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Evelyn Gius

@evelyngius.bsky.social
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Prof at TU Darmstadt, director of @fortextlab.bsky.social, editor @jcls-io.bsky.social. Digital Humanities | Computational Literary Studies | Annotation (with @catma.bsky.social) | Operationalization | Narrative Theory | Events, Plot, Conflict

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TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exzellent. Gemeinsam.🎉 #TUDa ist jetzt Teil eines Exzellenzverbunds: Ab 2027 fördern Bund und Länder die #Rhein-Main-Universitäten (RMU) im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie. ❤️Vielen Dank an alle in #Darmstadt, in #Frankfurt und in #Mainz, die RMU-EXCITE möglich gemacht haben!
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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Postdoc (18 months) at Inria Paris! Let's go back together to the manuscripts behind Dees' Atlas of Old French, with CATMuS & CoMMA, and measure how editors shaped our dialect maps. Skills: Old French, palaeography, TEI. Latin a +. Deadline 30/11 recrutement.inria.fr/public/class... #digimed #DH
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Post-Doctoral Research Visit F/M Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval French Philology in the ROMAM2 Project
Offre d'emploi Inria
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Wissenschaftsrat @wissenschaftsrat.de · 02/10/2026
Deutschland hat fünf neue #Exzellenzstandorte. Die aus Wissenschaft und Politik zusammengesetzte Exzellenzkommission hat drei Universitäten und zwei Universitätsverbünde ausgewählt. Ab Januar 2027 werden damit insgesamt 15 Exzellenzstandorte gefördert. #ExStra
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Opinion-havers! Historicists! Nerd friends! Leftists! All/none of the above! Submit a proposal to GENERATIVE DIGITAL HUMANITIES, a new volume on AI and DH to be edited by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @zentralwerkstatt.org and me! Deadline 11/1. Please share!
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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎉 Happy release day, GitMA! v2.1.0 is out. Our Python package for accessing & processing CATMA projects lands a big new feature: Krippendorff's alpha for measuring inter-annotator agreement (IAA) 📊
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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CATMA is now featured in the tool repository of HISTOFOX! We're very happy to be part of this new portal: histofox.4memory-dataliteracy.de/tools/catma/ HISTOFOX is the new information, learning and teaching platform by NFDI4memory. It helps build data literacy in historically oriented disciplines.
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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 6th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, July 8-9, 2027, in #Groningen, #TheNetherlands! #CCLS2027 #CfP Submit your article by February 1, 2027! 🥳🥳🥳 jcls.io/site/cfp/
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Institut für Digital Humanities @idhcologne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Neuer Blogpost bei #DHC: "(Dis-)Ambiguität von KI oder: Warum spielt man mit LLMs Karten?" zum Vortrag von @evelyngius.bsky.social bei uns. @ccehum.bsky.social dhc.hypotheses.org/4535
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(Dis-)Ambiguität von KI oder: Warum spielt man mit LLMs Karten?
Die Rolle von Ambiguität oder Mehrdeutigkeit ist in der Arbeit mit Large Language Models (LLMs) von nicht zu unterschätzender Bedeutung. Immer wieder hat sie Auswirkungen auf die Arbeit mit LLMs und d...
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Princeton University Library (PUL) seeks an accomplished, visionary, and collaborative leader to serve as the John T. Maltsberger III ’55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections: apply.interfolio.com/189524 review of applications begins October 15th
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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy to see this go live today! “Computational Approaches to Latin American Literary Production” is now available in the Palgrave Handbook of Digital Latin American Studies. The editors were a joy to work with, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute ✨ link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08831 updated version of our article from last year @wouterhaverals.bsky.social and I updated the title & experiments. Check out this strengthened version, esp. if you are thinking abt cultural evaluation & benchmarks. @arnicas.bsky.social @dmimno.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social
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The human-authorship halo: attribution bias in literary style evaluation by humans and AI
As AI writing tools become widespread, we need to understand how both humans and machines evaluate literary style, a domain where objective standards are elusive and judgments are inherently subjectiv...
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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026
Join my team! Help us figure out how to be as careful stewards of today's born-digital archives of state as we've been for physical archives over the last 200 years. Seeking experience in digital archives/collections/preservation, or related cultural heritage work. Due 10/6. Up to $91k.
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Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States
Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Locatio...
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127
Screenshot of job ad that reads: "The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our Library and Information Science (LIS) research, with areas of relevance including, but not limited to:

Libraries - Academic, Digital, or Public 

Librarianship - Leadership, Innovation, or Education  

Information Technology - Ethics, Public Interest, and Justice-Oriented Approaches  

Data - Archives, Public / Open, and Humanistic or Scientific Applications

Artificial Intelligence - Public Interest, Library or Cultural Heritage-Centered, Open-Source Applications in Information Institutions  "
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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Prospective PhD students: if you work on computational humanities, cultural analytics and/or cultural AI, pls apply to Duke English! We're recruiting in these areas & you'd join a vibrant community. Candidates with training in both lit studies + CS/sciences esp welcome. Email me if any questions!
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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This week, the CATMA team conducted an intense planning session for future improvements. If there is anything you always wanted to see in CATMA, now is a great time to drop your suggestions in our current survey! forms.gle/CxLQwDqYpGz2...
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Survey for CATMA users
This survey takes around 5-10 minutes and asks for your experience with CATMA. We are looking for feedback from both new and experienced users, your answers help us improve CATMA. All responses are an...
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🌿 Three days of team retreat in Vienna: the fortext lab has been using the time away from the office to plan the coming year, talk about collaborations and collect ideas for new projects. Between all the planning, there was also plenty of time for coffee and snacks.
A picture of a team of six people, the forTEXT team, in front of a old, but fancy building. The sky is clear and the weather seems good.
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My new article about LLMs is finally out in AI & Society! It argues that LLMs produce text metaphorically, through juxtaposing tokens that are related in some dimensions yet unrelated in others. This is why we see misaligned citations in scientific articles. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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LLMs are metaphor machines: orbital argumentation, misaligned citations, and scientific fabrication in AI-generated writing - AI & SOCIETY
Large language models are metaphor machines: they generate text based on similarities and proximity in their training data. I argue that this metaphor-based text generation leads to what John Gallaghe...
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Interested in characters, agency, narrative structure or reading performance across complete literary texts? Meet GermAnProse: four German short prose works, fully annotated for computational literary studies. Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.latechc... Data: github.com/forTEXT/Germ...
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Narrative in Short German Prose: A Multi-Phenomenon Dataset for Computational Literary Analysis
Hans Ole Hatzel, Haimo Stiemer, Evelyn Gius, Chris Biemann. Proceedings of the 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature...
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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What's working in CATMA, and what isn't? We're currently running a survey on the features you use — annotating, queries, tagsets, teamwork — and how the interface holds up. Feedback from recently joined and long-time users alike is welcome. ~5-10 min, anonymous. forms.gle/3uNQNdE4NiBx...
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Survey for CATMA users
This survey takes around 5-10 minutes and asks for your experience with CATMA. We are looking for feedback from both new and experienced users, your answers help us improve CATMA. All responses are an...
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Luise Borek @luiseborek.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Heute bin ich bei SR Kultur zum Pferd im Artusroman zu hören! 🐎⚔️🏰 www.sr.de/sr/srkultur/... Vielen Dank für den netten Austausch! Mehr dazu gibt es hier: www.hirzel.de/arthurische-...
Cover-Illustration des Buchs "Arthurische Pferde als Bedeutungsträger". Zwei Pferde und die beiden zugehörigen Ritter kämpfen jeweils gegeneinander.
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Jean Barré @jbarre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Interested by a corpus of 19th/early 20th c. French for your research? Here's the French corpus of 11K! novels I tried to curate during my PhD 😅, now live at JOHD, and downloadable on Zenodo! 📄 doi.org/10.5334/johd.597 📦 zenodo.org/records/20233178
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Hors d’usage: Curated French Fiction from Gallica, 1800–1950 | Journal of Open Humanities Data
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you are producing scholarship with AI and your work could plausibly be accessed in the EU, you are now legally compelled to disclose the nature and extent of your AI use. A tremendous win for scholarly integrity. www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-sta...
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The Stamp of Shame: What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research - Lex Academic®
