Javier Cha
@javiercha.bsky.social
Canadian in Hong Kong.
Work: digital historian @ HKU.
Research: medieval Korea, Neo-Confucianism, historical networks, data centres, infrastructure studies, and historical applications of AI.
Team: Big Data Studies Lab https://bigdatastudies.net/
Work: digital historian @ HKU.
Research: medieval Korea, Neo-Confucianism, historical networks, data centres, infrastructure studies, and historical applications of AI.
Team: Big Data Studies Lab https://bigdatastudies.net/
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Increasing problem with publishing work on AI is that the publication process is much slower than working paper process, so when papers finally get full peer reviews, authors are asked to account for newer papers that are built on the paper under review! No real norms around this research ouroborous
February 3, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Increasing problem with publishing work on AI is that the publication process is much slower than working paper process, so when papers finally get full peer reviews, authors are asked to account for newer papers that are built on the paper under review! No real norms around this research ouroborous
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The AI community is re-learning 20 years of cybersecurity. The hard way www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
www.404media.co
February 1, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The AI community is re-learning 20 years of cybersecurity. The hard way www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
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Exciting news! I've been selected for a 2026 @schmidtsciences.bsky.social Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) Development Award! 🎉
#DigitalHumanities #HAVI #Paraguay
#DigitalHumanities #HAVI #Paraguay
January 27, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Exciting news! I've been selected for a 2026 @schmidtsciences.bsky.social Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) Development Award! 🎉
#DigitalHumanities #HAVI #Paraguay
#DigitalHumanities #HAVI #Paraguay
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Come work with us! Tallinn Uni is hiring a second lecturer in DH&AI. Estonian proficiency not required, foreign applicants welcome, required phd can be in progress (expected to be completed), competitive salary+benefits, nice working environment close to the sea
candidate.recrur.com/public/jobad...
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January 26, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Come work with us! Tallinn Uni is hiring a second lecturer in DH&AI. Estonian proficiency not required, foreign applicants welcome, required phd can be in progress (expected to be completed), competitive salary+benefits, nice working environment close to the sea
candidate.recrur.com/public/jobad...
candidate.recrur.com/public/jobad...
Look what just arrived in my mailbox!
January 26, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Look what just arrived in my mailbox!
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and I are drinking the coolest bottle of coffee ever made! #HKADH2026 #CUHK
January 23, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and I are drinking the coolest bottle of coffee ever made! #HKADH2026 #CUHK
Wow. Is this place run by former Hong Kong academics and administrators? The messaging, the gimmick...
The University of Wolverhampton announces the launch of its Digital Futures Lab. The Lab will serve as a collaborative hub for interdisciplinary research, exploring how technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can transform scholarly practices and cultural analysis.
January 21, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Wow. Is this place run by former Hong Kong academics and administrators? The messaging, the gimmick...
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Getting excited for the HKADH 2026 conference! Thank you to the organizers including @javiercha.bsky.social for the invitation to share a keynote!l along with @andrewpiper.bsky.social and Chia-Wei Hsu!
January 19, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Getting excited for the HKADH 2026 conference! Thank you to the organizers including @javiercha.bsky.social for the invitation to share a keynote!l along with @andrewpiper.bsky.social and Chia-Wei Hsu!
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In the case of literature, that should be the last nail in the coffin for the New Critical claim that artistic quality resides purely in the object, and not in the human biographical and historical dramas it memorializes.
January 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
In the case of literature, that should be the last nail in the coffin for the New Critical claim that artistic quality resides purely in the object, and not in the human biographical and historical dramas it memorializes.
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Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once | Discussion
engineering.cmu.edu
December 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once | Discussion
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Also check out Michelle Wang's "Global Medieval Studies is a Failure," which is absolute 🔥 and also argues that comparative studies might be a better path forward than "global" ones.
doi.org/10.1086/738440
doi.org/10.1086/738440
Global Medieval Studies Is a Failure | Speculum: Vol 101, No 1
doi.org
December 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Also check out Michelle Wang's "Global Medieval Studies is a Failure," which is absolute 🔥 and also argues that comparative studies might be a better path forward than "global" ones.
doi.org/10.1086/738440
doi.org/10.1086/738440
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✨ After a very active year with many new #DraCor corpora & an intense #DraCorSummit we’re wrapping things up just in time for the holidays with a refreshed interface and other improvements.
dracor.org
Release notes:
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github.com/dracor-org/d...
