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Serena Strecker

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Find me: @scstrecker@hcommons.social @scstrecker@bsky.social. Ph.D. Candidate, Late Medieval/Early Modern European History, Yale. Local 33. she/her. Views mine.

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Want to know more about the ethics of transcription labor, AI-powered automated text recognition, and early modern print? Check out my and Kim Lifton‘s new article out in the Sixteenth Century Journal! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ab… #earlymodern #dh #aiethics
Unlocking the Digitized Archive of Early Modern Print: The Automatic Transcription of Early Modern...

Unlocking the Digitized Archive of Early Modern Print: The Automatic Transcription of Early Modern...

Major digitization projects have made sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed books more accessible than ever, yet most of these digitized sources have not been transcribed due to time, labor, and...

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Check out my new article! Corpus keyword search used to gauge the impact of Swiss humanists on later Lutheran/Catholic religious discourse, published today in Religions (open access): mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/10/124… @MDPIOpenAccess

Confessional Cross-Pollination: Basel Humanists as Suppliers of Lutheran and Catholic Exempla

Basel humanists shaped religious discourse beyond the Reformed sphere through their collections of exempla, short narratives designed to illustrate a moral or doctrinal message. Because scholars of...

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THE RESULTS ARE IN, and we think you’ll like them: We WON 1873-80! That’s a 96% majority!
confetti, CGSU and UE logo "We won our union" 96% voted yes 1,873 yes 80 No

ALT confetti, CGSU and UE logo "We won our union" 96% voted yes 1,873 yes 80 No

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Our local has voted by a membership-wide asynchronous vote to sign on to two letters regarding current events in Palestine. We will join the UAW rank-and-file call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and United Electrical’s call for a ceasefire. Links in thread.
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Yesterday, Local 33 Bargaining Committee Member Arita Acharya got to sit down with @POTUS and @SenSanders to talk about organizing our union for graduate workers at @Yale. POTUS is right, we are building the economy of the future, and it will be union!
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@POTUS46Archive18 Jul 2023
The presence of a union means there is democracy. And organizing or joining a union — that’s democracy in action. Today, @SenSanders and I met with young worker leaders to discuss their fight for better pay and benefits. They are building the economy of the future.
President Biden and Senator Sanders meet with young worker leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

ALT President Biden and Senator Sanders meet with young worker leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

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StanfordGWU-UE@StanfordGWU6 Jul 2023
We won. ❤️✊
Image from StanfordGWU-UE (@StanfordGWU)
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb19 Jun 2023
People are dragging it because it functions as advice to grad students that they should engage in asceticism in order to succeed. In doing so, it is at least implicitly shaming those who try to live lives beyond the compulsion to work. It behooves profs not to set this example.
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Drew Thomas@DrewBThomas13 Jun 2023
Happy to launch the Twitter account for my @IrishResearch project "Visualizing Faith" using AI to investigate visual communication during the Reformation. Would appreciate a follow! @UCDHistory
Visualizing Faith (@VisualFaithAI) profile pictureVisualizing Faith@VisualFaithAI13 Jun 2023
🚀 Excited to launch 'Visualizing Faith: Print, Piety and Propaganda'! 🎉 Join us on this journey as we explore the power of images during the Protestant Reformation. Leveraging AI and deep learning, we'll uncover the role of visual communication in shaping religious identities.
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“If I had one hypothesis about why there’s increasing interest, it’s that students are trying to make sense of a world that doesn’t make a lot of sense right now.” Yep, that's what the #Humanities can do. Help you see the world you live in from a new perspective.
Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) (@rbthisted) profile pictureRob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social)@rbthisted8 Jun 2023
Berkeley: "the university has seen a resurgence in first-year students declaring #arts and #humanities majors, up 121% from 2021. Beyond that, the number of high school students applying to those programs is up 73% compared to ten years ago" bit.ly/43OQvId
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Reunited and it feels so good . . . This miniature from our fifteenth-century Gower manuscript was removed, but later carefully stitched back in—an amazing survival! (@NewCollegeOx, MS 266, f. 33v) #ManuscriptMonday #Gower #MedievalTwitter #EnglishLiterature
A miniature once removed from a manuscript leaf. Once removed, it has been carefully stitched back into place at a later date.

