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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Am TCDH (Trier Center for Digital Humanities) der Universität Trier ist derzeit eine volle (!) unbefristete (!!) Stelle ausgeschrieben (m/w/d, E 13 TV-L)! Wir suchen jemanden für die Leitung unseres Forschungsbereichs „Digitale Literatur- und […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Foto des TCDH-Teams vor unserem Gebäude, darunter der Beginn der Stellenausschreibung in Blau auf hellgrauem Grund.

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

So, the @EUCommission has rolled out @element chat as a backup system to their default #Teams for the 33k officials. One official defended the new #Matrix-based system on an internal chat, according to Politico, by saying Teams wasn't as secure because "all we have is a guarantee that […]

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Very excited to be attending another talk on my last day here at the Hong Kong University's Arts Tech Lab: Maciej Kurzynski of Lignan University is speaking about "Teaching Literature with Language Machines. New Pedagogies for Computational Literary Studies" […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

The talk announcement from the website, in black and white, with a picture of the speaker.

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Nothing to do, for once, with Digital Humanities at Hong Kong University, but rather with movies / Asian cinema! They are showing the movie "Cyclone" here today and I didn't want to miss the opportunity. This one (there are several movies with that English […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Movie poster for Cyclone, with the "Hong Kong Film Festival" 2026 at the top and the poster, in dark tones of black and brown, with purple writing, below. At the center of the poster is a woman looking upwards.

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

More DH goodness, this time from JHAI, the new Journal of Humanities and AI! Latest issue has just been published: www.journalofhumanitiesai.org/artic… Across the issue, JHAI continues to ask two broad questions: what perspectives can the […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: scicomm.xyz/@PeterKraker/1173532719… It's not just #evilsevier , but all corporate publishers whose surveillance publishing, paywalling, greenwashing and price gouging constitute direct opposites of core academic values. I have personally witnessed university leadership […]

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AIUCD @aiucd.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

AIUCD è lieta di annunciare che è stato pubblicato un nuovo post sul nostro blog intitolato "La lingua dei meme. In conversazione con Pierluigi Ortolano" di Marco Sartor. infouma.hypotheses.org/4422

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La lingua dei meme. In conversazione con Pierluigi Ortolano

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Another day, another talk (actually, the first of two today!) at Hong Kong University: "LLM Math: Prospects and Challenges" by Boris Babic (HKU, Data Science and Philosophy). datascience.hku.hk/2026/09/s260925

Announcement of the talk, in tones of green, with the speaker from the waist up in a white shirt, looking quite determined.

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Taking advantage again of the wide range of events at Hong Kong University: Today, listening to Shane Chalmers, of the Faculty of Law, speaking on "Teaching Law and the Humanities in Hong Kong and Australia". Very interesting insights into an interdisciplinary […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Screenshot with the title of the talk and some event details, and an image of someone sitting at a writing desk, with a notebook, a hand, and a lamp.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can Reading Fiction Actually Make You Happier? Literary fiction, in contrast to nonfiction, offers benefits to well-being. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fraz... #reading #books #happiness

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Can Reading Fiction Actually Make You Happier?

Literary fiction, in contrast with popular and nonfiction, has been shown to increase empathy, reduce stress, and improve well-being.

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

As always, Hong Kong is ahead of the curve. They have now invented time travel. #HongKong

Article headline from SCMP: Hong Kong 999 callers can send real-time audio, video data from 2028: Chris Tang

And the summary: Security minister reveals timeline for upgrades to emergency call services, a day after new features announced in Hong Kong policy address

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Thorsten Wübbena @thwuebbena.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

We have two days of discussions on digital history ahead of us. I’m really looking forward to it! #Huygens #DHLab_IEG

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Excited to get an insight today into a domain that is distinct but adjacent to Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences. With Slava Jankin's talk on "Can Machines Negotiate a Government? LLM Agents, Coalition Formation, and the Validity Problem in […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Website presenting the talk, with the title, some details on time and place, and a picture of the speaker, all in tones of grey, green and orange.

