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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 5d

Wow.

Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 5d

I'm relieved that I have a decent understanding of Rosenzweig, but I admit that Nabi X is good at helping me catch some of my blind spots.

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 5d

TFW a kernel of an idea from 18 months ago becomes reality. I'm so thankful to the magicians in my team.

We have begun to roll out Nabi X in my two courses this semester!

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 10d

PGMOL is incredibly corrupt.

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 10d

PGMOL is more corrupt than Argentina in the 1980s.

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 14d

🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 5th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, May 28-29, 2026, in #Potsdam, #Germany! #CCLS26 #CfP

Submit your article by January 8, 2026, and be part of our big 5-year jubilee edition! 🥳🥳🥳

Call for Papers

jcls.io

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 15d

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 17d

Flash 5 (2000). I used to make so many terrible animations with this tool. I still have them backed up.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 17d

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.

My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Quote graphic featuring the following quote from Prime Minister Carney’s statement on Canada’s recognition of Palestine: “Canada recognises the State of Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel.”

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Marlene Manoff @mmanoff.bsky.social · 20d

www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

www.404media.co

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 20d

Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 20d

BREAKING South Korean prosecutors seek arrest of Unification Church leader

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 23d

Modeling Culture explores AI not only as a technology to critique, but as a new mode of inquiry for research and interpretation. Three interconnected components will unfold in 2025-26: a faculty and grad seminar, a public lecture series, and an open-access curriculum. Public talk details in thread👇

CDH Launches Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI

cdh.princeton.edu

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.bsky.social · 23d

We now recommend this course to all our incoming students: missing.csail.mit.edu

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

missing.csail.mit.edu

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23d

Before streaming or YouTube—there was cartoonnetwork․com, 📺 home to Flash games, clips of Ed, Edd n Eddy & Powerpuff Girls, + Cartoon Orbit battles.

The site’s gone, but the Wayback Machine lets you time-travel back ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19981001...

#Wayback1T

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "CARTOONNETWORK.COM". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Cartoon Network website from October 12, 1999, alongside a stylized computer window labeled "Now", featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the site is gone.

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 23d

Too many people still subscribe to the "digital natives" nonsense.

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 23d

Considering how virtually all research is conducted in a digital environment and information is organized using software, I think it's almost criminal that students don't even know what data types are.

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 23d

and elementary Python mandatory for all undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Tomorrow morning I plan to teach History majors how to do API calls to my lab's local LLM server in Python, but this session will now require a crash course on Python...

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 23d

My university has been pushing for AI education ever since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. What I wish we had done instead, rather than endless surveys about chatbot usage patterns, is making digital literacy (how to manage files, use the command line, and configure one's own computer)

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 23d

Judith Butler responds to Berkeley's sending names: "When Universities Become Informants: A Practice from the McCarthy Era Makes an Ugly Return"

www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Opinion | When Universities Become Informants

A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

www.chronicle.com

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 23d

It's always a pleasure and honor to co-author with Yuerong @yrhu.bsky.social (and of course with @profdownie.bsky.social and @tedunderwood.me as well), and her latest is not to be missed: "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads".

Yuerong Hu @yrhu.bsky.social · 23d

This is a free-access link to it:
academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

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Yuerong Hu @yrhu.bsky.social · 23d

Hi Friends! My coauthors @tedunderwood.me @gworthey.bsky.social @profdownie.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new article in DSH @adho-org.bsky.social
@eadhorg.bsky.social "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads". Link in comment:)

Yuerong Hu, Ted Underwood, Glen Layne-Worthey, John Stephen Downie, Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2025;, fqaf084, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf084

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 25d

Outstanding performance. #Zubi (and also #Noni!)

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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 26d

Qwen 3 now supports ARM and MLX | Discussion

Qwen Ecosystem Expands Rapidly, Accelerating AI Adoption Across Industries

Alibaba’s Qwen3, the company’s first hybrid reasoning model family, is gaining rapid traction as it expands across platforms and sectors, powering

www.alizila.com

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