Paul Vierthaler
@vierth.bsky.social
Chinese Lit, DH, Machine Learning, Dad of twins
Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University
Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University
Trans rights should always be supported, regardless of the political optics. But good grief, this should be a slam dunk
it’s also a thing where people can be convinced. the right got some people worked up about trans women in sports but possible to get people a lot more worked up about individual/parental rights, genital inspectors, etc
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Trans rights should always be supported, regardless of the political optics. But good grief, this should be a slam dunk
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If the Dems had any fuckin’ brains, saying “the part of Epstein is trying to make laws that let them look in your kid’s pants” would be a pretty easy way to crush the Republicans
it’s also a thing where people can be convinced. the right got some people worked up about trans women in sports but possible to get people a lot more worked up about individual/parental rights, genital inspectors, etc
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
If the Dems had any fuckin’ brains, saying “the part of Epstein is trying to make laws that let them look in your kid’s pants” would be a pretty easy way to crush the Republicans
ILL is simply the only way one can do scholarship in smaller fields at the vast majority of schools in the US. It was a lifeline for me at William & Mary, which has a great research library but little reason to acquire meaningful holdings in late imperial Chinese literature. This is amazing news!
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
ILL is simply the only way one can do scholarship in smaller fields at the vast majority of schools in the US. It was a lifeline for me at William & Mary, which has a great research library but little reason to acquire meaningful holdings in late imperial Chinese literature. This is amazing news!
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chow yun fat in A BETTER TOMORROW is the coolest a dude has ever looked on film
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
chow yun fat in A BETTER TOMORROW is the coolest a dude has ever looked on film
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Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing!
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences: Natural Language Processing (RISE-AI) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing!
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
HOLY SHIT
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
HOLY SHIT
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It is hilarious just how accurate this turned out to be
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It is hilarious just how accurate this turned out to be
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Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
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Our November story feature on new research from @mmvty.bsky.social and @wouterhaverals.bsky.social is now on the CDH blog and a @dhnow.bsky.social editor's pick :)
Editors' Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...
New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI!
New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI!
cdh.princeton.edu
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Our November story feature on new research from @mmvty.bsky.social and @wouterhaverals.bsky.social is now on the CDH blog and a @dhnow.bsky.social editor's pick :)
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NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants
(RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
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this article is incredible and was MADE for dh students with a complit background.
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
this article is incredible and was MADE for dh students with a complit background.
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📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
careers.universiteitleiden.nl
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
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📣 Tenure-track DH position at Chapel Hill with a home in English/Comp Lit
Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities
The Department of English & Comparative Literature at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities with an anticipated sta...
unc.peopleadmin.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
📣 Tenure-track DH position at Chapel Hill with a home in English/Comp Lit
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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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*Tonight* at 4:30, our fall semester of Modeling Culture talks closes w/ Anna Preus. This talk draws on industry-wide publishing data to explore the output of London’s book business, emphasizing the influence of high-profile authors from colonized nations on British print in the early 20th century.
Nov 18: "Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book Culture" with Anna Preus, Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Washington. Info/RSVP:
Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book Culture
Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book Culture
cdh.princeton.edu
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
*Tonight* at 4:30, our fall semester of Modeling Culture talks closes w/ Anna Preus. This talk draws on industry-wide publishing data to explore the output of London’s book business, emphasizing the influence of high-profile authors from colonized nations on British print in the early 20th century.
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The new features are still in alpha—but @djevans.bsky.social's contextual tools for Viral Texts data are live clusters.viraltexts.org
Click "View witness in context" to see a given reprint on the newspaper page, alongside other reprints on that page—click a cluster ID here to see its other reprints
Click "View witness in context" to see a given reprint on the newspaper page, alongside other reprints on that page—click a cluster ID here to see its other reprints
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The new features are still in alpha—but @djevans.bsky.social's contextual tools for Viral Texts data are live clusters.viraltexts.org
Click "View witness in context" to see a given reprint on the newspaper page, alongside other reprints on that page—click a cluster ID here to see its other reprints
Click "View witness in context" to see a given reprint on the newspaper page, alongside other reprints on that page—click a cluster ID here to see its other reprints
Oh lord, the dreaded conference hotel room interviews. These were still around when I first went up in 2014. Not common in East Asian lit because our big conference was too late (AAS is in March). But my historian (AHA in Jan) and non-Asian lit (MLA in Jan) friends had some HORROR stories.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Oh lord, the dreaded conference hotel room interviews. These were still around when I first went up in 2014. Not common in East Asian lit because our big conference was too late (AAS is in March). But my historian (AHA in Jan) and non-Asian lit (MLA in Jan) friends had some HORROR stories.
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Apropos of nothing in particular
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular
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very funny to read these emails and then remember summers wondering whether the leaky pipeline in stem was because women are inherently bad at math
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
very funny to read these emails and then remember summers wondering whether the leaky pipeline in stem was because women are inherently bad at math
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
Four plus years since my last video, I put together a series on sqlalchemy and datamodeling for my students. Sharing here in case it is useful: youtu.be/Bj6BzF77VK0
SQLAlchemy and Datamodeling Part 1: Introduction and designing the models
YouTube video by pvierth
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Four plus years since my last video, I put together a series on sqlalchemy and datamodeling for my students. Sharing here in case it is useful: youtu.be/Bj6BzF77VK0
one of the harder things about being a parent to 4 year olds is teaching them that sometimes bad things happen to us, or we sometimes we hurt, and there is no clear reason or cause.
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
one of the harder things about being a parent to 4 year olds is teaching them that sometimes bad things happen to us, or we sometimes we hurt, and there is no clear reason or cause.
Delighted to be joining the board of directors of the Geiss-Hsu Foundation, which supports scholarship on the Ming Dynasty! If you work on Ming lit, history, art-history and beyond, check us out! The next grant application deadline is on March 1!
geissfoundation.us
geissfoundation.us
James P. Geiss & Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation
Visit the post for more.
geissfoundation.us
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Delighted to be joining the board of directors of the Geiss-Hsu Foundation, which supports scholarship on the Ming Dynasty! If you work on Ming lit, history, art-history and beyond, check us out! The next grant application deadline is on March 1!
geissfoundation.us
geissfoundation.us