Shai Gordin
@shgordin.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Assyriology and Digital Humanities at #DigitalPastsLab. Interested in NLP for ancient languages, History of the ANE, Human-machine coop and LOD #questseeker
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Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
August 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
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The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!
EPFL NLP Postdoctoral Scholar Posting - Swiss AI LLMs
The EPFL Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher candidate in the area of multilingual LLM design, training, and evaluation. This postdoctoral position is as...
docs.google.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!
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But if you like to be updated on amazing publications in #digitalclassics and near eastern studies (and more), maybe subscribe to the DANES listservice www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/d... by @shgordin.bsky.social
danes - Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies - info
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May 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
But if you like to be updated on amazing publications in #digitalclassics and near eastern studies (and more), maybe subscribe to the DANES listservice www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/d... by @shgordin.bsky.social
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And here is the program for the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies! #CCLS2025
Mark your calendars 🗓️: July 3–4, in Kraków or online
jcls.io/site/ccls2025/
Mark your calendars 🗓️: July 3–4, in Kraków or online
jcls.io/site/ccls2025/
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ALT: a cartoon drawing of a calendar with smtwtfs on it
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May 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
And here is the program for the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies! #CCLS2025
Mark your calendars 🗓️: July 3–4, in Kraków or online
jcls.io/site/ccls2025/
Mark your calendars 🗓️: July 3–4, in Kraków or online
jcls.io/site/ccls2025/
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Thrilled to share that my book Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R is finally out! A journey through digital methods, visual culture & data analysis—made for everyone exploring the intersection of humanities and code.
#DigitalHumanities #RStats
link.springer.com/book/9783031...
#DigitalHumanities #RStats
link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Cultural Data Science
This book introduces basic concepts in data science, drawing from contextual examples in art history, visual computing, cloud computing, and microservices
link.springer.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thrilled to share that my book Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R is finally out! A journey through digital methods, visual culture & data analysis—made for everyone exploring the intersection of humanities and code.
#DigitalHumanities #RStats
link.springer.com/book/9783031...
#DigitalHumanities #RStats
link.springer.com/book/9783031...
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❗️CfP deadline extended❗️
Working in the field of Computational Drama Analysis? Submit your abstract until 13 May and join us at the #DraCorSummit in Berlin in September.
summit.dracor.org
#DH #CLS #LitWiss #ClassicsBluesky
@dracor.org
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social
Working in the field of Computational Drama Analysis? Submit your abstract until 13 May and join us at the #DraCorSummit in Berlin in September.
summit.dracor.org
#DH #CLS #LitWiss #ClassicsBluesky
@dracor.org
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social
DraCor Summit
DraCor Summit
summit.dracor.org
May 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
❗️CfP deadline extended❗️
Working in the field of Computational Drama Analysis? Submit your abstract until 13 May and join us at the #DraCorSummit in Berlin in September.
summit.dracor.org
#DH #CLS #LitWiss #ClassicsBluesky
@dracor.org
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social
Working in the field of Computational Drama Analysis? Submit your abstract until 13 May and join us at the #DraCorSummit in Berlin in September.
summit.dracor.org
#DH #CLS #LitWiss #ClassicsBluesky
@dracor.org
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social
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A great opportunity especially for those new to DH! The workshop will include three days of lectures introducing DH methods, taught by @vierth.bsky.social, @tharsen.bsky.social, Michael Fuller, @rmostern.bsky.social, Sunkyu Lee, and myself, followed by two days dedicated to workshopping ideas.
Anna Shields and I have organized the first China-Princeton Digital Humanities workshop! This week-long workshop on the digital humanities for Chinese studies will be held in person at Princeton University, June 16th to 20th!
chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
China-Princeton Digital Humanities Workshop 2025
chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu
April 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A great opportunity especially for those new to DH! The workshop will include three days of lectures introducing DH methods, taught by @vierth.bsky.social, @tharsen.bsky.social, Michael Fuller, @rmostern.bsky.social, Sunkyu Lee, and myself, followed by two days dedicated to workshopping ideas.
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Curious about what I work on?
I made a poster for my dissertation, its scope, dataset, methodology, and preliminary results. See how I investigate economic and legal institutions from 2000 BCE:
zenodo.org/records/1431...
I made a poster for my dissertation, its scope, dataset, methodology, and preliminary results. See how I investigate economic and legal institutions from 2000 BCE:
zenodo.org/records/1431...
December 9, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Curious about what I work on?
I made a poster for my dissertation, its scope, dataset, methodology, and preliminary results. See how I investigate economic and legal institutions from 2000 BCE:
zenodo.org/records/1431...
I made a poster for my dissertation, its scope, dataset, methodology, and preliminary results. See how I investigate economic and legal institutions from 2000 BCE:
zenodo.org/records/1431...
Call for papers: new Nature HSS collection! articles on computational analysis of #western-asia from when writing emerged c. 3500 BCE till 1500CE! #DANES @geophilologist.bsky.social @maltaweel.bsky.social
www.nature.com/collections/...
www.nature.com/collections/...
From bits of history to bytes of data: AI and the study of the ancient Near East
This Collection aims at examining the computational and digital study of “greater Western Asia” and its epistemological implications.
www.nature.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Call for papers: new Nature HSS collection! articles on computational analysis of #western-asia from when writing emerged c. 3500 BCE till 1500CE! #DANES @geophilologist.bsky.social @maltaweel.bsky.social
www.nature.com/collections/...
www.nature.com/collections/...
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Starting in less than an hour. Grab a sandwich, get comfy, and come join us worry out loud about possible futures for the academy and the historical record. Except Sayeed. Sayeed is super optimistic. 😀
If you're still shopping for a noon Thursday thing, zoom on right in for "AI, Data and Ownership Roundtable" with Kim, Nadejda, and Sayeed. Funnny thing is this started as a conversation on a zoom, and we were like "we should now do it in public."
February 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Starting in less than an hour. Grab a sandwich, get comfy, and come join us worry out loud about possible futures for the academy and the historical record. Except Sayeed. Sayeed is super optimistic. 😀
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Given current events, this seems to be the right time for us, Pelagios, to be joining bluer skies. Who are we? We are a free and open association of equal and interdependent Partners from the digital humanities, GLAM sector, and data science field, working to make linking data online really easy.
November 7, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Given current events, this seems to be the right time for us, Pelagios, to be joining bluer skies. Who are we? We are a free and open association of equal and interdependent Partners from the digital humanities, GLAM sector, and data science field, working to make linking data online really easy.
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They made me do video 😬 but for a good reason!
We are launching an iOS app–it runs OLMoE locally 📱 We're gonna see more on-device AI in 2025, and wanted to offer a simple way to prototype with it
App: apps.apple.com/us/app/ai2-o...
Code: github.com/allenai/OLMo...
Blog: allenai.org/blog/olmoe-app
We are launching an iOS app–it runs OLMoE locally 📱 We're gonna see more on-device AI in 2025, and wanted to offer a simple way to prototype with it
App: apps.apple.com/us/app/ai2-o...
Code: github.com/allenai/OLMo...
Blog: allenai.org/blog/olmoe-app
We took our most efficient model and made an open-source iOS app📱but why?
As phones get faster, more AI will happen on device. With OLMoE, researchers, developers, and users can get a feel for this future: fully private LLMs, available anytime.
Learn more from @soldaini.net👇 youtu.be/rEK_FZE5rqQ
As phones get faster, more AI will happen on device. With OLMoE, researchers, developers, and users can get a feel for this future: fully private LLMs, available anytime.
Learn more from @soldaini.net👇 youtu.be/rEK_FZE5rqQ
Ai2 OLMoE: Fully open source, running entirely on-device
YouTube video by Ai2
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
They made me do video 😬 but for a good reason!
We are launching an iOS app–it runs OLMoE locally 📱 We're gonna see more on-device AI in 2025, and wanted to offer a simple way to prototype with it
App: apps.apple.com/us/app/ai2-o...
