Dr Sophie Whittle

📖 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!

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. 🤩

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…

🌟 Writing in Hard Times. Coming up soon and earlybird rate available 'til 17 June. 10 weeks with beathacoaching.org.🌟

The front cover of the book Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century.

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

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".

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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 😊

Thanks so much for coming and for the kind words! Would love to stay in touch ☺️

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...

The Middle Ages in the Modern World A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages

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/

Point of View: An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity A collaboratively developed annotated reading list expands upon core themes in neurodiversity, aiming to enhance understanding and to promote rigorous, destigmatizing, and inclusive practices in resea...

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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.

Hello! I thought I’d best follow you and check out your celeb status! 😂

The front cover of 'Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century' edited by James O'Sullivan, Michael Pidd, Michael Kurzmeier, Orla Murphy, Bridgette Wessels and Sophie Whittle. It includes an image from the artist Elize de Beer of files in an archive.

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-...

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...

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🙂
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#NationalLinguisticsDay

Description of opportunity reads: Crisis narratives about privacy, creativity and automation have come to dominate techno-centric discourses about data. These crisis narratives, however, often overlook the very human vulnerabilities (re)produced by cis-hetero-patriarchal socio-technical infrastructures. This research will explore how queer data offer unique forms of resilience through attentiveness to plurality, mutability and intersectionality. Then a link to the scholarship in more detail.

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.

Why the Editors of a Top Linguistic Journal Resigned En Masse This post originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed.

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.

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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...

National Linguistics Day - November 26th. Let's get people thinking, talking and learning about the science of language!

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!

Thank you for the follow, excited to read more about what everyone's up to! Please could you add me to the list? 😄

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 🤩📜👩‍💻

This won’t be a book inspo bluesky account, but thought I’d start strong

The cover of the fiction book ‘Scorched Grace’ by Margot Douaihy. The cover features a nun who is wearing a cross around her neck, with a cigarette in her right hand, and a stern/moody face. The colour palette is pink, purple and indigo, with blocks of sun rays extending out from the middle as the background. The book cover also says ‘A Sister Holiday mystery’.

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!

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.

I'm so sorry to hear this Laura. It is absolutely horrifying to see, especially as we need linguistics now more than ever. Is there a petition circulating at the moment that I can sign?

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.

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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Want to know how Finnish laypeople think gay men speak? Here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
This is my first ever article in Journal of Language and Sexuality! 🥳 Please like this if you'd be interested in a 🧵about the main contents of the paper! I know it's behind a paywall for most people.