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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Man ist nie zu alt für eine beglaubigte Kopie des Abiturzeugnisses...

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Universität Innsbruck @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Mastodon für alle Studierenden: Die Uni Innsbruck eröffnet eine zweite Instanz für alle Studentinnen und Studenten. Nach den Mitarbeiter:innen haben damit nun alle Uniangehörigen Zugang zum Fediverse über lokale Instanzen, angebunden an das Uni-Anmeldesystem via Single-Sign-On. 🙌 […]

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I'm so happy: My textbook "Data Analysis for the Language Sciences: A very gentle introduction to statistics and data visualisation in R" has been *accepted pending revisions* at @langscipress! 🎉 Both reviewers seem to have really read all 15 chapters in great detail which is really cool and […]

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@stefan_hessbrueggen Had the exact same thing happening a few years ago with a novel published in 1887. You would think that's safely public domain. But if the author started publishing at a young age and lived for a long time... in that case we were not able to include that novel in our corpus […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

All the editors of Elsevier's 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳 just resigned in protest at Elsevier's firing of one editor and attempt to hire new editors without involving the current board. The Game Theory Society is cutting off its association with the journal, and "exploring the establishment of […]

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Yes, an e-bus is cleaner and healthier. But honestly, the hardest - and most urgent - part is to convince people to take that bus in the first place. "Transportation is the only major sector where greenhouse gas emissions remain above 1990 levels, despite the EU's ambition of a 90% reduction by […]

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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

"A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, “it would have gone straight into the bin”. —Melissa Lee, Monash […]

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Mitchell Whitelaw @mtchl.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

New work: Anthophiles uses machine learning to ID plants present in bee observations. It's an experiment in joined-up biodiversity data. anthophiles.mtchl.net #biodiversity #citizenscience #pollinators #insects

Screenshot of an interface showing bubble graphs and an observation of a blue-banded bee visiting a tomato plant.

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Hess. Inst. Landesgeschichte @hil-mr.hessen.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

In eigener Sache an alle mit einem Herz für die historische Kartographie: die Ausschreibung für die Neubesetzung der Stelle zur Bearbeitung des Hessischen #Städteatlas ist veröffentlicht 😃 Wir freuen uns auf aussagekräftige Bewerbungen #getFediHired #histodons #Geschichte

Ausschnitt aus dem Städteatlas Wetter. Die Stadt sieht aus wie ein Herz

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

Call for Proposals: DH2027 welcomes research and practice at the intersection of the humanities, art and digital media, both digital art creation and work studying its forms, histories, communities and technologies. 📄 dh2027.adho.org/cfp #DigitalHumanities #DigitalArts #DH2027

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […] [Original post on aus.social]

A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement. She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.

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DH2027 @adho-conferences.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The gates are open! 🎉 New-user registration and submissions for #DH2027 are now live on ConfTool: www.conftool.pro/dh2027/ After an intimate acquaintance with far too many settings and checkboxes, we can finally say: send us your proposals!

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

This mentions a series of educational reforms increasing pressure since 2018, and an inadequate number of university places, but not AI, at least not directly. A concern about the utility of education was also present (central?) in the Arab Spring, so precedes AI […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

👀👀👀 this looks great!

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@mellymeldubs.bsky.social Thank you, Melanie, for that encouraging feedback. We've been thinking long and hard about how to (finally! this has been an issue for many years) make a meaningful and manageable change in this area. Note that long paper submissions are now also substantially longer […]

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

"As in any fairytale, accepting magical assistance comes with risk". -- Ted Underwood #ArtificialIntelligence

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

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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 impressive, wide-ranging talk. Most of all, I loved the many interactive and elegant visualizations. I hope the slides will be made available, then I'll share the link here. #DataVis

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

Oh, this was actually a really good talk!! Need to think about it some more, but the key insight was that there are several options of how LLMs could be further developed to actually deal better with mathematical problems that cannot be "solved" (at least, at the surface) by looking at a lot of […]

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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

@kgjengedal @mpe Awful! So sorry they make you undergo such horrible nonsense.

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

@davidgerard They're putting the barbed wire on walls of the walled garden... thank you, I stay outside.

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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

In the end, you evaluate the composition of the coalition that the model arrived at against the true composition, and you can compare the contents of the generated coalition agreement with the actual coalition agreement. And it works (sort of). And you can learn a few things (again, sort of) […]

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

This was actually pretty interesting. The basic approach they are following includes (a) various texts that are key in such coalition negotations, from the initial party programmes to the final coalition agreement and (b) various actors, in particularly parties or party officials, who draft […]

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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

The closeness of the incredibly dense and intense city with the sea and large, steep green spaces is always impressive. These pictures are from a little weekend walk, basically between the residence and the main campus of HKU.

A small waterfall in the middle of the green hills, in the Pok Fu Lam country park.

View from the hills just behind HKU. A residential tower on the left, and a university building on the right, seen from a platform in the middle of the green hills.

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

It has been very interesting and fascinating so far to get some close insights into the study programme, the lab's many activities, and the multi-faceted DH landscape at the faculty more generally. Also, check out the view from my office... absolutely […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

View from the office, over Central on Hong Kong island, with very high residential buildings in the front and Victoria harbour in the back.

An inner courtyard with some grass at Hong Kong University, with the entrance to the Run Run Shaw Tower where the Faculty of Arts is located.

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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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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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