#DigitalHumanities
dracor.org
Release notes:
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github.com/dracor-org/d...
#DigitalHumanities
December 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
✨ After a very active year with many new #DraCor corpora & an intense #DraCorSummit we’re wrapping things up just in time for the holidays with a refreshed interface and other improvements.
dracor.org
Release notes:
github.com/dracor-org/d...
github.com/dracor-org/d...
#DigitalHumanities
dracor.org
Release notes:
github.com/dracor-org/d...
github.com/dracor-org/d...
#DigitalHumanities
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Interdisciplinary research ftw…!
Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org
December 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Interdisciplinary research ftw…!
Already finished mine. 🙏🏻
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December 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Already finished mine. 🙏🏻
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#ai tools seem to be generating a large swath of low-quality, formulaic biomedical articles drawn from #openaccess biomedical databases. For example, since the rise of #LLMs about three years ago, the number of new biomedical articles is about 5k larger than previous moving average would have […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
July 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#ai tools seem to be generating a large swath of low-quality, formulaic biomedical articles drawn from #openaccess biomedical databases. For example, since the rise of #LLMs about three years ago, the number of new biomedical articles is about 5k larger than previous moving average would have […]
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Holiday Lights 2.0 (1995)
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Holiday Lights 2.0 (1995)
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
Would it be too controversial if conferences start charging a nominal fee like $5 or $10 USD to prevent the submission of random and generic abstracts "written" using generative AI? I waste so much time these days reviewing absolute junk.
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Would it be too controversial if conferences start charging a nominal fee like $5 or $10 USD to prevent the submission of random and generic abstracts "written" using generative AI? I waste so much time these days reviewing absolute junk.
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📢 #DH2026 Submissions Now Closed!
We received 813 proposals from the global DH community. Thank you for your overwhelming enthusiasm and support!
The review process will begin soon. Stay tuned for updates.
See you in Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-submi...
We received 813 proposals from the global DH community. Thank you for your overwhelming enthusiasm and support!
The review process will begin soon. Stay tuned for updates.
See you in Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-submi...
DH2026 Submissions Now Closed: Thank You for 813 Proposals! – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
Dear DH Community,We are pleased to announce that the submission period for DH2026 has now closed. Following the extended deadline of December 15, 2024 (23:59 KST), we received a total of 813…
dh2026.adho.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
📢 #DH2026 Submissions Now Closed!
We received 813 proposals from the global DH community. Thank you for your overwhelming enthusiasm and support!
The review process will begin soon. Stay tuned for updates.
See you in Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-submi...
We received 813 proposals from the global DH community. Thank you for your overwhelming enthusiasm and support!
The review process will begin soon. Stay tuned for updates.
See you in Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-submi...
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This guy’s not on bsky but the experiments are really interesting, and fit my sense that LLMs will reliably give good answers about things that only highly specialized nerds have ever written anything about, and do better the larger that community of nerds is and the more unique their jargon is. BUT
December 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This guy’s not on bsky but the experiments are really interesting, and fit my sense that LLMs will reliably give good answers about things that only highly specialized nerds have ever written anything about, and do better the larger that community of nerds is and the more unique their jargon is. BUT
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This project, "Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI," is led by the wonderful @javiercha.bsky.social at the University of Hong Kong, with co-PIs Yumeng Hou & Miguel Escobar Varela (National Uni of Singapore), & Michael Chung (Hong Kong Uni of Science and Technology).
JUST ANNOUNCED: Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11M to 23 teams globally for our Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI).
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This project, "Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI," is led by the wonderful @javiercha.bsky.social at the University of Hong Kong, with co-PIs Yumeng Hou & Miguel Escobar Varela (National Uni of Singapore), & Michael Chung (Hong Kong Uni of Science and Technology).
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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...
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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...
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Delighted to share that my co-PIs @danielwilson.bsky.social @mcollardanuy.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social: www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Delighted to share that my co-PIs @danielwilson.bsky.social @mcollardanuy.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social: www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
Feeling some major FOMO... but I'll meet Miguel soon.
Incredible keynote by @miguelev.bsky.social at @comphumresearch.bsky.social #CHR2025 on what he calls “exploratory finetuning”! Drawing on EDA, art, STS and DH to develop innovative ways to OCR right to left languages (ex Malaysian) and theorizing the method. Such exciting cutting edge work!
December 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Feeling some major FOMO... but I'll meet Miguel soon.