Cassie Ulph
@crulph.bsky.social
Erstwhile lots of things, current digital humanist, knows some stuff about the 18th century. Specialist subjects include Neighbours c. 1998-2007 and primary school classmates' birthdays | in UK: no DMs
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Cassie Ulph
@crulph.bsky.social
· Sep 22
My zero-impact historicist lit crit paper vs my enthusiastically received DH exploratory methods paper
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the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
On the precarity front, I actually wrote a piece about this [for free!] for a subject association magazine and when I suggested that it be made available beyond subscribers to that association (because it was mainly institutional members so independent scholars unlikely to read it), LOL no way man
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
On the precarity front, I actually wrote a piece about this [for free!] for a subject association magazine and when I suggested that it be made available beyond subscribers to that association (because it was mainly institutional members so independent scholars unlikely to read it), LOL no way man
"You just gotta hang on in there, we all paid our dues" 🙄
'Experiences of precarity among early career academics are shaped by a lack of understanding from more senior colleagues'
Important new report out on precarious working conditions in Geography in UK HE. Sadly the nature and scale of the findings are grim but unsurprising. www.rgs.org/research/hig...
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"You just gotta hang on in there, we all paid our dues" 🙄
Delighted to see this in the wild and particularly enjoying the lovely visualisation of Hamilton's networks on the cover! #18thC #DH
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
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📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly
@sas-news.bsky.social
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Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press
Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...
uolpress.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly
@sas-news.bsky.social
@sas-news.bsky.social
First time in years we are home for trick or treaters for various reasons but most of all because I will be damned if I am missing the opportunity to answer the door with a baby dressed in a pumpkin outfit
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
First time in years we are home for trick or treaters for various reasons but most of all because I will be damned if I am missing the opportunity to answer the door with a baby dressed in a pumpkin outfit
A bold choice, commissioning Philip Larkin for your bedtime story book
October 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A bold choice, commissioning Philip Larkin for your bedtime story book
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Happy birthday last weekend to our wise and beautiful hound. She loves ivy and fish, & is scared of bees & advent calendars.
October 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Happy birthday last weekend to our wise and beautiful hound. She loves ivy and fish, & is scared of bees & advent calendars.
I don't particularly care for Jane Eyre *ducks*
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I don't particularly care for Jane Eyre *ducks*
My oldest child is 14 years young today! She came to us as a bouncy not-quite-7-year-old and remains a knockout, if a bit creaky. Happy Birthday Dogface! 🎈
October 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
My oldest child is 14 years young today! She came to us as a bouncy not-quite-7-year-old and remains a knockout, if a bit creaky. Happy Birthday Dogface! 🎈
Bob Dylan, _Infidels_ ...which is as a result as well as being comfortably the worst Dylan album, is also my favourite
September 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Bob Dylan, _Infidels_ ...which is as a result as well as being comfortably the worst Dylan album, is also my favourite
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Mary Hamilton and her networks: Gender, sociability, manuscript. Important (we would think so, wouldn't we?) special issue of JECS, now in copy-editing. Intro + 4 research papers by the team (see www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/further-read...) + 5 outside contributions. #18thC #langsky
September 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Mary Hamilton and her networks: Gender, sociability, manuscript. Important (we would think so, wouldn't we?) special issue of JECS, now in copy-editing. Intro + 4 research papers by the team (see www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/further-read...) + 5 outside contributions. #18thC #langsky
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The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time
a woman in a suit holds her hand to her face
ALT: a woman in a suit holds her hand to her face
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September 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time
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Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
My policy of not posting images of the baby on social media is being sorely tested by the impression of the dog she is currently workshopping
August 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My policy of not posting images of the baby on social media is being sorely tested by the impression of the dog she is currently workshopping
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Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.
August 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.
"What is actually prolific and relevant to the majority are low-cost technologies that solve day-to-day business and social problems."
Yes!
Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes!
Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage
Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"What is actually prolific and relevant to the majority are low-cost technologies that solve day-to-day business and social problems."
Yes!
Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes!
Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Baby: hi mum I have a new noise I can make I won't spoil the surprise but you'll know when you hear it
Me: cool cool cool can't wait anyway time to go to sleep baby
Baby: *articulated lorry doing emergency stop* 🙃
Me: cool cool cool can't wait anyway time to go to sleep baby
Baby: *articulated lorry doing emergency stop* 🙃
July 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Baby: hi mum I have a new noise I can make I won't spoil the surprise but you'll know when you hear it
Me: cool cool cool can't wait anyway time to go to sleep baby
Baby: *articulated lorry doing emergency stop* 🙃
Me: cool cool cool can't wait anyway time to go to sleep baby
Baby: *articulated lorry doing emergency stop* 🙃
UoL colleagues, this looks like a fantastic programme!
❗Today is the last day to sign up for our Research Culture Community of Practice event on 14th July!!! The event is open to anyone working or studying at Leeds, or anyone who works closely with Leeds. Spaces are vanishing rapidly so don't miss out.
Coming up! our 2025 Community of Practice event!
📍 Nexus, Leeds | 🗓️ Mon 14 July | 10am–4pm
📝 Sign up by 4 July!
A day of talks, films, workshops & celebration — all about building a better, more inclusive research culture. Researchers, techs, postgrads, PS staff, academics & more: this is for you.
📍 Nexus, Leeds | 🗓️ Mon 14 July | 10am–4pm
📝 Sign up by 4 July!
A day of talks, films, workshops & celebration — all about building a better, more inclusive research culture. Researchers, techs, postgrads, PS staff, academics & more: this is for you.
July 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
UoL colleagues, this looks like a fantastic programme!
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I regularly buy a dozen bottles of Badger Ale and 2 packs of mushrooms at my local supermarket. I put them on the conveyor belt in that order hoping the cashier will burst into song as they put them through the till, but they never do.
July 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I regularly buy a dozen bottles of Badger Ale and 2 packs of mushrooms at my local supermarket. I put them on the conveyor belt in that order hoping the cashier will burst into song as they put them through the till, but they never do.
Apropos of #LKFS2025 today:
Just published! 'Library Catalogues as Data' with a chapter by Team B&B - '"(S)hut not thy Heart, nor thy Library": Realising the Potential of Historical Library Borrowing Data': www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/...
Library Catalogues as Data
This book brings together leading practitioners and academic voices to discuss a range of topics surrounding library information and data.
www.facetpublishing.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Apropos of #LKFS2025 today:
