
Hearing the president of KU say that the way the humanities can protect itself - a question asked by a humanities professor of Spanish - is that her field should direct its public voice to how the Spanish language can impact AI versus the third study of an obscure play…. Just sigh.
December 5, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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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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-...
Publishing #OpenAccess February 2025!
Find out more about this timely collection here 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/forthcoming-...
November 26, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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-...
Publishing #OpenAccess February 2025!
Find out more about this timely collection here 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/forthcoming-...
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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...
feministkilljoys.com/2020/12/07/c...
November 25, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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...
feministkilljoys.com/2020/12/07/c...
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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
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
November 26, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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
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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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.
November 26, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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.
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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...
slate.com/human-intere...
Why the Editors of a Top Linguistic Journal Resigned En Masse
This post originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed.
slate.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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...
slate.com/human-intere...
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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...
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
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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November 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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...
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
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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!
Some ideas on how to participate at awareness-days.co.uk/awareness-da...
#NationalLinguisticsDay #Linguistics please share!
November 21, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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!
Some ideas on how to participate at awareness-days.co.uk/awareness-da...
#NationalLinguisticsDay #Linguistics please share!
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!
Register for the next free ATNU Talk: @sophiewhittle.bsky.social talking on 2024-12-11 about "Probing LLMs’ interpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Reflections on the use of generative AI for digital scholarly editing and the university classroom"
See research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...
See research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...
News | Animating Text | Newcastle University
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November 19, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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!
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 🤩📜👩💻
March 1, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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 🤩📜👩💻
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!
February 5, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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!
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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.
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.
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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.
t.co
February 5, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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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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
t.co/wH6P0K2G7x
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.
t.co
February 2, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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
t.co/wH6P0K2G7x