Federico Pianzola
@fpianz.bsky.social
https://federicopianzola.me
I teach and do research in Computational Humanities @rug.nl
ERC StG "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models" (GOLEM) https://golemlab.eu
I teach and do research in Computational Humanities @rug.nl
ERC StG "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models" (GOLEM) https://golemlab.eu
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Federico Pianzola
@fpianz.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Digital Social Reading
How digital social reading apps are powerfully changing—and nurturing—the way we read.Conventional wisdom would have us believe that digital technology i...
mitpress.mit.edu
It's publication day!
Available in print and Open Access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255091...
A book about how digital social reading apps are changing and nurturing the way we read. I talk about Wattpad, Goodreads, AO3 and more.
@mitpress.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social
Available in print and Open Access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255091...
A book about how digital social reading apps are changing and nurturing the way we read. I talk about Wattpad, Goodreads, AO3 and more.
@mitpress.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social
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So hey, I wrote a book!
So Rugby, What's That? is a grand adventure through all things rugby- From the great game's origins over a thousand years ago, to Ilona's USA and Siya's Springboks, stopping off at Jonah, Johnny, and the endless joy along the way!
Pre-Order NOW at sorugbywhatsthat.co.uk
So Rugby, What's That? is a grand adventure through all things rugby- From the great game's origins over a thousand years ago, to Ilona's USA and Siya's Springboks, stopping off at Jonah, Johnny, and the endless joy along the way!
Pre-Order NOW at sorugbywhatsthat.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
So hey, I wrote a book!
So Rugby, What's That? is a grand adventure through all things rugby- From the great game's origins over a thousand years ago, to Ilona's USA and Siya's Springboks, stopping off at Jonah, Johnny, and the endless joy along the way!
Pre-Order NOW at sorugbywhatsthat.co.uk
So Rugby, What's That? is a grand adventure through all things rugby- From the great game's origins over a thousand years ago, to Ilona's USA and Siya's Springboks, stopping off at Jonah, Johnny, and the endless joy along the way!
Pre-Order NOW at sorugbywhatsthat.co.uk
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
They line up perfectly.
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⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️
🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍
Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
Please share/apply!
Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u
🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍
Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
Please share/apply!
Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u
jobs-praktika-aktuell
tinyurl.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️
🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍
Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
Please share/apply!
Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u
🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍
Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
Please share/apply!
Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u
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📚 MajinBook: Metadata for 500,000 books from Library Genesis & GoodReads. Huge work from Antoine Mazières, see: ⬇️ arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412
MajinBook: An open catalogue of digital world literature with likes
This data paper introduces MajinBook, an open catalogue designed to facilitate the use of shadow libraries--such as Library Genesis and Z-Library--for computational social science and cultural analyti...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
📚 MajinBook: Metadata for 500,000 books from Library Genesis & GoodReads. Huge work from Antoine Mazières, see: ⬇️ arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412
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MajinBook is a badly-needed catalog for shadow libraries. It provides metadata (e.g., date of first publication, popularity on Goodreads) for over half a million English-language books. arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412 +
MajinBook: An open catalogue of digital world literature with likes
This data paper introduces MajinBook, an open catalogue designed to facilitate the use of shadow libraries--such as Library Genesis and Z-Library--for computational social science and cultural analyti...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
MajinBook is a badly-needed catalog for shadow libraries. It provides metadata (e.g., date of first publication, popularity on Goodreads) for over half a million English-language books. arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412 +
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I'm looking forward to the upcoming "Journal of Adversarial Poetry"
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I'm looking forward to the upcoming "Journal of Adversarial Poetry"
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Missed our Olmo 3 livestream? Check it out on YouTube! The Olmo team recaps what makes Olmo 3 our most exciting LM release yet, perhaps most importantly our fully open model flow of checkpoints, training data & recipes, and more. Watch 📷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUFK...
