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Erin A. McCarthy

@erinannmcc.bsky.social

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Professor of English Literature and Computational Humanities. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop.

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hello new followers! I’ve published on early modern English poetry in manuscript and print, women writers, and quant approaches. I’m currently running a project where we are computationally modeling the circulation of verse in MSS. We’re working on an exciting application of AI to support that work.

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know if I have any Phoenix-based followers, but if anyone would like to buy a pair of tickets to tomorrow night's Stevie Nicks show, let me know (ideally soon)

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhh, and Khaman Maluach too! He seems lovely.

Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 1d

I was there in January and now Devin Booker is there 🤩

NBA @nba.com · 1d

THE SUNS ARRIVE IN MACAO! ☀️✈️

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I don't know, I think I locked in around 33. I had ankle surgery last year and did loads of physio and now I feel better than I did in my 20s. The only thing that really bothers me in the cold is the finger I broke going up for a rebound a few years ago. But the youth *are* different.

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Last day to apply! Applications must be submitted online by 5 pm Irish time.

Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 22d

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy

www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...

011345 - University of Galway

www.universityofgalway.ie

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know if I have any Phoenix-based followers, but if anyone would like to buy a pair of tickets to tomorrow night's Stevie Nicks show, let me know (ideally soon)

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 2d

It is cute! And I bought a dress very similar to the blue one over the summer, so maybe I'm getting old too. (I'm not.)

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Michael Donnay @mjdonnay.bsky.social · 2d

What better way to mark #InternatationalRSEDay (coming up on Thursday!) than applying to help organise #RSECon26, the tenth annual research software engineering conference run by @society-rse.org in Sept 2026?

Learn more: society-rse.org/rsecon26-com...

Apply: forms.gle/ooKQ5na6Bx9q...

📆 10 Oct

RSECon26 Call for Conference Committee Members - Society of Research Software Engineering

RSECon26 Committee call is now open.

society-rse.org

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Are people still assigning Norton anthologies? More to the point, will undergrads know what I'm talking about if I mention them in passing?

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine you're at a writers' retreat with the lads and you're all showing off a draft after dinner and then your mate's girlfriend goes here is the novel Frankenstein which I just wrote

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 3d

I still need a little time to adjust to rooting for Dillon the Villain.

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Netzschleuder @netzschleuder.skewed.de · 4d

hens: White Leghorn hens (1946).

Dominance interactions (pecking) among a group of White Leghorn hens, observed in 1946.

32 nodes, 496 edges.

https://networks.skewed.de/net/hens

Ridiculogram:

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.bsky.social · 4d

The next Historical Network Research conference will be held in Turin, Italy in July 2026, and submissions are now open.

Proposals due December 1. Bursaries available for early career scholars.

This year's theme is "Networks and their Sources." See you there!

hnr2026.sciencesconf.org

HNR2026: The Historical Network Research Conference 2026 (Turin, Italy) - Sciencesconf.org

Call for Papers – Historical Network Research Conference 2026

hnr2026.sciencesconf.org

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Dr Charlotte Parsonson-Young @charlie-l-y.bsky.social · 5d

This may be my favourite postscript of all time. The author and his son-in-law were being investigated for plotting against Oliver Cromwell in 1656.

'I desire my daughter to send me a Cheese, for this my restraint hath forced me to eate them she sent before sooner then was intended'.

#stresscheese

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 6d

Pay WNBA players what you owe them!

All-star WNBA rookies make like $70k while their NBA counterparts make like $12 million... umm that's crazy.

The league is booming, and the players deserve their share. Keep up the pressure!

www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

WNBA players say CBA negotiations are stalling as deadline nears

www.nytimes.com

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 6d

Rejected draft lyrics for "Euphoria" in Yale Gen MSS 488, p. 18

Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 6d

Ate some homemade chili and cornbread during the break in my Irish class last night and I'm still wondering if I'm the first person to eat those foods in Áras na Gaeilge

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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 7d

Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?

Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR...

▪️ All career stages welcome
▪️ All fields welcome
▪️ Be compensated for your time

GRAND Recruitment

Complete this short questionnaire to help develop Guidelines for Reporting About Network Data (GRAND).

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 7d

Wait, Tim Walz was on my campus and I didn't even know?!

University of Galway @uniofgalway.bsky.social · 7d

We were delighted to welcome Minnesota Governor @governorwalz.mn.gov to campus yesterday, along with representatives from the University of Minnesota, Mayo Clinic, and the wider region, for an event celebrating Minnesota’s Leadership and Innovation in Life Sciences.

Pictured left to right are panellists: Ronan Rogers, Senior R&D Director, Medtronic, Steve Corkery, Vice President & Executive Director, Corporate Engagement Center, University of Minnesota, Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, (Chair) Prof Becky Whay, Deputy Registrar, University of Galway, Prof Laoise McNamara, Head of School of Engineering, University of Galway, and Peter Frosch, CEO, Greater MSP.

Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 7d

EXTENDED: now closing 7 October at 5 pm Irish time. Feel free to slide into DMs with any questions!

Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 22d

011345 - University of Galway

www.universityofgalway.ie

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · 7d

If U Seek (Storm) Amy

Push news notification from the journal dot ie: ‘Storm Amy: Status yellow rain warning for 14 counties on Thursday and ‘strong winds’ expected on Friday’

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 8d

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Sex and Style by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is out now: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 8d

Did not realize that you were a basketball fan too! Good to know...