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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in peace, Prof. My condolences to your family and MPL.

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social · 1d

With deep sadness, we share that Prof. Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light passed away on October 3. His visionary work bridged physics and medicine. We have lost a brilliant scientist and dear friend.

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📸 Stephan Spangenberg

Professor Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), He headed the division “Cell Physics” at MPL and the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM).

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 12d

Who is doing What to Whom? Analyzing Gender Biases in Large Language Models with @katrohrbacher.bsky.social

#DHSS2025 #Languagemodels #Genderbiases

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 13d

What does it mean to ‘stay’ in a place, and how can sound capture that experience? 🎧 Dr. Dominik Kremer and @andreaswagnr.bsky.social guided us through Tracing Qualities of Stay, exploring voice recordings tied to place and presence.

#DHSS2025 #SoundStudies #Linguistics #PlaceAndSpace

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 13d

We explored how language shifts across gender, style, and register ✍️ With Dr. Marianna Grachova, we learned how Keyfeature analysis reveals the words and structures that make each variety stand out 🔍

#DHSS2025 #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #LanguageVariation

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 13d

We are truly honoured to have Prof. Mareike Schumacher @mkschumacher.bsky.social with us, delivering her amazing talk on corpus compilation and gender-sensitive analysis.
What a wonderful way to conclude the final day of our school!

#DHSS2025 #DigitalHumanities

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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 13d

I was impressed with the graphical abstracts they managed to create in just 45 minutes.
I’m so proud and humbled by this experience.

DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 13d

The participants of our school have designed a number of graphical abstracts, with just a few glimpses shown here. A creative journey for researchers and future scholars to broaden their skills, discover new ways to visualise their work, and make it more visible and accessible.

#DHSS2025

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 14d

CliC, CliC, CliC...📚🖥
Participants learned a great deal by using a powerful digital tool like Clic to analyze #gender in #19th-century #fiction with concordance analysis, all run by Dr. Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social.

#DHSS2025 #DigitialHumanities #FAU
#CliC

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 14d

✨ Good morning! After yesterday’s wonderful excursion to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, we’re starting the day with a workshop run by Dr. Sabine Lang @sabinelang.bsky.social, where participants are modeling selected objects in #Wikidata.

#DHSS2025 #DigitalHumanities

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 16d

Now our participants are getting ready to design their own visual abstracts - all happening at #DHSS2025 with @ismailbarakat.bsky.social
@dhssfau.bsky.social

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 16d

Our school participants had their first session on social network analysis with Prof. Anastasia Glawion, featuring exciting hands-on tasks and a lively discussion on fan fiction and network analysis!

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 21d

We can’t wait to welcome our great keynote speakers at next week’s Summer School!
Find out more details about their sessions on our website.

@annafoka.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mkschumacher.bsky.social
#DHSS2025 #DigitialHumanities

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 22d

Explore the workshops and sessions offered by DHSS for next week’s Summer School!

*Sessions are shown in the order of the official schedule which you can find it on our website.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 23d

Registration is closed, planes are booked, and preparations are in their final stage.
Check out the full program and stay tuned!

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 27d

📅 The schedule is out!

Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, Gender and Society

Explore sessions and timings here: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/summer-school/

#DHSS25 #SummerSchool #DigitalHumanities

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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 23d

I'm both thrilled and honoured to start this new chapter with these wonderful people.

Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm delighted to welcome Ismail Barakat to the Text & Language Lab @dhssfau.bsky.social
Ismail joins us as Media & Research Communications Producer and we are looking forward to some exciting comms projects!

#digitalhumanities
#watchthisspace
www.dhss.phil.fau.de/person/dr-is...

Dr. Ismail Barakat

Ismail holds a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Aleppo and a master’s degree in Advanced Optical Technologies from FAU, with a focus on the physics of light.

www.dhss.phil.fau.de

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