Serena Strecker

Find me: @[email protected] @[email protected]. Ph.D. Candidate, Late Medieval/Early Modern European History, Yale. Local 33. she/her. Views mine.

[Serena Strecker @scstrecker]

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! https://t.co/V5tHSMVyi9 #earlymodern #dh #aiethics

[Serena Strecker @scstrecker]

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): https://t.co/srsoFy3uTO @MDPIOpenAccess

[Cornell Graduate Students United @Cornell_GSU]

THE RESULTS ARE IN, and we think you’ll like them: We WON 1873-80! That’s a 96% majority!

[Harvard Grad Students Union-UAW Local 5118 @hgsuuaw]

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.

[Local 33–UNITE HERE! @33unitehere]

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!

[StanfordGWU-UE @StanfordGWU]

We won. ❤️✊

[Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb]

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.

[Drew Thomas @DrewBThomas]

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

[Monica H Green, PhD #VaxTheWorld @monicaMedHist]

“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.

[New College Library and Archives, Oxford @NewCollegeLib]

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

[Serena Strecker @scstrecker]

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!

[Serena Strecker @scstrecker]

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]

@HadasKotek @FromPhDtoLife I have a big handout on healthy work habits that I made for my students. Please share if helpful! https://t.co/f9RJZ7CWU3

[Drew Thomas @DrewBThomas]

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

[Serena Strecker @scstrecker]

Shoutout to my friend and fellow Yale medievalist Kimberly Lifton for finding this fantastic image!

[Serena Strecker @scstrecker]

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!

[Serena Strecker @scstrecker]

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

[@kakapitan.bsky.social @KatarzynaAnn]

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.

[International Congress on Medieval Studies @KzooICMS]

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...

[Serena Strecker @scstrecker]

@BridgetWhearty It‘s Ahuva Liberles, a colleague of mine at Yale!