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

So helpful, dear Microslop: "Something went wrong."

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Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB @awettesfaiesus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: ard.social/@tagesschau/117284332002… Schon nach einer Woche bei @tagesschau zu lesen. Hatten sich da wieder zu viele Scheinprobleme dazwischengelanzt? 😩

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Hendrik Weimer @hweimer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Using FediWings (rstockm.github.io/fediwings) by @rstockm, I've calculated the net reach across the Fediverse of German universities during the last 30 days. Here's the top 5: 1. Universität Ulm (@UniUlm): 6860 2. Technische Universität Berlin (@tuberlin): 4315 3. RWTH Aachen […]

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Time flies! I've arrived here in Hong Kong already a week ago. I'm here for a month as a first part o my two-year role as guest professor at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty or Arts, specifically in the context of their "Arts Tech Lab". See: www.atlab.hku.hk

Homepage of the Arts Technology Lab, with the name in big capital letters, black on white background, and the slogan: "Fostering Creativity, Innovation and Collaboration".

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love reveal.js for its portability and ease of embedding websites into a slide deck. But I don't always want to work in markdown. So I made Small Reveal, a lightweight, browser-based WYSIWYG editor for reveal.js. Demo: slides.samplereality.com

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Small Reveal

Build reveal.js presentations in your browser. No build step, no backend, no account — your decks live in your own browser storage.

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io2a @io2a.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

OpenAlex : une alternative ouverte pour vos recherches bibliographiques buff.ly/BcNo1ua

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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Hivemind: I am looking for a side-by-side comparison between a traditional critical apparatus in a printed edition and the corresponding #TEI markup, but I cannot seem to find such a thing. I’m sure someone must have done something like that? Any pointers? #DigitalHumanities #DigitalScholarlyEditing

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3sat @3sat.zdf.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Anja Niedringhaus sah sich nicht als "Kriegsfotografin", sondern als Dokumentarin der Folgen, die Kriege für Menschen haben. 2014 wurde sie ermordet. Der Film würdigt ihre Arbeit und beleuchtet die Hintergründe ihres Todes […]

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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Hier in Victoria BC war ich gestern in zwei total netten Buchläden mit u.a. antiquarischem Angebot. (Russell Books, Fort Street, sowie das hier ziemlich bekannte Munro's). Beim Bücherregale auf mich wirken lassen musste ich unweigerlich auch an Diskussionen im Fediverse über das destruktive […]

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

🚨 The deadline for abstract submission for the Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (sites.google.com/view/worela2) taking place on 8–9 July 2027 in Cologne has been extended to 15 September 2026 (final extension). 🚨 We invite […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

WoRela 2 Website
8-9 July 2027
Photo of nightscape of Cologne with the cathedral
University of Cologne, Germany
Building cumulative knowledge in the language sciences through
reproducible, robust, and replicable research findings
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Interesting CfP for the "Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge" journal: "Special Issue: Semantic Digital Humanities" www.dagstuhl.de/de/institute/news/2… Due date is 31 January 2027.

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TGDK - CfP Special Issue: Semantic Digital Humanities

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

🚀 💯 📢 The good folks at #DHQ, the Digital Humanities Quarterly, did it! DOIs are here! 🎂 👏 🎉 I think we should all be posting a DOI to one of our favorite articles in DHQ to celebrate! Here's mine, cough, my first and only single-author piece in DHQ: doi.org/10.63744/qa2r7vpsu35k

Screenshot of the landing page for the article "Topic Modeling Genre" in DHQ, with a glorious DOI sitting between title and abstract.

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Did I mention that issue 9 is our largest issue in terms of essays. That means our submission pool is growing—a sign that the community of scholar-practitioners is growing for Caribbean DH and New Media. I love that for us! 😊 archipelagosjournal.org

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archipelagos

A journal of Caribbean digital praxis

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Delta Chat @delta.chat · 18/08/2026

We're flattered! @digitalcourage, one of the oldest digital rights organizations in Germany, just recommended using #deltachat They included a fantastic, well-structured article in German on how to get started, with lots of good background info for those who seek it […]

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Ulrich Kelber @ulrichkelber.bonn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Frist verstrichen: Das #Bundeskanzleramt ist auch einen Monat nach meiner Anfrage nach dem #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz nicht in der Lage, mir Beispiele für die vom damaligen Kanzleramtsminister Frei gegenüber der ZEIT getätigten Behauptung, es gäbe #IFG-Anfragen, die hunderttausende Euro Kosten […]

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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

The land beneath most solar farms is mostly left as gravel or turf. But the teams at two sites in Minnesota decided to do things differently, seeding the ground with native grasses and flowering plants. Five years later, that land is home to many types of insect, with a 20-fold increase in bees […]

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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

An der #RuhrUniBochum sind 12 Doktorand*innen-Stellen für die Dauer von 3,5 Jahren (TV-L E13, 65%) im Rahmen des Graduiertenkollegs #GRK2945 „Wissen – Glauben – Behaupten. Wahrheitsproduktion und Wahrheitsdurchsetzung in der Vormoderne“ ausgeschrieben. Deadline 14.9 […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

This is far worse than bulldozing the East Wing of the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/au… #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.

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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

"My students (...) mistakenly view a confident, well-written essay as evidence of the quality of their ideas. They see the AI as cleaning those ideas up, getting them through that uncomfortable stretch of having to turn those ideas into prose. What the students miss is that (...) the very act of […]

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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Tipp für privacy-interessierte Menschen, die Android benutzen: Schaut euch bitte mal @rdns an. Schnell installiert, zunächst mal ein freier systemweiter Adblocker - allein das ist schon super. Aber m.E. hat es mindesterns zwei besondere Features. So lässt sich die Hintergrund-Kommunikation der […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

«The Wikimedia Foundation has lost institutional legitimacy. When the foundation that we expect to maintain the encyclopedia for everyone is the very same entity that is selling out the people writing the encyclopedia, volunteers need to ask themselves what makes the Wikimedia Foundation the […]

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Harald Klinke @hxxxkxxx.det.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Was man an einem Tag mit KI-Coding in einem Bibliotheksbestand sichtbar machen kann: Ausgehend von der Fellowship-Ausschreibung der Zentralbibliothek Zürich habe ich getestet, wie KI als Forschungsassistent neue Zugänge zu digitalen Sammlungen eröffnen kann. #DigitalHumanities #AICoding […]

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Harald Klinke @hxxxkxxx.det.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

The Rijksmuseum has moved from “an API” toward a machine-readable knowledge infrastructure: Objects, people, places and concepts receive persistent URIs, not just web addresses, but machine-readable identities that can be linked across systems. The shift is from “search a museum database” to an […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Watching with interest: "Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges." retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/fede… "A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four […]

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There's a missing rung on the academic career ladder in Austria and Germany. Historically there wasn't a position like assistant professor or lecturer, so the jump from postdoc to professor was — and mostly still is — huge. Between 70% and 80% of academics in Austria don't have permanent jobs.

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Academics in Germany and Austria are stuck in job limbo

Also: Montana's "right to try" law for experimental cures, UK science gets reshuffled, a university sues Anthropic over patents, and more from last week

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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Cette infographie est à la fois spectaculaire et pédagogique. Les paysages français de notre enfance ne seront plus ceux de demain. 1/9

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

📜 TIL the Korean alphabet Hangul is the only major writing system invented from scratch for its own language, and its letters are drawings of your mouth. King Sejong the Great finished it in 1443 so common people could read and write. The consonants literally trace the speech organs: ㄱ is the […]

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@peetertinits.bsky.social at the last session of #DH2026 talking about using huge harmonized bibliographic datasets to study the diffusion of information and patterns of language adoption across Early Modern -> Modern Europe. V. cool!

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AIUCD @aiucd.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

News from Daejeon, where #DH2026 is currently taking place and the official announcement has just been made: @adho.org has selected the University of Padua to host #DH2029! A major achievement for the bid team and for the entire Italian DH community.

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