P.J. Burns
@diyclassics.bsky.social
Associate Research Scholar, Digital Projects @ ISAW Library | prev. Quantitative Criticism Lab (UT-Austin) & Culture, Cognition, Coevolution Lab (Harvard) | Fordham PhD, #Classics | #DigiClass, #Latin, #Greek | LatinCy dev, CLTK contrib | #Python
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P.J. Burns
@diyclassics.bsky.social
· Dec 9
LatinCy Developers/Users First Annual Meeting
Announcing the LatinCy First Annual Meeting
diyclassics.github.io
Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026.
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
Starting in about an hour! #aiascs
Headed to SF for #AIASCS — presenting Saturday morning (10 Jan. @ 8am, DCA panel) on the Latin content of LLM training data repos, massive-scale philology, and classics-comp sci collaboration w. D. Bamman, C. Brooks, M. Hudspeth & B. O’Connor #digiclass #nlproc
January 10, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Starting in about an hour! #aiascs
Stop by the ISAW Monographs / NYU Press table in the #AIASCS Book Exhibit—let’s talk about texts, archaeology, art history, and material culture inter alia isaw.nyu.edu/publications...
January 8, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Stop by the ISAW Monographs / NYU Press table in the #AIASCS Book Exhibit—let’s talk about texts, archaeology, art history, and material culture inter alia isaw.nyu.edu/publications...
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Headed to SF for #AIASCS — presenting Saturday morning (10 Jan. @ 8am, DCA panel) on the Latin content of LLM training data repos, massive-scale philology, and classics-comp sci collaboration w. D. Bamman, C. Brooks, M. Hudspeth & B. O’Connor #digiclass #nlproc
January 7, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Headed to SF for #AIASCS — presenting Saturday morning (10 Jan. @ 8am, DCA panel) on the Latin content of LLM training data repos, massive-scale philology, and classics-comp sci collaboration w. D. Bamman, C. Brooks, M. Hudspeth & B. O’Connor #digiclass #nlproc
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My #AIASCS talk is "Roman Art within Afroeurasia" as part of the panel "Still Defining Roman Art" org'd by P. de Staebler and Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta. It's a series of five minute talks then discussion. Here are my very few slides in miniature form. Friday at 2PM. Come if you can. #AIASCS2026
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM
My #AIASCS talk is "Roman Art within Afroeurasia" as part of the panel "Still Defining Roman Art" org'd by P. de Staebler and Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta. It's a series of five minute talks then discussion. Here are my very few slides in miniature form. Friday at 2PM. Come if you can. #AIASCS2026
Headed to SF for #AIASCS — presenting Saturday morning (10 Jan. @ 8am, DCA panel) on the Latin content of LLM training data repos, massive-scale philology, and classics-comp sci collaboration w. D. Bamman, C. Brooks, M. Hudspeth & B. O’Connor #digiclass #nlproc
January 7, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Headed to SF for #AIASCS — presenting Saturday morning (10 Jan. @ 8am, DCA panel) on the Latin content of LLM training data repos, massive-scale philology, and classics-comp sci collaboration w. D. Bamman, C. Brooks, M. Hudspeth & B. O’Connor #digiclass #nlproc
Took my experience using @quarto.org for coding documentation and applied it to an archaeological problem… one of my main 2025 projects, happy to see it out in the world—
ISAW and NYU Press are pleased to announce the #openaccess digital publication of ‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert (Amheida IV) by N. Aravecchia. Read the digitial edition: dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/id... More info here:
isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
ISAW announces the digital publication of ‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert (Amheida IV)
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and NYU Press are pleased to announce the open access digital publication of ‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's We...
isaw.nyu.edu
January 6, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Took my experience using @quarto.org for coding documentation and applied it to an archaeological problem… one of my main 2025 projects, happy to see it out in the world—
*** Extension for LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting CFP... send proposals by Friday January 9, 2026 *** diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/
December 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
*** Extension for LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting CFP... send proposals by Friday January 9, 2026 *** diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/
Proposals for the LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting due next week, Dec. 30...
Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026.
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
LatinCy Developers/Users First Annual Meeting
Announcing the LatinCy First Annual Meeting
diyclassics.github.io
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Proposals for the LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting due next week, Dec. 30...
Reminder that we are hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting this February (and it's also a third "birthday" for the pipelines!)...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Reminder that we are hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting this February (and it's also a third "birthday" for the pipelines!)...
It has been so great working with Chris Forstall and Berenice Verhelst (and the many contributors within) over the last few years, including conference stops at Universität Rostock & Mt. Allison University. Congrats to the editors—happy to see this out in the world...
Have a chapter on "quantitative dialogism" in this open-access Brill volume on »Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic« brill.com/display/book...