Code: github.com/allenai/OLMo...
Blog: allenai.org/blog/olmoe-app
We are launching an iOS app–it runs OLMoE locally 📱 We're gonna see more on-device AI in 2025, and wanted to offer a simple way to prototype with it
App: apps.apple.com/us/app/ai2-o...
Code: github.com/allenai/OLMo...
Blog: allenai.org/blog/olmoe-app
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Cuneiform at #ICLR2025! ProtoSnap finds the configuration of wedges in scanned cuneiform signs for downstream applications like OCR. A new tool for understanding the ancient world!
tau-vailab.github.io/ProtoSnap/
h/t Rachel Mikulinsky @ShGordin @ElorHadar and all collaborators.
🧵👇
tau-vailab.github.io/ProtoSnap/
h/t Rachel Mikulinsky @ShGordin @ElorHadar and all collaborators.
🧵👇
February 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Cuneiform at #ICLR2025! ProtoSnap finds the configuration of wedges in scanned cuneiform signs for downstream applications like OCR. A new tool for understanding the ancient world!
tau-vailab.github.io/ProtoSnap/
h/t Rachel Mikulinsky @ShGordin @ElorHadar and all collaborators.
🧵👇
tau-vailab.github.io/ProtoSnap/
h/t Rachel Mikulinsky @ShGordin @ElorHadar and all collaborators.
🧵👇
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UK heritage at risk heritage-at-risk.museologi.st#/5.33/-2.114... — a #Peripleo instance @museologi.st knocked up on a rainy afternoon, scraping / parsing open data from Historic England (4600 places) with 11.5k links to Wikidata, National Heritage List for England, a church near, listed buildings
Heritage at Risk - viewed using Peripleo
A viewer using Peripleo to show Historic England's Heritage at Risk data
https://heritage-at-risk.museologi.st/#/5.33/-2.1147/52.5241/mode=points—
January 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
UK heritage at risk heritage-at-risk.museologi.st#/5.33/-2.114... — a #Peripleo instance @museologi.st knocked up on a rainy afternoon, scraping / parsing open data from Historic England (4600 places) with 11.5k links to Wikidata, National Heritage List for England, a church near, listed buildings
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This was my very first contribution to @digitaltolkien.com (can you tell I like names? :) ). It was so much fun, and hopefully there is more to come!
Next these names were categorized into whether they referred to people (or groups) or places or objects or events or abstract concepts, etc.
You can read more about the initial efforts in this blog post: digitaltolkien.com/2022/04/08/m...
You can read more about the initial efforts in this blog post: digitaltolkien.com/2022/04/08/m...
Modeling Names in Lord of the Rings: Part One
In this post I will briefly describe the work that went into the creation and correction of the Indexes, and their gradual evolution into a Tolkien Authority List of names. This post serves as documen...
digitaltolkien.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This was my very first contribution to @digitaltolkien.com (can you tell I like names? :) ). It was so much fun, and hopefully there is more to come!
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Happy New Year, everyone, and for those in the know - the #RAI70Prague Call for Papers is now officially open at rai70.ff.cuni.cz/cfp.php Looking forward to welcoming you in Prague! @FF_CUNI @Orientalniustav #IANESPrague @IAAssyriology #Assyriology #cuneiform #archaeology
RAI 70 - 2025 - Prague
rai70.ff.cuni.cz
January 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Happy New Year, everyone, and for those in the know - the #RAI70Prague Call for Papers is now officially open at rai70.ff.cuni.cz/cfp.php Looking forward to welcoming you in Prague! @FF_CUNI @Orientalniustav #IANESPrague @IAAssyriology #Assyriology #cuneiform #archaeology
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After #JCLS 3(1) conference track #CCLS24 is before #CCLS25. We look forward to your submissions! Please find our Call for Papers for the conference track 2025 at jcls.io/site/cfp/ #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS25 #CfP #Literary #Computing #CLS
Call for Papers
jcls.io
December 19, 2024 at 1:10 PM
After #JCLS 3(1) conference track #CCLS24 is before #CCLS25. We look forward to your submissions! Please find our Call for Papers for the conference track 2025 at jcls.io/site/cfp/ #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS25 #CfP #Literary #Computing #CLS
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Ok we're doing this! Here's a google form to gauge interest in what we're tentatively calling Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy. More info in thread. The bite-sized version -> short lightning talk on a pedagogical thing followed by discussion w/ mini web publication to follow.
forms.gle/3hz79WHM8FmS...
forms.gle/3hz79WHM8FmS...