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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
From text recognition to text analysis: At the digital FGHO Summerschool (24–28 Aug) you'll transcribe sources with #Transkribus & analyze them with #CATMA. Working on a project with historical sources? Sign up by Aug 16 for this workshop (held in German)! 👇 fgho.eu/de/summersch... #DH #Annotation
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
And a heartfelt thank you to the organizers for pulling off this huge international endeavour with such care, @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social. Now it's time to fight our way back into the old sleep rhythm – travel safe, everyone, and see you next time! ✨(2/2)
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oftentimes the smartest infrastructure is the simplest one. Today at #DH2026, our lab member Steffi presents a poster on minimal computing in public DH and science communication, with @viktor.im (FU Berlin). Their plea: make it static to make it last – but first ask what's worth keeping. (1/2)
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Haimo Stiemer @haimostiemer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Let’s go! An exciting week lies ahead @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social. I will be speaking on behalf of @fortextlab.bsky.social about a comparison of German-language and Hebrew climate fiction, and about pauses in prose as semantic markers. #DH2026 #CLS #DigitalHumanities #DH #Conference #Narratology
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The fortext lab will also be in Daejeon next week for Digital Humanities 2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social! We’re delighted to be part of the conference and look forward to inspiring discussions, new perspectives, and exchange with the international DH community. #DH2026 #CLS #DigitalHumanities (1/4)
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Recommendations wanted: our colleague @haimostiemer.bsky.social is designing a seminar on German-language crime literature for the coming winter term, using Boltanski as the theoretical framework and annotation as the method. Which Krimis are essential reading? 🕵️ bsky.app/profile/haim...
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We are inviting proposals to host the annual #CHR conference! A single bid may now cover the coming three editions (December 2027, December 2028, and December 2029). 📝 Expression of interest: September 15 📝 Full proposal: November 10 More info: computational-humanities-research.org/hosting_2027/
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Thrilled to announce the amazing keynote speakers for #CHR2027, @UoM in January 2027: Katherine McDonough and Fotis Jannidis! CFP is open: we look forward to welcoming you in Manchester! 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalHumanities #CfP #CHR
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Phillip Brandes @litgamestudies.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Dear #GameCultureStudies people – @caroleinx.bsky.social, @anjalovescats.bsky.social and me are editing a volume on methods for researching digital games and game culture, using #TheLegendofZelda as an example. Abstracts are due by 20th July; find out more here:
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CfP – »It’s Dangerous to go alone! Take this [method].«
Methoden zur Analyse von digitalen Spielen am Beispiel der ›The Legend of Zelda‹-Reihe
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In the 2nd week of June, Malte attended the final conference of The Flow project at @unibe.ch 🏔️ dhbern.github.io/content/proj... He had been invited to provide an outside perspective and to comment on the technical workflow and tools developed in the project. (1/4) #DigitalHumanities #DH #DHTools
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Narrative Similarity Task @narrativesimtask.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Yesterday @hanshatzel.bsky.social presented the findings of the shared task on narrative similarity at #SemEval, co-located with #ACL. Check out the details on our website narrative-similarity-task.github.io Special thanks to our participants. It was great seeing all of your hard work!
Hans Hatzel in a conference venue pointing at his projected slides. The slide reads "3 Data Sourcing & Annotations".
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
📣 Job opportunity: We are looking for up to 5 outstanding postdoctoral or doctoral researchers in #DigitalHumanities to join us at the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Please share widely 🙏 ⏰ Deadline: 24 July 2026 For more info: www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/6...
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Institut für Digital Humanities @idhcologne.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Heute im #DH Kolloquium: Evelyn Gius @evelyngius.bsky.social @fortextlab.bsky.social: „Benchmarking Ambiguity oder: Kartenspielen mit LLMs“ 17:45–19:15 Uhr, HS XVIII, Hauptgebäude @unicologne.bsky.social Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen! @ccehum.bsky.social
Eine quadratische Grafik mit den Silhouetten des Kölner Doms in dünnen weißen Linien verbunden mit dem Kürzel „DH“ in fetten schwarzen Buchstaben vor lilafarbenem Hintergrund.
