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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 2d

Mathematical discovery in the age of artificial intelligence

They consider how artificial intelligence tools are reshaping the way mathematical research is conducted and discuss how future developments of this technology will transform mathematical practice.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mathematical discovery in the age of artificial intelligence - Nature Physics

In this comment, we consider how artificial intelligence tools are reshaping the way mathematical research is conducted and discuss how future developments of this technology will transform mathematical practice.

www.nature.com

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 2d

Insightful demo of agentive AI as “Humanities RA.” 2 thoughts:

1) Alan is up front about limitations of the tools in ways that seed a round of “Debates in DH”

2) He teases a move past/thru some of the critiques, where he wld have AI create a map of what it *omits* from its main report. Love it!

Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 3d

My blog post reporting on testing the use of agentic AI (the Fellou.ai browser) to start a research project on gathering definitions of the humanities: “Humanities Definitions Research Project: An Experiment with Agentic AI” (liu.english.ucsb.edu/humanities-d...).

Screenshots of the Fellou interface while its browser agent is in progress on a research task prompted by the user. (A) and (B) represent windows with multiple browser tabs open to searches. Each tab in these windows shows rapidly changing thumbnails of the websites, articles (including PDFs), and other materials that Fellou is currently searching and analyzing. A panel at the right of each window shows a partial view of the kinds of sources and topics Fellou has planned to search in response to the user’s prompt.
(C) is a window showing a periodically refreshed report on progress so far. In this window, the panel at the left shows in separate blocks some of the kinds of sources and topics that Fellou plans to search. The wide panel in the center summarizes results. And the panel at the right shows in blocks the specific sources and key phrases currently being “deep searched.”

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 6d

"It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline."

By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/a072...

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 6d

I made a lil game inspired by the Wordle universe. It's called Versedle (pronounced Verse-a-dle). You guess who wrote famous lines of literature.

As my parents can attest, it's hard! I made them an Easy Mode, but it's still kinda hard. Maybe you'll like it!

▶️ 📚: melaniewalsh.github.io/versedle/

VERSEDLE

Test your literary knowledge with Versedle!

melaniewalsh.github.io

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 14d

I made a short 3-page essay from part of my “Data Science & the Post-Liberal Arts University” in Critical Inquiry that had to be cut due to length: Liu, Alan. “Liberal Arts Pantocrator.” KCWorks, 24 Sept 2025, doi.org/10.17613/y9e...

Partial screenshot of first page of my "Liberal Arts Pantocrator" essay. The explanation at the top of the page reads:

"The following fragment discussing two early pictorial illustrations of the liberal arts was originally part of my article on “Data Science and the Post-Liberal Arts University” (Critical Inquiry 51, no. 4 (2025): 597–618) but had to be cut due to length limitations. The fragment complements the article’s final section on “A Post-Liberal Arts Curriculum (2),” which discusses what is “needed for the post-liberal arts to enhance existing efforts in the liberal arts to be more inclusive of their social margins and global peripheries—in particular, by acknowledging the heritage of applied knowledge embedded in the very notion of such margins and peripheries” (612-618)."

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 9d

Gave this a closer look today and wow it really benefits from the many hands that touched it. Every point -- every sub-point -- is thoughtfully substantiated by connecting it to multiple discourses in CS and humanities. The rigorous thought at scale, so to speak, is truly impressive.

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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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 9d

Filling her compact & delicious body
with [one-pan] chicken páprika [with lentils, squash and daqa],
she glanced at me
twice.

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 9d

Here's a good book about the romance industry / community in general!

Love in the Time of Self-Publishing

Lessons in creative labor, solidarity, and inclusion under precarious economic conditions

press.princeton.edu

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Kent K. Chang @kentkchang.bsky.social · Jun 4

My course proposal for Cultural Analytics @berkeleyischool.bsky.social has been approved for Fall 2025! This is the fullest expression of my vision for CA: a radical interdisciplinary experiment for rethinking knowledge production at the intersection of the humanities and machine learning. (1/9)

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 12d

And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data

How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 13d

I've been hearing that song weirdly much recently!

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 13d

Playing with OCR on old EEBO images. The pages were painstakingly keyed by multiple humans to great effect! But their effort only dramatizes how rapidly OCR advance in the past 3 years.

I found myself saying to a student “I didn’t expect see this [level of OCR accuracy] in my lifetime.”

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 16d

NEW: How does ICE actually use Palantir?

A new cache of documents obtained by @justfutureslaw.bsky.social from 2014-2022 give us a fresh look at real examples of how the agency has used the technology to perform enforcement operations www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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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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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 16d

I'm hiring a mid-level full-stack SWE! Our team at @jstor.bsky.social Labs is looking for yet another product-minded engineer to join our team. We come from all kinds of backgrounds, tech and non-tech alike.

Please apply or send to your awesome friends, and DM me with ?s: grnh.se/19o370345us

Software Engineer (Full-stack) - ITHAKA

ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — Artstor, JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome b...

grnh.se

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 16d

LOR? LOL.

Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 16d

Feeling some chaotic energy today. Might apply to jobs in Italian departments. enviro humanities seems cool.

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 19d

A world where most people can hold a face-to-face conversation with one another sounds promising. But the promise is a bit too much like the one that social media had made to us in 2008. Let's not make the same mistake again.

Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 19d

The good news is that we are still a ways out from ubiquitous translation. There is time to consider legal questions like "the right to communicate with AI" for people crossing borders. And time to cultivate social values like "hearing generously" when we do not understand AI-mediated expression.

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 19d

The social stakes are high, since a non-trivial point of friction for travel/migration will have been removed. Flows of people across borders will only increase. This of course clashes with policy positions taken by the largest nations around the world for the previous ten years.

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 19d

We'd devise a new set of pragmatics to surround AI-mediated semantics. Specific models will have different tics -- various choices of words and phrases. Conversational forms will be warped around them in ways that are systematic but nearly invisible to speakers during individual conversations.

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 19d

The ways we communicate across languages will look different. AI translations necessarily will be simplistic or "good enough" in Long's terms. Listeners will know that the ham-fisted words or phrases they hear fail to fully express the speaker's idea. What if nobody ever "spoke eloquently" again?

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 19d

I'm surprised that the discourse isn't blowing up over this. We're like a decade out from 90% of humans having a device for real-time cross-language communication.

OOH, the application clarifies the nature of " interpersonal communication in the age of AI." OTOH, stakes are high! (1/6)

Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 20d

… so Apple just dropped a consumer device with real-time in-ear translation service

Today seems like the right day to revisit Hoyt Long’s “Learning to Live with Machine Translation”

muse.jhu.edu/article/8983...

Project MUSE - Learning to Live with Machine Translation

muse.jhu.edu

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 20d

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 20d

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