iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

OCR for Japanese manga, Swedish handwriting or Arabic print? There’s a growing range of OCR models on @hf.co: VLMs, dedicated text recognisers and complete OCR pipelines. I’ve gathered 41 models into four collections, with short notes to help you choose: huggingface.co/collections/...

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OCR on the Hub - a davanstrien Collection

Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026

8/ Robbins: PRoB, published by Carnegie Mellon’s English department, is the first Review of Books birthed in academia...[It's] arrived at the perfect time, just as newspaper book sections are disappearing and readers want something more than AI algorithms and spam stars. pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...

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Hollis Robbins on PRoB - Pittsburgh Review of Books

Please support PRoB so that we can continue publishing engaged, incisive, and smart cultural criticism for many years to come.

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026

1/ If you'll indulge me, I want to take a second to crow about something I'm really proud to've fostered as Head of Carnegie Mellon Department of English: The Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social.

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Hollis Robbins on PRoB - Pittsburgh Review of Books

Please support PRoB so that we can continue publishing engaged, incisive, and smart cultural criticism for many years to come.

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Really worthwhile CFP f/ Computational Humanities Research on "Peripheries," inviting work that uses data-driven approaches to recovering marginalized, lost voices in the cultural record/archive & what's been lost through processes of mass corpus digitization: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Peripheries

Call for Papers: Peripheries

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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📢 AI and History Conference 2026 📍 October 15–16, 2026 | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 🔗 The conference program is available at: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc... ⏰️ Registration closes September 15, 2026. 🔗 More info & registration: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...

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AI and History Conference 2026

A practitioner-focused conference for historians using AI and computational methods, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 26/07/2026

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics 📸: Kenneth Spencer Research Library (blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/tag/...)

expurgated copy of Opere del die vino poeta Danthe [Divina Commedia]. Venice: Bernardino Stagnino, 1512.

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 24/07/2026

As if from a holy wind, this new book appeared in my fb feed. Imagine my disappointment when it turned out the real title of the book was **God’s Arsenal**

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

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Postdoctoral Associate

MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

2/ Infographic from Corrarino's @justsecurity.org essay.⤵️ As American as International Law www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am...

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"Independence may be the theme of the day, but even a simple backyard barbecue relies at almost every turn on international law." Another eye-opening essay by @corrarino.bsky.social. A wonderful and necessary read. www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am... 1/🧵

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As American as International Law

A Fourth of July barbecue demonstrates how international law shapes daily life, and where that architecture is under strain.

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Applications for this 2-year postdoc at @cmu.edu are starting to be reviewed now, so don't delay! Please spread the news to your local #DH networks. One of the people you'll be working with is me :) I am excited to meet this new colleague and collaborate on computational humanities in Pittsburgh!

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This should concern all of us. What is your institution doing to preserve collective memory?

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 29/05/2026

Many thanks to Ed Simon and the amazing Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for the invitation to share some thoughts on how networks reveal what @theguardian.com's ranked list obscures pghrev.com/networking-t...

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Networking the Guardian 100 - Pittsburgh Review of Books

In an unfamiliar city, I rarely walk into an empty restaurant. How good could the food be if nobody eats there? At least a crowded restaurant's one that many

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Networking the Guardian 100 - Pittsburgh Review of Books

In an unfamiliar city, I rarely walk into an empty restaurant. How good could the food be if nobody eats there? At least a crowded restaurant's one that many

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T. Derscheid @derscheid.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is fun to click around in.

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Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

There goes my Tuesday

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 18/05/2026

The Guardian published a list of top 100 novels as voted on by various authors and critics. I turned it into a network to foreground literary tastes and tastemakers. chriswarren.info/novels-worth...

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684 Novels Worth Arguing About

The Guardian called it a Top 100. But 172 voters named 684 books. Explore the full list and the communities of readers behind it.

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 19/05/2026

In case you missed it, here's my extraction and initial analysis of the Guardian Best 100 Novels dataset. jtauber.github.io/guardian-nov... and also check out chriswarren.info/novels-worth... from @chrisvvarren.bsky.social

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Guardian 100 Best Novels (2026) — Voting Data

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 18/05/2026

The Guardian published a list of top 100 novels as voted on by various authors and critics. I turned it into a network to foreground literary tastes and tastemakers. chriswarren.info/novels-worth...

