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We are making progress toward the ECM of 1 Corinthians. theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

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If I'm not too busy revising my thesis this summer, I'll have to attend the introductory course virtually! I had the pleasure of meeting the instructor, Vittorio Secco, at a higher-degree research workshop in Rome last year, and he's doing exciting work on multilingual textual traditions.

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Thanks to Peter Montoro for mentioning my Jude collation and my find_variation script in his ETC blog post. If you work with TEI collations, the script can be very useful. evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/02/reso...

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If you're in the area or can attend virtually, please join us for the launch of my associate supervisor's new book! I will be one of several respondents on the panel.😀

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The 2025 Seminar 1 schedule for the BECS Global Seminar Series is now available with contributions from Sarah Corrigan, Stephen Carlson, Bronwen Neil, Sabrina Inowlocki, and David Woods.

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Small-in-the-grand-scheme-of-things but exciting news: the open-cbgm library has just had its first major update to v2.0: github.com/jjmccollum/o.... In addition to a snazzy new logo, this release adds new optimizations and options to the command-line utility (github.com/jjmccollum/o...). (1/4)

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It looks like recently, (1) I hit my following-followers crossover point for the first time on here, and (2) my open-source implementation of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method, the open-cbgm library (github.com/jjmccollum/o...), became my first GitHub repository to get starred 30 times! 🎉

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Zach Butler has just posted an instructive overview of @davidaflood.com's Apatosaurus app for working with a digital textual apparatus. He even mentioned my open-cbgm software, and it sounds like he's planning to post more about that next! Check out his post below, and keep an eye out for more!

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I've been busy adding user-requested features to the teiphy Python package (github.com/jjmccollum/t...)! The last few releases, culminating in v0.1.17, introduce a variety of convenient changes to facilitate conversions of TEI XML textual collations to inputs for phylogenetic software:

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If, like me, you're currently searching/applying for jobs/postdocs in biblical studies and adjacent fields, you may be interested to know that the NT at Oxford account from Twitter also has an account here (@nt4ox.bsky.social), and it posts new listings regularly. Give it a follow!

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My line of research (applying phylogenetic approaches from evolutionary biology to reconstruct the textual traditions of Christian writings) might be of interest here; reposting in case this project relates to others' fields!

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I had the pleasure of hearing @mmonier.bsky.social give a talk on this research earlier this year. I look forward to the publication of his paper!

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Reposting this because Fragments of Christianity was a great read! Fantastic treatment of early Christian documents and their historical context.

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IRCI's Dr Jonathan Zecher led a public-facing lecture on the Melbourne Gospels at the National Gallery of Victoria as part of the "Being Human" exhibition organised by UniMelb.

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I've been jealous of everyone's posts from #SBLAAR24, but I finally have time to share some photos of the European tour that my wife @annakawm.bsky.social and I took from October through November. We toured 15 countries, but I'll share highlights of favorite spots and visits with colleagues. 🧵

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if you are considering journal submission (BibS) you may also enjoy a handy webpage to compare journal submission word limits, information which can be surprisingly hard to locate. xenos-theology.blogspot.com/2024/08/new-...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Wanted to ensure these links made it to this site, posted by @joeymccollum.bsky.social on the other. Journal review times: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... docs.google.com/forms/d/1kyI...

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Didn't find one, so made a computational literary studies starter pack, with notable bunch of european folks and early career scholars. My circle here is small, so please reply/dm to be added or removed and suggest people from your networks! go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ

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Congratulations to two teams led by IRCI scholars for Discovery Project grant success from the Australian Research Council totalling almost a half a million dollars!

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What a great resource! (And thanks for citing my papers on P46 in the bibliography, @jacobwpeterson.bsky.social!)

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Another starter pack - this one devoted exclusively to New Testament scholars. Give them a follow if that's your jam!

submitted 108 days ago • 7 comments

Folks, if you are interested in biblical studies (broadly construed) on Bluesky, I've created a starter pack. It's non-comprehensive (you can only add 150 accounts), so apologies to anyone left off! go.bsky.app/PKHv8Ru

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I just got back home from COMPAS 2024! I gave a paper on scribal habits in a Bayesian phylogenetic framework. I got to hear some excellent papers and meet scholars who work at the intersection of phylogenetics and stemmatics. It's exciting to see more people around the world doing this!

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Quick update: a new release of teiphy is available on GitHub (github.com/jjmccollum/t...) and PyPI! Nothing major—just some fixes to ensure that BEAST ancestral state/sequence loggers work correctly and variant reading indices >9 are encoded correctly in STEMMA.

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ACU interviewed me about my recent 3-Minute Thesis win! You can check it out in their latest post: acu.edu.au/about-acu/ne.... My three-minute video summarizing my PhD research will compete in the Asia-Pacific semi-finals one week from now (8 October)!

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In more exciting news, my wife and I will be in Europe from October to November! I was one of the @irci.bsky.social students chosen to present my PhD research in Rome from Oct. 4–7, and I'll be attending the #COMPAS2024 conference (compas2024.github.io) in Metz, France from Nov. 6–8!

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The results are in! My three-minute breakdown of my research, "Phylogenetic Textual Criticism: Art Meets Science," has been selected as the winner of the ACU 3-Minute Thesis contest and will be proceeding to the Virtual Asia-Pacific 3MT competition in October!

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