Anna Michalcová

What is your feel good music playlist when you're buried in administrative work. For me it's the 80s

To conclude our presentation on the Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora, here’s a fun picture of Gebauer and Šembera... making up

Humanists and Technologists Join Forces to Advance Historical Text Recognition and Research Humanists and Technologists Join Forces to Advance Historical Text Recognition and Research

In June, an international network of humanists and technologists joined forces to advance historical text recognition and research at the Source Codes of the Past (SCOOP) conference at Princeton.

cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

I took the bus, near lost it too,
yet I pray the rest brings peace anew 💚

Long have I championed Deutsche Bahn,
yet today I was most bitterly betrayed.
My train connection is lost,
and their hollow words—“we are very sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused”—
shall never win my pardon.

Third monitor currently not plugged in because I have to figure out where to put it (space issues caused by too many plants), but once I do it's over for everyone

Oh no, I am a man in this scenario (my budgies hate my loud keyboard with passion)

Sometimes writing in this game seriously catches me off guard - the first game was fun to play, mechanically, but this is a whole another level. I don't know why I am getting so excited about buying fictional reliquies

I want to meet the person whoever wrote this in. Seriously. Why am I so excited about having the "pike" that killed Jesus Christ. Why did I. Waste my savings on this.. piece of wood...

I just finished writing my dissertation... And ended up playing KCD2 with a bottle of wine... and ended up finding a merchant from whom I bought... And now hold on... The pike that killed Jesus Christ........

It's fascinating how some of my side gigs and my actual dissertation research happened to align so well (editorial work in publishing houses & studying medieval orthography), but now some things make me even more shaky

On a whole another note, stop writing Czech quotation marks as ,," 🥹

Does anyone know the demon who contacted the scribe of the Codex Gigas so he could finish writing the Bible in one night? I still need to finish one article and three chapters of my dissertation till the end of summer, could use some dark ritual or something 💁

Hobitek

Nebyly odpustky vlastně první středověká subscription service 🤔

Šembera strašně moc chtěl, aby byly rukopisy Královédvorský a Zelenohorský pravdivé, ale pak mu bylo sňato bělmo z očí

Yes, this is incredibly specific and you can read the article once it comes out, it will all make sense I promise 😀

Sometimes you're trying to write a scientific article about the evolution of editing Medieval Czech texts, and it turns into a deep dive into how 19th-century editors were scandalised by farting monks and carefully expunged (censored) all traces of that monastic gas. It be like that

Ukázala jsem svojí školitelce své pěkné grafíčky k disertaci a dostala jsem pochvalu

I am going through my old presentations and found this gem. I remember not using this slide in the end and perhaps that was a mistake 😀

Co bych měla dělat: Psát disertace, připravovat se na přednášky, co mám příští týden, dělat práci na granty
Co dělám (čtu):

Claude is my new BFF

Už delší dobu používám ChatGPT na pomoc kódováním a i si ho platím. Jenže už delší dobu spíš spravuju blbosti, které mi ChatGPT poradí, než že by mi to reálně pomohlo s kódem (:

Takže friendship with ChatGPT ended, Claude is my new best friend

Jsem už skoro týden v Irsku a přemýšlím, jestli tady ti lidé i nějak žijou, nebo jenom přežívají. Dublin je taky jediné město, kde vidím tak silně propagované muzeum emigrace

Možná teď bude cool dávat sem vtipná staročeská slovíčka, když všichni hrajou Kingdom Come?

I read this and said "hesitate no more"

Wait you can be gay in the new Kingdom Come game??

Zase den v prdeli, když člověk jen pláče nad tím, že někdo nechce jeho prachy

V květnu mám jet na konferenci do USA a očividně mě tam nechtějí, protože mi odmítají přijmout konferenční poplatek (z karty odejde a hned se vrátí)

Měla bych se proplesknout

Surprised Pikachu GIF ALT: Surprised Pikachu GIF

Setkání s kamarádkou, která dělá v nakladatelství, usually goes like this

Já: Nevím, jestli si budu držet živnosťák, už nemám moc čas na korektury a redakční práce
Kamarádka: No já bych teď pro tebe jednu korekturu měla
Já: