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Folgert Karsdorp

@folgertk.bsky.social

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KNAW Meertens Institute; Interested in cultural change/diversity/bias; book: “Humanities Data Analysis” https://www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org; new journal: CHR https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/computational-humanities-research

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Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · Sep 8

Platforming my way through the new #silksong, had to think of this happy little camper: youtube.com/shorts/cmc8a...

He Was Just Fixing Signs…

YouTube video by WikiWitIT

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · Aug 20

What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

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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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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · Aug 19

And our first themed issue - Missing Data in the Humanities - articles are coming out! Check out Jan Maliszewski registered report! “While the indirect evidence suggests that already in the early scholastic period the literary production based on records of oral teaching (so-called reportationes)…”

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · Aug 19

Check out Rebecca Hicke @dmimno.bsky.social piece on LLMs! “Language models have the ability to identify the characteristics of much shorter literary passages than was thought feasible with traditional stylometry. We evaluate authorship and genre detection for a new corpus of literary novels…”

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · Aug 19

Check out Jannis Klähn, Janos Borst-Graetz, @manuelburghardt.bsky.social work on LLMs and German data! “In this study, we perform a comprehensive evaluation of sentiment classification for German language data using three different approaches…”

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · Aug 19

And we feature software papers! Check out @suttonkoeser.bsky.social
Julia Damerow, Robert Casties, Cole Crawford exciting work on working with dates in computational humanities!

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · Aug 18

📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research!
Read the issue #openaccess here:
📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow

#computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social

Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research. Computational Humanities Research.

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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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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jun 26

✍️ Our paper is finally out!

All poetic forms come from somewhere, but figuring out their relationships is hard.

We use sequence alignment on scansion (010.10) to measure metrical similarity between poems. This allows us to detect related forms across languages and times 1/
tinyurl.com/metronome25

Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core

Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment - Volume 1

www.cambridge.org

Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · Jun 5

Yes, come say hi!

Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · Jun 4

We're delighted to be sponsoring and attending #DHBenelux2025 in Amsterdam this week! Speak to Commissioning Editor Folgert Karsdorp about how to publish your #research with us, or find out more here:▶️ cup.org/3HoyoTG

#ComputationalHumanitiesResearch
#DigitalHumanities

Promotional graphic for 'Computational Humanities Research', a new publication from Cambridge, displayed on a tablet surrounded by colorful geometric shapes.

Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · Jun 3

@erc.europa.eu actually looking at my out-of-office message this summer, thinking: “Perfect! He clearly has time to review some applications!”

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Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social · May 27

#ClimateChange is everyone's problem and we need all hands on deck. In research, this means combining areas such as ecology, biology, social history, anthropology, and digital methods.
This is what my current project at the @meertens-knaw.bsky.social is doing! Check out this article to learn more:

A new type of research is blooming at the Meertens Institute - Meertens Instituut

A new research project puts plants in the spotlight, exploring their cultural and ecological roles to better understand our past, present, and future.

meertens.knaw.nl

Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · May 21

A while back, I worked on a project about forgotten books, using a model from ecology that ultimately traces back to Alan Turing. Oh, the irony: reading today that Turing’s own papers were nearly shredded: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Alan Turing papers saved from shredder could fetch £150,000

Documents including signed copy of 1938 PhD dissertation to be auctioned after they were nearly thrown out

www.theguardian.com

Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · May 18

Didn’t @fonolog.bsky.social talk about that?

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Mike Kestemont @mikekestemont.bsky.social · May 9

We hebben een aantrekkelijke vacature voor een doctoraatsstudent computationele letterkunde in ons team aan de @uantwerpen.be

Hou je van middeleeuwen, liederen en code? Zeker solliciteren!

Begeleiding met @remcosleiderink.bsky.social

www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

Doctoraatsbursaal computationele letterkunde binnen het interuniversitaire onderzoeksproject "New perspectives on medieval and renaissance courtly song" | Universiteit Antwerpen

www.uantwerpen.be

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · May 7

a whole cluster of postdocs and phd positions in Tartu in Digital Humanities / Computational Social Science / AI under the umbrella of big European projects.

consider sharing please!

Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · May 5

While NSF freezes funding and UK leading unis cut departments, EU still supports important research. 2 Horizon funded centres in #Tartu #Estonia hiring phds&postdocs right now in CSS, AI, DH, text corpora. See
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).

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Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social · Apr 16

Playing "spot the difference" while analyzing original and final published versions of the illustrations included in the Flora Batava series.

What is the Flora Batava, you ask? Find out here: historical-citizen-botany.github.io/website/

#PlantHumanities #HistoricalBotany

Photo of an academic researcher analyzing an old book containing illustrations of plants. The researcher is in a room where other illustrations and paintings are displayed in the background. The book is placed on top of a large cushion and opened in a page showing drawings of yellow-flowered herbs. The researcher is a woman with long hair, dressed in black, and gazing at the book with her head low.

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨

We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities.

Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · Mar 22

It was great having you!

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · Mar 21

We've got news!

The new CHR website is live - your go-to place for all things CHR: computational-humanities-research.org

Also, welcome to @lucy3.bsky.social (Proceedings Officer) and @jbrottrager.bsky.social (Early Career Representative), our new board members!

Computational Humanities Research

computational-humanities-research.org

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Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · Mar 1

Finally officially out (only took 1.5yrs), in @natureportfolio.nature.com HumSocComms, #open🔓

"Machine-assisted quantitizing designs: augmenting humanities and social sciences with artificial intelligence"

A proposal to efficiently harness #LLM& #AI assistants in research (longer thread on monday)

Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · Feb 5

“All of America is a godforsaken demolition site, we could do very nice things with that”

lieke marsman @liekemarsman.bsky.social · Feb 5

Heel Amerika is een godverlaten sloopterrein, daar zouden we héle leuke dingen mee kunnen doen

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · Feb 3

After publishing our conference proceedings with CEUR for 5 years, we need a new venue. 🚨

How do we ensure that the CHR proceedings remain free, accessible, and interdisciplinary? 🖥️

Join the discussion and share your thoughts here:
discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/call-for-i...

Call for input: finding a new publication venue for our conference proceedings

Dear Computational Humanities Research Community, As many of you know, we have been publishing our conference proceedings with CEUR Workshop Proceedings since the first edition of CHR back in 2020. C...

discourse.computational-humanities-research.org

Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · Feb 3

Hi people! We need a new publisher for the proceedings of the #CHR conference. Any input is greatly appreciated!

discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/call-for-i...

Call for input: finding a new publication venue for our conference proceedings

Dear Computational Humanities Research Community, As many of you know, we have been publishing our conference proceedings with CEUR Workshop Proceedings since the first edition of CHR back in 2020. C...

discourse.computational-humanities-research.org