Olmo 3 | Livestream with Hugging Face
YouTube video by Ai2
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Missed our Olmo 3 livestream? Check it out on YouTube! The Olmo team recaps what makes Olmo 3 our most exciting LM release yet, perhaps most importantly our fully open model flow of checkpoints, training data & recipes, and more. Watch 📷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUFK...
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We present Olmo 3, our next family of fully open, leading language models.
This family of 7B and 32B models represents:
1. The best 32B base model.
2. The best 7B Western thinking & instruct models.
3. The first 32B (or larger) fully open reasoning model.
This family of 7B and 32B models represents:
1. The best 32B base model.
2. The best 7B Western thinking & instruct models.
3. The first 32B (or larger) fully open reasoning model.
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We present Olmo 3, our next family of fully open, leading language models.
This family of 7B and 32B models represents:
1. The best 32B base model.
2. The best 7B Western thinking & instruct models.
3. The first 32B (or larger) fully open reasoning model.
This family of 7B and 32B models represents:
1. The best 32B base model.
2. The best 7B Western thinking & instruct models.
3. The first 32B (or larger) fully open reasoning model.
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Today is #dracor day!
This morning, until just now in fact, we did our final (oral) report on #clsinfra, including of course talking about #DraCor. And now, @skorinkin, one of the editors of DraCor, speaks about the corpus plattform in our seminar on #multilingualsm in #DigitalHumanities.
This morning, until just now in fact, we did our final (oral) report on #clsinfra, including of course talking about #DraCor. And now, @skorinkin, one of the editors of DraCor, speaks about the corpus plattform in our seminar on #multilingualsm in #DigitalHumanities.
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Today is #dracor day!
This morning, until just now in fact, we did our final (oral) report on #clsinfra, including of course talking about #DraCor. And now, @skorinkin, one of the editors of DraCor, speaks about the corpus plattform in our seminar on #multilingualsm in #DigitalHumanities.
This morning, until just now in fact, we did our final (oral) report on #clsinfra, including of course talking about #DraCor. And now, @skorinkin, one of the editors of DraCor, speaks about the corpus plattform in our seminar on #multilingualsm in #DigitalHumanities.
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Very cool!
The Proceedings for #chr2025 have already been published, now at the new and slick #ach, the "Anthology of Computers and the Humanities", developed and maintained by ACH, the "Association for Computers and the Humanities".
As an example, you can […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
The Proceedings for #chr2025 have already been published, now at the new and slick #ach, the "Anthology of Computers and the Humanities", developed and maintained by ACH, the "Association for Computers and the Humanities".
As an example, you can […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Very cool!
The Proceedings for #chr2025 have already been published, now at the new and slick #ach, the "Anthology of Computers and the Humanities", developed and maintained by ACH, the "Association for Computers and the Humanities".
As an example, you can […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
The Proceedings for #chr2025 have already been published, now at the new and slick #ach, the "Anthology of Computers and the Humanities", developed and maintained by ACH, the "Association for Computers and the Humanities".
As an example, you can […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
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Just a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for this FREE, ONLINE, GRAD STUDENT WORKSHOP is a little less than two weeks away!
DEAR GRAD STUDENTS,
This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture.
More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
1/4
This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture.
More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
1/4
CFP: The Data of Post45 Literature and Culture (Online Graduate Workshop)
How has encroaching climate disaster impacted how the future is imagined in science fiction novels? What can a century of NYT bestsellers lists tell us about trends in mainstream publishing? And how c...
docs.google.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for this FREE, ONLINE, GRAD STUDENT WORKSHOP is a little less than two weeks away!
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My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by
@lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026!
It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory.
See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.
@lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026!
It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory.
See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by
@lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026!
It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory.
See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.
@lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026!
It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory.
See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.