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I’ve read and reread this handout during my three years in a PhD program and it’s come to mind dozens of times when I’ve made decisions about the basics of being a person (sleeping/eating/getting groceries & house supplies) vs doing the work
Ada Palmer (@Ada_Palmer) profile pictureAda Palmer@Ada_Palmer31 May 2023
Replying to @FromPhDtoLife
I have a big handout on healthy work habits that I made for my students. Please share if helpful! exurbe.com/wp-content/upload…
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I always feel empowered and energized knowing that I /can/ prioritize being a person—and that is both good in itself and will make my work better. Give it a read!
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Drew Thomas@DrewBThomas25 May 2023
But the real question is do you update/correct the digital facsimile or is this now part of the history of the digital object and how its read and must be preserved? #art
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It was a sheer delight to present at #kzoo2023 on exempla that express all the ways religious communication can go wrong! Even more a delight to meet everyone in the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society!
Title slide for a presentation entitled Concerns about Communication in Medieval and Early Modern Exempla by Serena Strecker (she/her), PhD Candidate at Yale, to the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies with an sixteenth-century woodcut of a devil stretching parchment with his teeth in order to have space to write more of the congregation‘s chatter during the sermon (Der Ritter von Turm, Staats- und Staatsbibliothek Augsburg, 1513, p 37).

ALT Title slide for a presentation entitled Concerns about Communication in Medieval and Early Modern Exempla by Serena Strecker (she/her), PhD Candidate at Yale, to the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies with an sixteenth-century woodcut of a devil stretching parchment with his teeth in order to have space to write more of the congregation‘s chatter during the sermon (Der Ritter von Turm, Staats- und Staatsbibliothek Augsburg, 1513, p 37).

Conference program panel titled Medieval Sermon Studies II with three presentations listed: John Bequette presenting Bede‘s Palm Sunday Homily: A Rhetorical Exposition, Lucas Lynn Christensen presenting Training the Eye of the Mind: Perceptual Conditioning in Andrew of Crete‘s Triptych Homilies of the Dormition, and Serena Strecker‘s Concerns about Communication in Medieval and Early Modern Exempla

ALT Conference program panel titled Medieval Sermon Studies II with three presentations listed: John Bequette presenting Bede‘s Palm Sunday Homily: A Rhetorical Exposition, Lucas Lynn Christensen presenting Training the Eye of the Mind: Perceptual Conditioning in Andrew of Crete‘s Triptych Homilies of the Dormition, and Serena Strecker‘s Concerns about Communication in Medieval and Early Modern Exempla

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Shoutout to my friend and fellow Yale medievalist Kimberly Lifton for finding this fantastic image!
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Love this! I’ve been thinking a lot about comparisons btw the printing press & the internet (esp thru @elysegraham’s The Printing Press as Metaphor) & this thread affirms how important an understanding of the printing press’ varied impacts really is amid this new comparison w/ AI
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Hey #digitalhumanities folks! What is your favourite digital exhibit? I am preparing my workshop "Digital Collections and Exhibits: Creation, Curation and Preservation" for #LeedsDigitalExplorations and would love to showcase some great examples of recent digital scholarship.
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We can't believe it's already over! Thank you to everyone who joined us for #kzoo2023, where you were here in person or online. We hope you had a wonderful, productive, memorable few days! We hope to see you again next year for #kzoo2024...
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Henry Sotheran Ltd@Sotherans5 May 2023
the older I get, the more I understand that "acquire a number of similar things so we can put them in a row and admire them" is some kind of fundamental universal human impulse that underlies a great deal of our behaviour
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