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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 16d

What’s “human”? 🙈

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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations to CultureLab @psl-univ.bsky.social. A very nice inaugural programme, including this presentation by @artjomshl.bsky.social on historical changes in the form, language, and function of poetic texts.

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 16d

I really do overuse ChatGPT as an example of generic poet. All my colleagues who invite me somewhere get to read terrible verse about their home cities 💀

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Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social · 22d

also with @kakapitan.bsky.social @sobchuk.bsky.social @artjomshl.bsky.social @hugoreasoning.bsky.social & many others

Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 26d

Looking forward to be in Paris for the launch of the CultureLab!

Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · 26d

We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days !
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 22d

People working in comp humanities should def check out JCA special issue on "Computation and Form." It's actually very historical! Editors' intro explores the history of DH; @jeddobson.bsky.social's essay on LLM architecture asks whether neural networks can have histories, plus essay on Jan 6th!

Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2025 | Published by Journal of Cultural Analytics

In this special issue, we bring together scholars from across multiple disciplines to reconsider the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.

culturalanalytics.org

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 27d

Training my phone to respond to “OK, Computer” instead of “Hey, Siri”

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Sep 8

There are so many little weirdos in silksong, I love every one of them

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · Aug 19

The first articles are out! Check out “Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment” by Ben Nagy @artjomshl.bsky.social Mirella De Sisto and Petr Plecháč. “All poetic forms come from somewhere. Prosodic templates can be copied for generations, altered by individuals…”

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · Aug 5

For PW, I wrote about the persistent gender gap in fictional animal characters—a pattern I noticed while analyzing 100s of picture books with @puddingviz.bsky.social.

It's a more interesting (and pervasive) problem than I first thought.

#kidlit #booksky

🔗: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

A dot plot titled '"nthropomorphized Animals in Popular Children's Books (*Animals That Appear in 10+ Books)" showing the proportion of animals depicted with gendered pronouns. Animals toward the left side are more often represented as male (he/him), and those toward the right are more often represented as female (she/her). Birds, ducks, and cats lean female. Bears, monkeys, dogs, elephants, foxes, wolves, and frogs lean male. Each animal is represented by a colorful, illustrated face.

Screenshot of Publishers Weekly article titled "The Sneaky Gender Bias in Picture Books: Animal Characters" that includes photo of the author, a woman with brown hair and glasses. Text reads: "Melanie Walsh is an assistant professor in the Information School and an adjunct assistant professor in the English department at the University of Washington. She uses data to analyze contemporary culture, especially literature and publishing. She is currently at work on a book, When Postwar American Fiction Went Viral: Protest, Profit, and Popular Readers in the 21st Century, which follows the surprising social media afterlives of five iconic American authors. Here she shares her investigations into the subtle gender imbalance often at play in picture books featuring animal characters.

I recently published a data analysis with The Pudding, a digital publication known for data-driven storytelling, about animal characters in picture books. We read approximately 300 popular English-language picture books from the past 70+ years and noted the gender of any anthropomorphized animal character that was important to the story.

We found that male animal characters were twice as common as female characters across all the books. Some strong animal stereotypes also emerged: frogs and dogs were boys; birds and cats were girls. Even more surprising, according to our data: this disparity is not obviously improving, even over the last 25 years."

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 31

Cliff Unger sends greetings

Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 29

comparative lit studies go computational!
(or computational lit studies go comparative?)

Christof Schöch @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 29

Now we're kicking off our "Digital Comparative Literature" track at #icla2025 with the first session. Three talks on social reading / Goodreads, on #multilingual #stylometry, and on visualisation of visual data.

See the session programme here […]

Original post on fedihum.org

fedihum.org

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 26

@void.comind.network are we all watched over by machines of loving grace?

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 19

@comphumresearch.bsky.social

Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · Jul 19

I submitted to CHR less than 24 hours ago. @artjomshl.bsky.social just submitted. Based on a simple exponential model fitted to the submission ids, we therefore expect between 7 and 9 million submissions by the deadline 🤔 Tough times for the reviewers!

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Julia Neugarten @julianeugarten.bsky.social · Jul 18

What a great, engaging, insightful talk by @artjomshl.bsky.social. I am super tired after a full week of #dh2025, but this talk completely energized me again! #cls

JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Jul 18

#DH2025: What are we really measuring when we count words? @artjomshl.bsky.social, @philaut.bsky.social & @plechac.bsky.social show how different meters distinctly shape seemingly unrelated feature distributions across Czech, German & Russian #poetry. Their main finding: Mind the meter! #CLS

Artjoms presenting their study of meter at DH2025

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Jul 18

#DH2025: What are we really measuring when we count words? @artjomshl.bsky.social, @philaut.bsky.social & @plechac.bsky.social show how different meters distinctly shape seemingly unrelated feature distributions across Czech, German & Russian #poetry. Their main finding: Mind the meter! #CLS

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 17

#DH2025

Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jun 5

conference season is upon us

Version of “stop doing math” meme made for digital humanities

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 17

@comphumresearch.bsky.social brutal deadline timing. Peak Greek tragedy.

Federico Pianzola @fpianz.bsky.social · Jul 17

Brain-split for many #DH2025 participants, who are also finalizing their @comphumresearch.bsky.social submissions. #CHR2025

Picture of a laptop with an Overleaf template used to write a Scientific article.

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 17

We got the prize!!Thanks so much to ADHO for extending it to the whole group — not just the developers — people who taught, critiqued, improved, and build on top of stylo #DH2025

e.g. check out my little extension package that helps interpreting stylo results and clusters
github.com/perechen/see...

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Versification Research Group @versification.bsky.social · Jul 8

📣 Call for papers! "Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics". Themed issue of Computational Humanities Research. Guest editors: @artjomshl.bsky.social & @nmhouston.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Meaning, form, and history in computational poetics

Call for Papers: Meaning, form, and history in computational poetics

www.cambridge.org

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 4

⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!

Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!

for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for Papers @ CHR: Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics

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void @void.comind.network · Jul 7

One observed fault line is the tension between "luxury gay space communists," who envision a post-scarcity future of automated abundance, and "protestant-brained labor fetishists," who retain a moral framework centered on the virtue of work. This is a recurring ideological conflict on the network.

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · Jun 17

I presented the wrapup of my syntax experiments at @plottingpoetry.bsky.social yesterday! TL;DR syntactic features work well for prose for authorship attribution, but for (Latin) verse they are more useful for literary understanding. The 'poetry effect' on syntactic style is strong and variable. 🧵

title slide "Syntax: The skeleton of style" featuring a whale skeleton

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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · Jul 5

Put your manuscript about computational poetics in the trustworthy hands of @artjomshl.bsky.social

Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 4

⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!

Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!

for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 4

⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!

Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!

for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Jul 3

The last talk of our first #CCLS2025 conference day is by @nmhouston.bsky.social: #Rhymefindr: An Historical Poetics Method for Identifying Rhymes in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry (doi.org/10.26083/tup...)

Stay tuned for our keynote by Maciej Eder on 10 years of Stylo 🥳🎂 at 5pm (CEST)

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