December 19, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Ok we're doing this! Here's a google form to gauge interest in what we're tentatively calling Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy. More info in thread. The bite-sized version -> short lightning talk on a pedagogical thing followed by discussion w/ mini web publication to follow.
forms.gle/3hz79WHM8FmS...
forms.gle/3hz79WHM8FmS...
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A month ago I promised to share the recording of my talk at Penn, "Why AI Needs the Humanities as a Partner." If you're feeling down, try the part around 14:30 where I talk about how fun it is to be a creature without a fixed essence who has to spend millennia discovering what they're capable of.
Why AI Needs the Humanities as a Partner
YouTube video by Wolf Humanities Center
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2024 at 3:51 PM
A month ago I promised to share the recording of my talk at Penn, "Why AI Needs the Humanities as a Partner." If you're feeling down, try the part around 14:30 where I talk about how fun it is to be a creature without a fixed essence who has to spend millennia discovering what they're capable of.
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Some of you may remember James’s fantastic introductory video on Linked Open Data. If you don’t know about this yet, it is a field with immense potential to make knowledge and research tools considerably more accessible.
November 29, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Some of you may remember James’s fantastic introductory video on Linked Open Data. If you don’t know about this yet, it is a field with immense potential to make knowledge and research tools considerably more accessible.
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⚡ New #DraCor merch available:
Our new network analysis card-game, "Battle of the Plays", published @sukultur.bsky.social, order here:
sukultur.de/produkt/batt...
Rules of play & background info:
battle-of-the-plays.github.io
@schwindt.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
Our new network analysis card-game, "Battle of the Plays", published @sukultur.bsky.social, order here:
sukultur.de/produkt/batt...
Rules of play & background info:
battle-of-the-plays.github.io
@schwindt.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
November 29, 2024 at 9:06 AM
⚡ New #DraCor merch available:
Our new network analysis card-game, "Battle of the Plays", published @sukultur.bsky.social, order here:
sukultur.de/produkt/batt...
Rules of play & background info:
battle-of-the-plays.github.io
@schwindt.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
Our new network analysis card-game, "Battle of the Plays", published @sukultur.bsky.social, order here:
sukultur.de/produkt/batt...
Rules of play & background info:
battle-of-the-plays.github.io
@schwindt.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
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The Sunoikisis Digital Classics #SunoikisisDC programme for January–March 2025 is now up. Individual events on @ics.bsky.social calendar at: ics.sas.ac.uk/search-event...
(All free, online and asynchronous via YouTube.)
(All free, online and asynchronous via YouTube.)
Events
ics.sas.ac.uk
November 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM
The Sunoikisis Digital Classics #SunoikisisDC programme for January–March 2025 is now up. Individual events on @ics.bsky.social calendar at: ics.sas.ac.uk/search-event...
(All free, online and asynchronous via YouTube.)
(All free, online and asynchronous via YouTube.)
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Did I mention that I'm looking for a new role? If anyone is interested in award-winning work on digital preservation, digital textuality, fixing scholcomms systems and their economics, or even just plain old literary criticism, please get in touch.
And it seems CR is more concerned about who is responsible for a solecism in the article rather than that they neglected to tell Nature that they had laid-off the person (and got rid of the group) responsible for the study cited and shelved the project because they didn't deem it "strategic."
November 26, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Did I mention that I'm looking for a new role? If anyone is interested in award-winning work on digital preservation, digital textuality, fixing scholcomms systems and their economics, or even just plain old literary criticism, please get in touch.