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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 9d

Registration for #CHR2025 is now open! Visit our website for details on registration fees and how to register: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/venue/

See you in Luxembourg!

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 2

From Ancient Greek to 20 century Yiddish, and from Spain to Georgia: the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025 is starting right now! 18 @dracor.org corpora presentations to go! The first one is by @juliajbeine.bsky.social about the #NeoLatDraCor

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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

papers.ssrn.com

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Jul 23

What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar?

Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.

A few examples in thread ↴

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DraCor @dracor.org · Jul 22

We're very happy to welcome Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) as our keynote speaker at the #DraCor Summit! Join us on Mon, 1 Sep 2025, 18:00 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

summit.dracor.org/opening_keyn...

Remember to register for the Summit (it's free).

summit.dracor.org/registration

Picture of the keynote speaker of the upcoming DraCor Summit, Clarisse Bardiot. Source for the picture is her personal website clarissebardiot.info.

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Lídia Zhou Mengyuan @lidiazhou.bsky.social · Jul 17

Please come and join us at CUHK!

Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · Jul 17

CFP: #HKADH2026 will be hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (23-25 January 2026).

Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper ‪‪@andrewpiper.bsky.social‬.

Submission deadline: 31 August.

2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/

#HKADH

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Jul 15

Stylo got the Zampolli prize for outstanding output in #DigitalHumanities 🏆 Congrats to Maciej Eder, @mikekestemont.bsky.social, Jan Rybicki, Joanna Byszuk, and all involved with the Computational Stylistics Group!👏 Prev. recipients were Voyant Tools, TEI, R. Siemens, C. Gaffield
#DH2025 #stylometry

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DH2025 @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social · Jul 10

Only four days left to @adho-org.bsky.social #DH2025 and everything is getting ready as you can see here!

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Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities @cssh-nus.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thrilled to share that our Deputy Director @miguelev.bsky.social will be delivering a keynote at this conference!

Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · Jun 12

We are proud to have @miguelev.bsky.social (@cssh-nus.bsky.social, National University of Singapore) and Els Lefever (LT3 Language and Translation Technology, Ghent University) as keynote speakers at our CHR2025 conference in December. More: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/keynote...

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Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities @cssh-nus.bsky.social · Jun 18

We are excited to announce our Inaugural Research Symposium July 29–30, 2025! This event will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to explore cutting-edge developments at the intersection of computational methods, social science, and the humanities.

www.cssh-symposium.com

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Miguel Escobar Varela @miguelev.bsky.social · Jun 12

I am very honoured by this invitation. Looking forward to @comphumresearch.bsky.social 2025!

Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · Jun 12

We are proud to have @miguelev.bsky.social (@cssh-nus.bsky.social, National University of Singapore) and Els Lefever (LT3 Language and Translation Technology, Ghent University) as keynote speakers at our CHR2025 conference in December. More: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/keynote...

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Mar 9

Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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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)

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Feb 24

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · Feb 24

Our open review portal is down, but our team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In light of this, the submission deadline has been extended to Feb 26, 23:59 AoE. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 4

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

INTRODUCTION

thebullshitmachines.com

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Lídia Zhou Mengyuan @lidiazhou.bsky.social · Jan 20

Had a great time at the first HKADH conference! Caught up with many old friends from ADHO 2024 and met new colleagues and experts from around the world! Wonderful keynote speeches by @miguelev.bsky.social and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social. Next year, HKADH will be held at my university, CUHK! 😉

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Miguel Escobar Varela @miguelev.bsky.social · Jan 17

Opening remarks by @vincent76.bsky.social at the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities 2025.

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Miguel Escobar Varela @miguelev.bsky.social · Jan 14

Honored to deliver a keynote at HKADH next week. And looking forward to reconnect with the incredible DH community in HK!

Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · Dec 20

HKADH is thrilled to announce our inaugural international conference, co-hosted by Lingnan University and the University of Hong Kong, on January 16–19, 2025. Keynote lectures by Miguel Escobar Varela and Melanie Walsh will be live-streamed in a hybrid format!

More info at: 2025.hkadh.org

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · Jan 7

If you're a teacher, student, librarian or not-for-profit worker, you can use the code OVENBIRD for 25% off registration for my Binoculars to Binomials course.

5 weeks of coding, nature, birds, citizen science + data viz!

It might just change your life.

www.jerthorp.me/learning

An ovenbird is perched on a branch against a pink background. Text reads:

teachers, teachers, teachers (and students too)

teachers, librarians and students can use the code OVENBIRD for 25% off registration

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jan 4

Earlier tonight I posted an example of a Google Gemini query where adding quotation marks around a song title flips the answer you get from "yes" to "no". (1/2)

Google query: does ed sheeran have a song called "the crow"

Yes, Ed Sheeran has a song called "The Crow":

Information
Song

"The Crow"
Album

Part of Sheeran's new album, No.
Sheeran is a British singer-songwriter who blends genres like folk, rock, R&B, pop, and hip-hop. His debut album, +, was released in 2011 and included his first hit single, "The A Team". Sheeran has also written songs for other artists, including "Little Things" for One Direction, "Lay It All On Me" for Rudimental, and "Love Yourself" for Justin Bieber.

Google query: does ed sheeran have a song called the crow

AI Overview
Learn more
No, Ed Sheeran does not have a song called "the crow", but he has written and performed songs for other artists, including:

"Little Things" for One Direction
"Lay It All On Me" for Rudimental
"When Christmas Comes Around" for Matt Terry
"Hotel Ceiling" for Rixton
"Say You Love Me" for Jessie Ware
"Love Yourself" for Justin Bieber
"Cold Water" for Major Lazer

Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter with a discography that includes seven studio albums, two compilation albums, and 65 singles.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Dec 31

Absolutely astonished at being awarded an MBE for services to Digital Humanities. I’ve no idea who nominated me - great to see #digitalhumanities supported in this context! It will take a moment for this to sink in!

Also if the King gives you an MBE for DH, does that mean it’s a real subject? 😊💃👩‍💻📜

New Year Honours List recognises culture, education and sport

In this year’s New Year Honours, painter and printmaker, Barbara Rae, CBE, RA, receives a damehood, and others involved in the fields of sport, education and public service in Edinburgh are also honou...

theedinburghreporter.co.uk

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · Dec 19

A delight to contribute to this open access edited volume on digital film history! Check out our essay on distant viewing amatuer film with Tim van der Heijden and Taylor Arnold: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Dec 14

If people in higher ed don't want to end up disintermediated by AI, we need an actual plan to avoid it. I know how rejectionists intend to do that. And I know that people like me hope we can do it by building/teaching open source models. But in between those two poles, idk what the plan is.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Dec 14

Dear academics

We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists.

This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by…

*checks notes*

…every other industry on earth.

David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · Dec 14

Who is for abolishing grad app letters of rec at the point of application? Would it be so bad if letters were requested AFTER candidates were shortlisted? If we do this at UCSD who will join us?

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