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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · 16h

In case you missed it, this "Doing AI Differently" funding call should be of interest to humanities scholars with technical experience, computer scientists with humanities grounding, or anyone whose work spans both domains. Take a look and please consider applying! www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Expressions of interest: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

AHRC and SSHRC invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial intelligenc...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Aug 29

New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.

Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology

<div> <div> <div> <p>Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat cul

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jun 14

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · Feb 28

Excited to share our preprint "Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research”

We're open to feedback—read & share thoughts!

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Screenshot of the first page of preprint, "Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research," by Lauren Klein, Meredith Martin, Andre Brock, Maria Antoniak, Melanie Walsh, Jessica Marie Johnson, Lauren Tilton, and David Mimno

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Jan 27

Aaaaah good timing, published today!

"we introduce Mini Worldlit, a manually curated dataset of 1,192 works of contemporary fiction from 13 countries, representing nine languages"

By @andrewpiper.bsky.social, @dbamman.bsky.social, Christina Han, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, @hoytlong.bsky.social, et al.

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · Dec 2

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · Nov 26

Is it for himself? Or for Frog? Either way an ominous turn...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Nov 20

If you're depressed that non-expert readers prefer AI-written poetry to the classics, perhaps try Matt's quiz.

You may discover that the real finding here is the huge gulf between your own taste and that of non-expert readers ... a gulf that has likely existed at least since, oh, IA Richards?

Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · Nov 16

I made a Google quiz using the poems listed on the paper’s OSF site if you want to try your luck at guessing which are human and which are LLM. forms.gle/nGCGawDb9c6f...

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thanks for setting this up! A 9/10 for me. I work with LLMs and literature, so I've learned some obvious tells. Limited diction, that preening, adolescent tone. LLMs just trying too hard to be "one with it all." The LLM poem in the style of Butler threw me off.

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Mina Lee @mnlee.bsky.social · Nov 18

Interested in writing with AI? ✍️

Please apply to be a **postdoc** in my group through the UChicago DSI Scholars program! 🤠

- Research in my group: minalee-research.github.io/research.html
- Application: datascience.uchicago.edu/research/pos... (review begins on Dec 6)

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Nov 19

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.

Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎

Apply by December 15th!

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · Nov 15

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Nov 10

Internet studies people unite!

Internet studies starter pack is here - incomplete, skewed etc etc but some fantastic folks, to help us all rebuild our social networks. Happy to add you if I left you out! Please circulate, and here it is:
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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · Nov 12

AOC returning to BlueSky and you can feel the place light up...

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · Nov 11

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my group in 2025-2026. If you like the mountains and interdisciplinary research that blends data and culture, this could be a good fit!

UW iSchool PhD apps due Dec 2nd: ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd...

More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship

mentorship | Melanie Walsh

Assistant Professor at UW in Seattle. Data science, digital humanities, literature, culture.

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · Nov 9

"Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my life looks like."

I don't ask Chat many personal questions, so it thinks I live a cozy, data-filled life. And well organized, too! Although wall-of-monitors is not my idea of cozy.

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · Sep 30

My group just finished up a new paper that I'm excited to get out into the world: "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" (to be published at CHR): github.com/bamman-group...

GitHub - bamman-group/ca-classification-data: Data and code to support "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics"

Data and code to support "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" - bamman-group/ca-classification-data

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · Sep 23

Maybe you were thinking of Jordan Pruett? He was in English at Chicago and is now a data scientist at Lyssn, which does AI tools development for the health industry.

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · Sep 13

We're excited that UChicago Humanities Division has approved 2 searches for Assistant Professors in Korean Studies this year. One is in East Asian Languages & Civilizations and includes the fields of media, performance, literature, and popular culture: apply.interfolio.com/153011. EOE/Vet/Disability

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Jun 19

The last four years have been the best for nonwhite fiction writers in US history, Richard Jean So & I found. But all signs point to backlash. What would it take actually to sustain—& grow? We wrote about it for @theatlantic.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

The Pendulum Swings on Diversity in Publishing

A new study reveals positive changes since 2020. But can they last?

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · Apr 19

Vernon Lee's "The Handling of Words" and Edith Rickert's "New Methods for the Study of Literature" offer some other great examples from the 1920s of early quantitative thinking about literature. The latter is discussed in Rachel Buurma and Laura Heffernan's "The Teaching Archive"

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · Mar 29

Web-based fandoms are intimate publics at scale. @richardjeanso.bsky.social and I use close reading/stats to study the narrative/rhetorical features of fanfic and commentary on AO3. Fandoms are part of literary history, and we show how to study these living archives of reader-response. No paywall!

Project MUSE - Fandom and Fictionality after the Social Web: A Computational Study of AO3

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · Feb 28

Can't recommend it enough! She wonders at one point if the black-boxedness of algorithms will throw us into a "New Dark Age," where we must accept algorithmic decisions like "Job accepting his punishment." It's tongue-in-cheek, but she's great at channeling the religious overtones of the discourse.

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · Feb 28

Meghan O'Gieblyn fleshes out the pre-2021 history of this intensity -- both on the side of proponents and detractors -- in her beautiful "God, Human, Animal, Machine". It's religio-mythical intensity all the way down.

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