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684 Novels Worth Arguing About

The Guardian called it a Top 100. But 172 voters named 684 books. Explore the full list and the communities of readers behind it.

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 16/05/2026

of course I wanted to understand that Guardian top 100 list as a network

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Postdoc in Digital Humanities at WashU in St. Louis. Deadline is May 1. Also, St. Louis is wonderful. apply.interfolio.com/185361

Screenshot of Interfolio position that reads: "Postdoctoral Fellowship, Digital Humanities - Department of Comparative Literature & Thought, Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis - Danforth Campus: School of Arts & Sciences: Comparative Literature
Location
St. Louis, MO
Open Date
Apr 24, 2026

Deadline
May 01, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Description
The Department of Comparative Literature and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral teaching fellowship in digital humanities. The fellowship period will run from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2028, with the possibility of a one-year extension.

In addition to pursuing their own research agenda, the postdoctoral fellow will teach the equivalent of four courses per year and is expected to participate fully in the thriving DH community on campus. Teaching responsibilities will include at least one regular course each Fall and Spring semester. Additional teaching responsibilities may include additional semester-long lab courses or a series of several short-term workshops. Fellows are expected to be in residence during the entire fellowship period, apart from research-related travel. Fellows will receive a salary of $64,380 per year, plus Washington University postdoctoral benefits and a $2,500 annual research/travel stipend."

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📢 CfP for #CHR2027 is out! Submissions on all aspects of computational humanities research welcome; all details available here: 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ And yes, CHR2027 will take place a little later than usual. So you *could* start later… but we suggest starting now!

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In nationally televised address, Melania asks people to stop looking at aerial photos of Barbra Streisand's house.

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 08/04/2026

Forensics, cryptography, anonymity, stylometry, $$ - what a ride

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

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Claudia Carroll @claudia42.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

(1/2) Delighted to announce that both I and my AI Humanities Lab co-PI Gabi Kirilloff have accepted positions as Assistant Professor of Computational Humanities at Carnegie Mellon's English dept starting Fall 26!

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I'm looking forward to visiting Carnegie Mellon University this week. I'll be giving a talk on 3/26 at noon at the AI Institute for Social Decision Making. For people in Pittsburgh, here's the link: events.cmu.edu/ai-sdm/event... I don't know if there will be an option for virtual streaming.

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AI-SDM Seminar Series: Melanie Mitchell

Investigating Abstract Reasoning in Humans and Machines Join us for our biweekly seminar series! Lunch is provided for in-person attendees! Ple...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I’m speaking in person tomorrow at CMU! “Language Models as Cultural Technologies: Case Studies in Storytelling and Poetry” And today at the University of Pittsburgh! “Language Models and the Culture of Science: Adoption, Homogenization, and Policy”

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 16/03/2026

hard to think of a better way to troll early modernists than to claim "400 years ago it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective" 🤣

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shardcore @shardcore.org · 12/03/2026

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

nigel farage tweet:

The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes.
This is the definition of woke.

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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Videos of the depositions of Michael McDonald, Adam Wolfson, and DOGE staffers Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh are available in our playlist at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Depositions in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit Over the NEH - YouTube

As part of a lawsuit brought by the Modern Language Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Historical Association, two key ...

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI." But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined. They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 03/03/2026

I had a shitty childhood it's taboo to say it, you're really supposed to just have Had A Good Childhood and that's that but when I was conceived, my mom was broke and 20 years old and had no education and by the time I was eight, boy, was I going THROUGH IT one afternoon I turned on the TV...

Commander Data sits beside a boy of around 12 years old, listening attentively

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I'm excited to be a co author on this new paper, "Computational Hermeneutics," with a bunch of other great scholars from the humanities + computer science. In it, we lay out concepts for evaluating gen AI's capacity for interpretation esp ambiguity, context, etc. www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

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Frontiers | Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology

Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be...

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 02/03/2026

TONIGHT: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson begins a four-part online seminar on the Bible. The first class starts at 7:00 PM EST. Just a few hours left to sign up below go.nybooks.com/473gpMs

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Marilynne Robinson on the Old Testament

Join Marilynne Robinson for a four-session webinar on the Old Testament

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 13/10/2023

Apropos of recent events, if you think international law is worthwhile and important and want to know more about its intellectual and literary history, I wrote a whole ass book about that, which you can find in most good academic libraries and also here www.amazon.com/Literature-N...

book jacket for Christopher Warren's Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680

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