In code? Is it just how words start to look at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon?
[Data from Bodleian MS Add. B. 106, f. 28v]

Hey, look, this is finally out!

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I *could* go home for the evening, but it's much more fun to stay in my office and confirm that there is, in fact, a digitised image of this gem. (Houghton MS Eng 686, ff. 33v–34r)

John Donne, who died #otd 31 Mar 1631 painted aged 49, that is around 1622. British School (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

(re: "handy"—that pun was not intended, but we'll stand by it)

We're mostly wondering whether they're within our project's scope. A whispering service could come in handy! But a miscellany might not be very fun to read out loud—or it could be a lot of fun... 🤔

Which manuscripts, specifically? 👀

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#palaeography #paleography #LIPS26

The team's latest database enhancement request is for an animated confetti graphic that celebrates each 1% change in data cleaned, and you know what? That's fair.

NEW! Just published my latest #openaccess article with @up_johd: doi.org/10.5334/johd....

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Just got new team photos for a forthcoming website update. Here's a sneak peek! 🤩

That's the gnat!

Screenshot of STEMMA database TEXT Work: 7020: Even as the waves of brainless buttered fish Manuscript: MS Add. 7196 Page or folio: f.[25v rev] Author John Hoskins

Closely followed by 'Even as the waves of brainless buttered fish'

Screenshot of STEMMA database TEXT Manuscript Item Details: Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle ID: 20836 Has merge history: X New item: - Data source: celm Work: 4784: Silly buzzing wanton elf Manuscript: MS Add. 8684 Page or folio: f.11r-v Author: Richard Crashaw

Contender for the best first line in early modern poetry?? 'Silly buzzing wanton elf'

Screenshot of text reading "SO COOL"

Find yourself a research team that sends emails with subject lines like this

@stemma.bsky.social

Screen shot of STEMMA database entry TEXT Title 'An elegy of the countess of Londonderry supposing her to be dead by her long silence' Heading: Lady Anne Southwell 'An elegy of the countess of Londonderry supposing her to be dead by her long silence' First line: Since thou fair soul art warbling to a sphere

When you leave someone on read too long:

'an elegy to the countess of Londonderry supposing her dead by her long silence' 🥶💀

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Quote on a wall in The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia: "After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all" - A.S.W. Rosenbach

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

Our postdoc researcher @caitlinburge.bsky.social is off on a manuscript adventure this week - and where better to do history than in historical locations! #earlymodern @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social

Screenshot of bibliographical meadata for a poem that apparently begins, "Buckingham Buckingham Buckingham," and ends, "Buckingham."

Okay, we definitely need to read the full text of this one (@edunilibraries.bsky.social MS La.III.493, f. 67r–68r).

#earlymodern #dh #datacleaning #ManuscriptMonday

The @uniofgalway.bsky.social
's Digital Humanities Reseach Centre launches this afternoon! Come along and have a cup of tea with the STEMMA team (and some of our #dh friends).

a group of minions standing next to each other with the words welcome to the team written on the bottom ALT: a group of minions standing next to each other with the words welcome to the team written on the bottom

Very exciting week here at STEMMA as we welcome TWO new teammates: @meghankern.bsky.social and @leahveronese.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 interlocked.universe@gmail.com #dh #digitalhumanities #networkanalysis

Thanks to @siliconrepublic.bsky.social for highlighting our work!

Either an early modern scribe or a manuscript scholar got a little nasty transcribing this poem about Charles II

Contender for @stemma.bsky.social Transcription Error* of the Day

* Not our error but something I found while cleaning

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

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

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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…

👀 Today we continue our series of blog posts from DARIAH-IE’s 2025 ECR Bursary awardees with Dr Caitlin Burge, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Galway (STEMMA) buff.ly/XpPSDtz

Guest Post: (Lack of) Disability Representation in Early Modern Literature Discover how disability was portrayed in Early Modern literature, with a focus on Thomas Randolph’s 1630 poem. Uncover the stigma and cultural views toward disability in this thought-provoking analysi...

New post on the STEMMA blog by our intrepid intern Cate Milley! stemma.universityofgalway.ie/early-modern...