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#AO3 is turning 16! Look back with us on some of what we accomplished this year, and participate in our anniversary fanwork prompt! Learn more at otw-news.org/yckt835x #AO3Celebrates16
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#AO3 is turning 16! Look back with us on some of what we accomplished this year, and participate in our anniversary fanwork prompt! Learn more at otw-news.org/yckt835x #AO3Celebrates16
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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
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New paper for #CHR2025
Curious how fanfiction genre-tags in 4 different fandoms (Greek Myth, Harry Potter, LOTR and Harry Potter) influence the sentiment of their story arcs? Read on!
Thanks to co-authors @pascaleispunk.bsky.social, Mia Jacobsen and Yuri Bizzoni
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Curious how fanfiction genre-tags in 4 different fandoms (Greek Myth, Harry Potter, LOTR and Harry Potter) influence the sentiment of their story arcs? Read on!
Thanks to co-authors @pascaleispunk.bsky.social, Mia Jacobsen and Yuri Bizzoni
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Happily Ever After: Comparing Sentiment Arcs in Emotionally-Inflected
Fanfiction Genres Across Fandoms
anthology.ach.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
New paper for #CHR2025
Curious how fanfiction genre-tags in 4 different fandoms (Greek Myth, Harry Potter, LOTR and Harry Potter) influence the sentiment of their story arcs? Read on!
Thanks to co-authors @pascaleispunk.bsky.social, Mia Jacobsen and Yuri Bizzoni
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Curious how fanfiction genre-tags in 4 different fandoms (Greek Myth, Harry Potter, LOTR and Harry Potter) influence the sentiment of their story arcs? Read on!
Thanks to co-authors @pascaleispunk.bsky.social, Mia Jacobsen and Yuri Bizzoni
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
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🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
plz reshare
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✨ It's happening ✨ Curious to meet our new colleague? Stay tuned!
#HAICu @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social
#NLProc #LLMs #CulturalHeritage
#HAICu @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social
#NLProc #LLMs #CulturalHeritage
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
✨ It's happening ✨ Curious to meet our new colleague? Stay tuned!
#HAICu @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social
#NLProc #LLMs #CulturalHeritage
#HAICu @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social
#NLProc #LLMs #CulturalHeritage
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Just received the great news that the video recordings from #dh2025 have been published on the conference website https://dh2025.adho.org/. But it would be great if these were published with an explicit license and a unique URL (or DOI) for each recording to allow for re-use and distribution […]
Original post on digitalcourage.social
digitalcourage.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Just received the great news that the video recordings from #dh2025 have been published on the conference website https://dh2025.adho.org/. But it would be great if these were published with an explicit license and a unique URL (or DOI) for each recording to allow for re-use and distribution […]
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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As always: #OpenData and #OpenCode persistently available at: doi.org/10.5683/SP3/....
And the article: doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
And the article: doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
Towards a perspectival moral history of the novel using LLMs
Data for the article "Towards a perspectival moral history of the novel using LLMs" JCLS 2025.
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
As always: #OpenData and #OpenCode persistently available at: doi.org/10.5683/SP3/....
And the article: doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
And the article: doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
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New week, new article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🚀
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper.bsky.social: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper.bsky.social: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing
Journal of Computational Literary Studies |
Issue: Issue: 1(4) (2025)
jcls.io
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New week, new article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🚀
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper.bsky.social: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper.bsky.social: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing
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Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social
The Case for Child Liberation Through Children‘s Books
In troubling the idea of childhood, there is perhaps no better place to go than children’s literature. Children’s literature is where stories of childhood are produced, ostensibly, for children; it…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social
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Join us in Torino for the second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science, CS2Italy, 19-21 May 2026!
Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
cs2italy.org
Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
cs2italy.org
CS2Italy
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cl...
cs2italy.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Join us in Torino for the second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science, CS2Italy, 19-21 May 2026!
Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
cs2italy.org
Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
cs2italy.org
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In K-dramas, food often operates as its own kind of language — a conversational channel that runs parallel to dialogue and, at times, speaks louder than it.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
In K-dramas, food often operates as its own kind of language — a conversational channel that runs parallel to dialogue and, at times, speaks louder than it.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...
www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...