Erin A. McCarthy

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there

— William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel That Greeny Flower"

Microsoft should rebrand Copilot to Rover.

My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA.

I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation!

#18thc #17thc #earlymodern

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

1510 probate record with a seal depicting the murder of Thomas Becket

Spotted in the searchroom this week was this 1510 probate with a very interesting seal! It appears to depict the murder of Thomas Becket and is in pretty good condition given its age! 📷 D/EBP/E33

Don't be fooled by the appearances! At first glance, these look like early printed books, but it is an ingenious chest of drawers. Has anyone seen this elsewhere?

* complimentary closing

Almost sent an email with "All beset" as the salutation and, well, yeah.

Honestly I might adopt DFW's resume section headers:

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS &c (IF ANYBODY CARES...)

Madness. I cannot handle having more than a few tabs open at a time, but I sense some, um, generational differences between myself and my team.

Further to our earlier discussion @stemma.bsky.social

the computer is NOT conscious. until you put googly eyes on it

Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) at University of Birmingham Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Job: The University of Birmingham is seeking to appoint someone to a 21-month post associated with a research project called "French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685" www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...

Saving for later today!

The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026 The School, formerly the Keele Latin and Palaeography Summer School, returns for its 49th year. In 2025 The Ranulf Higden Society took over the organisation of the Latin and Palaeography Summer Sch…

#Skystorians - New to medieval and early modern #Palaeography? Looking to improve your skills? Then the 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School - to be held in #Birmingham (rather that Keele, as previously), might just be for you.

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Watching Knicks vs Spurs on League Pass and enjoying the MSG organist as always—and also thinking about how excellent and Bay Area-flavored the music was at Chase Center last Sunday.

DARIAH-IE Introduces… As part of DARIAH-IE’s outreach efforts for 2026 we will be hosting a number of online meetings, specifically tailored toward members of the Irish researcher community. The format will be inf…

Choose one of these upcoming outreach events to find out more about @DARIAH-IE's activities and supports for the Irish research community:

dariah.ie/wordpress/da...

There will be plenty of time for attendees to ask questions and all are encouraged to join the meetings with a cuppa !

I stand thoroughly corrected!

Just talked to a roomful of MA students about this this morning!

Also sometimes "comedy Irish name" or "super-Irish-American name."

Hmm, apparently I'm no longer on firm ground when I deride my own name as a name "no real Irish person would have."

Street sign reading "Halleck Street" against a red tile roof with part of a tree in the corner

I went to #RenSA26 to talk about Lanyer, so it seems appropriate that I spotted this sign channeling Simon Forman in the Presidio.

homer simpson from the simpsons is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and his hands outstretched . ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and his hands outstretched .

Mmm...buttered fish...

an old-school DnD alignment chart, a grid of 3x3 squares, with the two axes being lawful to chaotic and good to evil. lawful good: a lengthy, well-formatted footnote with additional explanatory text neutral good: a note to future self of what to do with a footnote, but the full citation already pulled chaotic good: an incomplete footnote but the various authors are at least listed in brackets lawful neutral: a somewhat more restrained footnote than lawful good, without explanatory text true neutral: just the footnote chaotic neutral: a note from the author to the author, saying only "find this again!" lawful evil: a curt footnote saying "see, again:" with the full citation after it neutral evil: text, cut off by the screenshot: "I swear I read this somewhere; I've lost the bloody [...] goes to publication" chaotic evil: a completely blank footnote

I found this lying around in a random folder with other things I made in grad school: FOOTNOTE ALIGNMENT CHART

My hair may be mussed in part because of today’s bucket hat giveaway. 😂

So…no Steph and no Draymond, but I got to meet Adonal Foyle!

I suppose that is a crucial detail…

Good grief, I can’t wait until we can start analyzing this stuff!

Last RSA, it was cannoli and NBA.

You have your way to conference and I have mine.

Who says that literature doesn't teach transferable skills?!