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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Great news from the CATMA team! 🚀 In April, we entered a new project phase made possible by generous funding from the DFG @dfg.de. We welcomed a new developer to the team and are excited to continue developing CATMA for our community. (1/4)
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Call for Papers: Machine Learning and AI in Humanities Research and Teaching 📅 Abstract submissions are open until September 15, 2026. Full CfP: journal.fortext.org/site/cfp/  🧵 More details below #DigitalHumanities #DH #MachineLearning #KI #OpenAccess (1/2)
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Making sure you're not a bot!
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🎵📝 Exciting workshop coming up! "Scores, Text & Audio: How to Enrich your Research with Annotation Tools and Metadata" — a two-day online event by @nfdi4culture.bsky.social & HERMES, July 6–7, 2026. Day 1 is all about annotation tools. (1/4)
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
We are thrilled to announce that the fortext lab has a new addition, a second software developer for CATMA! 🎉 We would like to extend a warm welcome to Immanuel von Detten. Immanuel will support the team with the continuous development and a redesign of the user interface of @catma.bsky.social
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We’re excited to share that we published the “Characters in Action” (ChiA) annotation guidelines on Zenodo today. ChiA captures three key dimensions of character representation in narrative texts: mention in text, participation in event, and direct speech. 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... (1/3) #DH
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Julian Häußler @julianhaeussler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Last week the University of Hamburg's DH Lab very warmly welcomed me to give a small guest lecture on my PhD research. (1/3)
Title slide of a presentation. It reads "Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Computational Narratology am Beispiel der Analyse von Figurenmotivation".
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AIUCD @aiucd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
AIUCD2026 is about to begin! From today, 3 June, we gather in Cagliari for the 15th Annual Conference of AIUCD, dedicated to Digital and Public Engagement: Practices and Perspectives in the Digital Humanities. Three days of papers, posters, keynotes, meetings and association life. aiucd2026.unica.it
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AIUCD2026 Cagliari – XV Annual Conference 3-5 June 2026
The 15th AIUCD 2026 Conference explores how digital technologies enable new forms of active participation in humanities research. From co-creation with communities to collaborative processes for the documentation and valorization of cultural heritage, the conference focuses on practices, tools, and methodologies that make knowledge more open, shared, and inclusive.
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Judith Brottrager @jbrottrager.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Very excited about a very special event: in two weeks, some of the most interesting quantitative work on the literary canon and canon formation comes together in Darmstadt 🧵
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Have you already taken a look at the forTEXT journal issues featuring teaching concepts on the topics text annotation and reflected text analysis yet? 👉 journal.fortext.org #DH #teachingconcepts #DHpedagogy #openaccess (1/4)
Screenshot Issues forTEXT journal
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hkohle @hkohle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Professur für Digital Humanities in Graz jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/12b6...
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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The poster award 🏆 of #CCLS2026 goes to Hiba Ghannam (Tel Aviv University) for her poster „Beyond Heroes and Villains: Mapping Fairytale Characters Across Palestinian and Grimm Traditions“ Check out the digital version of the poster: zenodo.org/records/2036...
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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
@princeton.edu is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows affiliated with the AI Lab (@princetonainews.bsky.social) and the Center for Digital Humanities to conduct research focused on societal AI. Applications open through Jul 1! cdh.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...
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Applications open for AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows
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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 29/05/2026
Colleagues from all over the world, please think about the combination DH2027 in Ireland + CCLS 2027 in the Netherlands. They're only a few days apart. @uniofgalway.bsky.social @rug.nl
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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The conference is closing! How can it already be over? Many thanks to all the authors, reviewers, and the organizers from @dhpotsdam.bsky.social who made #CCLS2026 such a great success!
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