December 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It has been so great working with Chris Forstall and Berenice Verhelst (and the many contributors within) over the last few years, including conference stops at Universität Rostock & Mt. Allison University. Congrats to the editors—happy to see this out in the world...
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Have a chapter on "quantitative dialogism" in this open-access Brill volume on »Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic« brill.com/display/book...
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Have a chapter on "quantitative dialogism" in this open-access Brill volume on »Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic« brill.com/display/book...
Have a chapter on "quantitative dialogism" in this open-access Brill volume on »Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic« brill.com/display/book...
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Have a chapter on "quantitative dialogism" in this open-access Brill volume on »Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic« brill.com/display/book...
Reposted by P.J. Burns
I'm thrilled to report that the Perseus Digital Library has been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! Read more about our plans here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...).
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Perseus Digital Library Updates » News and announcements from the Perseus Digital Library
sites.tufts.edu
December 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I'm thrilled to report that the Perseus Digital Library has been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! Read more about our plans here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...).
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New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...
2026 Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) RFP - Schmidt Sciences
Overview [Read the full RFP] Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus ...
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...
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Big congrats to these 23 projects that just won awards from the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program! Please spread the word. (NB I've been helping the HAVI team on this program. This is a broad slate of terrific DH projects!) www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2025-an...
Schmidt Sciences awards $11M in grants to bring AI to humanities research - Schmidt Sciences
Contact: Carlie Wiener; [email protected] NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11 million for up to 23 teams of researchers around the world to develop and apply artificial intelligence to...
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Big congrats to these 23 projects that just won awards from the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program! Please spread the word. (NB I've been helping the HAVI team on this program. This is a broad slate of terrific DH projects!) www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2025-an...
Reposted by P.J. Burns
Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026.
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
LatinCy Developers/Users First Annual Meeting
Announcing the LatinCy First Annual Meeting
diyclassics.github.io
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026.
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026.
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
LatinCy Developers/Users First Annual Meeting
Announcing the LatinCy First Annual Meeting
diyclassics.github.io
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026.
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
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Happy to share that the “Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages” has been accepted! See you at #LREC2026!
#LT4HALA2026 #NLProc
circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/
#LT4HALA2026 #NLProc
circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/
LT4HALA
Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA)
circse.github.io
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Happy to share that the “Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages” has been accepted! See you at #LREC2026!
#LT4HALA2026 #NLProc
circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/
#LT4HALA2026 #NLProc
circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/
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(1/2) 🎉 New preprint: "Contextual Morphologically-Guided Tokenization for Latin Encoder Models"
w/ @diyclassics.bsky.social @brenocon.bsky.social
w/ @diyclassics.bsky.social @brenocon.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
(1/2) 🎉 New preprint: "Contextual Morphologically-Guided Tokenization for Latin Encoder Models"
w/ @diyclassics.bsky.social @brenocon.bsky.social
w/ @diyclassics.bsky.social @brenocon.bsky.social
Starting 1 hour—
I’ll be at #IANLS25 talking about *massive* Latin text repositories (so much Neo-Latin!) and prospects for training Latin LLMs
anybody here attending the #ianls25 next week in Aix-en-Provence? We're looking forward to a series of panels on digital neolatin topics. Check out the programme here: https://ianls-2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IANLS_Programme_du_congres_14_05_2025_final_1.pdf
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
July 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Starting 1 hour—
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I’ll be at #IANLS25 talking about *massive* Latin text repositories (so much Neo-Latin!) and prospects for training Latin LLMs
anybody here attending the #ianls25 next week in Aix-en-Provence? We're looking forward to a series of panels on digital neolatin topics. Check out the programme here: https://ianls-2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IANLS_Programme_du_congres_14_05_2025_final_1.pdf
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I’ll be at #IANLS25 talking about *massive* Latin text repositories (so much Neo-Latin!) and prospects for training Latin LLMs
I’ll be at #IANLS25 talking about *massive* Latin text repositories (so much Neo-Latin!) and prospects for training Latin LLMs
anybody here attending the #ianls25 next week in Aix-en-Provence? We're looking forward to a series of panels on digital neolatin topics. Check out the programme here: https://ianls-2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IANLS_Programme_du_congres_14_05_2025_final_1.pdf
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I’ll be at #IANLS25 talking about *massive* Latin text repositories (so much Neo-Latin!) and prospects for training Latin LLMs
Reposted by P.J. Burns
anybody here attending the #ianls25 next week in Aix-en-Provence? We're looking forward to a series of panels on digital neolatin topics. Check out the programme here: https://ianls-2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IANLS_Programme_du_congres_14_05_2025_final_1.pdf
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
anybody here attending the #ianls25 next week in Aix-en-Provence? We're looking forward to a series of panels on digital neolatin topics. Check out the programme here: https://ianls-2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IANLS_Programme_du_congres_14_05_2025_final_1.pdf
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls