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Rachele Sprugnoli
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Computational linguist and digital humanist.
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archeosilviag.bsky.social
Per chi passa da Milano: quest'anno è in mostra a Palazzo Marino (fino all'11 gennaio) il Polittico di Monte San Martino di Carlo e Vittore Crivelli, proveniente dalla chiesa di San Martino Vescovo a Monte San Martino (Macerata).
Per info su orari e aperture ➡️
www2.comune.milano.it/web/mostrapa...
Home - Mostra Palazzo Marino - Comune di Milano
www2.comune.milano.it
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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diyclassics.bsky.social
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
LatinCy Developers/Users First Annual Meeting
Announcing the LatinCy First Annual Meeting
diyclassics.github.io
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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cgsunit.bsky.social
Volume 3 in this series is called "What Does "AI" Actually Mean? Definition and Synonyms" and is now available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI!
cgsunit.bsky.social Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · Oct 3
Today's the day for my anti-AI zine volume 2: "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" 🎉

Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!

Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
Front and back cover of the Zine sitting among Japanese maple leaves. Front cover has the title "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" with subtitle "AI Sucks and You Should Not Use It, Volume 2" along with the date of October 2025 and author Lauren Woolsey. Back cover has the text "References available on the back of this unfolded sheet and at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI" along with a QR code to that link. Then it has the text "Share with a friend, light the world! Connect w/ me: @cgsunit.bsky.social" Pages 2 and 3 of the Zine, open among tree leaves. Page 2 starts with handwritten "First...some backstory!" and then the text reads as follows: "Version Volume 1 of this zine, (June 2025), is called “Why GenAI Sucks and you should not use it.” I gave copies to my friends, did swaps at Grand Rapids Zine Fest, and shared the digital scan with hundreds of folks. It’s been great to connect with a community of humans who also think AI sucks! Since June, more great folks have added to the conversation. Let me introduce a few here..." Page 3 is titled Anthony Moser and has the following text: "“I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.” So opens this most excellent essay (posted August 2025). You absolutely need to read it. Also, it has 24 linked resources, if my Zine v1.1 list wasn’t enough to get you started being a hater." Pages 4 and 5 of the Zine, open among tree leaves. Page 4 is titled Olivia Guest and has the text: "1. Look at Guest’s incredible collection promoting Critical AI Literacy (CAIL): olivia.science/ai . 2. Discover a framework to define AI in “What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?” (July 2025). 3. Share with educator friends Guest et al: “Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia” (September 2025). Such a helpful paper for advocacy!" Page 5 is titled Ali Alkhatib and has the following text: "“AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.” -from his essay Defining AI. Ali is on my recent radar because he’s starting “AI Skeptics Reading Group” the same month that this Zine launches (October 2025)! If you're a reader, check out the book list on p. 7 here!" Pages 6 and 7 of the Zine, in partial shadow from tree leaves and surrounded by Japanese maple leaves. Page 6 is titled Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute and has the text: "Great projects DAIR supports: Data Workers Inquiry (work led by Dr. Milagros Miceli), Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 (by E. Bender and A. Hanna), Possible Futures workshop and Zine series. Timnit Gebru is founder and executive director of DAIR and co-author of the “TESCREAL Bundle” research paper. (Read it!) Page 7 is titled Further Reading and has a drawn stack of books with the following titles and publication months: Resisting AI (08/22), Blood in the Machine (09/23), The AI Mirror (06/24), Taming Silicon Valley (09/24), Why We Fear AI (03/25), More Everything Forever (04/25), The AI Con (05/25), Empire of AI (05/25). There are notes for The AI Con that the authors run the podcast mentioned on page 6 and that it is the book that the Reading Group from page 5 started on 10/13/25. The page ends with the text "Authors and full titles in reference list!" and a signature from Lauren "Double U."
December 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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ailc-nlp.bsky.social
The CALAMITA (Challenging the Abilities of LAnguage Models in ITAlian) paper is now available on arXiv:
arxiv.org/abs/2512.04759
We warmly thank all the individuals involved for their extraordinary work, dedication, and collaborative spirit that made this project possible!
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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dggoldst.bsky.social
Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein)

Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish!

apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
Research Intern - Computational Social Science | Microsoft Careers
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...
apply.careers.microsoft.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
The results that @marinelives.bsky.social is getting using Gemini 3 Pro, transcribing and translating Armenian ms materials are stunning. Historians, teachers and archivists really need to be discussing where we want to be with this stuff. open.substack.com/pub/generati...
A New Lens into the Archive
You are in an archive. You find a document in a language you don't understand. You take a photo, input it into Gemini 3 Pro. 60 seconds later you have a transcription, transliteration, and translation
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
rsprugnoli.bsky.social
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/
LT4HALA
Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA)
circse.github.io
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
rsprugnoli.bsky.social
Verso Roma per tenere un seminario su annotazione linguistica e lemmatizzazione 🚇
December 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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adho-org.bsky.social
📢 ADHO’s newsletter in now live! 🗞️✨

Bringing together upcoming Digital Humanities community events and conferences! 🎉

👉 Check out the latest issue here: listmonk.adho.org/archive/639b...

📩Subscribe today and never miss an update: adho.org/newsletter/
#ADHO #digitalhumanities #dh #community
December 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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tedunderwood.com
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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archeosilviag.bsky.social
Lezione (anche su) Annibale e le Alpi, perchè non basta studiare, bisogna saper 'fare" storia e condividere le informazioni corrette.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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simonwillison.net
Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...
Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM
Olmo is the LLM series from Ai2—the Allen institute for AI. Unlike most open weight models these are notable for including the full training data, training process and checkpoints along …
simonwillison.net
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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comphumresearch.bsky.social
📢 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)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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kradke.bsky.social
UNESCO has launched an impressive Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects - an immersive digital space that brings together over 240 stolen and missing cultural objects in 2D and 3D from 50+ countries — and the voices of the communities they were taken from.

www.linkedin.com/posts/unesco...
November 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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dariaheu.bsky.social
📣 The Call for Papers for the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 is now open!

🌐 This year’s event will explore 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨 & 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮: 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 & will take place from May 26-29th in Rome, Italy🇮🇹

🚨 Deadline: December 22

ℹ️ www.dariah.eu/2025/11/11/d...
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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danielwilson.bsky.social
We present alongside the paper:
1. ‘NewsWords’ - unigrams from the entire digitised collection, github.com/Living-with-...
2. Newspaper metadata, openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
3. Mitchell's Press Directories, bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/data...
3/7
GitHub - Living-with-machines/newswords: Code for the counts data derived from historical newspapers
Code for the counts data derived from historical newspapers - Living-with-machines/newswords
github.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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palaeofuturist.bsky.social
(3) Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, convened by Gethin Rees, Elton Barker, Sarah Middle, Anna-Maria Sichani, Mia Ridge. Working on the Cultural Heritage AI Cookbook. Sign up at forms.gle/DErqFUuY2Vn7...
Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, Linked Pasts 2025
Combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with Linked Open Data (LOD) offers great potential to make cultural heritage metadata FAIR. The proposed activity will bring together specialists from cultural h...
forms.gle
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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palaeofuturist.bsky.social
Linked Pasts 11 programme (December 1–5 and some 8–12)

linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...
linkedpasts.hcommons.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
rsprugnoli.bsky.social
📢The 9th edition of the Summer School “Digital Tools for Humanists” will be held in Pisa from May 25 to May 30 2026, both in presence and online: digitaltools.labcd.unipi.it
Registration fee: 500 Euros.
DEADLINE: 15/04/2026

(Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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dh2026daejeon.bsky.social
📢 NEW FAQ added to #DH2026 CFP!
✅You can submit multiple proposals
✅Max 2 presentations as lead presenter (long/short)
✅Posters: no limit, but in-person only & no AI translation
✅Workshops/mini-conferences: not counted toward limit
⏰Deadline: Dec 8
dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.
dh2026.adho.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
rsprugnoli.bsky.social
È uscito il volume "Rapsodie dantesche. L'incipit della Commedia e le sue traduzioni"!
Nel volume anche il mio "AI Meets Dante: Evaluating Machine Translation Applied to the First Tercet of the Divine Comedy".
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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uppsalanlp.bsky.social
📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢

Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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dmimno.bsky.social
It's great to see the #computationalhumanities DDH volume getting attention! We start with two essays about interpretation. In Chap 1, Hannah Ringler distinguishes tools and interpretations, asking with vs asking about.

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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mellymeldubs.bsky.social
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.

So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!

bit.ly/ach-anthology
Screenshot that reads: Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh 1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A. 3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore 4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France 5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland 6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A. 7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A. Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG Published: 25 September 2025
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM